Mass With Fr. Don

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.

Somewhere
In Between

In the final analysis, the Catholic Church exists in a place of mystery in between two worlds: one that we live in now and one that lies beyond earth and awaits us after death, where God resides, and that we, periodically, sacredly touch. Some people, because of their heritage, age, preconceived condition, spiritual proclivity, empathic connections, or other factors, are comfortable existing in that in-between space. Others, because of contrary circumstances, are very uncomfortable there and prefer clear lines of demarcation.

In-between places are difficult for some of us to conceptualize. It might help to think of common atmospheric conditions like mist or fog that are not quite rain and not quite air, not clear but also not invisible, or a stage in life as common as teenage years when we’re not really kids and, at the same time, not adults, or a common state of existence like dreams that are not unconscious occurrences but un-awakened conscious encounters, or even common non-primary colors: green, purple, orange, and gray that is somewhere between black and white.
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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