All are welcome to attend the book discussion group! We read one book per month, and then meet for an informal discussion of the book. Book selections will be both fiction and nonfiction, and will deal with spiritual or religious themes. The book discussion group meets every third Wednesday, from...
Our parish will host 3 separate weekly sessions for this year’s Advent/Christmas seminar. Each has 6 sessions; 4 for Advent and 2 for Christmas. The sessions at MQP will not include the Activities unless requested. This is to accommodate those persons who like traditional discussion sessions only. Both of the...
Saints Mary and Joseph Parish has begun a new prayer ministry called “Abba’s Hands” For anyone who would like prayer for any reason please join Deb Carney in the Abba’s Hands Prayer Room in the lobby of Mary Queen of Peace after the 9:30 Family Mass or Sandy Lemay after the...
Reflection 05-01-2016 The word Pilgrim comes from the Latin combination of ‘per’ which means beyond and ‘agri’ which means country, therefore the foreigner. St. Ignatius calls himself a Pilgrim in his autobiography. John Wayne uses Pilgrim twenty-three times in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). St. Paul, in the...
Love Beyond Labels In an essay in The New York Times [March 3, 2010], Harriet Brown writes of growing up in a broken home, with emotionally distant parents who were at constant war with each other and their children. Harriet grew up believing that there was something wrong with her,...
“My sheep hear my voice…” To have Jesus and his Father watch over us. Protecting us. Caring for us. All because we follow Him. That does not sound so hard to do. Just listen to what He says. The words are all good. His promise of eternal life, if we...
The Easter Season celebrates our Lord’s Resurrection and the Lord’s triumph over evil and death. The sea-son begins with Easter Sunday and concludes with the Feast of Pentecost. Pentecost, along with the feasts of Pass-over & Tabernacles were the three major feasts of the Jewish liturgical year. All male Israelites...
In case you were not able to attend last night’s Good Friday mass or you just need to hear these words again here is the text of Deacon Jay’s homily. GOOD FRIDAY — March 25, 2016
When I was a kid, I dreaded Palm Sunday Mass. It wasn’t because the Mass was a little longer than usual, nor was it because I am allergic to palms – I’m not. No, it was because I knew that the whole congregation would join in the reading of the...
As we journey through Lent, let us reflect on its penitential practices. Penance is not an end in itself, but rather a help to recognizing the difference between “things of this passing world” and those “that eternally endure” (Preface II of Lent); a help to “raising up our minds,” so...