As we announced last weekend at Mass, we recently purchased a subscription to Formed.org which contains many resources that you can use to grow in your understanding of God and your relationship with him. You can access any of these resources by visiting the formed.org website and entering FTFWEZ into the box that says, “Parish Access Code.” You do not have to be a member of our parish to enjoy these resources. Some of these resources are very well known and I’d like to su

One of the common misconceptions about faith in our world is that we can’t really know anything about God. Ironically, this hasn’t caused people to hesitate to make statements about God. It has caused people to say anything they want about God. This misconception has allowed individual people to define God in the way that they are most comfortable. Have you ever heard somebody say something like, “Well, that’s not the way my God does things.” So there are a lot of rumors

by Fr. Bryan Ochs Despite the fact that many Christians attend services regularly, few understand how the spiritual life works. Catholics believe the spiritual life works a little bit differently than other Christian Churches, but there are many similarities. The biggest similarity is that, like other Christian Churches, Catholics believe that Jesus is essential to the spiritual life. This is because of who we believe Jesus is. Catholics do not believe that Jesus was merel