CHRIST IS RISEN! HE IS TRULY RISEN! IN GREEK: CHRISTOS ANESTI! ALITHOS ANESTI! IN LATIN: CHRISTUS RESURREXIT! RESURREXIT VERE! This is our greeting throughout the Easter Season! So, don’t be surprised if I say this to you instead of hello or good morning! And be prepared for the Latin and the Greek! After 6 weeks […]
Palm Sunday is one of the more solemn days of the year for us. It marks the entrance of Our Lord Jesus into Jerusalem where He will soon undergo His Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Today is the beginning of the Holiest Week of the Year. We call this week “Holy” because in each liturgy we
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This Sunday gives us only a week and a half until Holy Week. Palm Sunday is next Sunday! Lent is quickly coming to an end with the celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection on the horizon! What a wonderful celebration this will be! Please take advantage of our times for confession or go
Well, my Lent started with a bang! How has yours been? The day before Ash Wednesday, I went to the Emergency Room and was admitted to the hospital where I stayed for 10 days solving, with the help of wonderful doctors and nurses, a variety of cancer related issues. This resulted in an NG tube
Wednesday evening, February 26th, Bishop Parkes conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation on about 30 of our young men and women at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist. Through the prayer, the laying on of hands and the anointing by the Bishop, the Holy Spirit flowed down upon these young people giving them the
Wednesday evening, February 26th, Bishop Parkes will confer the Sacrament of Confirmation on about 30 of our young men and women at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist. The Cathedral was gracious enough to host us as our sanctuary is being renovated. The Holy Spirit will rush upon these young people and give
During the Jubilee of Hope (whose theme is Pilgrims of Hope), Pope Francis encouraged Diocesan Bishops to designate certain churches in their diocese as pilgrimage sites so that the Christian faithful could go on pilgrimage to them and gain graces and a plenary indulgence. Well, we have one such site in our backyard! In the
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Well, that was an unexpected Artic blast! 3-5 inches of snow fell at St. James and around Savannah. And it stayed! I cannot recall a time when that much snow fell and stayed on the ground and roofs for so long! Everything shut down and Savannah was quiet and still. I hope that you and
Congratulations to all our young men and women who received the mercy of God and the forgiveness of sins in the Sacrament of Confession and Reconciliation! What a beautiful evening it was! 2025 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Sunday begins our 2025 Catholic Schools Week! St. James Catholic School began in 1956 under the leadership of the
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In the Gospel of John 20:22-23 we read, “He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them; whose sins you retain are retained.’” With that, our Lord Jesus gave to the Apostles and their successors and the priests ordained by them the power to forgive
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