St. Gabriel's Passionist Parish

Farmers are very practical people. They have to be; their survival depends upon the harvest. Jesus uses the parable of the farmer and the fruitless fig tree to teach us the lesson of our need to repent. Repent, what’s it mean? In a religious sense repent means we regret the wrongs we’ve done and we’re determined with God’s grace to change the ways we live our lives. Repent means ridding ourselves of all those things that hold us back from living the new commandment; ’love one another as I have loved you.’ As we all know this commandment is not an easy one to live.
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In this week’s bulletin, the Eco-Sabbath and the National Catholic Mission next Sunday and an invitation to learn about the Orthodox Churches.
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We read in Luke’s gospel that Jesus took his friends Peter, James and John up a mountain to a place of peace and quiet so they could pray. In the midst of his own prayer something happened within him that showed itself in his very appearance, his faced glowed, even the clothes he was wearing seemed to dazzle. In that time and moment of prayer Jesus had a deepening awareness of himself and a deeper understanding of his role as God’s word of love for the world. In that time of prayer and reflection Jesus made a deeper commitment to the mission he had been sent to accomplish. This graced moment made Jesus transparent. He glowed with a passion and purpose that would enable him to continue his journey to Jerusalem where he would face his cross, death and resurrection.

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I hope you all received ashes this past Wednesday. When we were kids it was the only day of the year we were allowed to have dirty faces. We wore our ashes with pride to show everyone in town we were Catholics.
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Every now and then the scriptures give us the opportunity to be able to give a name to the Sunday. We all know this is Valentine’s Day. What every happened to St. Valentine?
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