St. John is incredibly blessed with such a vast spectrum of individuals and families that we call our Parish Family. Some have been parishioners for 25+ years, having helped established this church when it was meeting next door at Naples Park Elementary. Others just joined last week. Some have watched…
And the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture goes to: Spotlight In case you missed my discussion about the importance of the movie Spotlight when it was released last November (https://legacysite.sjecc.org/ministries/continuing-to-create-our-safe-environment-for-the-entire-parish-family), I underscored the fact that the Catholic Church is currently under the microscope for our behavior and lack of…
Including from the horrible events last weekend in Paris, which I discussed on the Capital Campaign page, we have clearly illustrated the importance of fostering a completely safe environment within the St. John community. There are some additional recent illustrations on why our program is so essential to fostering the…
Father John eloquently describes our exciting efforts this coming week to live out Our Holy Father’s guidance for the Year of Mercy on the front page of our bulletin. We have been called to provide 24 hours of Reconciliation and Spiritual Guidance for our Parish Family. We need constantly to…
I had the wonderful opportunity this past weekend to visit one of our fellow Christian churches in Naples, Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Church. They were celebrating their heritage with the Naples Greek Festival, a three-day extravaganza of food, music and Greek culture. Father Philemon, the presiding priest of St. Katherine,…
