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Back to School 2020
23 Aug 2020

Back to School 2020

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
I hope everyone is doing well as we wind down the summer of 2020.  It has probably been a bit different for most of us!  Often summer allows for more family time than the rest of the year.  Hopefully, this summer there has been plenty of ...

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Pro-Life Sunday 2020
08 Jan 2020

Pro-Life Sunday 2020

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Perhaps there are some in our parish who remember President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s words to the nation on December 8, 1941.  Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 in which roughly 2,400 Americans died, FDR stated it ...

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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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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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Snow, Winona, Saints & Technology
17 Jan 2019

Snow, Winona, Saints & Technology

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
We hope everyone made it safe and sound through our first snow of 2019! I was trying to return from the Midwest in the midst of the snowstorm –O joy! In the midst of spending a good many hours in airports large and small, I noticed an incredible ...

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4th Sunday of Advent 2018
18 Dec 2018

4th Sunday of Advent 2018

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Hear and let it penetrate into your heart, my dear little son: let nothing discourage you, nothing depress you.  Let nothing alter your heart or your countenance.  Also do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain.  Am I not here w ...

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Franciscan Spirituality
18 Dec 2018

Franciscan Spirituality

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
All the clergy hope that everyone had a holy, peaceful and joyful Thanksgiving! As we work our way through some of the various types of meditation in the Church, the system I hope to follow is chronological.  Last week, we discussed Benedictine medit ...

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Gaudete Sunday
11 Dec 2018

Gaudete Sunday

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, is often titled, “Gaudete Sunday,” or “Rejoice Sunday.”  Why so?  Aren’t we still in Advent, a penitential season? Gaudete Sunday reminds us of Christmas at the end of this season of penance.  It is simi ...

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Dominican Spirituality 2018
08 Dec 2018

Dominican Spirituality 2018

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
In the course of the reform of the Church and the blossoming of the Middle Ages in the 13th century, Our Lord used two men vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience: St. Francis and St. Dominic.  We discussed meditation in the manner of St. Francis last ...

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Purgatory
29 Oct 2018

Purgatory

Posted by Reverend Thomas Vander Woude,
The month of November is dedicated to the ‘Poor Souls’.  Sometimes people see Purgatory as something negative, but it is far from it.  It is a place of God’s mercy and justice that is alluded to in the Scriptures.  November is the month when, in ...

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