Mental Health is more than just Mental Illness. Mental Health also entails companionship, joy, our families, our faith and our whole range of emotions. Joining together to form the complete you is our heart our mind and our souls. Jesus calls us to love God and ourselves in this same manner. What is Sanctuary? The […]
Sanctuary Begins This week on Wednesday, April 24 Read More »
Every person coming into the Church to worship should be treated as Jesus taught us. For those in the church who have not personally experienced mental illness, it can be hard to relate or understand the struggles of those who have. Here are some ways you can love and care for those struggling with mental illness:
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Blessed is the eyes that see what you see. What a beautiful message of love. Jesus loves his disciples (and us) so much he explains to them everything. The problem is that fallen humanity wants to hear what it wants to hear. We an pull out passages from the Bible and claim they say what
Advent Minute 12-05-2023 Read More »
As we enter into Advent once again, we might be wondering about many of the readings from the next few weeks will be from the prophets in the Old Testament. They are very difficult at times to read as they are talking to Temple leaders and kings from almost 3000 years ago We should not
As Catholics we put a lot of time effort and teaching about the Mass. The Second Vatican Council called the Mass the Source and Summit of everything we have. We give our best at every mass. The priests and deacons wear the best clothes the best vestments and bring with them their best selves. The
My Lord and My God! Read More »
This weeks readings tend to speak of past prophets and Widows in a town called Zarephath. A man named Naaman being healed. We see Jesus speaking about prophets not being accepted in their native place and next thing you know he is being jeered and booed and is roughly shoved out of town. What exactly is
Why so much hate for the Samaritans? (history) Read More »
The town of Zarephath in the land of Sidon. I am going to guess very few people could point that out on a map.. but judging by the people’s reaction when Jesus mentioned it, we can guess that it was a place which the people of Judah disliked. The town name means smelting furnace… the
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“Becoming a Christian means becoming communio and thereby entering into the mode of being of the Holy Spirit.” Pope Benedicy XVI Lent is a period of roughly 6 weeks , where our attention is focused on Loving God and Loving Neighbor. This idea is epitomized in the Good Samaritan as well as the Separation of
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This week we begin our trip into the book of Genesis. It is so foundational of a book that it takes us from the beginning of the world to the Jewish people heading down to Egypt. From the fall of mankind to the genesis of the exodus. The book is named after the first few
In the Beginning came Order Read More »
On Wednesday there was a very interesting Gospel message from the Gospel of Mark. We might call it the Gospel of Wisdom On one hand the description was that Jesus spoke wisely. What kind of Wisdom has been given him the people acclaimed? They were astonished. Now the people had come there to hear Jesus teach…
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