As you have had some time to welcome Fr. Balraj to our parish. I encourage you to reflect a moment on the fact that he traveled around the world to be with us, even if it is only for the month of August. I am sure if you asked him six months ago about being in Stevens Point, he would have said âwhere?â How life unfolds is amazing.
We will be celebrating the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary this coming Friday. It is a Holy Day of Obligation so there will be Masses for it. St. Casimir will have the vigil Mass on Thurs at 5:30 pm. St. Peter will have Masses at 8 am and 5:30 pm. Mary being brought to heaven body and soul was a great grace our Lord gave to her and revealed our own destiny. Bishop Cozzens in his book, âFor the Life of the Worldâ, (p. 98-99) reminds us of how we are to attain that blessed ending. âIt is the love of God, which we receive in the Eucharist, that gives each member of the Church energy and desire for mission. And it is the love of God, which we receive in the Eucharist, to which we are inviting those to whom we go.
God has a plan for how He will bring the entire world back to Himself. He is already on the move, at work, pressing into our world to bring each and every human heart the life to the full it was made for. And in this drama, each of us has a definitive part to play. In some part of this drama, you are Godâs plan A. (my emphasis) God has planned for you to help Him reach certain people, eternal souls for whom He is desperately searching. God has chosen you to be the balm for some wound, whether it be a societal ill, a broken pattern of human living, or individual hurts and broken hearts. God has placed in your mind and heart specific projects and initiatives for the restoration of all creation in Christ Jesus. To live as a Eucharistic missionary is to begin to look for where God is on the move, where He has invited you into this drama, and to follow Him in that work.â So it may not be around the world that God is calling you, perhaps your witness and efforts through the love of God in the Eucharist, are to start in your own home.
â Fr. John A Potaczek