As busy as we are with so many things pulling us and pushing us, it is easy to get swept away in our lives. If we don't live our lives on purpose, we can end up living them on accident. Sometimes this can yield drastic consequences, like hiking without a compass and finding yourself lost. Our faith, and our unique vocation, is a compass that the Lord gives us. Our parish has been working on its compass - trying to discover the voice of God speaking over and through the noise to a deeper calling. Over the past year our parish staff has been working from a new mission statement...

Annual Corn and Sausage Roast update, saying farewell to Seminarian Brian and Daniel, and remembering Catherine Griffin and Brian Garland.

On July 27, 2020 St. Therese Martin Council 17043 will hold a food drive to re-stock the Little Flower Parish Food Pantry. Knights will be in the Payne Hall parking lot to receive your contributions from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

While I am away on vacation, I thought it might be nice to share a bit of what I’m reading. This book, titled From Christendom to Apostolic Mission, was published last year by the University of Mary and outlines the new cultural landscape we must work within as a church in the United States. The main point is two or more generations ago we had a basic Christian “current” that guided our culture; now that is no longer the case, so we have to swim against the current...

This weekend I am away for a family wedding and vacation. I pray that my housemates, Fr. William Orbih (of the diocese of Abuja in Nigeria) and Seminarian Brian, will take great care of the liturgy and your sacramental needs while I am away. I am looking forward to my cousin’s wedding (pray for her and her husband) and the week together in the mountain region west of Denver...

This weekend remembers Independence Day, when the Declaration was signed in 1776. Pardon me as I reflect on some of the deep questions of life regarding independence, autonomy, free will, etc. The truth of the dignity of the individual is a hallmark of the modern era. This is a good thing. However...

The final address of Rick Alexander as Grand Knight of St. Therese Martin Council 17043.

Social Justice Commission Member, Pete reflects on white privilege.

Social Justice Commission member, Mallory reflects on USCCB document "Open Wide Your Hearts".

“This time next year you will be fondling a baby son.” Those words from today’s First Reading were from the prophet Elisha to a woman who had no son and whose husband was “getting on in years.” In the terms of the natural, there was no expectation of things changing. But the prophet represented the supernatural, and in the supernatural realm, all things are possible...

Fr. Terry touches on Confirmation, COVID-19, and our parish Social Justice Commission meeting on racism.

St. Thérèse Little Flower parish is seeking a full-time Director of Sacred Music and Liturgy...

The hospitals are just now loosening restrictions on visitors to patients. In most circumstances, it is possible for the pastor to visit. However, we have found it sometimes very difficult to receive information from the hospitals regarding which parishioners are present in the hospital...

Our parish wishes in this letter to address the current outcry against racial discrimination that is arising around the world the past weeks since the most recent event of the tragic death of George Floyd. While we were able to speak against the evil of racism in the bulletin and homily last weekend, it is important also to look towards how our parish contributes to the common good of our society, which also is something that we individually should be asking ourselves in prayer before Almighty God.

Regina Wilson (SJC member) reflects on the history of St. Augustine's Catholic Church, racism, and what true participation in the celebration of the Eucharist demands of us as members of the Body of Christ.

As a parish staff we have been reflecting on how we have all been given a unique opportunity to refocus our lives and decide what, and ultimately, Who, we will put at the center of our lives moving forward from quarantine...

The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has opened again deep wounds in our nation. Tragedies have followed tragedy as violence has spread all over the country. And this on top of over 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, with no end in sight...

The old phrase about the devil being in the details seems to fit quite well with our current events in society. Whenever God is at work, and there is a good being achieved, the enemy will do what he can to undermine it in as many ways as possible. As tragic as it has been for our entire world, even this coronavirus pandemic has potential to bear abundant good fruit. Perhaps God has saved many souls that he has called home to himself. Perhaps all of us have had the opportunity to take an inventory of our lives and of our hearts, and re-examine what we are about and what we are pursuing, thus allowing us to truly find the Lord Jesus once again as the only thing that we can really build our lives around...

A few months ago I was able to attend a talk at Notre Dame by a ND graduate, Jermar Tisby. In his book, entitled, "The Color of Compromise,” Jermar explores the American historical roots of sustained racism and injustice in the American Church. He highlights the way people of faith actively worked against racial justice as well as their complicit silence about racial injustice...

“We have turned this sacred abode into a marketplace.” (Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, as quoted by Fr. Richard Rohr in his daily meditations.) He adds: “The contemporary ecological crisis lays bare precisely our incapacity to perceive the physical world as impregnated with divine presence.”