Merry Christmas and Happy Feast of the Holy Family! Today’s Feast celebrates the sacredness of marriage and family life. For many of us, though, our families feel lightyears away from the holiness that Mary, Joseph and Jesus experienced in the home in Nazareth. The point of this Sunday’s feast isn’t to discourage us because of...

On Monday, December 15, St. Martin’s Pantry served 248 families. We thank our St. Martin parishioners for their generous support, along with our neighboring parishes: St. Francis, St. Bartholomew Church, Our Lady of Mercy, Our Lady of Grace, and St. Rose of Lima. At this time, soup is our only needed item about 700 cans per week...

One of the questions that priests often get from children is, “Who created God?” We answer somewhere along the lines of, “Nobody created God. God exists from all eternity.” Usually the children respond with an amusing blank stare. It is a struggle for us not to think of God as somewhat like his creation. We tend to think of him as the greatest being in the universe, but that doesn’t get it right. God is infinitely transcendent to his creation...