Help A Teen Come FullCircle

10-30-2022Pastor's LetterFr. John Bonavitacola

Dear Friends,

In 2010, I started the FullCircle Youth at Risk Ministry. Since that time, we have been able to assist hundreds of families and their children who are affected by substance misuse, eating or cutting and other self-destructive behaviors. Our goal is to help heal the family by bringing them FullCircle: back to wholeness and holiness.

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What Type of Voter Are You?

10-23-2022Pastor's LetterFr. John Bonavitacola

Dear Friends,
We are coming up on an Election, time to vote. As usual the campaigners and their sycophants are giving you reasons to vote.

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They're Back!

10-16-2022Pastor's LetterFr. John Bonavitacola

Dear Friends,

It’s happening! I admit, I had serious doubts that it would. In case you’re wondering, I am speaking about the return of our part-time, some-times, halftime parishioners, aka snowbirds! I confess I had never seen such a mass exodus from a Parish before.

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Reviled and Belittled But Not Defeated

10-09-2022Pastor's LetterFr. John Bonavitacola

Dear Friends, Once again, October is Respect Life Month. Since the overturning of Roe and returning the issue to the states, new strategies are need but our same witness to the dignity of all human life remains unchanged. Still, things have taken a pernicious turn. I am amazed at how viciously some will fight to abort an unborn child.

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St. Anonymous Parish

10-02-2022Pastor's LetterFr. John Bonavitacola

Dear Friends,

One of the reasons the bishop sent me to this area was to, among other things, begin the formation of a new Parish in fast developing Vistancia/N. Peoria/Lake Pleasant area. So how is that coming along and what I have learned?

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