Pastor’s Letter: November 13, 2022

Pastor’s Letter: November 13, 2022

11 Nov 2022 | Posted by: chadmin

The November 13 bulletin is now available online.

Dear friend,

Special thanks to all who made our annual school auction a success. So many parishioners come together to organize this fund raiser for our school. While the dollars are essential to continuing the excellence in our educational program, the auction is a great community event. A lot of time and energy is exhausted by so many people to ensure that we have a fun community evening. No matter your role, thank you. Thank you for buying a ticket, purchasing items, any level of donation, helping with acquisitions, decorating, entertainment, and even the necessary processing for the funds. It takes so many to organize a successful evening. It is worth all the time and effort for the success of our school. If you missed it this year, I hope you are able to join us in future years.

As we approach the end of the calendar year, we also conclude another Church calendar year. Next Sunday we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King of the Universe, which ends the Church year. To fit the theme, the Church lectionary offers readings about the end times, judgment, and warnings about worldly living. The Bible offers two types of future warnings: warnings about the events that would occur to the first century Jewish world, and warnings about the end of the world. In essence, we are invited to see them the same way. If we live each day prepared to meet the Lord, then we are prepared no matter the day or the hour.

The gospel passage from Luke this weekend invites us to a proper prospective on the material world. The passage records a conversation between Jesus and the Jewish community about the magnificence of the Temple in Jerusalem. The Temple was a true wonder in the first century world. The Temple was treated as God’s house on earth. For this reason, the best the community had to offer was included in the Temple. Costly jewels, metals, and fabrics were used to create the feeling of awe in the Temple. As people were speaking in awe of this, Jesus made the simple point that everything in this world, except for the human soul, will eventually turn to dust. The Temple was actually destroyed by the Romans some 40 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus. He was certainly speaking prophecy; but, more importantly inviting people to focus on what really matters in life. In a few weeks we will begin a new Church year with the beginning of Advent. The Season of Advent is also a season about preparation.  In these final weeks of the calendar year and the Church year, may the Lord help us enact the positive life changes that help us live a life ordered toward heaven.

God bless,

Father David