Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Last Saturday we celebrated our first in-person Auction since before the Covid pandemic. It was so wonderful to attend such an awesome event with nearly 500 parishioners enjoying each other’s company. It was the best year ever! Saint Simon community, you are amazing beyond belief! Thank you to all who came and supported by buying…

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

One of the struggles of becoming seriously sick is that it is hard to keep your spirits up. In fact, a common side effect of any physical or emotional illness is we often slide into some form of mental illness, often without realizing it. One of the most common is mild depression. A prolonged delay…

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Last weekend we hosted the Fr. Murray Basketball Tournament, the first since 2020 and my first time to attend. Wow!  What an awesome event! It was so much fun to see the students compete and have fun. Our 8th grade girls travel team won the championship and played outstanding basketball. Indeed all our teams played…

Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

Last Saturday we held a volunteer appreciation Mass followed by dinner and a concert with John Angotti to recognize our volunteers. It was our way of saying thank you to the many school and parish volunteers who have shared the gift of their time with us over the last three years throughout the pandemic period.…

The Nativity of the Lord

Hallelujah! Christ is born!    Christmas is finally here, and we now gather in churches all over the world to celebrate that the Word was made flesh and God chose to become one of us in Jesus Christ. Over the last two years we have been in a pandemic, something none of us expected during…

Third Sunday of Advent

This week we continued our Advent Retreat series “Atomic Habits of Prayer” focusing on the third law of behavior change, Making It Easy and introduced the third stage of prayer called Listening to God.   We talked about how human behavior follows the Law of the Least Effort and we will all gravitate towards the…