A Word from Your Pastor January 28

Each year our patronal Feast of St. Timothy (January 26) offers the opportunity for us to be united in a special prayer.  We invoke our Patron, St. Timothy, the disciple of St. Paul, and we ask God to respond to a need that is present among us and in the Church and the world.  This year’s petition asks for a change of heart in us that will give God room to act to heal those in pain through our cooperation with His grace and to guide us as a community to follow His plan for us.

Please pray for this intention often throughout the coming year:

That we may work together to create room for God in our lives
and to open our hearts to our brothers and sisters,
especially those who are in pain,
and that we may discern clearly and follow
God’s plan for St. Timothy Parish and School.

When we pray such a prayer, we must be ready to act in response to the grace that is given.  This prayer calls us to work together, never against one another.  It invites us to open our heart to God and to our neighbors.  It challenges us to pay attention to the crosses that others have to carry and to do whatever we can to assist them.  It also makes clear that we are willing to seek and to follow God’s Will and not our own.

Transformation of mind and heart are required if we are to be true disciples.  St. Timothy and his guide St. Paul are examples for us, models of obedience and love.  May we follow their lead and be worthy instruments of the Lord as He offers salvation to all the world.