Dear Family of St. Polycarp, Stewardship is a big theme in Bible. Beginning with the Book of Genesis, the first book in the Bible, human beings are entrusted to care for God’s creation: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it” (Gen 2:15).…

Dear Family of St. Polycarp, Greetings and blessings in the Lord Jesus. This weekend’s Gospel presents us a beautiful, yet challenging message. A man approached Jesus and asked Him this question: “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Of course, as a law abiding Jew, Jesus told him to observe all the…

Dear Parishioners of Saint Polycarp, “Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” was the discussion among the disciples of Jesus, as they left the region of Caesarea Philippi for Capernaum. Upon hearing their conversation, Jesus offered them a concrete and an important lesson about being greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Gospel…

Dear Parishioners of Saint Polycarp, As you come to Mass on this last Sunday of August, which is the Twenty-First Sunday of the liturgical calendar, Mother Church offers us another Gospel reading on the Bread of Life Discourse, in which the people who followed and listened to Jesus saying that He is the Bread from…