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26FEB23 (23aL1). Adam and Eve didn’t trust God and grasped. Lent helps us to let go and receive from the Lord. Let us grow be learning the obedience of Mary and Jesus in love.

22FEB23 (23Ash). Convert and believe in the Gospel. This Lent let us orientate our life towards Christ.

19FEB23 (23aO7). Be Perfect… simple and clear? We do not need to be perfect by human standards, but by God’s. God wants us to be perfect in love. A radical and foolish love which always “Wills the good of the other, for the other’s sake”. What is keeping you from love?

05FEB23 (23aO5). It is time to start thinking about lent. The more you put in the more you will get out. God speaks through silence. So give him some silence.

28JAN23 (23aO4). We are all weak and struggle. Pride and insecurity often cause us the biggest problems in life. If we admit our weakness and seek help from God (in prayer) and from help around us (mental health). “Praying it away” is not always the answer, sometimes we need good faith and reason and the support of the amazing mental health advances. One of the gravest mental health problems is suicide. It is frightening and often avoided, but it is important for us to talk about and learn to help ourselves and others. Let us be weak in the Lord and seek the strength that he wants to give us.

21JAN23 (23aO3). It is easy to get taken by political debate and rhetoric. We need to be Christian in our world view and not political. We follow Jesus. We need to serve the poor or else we will go to hell. We can do everything right, but if we don’t do that we are not falling on the right side. The most poor and vulnerable are those in the womb and we need to create a pro-life culture of life that values all, especially the most vulnerable. We believe that abortion is wrong but what have we done about it?

15JAN23 (23aO2). It is too little to just get by. We need to offer more than just the bare minimum of sacrifice. The sacrifice is to guide all our life. John the Baptist guides us to full Communion with Jesus. As Catholics we have the great gift of the Eucharist which we have to sacrifice and love. As a parish we are beginning Adoration on Friday. That commitment is important to pray and be transformed by adoration.

08JAN23 (23Epiphany).  The Wisemen seek the truth and find Jesus. Faith and reason are not opposed, but two wings to help us to fly. Let us always pursue the truth and help it lead us to Jesus.

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves” (JP2, Fides et Ratio)

“Stand firm in the faith! Do not let yourselves be confused! It often seems that science — the natural sciences on the one hand and historical research (especially exegesis of Sacred Scripture) on the other — are able to offer irrefutable results at odds with the Catholic faith. I have experienced the transformations of the natural sciences since long ago and have been able to see how, on the contrary, apparent certainties against the faith have vanished, proving to be not science, but philosophical interpretations only apparently pertaining to science; just as, on the other hand, it is in dialogue with the natural sciences that faith, too, has learned to understand better the limit of the scope of its claims, and thus its specificity. […] I saw and see how out of the tangle of assumptions the reasonableness of faith emerged and emerges again. Jesus Christ is truly the way, the truth and the life — and the Church, with all its insufficiencies, is truly His body.” (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Spiritual Testimony)

01JAN23 (23Mother).  The feast today of Mary the Mother of God is an opportunity to ponder on the theological mystery of Jesus’ humanity and divinity and unity. It is also a good time to ponder on our new year. How does the Holy Spirit want to guide you in growth this year?

25DEC22 (22Christmas). We may be thinking a lot about Santa Claus during Christmas. There are some similarities to God such as his knowledge, but huge differences after that. Jesus is God and came to dwell and be with us. We are never alone. He came to be with us. “Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction” (Deus Caritas Est, 1).