Author: tompayne

Dear Family and Friends, Today we celebrate the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. We reflect upon the call of the Gospel to follow the Christ each and every day, recognizing that we are sinners who are in need of God?s love. When we help others, especially our family, we...

The Lord is kind and merciful. That is the refrain of our congregation today as we gathered to celebrate the Mass of St. Pio. The prophetic readings announce to us God’s call to follow His will and to announce to others that HE is the Christ, our Savior, who...

Dear Family and friends, Today was another difficult day for St. Rosalie parish. We began, as usual, with the celebration of the Eucharist and the numbers begin to pick up. The Harvey Fire Department came during Mass and gave us five cases of fresh fruit to distribute thru the...

Greetings from Harvey and St. Rosalie Parish! Today was a great day to celebrate the Gift of the Eucharist with family and friends. We celebrated two Masses, 8am and 11am. They were great expressions of faith for parishioners and my family. My Aunt Dee and her family attended the...

From Father Jon: Dear Friends, There is always light at the end of the tunnel…. Today we began with the celebration of Mass in St. Rosalie Church. The Parishoners had to use the side entrance since the front door, blown off by the storm, is still boarded up and...

This “towel bunny” arrived in my Austin hotel room. Ironically, we had just seen one recently on a Carnival Cruise Line commercial. Obviously, they are multiplying…...

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Father Jon Parks, pastor of St. Rosalie in Gretna (across the Mississippi from the French Quarter) and the man who presided over Jennifer and Tom’s wedding, is currently here in NY at the Salesian headquarters. He hopes to be back in NOLA to say mass on Monday. He sent...

Jen and Tom’s good friend Fr. Jon Parks is a resident of New Orleans. There has been a lot of concern for him and it turns out he is alive and well… Dear Salesians, family, and friends…. Pray for all the parishoners at St. Rosalie in Harvey and the...

Jen get’s a kick out of this lobster bib…...