Praise be Jesus Christ!

For those of you who do not know me yet, I am Fr. Carlos Gomez Rivera, your Parochial Vicar here at San Francisco de Asís Parish. I have been with you nearly two months. Please allow me to tell you a little bit about my life.

Happy Sunday!

It is already the third week of January! It’s hard to believe we are almost one month into the new year. As we celebrate the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time we hear from Psalm 25. The first verse we hear is this: “Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; teach me your paths, Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior.” The Psalmist, in great humility, asks God to teach him His ways.

Happy Sunday!

This weekend we are back in Ordinary Time and our second reading comes from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. He writes in it, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.”

Happy Sunday of the Epiphany!

2024 is here and we are off and running. I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year. It was great to see so many of you and your families as well as those who were visiting. I am grateful to our staff and volunteers who helped everything go so smoothly.

This Sunday we celebrate the Epiphany. The Church has directed our attention on this feast towards three different events in the life of Christ: The Magi presenting their gifts to the Christ child, the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, and the Wedding at Cana.