Fr Don’s Blog: Pentecost Memorial

Pentecost Memorial By Father Don Farnan on May 21, 2026 Anglican priest Henry Scott Holland, in an early twentieth century sermon to comfort those who lost loved ones, penned this famous perspective from one who died: “Death is nothing at all.  I have only slipped...

Fr Don’s Blog: Food Restoration

Each month Pope Leo, like Francis before him, offers a prayer intention inviting the universal church to join him in lifting up a particular petition. The solemn requests range from broad topics like world peace, immigration, and homelessness to specific appeals like...

Fr Don’s Blog: Crowned

Crowned It’s exciting news in Kansas City that the Royals may relocate near the city center.  And it is exciting news within the Catholic Community that the proposed site is next to one of its iconic churches, Our Lady of Sorrows, on historic Dutch Hill (Deutsche...

Fr Don’s Blog: Rosary Health

Rosary Health The Catholic Church has many devotional prayers, e.g., the Stations of the Cross, Lectio Divina, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Novenas, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, the Angelus, etc., but most popular through the ages is the Rosary, which gets...