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I am delighted – even after all these months – officially to install Father John Martinez as Pastor here at St. Francis de Sales and at Prince of Peace, and to do so on this Solemnity of Christ the King

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that your travels were safe and pleasant.

We have come together, not simply to take a Thanksgiving break from the daily grind, but rather out of a desire to grow in our relationship with God and one another.

Charles Borromeo proved himself a truly good shepherd who used every moment of his relatively short life to revitalize the Church at Milan.

Today’s Gospel parable is about what we do “in the meantime” – on ordinary days, in between the important events in our lives … let’s review it.

Dear friends: Today’s first reading describes how, in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Apostles decided to appoint and ordain co-workers to assist them in their ministry.

In his book, The Grammer of Assent, St. John Henry Newman speaks about “the apostolate of personal influence” as a way of spreading the Gospel.

Pope Francis often says that ours is a God of surprises … but if we imagine failure to be inevitable, we make it harder for God to sneak up on us.