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A Message from Our Pastor

October 12, 2025

Dear People of St. Patrick Parish,

The Responsorial Psalm today, “The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.”  Do I believe this? Do I see from the lessons of history that, yes, God, has done this. Think about His saving the Israel peoples so many times even when Hitler was killing them in World War II.

Destroying communism as it set out to destroy Christianity and so many other evils in the past and present.

Now, let us think about how many times our loving God has taken care of us in our difficult times. God acting like the loving Father, loving His children and remember we are those children.

In the Gospel of Luke today, Jesus healed ten lepers and only one of them came back to thank Him. And that one was not a practicing Jew. It shows that God’s love is given to everyone who will accept it. The Lord Jesus said to that saved leper, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

Does our Catholic Faith help us to have Faith in God’s love for all people even those not of our Catholic Faith?

Every time we go to Mass, we pray to God, we praise Him, we thank Him and in faith we ask for His help. Look at Jesus hanging and dying on the cross and see true love for all people.

Let us never forget that our true faith in God will help us join Him in Heaven one day. While the Devil wants us with him in Hell, our true faith in God will help God win us and the Devil the loser once again to fail in his goals.

Thank you, God, keep loving us, forgiving us and awaiting our joining you in heaven one day.

God Bless,
Fr. Larry Young
Your Pastor