John the Baptist did what God wanted him to do – he prepared the way for Jesus. But John never lived to see the results.
God’s plans for this world are greater than our minds can grasp. God’s dream is a big dream and it includes all of creation. There will come a time when there is peace, wholeness, truth and love. But I doubt any of us will live to see it. Do we throw our hands up in the air and give up? Do we just try to get what we can out of life what we can? Are we willing to invest ourselves in God’s work that we will never live to see finished? Are we willing to bring a tiny bit more peace, more love, more truth to this world?
This Advent season calls each of us to reflect on our own lives and times that we may have failed in following the Lord. As a reminder, the sacrament of Reconciliation is celebrated every Saturday at 11 AM here at Church. This upcoming week, the Saginaw area Catholic parishes will also come together and have communal penance services with individual reconciliation:
Sunday, December 15 at 2:30 PM at St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anthony of Padua Church
Tuesday, December 17 at 7 PM at Christ the Good Shepherd, St. Helen Church
Thursday, December 19 at 7 PM at Holy Spirit in Shields
Have a blessed week,
Fr. Matt
