by St. Ann Staff | Dec 30, 2012 | Pastor's Pen
End of the year thanks… I received three letters in the space of a few days from the Pontifical Mission Societies office of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. (Somebody was busy…) Msgr. Frank Blood thanked St. Ann parish for our generosity to the various mission appeals of...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 30, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Henry Ward Beecher, the famed preacher and orator once said that the two most important gifts that parents can give to their children are roots and wings. It begins with roots, as it has to – to protect, love, nurture, and raise the most helpless infant in the animal...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 30, 2012 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Dec 25, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Christmas carols have a way of sticking with you, don’t they? You hear one line of a tune and “Frosty” stays in your head the whole day. Or a different one catches you and now your stomach can only think of ‘Chestnuts roasting on open fires’. Or you spend the entire...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 23, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
No one has to tell small children to be excited this time of year. Virtually EVERYTHING has the possibility of making them jump up and down, clap their hands gleefully and twirl excitedly in circles. Christmas carols. Cookies. Beautiful ornaments. Lights on trees....
