How to worship
Joe posted this in the comments section before, but just in case you didn’t see it…
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Joe posted this in the comments section before, but just in case you didn’t see it…
San Diego people! I need some help! I’ve got a few people lined up to come see me in San Diego and I’m trying to plan their visits. What would you suggest? What’s on your San Diego “Must See”/”Must Do” list?
Please leave your answers in the Comments section below. I’ll collate all the answers and do a follow-up post in a week or two…
Thanks!
“One may ask if each of us does not really carry in his or her own heart a blueprint of the one that he or she loves. This blueprint is made by our reading, our prayers, our experiences, our hopes, our ideals, by our mother and father. Then suddenly, the ideal becomes concretized and realized in a person, and we say, ‘This is it!'”
– Fulton Sheen
Thanks to Vanida for this one
The Readings this week start to wrap up our Easter Season prior to the Feasts of Ascension and Pentecost.
In the First Reading we read about that great moment in Church History when the first Gentiles received baptism and entered the Church. In our Second Reading, we conclude our study of St. John’s First Epistle by hearing about the love of God. Finally, in the Gospel, Jesus unpacks His teaching concerning His metaphor of “the vine and the branches” which we heard last week.
As we come to the Eucharistic table this week let us come with thankful hearts. God’s love is so great that He came to redeem us, call us His friends, pour His Spirit into our hearts and make us members of His family.
“Yes, the Church is made up of sinners; in fact, it is a hospital for sinners and often looks and smells like a hospital, with ill patients, raw wounds, and disease on every side. Such things bother us and make us uncomfortable, but where else are the wounded and dying to go? They would pass out and die in the desert alongside the dusty trails” – Jeff Cavins, “I’m not being fed!”