Bob Dylan’s Rainy Day Woman

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For those of you who heard my homily with the reference to Bob Dylan’s Rainy Day Woman, here is the article which gave me the information.
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24 hours of mercy

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The Church will be open for twenty-four straight hours beginning tomorrow (Wednesday) morning and running until Thursday morning. I will be in and around the church for the entire time. I think I must be crazy! But, I’ve stayed up all night in church before. I timed it for...
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Jesus rose from the dead

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Well, I saw “Risen” yesterday. I highly recommend it. I saw it at Brandywine Crossing. Here is a link to where you can find it showing.  It is a first class production that is faithful to the scriptural narrative of the gospels. To say much more will give away the...
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The history of Black Catholics in America

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During this Black History Month we can look at an article on Black Catholics. For us at St. Mary’s it is our history, too. Many of our parishioners represent Black families that have been Catholic since, perhaps, colonial days. How many of our parishioners now are even...
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The Christian storyline

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I plan on seeing the Movie Risen soon. It has gotten good reviews. The problem with many movies with a religious theme is that they are not very well made. They can tend to be stiff, moralizing affairs. Hollywood, no matter what else you may think, can produce well made movies....
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Computer problems

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I’ve been having some computer problems. Sorry for no posts. We have figured out the computer problems so I can get back to posting.
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Pastor’s Page (click for full text)

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January 26, 2016 Maybe you have heard about Pope Francis changing the foot washing ritual for Holy Thursday. Up until now, the instructions for this rite specified that men only have their foot washed. With this change, it is now open to a few who represent all the people of God....
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