Pastor’s Notes

The question of the hour!  In whose company will we walk?  Jesus in John’s Gospel called his life the “bread which gives life to the world.”  This caused a reaction for his listeners.  Some thought he was blaspheming…disrespecting God.  Others were awed or just…

Pastor’s Notes

How can this man give us his flesh to eat?  How do we do it; make our lives available to others as nourishment? “The term, “this man,” in this weekend’s Gospel means the crowd was divided between “us” and “them.”   We still are.   In…

Pastor’s Notes

Back from vacation and friar meetings in California… and looking at the August heat and the coming September calendar… I want vacation again.  I sound like the complaining people of Israel in the past weeks readings from the Book of Exodus.   St. Mary’s has…