Confirmation Zoom Classes - 2021
Our first day of Confirmation Zoom Faith Sharing Class will begin on the week of January 10 to January 14, 2021. Please make sure you check in 5 minutes before your class and be ready to share with everyone. All cameras and mics should be turned on during class time.
CONFIRMATION CALENDAR
A new calendar (January 2021 – June 2021) has been posted on the website.
Copies are now available at the Youth Office front door if you wish to pick up a copy.
PARENT & SPONSOR FORMATION CLASS
Parent & Sponsor Formation Class is scheduled for January 19 from 7pm to 8pm via Zoom. Our formation teacher is Tony Azpeitia and he uses his own Zoom ID that can be found on our calendar. Thank you for making yourself available for this opportunity and to advance your faith.
Confirmation Retreat
Our Confirmation Retreats dates are still tentative. We are working hard to find a better time and program so that we can deliver a safer and life-giving retreats while maintaining the integrity and value of it. Please be patient with us, as we navigate this uncertainChallenge
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord – In today's Gospel we hear John the Baptist contrast his baptism of repentance with the baptism that Jesus will inaugurate. John the Baptist says that he has baptized with water, but that the one who is to come will baptize with the Holy Spirit. John's baptism was not yet a Christian baptism; it was a preparation for the Christian Baptism we celebrate today, and through which sins are forgiven and the gift of the Holy Spirit is received. In accepting John's baptism, Jesus, though sinless, united himself with all sinners.
The baptism of Jesus is reported in each of the three Synoptic Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Clearly, Jesus' baptism was an event of great significance for Jesus and for the early Christian community. Mark and Luke report the story from Jesus' perspective; the voice from heaven is addressed to Jesus. In Matthew's Gospel, the voice from heaven speaks to all who are present. The descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism shows that something new is beginning through the baptism and ministry of Jesus.
The baptism of Jesus is considered an important manifestation of God in the person of Jesus, another epiphany. Jesus' baptism inaugurates his mission. Mark's Gospel moves quickly from the report of Jesus' baptism to Jesus' temptations in the desert to his ministry in Galilee after John's arrest. The end of the ministry of John the Baptist is the beginning of Jesus' ministry. In an analogous way, our Baptism inaugurates our mission as Christians.
Surprisingly, on this the last day of the Christmas season the Gospel does not tell a story from Jesus' childhood. Instead the Gospel reveals Jesus' relationship to God: the Son of Mary and Joseph is also God's own Son. We believe that through Baptism we are also made children of God.
Mark 1:7-11
If you can attend Mass in person and you are longing for Him in the Eucharist, then He wants to see you.
Come to Mass this Sunday and be transformed by His Word and by the Eucharist.
“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, Not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7