Dear Parishioners, You may wonder what is the role of a parish council in the Catholic Church? The answer begins with active parishioners who assist the pastor in his leadership role of planning, organizing, initiating, promoting, coordinating, and reviewing the evangelization, worship, religious education, formation, and service activities within the parish. A parish council is an important […]

Dear Parishioners, BE WHO GOD MEANT YOU TO BE AND YOU WILL SET THE WORLD ON FIRE! Our Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary School opened this year on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, with 307 students in grades K -8! There are two classrooms for each grade. That is approximately seventeen students for each classroom. […]

23rd Sunday Ordinary Time (B) INTRO: I was never really that good at “diagramming sentences”! Diagramming a sentence is an exercise to gain a deeper understanding of its grammatical structure. The trouble I had was identifying what the predicate was, or what is the noun, or pronoun and the verb. I still would not be […]

Dear Parishioners, I am writing to you today with a medical update about my health. First, I am happy and mostly healthy. As many of you know I have battled over the past three years one thing after the other. Today I have two life experiences that I have accepted. Both of which are chronic […]

22nd Sunday in Ord Time (B) INTRO: To keep us twins, “individuals” my parents bought us DIFFERENT toys. Unfortunately, at times we would sneak around and take one another’s’ toys to play with which caused a lot of FRICTION between us brothers. Jesus makes clear in the Gospel that what causes us to act inappropriately […]

Dear Parishioners, At the end of the school year the health inspection from the city for our All Purpose Room, school cafeteria, and kitchen sited us for “weak” drains in the kitchen area. This caused us to investigate this problem, and we found that the drainage pipe in the floor that leads to the outside […]

Dear Parishioners, Wednesday Mass will be at 8:00am Beginning Wednesday September 4, 2024, IHM will bring back its 8:00am Mass. Father Ralph is back from his sabbatical and will once again be on the Mass schedule, which assists me in making sure there is a priest Wednesday morning. Therefore, there will be no more Mass […]

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time INTRO: At an early age, RESPONSIBILITY WAS TAUGHT. My responsibility was taking on the cleaning of the basement. In other words, I was expected to clean the FOUNDATION of our home! When my father was a newlywed and found out that they were having TWINS… he needed to take on […]

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) INTRO: I found this story…. Thirteen-year-old “Jeremiah” was about to celebrate his bar mitzvah. His grandmother, whom he called “Bubby”, asked what he’d like for a present. This 13-year-old, who could have asked his grandmother for anything in the world, but he said: “Bubby, I’d like you to make […]

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 2024 INTRO: Interesting story about “murmuring.” I remember being in the third grade at our small catholic school. Our teacher was a sister of Notre Dame. Very tall and most likeable. School students were seated in the classroom alphabetically, so that means I was seated next to my twin […]