The Mission Corps Volunteers are about to wrap up their year of missionary service. Some of them will spend the summer getting ready to go to college next year and a few have decided to give another year of their lives to the mission.
This is a video of their recent mission trip to Kingston, Jamaica with the Missionaries of the Poor. More…
Hi! Yes, I’ve been out for a while. I will update on what I’ve been up to tomorrow. For today, I have a couple of reblogs fit for the occasion. God bless you all, and Happy Mother’s Day!
A Mother’s Day Card:
Time to Laugh on Mother’s Day, by Fr Jason Smith
A good friend of mine came across some brilliant answers given by second-graders to the following questions:
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Hi! Yes, I’ve been out for a while. I will update on what I’ve been up to tomorrow. For today, I have a couple of reblogs fit for the occasion. God bless you all!
By Fr Jason Smith, LC
The Liturgy on the feast of the Ascension presents us with the apostles staring awestruck at the sky as Jesus ascends out of sight; so much so, that we get the impression that they would have remained for days in this stupor, had not two messengers been sent to shake them up.
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Sunday Gospel Reflection for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
The Church chooses this passage from the Gospel according to St John (Jn 14:23-29) for the sixth Sunday of Easter, because this is where Jesus reveals to his apostles what is to come after his resurrection: “I am going away and I will come back to you.” More…
Fr Jason Smith
Caravaggio – The Calling of Saint Matthew
If not for a hockey game, I wouldn’t be a Legionary priest today.As a good Minnesotan, I naturally considered hockey as divinely inspired, a sign of God’s love for us. But it’s what happened after the game that took me by surprise and lead me to know my priestly vocation. More…
Fr Jason Smith
Words are not the only way we communicate, the body itself speaks a language.
A smile is, for example, one of the most obvious and effective means of non-verbal communication. It is so important Dale Carnegie notes that:
“The expression worn on your face is far more important than the clothes worn on your back.” More…
A while back, a fellow blogger asked the following question in a comment on my post, “Blessed Are the Merciful, They Will Be Shown Mercy.”
I have pondered the words bless, blessed, and blessing three words we, myself included, use a lot. I decided I do not know the real meaning of them. So I got out the dictionaries and still cannot come up with an understanding for the way we us these words. Can you please help me make a clear meaning of these three words?
Great question!
Now before I get started, More…
I was recently asked what gave me the greatest delight and satisfaction when working with young people. First, I wanted to say, just working with young people. When the youth get motivated, they have the potential to change the world.
Take for example Saint Mark, whose feast day we celebrate today. More…
An evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul
Recently a friend and fellow blogger asked me a thorny question. I paraphrase:
1 Samuel 18:10 is a perplexing verse: “The next day an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul.” “An evil spirit from God?” What’s that supposed to mean? Does God send evil spirits to us?
The short answer is No. More…
If we take just a couple of words from the Gospel, we can learn a lot. For example, in today’s Gospel, Jesus continually refers to us as “My sheep.”
Commentaries on Jesus’ calling us sheep like to emphasize sheep as stupid, smelly animals. Obviously, that is not the point to today’s Gospel. More…
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