A Note from our Pastor

The sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is one of the best-kept secrets of the Catholic Church. In practice, most Catholics do not fully understand this sacrament and believe it should be administered right before death. The Anointing of the [...]

This weekend, we celebrate Catechetical Sunday. We take time to recognize and honor our school teachers who strive to provide our students with the foundation they need. We remember those who answered God’s call to pass on our faith to our youth [...]

For the past two weekends, I have talked about stewardship of time and talent. I reminded all of us of St. Paul’s teachings about the Church, using the image of the body and its parts. In the First Letter to the Corinthians, the good saint tells [...]

As I was looking at the readings of this past week, it dawned on me that Jesus’ day was so busy. After preaching and teaching in the synagogue all day, you would think He could find time to rest. But, oh no! When He arrived at the house of [...]

Last weekend, I entitled my homily, “Share the Gift!” In it, I mentioned that salvation is purely a gift from our loving God. I also said the real issue in the gospel story was about fidelity and who we are as disciples of the Lord. In fact, it [...]

Time has flown, summer is slowly winding down, families are coming back from vacation, and the so-called BER months are just around the corner. These are the signs that a new academic is year has commenced. Last Wednesday, we started a new [...]

 Photo mosaic by: holyspirit @ Mosaically As many of you already know I love a glass of nice wine. Additionally, when I have time, I also love to visit the vineyards in Napa and Sonoma and experience the whole wine making process and understand [...]

This week was a big week for us at the Church. We were able to celebrate Mass with parishioners!! Yeah! At last I could see people! I know it was only 25 people and it had to be outside, but it felt so good! Even though we adapted well to the [...]

For many years I have led pilgrimages to different Holy sites throughout the world, the holiest of them being the Holy Land itself (I mean Israel not Ireland as many of you might think!) and they have been memorable spiritual experiences for all [...]

Normally this time of year is full of celebrations of graduations from elementary school, high school, universities and other transitions. I have often preached about how exciting these milestones moments are for their families. Under ordinary [...]

This week was a very memorable week for me on so many levels. On Wednesday, I celebrated the 20th anniversary of my ministerial priesthood and it was a wonderful day of celebration. I started with a very emotional Mass at 8:30am with the staff [...]

As most of you know by now, I will be leaving Holy Spirit Parish and moving to St. Simon’s Parish in Los Altos as pastor there effective July 1st. I know this news is hard to hear and it was very difficult for me to share with the community via [...]