Fr. Gabriel hears Confessions before Saturday Mass from 4 - 4:45 pm
Fr. Gabriel will hear Confessions before or after Mass by request.
Beloved Parish Family of St Anselm,
"Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is Love." (1 Jn 4:8)
The gospel text for this Sunday continues the exhortation from last Sunday, "to abide," stated: "remain in my love." In the gospel of John, a command is always based on a prior experience of grace, so Jesus says, "Love one another as I love you," and then points to the summit of love, laying down one's life for friends.
In response to the issue of division and difference that confronted the early Church, Peter received a vision that the God of Israel is the God of all people, and that Christianity was not a national religion but a universal one since "We believe in one God,” and this God is love!
Love is one of the significant fruits of the Sacrament of Confirmation in our Catholic faith. Moreover, since we had First Communion and Confirmation for our children in the Parish these past weeks, let us refresh our knowledge of Confirmation particularly.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)1285 says Baptism, the Eucharist, and the sacrament of Confirmation constitute the "sacraments of Christian initiation," whose unity must be safeguarded. The sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace. For "by the sacrament of Confirmation, [the baptized] are more perfectly bound to the Church and are enriched with a unique strength of the Holy Spirit. Hence, as faithful witnesses of Christ, they are more strictly obliged to spread and defend the faith by word and deed.
CCC1302 notes: “It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost.”
CCC1303indicates, “Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:
CCC 1304 continues, like Baptism which it completes, Confirmation is given only once, for it too imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual mark, the "character," which is the sign that Jesus Christ has marked a Christian with the seal of his Spirit by clothing him with power from on high so that he may be His witness.
These are the fruits of the Holy Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Generosity, Goodness, Gentleness, Self-Control, Modesty, Faithfulness, Chastity.
Fellow believers in Christ, in the week ahead, let us remember that "Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is Love" (1 Jn 4:8)
Amen.
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