Fr. Patrick Gonyeau C.PP.S.

The infectious, healing, delightful joy of the Lord flows from our awareness of God's presence and shines the light of God's love to this world. Lord...teach us & equip us with the grace to rejoice always in your presence! (Phil 4:4)

As we enter into the season of advent, the Lord is stirring us with a fresh desire for more of Him in our lives...

On this feast of Christ the King we remember Jesus said, "the Kingdom of God is among you" (Lk 17:21) As we Unleash the Gospel in POWER it's key to grow in docility to the Holy Spirit...to trust the nudge!

As we consider the impact of the Unleash the Gospel Movement on our parish, we dream big! We long for, and pursue ,a life as disciples & a parish that looks more like what we see in the Gospels & Acts of the Apostles than what we've experienced so far...

We enter into the powerful encounter between an understanding scribe & Jesus, which led to Jesus telling the scribe, "you are not far from the kingdom of God." (Mk 12:34) As disciples who have been transferred to the kingdom of the Beloved Son (Col 1:13), the Church of Detroit is hungry to embrace the New Evangelization, and to unleash the gospel like never before...

In chapter 10 of the Gospel of Mark, we hear of the encounter between Jesus and a rich man who asked Jesus, "what must I do to inherit eternal life." Mark tells us that Jesus looked at the man with love (V21). Jesus gazes on each of us with perfect love, fixing our eyes on Him and daily renewing our "yes" sets us free.

At a Generations of Faith Sunday at Corpus Christi in Detroit, with "The Call to Holiness" being the theme, we reflect on letting God's love flow through us...

In Chapter 7 of Mark's Gospel, we read of the wonderful healing of the man who was deaf and mute. In this reflection, we consider how the Lord heals us in His perfect love, and how we can share His healing love with others.

In chapter 7 of the gospel of Mark, we hear Jesus criticize some of the Pharisees & Scribes with words first delivered through the prophet Isaiah, "this people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, in vain do they worship me." This reflection looks at the intimate and transformational power of the worship of God that Jesus speaks of in John 4:23 "The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship Him."

Bishop Fulton Sheen once said, "the greatest love story of all time is contained in a little white host." This reflection takes a close look at the famous "bread of life" discourse of Jesus in the Synagogue in Capernaum. We're meant to live in this love story, to be renewed in it day in and day out, and most spectacularly, by the Eucharist. No matter what is happening in our lives, world and even Church...through the Eucharist Jesus continues to strengthen us to share the very conviction of St. Peter who said to Jesus in the midst of great turmoil, "to whom shall we go...you have the words of of eternal life."