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A Sunday Reflection by Fr. Tony Fortman, C.PP.S.
A Sunday Reflection by Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S.
God Expects Us to Serve
By Fr. Tony Fortman C.P.P.S. In today’s Gospel, Jesus expects us to give our best. You and I are made mostly comfortable by many blessings. We have enough food, we have automobiles, we have homes. (Some of us may not have all of that, but most of us do.) When we are...
Fr. Patrick Patterson, C.PP.S. 1938-2022
Fr. Patrick E. Patterson, C.PP.S. October 11, 1938–September 26, 2022 Fr. Patrick Patterson, C.PP.S., 83, died at 10 p.m. on Monday, September 26, 2022, in the infirmary at St. Charles Center, Carthagena, Ohio. He had been in failing health. He was born on October 11,...
Lazarus’ Name Points to His Humanity
Lazarus and the Rich Man by Jacopo Bassano By Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus (Luke 16:20). One of the things that I learned early on in Biblical studies was to pay attention to names as they appear in Biblical texts....
5K for Vocations
Missionaries are happy to host the annual 5K Run for Vocations at St. Charles Center, Carthagena, Ohio, on Saturday, November 12. We are grateful to Knights of Columbus Council 1991 in Coldwater, Ohio, for sponsoring and organizing this event. For more information or...
Do You Go in or Do You Not?
By Fr. Joe Uecker, C.PP.S. You just died. You come before the throne of God. God doesn’t say much of anything. God just looks at you with love. What gets you is when you look around and see who is there! You see Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Sadam Hussein, the shooter...