Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. James, The sun continues its daily run and our hours of light diminish, as we lean towards fall.  This certainty is not cause (at least, not for me) for a darkening of our mood.  Rather, during these days and months of living with a pandemic and witnessing before …

  Ps. 124; Exodus 1:8 – 2:10; Romans 12:1 – 8; Matthew 16:13 – 20 He then gave his disciples strict orders not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.  Matt. 16:20 From 2008 to 2012, [U.S. television streamed] a drama/comedy that bore the title “In Plain Sight.”  The series, located in Albuquerque, New …

Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. James, Here is my weekly update.  I send you all warmest greetings. As summer has moved beyond its zenith, communications in many parishes and at diocesan level have turned to the typical end-of-summer, plans-for-fall-and-beyond parish activities. Although we at St. James choose to remain in Phase One of our …

11 Pentecost, Ps. 133; Genesis 45:1 – 15; Romans 11: 1 – 2a, 29 – 32; Matt. 15: (10 – 20), 21 – 28 It is not fair to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs. Matt. 15: 26b Those who study twins, both identical and fraternal twins, have noted that twins …