Fr. Patrick Gonyeau C.PP.S.

God has a destiny for you. God chose you before the foundations of the world (Eph 1:4). You were made in God's image & likeness (Gen 1:26). To be a Christian is to be an "anointed one". To live in the anointing is to lean into your destiny...

So often we are distracted from the gift of the present moment. So often our awareness of God's loving presence seems to slip away. Jesus tells us he is The Vine and we are the branches, called to bear fruit for God's glory. He wants to give us the grace to live every moment in His presence...

At The Engaging the Young Church Conference at St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Troy, the radical power of prayer is looked at...

At a gathering of ministry leaders at St. Clare of Montefalco we consider what a parish full of joyful missionary disciples would be like...

At a gathering of ministry leaders at St. Clare of Montefalco, the topic of living as a joyful missionary disciple is looked at...

In St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians, St Paul tells the Christians he is writing to, to have within them the same attitude that Jesus has. Through grace, God offers us this very reality...

As children of our merciful heavenly Father, Jesus teaches us that we too must extend his mercy and forgiveness to those who have wronged us. This can be extremely difficult, but by participating in His merciful love (His grace) we are able to forgive, which in turn sets us free from tangled webs of unforgiveness.

"The love of Christ impels us" St. Paul once wrote. It is the love of Jesus that can give us the courage to reach address the sin of another, not as their judge, but as their brother or sister in the Lord seeking to help them. Disciples share in the very life of Jesus and the Church continues his rescue mission...

From the lofty heights of being called "blessed" and "the rock" upon which Jesus will build His Church, where hear Peter in today's gospel tumble to the depths of being called "Satan" and "a stumbling block" by Jesus. What led to such different responses from Jesus? Inspired thought vs. human thinking. The Lord implores us to deny ourselves for His sake and to not be conformed to this age, but transformed by the renewal of our minds.

Two priests went walking through downtown Detroit at night agreeing to cooperate with God to bring the good news of Jesus to people in anyway He would see fit... +Alpha starts soon at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament!