Youth Leadership Team Pastoral Project Skit

We are truly blessed to work with the youth leaders in our parishes. Our Youth Leadership Teams - PULSE: Passionately Uniting and Leading Students to Evangelize, had their project presentations on Mother's Day. They wrote a beautiful speech  (attached) and also decide to do the Everything skit with the music by Lifehouse.

The project theme was Abiding in God's Will and Surrendering to God's Will.

The speech the team wrote is truly inspirational. Remember - we coach and advise, we don't write for them. We pray and allow God to work through them to give the message He has for us.




The YLT PULSE is a 2 parish joint team so they performed at 2 parishes that same day.

Mother Mary - Continue to pray for all youth. They are the future of our church. Ask the Holy Spirit to continue to guide them. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen

Gospel Today on the Feast of St. Matthias. It's All About Love - The Great Commandment

It's all about love - the great commandment

John 15:9-17 (Gospel for the feast of st. Matthias May 14, 2015)

Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loves me, so I also love you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love,
just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love.

“I have told you this so that my joy might be in you
and your joy might be complete.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this,
to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves,
because a slave does not know what his master is doing.
I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you
and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,
so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another.”

A favorite commandment - to LOVE

Mother Mary - Pray for us to share the love within us. Amen

Resurrection - NEW LIFE! Happy Easter

"Sure as a chick comes from an egg, Jesus rose from the dead." That is what my Grandmother would tell me when I asked her why we have Easter eggs on Easter.

That brings up the old saying, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?'' Giving way to the creation story.

We also compare Easter to a caterpillar and a butterfly. The caterpillar goes off into a cocoon and emerges as a radiant butterfly - NEW LIFE!

New life through Jesus Christ.

Because Jesus died for us, we are able to have our sins cleansed and that allows us to be with Him in heaven - NEW LIFE!

Jesus gave Himself for us on the cross, but death could not stop God. Jesus rose from the dead, the Resurrection and the NEW LIFE!

Today, Easter Sunday, is the most important day in our Catholic faith. The Resurrection!

Jesus entered our world as an infant to show us His humanness. He died and left the world as a Man. He rose from the dead as God.

Jesus was always God Man, but He didn't stop anything just to make Himself feel better. He could have removed His chains and the cross at anytime. He chose the Cross.

His Resurrection gives us faith and hope for a NEW LIFE!

Alleluia!

Brought to life from an older blog post of mine.

Mother Mary - You watched your Son go through His Agony and Death, yet you stayed strong for your children. Pray for us. Amen