Sunday, May 19, 2019

A Word from Your Pastor May 12


Dear Parishioners:

This weekend, we offer heartfelt congratulations to the members of our First Holy Communion class.  May they always stay close to Jesus, Whom they have received for the first time in the Holy Eucharist.  May they and their families continue to learn more and more about the gift they have received.  May our life as a Parish family always be a sign of the power of the Sacraments to bring joy and strength to people of Faith.

Today we ask God’s blessings on all mothers, grandmothers, godmothers and all who share in the power of God to give and nurture life.  It is awesome to contemplate the depth of love that is manifested when a mother conceives and brings to birth a new child.  All who have experienced the love of a mother are full of gratitude when it dawns on them just what has been sacrificed for them.  This is true of both physical and spiritual life.  The prayers of all mothers are responsible for so many graces in our lives.

The Fourth Sunday of Easter is also Good Shepherd Sunday.  On this day, we give thanks to God for all who have mirrored the Love of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, to us.  Those who invite us into a deeper awareness of the immense Love God has for us and His desire to lead us to green pastures help us to know better who we are and what our destiny will be.

When we respond to the awareness of the simple fact that we are loved, we become better able to pass on the love that God has placed in our hearts.  The world is now in need of hearing, seeing and experiencing the Good News of the Resurrection of Jesus.  It falls to us to make this fundamental truth known because we are responding to the news ourselves, committing ourselves to live by the grace of the Holy Spirit.  May we truly become “a light to the nations and an instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth.”

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