05Sep21(21bO23). #8/9-Bread of Life Series.  Jesus acts in some strange ways. Today he puts his finger in someone’s ears. God always acts in the most fitting way. Which sometimes isn’t the way that we think. Jesus touches us today in the Eucharist which is the most fitting way.

29Aug21 (21bO22). #7/9-Bread of Life Series. We don’t like laws, but we put laws around things that are important. We don’t have any laws about touching an ordinary rock, but a lot of laws about special art. We also have a lot of laws around the Eucharist. Here are a few of those laws that are supposed to point us toward the reality of what the Eucharist is.

22Aug21 (21bO21). #6/9-Bread of Life Series. God gives us embodied ways to continue to encounter Him. The Eucharist is given for us to EAT. We are what we eat and God wants us to eat Jesus and be completely united to Him. It should make us a little uncomfortable in how real the Eucharist is. This is not symbolic but substantially and really present.

15Aug21 (21Assumption).  #5/9-Bread of Life Series. Mary is assumed into heaven body and soul. We are not disembodied beings, but human persons are body and soul. Jesus and Mary are both in heaven as their full persons being body and soul. The rest of us when we die live in an imperfect state as disembodied persons until the end of time when we believe in the resurrection of the body. If the body is so important than it makes sense that God would give us a Sacrament like the Eucharist that encounters both our body and soul in our full humanity.

08Aug21 (21bO19). #4/9-Bread of Life Series. Life is tiring. Without sustenance we will die. This includes both physically and spiritually. Jesus gives us the spiritual food of the Eucharist as the Bread of Life. It is not sustaining and actually hurts us if we aren’t in a state to receive. Fr. Mike Schmitz does a great job of explaining a little more about how Communion and situations where we shouldn’t receive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKOQF9Zw2M and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzd7JYnWx0I

01Aug21 (21bO18). #3/9-Bread of Life Series. We are always seeking in life. Almost all of our actions can be traced back to our pursuit of happiness. As we seek happiness that endures, we believe that we are seeking Jesus and Jesus gives us the Eucharist. To seek him at every Mass.

25Jul21 (21bO17). #2/9-Bread of Life Series. God could do things by himself, but he instead asks us to cooperate with him. Jesus often does not act without our involvement even if it is just a token amount. We need to not try and do everything, but do what we can. He desires our Cooperation! Especially cooperating at Mass with our prayers and union of sacrifice.

the next 9 Sundays on the Bread of Life. Jesus wants his Apostles to rest which is not running away from obligation, but prayer, purpose, and meaning. Jesus feeds with bread, his words, and the Eucharist. I share a personal experience with myself during my freshman year of college in the way that Jesus gives rest at Mass.

11Jul21 (21bO15). In baptism we become adopted children of God. Before we are creatures of God, but baptism begins an intense relationship and connection that cannot be broken with God our Father. We are meant to be Priests, Prophets, and Kings. Prophets speak God’s word and Truth in to the world.

04Jul21 (21bO14). Celebrating the 4th of July makes us look at the Declaration of Independence. The modern interpretation of our country has a strict separation of Church and State, but I would question that interpretation. Country is founded on the laws of nature that God gives. To be the best citizens in fact is to promote the natural law of Truth given by God.