Category: Messages from Fr. Kevin
Lent is coming!
February 11 – Lent is coming! Lent begins this week! This is an intentional season of penance, repentance, turning away from our distractions, vices, and sins, and turning intentionally towards Chri... Read More
Eucharistic Revival Revisited
January 14, 2024 – Eucharistic Revival Revisited I’ve written before that here in the United States, the bishops have called for this season of “Eucharistic Revival,” a season of renewal in pr... Read More
St. Patrick, Hampton/St. Mary, Ackley Weather Cancellations – Jan. 13 – Jan. 14, 2024
Message from Fr. Kevin regarding Masses at St. Patrick, Hampton and St. Mary, Ackley All Masses will be cancelled this weekend (Jan. 13-Jan. 14) Due to the wind and snow making country roads not safe... Read More
We Three Kings, the Feast of Epiphany
January 7, 2024 – We Three Kings, the Feast of Epiphany Little is known about these magi from the East. Being “magi” we know they were well-educated scholars; and thus, likely from a royal famil... Read More
Why Dec. 25 is Day of Christmas
Why Dec. 25 is Day of Christmas Why do we celebrate Christmas on December 25? If you search this question online you will find sources that say the only reason for this is because Christians wanted ... Read More
The Octave of Christmas
Merry Christmas! The beautiful thing for us as Catholics is that Christmas does not end the day after Christmas … rather; it is the beginning of the Christmas season! Thus, for this first week – w... Read More
Advent and Christmas Eve Schedule – St. Patrick, Hampton & St. Mary, Ackley
December 17 – Advent and Christmas Eve Schedule A word about the FOURTH Sunday of Advent and Christmas Eve Schedules (which is this coming weekend): Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, falls on a Sunday this ye... Read More
Mary in Advent
Dec. 10, 2023 – Mary in Advent As Advent is a season of awaiting the birth of Christ, Mary, as His chosen Mother, is intimately bound up in this season, as she carried Him in her womb. To enter mo... Read More
