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Santa Teresa Church
Santa Teresa Parish is making up 140 Easter food boxes for families in need this Saturday. We need hams - if you can donate a ham please drop it off Saturday, March 23rd between 9:00 am and Noon at 794 Calero Avenue. ... See MoreSee Less
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Lenten Reflection - Day 34 -We Need Ordinary SaintsIf the word “saints” only brings to mind people who lived centuries ago in a distant place, it may be time to re-evaluate our definition of saints. Just as Lent isn’t about renouncing worldly things for the sake of asceticism, saints don’t have to renounce worldly goods. You may have seen the following poem of unknown origin, which has been mis-�attributed to Pope Francis or Pope John Paul II: “We need jeans and sneaker saints. We need saints who go to the movies, listen to music, and hang out with their friends. We need saints who put God first and work hard in college. We need saints who seek time to pray every day and know how to fall in love with purity and chastity or who devote themselves to their chastity. We need modern-day saints, 21st-century saints spirituality embedded in our time. We need saints committed to the poor and necessary social change. We need saints who live in the world, sanctify themselves in the world, and who are not afraid to live in the world. We need saints who drink Coke and eat hot dogs, who are internet users, who listen to iPods. We need saints who love the Eucharist and who are not ashamed to have a beer or eat pizza on the weekend with friends. We need saints who love cinema, theater, music, dance, sports. We need sociable, open, normal, friendly, joyful, fellow saints. We need saints who are in the world and know how to taste the pure and good things of the world, but without being worldly.” According to this sentiment, do we know some saints? Can’t we strive to be one too? ... See MoreSee Less
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Lenten Reflection - Day 33 - Sacred GeographyHe makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul. —Psalm 23:2-3aTheologian Beldan Lane writes about “landscapes of the sacred,” the notion that we all have a particular geography we are most drawn to for its unique beauty, positive memories, comfort, and familiarity. It is in these landscapes where we can most easily relax and feel ourselves safe and connected to God. For some, it is in the mountains covered with aspens; for others, the many moods of the ocean or the expansive, green plains. For the psalmist who penned Psalm 23, it seems to be green pastures near fresh water where God was most easily encountered. ... See MoreSee Less
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Santa Teresa Church
Lenten Reflection - Day 32 - Still FearfulJesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live. —John 11:25Do we truly believe what Jesus says here? If we do, why are so many Christians afraid of dying when the foundation of our faith rests on the belief that out of death comes new life? I understand that we might be fearful of a long, painful death, or that we might be panicked or unbelievably sad about leaving loved ones behind. Yet I suspect that many of us do everything medically feasible to stave off death as long as possible because we are just plain fearful about what, or if, anything comes next. This is ironic considering the strong emphasis in the New Testament that Jesus has freed us from death (for example, see Hebrews 2:14-15 and 1 Corinthians 15:54-55). We haven’t yet come to trust what all the saints and mystics have taught—that those who die meet a Lover, not a dictator—or what an Algerian monk said before his captors killed him, “What do we have to fear after all? To be thrown into the tenderness of God?” ... See MoreSee Less
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