Pastor’s Notes

Opening Up to ā€œAn Awesome Loveā€ It took a Pentecost, an experience of earthquake, fire and wind, to open the Jewish minds of Jesus’ first followers to grasp the meaning a new experience of God.   What about us?  This Lent-Easter-Ascension Pentecost cycle has been…

Weekend Mass

St. Mary’s Basilica is open for public Masses for June 13-14, 2020. Please review the instructions below before attending Mass in person. These guidelines will maintain, to the best of our abilities, a safe and healthy environment. Thank you for your patience during this…

Pastor’s Notes

ā€œDoors Thrown Openā€ Burglar alarms don’t work in Franciscan parishes.  For 20 years or so, we have had them – just never turned them on much.  In my last parish I think the friars kept setting them off.  The local police got angry. Today…