Pastoral planning will not bring utopia. There will always be the temptation to dig in the garbage and forget the song bird. Keep your life in search of Jesus!

What does an oath mean, if we don’t believe we will really stand before God?

Keeping it short in the notes.

After meeting Jesus, through His friends, we experience “Mountain Top Moments” like the Transfiguration. Like Peter it’s tempting to revert to our plans and set up tents but the Lord has a plan to lead us by the hand and Going Down the mountain often isn’t as exciting but it is necessary to grow into the child who becomes capable to changing others and being an instrument to others.

The abundance, Adam, and eve possess, makes it difficult to discern when the evil one is whispering. But Jesus shows us that in our desert, we actually may discern more easily. Don’t leave your desert, but trust and ask for God to be there.

Ash Wednesday and the practices that expand our persons. Like the expansion of what we see in the Universe but for us, the salvation of Jesus goes beyond even creation!

Do you believe in His name the person you receive, is Jesus? What does this mean?

The Church provides communal acts of worship like the Mass and helps us pray together by offering us the forms.

and Jesus helps us live, by grace, the deepest ways He asks of His children.

We all have a choice to begin by looking at was is evil or what is missing Or to start from what is good, to begin with the one loaf that has been provided. What is your loaf? God can multiply from that one!

St Scholastic has her prayers answered in a very clear way and St Monica does not. Benedict must stay but Augustine can flee! None of us can flee the providence of God!