Send us Fan Mail The Spirit is given for this benefit: whenever you or I forgive a brother or sister from the heart, we are participating in Christ’s ministry of forgiveness, exercising the priestly ministry of every baptized Christian. I have Mass on Sunday, May 24th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail The Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, captures this beautifully in these words from his poem, “As Kingfishers catch fire.” “Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces.” I have Mass on Sunday, May 17th at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail Instead of talking about Jesus from the outside, in what we have heard and seen, Jesus is inviting us to meet him in a new way. What Jesus was and said is not past, but present, and everything speaks to us from deep within. Jesus is talking about love taking shape within our lives. I have Mass at St. Isidore on Sunday, May 10th at 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail Remember the painting that Francis introduced to the church, Our Lady, Untier of Knots? She is not resolving the problem; the way you untie knots is to loosen them. And that’s what Pope Francis was doing. He was untying knots. He was dispelling the fears that we have, especially of people who are different than us. I have Mass on Sunday, May 3rd at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail God doesn't love you as an abstraction. The good shepherd is personal, because the shepherd calls his own sheep by name. God knows your name. God knows your story, and God knows your agonies. God knows what brought you here this morning; and you are the person God loves. I have Mass on Sunday, April 26 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed. https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail As always, the Bible tells the story not so much of our quest for God as of God's passionate quest for us. I will be celebrating Mass this Sunday in Paris, France, along with 48 other periginus (pilgrims.) [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail "Who touched my clothes?" Jesus asks when surrounded by a crowd of bystanders. And the disciples are disrespectfully bewildered: "You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, 'Who touched me?"' But no touch is anonymous to Jesus; he can easily make out the touch of yearning and trust of the woman suffering from hemorrhages. I have Mass on Sunday April 12 at St. Isidore @ 9:30/11:30 am at St. Andrew @ 5:00 pm [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail In the Eucharist, our eyes are opened and we recognize the presence of Christ in the breaking of the bread. We are given the grace to remember in a new way. I have Mass on Sunday, April 5th at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/worship-online/ [email protected]

Send us Fan Mail As we gaze upon the cross, there is a still point at the center where all is in harmony, all in balance. It is here at this point where the tensions of the crossings are equal and cannot pull. (The Center by Susan Palo Cherwien, Crossings: Meditations for Worship ) I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Gospel of St. Matthew Passion at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am Masses. The 7:30 am Mass will be live-streamed https://stisidore.church/wor...

Send us Fan Mail Taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen and laid it in his new tomb that he had hewn in the rock. Then he rolled a huge stone across the entrance to the tomb and departed. But Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained sitting there, facing the tomb. (MT 27:59-61) I have Mass on March 29 at St. Isidore @ 7:30/9:30 am. I will be part of the live Passion of St. Matthew at 7:30/9:30/11:30 am Masses. [email protected]