Who are you connected to ?

The last couple of weeks have been rewarding in our parish community;we have been looking at Being Connected. Week # 1 we asked What are you connected to : The Prophet Ezekiel - in a watchtower - taught us that we need in our daily walk with God to honour Him by being connected; not just running to Him when the winds come; but letting Him walk with us and we walk with Him. The Letter to the Romans as our template told us that love is the motivating factor for our walk, and that when we gather as two or three in the name of Jesus, it helps us to be focused and finessed in Seeing the Face of God...after all .....that is what we are connected to.

Week # 2 we asked Who are you connected to: We reflected on the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross and reminded that we live in a pressurized society, and that trying to muddle through life on your own is tough - we are going to get blown back and forth every day by the winds of life. We all need a place to belong, we all need a place to share our burdens and to be connected.

Having something for everyone, is not a slogan we have, it is who we are called to be - a people connected to God and to one another. Our relationship with each other has a lot to do with our relationship with God. So we walk seeking to see the face of God...with one another, and thru one another...connected to Christ.

This coming Sunday we ask a vital question atop of the important questions we have looked at already - we ask - WHY BE CONNECTED. We are spending this time doing this because it gives us a chance to re think where we are, and ask if we need to take our walk with Christ to a new level of being connected. Come join us in our journey.

New Year: Getting Connected

In many ways the return of yellow school buses to our streets marks the "unofficial" end of summer - it really is a sort of whole new season - one might even say "New Year". September brings with it not only an upswing in traffic, but also an upswing in activity; it is the start of so many things, and certainly that is the case even in our parish community. We start a "new year" of offering opportunities for everyone to grow in the path of Discipleship; our goal continues to be as a family of faith to be a place with something for everyone.

Our CWL is getting ready for its annual Corn Roast, our Mother's Morning Out is starting to meet, our four Celebrating the Word small groups are gearing up for another year together, our Wize Guys are hungering for their annual bar b q, our Kids Klub is set for Kids Kaos, Da Crew is looking forward to highschoolers mini golf and go karting, our children are eager to get see our Children's Liturgy and Iwannago underway and our young adults are set for the start of Catholic Cafe.

This weekend we began on the theme of Getting Connected and asking three important question over the next three weekends; What are you connected to? Who are you connected to? and Why be connected ? We ask these questions as we have been hearing in the news the names Gustav, Hannah and Ike. The news this week has been the Hurricanes, Tropical Storms and hazardous weather. While the rain has been heavy, the flooding been extreme - most people agree that it not any of these, which caused the problems, it is actually the wind, which has caused the problem.

The busyness of the Fall can be a wind of sorts. It can blow us in all sorts of directions if we are not grounded or connected to something. Getting Connected really is important because otherwise when the wind comes - the winds of busyness and daily demands and even stress, you get blown in every direction.

I will keep you posted on how our series of reflections go. Til then…consider getting connected - our Family of Faith is a good place to start - consider joining us at the "getting connected place"...there is something for everyone