“A man had two sons…” once we hear those words from the Gospel, almost everyone would recognize that this is the story of the “prodigal son”. I personally would call it the story of the “merciful father”, as I see that he never lost hope that his son would return one day.

The story has three main characters, the son, the father and the brother.

Dear St. Stanislaus Family,

This past September we had the 61st annual Fall Festival, and while it has looked different over all those years, 2024 was one of, if not the biggest in the history of the parish!

Your support, participation and enthusiasm were key to helping us celebrate as a broader community and also bring in a lot of funds for the parish and the school. I am immensely grateful for the co-chairs of the event-Cathy Pietanza and Jessica Juarez and every person who headed up a part of the festival and who donated their time that weekend and beyond-Thank you!

St. Thomas Aquinas said that friends share three things: time, possessions and secrets. For example, how do I know if you’re my friend? Well, let’s say we’ve been to Mexico together, you’ve tried my shaky attempts at pasta carbonara, and you know what ridiculous costume I wore in a music video I filmed in my early twenties. We, dear reader, are definitely friends. We’ve shared time, possessions and secrets.

• The patron Saint of our parish and school is St. Stanislaus of Krakow, Poland.
• He was a priest, then bishop who was know for his outspokenness, where his eloquence and example brought about a real conversion in many of his penitents.
• He was know for his vigorous opposition to the evils of an unjust government, especially King Boleslaw.

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Today’s Gospel urges Christians to remain true to their nature to love even when the people around them remain adamant in their nature to hate.

In the First Reading, Saul loved David like a Son, but Saul began to be jealous of David’s popularity. Saul began to pursue David to kill him in order to remove this threat. It would be expected, given the opportunity that David would in turn take Saul’s life in order to “get even.” But when Saul and his men fall asleep and David had a good chance of hitting Saul, he did not “take advantage” of him. David respected Saul as anointed by God.

My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

This month of February is a month filled with special joyful celebrations that contribute toward this Jubilee Year of Hope.

We began the month with the annual acknowledgment of the World Day of the Sick with Mass and the Sacrament of the Sick on February 2.

Many of our youth and young adults, as they attend the Sunday Mass regularly, eventually may ask if God may be calling them to the priesthood or religious life. For boys and young men who have served at the altar, in particular, look to their priests as potential role models in serving the Church. Girls and young women too look to serving Holy Mother Church in religious life as sisters, nuns, and brides of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For those who do not know, the Church has just embarked upon a Jubilee year. This year is called “Pilgrims of Hope." Every twenty-five years, the Pope proclaims a special year of "Jubilee."

In 2025, Pope Francis invites us to be renewed in hope: This Jubilee will thus be a Holy Year marked by the hope that does not fade, our hope in God. May it help us to recover the confident trust that we require, in the Church and in society, in our interpersonal relationships, in international relations, and in our task of promoting the dignity of all persons and respect for God’s gift of creation

Reflecting on the first reading from the Book of Nehemiah, we can see how this community, about 450 years before Christ, gathered to listen the Word of God: the book was brought before the community, which consisted of men, women, and children, it was opened before everyone from a high place, every one stood up, it was proclaimed from a wooden platform, they all responded “Amen, Amen”, and there was an interpretation of what was read.

Dear Friends, Due to the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area, we are asking parishioners to donate directly to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ wildfire relief efforts at https://lacatholics.org/california-fires/ as soon as possible.

Today we celebrate the baptism of the Lord as we can hear in the first reading how God the Father presents us with his beloved Son in whom he is pleased, but he also reminds us that it is through Jesus that salvation will come to all of us, yes, through baptism Jesus helps his chosen people by sharing that baptism to reincorporate us to God the Father. Later, Peter shows us how Jesus shares this salvation without distinction to all nations, whoever they may be, since we are all children of God.

Today we celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord, the revelation of God to all peoples and as we already know that the wise men represent precisely the nations of the world, they had the privilege of knowing how to distinguish a star different from the others that would guide them to God born in a manger.