There is an amazing flow to the
Liturgical Calendar we follow as Catholics.
The very heart of the year is the solemn celebration of Easter. From Easter Sunday, backwards and forwards,
the calendar unfolds in order to express this centrality of the Resurrection of
Jesus. Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week
and the Easter Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter
Sunday) lead us to the high point
From Easter, we move through 50 Days
with the Weeks of the Easter Season, to the Ascension and Pentecost. Ordinary Time begins, but the next several
Sundays highlight magnificent Mysteries of our Faith that are revealed through
Jesus Christ. The Sunday after Pentecost
is Trinity Sunday. Corpus Christi
Then weekdays are touched as
well. Friday after Corpus Christi is the
Feast of the Sacred Heart, and the Saturday that follows is the Feast of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary. God gives
Himself to us in Jesus Christ. He
becomes one with us through the human Heart of Jesus, in cooperation with the
human heart of Mary, the Mother of the Lord.
The celebration of the Liturgy takes us into the very heart of God and
we are called to be One with Him in the midst of Ordinary Time. The call of the Laity is to bring God’s
Holiness into the secular sphere. Are
you cooperating with the flow of God’s Grace in you?
This weekend, I celebrate 29 years
since my ordination to the Priesthood. I
am truly grateful to be with you at St. Timothy Church as my journey
unfolds. As a special gift to me today,
I invite all our young people to consider a life of service in the Church. Who are the future priests and religious
among us?
One of the joys of my life as a
priest has been sharing spiritual conversation with a variety of persons and
learning about the different spiritualities that reveal to us the path for
growth in relationship with God. In
order to share this kind of conversation in the parish, I would like to invite
all who are interested to a Mass once a month on a Tuesday evening (generally
the last) at 7:00 p.m. We will celebrate Mass together,
then gather in the Multipurpose Room to have some conversation about the life
of the spirit. In particular, I invite
those who are affiliated in some way with the different religious communities
to come together to share their experiences with their brothers and
sisters. The first evening Mass for “Spiritual
Associates” will be the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist, Tuesday,
June 24th. Are you feeling
called to go deeper with the Lord in the life of the spirit?
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