Episodes
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Prepare for Lent- Silence
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
Sunday Feb 19, 2023
05FEB23 (23aO5). It is time to start thinking about lent. The more you put in the more you will get out. God speaks through silence. So give him some silence.
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
We Are All Weak
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
Saturday Jan 28, 2023
28JAN23 (23aO4). We are all weak and struggle. Pride and insecurity often cause us the biggest problems in life. If we admit our weakness and seek help from God (in prayer) and from help around us (mental health). “Praying it away” is not always the answer, sometimes we need good faith and reason and the support of the amazing mental health advances. One of the gravest mental health problems is suicide. It is frightening and often avoided, but it is important for us to talk about and learn to help ourselves and others. Let us be weak in the Lord and seek the strength that he wants to give us.
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
To Be Catholic Is to Serve the Poor
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
21JAN23 (23aO3). It is easy to get taken by political debate and rhetoric. We need to be Christian in our world view and not political. We follow Jesus. We need to serve the poor or else we will go to hell. We can do everything right, but if we don’t do that we are not falling on the right side. The most poor and vulnerable are those in the womb and we need to create a pro-life culture of life that values all, especially the most vulnerable. We believe that abortion is wrong but what have we done about it?
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Behold the Lamb of God
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
15JAN23 (23aO2). It is too little to just get by. We need to offer more than just the bare minimum of sacrifice. The sacrifice is to guide all our life. John the Baptist guides us to full Communion with Jesus. As Catholics we have the great gift of the Eucharist which we have to sacrifice and love. As a parish we are beginning Adoration on Friday. That commitment is important to pray and be transformed by adoration.
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Seeking the Star of Truth
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
08JAN23 (23Epiphany). The Wisemen seek the truth and find Jesus. Faith and reason are not opposed, but two wings to help us to fly. Let us always pursue the truth and help it lead us to Jesus.
“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves” (JP2, Fides et Ratio)
“Stand firm in the faith! Do not let yourselves be confused! It often seems that science — the natural sciences on the one hand and historical research (especially exegesis of Sacred Scripture) on the other — are able to offer irrefutable results at odds with the Catholic faith. I have experienced the transformations of the natural sciences since long ago and have been able to see how, on the contrary, apparent certainties against the faith have vanished, proving to be not science, but philosophical interpretations only apparently pertaining to science; just as, on the other hand, it is in dialogue with the natural sciences that faith, too, has learned to understand better the limit of the scope of its claims, and thus its specificity. […] I saw and see how out of the tangle of assumptions the reasonableness of faith emerged and emerges again. Jesus Christ is truly the way, the truth and the life — and the Church, with all its insufficiencies, is truly His body.” (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Spiritual Testimony)
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Pondering With Mary
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
01JAN23 (23Mother). The feast today of Mary the Mother of God is an opportunity to ponder on the theological mystery of Jesus’ humanity and divinity and unity. It is also a good time to ponder on our new year. How does the Holy Spirit want to guide you in growth this year?
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
God DWELLS With Us
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
25DEC22 (22Christmas). We may be thinking a lot about Santa Claus during Christmas. There are some similarities to God such as his knowledge, but huge differences after that. Jesus is God and came to dwell and be with us. We are never alone. He came to be with us. “Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction” (Deus Caritas Est, 1).
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
The Supernatural Christmas
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
Saturday Dec 24, 2022
18DEC22 (22aA4). Christmas is naturally good, but it is also supernatural. In the midst of all the natural goodness let us remember the supernatural good. He comes to reveal Himself, but we can never fully comprehend his mystery, but we can always ponder and meditate.
JESUS
Manifest Infirmity, wondrous Humility,
in which all the greatness of God lay hidden:
He is both great in the nature of God
and small in the form of a servant.
But His greatness is not diminished by His smallness,
nor His smallness overwhelmed by His greatness.
He Himself with the Father and the Holy Spirit precedes all spans of time,
but on this day, issuing from His mother,
He stepped into the tide of the years.
* * * * *
He who made man, was made Man;
He was given existence by a mother whom
He brought into existence.
He finds no room in the inn, but
He builds a temple for Himself
in the hearts of those who believe.
Unspeakably wise, He is wisely speechless;
filling the world, He lies in a manger.
He is wrapped in swaddling clothes,
but He gives us a garment of immortality.
John the Baptist baptized Christ, the Giver of Baptism,
in waters made holy by the One Who was baptized.
* * * * *
In Him we see our God made visible,
and so are caught up in the love of the God we cannot see.
He came to pay a debt He didn’t owe
because we owed a debt we couldn’t pay.
Such is the love of our God!
Then let us be kindled with love,
that we may come to His eternity!
By Marie E. Barfknecht
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Repent and Pray
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
04DEC22 (22aA2). How is the 1% challenge (https://www.evangelicalcatholic.org/onepercent/) going this Advent? John the Baptist is a crazy person who is calling us to reality. Repent!! In order for repentance to be real and authentic it needs to be proceeded with changes and fruit. This can be difficult to know exactly how to repent and change. So the only effective way is to pray to precede the way forward.
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Be Prepared and Challenged This Advent
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
27NOV22 (22aA1). Today begins Advent the season of anticipation, hope, and preparation. Advent is not a season to be in Christmas but is a mini lent. Two of the greatest things to focus on are prayer and almsgiving. I am taking the 1% challenge and I am challenging you as well to spend at least 1% of every day in advent on prayer: https://www.evangelicalcatholic.org/onepercent/