Pastor's Messages from December 2023

Dear brothers & sisters, Christmas is a special time of Worship and Praise to Our Saviour Jesus Christ. May the miracle of Christmas fill your hearts and homes with hope, peace and joy now and throughout the coming New Year – 2024. I thank everyone for your contributions to our celebrations during the Advent & Christmas Seasons. On behalf of the Catholic Parishes of Penticton we wish you a Blessed Christmas filled with the wonder of the birth of Jesus…

My dear sisters & brothers, Praise & Worship God for His Great Love for us! In our first reading this weekend, David was planning to give a present to God. He thought of building a House for the Lord and moving the Ark of the Covenant from a humble tent but God had other plans. God wanted to be present to His own people, house or no house, temple or no temple. This is the story of a God who…

My dear brothers & sisters, Praise God! I had the opportunity, with joy, to finally meet Penticton’s hockey team – the Vees. This week they came to help us prepare our Christmas Hampers. See page 4 of the bulletin for more. The primary enemy of our joy is anxiety. Fear and anxiety rob us of our joy. However, if we understand who Christ is, and what he has done for us it deepens and opens up a new dimension of…

My dear friends, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ! This week I was able to attend the Christmas Concert at Holy Cross School entitled “A Play in the Manger”. It was really amazing to see how our kids did their role and acted with love, enthusiasm and hard work. The play really made me ponder on these messages: Jesus, the Son of God was born in humble surroundings, that God became flesh and lived among us, so that we could…

My beloved brothers & sisters, Praise Jesus the Prince of Peace! Happy New Year! It is a new year in our liturgical year that begins with the Advent season. Advent is derived from the Latin word Adventus, meaning “arrival” or “coming”. Adventus refers to the arrival of an important person with great power – an emperor or a king or even of a god in the empire world. For us, Advent is the time to patiently prepare and prayerfully wait…