Fr. Poggemeyer's Weekly Letter
January 19, 2025
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 1/13/25
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
As Bishop Thomas' “Leading the Flock” indicated a couple weeks ago, Pope Francis declared a jubilee year for the Church, beginning this past Christmas Eve. The Bishop will follow up with specific diocesan observances of the year (such as which churches in the Diocese are to ... Read More »
January 12, 2025
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 1/06/25
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
Early last month we had another finance council meeting. Given various bulletin deadlines, only now am I able to report on that meeting. The following are highlights:
- We reviewed the normal financial reports: the income and expense statement, the balance sheet and the payables report. ... Read More »
January 5, 2025
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 12/23/24
December 22 & 29, 2024
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 12/10/24
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
In a few days we will celebrate Christmas, the Feast of the Incarnation. God takes on flesh, i.e., human nature. Technically, this act of joining divine nature to human nature is called the “hypostatic union”. God's commitment to his creation, especially to the human race, is ... Read More »
December 15, 2024
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 12/10/24
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
I know many of you prayed for the Toledo priests' Day of Sanctification on Monday, December 2nd. The keynote speaker was Bishop Ed Lohse of the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Beginning with some inspiration from Dietrich Bonhoffer's book, Cost of Discipleship, Bishop Lohse helped us meditate ... Read More »
December 8, 2024
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 12/02/24
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
At the Eucharistic Congress this past July, there were moments at the end of liturgies when the whole stadium broke out in the Marian hymn Salve Regina (“Hail Holy Queen”). Days after the Congress, I was asked to consider teaching this hymn to our parishioners, because ... Read More »
November 17, 2024
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 11/07/24
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
I think everybody knows by now that I had a heart attack just under three weeks ago. I'm grateful for the emergency room staff at Fostoria Hospital, and the staff at Toledo Hospital in the cardiac intensive care unit. I am quite certain that without their ... Read More »
November 10, 2024
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 11/07/24
November 3, 2024
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 10/28/24
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
This past week Pope Francis issued his fourth encyclical letter to the world, entitled Dilexit nos (“He loved us”), about the human and divine love in the Heart of Jesus. (I hoped this letter would have seen the light of day in September, when we planned ... Read More »
October 20, 2024
Posted by Melissa Kelbley on 10/08/24
+JMJ
Dear Parishioners,
Here's a recap of my recent homily on consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary:
The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 on the 13th of each month, from May through October. [In August the date got changed, ... Read More »