All Saints Parish Homilies and News

https://oneturkeyrun.blogspot.com/2020/04/lack-of-coronavirus-pandemic-solidarity.html https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/12656/cardinal-invites-all-to-pray-with-pope-s-urbi-et-orbi- Maine Writer opinion - A preventable divisive response to the coronavirus pandemic is giving evil an opportunity to put greed before "creed". Evil protestors who want to "liberate states" from protective public health directives are putting greed ahead of the human condition. It is the work of evil to obstruct the human condition in the face of the essential need for a spiritual and public health response, to save as many lives as a universal effort can achieve.  " Pray More ": Check this article in The New Yorker, by Ian Frazier. 

When my husband and I were youth ministers, we took our class on a weekend field trip to visit the St. Augustine Parish in the South Bronx, New York City.  Our experience exceeded expectations because the multi-cultural exposure was transformative to a group of kids and chaperons who lived in the shelter of a socially sheltered Maine town. This particular parish has now merged and it is named St. Augustine-Our Lady of Victory , in the South Bronx.  (I wonder if "Our Lady of Victory" is named after the Church of Our Lady Victorious where the Infant Jesus of Prague is venerated, in Prague.) This article published in The New Yorker describes the parish today and reports about the pastor, Father Stewart, who is providing for the spiritual development of his multi-cultural community during the coronavirus pandemic. This short feature is among others published in The New Yorker where the lives of ordinary people are being chronicled as we are all impacted by the COVID19 pand