Dear Folks,

Congrats to our Holy Cross Academy Girls Varsity Soccer team! Last weekend one of the girls shared with me that they won the championship and I am sure that many tears of joy were shed! Our Boys Varsity Basketball team went undefeated all season, falling only in the championship game as their singular loss.(This triggers a memory of an intramural team that did the same in seminary. The team we lost to admitted that we would have beat them 9 times out of 10, but they got the one that mattered!) So don’t ask me about that!

I am so proud of the hard work and success of these young ladies and gentlemen! Congrats!

This weekend saw the graduation of our HCA 8th graders. It is always a bittersweet celebration, because it is the end of the first major season in their lives, but also an opening to new horizons! This year’s 8th grade was in PreSchool when I arrived here! Last week, I was able to take them on a field trip to Leesburg to give a tour and celebrate Mass at St. John the Apostle church, and have my favorite Chinese food in the world!! Lots of laughs were enjoyed and the students even listened attentively to my explanation of church architecture!

This week we also celebrated our homeschool High School graduation and Mass of thanksgiving. Congratulations to these students and their amazing parents and co-op team. Much to be proud of! Thanks be to God!

Corpus Christi: today’s feast. What can I say that hasn’t already been said??

Ok, this is my thought for you: To whom do you turn when you are vexed and stressed and unsure of what path to take??

• If you turn to a friend or family member, you must turn to someone who will challenge your presumptions and choices.

• If you have a problem within your family, will your condential friend take the side of your spouse or children, or just echo back your ‘perfection’?

• If it is a life choice, are you turning to Jesus? Are you giving Him sufficient time to quiet your soul and hear His voice within you?

Jesus is the answer.

In the Blessed Sacrament, He has given Himself to us in a manner where He will never, ever run away from us. The answer you seek won’t be found in the back pat or affirmation from a fried. It can only be found by finding Him.

For this reason, I value above all, in times of distress, sitting with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

And if you ask to talk to me about some problem in your life, don’t be surprised if I insist that I won’t meet with you until you have spent an hour in adoration sitting with Jesus.

I have nothing to give you other than Him.

pax,

Father John Mosimann