{"id":13343,"date":"2026-02-03T08:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/?p=13343"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:32:44","slug":"pastors-comments-feb-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/parish-news\/pastors-comments-feb-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor’s Comments | FEB 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pray For Our Priests – February 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Below are the priests of our diocese for whom we are asked to pray daily.<\/em><\/strong>
Prayer:<\/em><\/strong>

<\/strong>Eternal Father, we lift up to You these and all the priests of the world. Sanctify them. Heal and guide them. Mold them into the likeness of Your Son, Jesus the Eternal High Priest. May their lives be pleasing to You. In Jesus\u2019s name we pray.

Amen.<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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February<\/strong> 1
Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 2<\/strong>
Rev. Baiju Kidaagen\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>
ord. 2001<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 3<\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. Gerald Reinersman <\/em>
ord. 1979<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February 4<\/strong>
Most Rev. John Iffert<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 5<\/strong>
Most Rev. Roger Foys<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 6<\/strong>
Rev. Anil Baa, C.R.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 7<\/strong>
Rev. Stef Bankemper<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 8<\/strong>
Deceased Priests who have served St. Joseph Parish<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 9<\/strong>
Rev. Thomas Barnes<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 10<\/strong>
Rev. Michael Barth<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 11<\/strong>
Rev. Roberto Becerra<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 12<\/strong>
Rev. Paul Berschied<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 13<\/strong>
Rev. Jason Bertke<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 14<\/strong>
Rev. Michael Black<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 15<\/strong>
Rev. Eric Boelscher<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 16<\/strong>
Rev. Richard Bolte<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 17<\/strong>
Rev. Edward Brodnick<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 18<\/strong>
Rev. George Mathew, C.R. <\/em>
ord. 2006<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 19<\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. William Cleves<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 20<\/strong>
Rev. Benton Clift<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 21<\/strong>
Missionary Priests serving in the United States<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 22<\/strong>
Rev. Shannon Collins, M.S. J. B.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 23<\/strong>
Rev. Michael Comer<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 24<\/strong>
Rev. John Converset, M.C.C.J.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 25<\/strong>
Rev. Msgr. Roger Cooney<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 26<\/strong>
Rev. Matthew Cushing<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February 27<\/strong>
Rev. Maurice de Lange<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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February<\/strong> 28<\/strong>
Rev. Phillip DeVous<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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During the month of February, please keep all of our priests and leaders of the church in our prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news","tag-pray-for-priests"],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13344,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13343\/revisions\/13344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjosephcoldspring.com\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}