This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it. We celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi; the Body and Blood of Christ; the feast of the Eucharist. In his beautiful homily, one of the points Father Bob Kreckel made was the Eucharist was not the completion of our Sunday obligation; rather the Eucharist is the beginning of our weekly discipleship of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to go in peace glorifying the Lord by the way we live our lives. We are an Eucharistic community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Eucharist missions us to give witness to the love of Jesus by the way we live our lives.
This morning I concelebrated with Father Sergio Chavez his First Mass as a priest at Queen of Peace Church. He is an inspiring young man who will enrich our parish life by his faith and strong commitment to ministry. Father Sergio will begin his ministry at St. Joseph's on August 15th.
This afternoon I was at Father Fred Helfrich's retirement gathering at the parish hall of Holy Spirit Church.. He has been the pastor of our neighboring church for 13 years. As of this Tuesday, I will be the pastor of Holy Spirit Church as well as St. Joseph's. Please pray that this new assignment will be a blessing for me and the parish communities of St. Joseph's and Holy Spirit.
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