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 …
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 …
A member of our Parish Family had a direct and powerful impact in Immokalee this past week during Hurricane Irma and its aftermath. Ben Weber is an Assistant Principal at Immokalee High School. He assisted with the establishment of the Red Cross Emergency Shelter within the school. He was inspired …
When our community comes together, amazing things happen at Saint John! Nearly 350 people filled our Ballroom on August 10 to support our second annual Catholic Relief Services Helping Hands Event. We had a goal to double the meals we packed last year, 20,000, to an astonishing 40,000 meals. The …
