Fr. Mark Bialek

Ordained a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore and pastor of Saint John Roman Catholic Church in Westminster, Maryland.

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A special thank you to Bishop Adam Parker for celebrating the Sacrament of Confirmation with many of our young disciples.

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3rd Sunday of Easter Homily: Have you ever felt like running away from all the pain and hurt? The disciples on their way to Emmaus did! An encounter with the risen Christ changed everything. Cowards and deniers turned into bold ambassadors for Christ. The same can happen to us!

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The Easter sacraments continue as our candidates were brought into the Church at our 11:00 am Mass here at St. John Westminster. May they be bold witness of the risen Jesus.

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It was an honor to be with our Westminster Police Department and deliver the invocation and closing benediction for the annual awards ceremony. Special thanks to Chief Price, Mayor Becker and city council members and congratulations to all of this year’s winners.

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Divine Mercy Sunday Homily: the Artemus astronauts looked at our distant earth and saw us all as “one crew.” As we seek the Lord’s mercy may we return to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and show mercy and forgiveness to one another.

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A special thank you to Senator Chris West of district 42 for his invitation to give the invocation for the state senate last week. I was very grateful for the warm welcome and always thankful for the collaboration between St. John and our wider Carroll County community.

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Easter Sunday Homily: We can accomplish great and amazing things like going back to the moon; however, without the resurrection the human heart remains unchanged.

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Congratulations and Christ’s abundant blessing upon our 24 newly baptized Catholics who also received the Sacrament of Confirmation and their 1st encounter with our Eucharistic Lord at this year’s Easter Vigil. We are overjoyed!

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“The light of Christ.”

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Happy Easter! May the risen Christ dispel our darkness and help us to radiate his love to all.

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Good Friday Homily: We are saying, this is our King. Not Caesar. not the powers of this world. Not the voices that promise control or security or dominance. But this - this self-giving love, this mercy, this total surrender to the will of the Father.

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Holy Thursday Homily: The world will tempt us to adopt a posture of grievance, to define ourselves by how we have been wronged, to respond to injury with resentment or withdrawal. But Jesus shows us another way. To be His disciple is to kneel. To be His disciple is to wash feet.

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It was my honor to deliver the invocation at the Maryland State Senate session on April 1st, upon the gracious invitation of Senator Chris West, representing District 42. Offering prayer alongside the senators was a tremendous privilege.

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Our Lord offers a peace that the world cannot give. After our 1st school Mass of the year our Eucharistic Lord was carried throughout the school to give His blessing and consolation. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God. Have faith also in me.”

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We ended the school year as we started…with Jesus present in the Blessed Sacrament. At the end of our closing Mass our young disciples took time for Eucharistic adoration and it was Jesus Himself present in the Eucharist who blessed them as they prepared for their summer.

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#AbpLori is lowering the standard age for #confirmation in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to 9. The age had previously been set at 14-16 in the Baltimore archdiocese, typically for those in eighth to 10th grades. https://t.co/bCNogOecKc #Sacraments #LocalNews

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10th Annual Blue Mass honoring and thanking our community’s police officers, firefighters, EMTs, and other first responders Saturday. All first responders attending were recognized and received a commemorative St. John Blue Mass challenge coin. https://t.co/oOaQPpJ4GD

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It was an honor and privilege to be with our 1st responders at our annual Blue Mass. We asked for the Lord’s blessing and protection. We also gave them a new “challenge coin,” which was blessed at Mass as a reminder throughout this upcoming year of our prayerful support.

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All creatures of our God and King…what a beautiful day at St. John Westminster for our annual pet blessing in honor of St. Francis…