Fr Don’s Blog: Word Cereal

UPON THIS ROCK Word Cereal Polarity is natural but polarization stymies progress and stability.  Community and communion are good, but communism is not.  Secularity is a reality, but secularism is damaging.  The clerical state can be holy, but clericalism is evil....

Fr Don’s Blog: Bonds of Brotherhood

UPON THIS ROCK Bonds of Brotherhood For the past five years or so, I have met periodically (roughly quarterly) with a group of guys who desire to deepen their spiritual lives.  Their nucleus is the Rockhurst High School Class of 1990, though a few others, including a...

Fr Don’s Blog: Please Don’t Tell Me

Please Don’t Tell Me Quite often, church officials, when told by parishioners about something that is not in-line with ecclesial norms (even if they agree with it), will say: “Please, don’t tell me…”  The issue might center around what they’ve chosen to do with the...

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 2 2023

  Note this Sunday, July 2, the Mass will not be live-streamed.  However the Mass Readings, Prayers of Petition, Fr Garry’s Reflection are available below.   Bulletin   Prayers of Petition Readings for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Reflection...