Last weekend we concluded a significant portion of the church year. This weekend we return to the portion of the year called Ordinary Time. Perhaps the best way to understand Ordinary Time in the church calendar is to review the long stretch that we have just concluded, a stretch that has been far from ordinary. Ordinary Time […]
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This Sunday, we celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi, the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ present in the Holy Eucharist. We read this Sunday, from the Gospel of Luke, how Jesus feeds five thousand men, not including women and children, with five loaves of bread and two fish. The Feast of the Holy Eucharist
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This weekend brings numerous elements to the celebration of the Eucharist. In a church founded upon and structured around Sacraments (experiences of the sacred), the Eucharist is clearly the most important. The sacredness of the Eucharist comes about in too many ways to comprehend, but in it, and through it, we, the Body of Christ,
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The Feast of Pentecost: Forgiveness and Limitless Possibilities This weekend, the Holy Family Community celebrates Pentecost, fifty days after the resurrection of Jesus. The Feast of Pentecost is also referred to as the birthday of the Christian Church. With the coming of the Holy Spirit upon God’s people, we seek to embody and continue the transforming mission
