Dear Family of God,

On June 27th, or the Friday after the Corpus Christi Sunday, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. This year’s Celebration is the 350th Anniversary of the last Apparition of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque at Paray ley Monial, France, on June 16, 1675. Jesus wants us all to know how He immensely loves each one of us and want us to receive Him in the Holy Eucharist with reverence and devotion.

Dear Family of God,

St. John Vianney once said: “There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given is to us.” The Mass, the Eucharist, Jesus’ Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity is the greatest gift God could ever give us on this side of heaven. We got to receive Him every time we participated in Mass during Holy Communion. This is the foretaste of heaven on earth.

Dear Family of God,

I would like to share with you a reflection from Msgr. Charles Pope: In his book, Christus Vincit, Bishop Athanasius Schneider writes,

“The crisis in the Church today is due to a neglect of the truth and specifically a reversal of the order of truth and love. Today a new principle of pastoral life is being propagated in the Church, which says: love and mercy are the highest criteria, and truth has to be subordinated to them.

Dear Family of God,

“The Love of God is poured forth into our hearts by the Holy Spirit” (Romans 5:5).

The Holy Spirit is poured forth into our hearts to help us live as Children of God and be free from sin. How do we know that we have experienced this kind of love? There is peace and joy that we cannot explain; it changes us; to become a person that God created us to be.

Dear Family of God,

Here in our Diocese, we move Ascension into the Seventh Sunday of Easter, instead of Thursday. So, we don’t usually hear these readings, but today I want to share a reflection for that day.

“So that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.” (John 17:21)

Dear Family of God,

This weekend we will hear Jesus teaching us that “WHOEVER LOVES ME WILL KEEP MY WORD, AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME TO HIM AND MAKE OUR DWELLING WITH HIM.” (JOHN 14:23)

“The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself.

Dear Family of God,

Why and how do we evangelize? Why is evangelization so important?

Jesus loved us to the end, to the point of great suffering and dying on the cross. This is our model on how to love others. Jesus commanded us: “I give you a new commandment: love one another. AS I have loved you, so you also should love one another” (John 13:34).

Dear Family of God,

What are the Characteristics of a Good Shepherd? Do you know that we are called to imitate Jesus Our Good Shepherd?

A Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. He is ready to make sacrifices for those whom he is responsible for. He values his sheep more than his own life; they are precious to him—that is why he is ready to sacrifice for them.

Dear Family of God,

While in this world, we cannot but make a choice, for God or against God. The apostles chose God saying: “We must obey God rather than men... they left rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the Name.” (Acts 5:29,41).

When we decided to follow God and not the prince of this world, there are two things that happens to us:

Dear Family of God,

What is the complete forgiveness of sin during the Divine Mercy Sunday?

Our Lord gave an extraordinary promise to St. Faustina, and said that, "On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the Fount of My Mercy.

Dear Family of God,

Why is resurrection so important?

According to Dr. Peter Kreeft, from his book, “Food for the Soul”, there are three reasons: First, because the Resurrection means that Jesus is still alive and really present and really doing things—first of all saving souls. We can’t be saved by a dead Savior!

Dear Family of God,

Why Passion? Why Suffering?

In this side of heaven, there are things that we will learn only through suffering. Suffering in itself is not bad, it can be instrument of conversion of better future. Ask the athletes how they go through so many sacrifices to achieve their goals, a gold medal. But for us, it is eternal life with God, saints, friends, and relatives in heaven.

Dear Family of God,

Why does the Lord write with his finger on the ground twice?

It was the remind them that as God gave them a second chance with Moses when he gave them the Decalogue, so they too must give the woman another chance.