The HVAC is being replaced in the gym the weekends of August 4 and 11, so our HCA morning Masses will be without AC. Father Mosimann has canceled the music for those two weekends, but anyone who doesn’t do well in the heat is encouraged to attend Mass at the church those two weekends.
Dear Folks,
Our Lord instructs his disciples to go out into the world and preach, heal, and share the good news of the Gospel! Matthew 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; …..Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”
Today I want to highlight two ways this is happening, with both involving parishioners and national efforts!
Last week Saint Mary’s parishioners joined tens of thousands of Catholics gathered in Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress. What a beautiful expression of the Church inviting folks to come and gather together in the name of, and in the presence of the Lord! Please check out the pictures in this bulletin, and read how it impacted the lives of our parish participants.
Right now, one of our parishioners, David Bereit is launching an online summit to help renew faith, family, and leadership! David has many years
of work in pro-life ministries, and is leveraging the many connections he has to help change our culture for the better!
Best of all, it is free to join and participate! I encourage you to take a look at the flyer and join this important summit.
I am proud as a pastor, to celebrate and encourage the good work of our parishioners to live out Our Lord’s command to let His light shine! Every single Catholic plays a key role in the life of the Church – called to serve in a unique way in the building up of His kingdom.
pax,
Father John Mosimann
Dear Folks,
Do your lives slow down a little bit in the summer? I picked up a bad cough on the Poland trip, so that is making me slow down a little bit this week. Sorry to those I had to reschedule appointments.
My one simple thought this week: “How do you learn to pray the Mass?” My answer to that has always been, “go when you don’t have to.”
See, I learned to pray the Mass when I went to Saturday morning Masses with my parents. They went faithfully every Saturday morning, and had breakfast afterwards with friends. I learned that if I got up and went to Mass with them, that I too would be able to go to Bob’s Big Boy. (Yes, that was the name of a restaurant chain in the 70’s.)
Yes, I may have been going to for the opportunity to order a root beer with my breakfast eggs! But I learned so much more about Mass, and how the rhythm of daily Mass differs from Sundays.
Let me make this analogy: Do you only eat on Sundays when the whole extended family gathers at grandmas for a feast? Sunday Mass is that thanksgiving feast of the whole family! But daily Masses are the regular daily bread for feeding our souls, just as the 6.5 days of nutrition are an essential part of nutrition.
Feed your souls. And doing so freely, without the compulsion of punishment for failure is the way to root our spiritual lives in the freedom of the children of God.
Oh yeah…. I also listened to a podast about forming habits, that said to keep the goals small and easily achievable. The emotional feedback of achieving the goal is what sets it into our routine and makes it a habit! I’ll leave the science of this to the podcast, if you want to listen: https://tinyurl.com/5au3ea3z
This is why I say, “Go to one Mass during the week that you don’t have to (Sundays/HolyDays), and you will change your spiritual life.”
pax,
Father John Mosimann
