Oh, what a beautiful morning! Oh, what a beautiful day. I've got a beautiful feeling, everything's going God's Way...
My dear brothers and sisters, how blessed we are! This past week we were able to give our 8th Grade Graduates a graduation celebration with Mass and a beautiful ceremony. How privileged I was to have been a part of it as our students were able to come together to celebrate this achievement together with their families and the school. What a gift.
The blessings don't stop there though, as tomorrow, Sunday, June 14th at the 9:30am public Mass, our three RCIA Candidates who have been waiting all year to be received into the Church will finally be able to do so! One of the young men will receive all of the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion. The other two young men will make a Profession of Faith and receive Confirmation and Holy Communion. Please keep Theophilus, Cody and Stephen in your prayers as they prepare for this tomorrow.
The following weekends we will see our First Communion students receive Jesus in the Eucharist for the first time! To be nourished by our Lord's Body, food for the soul, so that they can grow holy and have the strength to live as a Child of God. And our Confirmation students will receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit through the calling down of the Holy Spirit upon each of them. What they already received at their Baptism, will now be completed at Confirmation!
How blessed we are that God would continue to shower His love upon us! May we look upon the Sacraments and be reminded of God's real love for us, that He would leave these gifts for us, so that we may be able to experience and receive His blessings upon us in this reality, as we make our way to be with Him for all eternity.
