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Please join in welcoming Seminarian Benjamin Reinhart who will spend his Pastoral Year with Prince of Peace!   Please allow me the opportunity to introduce myself to your parish family. My name is Benjamin Reinhart. I was born in Shawnee Mission,…

Did you hear the news? If not, here is the latest for Prince of Peace.   First, we will be saying farewell to Fr. Kenn Clem who has been the parochial vicar (associate pastor) here for the past three years. Fr. Kenn has been given a new assignment…

Dear graduates, as the father of five adult children, I have experienced what your parents are going through right now.  Let me shed some light on what you probably perceive as truly bizarre behavior!  You see, the part of their lives that you…

Instead of “Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh my!” as was said/sung by Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz, we have our own excitement here at Prince of Peace this weekend. I would sum it all up on the category of “vocation”. A vocation is a calling…

According to Wikipedia: The "mayday" procedure word was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport, England. He had been asked to think of a word that would indicate…

Happy Easter! This Sunday is the eighth day of the Octave of Easter, so it is still considered Easter Day itself. So keep celebrating. This Sunday is also known as Divine Mercy Sunday.   This Sunday, April 24th is Divine Mercy Sunday. In a series of…

Happy Easter! Christ is risen…He is risen indeed! Since on Easter, Jesus rose from the dead and was seen by witnesses, and we decorate our church and often homes with bright colors and flowers, I thought I’d share a visual image for you to pray with…

On this Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion and as we enter Holy Week, it is so good to reflect on the account of the crucifixion of Jesus and the words he spoke. Traditionally many reflect on the “Seven Last Words of Christ.” If you look between the…

Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. (John 8:3-4) These are a couple lines of…

Juliana of Liège, a 13th century canoness from Liège, Belgium, had a vision of the Church under a full moon with one dark spot on it, signifying the absence of a feast dedicated to the Body and Blood of Christ. After having visions of Christ for…