Confirmation Year 2 Ritual

Year 2 Ritual of “Commitment to the Journey” is this Sunday January 24, 2021. Please arrive properly dressed for Sunday at 4:30pm for the Ritual Instructions. Candidates and Sponsors will have a reserved seating in front of the Altar.

Confirmation Zoom Classes - 2021

Our next Confirmation Zoom Faith Sharing Class is on January 25, 2021 (Monday)from 6pm to 8pm.

All Year 1 & Year 2 Candidates will attend this Class – “The Mass Series” part 1 (Jan. 25) & part 2 (Feb. 8).

Please take note we are using this: Zoom ID-946 967 7454 and Password-98 34 36.

Confirmation Year 1 & Year 2 Virtus Class

A Virtus Class for Year 1 & Year 2 has been scheduled for February 1, 2021 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. This is a required class for both years to attend. Virtus is an Archdiocese Program that helps educate, support, train and provide resources for its members to protect & empower “God’s Children” through the Office of Safeguard the Children. Our Zoom ID for this class is: 946 967 744 and Password is: 98 34 36.

Confirmation Retreat (Fall Schedule)

A Fall Retreat has been scheduled for February 20, 2021 from 9am to 12nn. Though we are still working on the presentation of our Retreat we are certain that we will do this over livestream or Zoom. We are working hard to put this program together so that we can deliver a safer and life-giving retreats while maintaining the integrity and value of it. Please be patient with us, and more information will be given later.

3^rd Sunday of Ordinary Time – As we learn at the beginning of today’s Gospel reading, Jesus preaches the Kingdom of God in continuity with the preaching of John the Baptist. Like John the Baptist, Jesus’ pronouncement of the kingdom is a call to repentance. Yet Jesus’ preaching is greater than John’s. Jesus begins the time of fulfillment; the Kingdom of God is already here. This will be demonstrated again and again, both in Jesus’ words and in the actions that follow. Jesus’ healings and forgiveness of sins are signs of the Kingdom of God that he announces in his teaching.

In contrast to last week’s Gospel, in Mark’s Gospel Jesus takes the initiative in calling his first disciples. As mentioned last week, it was more typical of first-century rabbinical schools for students to seek out rabbis, asking to be their disciples. In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus breaks with this tradition and invites his disciples to learn from him. Jesus is said to have first called four fishermen—Simon, Andrew, James, and John. Simon and Andrew are brothers. Jesus promises that he will make them “fishers of men.” James and John are also brothers. Mark does not report Jesus' words of invitation to them, but he does report that they left their fishing immediately; their father, Zebedee, was left behind in the boat.

Mark’s Gospel is told with a great sense of urgency and immediacy. Jesus is a person of action, and events occur in rapid succession. We see this in today’s Gospel. Time is of the essence; the fishermen immediately put aside their livelihood to become Jesus’ disciples. The Kingdom of God is here and now. The time of fulfillment is at hand. How might our lives be different if we more fully shared this sense of the immediacy of God’s kingdom?                                                                              

Mark 1:14-20

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.