I look forward to welcoming all our Children in pre-K through Sixth Grade to Children's Faith Formation via Zoom at 11:30AM this coming Sunday, January 23, 2022. Our middle school confirmation candidates will meet on Sunday evening via Zoom at 6:30PM. I will send out the respective Zoom URLs first thing on Sunday morning so that they are near the top of your e-mail inbox. Please be sure to have your children's books ready and on hand.

As you heard Fr. Ryan mention during his homily this past Sunday, starting this coming Sunday we dive into the Gospel of Luke which we will be hearing for the next many months. My son in particular has enjoyed diving into the Gospel of Luke through Diary of a Disciple: Luke's Story. I had been looking for a small enough format of the stories of the Gospel that my son could--and would want to--have as his bus book. Diary of Disciple has been just that and it has also helped him to recognize the distinctive elements of this Gospel which we'll all be hearing throughout this Year C. I encourage you to check it out! A second book, Diary of a Disciple: Peter & Paul's Story, tells the story of the Conversion of St. Paul which we celebrate on January 25 marking the culmination of this Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

No doubt your family has, like mine, watched at least once the new Disney film, Encanto, and perhaps your children, like mine, are singing the hit songs endlessly! It struck me during Mass on Sunday, as we were heard the Second Reading (1 Corinthians 12:4-11) about the Holy Spirit giving gifts to the Church how this is echoed in "The Family Madrigal," the hit song from Encanto in which Mirabel extols the magical gifts given to all her family members and wonders about her own seeming lack of possessing a gift. If your family has enjoyed the film you might want to learn more out more about the charismatic gifts and have a conversation in your family about what charisms, particular spiritual gifts, we have each received like the family in Encanto and how each of these gifts, used together, build up the House of God, the Church, the casita as it is in Encanto, for the salvation of others. We will hear the continuation of this pericope from 1 Corinthians this coming Sunday!

Please feel free to reach out if there is any way in which I can serve you as you continue to accompany and train your children in the practice of the faith.

"In one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,"

Andrew Casad, MTS, MA

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