Tag: Lent

Pastor’s Letter: Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024

Pastor’s Letter: Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024

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Dear friend, This weekend we enter Holy Week. Everything we celebrate as Christians relates in one way or another to this week. We are encouraged to deeply reflect on His Life, His Death, and His Resurrection. Holy Week brings a completion to the Lenten journey. Every year Lent has a deepening significance for me as a priest. Because of the...

Pastor’s Letter: March 17, 2024

Pastor’s Letter: March 17, 2024

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Dear friend, Jesus gives a little lesson on botany in the Gospel reading this weekend. “Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground, it remains just a grain of wheat, but if it dies it produces much fruit.” Often called the cycle of life, one aspect of life gives its life for the life of another. Whether this is...

Pastor’s Letter: February 25, 2024

Pastor’s Letter: February 25, 2024

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Dear friend, Fr. Luke Spannagel will offer a Lenten Mission at St. Philomena. Fr. Luke lives in the St. Philomena Rectory and serves the Cathedral and downtown parishes. He is one of the National Eucharistic Preachers for the National Eucharistic Revival leading up to the Congress in Indianapolis this summer. In response to the Pew Study that showed doubt among...