“Finding Peace in the Storm”

Dear Parishioners,

For your reflection:

“We cannot offer God anything more pleasing than to say: Take us Lord, we give You our entire will. Only let us know Your will, and we will carry it out.”

Conformity signifies that we join our wills to the will of God. Uniformity means more—it means that we make one will of God’s will and ours, so that we will only what God wills; that God’s will alone is our will.

Here St. Alphonsus speaks of our aspirations, St. Teresa of Avila, in her great work The Interior Castle, argues that if we do not know that we can be one with God, we will not aspire to it. If we do not aspire to it, we will not pursue it. If we do not pursue it, we will not know it. Thus, our aspiration is the movement of our yes to God from inaction to action, from desire to prayer. This kind of prayer—”Show me your will, Lord” —is a prayer He always answers. It rarely comes in a moment like St. Paul’s confrontation in Acts but is developed over time through a long, relentless commitment to Him in mental prayer, meditation, and listening. We begin this aspiration on our knees and then rise to action that reflects what He has revealed as we have come to know Him. As we kneel and rise in Him each day, His voice and His will become more and more clear to us.

“Finding Peace in the Storm”
Reflections on St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Uniformity with God’s Will
By Dan Burke
 

God bless us all!
Fr. Citino

 

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Ash Wednesday Schedule
6:30 AM Mass (Ash Wednesday ONLY)
8:30 AM Mass
12:10 Prayer Service
7:00 PM Mass

Stations of the Cross & Benediction
Wednesday Evenings 7:00 PM
February 21
February 28
March 6
March 13
March 20

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament on the above dates will begin following the 8:30 AM Mass and continue until 7:00 PM with Stations and Benediction