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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity June 11, 2017 – Year A Readings: Ex 34:4B-6, 8-9 / Dn 3:52-56 / 2 Cor 13:11-13 / Jn 3:16-18 by Rev. Paul O’Donnell Duggan, Guest Celebrant Are you familiar with Rabbi Harold Kushner? His son had the serious disease of premature aging […]
READ MOREPentecost Sunday June 4, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 2:1-11 / Ps 104 / 1 Cor 12:3B-7, 12-13 / Jn 20:19-23 by Rev. Paul O’Donnell Duggan, Guest Celebrant Last Sunday after 5:00 Mass in Moneta and dinner in the parish there, I left at about 10:00 at night. If […]
READ MOREThe Ascension of the Lord May 28, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 1:1-11 / Ps 47 / Eph 1:17-23 / Mt 28:16-20 by Rev. Paul O’Donnell Duggan, Guest Celebrant Tomorrow is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of President John F. Kennedy. To mark the occasion, the Post Office […]
READ MORESixth Sunday of Easter May 21, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 / Ps 66 / 1 Pt 3:15-18 / Jn 14:15-21 by Rev. Paul O’Donnell Duggan, Guest Celebrant I’ve always been impressed by the quality of the hospitality of Filipino families. I have spent almost fifty years […]
READ MOREFifth Sunday of Easter May 14, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 6:1-7 / Ps 33 / 1 Pt 2:4-9 / Jn 14:1-12 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor Today, Mother’s Day, we honor all of our mothers, including the Blessed Mother, whose first apparition at Fatima occurred one hundred years […]
READ MOREFourth Sunday of Easter May 7, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 2:14A, 36-41 / Ps 23 / 1 Pt 2:20B-25 / Jn 10:1-10 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor In the priests’ retreat I attended last week, the resident spiritual director and confessor was a priest in his late 80s, […]
READ MOREThird Sunday of Easter April 30, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 2:14, 22-33 / Ps 16 / 1 Pt 1:17-21 / Lk 24:13-35 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor At some time in the past, many of us have experienced the feeling of arriving home with our hearts heavy and […]
READ MORESunday of Divine Mercy April 23, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 2:42-47 / Ps 118 / 1 Pt 1:3-9 / Jn 20:19-31 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor A little more than ten years ago, a man by the name of Charles Roberts went to a one-room Amish school in […]
READ MOREThe Resurrection of the Lord April 16, 2017 – Year A Readings: Acts 10:34A, 37-43 / Ps 118 / Col 3:1-4 / Jn 20:1-9 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon If you’ve spent any time on the internet looking at social media, you have encountered a “meme.” Even if […]
READ MOREHoly Thursday April 13, 2017 – Year A Readings: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14 / Ps 116 / 1 Cor 11:23-26 / Jn 13:1-15 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor A few months before Bishop Fulton Sheen died, he allowed himself to be interviewed on television. During the interview, the TV reporter asked […]
READ MOREFifth Sunday of Lent April 2, 2017 – Year A Readings: Ez 37:12-14 / Ps 130 / Rom 8:8-11 / Jn 11:1-45 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor A story is told of a devout old woman who, knowing she was about to die, asked her pastor to give her the […]
READ MORE4th Sunday of Lent March 26, 2017 – Year A Readings: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a / Psalm 23 / Eph 5:8-14 / Jn 9:1-41 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor Last December 25th, 2016 – just three months ago – a man in Roanoke was celebrating his 95th birthday. He […]
READ MORE3rd Sunday of Lent March 19, 2017 – Year A Readings: Ex 17:3-7 / Psalm 95 / Rom 5:1-2, 5-8 / Jn 4:5-42 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor The wonderful things that have been happening here in Holy Name of Mary Parish since Friday are all manifestations of the Blessed […]
READ MORESecond Sunday of Lent March 12, 2017 – Year A Readings: Gn 12:1-4A / Ps 33 / 2 Tm 1:8B-10 / Mt 17:1-9 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon Last weekend my wife and I were in Munich, Germany. We went there because my wife was invited to give […]
READ MOREFirst Sunday of Lent March 5, 2017 – Year A Readings: Gn 2:7-9, 3:1-7 / Ps 51 / Rom 5:12-19 / Mt 4:1-11 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor For those who are hooked on fishing, Smith Mountain Lake is one of the best places to be. Within its 20,600-acre reservoir […]
READ MOREAsh Wednesday March 1, 2017 – Year A Readings: Jl 2:12-18 / Ps 51 / 2 Cor 5:20-6:2 / Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor Today we begin our journey with the rest of the members of God’s family, who are all trying to be closer to God […]
READ MOREEighth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 26, 2017 – Year A Readings: Is 49:14-15 / Ps 62 / 1 Cor 4:1-5 / Mt 6:24-34 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor A story is told about two business executives who met for lunch, and Gene asked Ed, “How’s your health?” Ed replied, […]
READ MORESeventh Sunday in Ordinary Time February 19, 2017 – Year A Readings: Lv 19:1-2, 17-18 / Ps 103 / 1 Cor 3:16-23 / Mt 5:38-48 by Rev. Paul O’Donnell Duggan, Guest Celebrant One of my little peculiarities is that I enjoy walking through a graveyard and looking at epitaphs. Every […]
READ MORE6th Sunday in Ordinary Time February 12, 2017 – Year A Readings: Sir 15:15-20 / Psalm 119 / 1 Cor 2:6-10 / Mt 5:17-37 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon Today’s Gospel is one of the first sections of the New Testament that I ever came across that caused […]
READ MOREFifth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 5, 2017 – Year A Readings: Is 58:7-10 / Ps 112 / 1 Cor 2:1-5 / Mt 5:13-16 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor The Sunday School Times once published a story about a motorist who, one dark night, was run down by a train […]
READ MORE4th Sunday in Ordinary Time January 29, 2017 – Year A Readings: Zep 2:3, 3:12-13 / Psalm 146 / 1 Cor 1:26-31 / Mt 5:1-12a by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor We all know that everybody wants to be happy. The courses on the science of happiness are becoming more and […]
READ MOREThird Sunday in Ordinary Time January 22, 2017 – Year A Readings: Is 8:23-9:3 / Ps 27 / 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17 / Mt 4:12-23 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor Today is once again the first day of the rest of our lives. Not only our life here on earth, […]
READ MORESecond Sunday in Ordinary Time January 15, 2017 – Year A Readings: Is 49:3, 5-6 / Ps 40 / 1 Cor 1:1-3 / Jn 1:29-34 by Rev. Salvador Añonuevo, Pastor As part of our Catholic tradition we use a lot of signs, symbols and colors in our church. For instance, […]
READ MORESolemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord January 8, 2017 – Year A Readings: Is 60:1-6 / Psalm 72 / Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6 / Mt 2:1-12 by Rev. Mr. Eddie Craig, Permanent Deacon I have a question for you. How many of you have family stories? I think you probably […]
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