Recently Fr. Ron led the St. Margaret Regional school students in the Living Way of the Cross.  Here are a few pictures:

Around the Parish you might have noticed a little work being done. Since arriving Fr. John Sullivan our new pastor has been making numerous improvements around the parish. From roof work to refinishing doors and painting walls and banisters. Some of the more exciting projects however have been our new additions such as the new hymn boards, the refinished statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and our two new crosses. The Processional Cross pictured above is a give of the Estate of June Callahan.

Palm Sunday: The Solemn Procession Explained The Solemn Procession is designed to create a liturgical contrast between the worlds idea of a Messiah and our God’s.  We are so willing to accept Jesus as the glorious king, Jesus instead chooses the path to the Cross.  For more on this contrast check out Sunday’s Homily on my blog.  Images from the Palm Sunday Solemn procession and the other Palm Sunday Liturgies can be found on our Liturgy photo gallery.

This is a song by Joel Engle that was sung for the way of the Cross at WYD 2008.  As we celebrate World Youth Day 2010 this Palm Sunday I though you might enjoy it.

Q. What is the fundamental difference that the existence of God, and His self-Revelation, makes in our human life. A. God is the source of all life. God is the source of existence and God’s existence gives our human life and all creation both an origin and destination. As we read at the end of the book of the Apocalypse, ” I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end.” Why any thing exists is not a physical question that can be answered by the natural sciences but...

Q. Can someone who commits suicide get to heaven? A. Maybe. Its important as Catholics to realize that ultimately God is in charge and that there are realities that we can’t say much about because they haven’t been revealed to us. That is why St. Paul tells us to “work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.” None of us deserves Heaven, all of us deserve Hell, and yet Jesus came that we might have life. This contradiction between our own fallibility and the goodness...

Q. Is it ever ok to take a life? A. This is the question for discussion for the next youth group meeting, Monday, April 5th. I would like to propose several parts to this question: Suicide, Murder, War, and the Death Penalty, as separate but related questions. The answers we come up with and the Church proposes will be posted after our next meeting. Q1. Suicide Q2. Murder Q3. War Q4. The Death Penalty

Q. Why do we pray, fast, and give to the poor during lent? A.  For the Holy Cure of Ars—Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving were not only Lenten disciplines but an every day way of life. Because while Lent is a time that reminds us of the heroic struggle between our Lord and the Devil in the wilderness the fact of the matter is that this struggle for our souls continues feast or fast throughout our entire lives. As we read in the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (9:24-25) While all the...

Easter 2010 Dear St. Patrick’s Parishioners, “Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed,” - John 20:8 The Gospel of John tells us it was after the beloved disciple entered the tomb he was able to believe what Jesus had preached to his disciples. That message was that Jesus would suffer his passion, death, and be resurrected from the dead. Our belief in eternal life is plausible after we too have experienced the preaching,...

The Service of Darkness is a traditional way to celebrate Spy Wednesday.  It commemorates the darkness of the passion the ultimately brakes forth into the new light of Easter.  Tenebrae will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church at 7:00pm on Wednesday March 31st. For more information about Spy Wednesday check out the Fisheaters blog here.