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First Time

January 25th, 2018 | Posted by K Graham in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on First Time)

Yesterday evening (Jan 24) it was a joy to hear the confessions of the young people who will receive communion for the first time on April 8th. It is possible to see how the Lord is working in their lives to help them mature in the faith. Of course God is working in all of our lives to help us continue our journey of faith.  Peace, Fr. Floyd

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Thought for the weekend Jan 20-21

January 18th, 2018 | Posted by K Graham in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Thought for the weekend Jan 20-21)

One of the things that we hear each other say is that I do not have time to do all that I want to do. One of the implications is that we ‘want’ to do too many things; another is that we do not budget our time in a way that allows us to do all that we want. There are some days for me that seem to be a little shorter than others with regards to getting things done, but for the most part if something does not get done I can not blame the factor of time. Yes, I do procrastinate. In the second reading we see Saint Paul saying that ”the time is running out”. In a sense he is talking about the people of his time who did not seem to be worried about their faith. They were procrastinating in the sense that they were not paying attention to what Paul was preaching. There was a sense of urgency in the preaching of Paul because Jesus had said that He was going to come back soon. If we say that we do not have enough time to do what we want to do, what does that mean when it comes to living our faith? I would hope that living our faith is one of the things that is a priority on our list. To be honest we can live our faith AND should live our faith as we continue to do the things that we want and need to do in this life. We can consider that we are ‘multi-tasking’ as we live in a way that shows our faith at the same time that we are accomplishing our work, our play, and our everyday activities. Saint Paul was preaching to the people about running out of time was because they were not worried about living their faith; they were procrastinating and doing nothing. May the Lord not catch us neither too busy to live our faith nor doing nothing.

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