Pastor's Message
January 17, 2020

If the meaning of life is to be found in friendship with Christ, then our highest priority in life should be to constantly deepen that friendship. There are three essential ways to do this.
First, we must develop a mature life of prayer. Prayer involves entering in communion with God as we recite the prayers and ask for good things from God. But it also involves reading and meditating on the Bible and filling our hearts with gratitude for God's many gifts. This year for example could be a year in which we pray to St. Joseph may be using the prayer proposed by the Holy Father or by whatever special devotional prayers we may have in his honor.
Second, we must build our lives around the sacraments. When John the Baptist called Jesus the "Lamb of God," he was alluding to the Old Testament lamb sacrificed right before the Exodus from Egypt. The blood of that lamb saved the Israelites from slavery. In New Testament times, that prophetic image is fulfilled in the Eucharist - the body and blood of the real sacrificial lamb, Christ himself, who saves us from sin.
Adoring the Blessed Sacrament, receiving Holy Communion, and opening our hearts to God in confession, and receiving any other sacraments draws us deeper into that mystery of salvation by linking our lives more intimately with Christ's.
Third, to deepen our friendship with Christ we must make God's will our first concern. One key aspect of friendship is wanting and liking the same things. Friendship with Christ, then, means wanting and working for whatever Christ would want and works for. Today's Psalm puts it beautifully: "Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will... To do your will, O my God, is my delight." And what does God's will include? First of all, loving God and our neighbor as ourselves, then the Ten Commandments and then the teachings of the Church.
Prayer, sacraments, and obedience to Christ's plan: these are the foundation stones of a meaningful life, a life anchored in heaven, where our friendship with Christ will reach its everlasting fulfillment.

Have a Blessed Sunday
 
Fr. Joy Kumarthusseril, mf

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