Deacon Ward's...Musings of our Catholic Faith

  Essentials and Expressions Deacon Ward Nolan St. Mary Star of the Sea St. Edward the Confessor St. Benedict Labre St. James the Greater 🌹🌹🌹🌹 Yes, my brothers and sisters in Christ it's that time!   We are entering into a period of great meditation! We are all called to place ourselves at the foot of the Holy  Cross...a call for repentance and a reminder of our own mortality.  As Catholics we know who and where God is. Because Jesus took on our weak and mortal nature, we can receive what is his...we become the very righteousness of God. " A clean heart create for me, O God. "                                                            For all our parish Lenten services please go to the Mater Dei website for a complete schedule. materdeivermont.com 🌹🌹🌹🌹 First things first... Continuing to remember all...

Essentials and Expressions St. Mary Star of the Sea St. Edward the Confessor St. Benedict Labre St. James the Greater Deacon Ward Nolan Happy New Year!...Belated! (I apologize for the delay!) To all our parishioners and friends I pray that this coming New Year, 2021, will bring blessings upon you and your families. At this time in history there is much strife and consternation throughout the world, our communities and even in our families. There is also much good in our world, communities and families. All goodness comes from God. It is through our goodness that we can bring the world closer to the Providential design of God the Father. In our own difficult situations of life, Christ wants us to seek consolation through Him. Our daily goal is to seek His guidance and strength through our prayerfulness and living our lives according to the teachings of the Holy Gospel. As we begin a new year the intent of this blog will be to bring you important announcements of the parish o...

          ~Mater Dei Parish~ St. Mary Star of the Sea / St. Edward the Confessor    St. James the Greater     St. Benedict Labre J *  M  *  J 🌹🌹🌹🌹 ADVENT 🌹 GOOD NEWS! A special year dedicated to St. Joseph Pope Francis on Tuesday issued a decree launching a special year dedicated to St. Joseph coinciding the anniversary of his declaration as Patron of the Catholic Church, hailing him as a model of fatherhood and a key intercessor in modern times. Published Dec. 8, on the 150th anniversary of  Quemadmodum Deus  by Pope Pius IX which declared St. Joseph patron of the Catholic Church, the decree formally instituted a year for St. Joseph, which will run until Dec. 8, 2021. The document, signed by the head of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, said the year would be an opportunity for faithful to follow St. Joseph’s example and “daily strengthen their life of faith in full fulfil...