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Now that the dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass is being lifted, we are looking for ways to reach out to people online with the Word, while bringing everyone physically to the table every week is still our ultimate goal. So on Sundays, in place of the recorded weekend Mass, we’re putting together an interactive, engaging conversation centered around the Sunday Gospel. We’ll be using the weekly Beta lessons as the base of our conversations, and will take questions and prayer requests live. We think it’s going to be fun, approachable to people who aren’t ready to attend Mass in person and serve as a good connection point to people who can’t attend in person for whatever reason. We hope you’ll check it out, and that it will enhance your own experience of Beta, and of Mass! If your group says something brilliant that the world should hear, please share it with us! And, please invite your small group members to join us on Sundays at… time TBA. I pray blessings on your conversation this week!

Weekly bulletin column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray.

Welcome to Ordinary Time! We’re back with our friend Mark this week, and it’s a Greatest Hit: the parable of the Mustard Seed! Having heard this story probably a trillion times before, you may be tempted to breeze through it, but this is not how we Beta Groups roll! I hope you’ll learn something new this time around, and find inspiration, too.

Even though our buildings have been closed, our parish has remained open... in more ways than ever. We are grateful for the growth that came through this pandemic.

This second week after the end of the Easter season, we celebrate our central teaching on the Eucharist. It is also a traditional weekend for First Communion and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, often featuring processions of different types around the world.

One week after we tackle the mystery of the Trinity, we tackle yet another mystery, that of how Christ is present in the Eucharist. This is a Very Catholic Reading, and the Church teaching on the Eucharist is pretty deep stuff, so you may want to take a minute to review what your group members understand about the Eucharist. How does it work? What does it mean? Who is it for? If you’re so inclined, you can take a deep dive into transubstantiation and whatnot, but the meaning of sacrifice is an alternative direction to take; if you choose this way, it might be helpful to read the other readings from this Mass along with the Gospel (not so much the psalm). Whichever direction you take, I’ve tried to include information in the background information section to shore up your conversation.

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

I hope you’re enjoying this feast of feast days between Easter and Ordinary Time. This week, it’s the Most Holy Trinity that we’re celebrating, and writing this week’s lesson, it struck me; how crazy is it that this central belief of our Church is one that no one can explain or even understand?? To me, that’s equally frustrating as it is intriguing. But this week at The Prayer Course, I heard something that might help us deal with this; our host said “contemplation is more like star-gazing than astronomy…” and that makes me think that maybe, even if we can not understand the Trinity, we can contemplate it, and be better and more united to God in that. I pray you have wonderful conversations about this scripture, and blessed feast days!

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

Weekly bulletin column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

This past Thursday we celebrated the Feast of the Ascension. The Gospel scenes from Matthew and Luke are similar, and along with the account in the book of Acts, all are a good reminder that we are not meant to sit at home waiting for Jesus to bring others to us.

Someone at Mass this morning asked me “Is this the 27th Sunday of Easter?” and I had to admit, it does seem like we’ve been in this season a while now… one more week of John

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin

Weekly bulletin column from our pastor, Fr. Bob Murray

Easter continues, but in the Gospels, we stay in our swing back through the Farewell discourse in the Last Supper. Now that we know how the Easter story turned out, we are able to read Jesus’ words with the added context of a couple of thousand years of experience. I hope you have wonderful, fruit-filled conversations around how these messages, shared in Jesus’ last days before His crucifixion, still apply today.

Weekly column from our Pastoral Associate, Margo Morin.