For the New Year Only God will do!
For the New Year Only God will do! It’s hard to believe that some of the people attending Mass today were not born when the movie “Jerry...
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Dec 5, 20231 min
CHRISTMAS WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE
CHRISTMAS WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE St. Aloysius on the Ohio St. Simon the Apostle December 23rd 5 PM ...
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Dec 5, 20233 min
Second Sunday of Advent
Second Sunday of Advent 2023 A few weeks ago, I flew to Ireland and the flight from Newark landed in Dublin at 4.30am. Two of my nieces,...
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Nov 27, 20233 min
December 3rd - First Sunday of Advent
Stars One of the major images of the Christmas story is the “Star of Bethlehem.” For centuries people navigated by looking at the stars....
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Nov 20, 20233 min
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE!
Christ the King I was walking along a street in Dublin city center on a cold, wintry, wet, dark evening a few years ago, and two old...
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Nov 14, 20233 min
11/19/2023
Thanksgiving In his proclamation of the 3rd October 1863 President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November to be National...
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Nov 6, 20233 min
32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 11/12/2023
Stay awake and focus on what matters! When I was a child growing up in Dublin, I can recall that almost every year we had a visit from...
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Oct 30, 20234 min
ISSUE 1 VOTE NO
Miscarriage will remain legal in Ohio, even if Issue 1 fails. Miscarriage is a traumatic end to pregnancy experienced by 10-15% of all...
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Oct 30, 20235 min
November 5th
Profile in Courage – Standing for life is doing the right thing and that takes courage. Over the years since his assassination, we have...
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Oct 30, 20233 min
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Take it to heart. I don’t know if this is universally true, but I have noticed an interesting tender rivalry between the parents of...
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Oct 9, 20233 min
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
When we share everyone has enough I could certainly be described as a picky eater. Not only don’t I experiment with my food selections I...
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Oct 5, 20231 min
BEACONS OF LIGHT FIRST YEAR!
Curious about how the first year of Beacons of Light has gone in our 57 Families of Parishes? Archbishop Schnurr has released the Year 1...
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Oct 3, 20233 min
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Heart is the Vineyard of the Lord When I was a child, I was very close to my grandfather and in his last days he gave my father a toy...
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Sep 21, 20234 min
9/24/2023
God is generous with His mercy There is a charming little village in Ireland called Fore which, in Irish Folklore, has seven wonders...
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Sep 18, 20233 min
9/23/2023
How many times must I forgive? In her old age my grandmother had beautiful long pure white hair stretching all the way down to the back...
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Sep 18, 20233 min
9/10/2023
It takes courage to be who God created you to be. Back in the seventies there were several really bad musicals about Jesus. Andrew Lloyd...
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Aug 28, 20233 min
Pastor Ben's letter: Burn with Love 9/3/2023
To burn with love is to really experience life as it should be lived. I was at the scene of a large house fire once where I saw a dog run...
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Aug 28, 20234 min
STATE OF ST ALOYSIOUS ON THE OHIO
DEAR PARISHIONERS OF ST. ALOYSIUS PARISH It has been over a year since Archbishop Schnurr appointed me as pastor of St. Aloysius on the...
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Aug 28, 20233 min
PASTOR BENS LETTER: WHO DO PEOPLE SAY I AM?
Who do people say I am? According to Plato at his trial the Greek philosopher Socrates (d. 399 BC) said “the unexamined life is not worth...
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