-Last Sunday's homily is available
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at www.usccb.org/readings
-check out this weeks LinC letter at www.parishLinCLetter.blogspot.com
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 9:30am on Sunday
What's the difference between personal prayer and private prayer?
Are we ever "in private"? I know we hear a lot of talking in our society about a "right to privacy" but in our Catholic spirituality there is no understanding of private. Having been joined to the body of Christ, incorporated. through baptism we are "never alone".
In fact, it has often been said that the hymn Amazing Grace is not really a good Catholic hymn. It is a song sung in the first person, I, it's all about "me" and what God has done for me. Catholic hymns are sung as a "we". We are never a catholic alone. That's communion theology, right.
We are celebrating our adoration chapel's 10th anniversary of dedication this weekend and the call of Jesus to "come apart by yourselves" may cause us to be rededicated to personal prayer before the Blessed Sacrament as participants in the prayer of Christ, as his body in which we exist.
