COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST: You cannot serve two masters. In what ways do you use your earthly gifts (intellect, personality, wealth, and so on) to show honor and glory to the Lord? Or are we the only one we are serving? SERVING OTHERS: The Industrious Servant found a way to save face with his master…
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST We are meant not only to know but even more to experience God’s love and mercy, his leaving the 99 and going out to search for us. In what ways has God pursued you while you were away from him? How has God been like a good shepherd who found you and…
COMING CLOSER TO CHRIST Why is it that when we dream of what our life should be, we don’t consider that the cross belongs in our life? More likely, when we dream we fancy ourselves having a good time, and fulfilling our plans. This is what is wrong with this picture; we forgot our vocation…
We hear today: “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted” (Lk 14:11). Let us approach this mass with deep humility, conscious of our need for the Lord.
Strive to enter through the narrow door. Let us be reminded that all our sacrifices are worthwhile when done out of love.
Jesus said to his disciples: “I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed!” “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I…
August 6th: The Transfiguration This month we celebrate the feast of the Transfiguration. St. John Paul II included the Transfiguration of the Lord as one of the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary when he published his encyclical on the Rosary of the Virgin Mary in 2002. In that encyclical he called the Mystery of the…
Vanity of vanities……we hear in today’s message that the things of this world will never satisfy. What matters is what we do for God and for others.
Today in the Gospel, Christ teaches his disciples how to pray. May the words of the Our Father resonate more deepen in our own heart and soul.
A vision of care for our loved ones – Columbarium at Sacred Heart Church article written by Joy Gregory for the Newsletter “Faithfully” for Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary and Sacred Heart Church http://Faithfully.calgarydiocese.ca www.catholicyyc.ca www.columbariumcalgary.ca
