Father J. Collin Poston

Father J. Collin Poston is the pastor of St. Bartholomew parish in Manchester. He is also a chaplain to the Baltimore Catholic Charismatic Renewal and to the Secular Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Community of the Infant Jesus and the Holy Face. He regularly offers prayer for healing and in his free time enjoys cheering for the Baltimore Orioles, eating Maryland steamed crabs and walking his Pomeranian dog Otto.

‘A’ is for Advent

November 27, 2024
By Father J. Collin Poston
Catholic Review Filed Under: Advent, Commentary, Dust and Dewfall

Pray today and this week about how God is calling you to witness to Advent, to observe Advent, to pray this Advent. Seriously. For without Advent, it is impossible to truly understand Christmas.

The ‘Warm Tornado’: and the delights of your Spirit

May 17, 2024
By Father J. Collin Poston
Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary

Jesus desires to heal us in both body and soul.

God spoke to me through my espresso

August 16, 2022
By Father J. Collin Poston
Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Dust and Dewfall

The Lord can surely teach us patience – to wait on him and to wait for our prayers and he is sure answer to them.

His first swimming lesson

August 9, 2021
By Father J. Collin Poston
Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Dust and Dewfall

Father Collin Poston imagines what might have been like if Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the beach as a child.

The Fourth Nail

April 6, 2021
By Father J. Collin Poston
Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Dust and Dewfall, Easter

For Holy Week and the Easter Season, Father J. Collin Poston composed the following poem.

Of Ottos, grottoes and other O words

November 5, 2020
By Father J. Collin Poston
Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Dust and Dewfall

In these stressful times, Father Collin Poston’s four-legged friend has some advice.

Forgiving hearts

September 14, 2020
By Father J. Collin Poston
Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Dust and Dewfall

Ask the Lord today to show you someone you need to forgive or someone from whom you need to seek forgiveness.

St. Anthony and the Eucharist

June 15, 2020
By Father J. Collin Poston
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Dust and Dewfall, Uncategorized

May our eucharistic Jesus give us that renewed life, and powerfully change and transform us from the inside out.

Knowing his voice

May 4, 2020
By Father J. Collin Poston
Filed Under: Blog, Dust and Dewfall

If we know the voice of the Lord Jesus well, and we continue to respond to it, then we know what follows it: an abiding peace and confident hope that cannot be taken away.

Start strong and show God

February 26, 2020
By Father J. Collin Poston
Filed Under: Blog, Dust and Dewfall, Lent

Let us “start strong” and “show God” to the world and those around us, and give a demonstration of the unseen by being Christlike in our lives and in our love.

Are you ready to see the Light of Life?

February 3, 2020
By Father J. Collin Poston
Filed Under: Blog, Dust and Dewfall

Every day is a gift from our Heavenly Father. May we not take it for granted but live it as such, and allow the light of Jesus to shine in and through us so, as to illuminate and brighten our often dark and troubled world.

He must increase

January 23, 2020
By Father J. Collin Poston
Filed Under: Blog, Dust and Dewfall

As the Lamb of God, he gives himself to us in the Eucharist to empower us to conquer our own sins – and allow him to increase more and more within us and in our lives.