Many Families - One in Christ
Our Parish theme this year is Many Families, One in Christ. We have divided the calendar year into trimesters and each trimester will focus on a different kind of "Church". From April through June we will focus on the Universal Church ~ the Church beyond our parish.   Weekly Challenges were developed to help you with this faith building. Some of the challenges will be easy, some more...well challenging, and some quite fun!  Each will reflect the Sunday Gospel, a saint feast day, or something else that is happening in the church.  
Challenge of the Week: April 2, 2017      
The beginning of April is the time we will switch our focus from the Parish Church to the Universal Church.  How can we work together in caring concern for all people beyond St. Veronica?
Many people wonder why there is suffering in the world if God is a loving God.  Yet we see in today's Gospel, that even Jesus suffered. The death of his friend Lazarus made Him weep, just as the death of a loved one causes us to mourn. During our times of suffering, remembering that God loves us more than we can imagine and wants only the very best for us can help us cope with the suffering.  Trusting God with pain and sadness can help us grow closer to Him. Still He needs our cooperation as He helps us to make sense of suffering, and eventually find joy again.
 
This week, with your family talk about places or situations in the world where people are suffering. Decide on some little things your family can do to help show God's mercy to the suffering and ease their pain.