We are again offering our “Weekend Away”, to take time to be with the Lord. The limited schedule provides an abundance of personal time for prayer and reflection with opportunities for adoration, confession, a guided holy hour and optional spiritual direction. This retreat includes supper on Friday evening. The last meal is breakfast on Sunday morning, with departure after the 10 am Sunday Mass.
Autumn Triduum: Snapshots of Sanctity and Habits of Holiness – Presented by Fr. Joseph Nassal
This weekend we celebrate All Hallows Eve, All Saints, and All Souls, and remember how it is God who makes us worthy to be saints by calling us children of God. When we take off our masks and deepen our desire to live as children of God, we find that sanctity is not for a chosen few but for all.
We invite you to bring pictures of those in your life whose holiness inspired your journey of faith. When we look through the photo album of faith, family, and community, we see many snapshots of sanctity. We often call those no longer with us “saints”. Looking closely at these pictures of priestly people, we see how they are all dressed in the garment of grace; their habit is holiness. Tracing the threads of these habits of holiness, we see woven into the fabric of their lives the qualities described in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5, 1-12).
…and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. Romans 5:5
For many, when they hear the word Hope they think of a fond wish. When Christians hear the word Hope we think of a firm promise. As St. Paul proclaims in his letter to the Romans, Hope does not disappoint. Our hope is in the person of Jesus Christ who has laid down his life and conquered sin and death. This hope is poured into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit.
We invite you to come to Christ the King during this time of grace to affirm your belief in the hope that can make sense of a hopeless world.
