May 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, Today on this Third Sunday of Easter, the Gospel reading is the well-known passage known as the “Road to Emmaus.” Emmaus, as we know, is a small town outside of Jerusalem. Today’s gospel account from Luke reports that Jesus appeared there, after...
May 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, Today in the Church calendar besides being the Second Sunday of Easter is popularly known as “Divine Mercy Sunday.” Saint John Paul II formally instituted this feast in the Church’s liturgical calendar during his pontificate. He first...
Apr 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, I am happy to inform you that with Archbishop Chaput’s approval, the Very Rev. Robert Hussey, SJ, our Jesuit Provincial, has missioned Father Walter Modrys, SJ to serve as the 60th pastor of Old Saint Joseph’s, effective June 1, 2017. Father...
Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, The Lord is Risen; indeed, He is Risen! Today our Church celebrates, with great joy, the principal feast of the liturgical year, Easter. Pope Leo I in the 4th century described Easter as the “greatest feast (festum festorum) and the very center...
Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, Today, as we stand a week from our great celebration of Easter, the Church worldwide commemorates “Palm Sunday of the Passion of Our Lord”. In all four Gospel accounts, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem occurs a week...
Mar 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
AMDG Dear OSJ Family, As we continue on our Lenten journey together as God’s Church, we continue to reflect on our traditional Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that serve to strengthen us at this holy time of the year. This week I draw our attention...