Take care of yourself and let God be God.
“Beloved, I hope you are prospering in every respect and are in good health, just as your soul is prospering.” -3 John 2
Fifth Wednesday Lent, 2020
Yesterday we posted a sign-up for anyone who is advanced in years or has a medical condition and would feel more comfortable if their fellow parishioner picked up their groceries or medicine and also a place to volunteer to assist your neighbor in that way. I also want to extend a similar offer to any of our doctors/nurses/medical professionals. If you need help with errands, need to talk, or just need some coffee feel free to sign up there on the site (Lending a Hand) or contact me directly anytime. Enjoy some Louis Armstrong…
Fifth Tuesday Lent, 2020
La cattedrale arcibasilica papale del Santissimo Salvatore e dei santi Giovanni battista ed evangelista in Laterano (St. John’s Lateran, Rome)—perhaps my favorite place in the world, everything there draws your eyes away from the troubles of this life towards the glory of God…spoilers!
Fifth Monday Lent, 2020
Nice work girls, our parishioners are out there preaching to creation like St. Francis of Assisi.
Fr. Alex Diocese of Scranton Reflection
Fourth Saturday Lent, 2020
At 8 PM last night Governor Wolf’s stay-at-home order of Luzerne County went into effect. Whether you are going to be spending most of that time alone or right on top of the people you live with 24/7 there are once again lessons in our past and in our Faith to guide us through.
Fourth Friday Lent, 2020
It’s Friday, which seems to mean less now that all of the days of the week are roughly the same. Anyway, Bishop Bambera has given a dispensation allowing people to eat meat on Fridays in Lent except on Good Friday…although I don’t eat meat anyway so it doesn’t really make a difference to me. Who’s ready to talk about astronomy?!?
Fourth Thursday Lent, 2020
I asked a few days ago for the kids of the parish to draw some pictures or do some art projects and send them in so we could put them up on the site for everyone to see. Well got our first group of pictures! Keep ‘em coming! Scroll down to see them all. Oh and check out the first episode of our interview podcast, some spiritual tips from Fr. Josh Laws.
Solemnity of the Annunciation, 2020
Happy feast of the Annunciation! We will be live-streaming Mass at 6 PM tonight, so be sure to join us. Just want to leave you with a beautiful prayer that celebrates the events of this day when a tiny ray of light shone in the darkness of the world and would eventually illuminate it all—the Angelus:
The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary:
And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word.
Hail Mary...
And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us.
Hail Mary...
Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray:Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
Fourth Tuesday Lent, 2020
So the bread turned out good. Well, not bad at least, it’s pretty good. It’s especially good when it’s toast. Now, the word for toast in Italian is “tost”, and it’s kind of a hilarious word. They have this thing at McDonalds in Italy called a “McTost”…now I’m not promoting going to McDonalds when you are in Italy, every restaurant and person’s kitchen has incredible food, but, at McDonalds they have this great thing called a McTost. A McTost is two hamburger buns flipped around so the round puffy parts are on the inside and they put one piece of prosciutto and one piece of cheese and put it in a panini press…seems simple (word of the day) but it’s so good for some reason. Speaking of Italy, I’m including this great video Fr. Victor’s mom found. The Italian people are bearing some of the worst of this virus, but they are a beautiful people.
Thanks
Stay safe and God bless,
Fr. Alex