Dear Parishioners, Last week I shared the significance of me arriving at Santiago de Compostela after my long walk. Since some of you have asked, it was a total of 190 miles over 15 days. Others have asked what I learned from my pilgrimage, and that’s what I want to share today. The first thing…
Dear Parishioners, I’m home! Thank you all for your patience with my long absence. The Camino was a beautiful experience that I can already feel has affected me for the better. I want to share one special moment. After walking 190 miles in 15 days with hurting feet through rain and heat, we arrived in…
Dear Parishioners, Corpus Christi, or the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, serves multiple purposes: it is a time to give thanks for Christ’s abiding presence in the Eucharist, to educate the faithful about the mystery of the Eucharist, and to encourage appreciation for this sacrament as both a sacrifice and a source…
Dear Parishioners, Happy Father’s Day and Trinity Sunday! While I’m away, remember I’m praying for you. Please offer these prayers for our parish while I am gone. Prayer to the Holy Spirit Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithfuland kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and…
Dear Parishioners, I’m leaving soon for a few weeks. I am going on a pilgrimage in Spain called the Camino de Santiago (The path of St. James). Friday, June 13 I will drive to Cape Girardeau to fly the next day and I will return to Sacred Heart for mass July 5. Pilgrimages are challenging…
Dear Parishioners, This week there is no mass, because I will be gone. It’s a good reminder to pray for more vocations and encourage our young people to respond to God’s call. His radical generosity deserves a radical response and the world needs priests. Every year around this time I go for a week…
Dear Parishioners, Are you still remembering your alleluias? Our lilies in church have held out, but their blooms will soon be disappearing. Very much like the spiritual life, a Christian can sometimes feels spiritually dried up or weak in their walk with the Lord. However, when life seems most darkened, that is when we most…
Palm Sunday Dear Parishioners, “The good news is, the resurrection happens without us,” said Bishop Rice today at a diocesan staff meeting. We were talking about how fast lent passed us by. What Bishop Rice meant was, even if we didn’t keep all of our Lenten fasts, the resurrection has already happened, and we will…
Dear Parishioners, On Wednesday evening, Josh Dart came to our parish to talk about “How to share your faith! (And how not too!).” I was very happy with the number of people who came. We had members of our own parish together with visitors from St. Joseph’s nearby, Our Lady of the Lake in Branson,…
Our Lenten Soup and Stations begin with dinner a 6 pm consisting of soup, crackers, drinks, etc. with Stations beginning a 7 pm. The dinners will be provided but various parish committees:
