“Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”

The last time I was in the holy land, back in 2019, we were visiting the famous Church of the Beatitudes on top of Mount Erebus overlooking the Sea of Galilee. I noticed that our tour guide, Gabriel, was on his cell phone and had a worried look on his face. One of these storms or squalls was blowing up through the Jordan River Valley and bringing with itself some severe weather: the said it was it a “hurricane,” but really it was in fact one of these violent, localized lake micro-bursts, as we would call it. We had to quickly rearrange our schedule, as it was impossible for us to go out on the lake in a boat that evening.

With this in mind, it was very surprising that those first disciples took Jesus with them into their boat just as He asked. Although there was no doubt a storm brewing, they set out across the lake, as he had asked them. While they were together on the lake, the storm came upon the boats and the waves were breaking over the boat and Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion, not too concerned.

There are many squalls and storms in life. Like all of His disciples, Jesus has everything under control.

Jesus wants time alone with you and me. Do you take time to be alone with Jesus? Jesus wants you to know Him better.

Jesus wants you to know His Peace, His Love and His Mercy for you, in each and in every detail your being, even your fears.

Storms Are Part of Life
We have been through storms these past few years, especially with the terrible pandemic, and now we are again in an uncertain time, politically in an election year.

Regardless of this, we are now rebuilding our ministries and we warmly invite you to take part in this mission of our parish. We are all in this same boat with Jesus. He is not worried. Everything is under His control. He is with us and leads us and inspires us to know, love and serve Him.

There’s nothing to fear from serving the Lord.

Pray that God makes you overcome your fears and open your heart to give of your precious time to serve The Lord.

We are on a voyage, a great faith journey with the Lord. There is much good work to do in our parish and in our world.

We have to learn from today’s scriptures to overcome our fears and to trust in God. Yes, it takes some courage and confidence, but we will do it. We have divine help. St. Paul says:

“We are in Christ, we are a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.”
We thank God for His presence in our lives, and ask for the eyes of faith to see that He is right here with us always.
“Let us cross to the other side.” In the boat of Peter, with the Jesus Christ, we are not perishing, we are all crossing to the other side, to the Kingdom of God.

We celebrate the Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist on Monday and then Saturday, June 29th, is the Solemnity of Saints Pater and Paul.

Fr. Kilian, our Deacons and Seminarian and Parish Staff, Disciples and Volunteers.

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