Fr. Don's Weekly Mass

At Alvin Brooks Center

In partnership with Rockhurst University, we invite you to join Father Don Farnan for weekly Mass each Thursday at 12:15 p.m. (beginning June 11) at the Alvin Brooks Center Mabee Chapel (5401 Troost Avenue, Kansas City). All are welcome! Learn more about the Alvin Brooks Center.

This weekly gathering connects people from across parishes and the city to share in the Eucharist, strengthen community, and support ministries serving our urban-core neighbors. It's a simple but meaningful way to deepen faith and fellowship in the heart of Kansas City.

Make this part of your summer rhythm. Come as you are, bring a friend, and take a mid-day pause for prayer and community. Stay for conversation or step in for a quiet moment of prayer. Our Kickoff Gathering on June 11 will offer Mass followed by a light lunch. Guests are welcome to stay and socialize or take lunch to go.

Pentecost Memorial

Anglican priest Henry Scott Holland, in an early twentieth-century sermon to comfort those who lost loved ones, penned this famous perspective from one who died: “Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I. You are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. So, call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy way which you always did. Put no difference in your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Ponder it, smile, think of me; pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was; let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it always was. We are all connected by an unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind just because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, for one day we shall be together again. Know that all is well.”

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Father Don and his sister, Barbie, drop a podcast about podcasts, particularly this podcast, Upon This Rock, as we pause operations to assess its impact and how the church can reach people in our twenty-first-century virtual society. They reminisce about messages from the hundred-plus conversations and how we can encourage people to talk with one another about matters of faith and faith that matters to us, our families and friends, our community, and our world.

Direct Link. Listen on Apple and Spotify. Download the MP3 file.

Listen to all the Upon This Rock episodes. #uponthisrockpodcast

Saint Thomas More (STM) Parish has a sister community relationship with San Andrés Itzapa, a rural parish in south-central Guatemala. STM Parishioners Phil Smith and Marla Byrne have visited frequently in recent decades, often leading groups on work retreats and pilgrimages of faith that support foreign friends. The STM group has escorted thousands of Kansas Citians, including over a thousand teenagers, to Central America to encounter brothers and sisters who struggle in ways that open their eyes and hearts.

Direct Link. Listen on Apple and Spotify. Download the MP3 file.

Listen to all the Upon This Rock episodes. #uponthisrockpodcast