Pastor's Corner March 23, 2003 |
3rd Sunday of Lent |
Fr. Ron Rolheiser is a columnist of The Catholic Register. In his recent article, he
invited everyone to reflect on the topic, "Loneliness of Leaving Home".
He said on his article: ever since a human was born, he would be temporarily, or
even permanently, separated from the things or people he met in his life. Family is,
of course, a shelter for a person to grow up. However, the true final home for
everyone is still the love of God.
"Who is my mother? Who are my brothers and sisters? For whoever does the will of
my heavenly Father is my mother, my brother, and my sister."
Fr. Rolheiser applied the above response from Jesus to indicate that doing the will of
our Father is the real intention of family. Spiritual community can even be our
second home, a home which go beyond blood ties, culture and races. We are never
alone again in our life journey. We even found from each other "bone from my bone,
flesh from my flesh".
The Rite of Communal Penance and Reconciliation will be held in our parish at 4pm
on April 6 (Sunday). Six fathers are invited to hear confessions. Fathers are also
available for confession at each Sunday Mass. Please make good use of different
opportunities to do reconciliation in the church.
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