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Browsing the May 2024 archive of Thoughts from Fr. Bob

Pentecost - May 19, 2024

Posted by Fr Bob Betz on 5/16/24

On this day of Pentecost we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit into our world to stay with us always. Three months ago we began our journey from death to new life, from Lent to Easter, from winter to spring, from darkness to light.  It is a journey ... Read More »

7th Sunday of Easter - May 12, 2024

Posted by Fr Bob Betz on 5/08/24

Last Thursday, May 9, we marked forty days after the Resurrection.  That Holy Day was transferred to this Sunday, the Seventh Sunday of Easter.  With our Lord’s mission accomplished, and having appeared to his disciples to show them that he had been raised from the dead, Jesus prepared to ... Read More »

6th Sunday of Easter - May 5, 2024

Posted by Fr Bob Betz on 5/01/24

We continue to celebrate the Easter season, glorying in the resurrection of our Lord, who has promised to remain with us always.  Jesus is with us in our waking and our sleeping, in our joys and our sufferings, in our homes and our communities.  In a special way the ... Read More »

5th Sunday of Easter - April 28, 2024

Posted by Fr Bob Betz on 5/01/24

“I am the vine. You are the branches,” we hear Jesus tell his disciples in today’s Gospel.  We are those branches now.  Connected to the vine that is the Lord, we are expected to bear fruit.

Visualize your family tree.  Perhaps your grandparents or great-grandparents are the trunk of ... Read More »