For the last eight days, we have celebrated Easter and with Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, we end the Easter Octave. We celebrate the days after Easter as if we were celebrating that day again! These days culminate with a celebration of Divine Mercy. Divine Mercy poured forth from Heaven in the form of baby and […]
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He is risen, indeed! We proclaim this today and throughout our days – “We are an Easter People and Hallelujah is our song!” (Pope St. John Paul II) We are a people of hope, a people of life! This is the good news we bring to the world in every age! Faith in Jesus Christ
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” not because there are so
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The Apostle Paul reminds us that we do not speak a wisdom of this age, a worldly wisdom, but a wisdom of God. As Christian disciples, we live by a different wisdom than that of this age and of our current culture. Our lives are governed by principles, beliefs, virtues that the world thinks foolish.
What a week it has been celebrating St. James School and Catholic Schools in general! Thank you to all who make our School what it is – our Sisters, teachers, staff, students, and families! Each of you contribute to the greatness of St. James School! It is the responsibility of all of us to help
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This weekend we begin Catholic Schools Week during which we celebrate the gift of our St. James School and the blessing it is to our parish, our children, and our families! 65 years ago, the school and the parish were founded and the Sister Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (the IHM sisters) began
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The Sister Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (our IHM sisters) have sent our St. James Parish and School community a novice, Sr. Alexis Karen Reavill, who will, God willing, make her first vows as an IHM Sister in August! She will be with us for 12 weeks or so up to Holy Week
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The end is in sight! This week, I receive my final (12th) treatment of Chemotherapy to combat the cancer in my abdomen! It has been a long first leg of the journey, but your accompaniment and companionship have been such a blessing and a grace during this time! Thank you! The next phase will begin
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Here we are, brothers and sisters in Christ, at the celebration of the Epiphany of the Lord and the end of the Christmas Season! Today we celebrate the revelation of Jesus to everyone in the persons of the magi who visited Jesus as a baby in a manger and gave gifts to Joseph and Mary.
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January 1st, being the first day of the new calendar year, the Church invites us to reflect again on the Incarnation and the Nativity of our Lord by recalling the truth of Mary being the Mother of God, the God-bearer (Theotokos in Greek (a term all Catholics should know)). At the beginning of the new
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