Blog Post 04-21-2025 A Fast for All Seasons: Easter, Ordinary, Advent & Christmas Times.

 

 

We pray for our Holy Father Francis who went to meet his Lord and Savior, may he rest in peace.  May his soul and all the souls of the faithfully departed rest in Peace.

Francis thank you for your service, your priesthood and your leadership.

Pope Francis’ offered us a list of fasting suggestions. As we celebrate Easter Season, [then the Ordinary, Advent, and Christmas Seasons] let each of us continue at least one Lenten Fast.

“Fast from hurting words and speak kind words.”

Our words can be damaging or uplifting to our souls, our characters, and those we interact with in our family, in our circle of friends and with those we encounter in the world.

May each word of kindness we offer and each word of hurt we refrain from speaking shine God’s Light a little brighter in our world and in our hearts.

 

Truly “A Fast for All Seasons.”

 

May God Be Praised.

Blog Post 04/20/2025 EASTER SUNDAY

 

 “He is Risen – ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA!”

 

 

“So many words ready to burst forth.

Words of poets.

Words of scientists.

Words of musicians.

Words of theologians.

Words of artists.

All waiting to be born.

Words eager to give birth to the one immortal idea of all ages.

And the only words that find life are so simple, so brief, so uncomplicated that many great minds have overlooked them: ‘He has risen!’ [Mark 16:6] The Word is risen.” (Stations of the Cross, by Rev. T. Ronald Haney, with Illustrations by Bro. Michael O’Neill McGrath, OSFS)

Today take some time to meditate on this awesome thought, “The Cross, the Tomb and the Resurrection of Christ are the source of all blessings, the gateway to all grace.”  [Deacon George Kelly]

 

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* “Resurrection,” by Engelbert Mveng, S.J., in the Jesuit chapel at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya

May God Be Praised.

 

 

Blog Post 04-19-2025 – Holy Saturday - How to Live.

 

“Have you wept at anything during the past year?

Have you thought seriously about the fact that someday you are going to die?

More often than not, do you really listen when people are speaking to you, instead of just waiting for your turn to speak?

Is there anybody you know in whose place, if one of you had to suffer great pain, you would volunteer yourself?

If your answer to all or most of these questions is no, the chances are that you’re dead.” Listen to Your Life by Frederick Buechner

We know that Jesus rose, the Apostles and Disciples of His time on earth did not, they prayed, they hoped, and they waited.

“Is there anybody you know in whose place, if one of you had to suffer great pain, you would volunteer yourself?”
 

What are you praying for, hoping for and waiting for?

 

May God Be Praised.