We all want to feel God close to us. There are times when we may have mountain top experiences of faith, also known as the retreat experience, and some may not have these experiences. We look at how we can understand how to love our faith by discerning God’s call for us and how not to only look to the strong mountain top experiences as our guide for faith.

We celebrate the Assumption of Mary on August 15th as a Holy Day of Obligation. Today we try to describe what the assumption of Mary is, why she was taken up into heaven different than the rest of humanity, and what it means to do a consecration to Mary.

This week we look at chapter 5 of the apostolic exhortation Of Pope Francis. He reminds us that the devil is real. We must keep that understanding in our spiritual life to discern temptations. We must trust God and consecrate all things to the Blessed Mother.

Today we look a at Chapter 4 Of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation. Holiness is something we can see concretely in the world. The saints truly embody this fact. Pope Francis shows us a path of holiness to live like Christ.

This week we look at chapter 3 of Pope Francis‘ latest Apostolic exhortation. He shows that the beatitudes are the real way we are to live our life here an earth. Come and listen as we delve deeper into the chapter.

Pope Francis discuses how the heresies of Gnosticism and Pelagianism are the enemies to holiness. One states that I have a secret knowledge that nobody else has so I become enclosed upon myself and the other states that I can will myself to heaven without the grace of God. Come and listen to see how Pope Francis frames these issues for us.

We return looking at the latest apostolic exhortation Of Pope Francis. It calls us to seek holiness and become saints. Over the next 5 weeks we will go through each chapter discussing some main points.

Our Easter gospel reading was Mary magdalen finding the empty tomb and reporting back to the apostles. How should we see this action? We can see that the apostles still hold an important place even after we saw what happened at the death of Jesus. His plan for his church goes deeper. Also we transition from lent to Easter, how do we do this without turning back to our old ways.

This week we celebrate the Holy Triduum, let’s take time this week to walk with Jesus on his passion, death, and resurrection. Grow closer to him as we finish our Lenten observance and attach more to Christ and live his Passion more closely.

Today we look at how we see God creating in the book of Genesis and why we see two different creation stories. How we do reconcile that? At the same time we see the serpent tempting Eve into eating from the tree, so do we blame Eve for the fall? Lastly in today’s modern science how do we view the creation story and how it is different form modern scientific theories how how things came to be.