When you have lost someone very dear to you, the most difficult obstacle to cross is getting through the holidays. Surviving the days where everyone around you is celebrating and spreading good cheer, while your mind is filled with memories and your heart is heavy with loneliness. It’s difficult just making it through what used …
Monthly Archive: March 2010
Mar 28
Father Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit
For most of us, Holy Week unfolds like many other weeks: work, school, preparing meals, doing laundry. Palm Sunday begins an unusual week – a week – concentrated in a few days on the ultimate meaning of our lives. We are invited this week to reflect on these questions: Why are we here? What have …
Mar 24
Holy Week and the Easter Season Family Activities
Lent ends at sunset on Holy Thursday, and the Triduum begins. These are the three holiest days in the Church calendar. The first day, Holy Thursday, begins with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, during which we remember the Last Supper – when Jesus washed his disciples’ feet and instituted the Eucharist. The first …
Mar 23
Holy Week Liturgical Ministers Schedule
Holy Week begins with the sixth Sunday in Lent known as Palm Sunday. This Sunday observes the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem that was marked by the crowds who were in Jerusalem for Passover waving palm branches and proclaiming him as the messianic king. The Gospels tell us that Jesus rode into the city …
Mar 21
Sin No More
Who is the most honorable person you know? Why is this person so honorable? What makes a person honorable? Great deeds and great commitments? Wisdom and humility? Trustworthiness and compassion? A great reputation? There are these and many other ways to define an honorable person. Striving for the right. The right way to act. The …
Mar 17
Do you know someone who has left the Church?
Most of us do not have to look very far to find “non-practicing Catholics” in our circle of family and friends. Many of us are concerned about these loved ones however we don’t know how to help them. Obviously, most of them are searching, but how can we help them find their way home? As …
Mar 17
Serving Our Neighbor
Fr Shori began his presentation last evening with this selection from Everyone’s Way of the Cross Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus Christ: Can you be brave enough my other self to wipe my bloody face? Where is my face you ask? At home whenever eyes are filled with tears At work when …
Mar 15
Holy Week Activities for Children
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a teacher, it’s that the struggle to maintain a balance between the secular and religious aspects of a holiday is not an easy one. It’s not easy because secular celebrations almost always seem more appealing than their religious counterparts. Easter is no different. As Catholics, …
Mar 14
The Prodigal Father
As a teen-ager, I was chomping at the bit to leave home and get on my own, thinking this is the way I can do what I want. I thought I was quite capable of ordering my own life! My father, the practical one, encouraged me to get a job. He set up four envelopes …
Mar 13
Living Stations 2010
On March 12th, 2010 the St. Edward Parish Youth Ministry group presented the Living Stations of the Cross. Through the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit the Youth Ministry group enacted a moving and spiritual portrayal of the 14 Stations of the Cross to an audience of approximately 50 lenten pilgrims at St. Edward Parish. …