#Master Catechist

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Rev. Linda (Lin) Hourihan, HHCP ~ Empathy ~ Compassion ~ Love Can Save The World

Who am I and why might people want to hear what I have to say? I am an international, ordained, interfaith Universal Life Church Minister, metaphysician, author ~ blogger ~ internationally board-certified holistic health counselor, New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation™ (NPMDT™) Teacher of the School of Esoteric Science™, certified Reiki Master Teacher and Qigong Teacher. I no longer…

[eternal-echoes]

“I am thinking of the Gospel by the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where Simon, who Jesus was later to call Peter, and his brother Andrew, together with James and John, also brothers, all lived and worked as fishermen. Jesus was surrounded by the crowd who wanted to listen to his word. He saw those fishermen mending their nets beside the boats. He climbed on to Simon’s boat and asked him to put out a little from the shore. So it was that he spoke to the people sitting in the boat; Jesus addressed the people from the boat. When he had finished, he told Simon to put out into the deep and let down his nets. This request was a “trial” for Simon — listen carefully to the word: a “trial” — for he and the others had just come back from fishing all night with nothing to show for it. Simon was a sincere and practical man, and he immediately said to Jesus: “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing”.

This is the first point: the experience of failure. In your questions there was this experience: the sacrament of Confirmation, — what is this sacrament called? Confirmation... No! Its name has changed: the “sacrament of farewell”. They do this and then they leave the Church. Is this true or not? This is an experience of failure. The other experience of failure: young people aren’t in the parishes: you yourselves have talked about this. This experience of a failure, something that goes wrong, a disappointment. Youth looks ahead, but at times it happens to experience failure, some frustration. This is a trial and it is important! And now I want to pose a question to you; however, do not reply out loud but in silence. May each one one of you think in his or her heart, think of your own experiences of failure, think about them. It is certain: we all have such experiences, we all have them. 

We very frequently have this experience in the Church: priests, catechists, and animators tire themselves out, they spend so much energy, they put everything into it, and in the end they do not always see results that correspond to their efforts. Your “spokespeople” also said this in their first two questions. They referred to the communities where faith seems somewhat faded, where few of the faithful take an active part in the life of the Church, Christians are seen who are sometimes weary and sad and many young people move off after receiving Confirmation. The sacrament of farewell, of goodbye, as I said. It is an experience of failure, an experience that leaves emptiness and discourages us. Is this true or not? [Yes, the young people answer] Is it true or not? [Yes, they answer once again]. 

2. In the face of this situation you are right to wonder: what can we do? Of course one thing is to let oneself be overcome by pessimism and distrust. Pessimistic Christians: how awful! You young people can’t and mustn’t be lacking in hope, hope is part of your being. A young person without hope is not young but has aged prematurely! Hope is part of your youth! if you don’t have any hope, think seriously, think seriously.... A young person without joy and without hope is upsetting: he is not young. And when a young person has no joy, when he lacks confidence in life or loses hope, where can he go to find a bit of tranquillity, a bit of peace? Without trust, without hope and without joy? You know, the merchants of death, these merchants that sell death, offer you a way out when you are sad, when you are without hope, without trust and disheartened! Please don’t sell your youth to these people who sell death! All of you know what I’m talking about! You have all got it: don’t sell!

Let’s return to the scene of the Gospel: Peter, in that critical moment, takes a risk. What could he have done? He could have given in to weariness and to discouragement, thinking that it is pointless and that it is better to withdraw and go home. Instead, what does he do? With courage, he steps out of himself and decides to trust Jesus. He says: “Well, alright! At your word I will let down the nets”. Be careful! He does not say: at my strength, my calculations, my experience as an expert fisherman, but rather “at your word”, at the word of Jesus! And the result is an incredible catch, the nets are filled to the point that they almost tear.

This is the second point: trusting Jesus,trusting Jesus. And when I say this I want to be sincere and to tell you that I do not come here to sell you an illusion. I come here to say: there is a Person who can keep you going, trust in him! It is Jesus! Trust in Jesus! And Jesus is not an illusion! Trust in Jesus. The Lord is always with us. He comes to the shores of the sea of our life, he makes himself close to our failures, our frailty, and our sins in order to transform them. Never stop staking yourselves on him, over and over again, as good sportsmen — some of you know this well from experience — who can face the strain of training in order to achieve results! Difficulties must not frighten you but on the contrary spur you to go beyond them. Hear Jesus’ words as though they were addressed to you: put out into the deep and let down your nets, young people of Sardinia! Put out into the deep! Be ever more docile to the Lord’s word; it is he, it is his word, it is following him that brings to fruition your commitment to witnessing. When your efforts to reawaken faith in your friends seem to be in vain, like the nocturnal efforts of the fishermen, remember that with Jesus everything changes. The word of the Lord has filled the nets and the word of the Lord makes the missionary work of his disciples effective. Following Jesus is demanding, it means not being satisfied with small goals of little account but aiming on high with courage!”

-Pope Francis, MEETING WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE, Largo Carlo Felice, Cagliari Sunday, 22 September 2013

[lboogie1906]

Elias Neau (1662 – September 7, 1722) born Élie Neau, in Moëze, Saintonge, was a French Huguenot. He was a prosperous merchant. He was captured by a French privateer near Jamaica, and as a Protestant, was sentenced to a life sentence as a galley slave and imprisoned in Marseille. He was released. He was elected to the position of the elder of the French church in New York. He secured passage of a bill in New York stating that enslaved could be catechized. The Episcopal Church commemorates him as a “witness to the faith” on September 7.

For the African American enslaved, a catechizing school was opened in New York City under their charge. He called the attention of the Society to the great number, of enslaved in New York “who were without God in the world, and of whose souls there was no manner of care taken” and proposed the appointment of a catechist to undertake their instruction. He obtained a license from the Governor, resigned his position as an elder in the French church, and conformed to the Established Church of England. He was licensed by the Bishop of London.

African Americans and Indians among them to the Christian Religion. Further confidence in him was attested by an act of the Society in preparing at his request “a Bill to be offered to Parliament for the more effectual Conversion of the African Americans and other Servants in the Plantations, to compel Owners of enslaved to cause children to be baptized within 3 months after their birth and to permit them when come to years of discretion to be instructed in the Christian Religion on our Lord’s day by the Missionaries under whose ministry they live.”

His school suffered greatly in 1712 because of the prejudice engendered by the declaration that instruction was the main cause of African Americans. Only one African American connected with the school had participated in the affair and most criminals belonged to the masters who were opposed to educating them, the institution was permitted to continue its endeavors, and the Governor extended his protection and recommended that masters have their enslaved instructed. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (December 21)

An important figure in the Catholic counter-reformation that responded to the 16th-century spread of Protestantism, the priest and Doctor of the Church, Saint Peter Canisius, is remembered liturgically on December 21.

His efforts as a preacher, author and religious educator strengthened the Catholic faith in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Central Europe during a period of doctrinal confusion.

Writing about St. Peter Canisius in 1897, Pope Leo XIII noted similarities between the late 19th century and the saint's own lifetime as “a period when the spirit of revolution and looseness of doctrine resulted in a great loss of faith and decline in morals.”

More recently, in a 2011 general audience, Pope Benedict XVI taught that the Jesuit saint found success in ministry by living as “a personal witness of Jesus and an instrument at his disposal, bound to him closely by faith in his Gospel and in his Church.”

Peter Kanis – his name later Latinized to “Canisius” – was born in the Netherlands during May 1521.

His father Jacob was a wealthy public official, but his mother Aegidia died soon after his birth.

Peter began his university studies in Cologne around age 15 and obtained his master's degree before he turned 20.

His friends during this period included several men who held to the Catholic faith in opposition to the Protestant doctrines then gaining ground in Germany.

Despite his father's preference that he should marry, Peter made a decision in 1540 to remain celibate.

Three years later, he entered the Society of Jesus under the influence of Blessed Peter Faber, one of the first companions of Saint Ignatius Loyola.

He founded the first Jesuit house in Germany and became a priest in 1546.

Only one year after his ordination, Peter accompanied the Bishop of Augsburg to the Council of Trent as a theological adviser.

He spent a portion of his time in Italy working directly with Saint Ignatius Loyola, before leaving for Bavaria where he would serve as a university professor as well as a catechist and preacher.

This combination of academic and pastoral work continued at Vienna from 1552, allowing him to visit and assist many Austrian parishes, which found themselves without a priest.

During the mid-1550s Peter's evangelistic journeys took him to Prague, where he eventually founded a Jesuit school along with another in Bavaria, and later a third in Munich.

The year 1555, in particular, was a landmark for Canisius: St. Ignatius promoted him to a leadership position within the order, which he held until 1569, and he published the first and longest version of his Catholic catechism.

This work, and its two shorter adaptations, went through hundreds of printings and remained in use for centuries.

Involved in discussions with Protestants during 1557, Peter made a strong case for the Church by showing how the adherents of Protestantism could not agree with one another in matters of doctrine.

Meanwhile, he maintained his commitment to religious instruction on the popular level – teaching children, giving retreats, and preaching carefully-crafted, doctrinally-rich sermons to large crowds.

Canisius' service to the Council of Trent continued during the early 1560s, though mostly from a distance.

He kept up a demanding schedule of preaching and establishing universities, while also working to ensure that the council's decrees were received and followed in Germany after it concluded.

His tireless efforts over the next two decades contributed to a major revival of German Catholicism.

A mystical experience in 1584 convinced Canisius that he should cease his travels and remain in Switzerland for the rest of his life.

He spent his last years building up the Church in Fribourg through his preaching, teaching, and writing.

Peter suffered a near-fatal stroke in 1591, but recovered and continued as an author for six years.

The Dutch Jesuit saw writing as an essential form of apostolic work, a view supported by the continued use of his catechism long after his death on 21 December 1597.

Peter Canisius was simultaneously canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XI in May of 1925.

In a famous saying, the Jesuit priest revealed the secret behind the accomplishments of his energetic and fruitful life:

“If you have too much to do, with God's help, you will find time to do it all.”

[janejensengriesemer]

Jane J. Griesemer, mom, teacher, RCIA team leader and catechist, shepherds diverse groups through their spiritual journeys, witnessing the transformative power of the Holy Spirit. A recent Master of Theology graduate from Loyola Marymount University, her research in comparative theology earned her the James L. Fredericks Fellowship and Theta Alpha Kappa Honors induction.

[salsa-and-light]

"You don’t have to hate people who don’t follow the Catholic Church, obviously, we are taught to spread love, not hate."

That may, or may not be, true but it's irrelevant. Bad ideas and bad behaviors are not immune to criticism just because you theoretically should be trying to Love people.

"Moral of the story, you cannot pick and choose what you want in your religion"

"Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God." -- Romans 14:1-7

Correction, what you can not do is dictate the terms of the faith to others.

This is most especially true when so many of these supposedly mandatory beliefs were made up by celibate priests in the '90s.

"the leader of your religion is not you, it’s God"

Yeah, God, not you, not the pope, not a catechist, not a priest.

There are recognized sources of religious authority, apart from that it's all personal opinion.

It's fundamentally dishonest to pretend that your personal interpretation is the one that God likes best.

"You cannot ignore the Catholic Church and consider yourself a catholic"

You absolutely can, and in many cases I would say that you are morally obliged to.

Like for example when the Catholic church spreads lies that condoms increase the transmission rates of HIV. That's a immoral lie that should not only be ignored but actively fought against.

"jesus teachings are meant to be followed"

Notice how Jesus is not the pope?

"don’t over look what you don’t like in the bible and pick what you think suits you better."

Notice how the Bible is not the catechism?

"You’ll be called things like closed minded, or worse, but having morals"

Not for "having morals" sweet.

For being bigoted, for being homophobic, transphobic, for teaching sex negative propaganda.

These are the reasons people might call you close-minded.

It's not exactly common for people to say "Oh I hate her, she's such a genuinely good person."

That is a fantasy to help people ignore uncomfortable realities.

"wanting to be close to God as possible does not make you close minded, not one bit. People are always going to try and tear you away from Gods arms, but you cannot let this world get to you."

Bigotry takes you farther from God. That is if you believe that God is Love as 1 John 4:8 suggests.

Cafeteria Catholics

So today on Instagram i posted a few of my opinions, on gay marriage, transgenders and of course, cafeteria Catholics, this woman started posting on all my posts, saying things like, “some Catholics are okay with gay marriage” (already aware of that) and even saying “no” to when I said God doesn’t make mistakes.

She claimed to be becoming Catholic soon, so I approach her views as kind as I could, I was rather irritable because she was standing up for everything the Catholic Church is against.

You don’t have to hate people who don’t follow the Catholic Church, obviously, we are taught to spread love, not hate.

Moral of the story, you cannot pick and choose what you want in your religion, the leader of your religion is not you, it’s God, You cannot ignore the Catholic Church and consider yourself a catholic, jesus teachings are meant to be followed, don’t over look what you don’t like in the bible and pick what you think suits you better. We must read and listen carefully to the bible, God’s word should be treasured, not ignored.

You’ll be called things like closed minded, or worse, but having morals and wanting to be close to God as possible does not make you close minded, not one bit. People are always going to try and tear you away from Gods arms, but you cannot let this world get to you.

[reidio-silence]

The city got its first taste of servile rebellion in 1712—less than a year after the municipal slave market opened for business. One night in early April, two dozen slaves who, Governor Hunter reported, “had resolved to revenge themselves, for some hard usage, they apprehended to have received from their masters,” gathered in an orchard of Mr. Crook, “in the middle of the town.” According to John Sharpe, the Anglican chaplain, the majority were unchristianized Kormantines and Pawpaws from the Akan-Asante society of the Gold Coast—probably imported within the previous year or two (so much for the assumption that newcomers from Africa were more docile). They had pledged themselves to secrecy “by Sucking ye blood of each Others hands” and attempted to make themselves invulnerable by rubbing their clothes with a powder supplied by one Peter the Doctor, “a free negroe who pretends Sorcery.” Arming themselves from a secret cache of stolen muskets, swords, knives, and hatchets, the conspirators set fire to a nearby building and ambushed residents who rushed to put out the flames. Nine whites were shot or slashed to death before Governor Hunter raised the garrison and marched against them, but the rebels “made their retreat into the woods, by the favour of the night.” The next day, Hunter sealed off “the most proper places on the Island to prevent their escape,” then dispatched militia to “drive the island.” Hunted down, six of the conspirators cut their own throats (one man killing his wife and himself) rather than be captured. Seventy others were arrested and brought back for trial before a special court convened by the governor. Twenty-three were convicted of murder, two others of attempted murder. Twenty were hanged outright. Three were burned to death—among them Tom, a bondsman of Nicholas Roosevelt, who was condemned to roast over a slow fire “in Torment for Eight or ten hours & Continue burning in the said fire untill he be dead and Consumed to Ashes.” Another, named Robin, was sentenced “to be hung up in chains alive and so to continue without any sustainance untill he be dead.” Still another, named Clause, was “broke alive upon a wheel.” Spread-eagled and fastened face upward on a wheel, he was laid flat on the ground in front of City Hall. A Dutch sailor (who said he’d seen the thing done in Rotterdam and knew how to go about it) then took a crowbar and over a period of many hours smashed the bones in Clause’s body, one by one, stopping now and again for refreshment at Jan Peterson’s Broad Street tavern. Clause finally expired at two o’clock the next morning, having suffered, as had the others, what Hunter assured the Lords of Trade were “the most exemplary punishments that could be possibly thought of.”

In the wake of the trials the Common Council ordered that no slave could travel about the city after dark without a lantern. (Elias Neau, the SPG catechist, was widely blamed for sowing discontent among the city’s slaves; the new lantern law was in part an attempt to cut attendance at his school, which held classes only at night.) The Assembly drafted a tough new slave code. Among other things, the law made manumission almost prohibitively expensive for masters and stipulated that no freed slave could henceforth own a house or land in the colony. But this merely codified the status quo. By the early eighteenth century very few free blacks remained on Manhattan; most of them lived on the fringes of the city on land granted them or their forebears by the Dutch West India Company.

The real legacy of the 1712 uprising was a new era of routinized brutality and official cynicism toward slaves. Crowds of townsfolk often gathered now to watch slaves hanged or burned to death for one offense or another. A slave girl named Rose was arrested “foar Damning the White Peoples Throats and Yours too (Speaking to a White Woman) and divers other Vile Expressions against the White People”; the magistrates gave her nine lashes at the whipping post, had her tied to a cart and dragged around town, gave her thirty-nine more lashes for good measure “on the Naked Back,” and then transported her to another colony. And when John van Zandt horsewhipped his slave to death in 1735 for being on the streets at night, an all-white coroner’s jury found that the “Correction given by the Master was not the Cause of his Death, but that it was by the Visitation of God.”

— Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998)

[catholicextension]

Sister Yelitza Ayala Gilot, from the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima in Puerto Rico, graduated with a master’s degree in applied leadership from Boston College. As part of the U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program, she coordinated catechists, taught Bible classes, and led a youth community choir in Jacksonville, Texas. Congratulations, sister!

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28th April >> (@ZenitEnglish By Virginia Forrester) #PopeFrancis #Pope Francis’ Regina Coeli Address (Full Text): On Divine Mercy Sunday ‘On this Second Sunday of Easter, We Are Invited to Approach Christ with Faith, Opening Our Hearts to Peace, to Joy and to the Mission’.

Here is a ZENIT translation of the address Pope Francis gave today, before and after praying the midday Regina Coeli with those gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

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Before the Regina Coeli:

Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!

Today’s Gospel (Cf. John 20:19-31) tells us that on the day of Easter Jesus appeared to His disciples in the Cenacle, in the evening, bringing three gifts: peace, joy, and the apostolic mission.

The first words He says are: “Peace be with you” (v. 21). The Risen One brings genuine peace because, through His sacrifice on the cross, He realized the reconciliation between God and humanity and vanquished sin and death. This is peace. His disciples first had need of this peace because, after the Master’s capture and condemnation to death, they were plunged in dismay and fear. Jesus appears alive in their midst and, showing His wounds — Jesus willed to keep His wounds –, in His glorious body; He gives peace as fruit of His victory. However, that evening Thomas wasn’t present. Informed about this extraordinary event he, incredulous before the testimony of the other Apostles, wants to verify in person the truth of what they affirmed. Eight days later, namely, in fact as today, the apparition is repeated: Jesus meets with Thomas’ incredulity, inviting him to touch his wounds. They constitute the source of peace because they are the sign of Jesus’ immense love, which has defeated the forces hostile to man, namely sin and death. He invites him to touch His wounds. It’s a teaching for us as if Jesus said to all of us: “If you’re not in peace, touch my wounds.”

To touch Jesus’ wounds, which are the many problems, difficulties, persecutions, and sicknesses of so many suffering people. Are you not in peace? Go, go visit someone, who is the symbol of Jesus’ wound. Touch Jesus’ wound. Mercy flows from those wounds. Therefore, today is the Sunday of Mercy, which comes to all of us through <His> wounds. All of us, we know, are in need of mercy. Let us approach Jesus and touch His wounds in our suffering brothers. Jesus’ wounds are a treasure: mercy flows from there. Let us be courageous and touch Jesus’ wounds. He is before the Father with these wounds, He makes the Father see them as if to say: “Father, this is the price, these wounds are what I have paid for my brothers.” Jesus intercedes, with His wounds, before the Father. He gives us mercy if we approach Him, and intercedes for us. Do not forget Jesus’ wounds.

The second gift that the Risen Jesus brings to His disciples is joy. The evangelist says that “the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord” (v. 20). And, in Luke’s version, there is also a verse that says they couldn’t believe because of their joy. It also comes to us when, perhaps, when something incredible, good happens to us, to say: “I can’t believe it, it’s not true!” The disciples were like this, they couldn’t believe because of <their> joy. This is the joy that Jesus brings us. If you are sad, if you aren’t in peace, look at Jesus crucified, look at Jesus Risen, look at his wounds and seize that joy.

And then, in addition to peace and joy, Jesus also brings the mission as gift to the disciples. He says to them: “As the Father has sent me, even so, I send you” (v. 21). Jesus’ Resurrection is the beginning of a new dynamism of love, capable of transforming the world with the presence of the Holy Spirit.

On this Second Sunday of Easter, we are invited to approach Christ with faith, opening our heart to peace, to joy, and to the mission. However, let us not forget Jesus’ wounds, because from there issues peace, joy and the strength for the mission. We entrust this prayer to the maternal intercession of the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven and earth.

© Libreria Editrice Vatican

[Original text: Italian] [ZENIT’s translation by Virginia M. Forrester]

After the Regina Coeli:

Dear brothers and sisters,

Proclaimed Blesseds yesterday in La Rioja, Argentina, were Enrique Angel Angelelli, diocesan Bishop; Carlos de Dios Murias, Conventual Franciscan; Gabriel Longueville, fidei donum priest, and Wenceslao Pedernera, catechist, father of a family. These martyrs of the faith were persecuted for the cause of justice and evangelical charity. May their example and intercession support, in particular, all those who work for a more just and solidary society. One of them was French; he went to Argentina as a missionary. The other three were Argentines. Let us applaud all the new Blesseds!

I invite you to join my prayer for the refugees that are in detention centers in Libya, whose situation, already very grave, is made even more dangerous by the on-going conflict. I make an appeal so that the women, the children and the sick, can be evacuated soonest through humanitarian corridors.

And let us pray also for all those that lost their lives or suffered serious damages due to the recent floods in South Africa. May our solidarity and also the concrete support of the International Community not be lacking these brothers of ours.

I greet you all, Roman faithful and pilgrims from Italy and many countries, in particular, the faithful of Tlalnepantla (Mexico); the young people of Valencia, the students of Tricase, the adolescents of Arcore and those of Carugo; the faithful of Modugno and of Genoa. A special greeting goes to the diocesan pilgrimage of the families of the Archdiocese of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie, as well as the devotees of the Divine Mercy, gathered today in the church of the Holy Spirit in Sassia.

My warm wishes go to our brothers and sisters in the Oriental Churches that, in keeping with the Julian calendar, celebrate Holy Easter today. May the Risen Lord give them joy and peace! And an applause also for all Eastern Catholics and Orthodox, to say to them: Happy Easter!”

Finally, I thank all those who, in this period, have sent me messages of good wishes for Easter. I return them to them from my heart, invoking every good for each one and for every family.

A happy Sunday to all! And, please, don’t forget to pray for me. Enjoy your lunch and goodbye.

© Libreria Editrice Vatican

[Original text: Italian] [ZENIT’s translation by Virginia M. Forrester]

28th APRIL 2019 15:09ANGELUS/REGINA CAELI

[seekfirst-community]

Feast of St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Capuchin Priest and Martyr. 

"Rabbi, when did you get here?” 

Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”

"So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?”



"Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.” (John 6: 22.... 29).

Monday 24th April 2023, in the 3rd Week in Easter is the feast of St Fidelis of Sigmaringen (1577 - 1622). Priest and Martyr. 

Fidelis left his Law Practice and became  a Capuchin Franciscan priest. Born in Germany, he achieved fame as Evangelist and Catechist in Switzerland. He died at the hands of a mob while preaching in Switzerland.  Like St Stephen in the first Reading, he worsted the Calvinist heretics in debates. They instigated the mob to martyr him. 

Many people followed Jesus for food. Others with the hope of money, healing and job.  They cared very little for the agenda of Jesus.

Jesus told them: "Man does not live on bread alone. There is life for him in every word that comes from the mouth of God." (Matthew 4: 4).

Jesus expands on this teaching in our key Scripture for today. He says to the crowd:

"Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.” (John 6: 27).

What are the food that endures for eternal life? Consider faith, hope, charity and the Word of God. No one can purchase faith, hope and love.

“What can we do to accomplish the works of God?”  Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”

Jesus gave them an uncomplicated answer: Faith in Jesus whom God sent for the salvation of humanity. Faith is greater than gold and silver. Faith is imperishable.

Do you nurse some hope that this world will fulfill the desires of your heart with regard to health, family, job, money and social and material possessions? Forget it.

Repeat with Peter in deep faith: “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.  We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

Daily Bible Verse @ SeekFirstcommunity.com 

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[eternal-echoes]

“First of all, to start anew from Christ means being close to him, being close to Jesus Jesus stresses the importance of this with the disciples at the Last Supper, as he prepared to give us his own greatest gift of love, his sacrifice on the Cross. Jesus uses the image of the vine and the branches and says: Abide in my love, remain attached to me, as the branch is attached to the vine. If we are joined to him, then we are able to bear fruit. This is what it means to be close to Christ. Abide in Jesus! This means remaining attached to him, in him, with him, talking to him. Abide in Jesus!

The first thing for a disciple is to be with the Master, to listen to him and to learn from him. This is always true, and it is true at every moment of our lives. I remember, in the diocese, the other diocese I had first, how I would often see catechists finish their training courses and say: “I have the title of catechist!” This means nothing, you have nothing, you took a little journey. What good will it do you? But one thing is true. Being a catechist is not a title, it is an attitude: abiding with him, and it lasts for a lifetime! It means abiding in the Lord’s presence and letting ourselves be led by him. I ask you: How do you abide in the presence of the Lord? When you visit the Lord, when you look at the tabernacle, what do you do? Without speaking… “But I speak, I talk, I think, I meditate, I listen…” Very good! But do you let yourself be looked at by the Lord? Letting ourselves be gazed upon by the Lord. He looks at us and this is itself a way of praying. Do you yourselves be gazed upon by the Lord? But how do you do this? You look at the tabernacle and you let yourselves be looked at… it is simple! “It is a bit boring, I fall asleep”. Fall asleep then, sleep! He is still looking at you. But know for sure that he is looking at you! This is much more important than having the title of catechist. It is part of “being” a catechist. This warms the heart, igniting the fire of friendship with the Lord, making you feel that he truly sees you, that he is close to you and loves you.”

-Pope Francis, TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE PILGRIMAGE OF CATECHISTS ON THE OCCASION OF THE YEAR OF FAITH AND OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CATECHESIS, Paul VI Audience Hall, 27 September 2013

[lboogie1906]

Elias Neau (1662 – September 7, 1722), born Élie Neau, in Moëze, Saintonge, was a French Huguenot. He was a prosperous merchant. He was captured by a French privateer near Jamaica, and as a Protestant, was sentenced to a life sentence as a galley slave and then imprisoned in Marseille. He was released. He was then elected to the position of the elder of the French church in New York. He secured passage of a bill in New York stating that slaves could be catechized. The Episcopal Church commemorates him as a "witness to the faith" on September 7. For the African American slaves, a catechizing school was opened in New York City under their charge of he. He called the attention of the Society to the great number, of slaves in New York “who were without God in the world, and of whose souls there was no manner of care taken” and proposed the appointment of a catechist to undertake their instruction. He obtained a license from the Governor, resigned his position as an elder in the French church, and conformed to the Established Church of England. He was licensed by the Bishop of London. African Americans and Indians among them to the Christian Religion. Further confidence in him was attested by an act of the Society in preparing at his request “a Bill to be offered to Parliament for the more effectual Conversion of the African Americans and other Servants in the Plantations, to compel Owners of Slaves to cause children to be baptized within 3 months after their birth and to permit them when come to years of discretion to be instructed in the Christian Religion on our Lord’s day by the Missionaries under whose ministry they live.” His school suffered greatly in 1712 because of the prejudice engendered by the declaration that instruction was the main cause of African Americans. Only one African American connected with the school had participated in the affair and most criminals belonged to the masters who were opposed to educating them, the institution was permitted to continue its endeavors, and the Governor extended his protection and recommended that masters have their slaves instructed. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CiM2Oo8OCQfIhIC5wtvgBMTgve0FhahnqEf-TM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (December 21)

An important figure in the Catholic counter-reformation that responded to the 16th-century spread of Protestantism, the priest and Doctor of the Church, Saint Peter Canisius, is remembered liturgically on December 21.

His efforts as a preacher, author, and religious educator strengthened the Catholic faith in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and parts of Central Europe during a period of doctrinal confusion.

Writing about St. Peter Canisius in 1897, Pope Leo XIII noted similarities between the late 19th century and the saint's own lifetime, “a period when the spirit of revolution and looseness of doctrine resulted in a great loss of faith and decline in morals.”

More recently, in a 2011 general audience, Pope Benedict XVI taught that the Jesuit saint found success in ministry by living as “a personal witness of Jesus and an instrument at his disposal, bound to him closely by faith in his Gospel and in his Church.”

Peter Kanis – his name later Latinized to “Canisius” – was born in the Netherlands on 8 May 1521.

His father Jacob was a wealthy public official, but his mother Aegidia died soon after his birth.

Peter began his university studies in Cologne around age 15 and obtained his master's degree before he turned 20.

His friends during this period included several men who held to the Catholic faith in opposition to the Protestant doctrines then gaining ground in Germany.

Despite his father's preference that he should marry, Peter made a decision in 1540 to remain celibate.

Three years later, he entered the Society of Jesus under the influence of Blessed Peter Faber, one of the first companions of Saint Ignatius Loyola.

He founded the first Jesuit house in Germany and became a priest in 1546.

Only one year after his ordination, Peter accompanied the Bishop of Augsburg to the Council of Trent as a theological adviser.

He spent a portion of his time in Italy working directly with Saint Ignatius Loyola, before leaving for Bavaria where he would serve as a university professor as well as a catechist and preacher.

This combination of academic and pastoral work continued at Vienna from 1552, allowing him to visit and assist many Austrian parishes which found themselves without a priest.

During the mid-1550s, Peter's evangelistic journeys took him to Prague, where he eventually founded a Jesuit school along with another in Bavaria and later a third in Munich.

The year 1555, in particular, was a landmark for Canisius: St. Ignatius promoted him to a leadership position within the order, which he held until 1569.

He published the first and longest version of his Catholic catechism.

This work, and its two shorter adaptations, went through hundreds of printings and remained in use for centuries.

Involved in discussions with Protestants during 1557, Peter made a strong case for the Church by showing how the adherents of Protestantism could not agree with one another in matters of doctrine.

Meanwhile, he maintained his commitment to religious instruction on the popular level — teaching children, giving retreats, and preaching carefully-crafted, doctrinally-rich sermons to large crowds.

Canisius' service to the Council of Trent continued during the early 1560s, though mostly from a distance.

He kept up a demanding schedule of preaching and establishing universities, while also working to ensure that the council's decrees were received and followed in Germany after it concluded.

His tireless efforts over the next two decades contributed to a major revival of German Catholicism.

A mystical experience in 1584 convinced Canisius that he should cease his travels and remain in Switzerland for the rest of his life.

He spent his last years building up the Church in Fribourg through his preaching, teaching, and writing.

Peter suffered a near-fatal stroke in 1591, but recovered and continued as an author for six years.

The Dutch Jesuit saw writing as an essential form of apostolic work, a view supported by the continued use of his catechism long after his death on 21 December 1597.

He was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1864. He was later canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church on 21 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI.

In a famous saying, the Jesuit priest revealed the secret behind the accomplishments of his energetic and fruitful life:

“If you have too much to do, with God's help, you will find time to do it all.”

[janejensengriesemer]

Jane J. Griesemer, mom, teacher, RCIA team leader and catechist, shepherds diverse groups through their spiritual journeys, witnessing the transformative power of the Holy Spirit. A recent Master of Theology graduate from Loyola Marymount University, her research in comparative theology earned her the James L. Fredericks Fellowship and Theta Alpha Kappa Honors induction.With a musical ministry background, she's provided worship music at nursing homes and elderly centers. In California, Jane joined the Catholic Identity Committee, becoming a leader and volunteer for outreach programs. In 2016, she began leading the Rite of Christian Initiation at Our Lady of Malibu and gained certification through the Ecclesia program.In 2022, she had the privilege of contributing to leading prayer for the International Day of Prayer Against Human Trafficking initiated by Pope Francis, while also coordinating her parish's participation in the Synodal process. Jane continues to support her parish's RCIA team and offers assistance at Our Lady of Malibu School.

[seekfirstme]

BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ.

PRACTICE WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

TEACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE.

THEN YOU WILL BE GREAT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

"But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5: 19).

On Wednesday 23rd March 2022 of the 3rd Week of Lent, we hear this injunction from the Master: Study the Law. Observe the Law. Teach the Law.

Today 23rd March 2022 is the feast of St Turibius of Mogrovejo (1538 - 1606). Spanish. Missionary Bishop and Archbishop of Lima, Peru. St Turibius spoke up for the rights of the native peoples of South America and defended them against the rapacious instincts of the Spanish colonizers. The Archbishop saint is remembered in history for his unwavering love of truth.

One dominant theme from today's the Mass Readings: Teach the Law [the word]. The message comes strongly from the first Reading from Deuteronomy 4 and Matthew 5. Below are the Scriptures:

#1 "Israel, hear the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to observe." (Deuteronomy 4: 1).

#2 "See, I am teaching you the statutes and ordinances as the Lord, my God, has commanded me." (Deuteronomy 4: 5).

#3 "However, be on your guard and be very careful not to forget the things your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your heart as long as you live, but teach them to your children and to your children’s children." (Deuteronomy 4: 9).

From the Gospel:

#4 "But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5: 19).

#5 "Whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5: 19).

The Church is in dire need of teachers of the word of God: catechists and evangelists. Without teaching and knowledge, a people perishes. (Cf Hosea 4: 6).

Therefore,

Believe what you read.

Practice what you believe.

Teach what you practice.

Every Christian who obeys the commandments of God is able to share the same by word and example.

"Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!

Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life; you have the message of eternal life. (Cf. John 6: 63, 68).

"As for you, dear son of mine, persevere in praying to me. Hold fast to my Rosary and beware of every ploy of the Evil One to separate you from it. My Rosary is your safeguard and your weapon in the fight against the forces of evil. At the same time, for you it is a remedy and a comfort. Do you not see how the Rosary has stabilized you? Do you not experience its healing and all its benefits? Pray my Rosary and teach others to do the same." (IN SINU JESU, Tuesday, December 11, 2007).

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