Pastoral Team Articles

May 2019

May 25

Confirmation, Communion, Summer

Confirmation and First Holy Communion, June 1, 10:00 a.m. Please join us or keep this in your daily prayers. Father John Ssegawa, A.J. has been delegated by Bishop Olmsted to administer the sacraments for our candidates. We anticipate about 120 candidates from third grade up to adults to be Confirmed and receive First Eucharist. ...
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May 18

5th Sunday of Easter 2019 - Spread the Good News

Shout it to the mountain tops and across the valleys!!! Joy is often contagious. Someone laughs, and another person starts laughing. Someone reaches out with love and it makes the recipient smile or lifts their emotions. Or it can go the other direction when someone is negative and brings the people around them down. The Joy of our faith...
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May 11

4th Sunday of Easter / Mother's Day 2019

Springing into Summer Parishes have a natural seasonal flow with the greatest intensity of activities in the autumn, winter and spring. Here in sunny and wonderful Arizona, we have the added experience of the disappearance of around 30% of our parishioners who seasonally go off to their first homes or to travelling in the summer. We...
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May 4

3rd Sunday of Easter 2019

The readings for the Third Sunday of Easter come from Acts of the Apostles, the Book of Revelation, and John’s Gospel. Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41 Luke’s idea of a continuation of the gospel is in full force in today’s reading. Jesus’ predictions in Luke 21:12-19 - “...they will seize and persecute you...It will lead to...
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