Superior Priest

Details are Important

27Jun21 (21bO13). There is depth to the Gospels that need be mined. There is more than the surface understanding. Every detail can reveal more to the story so we can enter in and understand. The Gospel reading of Jairus daughter and the hemorrhaging woman have lots of details that speak more than what on the surface we sometimes hear.

Backseat Driver

20Jun21 (21bO12). Driving can be difficult, but it is even worse with a backseat driver. Don’t be a backseat driver. Do we trust God as the driver? God seems to not notice all that is wrong. Do we trust Him when there are problems and He is asleep? We are perishing and God does nothing? Does He not care? Or are we too afraid? Trust God like Job, not like the Apostles. Sit in the suffering of trust.

Melting Pot

13Jun21 (21bO11). The US military has an amazing reach all over the world. The Catholic Church even more so reaches into every part of the world. Almost every part of the world is affected by the Church and the Catholic Church has almost every culture as part of its fold. The Catholic Church is the true melting pot of diversity. The Catholic Church takes what is good and rejects what is bad. All branches of the same tree.

Pray to Believe

03Jun21 (21Corpus). God’s words are creative and what He says happen. “This is my body”…it is His body. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, the law of prayer, the law of belief. If we don’t pray as though the Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ then you will probably stop believing or never believed. The way we receive, pray, bow, and genuflect affect our belief.

Why are we Here?

30May21 (21Trinity). The liturgy, not only in its prayers but in its very action, should communicate to us about the celebration. This idea of changing the parts of Mass to fit is called progressive solemnity. Some announcements. Why are we here in church? life? “Q: Why did God make you? A: God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven.” Baltimore Catechism. God became man so we may know Him. The mystery of Trinity reveals that God is a God of relationship.

Unity in Diversity

23May21 (21Pentecost). “Catholic” means universal. It is the universal religion that is for all peoples. Universal religion for all people. We are not supposed to be all the same but unique and complementary.

Preach the Gospel

13May21 (21Ascension). Proclaim the Gospel to every creature. It doesn’t matter if others want to except it, we have a command from God to proclaim the Gospel. Responsibility to do so even if it doesn’t cause conversions.

Remain in God’s Love

09May21 (21bE6). God uses unexpected people. He uses a military soldier, Cornelius as a Godly man seeking God. Let’s be like Cornelius and seek God by seeking to follow his commandments.

Ask For Anything?

02May21 (21bE5). Ask for anything that you want, but sometimes his answer is “no” or “hey that doesn’t work with your more important prayer”. The Our Father is the best formation in understanding how to pray.

The Unexpected Fittingness of God’s Providence

25Apr21 (21bE4). Jesus shepherds us in the most fitting way. He does that in unexpected ways by becoming incarnate and laying down his life. He also works in our life in the most fitting way that is often unexpected by us. Fr. Walter Ciszek is an amazing example of the amazing way God works expectantly in the most fitting and effective ways.