SAINT PIUS X CATHOLIC CHURCH
LENTEN SPEAKER SERIES 2019
Week 3 Recap: Dr. Timothy O'Malley
Tuesday, March 26
Saint Charles Lwanga
Boldness and Passion

PRAYER : Liturgy of the Word

SPEAKER:  
Dr. Timothy O'Malley
Director of Education
McGrath Institute for Church Life
University of Notre Dame


What did Dr. O'Malley share this week?
(a summary by Fr. Eric Burgener)

Salvation history, scripture, and human experience speak to our souls, that we continually seek friendship, truth, justice, happiness, and love. Yet at the same time, we experience suffering, rejection, and abandonment, all a part of life on this earth, while moving towards death due to the effects of sin. Our hope is to embrace this suffering with a realistic seriousness, and not try to shortcut it through power, prestige, fame, fortune, or a withdrawal from that self-sacrificing love. It's this divine love that saves. Jesus is it; Saint Charles Lawanga followed him in rejecting the shortcuts to fame and power, but in his weakness rejected the king's requests, and was burnt alive while crying out, "It's as if you were pouring water on me. Please repent and become a Christian like me."
Reflect
Have we experienced persecution for the faith in suffering for God? Jesus says you will be hated by the world because of his name. Do we cower to speak and act to those who are wrapped in power, pleasure, fame or fortune of this world? Be Bold for Jesus and remember our weakness in Jesus Christ is our strength because this allows him to work through us. Our true power comes only through conforming our lives to the cross of Jesus Christ in a love stronger than death.

Act
Speak about your faith to someone you wouldn't speak to normally, say a prayer or perform an act of charity for someone without them knowing about it.

Watch

2019 Lenten Speaker Series-Dr. Timothy O'Malley
2019 Lenten Speaker Series
Dr. Timothy O'Malley
TUESDAYS DURING LENT
6:00 p.m. Mass    6:45 p.m. Soup   7:30 p.m. Speaker
In his Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate (Rejoice and Be Glad), Pope Francis describes five signs of holiness which are particularly important in our culture today.  During this year's Lenten Speaker Series, we will reflect on how the saints (on the left side of the triumphal arch) are models of these signs for us, encouraging us to a deeper love of God and neighbor in our everyday lives.

Join us tonight!  Tuesday, April 2

Pope Saint John XXIII
Joy and a Sense of Humor

PRAYER: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

SPEAKER: 
Fr. Brian Daley, SJ
Professor, Department of Theology
University of Notre Dame



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