Superior Priest

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.

27Jun21 (21bO13). There is depth to the Gospels that need be mined. There is more than the surface understanding. Every detail can reveal more to the story so we can enter in and understand. The Gospel reading of Jairus daughter and the hemorrhaging woman have lots of details that speak more than what on the surface we sometimes hear.

20Jun21 (21bO12). Driving can be difficult, but it is even worse with a backseat driver. Don’t be a backseat driver. Do we trust God as the driver? God seems to not notice all that is wrong. Do we trust Him when there are problems and He is asleep? We are perishing and God does nothing? Does He not care? Or are we too afraid? Trust God like Job, not like the Apostles. Sit in the suffering of trust.

13Jun21 (21bO11). The US military has an amazing reach all over the world. The Catholic Church even more so reaches into every part of the world. Almost every part of the world is affected by the Church and the Catholic Church has almost every culture as part of its fold. The Catholic Church is the true melting pot of diversity. The Catholic Church takes what is good and rejects what is bad. All branches of the same tree.

03Jun21 (21Corpus). God’s words are creative and what He says happen. “This is my body”…it is His body. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, the law of prayer, the law of belief. If we don’t pray as though the Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ then you will probably stop believing or never believed. The way we receive, pray, bow, and genuflect affect our belief.