Saint Anthony

03/19/2026

Happy Feast Day of Saint Joseph

03/17/2026

Great and Glorious Saint Patrick!
Pray for our dear country! ☘️

02/26/2026

Come join us on Fridays during Lent!

12/29/2025

Happy 2026!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas! 🎄

12/11/2025

...through the dark of Advent, there is hope that whispers: God is here; He is hidden in our hurt.

God’s hidden in our grief. The Trinity enfolds all trauma into their encircling love. God is our Father hidden in our failure, like the Cross appeared to be a failure — before the Rising appeared.

The darkness of now may appear like failure — but Advent waits for His appearing.

All the apparent failures are failing at failing — because our Father is relentlessly working every failure into good, and His Son is coming to rip back all the dark.

Christmas comes for our grief.
Christmas comes for the sadness we can’t speak out loud,
Christmas comes to crush all our dark,
Christmas comes for our wounded ache.

Because Christmas is about how Jesus came down, shut out the darkness by moving into our space, the babe of heaven, the Son of God, moving right in front of the darkness — and eclipsing all the night with His Light.

Advent fearlessly faces the deepest dark — because only then are our faces turned and waiting to feel the first warm rays of the coming, glorious light.

No matter how we feel the depth of the darkness — we have a God whose devotion to us is deeper.

And because all things are possible with God — we can have hope in all things.

~Ann Voskamp (November 2018)

11/14/2025

https://www.ad-today.com/national-world/u-s-bishops-issue-a-special-message-on-immigration-from-plenary-assembly-in-baltimore

BALTIMORE – As the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) gathered for their Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore, the bishops issued a Special Message addressing their concern for the evolving situation impacting immigrants in the United States. It marked the first time in twelve year...

10/02/2025

Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us!

10/01/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17MccE2d4K/

09/29/2025

Please take a moment to read or listen to Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, DC. Pray and take actions to be there for our neighbors.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JJbE2Xsjs/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, DC, at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

“Our first obligation as a Church is to embrace in a sustained, unwavering, prophetic, and compassionate way the immigrants who are suffering so deeply because of the oppression they are facing."

https://adw.org/news/wdmr-homily-mcelroy-eng-25/

09/11/2025

Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!

We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shattered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have been in vain.

Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: "Never again war!"; "With war everything is lost". Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace.

Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness.

Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words "division", "hatred" and "war" be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother", and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam!

Amen.

(Pope Francis' Prayer for Peace, June 4, 2014)
Image: September 11, 2001 by Gertrud Nelson

09/09/2025

Thank you to all who serve Saint Anthony Parish. Special thanks to our Sacristians who have done so much behind the scenes over the years.
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