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Today's Readings
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Reading 1 Hos 14:2-10Responsorial Psalm 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14 and 17Gospel Mt 10:16-23
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Welcome to Adult Faith Formation!
Adult Faith Formation is a chance for us to live out our Mission Statement: “to come to personally know Jesus, becoming His disciples who live as He lives, bearing the sufferings of daily living, showing mercy, and lovingly putting others' needs before our own…as a joyful, welcoming Eucharistic community so that we might give witness to His resurrection.”
We do this by participating in opportunities for discipleship, ongoing catechesis, and prayer using all the tools the Church provides.
“Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture make up a single sacred deposit of the Word of God, in which, as in a mirror, the pilgrim Church contemplates God, the source of all her riches. The Church, in her doctrine, life, and worship, perpetuates and transmits to every generation all that she herself is, all that she believes.” (CCC 97-98)
Come join us!
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Beyond the Walls - An Interactive Class on Catholic Social Teaching
Join us for an interactive series on Catholic Social Teaching beginning July 16th in the All Saints Parish Hall! Our session will be from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Each session will feature two different themes of Catholic Social Teaching and time for discussion with your fellow parishioners regarding the topic.
If you feel like in an ever-changing world, you need a voice of reason & Catholic worldview, come together and explore what the church says about these topics!
Come to one or come to all, starting July 16th! Due to restrictions on group size, we cannot have more than 45 people attend live so please register below. These sessions will also be available via Zoom! -
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Try a New Form of Prayer Today! Visio Divina
Take some time to pray and reflect with Rembrandt's painting Return of the Prodigal Son.
Visio Divina may sound familiar! It follows similar steps to lectio divina which is used to pray with scripture while visio divina is instead used with art.
The steps of visio divina are provided below, which can also be used for any other form of religious art to help you enter into prayer. Also provided are some specific reflection questions for this piece.
Steps of Visio Divina:
These can be used for any piece of art. To do on your own or with others. It works well to journal with this form of prayer if you would like.
Step One: Place yourself in a quiet place with limited distractions. Relax. Open your heart and mind to God.
Step Two: A first look: what do you see? What are the basic elements of the scene?
Step Three: A second look: Look closer at what your eye is drawn to, use the questions below if you’d like. Question the image.
Step Four: Prayer: Reflect on what you see and what you feel. Try to respond to God with these thoughts and questions. Ask what the Spirit is revealing in this image. Feel free to journal some thoughts if you wish.
Step Five: Response: Feel free to journal some final thoughts on this experience of prayer. Spend time contemplating how you feel called to respond within your life to this image and time of prayer. This can also be a time to share your experience with others around you.
Questions for Reflection on Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son
1. To where is your eye immediately drawn? And then where does your eye roam?
2. Draw yourself back to the embrace of the father and the son. What emotions do you see in these two?
3. Look at the rest of the scene. Look at the reactions of the others in the room. Observe the older brother. What do you envision his emotions to be in this moment?
4. Looking at the three main characters of the parable, how do you feel about each one of them? Does one speak to you more than the others? Reflect on this. Is there a reason why?
5. What elements of the piece stand out to you? Here are some to consider: the hands of the father, the feet of the son, the son’s head resting against the father’s heart, the face of the father. Reflect on those that strike you.
6. Now take the time to read the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32). Look back at the image and reflect what has been illustrated to you in a new way through this time of prayer and meditation.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) (NABRE)
Then he said, “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between them.
After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation.
When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need.
So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine.
And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.
Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger.
I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.”’
So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.
His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’
But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast,
because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ Then the celebration began.
Now the older son had been out in the field and, on his way back, as he neared the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing.
He called one of the servants and asked what this might mean.
The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has returned and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’
He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and pleaded with him.
He said to his father in reply, ‘Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders; yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends.
But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’
He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours.
But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’