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Clogged minds and closed hearts
Two disciples had been on their way to Emmaus. They were leaving Jerusalem; their hopes were shattered after Jesus’ death. Then they met the risen Lord. They didn’t recognize him at first, but they did after he opened the Scriptures for them and broke bread with them. After their encounter they returned to the community…
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Happy 50 Days of Easter!
Dear Parish Family, While Lent may be 40 days, our celebration of the Easter season lasts 50 days from the first Sunday of Easter all the way to the Solemnity of Pentecost Sunday a full seven weeks later! What a Holy Week! Despite the diminished numbers due to a concurrent spring break, what a…
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His mercy endures forever
Pope John Paul II established the Sunday after Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. The Divine Mercy, of course, is the unconditional love of God seen from the point of view of the sinner. It is the fidelity of the love of God. Divine Mercy Sunday can be seen as the convergence of all the mysteries…
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Christ is Risen, Alleluia!
On this Easter day, we here in Jackson proclaim with the Church all throughout the world that sin and hatred, death and division, violence and vitriol do NOT have the final say! The Easter message is that, in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has conquered all of these through the eternally greater power of…
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Raised with Christ
Christ the Lord is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia. “And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins” (1 Corinthians 15: 14, 17)
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The Holiest Week of the Year!
Dear Parish Family, With today’s Passion Sunday celebration, Holy Week is upon us! I pray that it may be a moving week for each of us, one that draws us closer to the Lord that intimately knows our suffering, but also raises us up from it through the power of his Resurrection. May you enter…
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Save us, we beseech you, O Lord
With the Palm Sunday liturgy we enter in to the Holy week. The church invites us to enter into a journey to accompany Jesus in his last week, to reflect and renew our Christian lives in the light of Jesus’s life. The triumphal entry of Jesus in to Jerusalem comes first to our minds. Every one…
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Only Two Weeks Until Easter Joy!
Dear Parish Family, Already on the 5th Sunday of Lent, we only have two weeks to go before the Resurrection of Easter! The topic this week for Faith Formation Friday is a very fitting one, given what we celebrate this upcoming Holy Week, “The Paschal Mystery: The Mystery of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection.” It begins…
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Now the Green Blade Rises
This Sunday’s gospel passage begins with a request to Philip by some Greeks, who would like to see Jesus. They wanted to know more about Jesus and wanted to come to believe in Him. In his own lifetime Jesus’ ministry was almost exclusively confined to his own people. (Romans 15:8). The Greeks who came asking…
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You Are Called. You Are Gifted.
Dear Parish Family, You were not meant to live just a humdrum life, wondering if this is all there is. You were meant to know your God-given purpose and be invigorated in fulfilling it. Did you know that? God has gifted you in unique ways by which you manifest his power and providence to this…
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Reborn in Love
God’s love is universal and at the same time it is personal. Our God is concerned of each person individually yet at the same time he loves us as a community. The Love of God is made tangible in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus has shown us the Father’s love and calls us to…
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O Come, Let Us Worship!
Dear Parish Family, How has your Lent been thus far? Have you been able to fast from whatever gets in the way of allowing the Lord Jesus to enter more deeply into your life? It’s not too late to do so because the two biggest Lenten events we are offering at the parish are still…
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If you cannot follow the house rules…
If you cannot follow the house rules find your own house.” My eyes struck on those bold letters stuck to the fridge. As she realized that I was looking at it and wondering what it meant, she said “this is needed in a family where there are growing up teenagers. They think they are smarter…
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Changing Dates on You!
Dear Parish Family, We did a switcheroo of the dates of two big parish events, so please note it on your calendar! “O Come, Let Us Adore Him” – now Friday, March 13 Called and Gifted Workshop – now Friday, March 20 and 21 Why the change? Pope Francis is leading a day…
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An invitation to see, to listen and to experience
God’s call is personal and at the same time very demanding. It is an invitation to enter into His holiness with an attitude of faith and total trust in God. We encounter a God who speaks to us and we are called upon to listen to Him and respond to Him. Now as we enter the…
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7 Steps to a Life-Giving Lent!
Before Jesus’ public ministry, he went out to the desert for forty days of prayer and fasting. We periodically need to take time to shed the excess in our lives, that is, the overabundance of activity and events that so consumes our time and focus that we forget about the most important thing in this…
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Barren Times & Wilderness of Life
We began the season of Lent with the Ash Wednesday. There are forty days in lent excluding the six Sundays that occur between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. The number forty is a significant biblical number as we see the many important events happening in the” forty” period. The first event that is mentioned in…
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Our Lenten Schedule
Dear Parish Family, With Lent beginning this Wednesday, I wanted to summarize the various new opportunities our parish will be offering for deeper conversion, for deepening our personal relationship with our Lord, and for discovering the giftedness that he uniquely bestows upon us to build up the kingdom of God. As an extension of our…
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