Our parish will be hosting the annual Mohawk Valley Seniorate Retreat Day which will take place on April 1st. It will start at 10 a.m. Lent is a special time when we try to renew our love and dedication to our Lord Jesus Christ, His church and our brethren. We encourage everyone to take this […]
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Every Friday during the Lenten season there will be Stations of the Cross at. 6.15 p.m.
Every Friday during Lent we will hold Stations of the Cross at 6 p.m. All are welcome to join in and make this part of your Lenten prayer life.
John presents us with a very moving story. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find the humanity and human love of Jesus illustrated more than here: His concern for his friends in their bereavement; His response to the emotional and sensitive Mary; His words of encouragement to the more practical Martha. What is truly touching
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The early Church referred to baptism as ‘enlightenment’ or ‘illumination’ and the candidates for baptism as ‘those being enlightened’. The story of the cure of the man born blind and his subsequent progress from physical sight to the insight of faith is a figure of what happens to the baptized person. John writes of the
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John presents us with a dramatic, even theatrical, encounter. Jesus is described in very human terms, sitting at the well, exhausted from his journey. The woman too is very human. Her appearance at the well at about noon, long after the other village women would have replenished their water supply for the day, may indicate
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Wednesday, March 5th is Ash Wednesday. We will hold the blessing and distribution of ashes at 6 p.m. We invite the entire little Falls community to join us in prayer on this first day of Lent.
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We welcome all to join us in Little Falls and St. Johnsville as we walk with the Lord and enter into the joy of Easter. March 28th, Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday) – Holy Mass at 6.00 p.m. March 29th, Good Friday – Liturgy of Lord’s Passion and Death at 6.00 p.m. March 30th, Holy Saturday
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Just as it takes two to tango, it I takes two to commit adultery (or does it?). Jesus’ teaching on adultery is so radical that it is rarely referred to, seldom spoken about and little understood. We shall come to this teaching in due course. What we encounter in today’s Gospel is much more than
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In an age without newspapers, TV or the Internet tragic news still got out there. Jesus comments on two hot topics of discussion — two tragic accidents that had recently occurred. The first of these otherwise unknown incidents concerned the killing of some Galileans while they were offering sacrifice, probably in the Jerusalem temple at
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