In the year 1995, in the seventeenth year of my life, when Fife Symington was governor of Arizona, Bill Clinton was president of the United States, Chuck Keiffer was pastor of St. Theresa parish in Phoenix, Arizona, and Ron and Mary were my parents, the word of God came to my youth minister Eric and through him, I started to see the salvation of God. Soon, Christ came into my life never to leave. I’m thankful beyond words.

Happy Advent!

This season of advent brings a great amount of hope in our preparation for the coming Solemnities of Christmas. Hope is essential to our lives, without hope to live for, without something to look forward to brings about a despair in life that becomes unbearable and an ultimate surrender to death.

Happy Christ the King!

We give thanks this week for the many blessings upon our church family of faith. Our Solemnity of Christ the King remains important as the ever-growing secularization of our society continues to increase. Since its institution by Pope Pius XI in 1925 the message from his encyclical should penetrate our hearts:

Happy Sunday!

Our liturgical season concludes next week with the Solemnity of Christ the King! During this time we take out Eucharistic King through the streets of St. Joan of Arc. Our Mass schedule remains the same and the procession will begin immediately after the Spanish Mass at around 1:30pm. All are welcome to attend the Spanish Mass by using the Lumen Christi Missals to follow along and then process with us after the Mass.

Happy Sunday!

The month of November has been off to a beautiful and good start. I wanted to place several events at the parish on your calendars. On November 9, 2024, Deacon David Bramer was ordained to the order of the Diaconate. We rejoice and are glad for his new ministry and service to the church. It has been the practice to have an order of decree of appointment of a newly ordained deacon to the parish. All this is happening on November 24, 2024 at the 10:30am Mass.

Happy Sunday!

As we enter into this Election Week, we are reminded in our Gospel regarding the priority of the commandments. When we enter into this week, we can be assured of God’s faithfulness to His sons and daughters awaiting the outcomes of the heads of state. Our Blessed Lord says: