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Fr. Tewes Funeral
01 Sep 2019

Fr. Tewes Funeral

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Thank you to everyone who attended and helped with the Funeral Mass for Fr. Tewes that was held here on Tuesday, August 27th.  In particular, thank you to all of our bakers who provided cookies for the Vigil reception as well as Funeral Mass recept ...

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Mother Teresa
01 Sep 2019

Mother Teresa

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Recent days mark the anniversaries of the deaths of two very different public women.  August 31, 1997 Princess Diana of England was killed in a car crash.  If you remember, the news media gave her death and funeral unparalleled coverage; a mod ...

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Fr Eddy Tewes
20 Aug 2019

Fr Eddy Tewes

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Thank you again to our many volunteers who helped with the parish picnic this past weekend!  Whether with prep, set-up, organizing games, serving/cooking food and clean-up, Thank You!  Though the day was very warm, it was good to see a few hun ...

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Collegians and Alessandro Serenelli’s Letter
11 Aug 2019

Collegians and Alessandro Serenelli’s Letter

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
As our collegians head back to school, and our high schoolers, middle schoolers and elementary children prepare to get back to the books, we wish all of you a very safe, educational and holy year.  Remember the truths of your Catholic Faith that Je ...

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Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet
11 Aug 2019

Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
As I write this column on the Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, perhaps it would be well to consider a tremendous Jesuit missionary in the United States.  His name was Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet, S.J.  A Belgian by birth ...

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Steubenville Visit
31 Jul 2019

Steubenville Visit

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
I was reminded recently why the Church does not allow couples to write their own vows.  On one occasion – many years ago - the groom said to his wife, With this wing I thee red! If you were not able to catch our Fiddler on the Roof, Jr. musica ...

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Mary Magdalene
27 Jul 2019

Mary Magdalene

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
The Blessed Virgin Mary has many solemnities, feasts and memorials throughout the Church year.  Do you know the only other woman in the Church calendar who has a feast day in her honor?  We might guess one of the women mentioned in Eucharistic ...

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VBS 2019
20 Jul 2019

VBS 2019

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Thank you to everyone who helped make our Vacation Bible School (VBS) such a joy-filled success!  It was terrific to have the youngsters here all week.  By ‘youngsters,’ I also mean our middle school and teens who helped our adults in so m ...

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Declaration of Truths
11 Jul 2019

Declaration of Truths

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
At various times of history the Church has been characterized as a ship sailing amidst a stormy sea – similar to the Apostles on the stormy Sea of Galilee wherein Our Lord calms the seas.  The last twenty years or so have definitely been stormy f ...

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Humanae Vitae
30 Jun 2019

Humanae Vitae

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
TO ALL OF OUR MARRIED COUPLES:  If you were given a marriage strengthening tool that boasted an international divorce rate of less than 5%, would you be interested?  I would think that every married couple would want to know what it is! Wha ...

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