June 17, 2018
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Leif Kehrwald
 
In 1950, the St. Charles parishioners who planted two cedar seedlings over on Killingworth to mark the driveway entrance into the parish and school never imagined that those trees would grow to such heights that 67 years later they were crowding power lines and buckling the sidewalk.

Sr. Phyllis Jaszkowiak
June 10, 2018
10th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This April I made a Pilgrimage / Retreat in Assisi, Italy.  One of the places we visited was Greccio, the small mountain town where St. Francis first enacted the Birth of Christ with live people and animals.  One of the displays was a room of Christmas crèches from around the world.  As I looked from one crèche to another, I finally began to notice that the people in the crèche, Mary, Joseph, Jesus, shepherds, angels, looked like the country from which the crèche was sent.  Those from South Africa, Japan, Native American, countries of Europe, the people looked like people from that country and wore the clothes of that country.

Gabriel Triplett
May 27, 2018
Feast of the Holy Trinity

​Lucy, my daughter loves her accessories! Lol, to get her out the door with only two purses, 5 dolls, a bucket, 1 hat, 2 pairs of sunglasses, and 5 kinds of snacks, is a 10 minute negotiation! At two years old, appropriately, she doesn’t yet know what she really needs and so she wants everything.   What Lucy really loves is to go for walks, go to the park, and to go to St. Charles.  Those are the things that make her really happy! but she misses out on so much of these experience because she spends too much time trying to gather and hold all of her babies, sunglasses, and purses in her arms, which turns into a hilarious, but never-ending, dilemma of dropping one while trying to pick up the last one she dropped.