by St. Ann Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Pastor's Pen
In 2014, the city of St. Louis will celebrate its 250th anniversary and the 800th birthday of our patron, Saint Louis IX, King of France. As part of the year-long celebration to commemorate the founding of St. Louis and the birth of our beloved patron, the Archdiocese...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
The humorist Irma Bombeck once said: Every child threatens to run away from home at some point or another. Then she adds: “Sometimes that is all the hope a parent needs to keep on going.” It takes a lot to survive parenting, doesn’t it? And to survive being parented,...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 29, 2013 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Dec 25, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Many years ago I pondered the age old question about Christmas: Did God the father pass out cigars on Christmas morning, slapping the angels heartily on the back, beaming proudly – “It’s a boy.”? And then, the inevitable second question: Do...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 22, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Joseph was good at fixing things. After all, he was a carpenter, and carpenters had to know how to fix stuff. Give him a door with a broken hinge; a table with a broken leg; a bed with a broken slat, he would fix it and fix it well. If it could be made or fixed with a...