A Word from Your Pastor March 4

When we allow ourselves to experience silence and a depth of prayer that arises from our hearts, we discover that there is a longing, a desire, a dream, a hope for something more.  In the face of the limitations we encounter in the world, this inner hunger, thirst, zeal is not quenched, but strengthened.  The violence that we see around us comes from the simple truth that we have lost our way as a culture.  We no longer know how to “tame” what we find inside.  We make choices that fail to satisfy.

The Third Sunday of Lent is always a reminder to us that the hunger and thirst that we experience in the heat of the day has a fountain that can fill us and show us a new way of being.  We can open our hearts for a new zeal for God’s House that consumes us by taking us into a deeper relationship with the Living God.

The St. Timothy Spaghetti dinner, which we experience each year on the first Sunday of March, is one of the two events we are best known for.  (The other, of course, is the Parish Festival  - July 13 and 14 this year.)  It serves to satisfy an earthly hunger, and shows us how to work together to accomplish something that feeds a greater community.

I have been told that the first spaghetti dinner at St. Timothy was a “mixer” for the men of the parish, who used it to raise funds for needs of the parish in the early days, by selling raffle tickets to each attendee.  It lasted only one year as a men’s event.  The wives of the first members of the Men’s Club told them they wanted to be part of it.  And the rest is history.  Each couple was sold a raffle ticket and the funds were to be shared by the Men’s Club and the Women’s Club of the parish.

In its current incarnation, the Spaghetti Dinner receives high praise from parishioners and from our friends and neighbors all around the area.  Some families use it as an annual gathering and a celebration of special events.  We welcome all!

May the wonderful odor of spaghetti sauce fill your day today and may the deepest longings of your heart be satisfied by Jesus, Who fills us with Living Water if we ask.