Spirituality

Fr. Glenn: Growing Pains

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By Fr. Glenn Jones

Writing this column this evening, I couldn’t help but recall recordings of old radio shows:  “Ladies and gentlemen … your intrepid reporter here, coming to you from the wilds of (wherever).” Looking out over nighttime Albuquerque with its city lights … well, we’re not in Los Alamos anymore, Toto. 

Rather than the slow gentle traffic of Central Avenue, now is the Indianapolis I-40. People here, too, honk and wave, but the honking a bit more urgent … (“Well, pass me then, you young whippersnapper!”). 

Alas … gone is the basking in the love and joy of beloved parishioners, Read More

2019 K Of C Free Throw Competition Sunday

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All competitors who placed 1st-3rd. Courtesy photo
 
Elizario Rivera, left, Lukas Ulibarri (Los Alamos), Abraham Sanchez (Los Alamos), Ryan Aldaz (Los Alamos), Deondro Lopez, K of C State Deputy Patrick Mason. Courtesy photo
 
KOC News:
 
All boys and girls ages 9 to 14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition for the Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship.
 
The local competition is 1–3 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 27, at Los Alamos High School Griffith Gymnasium. Registration is free of charge and will be held onsite beginning at 12:30 p.m., on the
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Scenes From Annual Blessing Of Ashley Pond

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Rev. Theophan Mackey and the people of Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church in Los Alamos march from the church on Trinity Drive last Sunday to celebrate the Great Blessing of Waters 2019 at Ashley Pond. Courtesy photo

Rev. Theophan Mackey and the people of Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church celebrate the Great Blessing of Waters 2019 at Ashley Pond. The Orthodox Church celebrates Theophany according to the Julian Calendar. Theophany celebrates Christ’s baptism in the Jordan River by Saint John the Baptist. Courtesy photo

Rev. Theophan Mackey and the people of Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Read More

Fr. John C. Daniel Is New Pastor At IHM

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Fr. John C. Daniel

IHM News:

Fr. John C. Daniel is the new pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church at 3700 Canyon Road.

Fr. John is the third child of four children born to Charles and Shelia Daniel. He was blessed to grow up in a Catholic home with parents who actively practiced their faith. His grandmother took the family to Stations of the Cross during Lent and his mother attended daily mass during Lent.

He grew up in the Northeast Heights of Albuquerque, attending Our Lady of Fatima and graduating from St. Pius X High School in 1984.

Fr. John knew at an early age that he had a calling to become Read More

GOP On Sanctity Of Human Life Sunday

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From the Republican Party of New Mexico:
 
Many churches across the nation will shed light on the issue of life and the unborn this Sunday, Jan. 20, which is recognized as the Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.
 
Few people are aware that New Mexico has become the late term abortion capitol of the country and has become a late term abortion magnet. Speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives, Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, and Rep Joann Ferrary, D-Las Cruces, intend to make late term abortions more common practice; they want to keep physicians and hospitals from being able to refuse
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Fr. Glenn: Leaving Los Alamos

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

You know … as is often said, we never know how much we value something—whether it be persons, places or things—until we lose them. And as I am on the verge of departing LA, I am finding the bite of the “sweet sorrow” of good-bye much more bitter than sweet … especially as I am bound for bureaucratic wilds of the Archdiocesan chancery—to become an “admin pogue”, as we Marine combat arms types derisively termed the administration folks (and yet ran to them whenever we had a paperwork problem! “Puh-LEEEASSE fix my pay!” (grovel, grovel)). Read More

Hindu Mantras Open NM Senate And House Feb. 7

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Hindu statesman Rajan Zed
 
STATE News:
 
Both New Mexico Senate and House of Representatives in Santa Fe will open their Feb. 7 sessions with Hindu mantras, containing verses from world’s oldest existing scripture.
 
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed will deliver the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before the Senate and House. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English interpretation of the prayer. Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages.
 
Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism,
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Fr. Glenn: Given An Epiphany

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

How ‘bout that New Year snowfall, huh? Skiers are certainly happy. Being an old Texan where we don’t normally get such a volume, it was (and continues to be) an “interesting” experience. Just trying not to slip and bust a couple of ribs; been there, done that … hopefully for the last time (the ol’ ribs have had a hard life). Prayers go up for all of YOUR safety, too. 

But snow has an interesting effect: it covers all. This “covering all” theme is quite appropriate for the present moment, for we Christians (or at least most of us) Read More

Fr. Glenn: Wholly Family

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By Rev. Glenn Jones
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church
Los Alamos

As we begin coming off of the holidays, many/most of us have had the comfort of the presence of family—either they coming here, or we going there. But, once together, where “here” or “there” may be becomes secondary to the joys, thrills, and even at times aggravations, of their presence itself. This is family.

The weekend after Christmas we Catholics celebrate as the feast of the Holy Family, the “wholiest” family of all—that of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Mary and Joseph are considered the highest of saints for many reasons (no, Read More