Today’s Thoughts: Friends in Faith, I am sorry for being absent the last few days. As I mentioned on Friday, after the Sunday Mass Taping Day I headed to St. Louis for my grandniece’s Frist Communion. It was a great day on Saturday, and it was an honor to give my grandniece her first communion and celebrate the day with her and her family. It was also a wonderful weekend with a portion of my family, and we got to celebrate a home mass on Sunday praying with and for all mothers.
When I arrived in St. Louis Friday night, I would take the weekend off from my computer and the internet, and I did not open my computer until I returned from St. Louis last evening. So, for those who were looking for my reflections all weekend, again, I am sorry. I am back and once again trying to get back into the swing of thing! It is always interesting to me to hear the stories of the early Church as they are presented in the Acts of the Apostles. We hear about the struggling and the joyous moments of the early Church. We meet the people who made up the early Church and helped it to move forward. We hear about the wonderful faith filled moments and the dark moments of persecution and challenge. Each time I hear the stories of the early Church I am reminded that as much as things change they also remain the same. The characters are different, the events are different, but the struggles and joys are the same. Today we face many if not all of the same challenges of the early Church and certain some new ones especially our struggle with the coronavirus. We have communities of great faith; we have preachers on fire with the Good News. We have challenges inside and outside the Church and at times we have persecutions. Our faith is constantly in question, challenged, and often under attack. We are faced with change, differences within and a changing, struggling world around us. Like the early Church we are a community of believers listening for the voice of the Good Shepherd. Sometimes we hear it and sometimes the noise of the world around us tries to out shout it. Our challenge is to hear the Good Shepherd’s voice, to recognize it in the midst of all the other voices and to have faith, to trust and to believe that the Good Shepherd will always be with us and will never leave us to face our perils alone! Have a blessed and holy Tuesday everyone!
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