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What God says is True. What He tells us to do is True. And what He says will happen…Does Happen. The Eucharist is real and He is present with us.

God speaks and creates. Jesus speaks and makes bread his body. Moses is told to part the red sea and does. Jesus tells us to “do this in remembrance of me” and we do this in remembrance of me. God promises to satisfy. Jesus satisfies with the Eucharist. His presence with us here at the Mass is the resurrected Christ. The Easter Vigil is a special Mass, but so is every Mass with the great gift of remembrance, grace, and presence. 3/31/18

Today we don’t celebrate Mass, but we still receive the blood of Christ to protect us and sanctify us.

From the earliest tradition, no Mass is said on this day and so no Anamnesis through the Mass, however we receive the Eucharist which is the blood of Christ. We receive it as the Passover lamb on our lips to ward off the Angel of Dead like the Jews on the door post of their homes. We receive the blood and receive the life blood of divinity through Jesus. Lastly, in Yom Kippur the sins of the Jewish people are put in a goat. The sins of the world are put on Jesus and he offers himself up to the Father as the perfect sacrifice out of total love and submission of will. Good Friday is good because we are redeemed on this day. It is Good Friday because on this day we know how much God loves us. 3/30/18

We do not just remember the Last Supper, but we join it every Mass that we celebrate. Let us be present to that reality

The Jewish people had a memorial of the Passover every year. It was not a memorial like a birthday, but instead an Anamnesis – partaking in the actual event of fleeing Egypt. As we celebrate the Mass it is not just a memorial like a birthday, but an actual partaking of the Last Supper, Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Let us unite our presence to Jesus who becomes present and humbles himself to wash his apostles’ feet, became human, and bestows his presence in the Eucharist. 3/29/18

We go from shouting out “Hosanna” and praising Jesus as the Messiah and then turn around and shout out “Crucify Him”. We proclaim him Lord and then turn away and sin.

Why are the people of Jesus time at one moment laying down their cloaks and five days later seeking to crucify him? I would say in part because they did not have a firm foundation to rest on and were easily swayed by their emotions and easily manipulated. You see it with our culture as a whole that is so easily manipulated. We are susceptible to the same sways and manipulation and confusion. What is the answer? Have a firm foundation in Jesus Christ the Truth and Wisdom of God. 3/25/18

What will make you be happy? Consumption or Gift?

 The two lakes in Israel teach us about the human person. We can either be the Sea of Galilee teeming with life, or be mineral rich, but lifeless like the Dead Sea. Vatican II Document “Gaudium et Spes” (Joy & Hope) says “Man cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself” (24). St. Damien of Molokai who made a sincere gift of himself in the 1800s to serve lepers in Hawaii and died of leprosy himself did not regret his life or seek that he had more pleasures, ease, and comfort in life. Instead in imitating Christ and dying like a grain of wheat brought forth abundant fruit. As we receive Jesus in the Eucharist we receive his grace and life not to hold, but go out and make a sincere gift of yourself as Jesus Christ. “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life” like the sea of Galilee. 3/18/18

Bad things happen to good people. Why? So that God can work a great good an allow his work to be made visible.

We sometimes think when bad things happen to us it is because of sin. Sometime, but not all the time. Sometimes, God wants to allow His work to be made manifest. Blessed Chiara Badano is one modern day youth that did just this, suffering with bone cancer and allowing God’s light to shine through her sufferings. She was asked "The light in your eyes is splendid. Where does it come from?" Chiara simply replied, "I try to love Jesus as much as I can." May we love Jesus as much as Blessed Chiara as we practice this Lent and unite everything to the cross of Jesus through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. 3/11/18 

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Walk through the basics of a Holy Hour of adoration physically, mentally, and spiritually.

 If you would like to have an outline of the talk go to https://frsamuelspod.com/podcast/the-physical-mental-and-spiritual-parts-of-adoration/

We are so busy, but you can always make time for what is most important in your life. What are your priorities in your life? Do you make other gods by giving other things greater priority?

 In order to be a good corn farmer you have to make farming a priority with lots of work. To be a Christian you have to make God a priority that sometimes requires a lot of work and getting rid of weeds that take up nutrition and water. Jesus cleanses the temple today and tills the group getting the temple ready for right worship of God. He also wants to cleanse us, temples of the Holy Spirit, during this Lenten time. Are we willing to put in the work, till the ground, plant seeds, water, and make God a priority. “You shall not have other gods besides me” any priority greater than God becomes another god. May we choose God as our greatest priority and strive to live his law in our temple. 3/4/18

Answers to your questions about why we do what we do during Mass. A talk given at St. Joseph on Feb. 27th about the Mass. Questions were submitted and Fr. Samuel did the best he could to answer them. If you would like more of the information used, look at my website and this talk https://frsamuelspod.com/podcast/the-whys-behind-the-whats-of-mass/

We are 10 days into lent. How is it going? Do you have a willing heart of love like Abraham, Isaac, and Jesus?

 Lent is not just about a new years resolution, will power, or suffering. It is about a willing heart that imitates Jesus Christ in His sacrifice on the cross. Abraham and Isaac foreshadow that sacrifice of the Father and Son, Jesus Christ. What makes the sacrifice redemptive for us is not the amount of blood shed, but the willingness and love with which it is offered. At every Mass we have the opportunity to unite our sacrifices, sufferings and pains to Jesus Christ as we celebrate the Last Supper the start of Jesus willing passion. May we have a lent not filled with a rocky heart, but a willing one filled with charity. 2/25/18