by Staff | Apr 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the morning I say a prayer that gets me ready for the day. I invite God to be in control of my day. I pray for His protection over my family and myself, that anything that is not of Him would leave, and I ask Him to fill me with His Spirit and all the fruits of His...
by Staff | Apr 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
When I was 54, my husband Mario died, at 58, of spinal cancer, just 6 weeks after he was diagnosed. He had been being treated for a sprained muscle in his neck, which turned out to be 2 cracked discs in his spine in the neck area. He was in such pain that I honestly...
by Staff | Mar 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
My serenity is inversely proportional to my expectations. The higher my expectations of other people are, the lower is my serenity. -Alcoholics Anonymous – Big Book It is natural for human beings to have expectations in people, places, and things and the way they...
by Staff | Mar 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
I will restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you. (Job 2:25) In the fall of 2017, we observed the 50th Anniversary of our Confirmations and entry into the...
by Staff | Mar 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Lent has always been a very important time of the church calendar at St. Michael’s. Growing up as a child of the parish in 1950s and 1960s, observation of Lent was something every church member took seriously. Everyone made very careful decisions about what each would...
