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Our Spiritual Home
Somebody was asked once, ‘Why do you bother staying in the Church?’ The answer is, ‘I’ve no other spiritual home.’ We’ll hear the word and return, often during Lent. We stray away from God in small journeys or big ones. We might not feel like returning, but when we do, we know we’re home.
Church is home because it is where Jesus lives – not in the building only but in the people. Jesus lives with each of us, as ‘he makes his home with us’. He also lives among us in community, ‘wherever two or three are gathered in my name’.
We need to make the building and the spirit of our gatherings a homecoming. In our Church home we can hear each week of different needs and celebrations of the parish. We remember especially the sick, the dying and the ones gone before us.
Everyone helps build a home. The priest cannot do it alone. Can we ensure that every parish has a welcoming group, a group that keeps in touch with locals and plans future events?
Donal Neary SJ, The Sacred Heart Messenger, February 2023
We remember at this time...
We pray for our newly elected Pope Leo IV that his reign as Vicar of Christ will be marked by humble service to God’s people, as one of his pontifical titles, Servant of the Servants of God, so fittingly expresses.
We echo his heartfelt appeal for peace, taking up his cry with conviction, “never again war!”
Pope Leo has chosen as his motto a phrase deeply rooted in his Augustinian tradition: “In the One, we are one.”
This powerful statement finds its source in Saint Augustine’s reflection on Psalm 127:
“Christ – head and body – is one single man. And what is the body of Christ? His Church. Although we Christians are many, in the one Christ we are one. We are many and we are one – because we are united to Him, and if our Head is in heaven, the members will follow.”
We are called to live as one body in Christ. May our actions each day spur us towards that divine unity.
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