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Dear People of St. Andrew the Apostle, Welcome to our parish website, we hope that you find the information here helpful and easy to navigate. We have lots of opportunities at Saint Andrews for you to grow in your Catholic faith and we welcome everyone to our parish community. We ask that if you are a member of our parish community, to continue to seek out ways in which you can connect with others who are also living the faith, invite a friend or a neighbor to our weekend masses to join us at the table of the Lord.

Weekend Message:

We are reminded today that God is not “YES” and “NO”, that God is all “YES”.   He does not go back on His promises, and He does not stop loving us.  In fact, he sends us forth from our celebration of the Eucharist to make a difference in our own life, in the life of our family, in the life of our community, and in the life of those who suffer anywhere in the world. As we approach the season of Lent, it is good for us to contemplate whether we, unlike God, are sometimes YES and sometimes NO.  Where do we falter in living our faith?  What have we done recently to grow our faith after being SENT from the Eucharist   Instead of giving up something for Lent this year, what about DOING SOMETHING that grows our faith?  Something like:

  • increasing our prayer time by an additional 5-10 minutes per day
  • turning off the television, internet, cell phone, etc., and reading something together with those in our family that will help us all grow our faith
  • spending an hour with Jesus in Adoration on Wednesdays
  • committing to the Men’s Retreat March 1-4
  • promising not to miss Mass during Lent and to go to Confession before Easter
  • adding a daily Mass to our routine
  • doing the Rice Bowl, following the calendar and donating spare change to the Rice Bowl box each day
  • offering a shut-in in our neighborhood a ride to Mass, or to shop for their groceries, or to do odd jobs around their home together as a family
  • your ideas______________________________________________________________

LENT begins this Wednesday with the celebration of Ash Wednesday.  These are the key questions we are called upon to consider as we use the discipline of Lent to take a look at our response to God’s call to be people of living, active, conscious faith.   Nothing is as precious as God’s gift to us of TIME.  And for many, it never seems like there really is enough time to go around.  How will you use your TIME this year during Lent to grow your faith as you are SENT each week from the Eucharist? May this Lent be a TIME for all of us to pause, reflect, pray, and invest in the quality of our relationships.


The Nicene Creed – I


At Mass each Sunday we stand to profess our faith. Our Church has two formulations of our “Creed”, which is our statement of beliefs.

  • 1. The Apostle’s Creed, which is by tradition credited to the Apostles themselves and appears in the writings of Church fathers as early as 200 AD. It was formulated, we believe, as a Baptismal Creed for new converts so that they would know and understand the basic body of beliefs of Christians.
  • 2. The Nicene Creed, authored by the Church fathers at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD and confirmed by the Council of Constantinople in 381 AD, is the Creed most used at Mass in America. During this Lenten season we will be exploring the Nicene Creed and the changes in its wording in the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal.

We will prepare to use the Nicene Creed at Mass beginning on the 5th week of Lent – March 24/25.

Former Translation
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen.

New Translation
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth of all things visible and invisible. The first paragraph of the Nicene Creed has few changes. The Latin “Credo” is translated literally as “I believe”. Some have suggested that this makes the Creed more of a personal statement of beliefs rather than a community statement. However, it is both a personal and a community statement, and if you think about it, the sense of community is not lost in our Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag when we say “I pledge”. We will continue our reflection on the changes in the Creed next week.

The Nicene Creed – II



During this Lenten season we will be exploring the Nicene Creed and the changes in its wording in the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal.  We will prepare to use the Nicene Creed at Mass beginning on the 5th week of Lent, March 24/25.

Former Translation
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God, eternally begotten of  the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father, Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: By the power of the Holy Spirit, he was born of the Virgin Mary and became man.

New Translation
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.

“Only begotten Son” – “Born of the Father before all ages” – we believe that Jesus was intentionally begotten of the Father and was with the Father before time began.  He was with the Father at the moment of Creation and it is through Him that all things were made.  (See, for example, the beginning of the Gospel of John.)

“Consubstantial with the Father” – this is a more precise translation of the Latin than the former “one in being with the Father” – and means “having the same substance” as the Father.  In other words, both the Father and the Son share fully in God’s divinity.

Consubstantial is a very unusual word, not used in the English language, describing a very unusual reality – the nature of Jesus Christ.  He is not like anything or anyone else.

“Incarnate” means “taking on human flesh” – it professes our belief that the divinity of Jesus was wedded to our humanity when he “took on human flesh” in the womb of Mary.  The new translation makes it clear that Jesus did not become human when he was born; he was incarnate in the womb, and was thus both divine and human from the moment of his conception through the Holy Spirit.