A Message from Father Nathan
My dearest people who are all close to my heart!
Lots of love, blessings, and prayers to you all.
Happy Father’s Day
“These commandments that I give today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and get up.” – Deuteronomy 6:6-7
This passage comes just after Moses shared the Ten Commandments with Israel, but for Christian fathers, the heart of this verse is that God’s Word should be on our minds throughout our day, and we have a responsibility to teach our children what God desires.
Father’s Day is an opportunity to tell our Dads how much we appreciate them. New dads, experienced dads, granddads, dads-in-law, stepdads, like all dads…these fathers play a role in shaping how our children see the world and understand right and wrong.
As kids mature into adults, they make their own choices about what to do with their lives, how to treat others, and how to understand their relationship with God. Dads get to help lay the foundation for those decisions.
What makes a good Father?
The qualities of a good father include:
- Spend time actively involved with your kids
- Modeling the behavior you expect
- Taking ownership when you make mistakes
- Training your children to be better people
- Treating their mother with dignity
- Be a good listener
- Understanding that our kids may have different opinions…
- Teach them respect for differing opinions
- …the list is unending.
One of the greatest qualities of Dad is and should be the fact that he needs to be an inspiration or a model to the family.
Today, unfortunately, we lack this in our society.
Today is the day when we thank all our Dads for what they are and were to us. What we are today is just because of them, because of their love, and because of the sacrifice, they have done for us.
This too, we share with our spiritual fathers – the priests in our lives that also have impacted all of us!
May God bless them. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads and fathers out there.
God bless you all.
With lots of love and blessing.
Ever at your service.
—Fr. Sahayanathan Nathan
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Past Messages from Father Nathan
From The Desk Of Father Nathan | August 24, 2025
The feasts of St. Monica and her son, St. Augustine. Their life as mother and son sets an example for all of us to follow in our family lives…
From The Desk Of Father Nathan | August 17, 2025
Thank You for My Birthday Celebration. Last week, before my birthday, my little niece, with all the innocence and concern of a child, went to her mother and said, “I feel bad for Uncle Father Nathan. Uncle is all alone. There is no one to celebrate his birthday with him.” She said it because I am far away from my family home, and in her
From The Desk Of Father Nathan | August 10, 2025
Solemnity of the Assumption of our Blessed Mother – a Holy Day of Obligation
Thursday 14th vigil Mass and, on the 15th, we will have mass at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.
From The Desk Of Father Nathan | August 03, 2025
Our Church is more than a building – it is our extended home. Just as we celebrate the joys and milestones of life within our family homes, I warmly invite you to make the Church the heart of your celebrations too.
From The Desk Of Father Nathan | July 27, 2025
Brazilian Amazon Catholic Mission. The Archdiocese of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. supports 15 vibrant missionary territories with over 400 substations along the rivers and deep within the forest—places that can only be reached by boat.
From The Desk Of Father Nathan | July 20, 2025
The Importance of Eucharistic Adoration. My Story & Faith Journey. As a second and third grader, I went to church sometimes at 3:00 a.m. and slept on the steps of the church to open the church was a routine of my life. I wanted to be an altar server. I wanted to pray the morning prayer at 5:00 a.m. at the church…