Pastor's Corner, February 2, 2014

Dear Parishioners and Friends,

Tomorrow we celebrate the feast of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr. We will bless throats today in honor of his feast day.

We do not know much about the life of St. Blaise. He was bishop in Armenia and martyred during the reign of Licinius in the early fourth century. When St. Blaise was being taken to prison, a distraught mother, whose only child was choking on a fishbone, threw herself at his feet and implored his intercession to help heal her child. St. Blaise, touched at her grief, prayed for her son and the child was cured. This is the reason why we traditionally invoke the intercession of St. Blaise for protection against injuries and illnesses of the throat.

Through the intercession of Saint Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness: in the name of the Father, and of the Son,  and of the Holy Spirit.

In Christ,

Msgr. Baker