Monday Memo
Monday Memo, May 23
May, 2011
May God’s blessings guide you in accomplishing your goals throughout the coming years.
Monday Memo, May 16
May, 2011
In this week’s readings, Jesus reminds us that He is here for us. He promises to keep us safe.
Monday Memo, May 9, 2011
May, 2011
In Luke’s Gospel from yesterday, we find two good human beings who have suffered through the Passion and death of Jesus. They fail to realize Jesus’ real presence to them as they journey on the Road to Emmaus.
Monday Memo, May 2
May, 2011
Yesterday we celebrated Divine Mercy Sunday. We also celebrated the beatification of Pope John Paul the Great.
Monday Memo, April 25
Apr, 2011
We celebrate Easter each day this week. We keep celebrating so that we might continue to enter into the meaning of the resurrection. In the early Church, the newly baptized would be at each liturgy this week, wearing their white garments. We go through our everyday lives this week conscious of the "white garments" we all wear. We are renewed as a priestly people, committed with Jesus to give our lives for others.
We let the prayers of this Easter week draw us into the joy. Jesus is with us! He is not dead, but alive. And, that makes all the difference in the world in how much hope and courage we have, before any struggle, any possible fear of death.
Alleluia! He Has Risen!
Monday Memo, April 18
Apr, 2011
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. As this week unfolds, take time to thank and praise Jesus for the cross. Offer your life to him in deep gratitude.
Monday Memo, April 11
Apr, 2011
The Fifth Sunday of Lent brings us closer toward the Passion and death of Jesus. The Spirit of the Lord is really trying to help us be more open and more free, to receive the graces our Lord wants to offer us.
Monday Memo, April 4
Apr, 2011
The Fourth Sunday of Lent brings the story of the man born blind from John's Gospel. His disciples ask, “Who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?” Jesus heals the man who now sees more clearly than the Pharisees the true identity of Jesus.
Monday Memo, March 28
Mar, 2011
In the Gospel of the woman at the well, Jesus reveals Himself as the Living Water, the One Who is to come. He not only speaks directly to her, but honors her with a personal invitation to believe.
Monday Memo, March 21
Mar, 2011
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a very relaxing break.
During this second week of Lent we continue to try to make use of more reflective time each day.
Monday Memo, March 7
Mar, 2011
Lent is a time of preparing our hearts for the joy of Easter. We can get distracted from God by many things. So during Lent we put God right before our eyes and stare in his direction.
Monday Memo, February 28
Feb, 2011
In the Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Jesus gives us timeless and loving advice. Don't worry, don't fret.
Monday Memo, February 21
Feb, 2011
In today’s Gospel from Mark, Jesus helps a young boy and his father by casting a demon out of the boy. But in order to do so, he requires the father of the boy to have faith.
Monday Memo, February 14
Feb, 2011
The celebration of love, Valentine's Day, February 14, is named after the priest physician martyred in Rome in the year 269.
Monday Memo, February 7
Feb, 2011
On the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus encourages his disciples to let their light shine: “Your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”
Monday Memo, January 31, 2011
Jan, 2011
During the annual observance of National Catholic Schools Week, we celebrate the value of Catholic education. We focus on the gift that Catholic education provides to America’s young people and its contributions to our church, our communities and our nation.
Monday Memo, January 24, 2011
Jan, 2011
This week provides us with the stories of Jesus’ ministries. All of us get challenged and pushed in our daily lives.
Monday Memo, January 18
Jan, 2011
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity --- The movement among Christians promoting Christian unity, as everyone knows, is the ecumenical movement. It is the Church’s attempt to practice what Our Lord prayed for on the night before he died for us.
Monday Memo, January 4, 2011
Jan, 2011
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray that God blessed all of you during the special season of Christmas.
Monday Memo
Dec, 2010
This third week of Advent, our daily prayer continues to allow us to become much more real about naming our desires and preparing the way for the Lord. We begin this week with joy, knowing that our celebration of all the ways our Lord comes to us is near.
Monday Memo, December 6
Dec, 2010
Father Simeon Gallagher is our guest this week as he presents the Parish Advent Mission. The theme is “The Freedom to Believe: Becoming an Adult Catholic.”
Monday Memo, November 29
Nov, 2010
With the First Sunday of Advent (yesterday), we prepare for the coming of the Messiah, the one who is anointed with the Holy Spirit of God. We ask our Lord, God of hope, to help us prepare a place in our lives for Jesus.
Monday Memo, November 15
Nov, 2010
In less than two weeks, we begin the season of Advent. As we advance towards Advent and the “Coming Days”, we are invited to reflect upon what holds us personally together; what takes us into our futures.
Monday Memo, November 8
Nov, 2010
"If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times saying, ‘I am sorry,’ you should forgive him." Luke 17
Monday Memo, November 1
Nov, 2010
Today we celebrate The Solemnity of All Saints. By giving us today’s feast, the Church echoes St. Paul’s countless repetitions of the same point: “Christians, act what you are!”
Monday Memo, October 25
Oct, 2010
In Luke’s Gospels this week, Jesus talks about humility.
Monday Memo, October 18
Oct, 2010
This week’s Gospel from Luke, Jesus tells us to be prepared for the coming of the Kingdom.
Monday Memo, October 11
Oct, 2010
This Sunday’s Gospel was the powerful story about Jesus healing ten lepers and only one of them coming back to give thanks, and that one was the foreigner.
Monday Memo, October 4
Oct, 2010
Today we remember St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis really took the words of today’s Gospel to heart: the Good Samaritan who comes upon the robbery victim “treated him with mercy.”
Monday Memo, September 27
Sep, 2010
Luke's Gospel continues to offer us stories of Jesus “purposefully” on the way to Jerusalem and the suffering that faces him there.
