God Is Never Deaf Or Blind To Our Pain & Our Suffering. But We Are Often Deafen And Blind Ourselves To

God is never deaf or blind to our pain & our suffering.  But we are often deafen and blind ourselves to the pain & suffering he experienced upon the Cross.  He suffered in order to pay the debt of sin that we cannot pay ourselves, he died to conquer Death & free us from its clutches, and rose from the dead that we may instead rise to Eternal Life.  

Praise the Lord, even (and especially) in moments of pain & anguish, for all the good he has done for you, and share this most precious gift of faith with your loved ones.  God bless you all

We all wander away from our Father, but he always joyously runs to meet us & embrace us when we return to him.  I squandered many of the gifts & opportunities God offered to me, but he never stopped watching & waiting for my return.  And I am so glad I came back to him.

Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, without whom we would not have the parable of the Prodigal Son.  I hope you will join me today in thanking our Lord for giving us a lesson so full of hope, mercy, and inspiration for all of us who go astray.  God bless you

In the Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve experienced the friendship of God face-to-face.  Yet in that same Garden, they committed the first sin, which we have inherited, and were cast out.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, our Redeemer prayed with fervor - not merely for himself, but for all of us.  "And for [the Disciples] do I sanctify myself, that they may also be sanctified in truth.  And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me; That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  And the glory which thou has given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, as we also are one.  I in them, and thou in me; that they may be made perfect in one; and the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.  Father, I will that where I am, they also may be with me; that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world." (John 17:19-24)

Christ calls all men and women to himself upon the Cross, the sacrifice that opened the gates of Heaven.  All can pass through those gates if we trust in him and have faith, if we are willing to uproot our lives and change our ways.  All can pass through those gates if they are willing to be planted in the Garden of Heaven, nourished eternally by his Precious Blood.