Community

Community is a blessing. The Most Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is a Community of divine Persons united in one divine Nature. All community, in heaven and on earth ultimately derives from the awesome eternal Communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Aug. 6th is a wonderful opportunity to experience and encounter each other in our community here at St. Luke’s at the parish 2nd Annual Parish Luau!

I know that Fr. Ken is particularly devoted to the Saints. I think many of us have our “go to” to saints for which we have a special love and devotion. The saints are beautiful gifts to us here on earth as models and examples of living out our faith, even during challenging and difficult times. Even the Saints though needed others to help them grow in their union with God. Parents, Religious Orders, Priests, Siblings, these relationships and communities helped Saints develop their own personalities, faith life and relationship with God. There is even the Communion of Saints in heaven that pray for us, Wayfarers journeying toward our heavenly homeland, and we ourselves who pray for those souls await full communion with God and all the saints in heaven.

Praise God for the gift of community in Jesus Christ! Praise God for the gift of freedom to gather together as a local Church body to worship our Lord!

As we take the “deep breath before the plunge” of the upcoming school year, perhaps we could ask the intercession of some of our own beloved saints and the whole Communion of Saints to pray for a blessed upcoming school year. Perhaps we can also thank our Triune God for establishing His Church so that we could be in loving communion with each other in and through Communion with His divine Son, Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Eucharist.

God bless,
Fr. Ryan