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Category: Messages from Fr. Kevin

How Will You Love Better?

How Will You Love Better?

Posted on February 14, 2021February 15, 2021 by FHC
How will you love better? I don’t say that because today is Valentine’s Day…I say it because Lent is coming up. And a question to ask during Lent: how will you love better this Lent? Really ever... Read More
Foundations of Faith – March 2021

Foundations of Faith – March 2021

Posted on February 12, 2021 by FHC
Fr. Kevin will be offering a short, four-week Bible study at 6:30 PM on Mondays in March, both in-person and live-streamed.  As the world seems ever more in chaos, it is important to go “back to th... Read More
Josephine Bakhita: From Slave to Saint

Josephine Bakhita: From Slave to Saint

Posted on February 7, 2021 by FHC
In 1869, a young girl was born in Darfur to a respected and reasonably prosperous family in her village. She described that her early childhood was “a very happy and carefree life, without knowing w... Read More
Candles “A-Blaise”

Candles “A-Blaise”

Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 by FHC
This week is a special week of candles. February 2 is the Feast of the Presentation, which is when the child Jesus was brought to the temple forty days after his birth, according to Old Testament Bibl... Read More
Pro-Life: Children AND Mothers

Pro-Life: Children AND Mothers

Posted on January 24, 2021January 31, 2021 by FHC
This week, January 22, 2021, is the anniversary of the famous court case, “Roe v. Wade,” which legalized abortion on a federal level across the country. Friday, January 29, will be the annual Nati... Read More
Catholic News Sources

Catholic News Sources

Posted on January 17, 2021January 31, 2021 by FHC
The riots at the capital, while awful, are also, unfortunately, somewhat unsurprising punctuation at the end of the year 2020, a year of pandemic, unprecedented levels of social isolation (thus increa... Read More
St. Thomas Becket…a National Holiday?

St. Thomas Becket…a National Holiday?

Posted on January 9, 2021January 6, 2021 by FHC
December 29th is the feast of St. Thomas Becket. Thomas Becket lived in England in the 1100s, where under King Henry II of England he served as Chancellor. Becket was a very worldly man who loved the ... Read More
Bible in a Year Podcast

Bible in a Year Podcast

Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 by FHC
Looking for a new year’s resolution? How about reading the entire Bible this year! But you don’t have to do it alone. Fr. Mike Schmitz is hosting Ascension’s Bible in a Year Podcast, whi... Read More
Revelation Session 7: Victory and the New World

Revelation Session 7: Victory and the New World

Posted on December 31, 2020January 10, 2021 by FHC
Watch the video of Session 7 on our Live Stream Page. Links for Session 7: Session 7 – Victory and the New World... Read More
We Three Kings

We Three Kings

Posted on December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 by FHC
Little is known about these magi from the East. Being “magi” we know they were well-educated scholars (and thus likely from a royal family…hence sometimes called “Kings”). There are a number... Read More
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