Holy Week is the most significant week for Catholics. Spanning from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday, it marks the final stretch before Easter Sunday, the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection. During this sacred week Catholics pray and reflect on the profound journey of Jesus’ suffering, death and Resurrection.
Dying to Oneself is at the heart of Lent. We tend to want things on our own terms, not God’s. To Live for God, we need to learn to let go of our self-centeredness and follow the guidance that God has provided us.
If you were to write a letter to yourself from the voice of God, what would He say about you? What would He say about your attitude, relationships, challenges, worries, hopes, and dreams? Is your self image of yourself interfering with your ability to let God lead you?
As we continue our Lenten Message Series on “needy”, Father Michael will take a look at two needs that God wants us to balance in our busy lives – Work & Rest.
It is ironic that the one thing we need most in our life is God, yet He is the one that many times we never give a second thought. We say, “I don’t need God, I can manage this myself,” only to discover that we couldn’t.
Spirituality 101 is this: there is a God and it is not you. As human beings, we are creatures; God is the Creator, and we are the created. This means that we are not entirely self-sufficient, but we have needs that are outside ourselves.