During these past years, Pope Francis has urged the Church to reach out into the peripheries of society and touch lives that are often forgotten. The voices of the poor are often crying out in the wildernesses of our world and suburbia is often so loud that it does not …
During the recovery from any disaster, man-made or natural, there is a tendency to start off strong, with lots of enthusiasm and vigor to immediately repair what needs to be done and get back to “normal”. We have seen it here at St. John within our Parish Family. I have …
Over the last couple of decades, the month of October has been designated as “Respect Life Month.” Ironically, as this year’s Respect Life Month began, all of us were bombarded with the scenes surrounding the shootings in Las Vegas, on October 1, which started around 10:08 p.m. The gunshots, which …
I am not normally an emotional person. Since my days of the post-Katrina FEMA offices to assist with disaster communications to standing up the Louisiana National Guard Headquarters in an Army Base in Baton Rouge, I have dealt with more than my fair share of crisis situations. Even in evacuating …
Dear Friends of Saint John the Evangelist Parish, Over the past several weeks, we have witnessed the destructive power of nature as we have watched people’s lives devastated by the recent storms in Texas, the islands in the Caribbean, and now in our State of Florida. Many of you evacuated …
