Father Jerry's Forum

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Easter is the ideal time to celebrate the Sacraments of Initiation since we are focused on the new life of the Resurrection. Just as in our day-to-day life there are milestones which mark our growth toward adulthood, God has given us Sacraments as milestones and helps to nourish us and encourage us throughout our life on earth and to prepare us to receive greater joy in heaven.

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Opportunities for New or Renewed Life

Saturday, April 7, 2018

This Easter season is a time of new life and new possibilities. Last Sunday, we renewed our baptismal promises, which renewed the life of the Spirit within us. We welcomed new life in those who joined us in our Catholic faith through the reception of the Sacraments of Initiation. It is a great time to move forward.

We hear in our first reading today about the early Christian community...

Easter and the Challenge to Mediocrity

Sunday, April 1, 2018

It’s great to celebrate Easter! Good memories, good times, family, friends, food and a good message? Is the message of Jesus’ resurrection really good news?

Easter promises to break us free from the trappings of mediocrity in this world, even in religion. I think each of us has at some time said, “I don’t want to be run of the mill, living for myself, making lots of money in suburbia...

"Three Seasons, Three Days, Total Goodness"

Saturday, March 24, 2018

It has begun: Holy Week. Having prepared ourselves during Lent and Holy Week, we move to the greatest celebration of the Christian liturgical year: The Sacred Paschal Triduum. Lent officially ends when we begin the Triduum at the Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper and continues through Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday. During this time, we are in a certain sense, outside of time....

Death To Self

Saturday, March 17, 2018

The emphasis has shifted in our Lenten journey. Now we are focused much more on the actual suffering of Jesus and his final days. That is partly why we have veiled the statues and images in Church during the final weeks of Lent. The rubrics in the Roman Missal instruct us, “The practice of covering crosses and images throughout the Church from the 5th Sunday of Lent may be observed.” The Church...

Belief and Action

Saturday, March 10, 2018

St. Paul reminds us in the Epistle today, that it is God who gives and we who receive, by this beautiful passage, and that even if we are “dead in our sins”, as were the exiled people of Judah, God awaits us with healing and saving grace.

“For God so love the world that He gave His only Son, that all who believe in Him might not perish but might have eternal life”. John 3:16.

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