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Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Some weeks are easier than others to meet a bulletin deadline with an article. This week I’m struggling. As I write this, the ceasefire in Gaza has ended and escalated destruction is promised. There were another thousand dead and wounded people today as missiles destroy their tent cities. Focused…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for Second Sunday in Lent Lenten Observances Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wednesday and Good Friday Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 8pm in Spanish, in the church Lent…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, You may have noticed a new addition to our worship space last weekend. Half a year ago I designed and contracted the finish carpenter, John Matson who made all our sanctuary furnishings in the style of the altar, to make us a baptismal font. For nearly nine years I…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for First Sunday in Lent Lenten Observances Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wednesday and Good Friday Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 8pm in Spanish, in the church Lent…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Now that we have begun the season of Lent, I thought I would offer to you a perspective of the season that might be a little different from they way you have approached Lent in the past. True, it is a penitential season: we do penance to make amends…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lenten Observances Fasting: Food equivalent to one regular meal, one small meal – Ash Wednesday and Good Friday Abstinence: No meat – ALL Fridays Parish Soup Suppers: Fridays in Lent, 6pm Stations of the Cross: Fridays, 7pm in English, 8pm in Spanish, in the church…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, There was something incredibly right about our Evening Prayer for Hope and Healing, as we seek to accompany anyone who is worried or scared, or anxious right now over employment and recent events. As I said with my opening comments, this was not intended to be another opportunity for…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time     The 2025 Bishop’s Lenten Appeal mailing was recently sent to parishioners. The 2025 theme is “Abounding in Hope,” which reminds us of this great theological virtue that is rooted in Jesus Christ and the victory he won for us. The in-pew pledge weekend…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Every once in a while things will come up in conversation that reveal misunderstandings of things that I believe are central to life in the Church. Often they are things that are the product of misinformation (maybe well-intended) that cause people to stay away from the sacraments or develop…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time     The 2025 Bishop’s Lenten Appeal mailing was recently sent to parishioners. The 2025 theme is “Abounding in Hope,” which reminds us of this great theological virtue that is rooted in Jesus Christ and the victory he won for us. The in-pew pledge weekend…