28 Mar 2024 0 Comment

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19 Mar 2024 0 Comment

“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.”

As we approach Easter, we are called to talk and reflect about the meaning of the cross, the meaning of the suffering and the meaning of the death of Jesus. And the question is: Why did Jesus accept to die on the cross? What does the cross...
12 Mar 2024 0 Comment

“My son, you are here with me always. Everything I have is yours.”

Jesus tells the story of the man with two sons, one who leaves his father and squanders his possessions. Despite of his son’s ingratitude, the father longs for his son’s return. The ungrateful son sinks so low he realizes his mistake...
6 Mar 2024 0 Comment

WE SHOULD CLEAN OUR TEMPLES

Stop making my Father’s house a marketplace. We are Temples of the indwelling Holy Spirit. As Jesus cleaned the Temple of the animals and money changers, we should clean our Temples of our habits, our vices, our sins, all what is...
26 Feb 2024 0 Comment

An evening of visual beauty, live music, and reflection that will open your senses to the secret of God revealed in all of creation.   April 18th, 2024 7:00pm-9:30pm  Blessed Mother Parish 601 East 23rd Street Owensboro, KY...
21 Feb 2024 0 Comment

Stewardship Sign Up

Sts Joe and Paul has many opportunities to give your time and talents to God and His people.  If you haven't had the chance to update your current or new stewardship roles please click on the link below.  You can print out the form and...
18 Feb 2024 0 Comment

“The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan.”

St. Mark tells us that the Spirit drove Jesus into the desert. But what desert? It could have been the Negev Desert south of Jerusalem or the desert east of the Dead Sea . In either desert food and water would have been scarce and there...
18 Feb 2024 0 Comment

“I do will it. Be made clean.”

Leprosy was the most socially abhorrent condition a person could have in the time of Jesus. A leper had to live outside of the city and could not engage in normal social life with their family or friends, or anyone else. They lived on...
29 Jan 2024 0 Comment

“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?”

  Capernaum was a small town on the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee where Simon and his brother Andrew operated their fishing business in partnership with Zebedee, father of James and John. Archaeologist have found what...
7 Jan 2024 0 Comment

Epiphany

The wise men in today’s gospel remind me of the first time I used a GPS device to go to Chicago. I was amazed to see how that little device led me to my destination. On my way, when I missed a turn, it showed me another route or tried to...