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Hello, everyone! Happy Advent!

Hello everyone! This week as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving (admittedly, not in the way we all might have hoped!), I’m reminded of how crucial gratitude is for both our relationship with God and with one another.

Hello everyone! Ah, October! One of my favorite months!

By the time you read this, I’m hoping most of the smoke has cleared away!

Hello, everyone! I’m sure some of you have seen these, but I still think they’re incredibly clever. So, to put a smile on your faces, I give you “Pew signs in a time of pandemic”!

Hello, everyone. Last weekend I preached about the power of God to undermine and to place in perspective our fears and anxieties.

Hello everyone! Can you believe it’s already the end of July? The “Corona Summer” is passing swiftly; let’s hope come December we’re not talking about a “Corona Christmas!”

Okay, okay — enough of these “educational” columns by Fr. Hans and Tristan!

Hello everyone! Sorry about the interruption to my column last week — Fr. Hans accidentally got out of his cage, and it took us awhile to find him and coax him back in. All rectified!

Hello, everyone! These “Corona funnies” were passed on to me by one of our illustrious fellow parishioners and gave me a good laugh (we all could use a good laugh these days!).

Hello everyone! The following reflection from the Direction for our Times ministry came across my screen this week.

Hello everyone! Fr. Dave has been away on retreat this past week, which means all of us in the office have been sitting back, eating bonbons, and catching up on our TV talk shows and soap operas (Fr. Hans is partial to “The Young and the Restless”, after becoming disillusioned with the plot line on “Days of Our Lives”).

Hello everyone! The big news this week, of course, is the beginning of our return to in-person Masses! I can’t wait to start seeing all of you again!

Hello, everyone. Here are some paraprosdokians for your enjoyment, courtesy of fellow parishioner Sue Ann who passed them on to me. Hope you get a good laugh out of them – I definitely did!

Hello, everybody. Many of you have been asking how you can help or where you should donate to support efforts against the pandemic, beyond just our community and the Food Closet.

Hello everyone! Here we are at Divine Mercy Sunday, named for the devotion started by St. Faustina and extended to the whole church by St. John Paul II not that many years ago. Many of you, I know, like to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy in your homes with your families.

Happy Easter, everyone! Despite the difficulties surrounding us, Jesus lives, and His victory continues to work in powerful and mysterious ways. We have reason to hope!

Hello, everyone. And so we begin Holy Week 2020. I can’t tell you how odd it is to contemplate celebrating these most powerful liturgies of the year without all of you present. It’s going to seem hollow, indeed, inside the chapel!

Hello, everyone. Here we go into our fifth week of the “Lent that wasn’t”! I suspect we’re all going to remember Lent 2020 for the rest of our lives, don’t you?

Hello, everyone. I miss you! I can’t tell you how strange it is not to be having Mass on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, but then, I suspect so many of you are feeling the same way.