Peace, Health, Hope and God’s Blessing on our Parish

Why we celebrate at Christmas – because our God is so close, so wonderful, so …. much greater than any words  we can speak.

In this season of Advent, we come together in prayer awaiting the birth of Christ. As we us rejoice for His coming, let us remember our forcibly displaced brothers and sisters and all those too often left at the margins. May we never forget them.

The message of Advent is an invitation and it also a challenge to us. We are called to be looking forward, to be ready, to be prepared and we are asked to wait in joyful hope.

God’s Kingdom hangs with Jesus on his Cross and rises with him in his Resurrection.

Christ is King of both. Christ on his Cross is just as much a King, as Christ coming in glory from the tomb.

“We are in the fight of our lives, and we are losing.  
We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.”

When Jesus said, “I no longer call you servants, I call you friends…” he meant it.

And when he said, that “I am with you always, to the end of time.” He meant that too. We are truly never alone, even when we don’t see it.

  “The Church is not a tollhouse; it is the house of the Father, where there is a place for everyone, with all their problems.” Pope Francis