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Corpus Christi 2021
20 Jun 2021

Corpus Christi 2021

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Thank you to everyone who was able to participate in our outdoor Corpus Christi/Eucharistic Procession last Sunday!  It was a joy to see many of our First Holy Communicants with some of our recent Confirmandi participate at the front of the process ...

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Memorial Day, Newly Ordained 2021
20 Jun 2021

Memorial Day, Newly Ordained 2021

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
As I write this column I am mindful of those who have died defending the innocent, particularly those of the military and first responders.  I am mindful of two men from my father’s squadron who died in the Vietnam War.  Of the two, one died ...

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Priesthood
31 May 2021

Priesthood

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Years ago Bishop Fulton J. Sheen wrote a book entitled, The Priest Is Not His Own.  The priest is not ordained to make money, amass possessions, receive worldly honors, live in comfort and leisure.  He is called to live as alter Christus, ...

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Pentecost 2021
31 May 2021

Pentecost 2021

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
How many legions does the Pope have? Such are the words of Josef Stalin, perhaps the most inhumane communist dictator of the Soviet Union.  The words are quite ironic as Stalin is in his grave and the Catholic Church continues.  There have ...

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Cordileone, Olmstead and Aquila on Holy Communion and Abortion
31 May 2021

Cordileone, Olmstead and Aquila on Holy Communion and Abortion

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
If you find that you are unwilling or unable to abandon your advocacy for abortion, you should not come forward to receive Holy Communion. To publicly affirm the Catholic faith while at the same time publicly rejecting one of its most fundamental teachi ...

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Our Lady of Fatima
28 Apr 2021

Our Lady of Fatima

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
In October of 1917 the beginnings of the Communist Revolution in Russia were taking place (As with most revolutions, it had been prepared for months – even years – through chaos and division.  Sound familiar?)  The Bolshevik revolution was ...

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Saint Pius V
28 Apr 2021

Saint Pius V

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Imagine a world wherein the Church was being split from within and attacked from without in ways that the world had not seen.  This would be the 1500s in which Pope St. Pius V lived.  As we celebrate his feast day this week, April 30, this Dom ...

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Three Transcendentals
17 Apr 2021

Three Transcendentals

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
There are three transcendentals that the Catholic Church seeks to bring to the world: Truth, Beauty and Goodness. Our Lord charged the Apostles, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son a ...

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Divine Mercy 2021
17 Apr 2021

Divine Mercy 2021

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Congratulations to all who were received into the Catholic Church and all who received sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion and Confirmation at the Easter Vigil.    May your fervor for Jesus, especially in the Holy Eucharist at Mas ...

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Holy Week 2021
17 Apr 2021

Holy Week 2021

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Please mark your calendars for Holy Week’s liturgies.  To get the full impact of Easter, it is necessary to be a part of the Church’s liturgies from Holy Thursday to Easter.  The Mass of the Lord’s Supper will occur on Holy Thursday at 4 ...

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