Week of November 13, 2011

Greetings from the Pastor

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time:
Worthy Of Trust

Today we gather together to celebrate the Mass for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time. We find ourselves in the time of waiting. This waiting needs to find us alert. We know what we have to do and we know the way to do it, upper-most always in our minds is what does God ask us to do? We won’t hear loud voices but we sense what God wants us to do. Our everyday need is magnified in our minds. Deep down in each of us is a plan that asks us to be loyal to what God wants us to do.

All our life is pointed in one direction to praise , worship and love God all our lives in order to spend eternity with God in Heaven. We have done this since we first became aware of what God wants of us. We don’t do this out of fear but out of love. If love wasn’t the major reason of the “why” we follow God each day, then we would be wasting our time.

Our relationship with one another is an encouragement for us. We rely on one another and our successes benefit both of us. We do not live life in a vacuum. We need the strength we get in our everyday relationships. It is “I need you and you need me” and that brings about harmony.

We are coming into a busy time. Very shortly Thanksgiving week will be upon us. We will stop and pause to remember how much God means to us. Our reliance on Him brings us help in our minds.

I ask you to remember in your prayers those parishioners of ours who are ill. I try to visit the ones in the hospital but I depend on being alerted as to who is it at Queens or Straub or any hospital. I try to get to visit them and I know that the visits help. I can only do that if I am told that people are sick in the hospital.

I want to thank you for your generosity. If you read the bulletin, then you know that Sts. Peter and Paul parishioners are extremely generous in helping us by what you donate in the weekly collections. We help you and serve you then support our needs. We have needs and you meet them. Again, my thanks!

–FR DAVE