Sunday Homily

We are all on a journey. It is important to reflect on where you have been on your journey and see how you are moving toward a relationship with Jesus.

We have been given the grace to get into heaven.  God chose us; God chose you. Grace is the free and undeserved gift we are given of God’s favor and life. We are given grace at our baptism, and it is a lot like a seed. At our baptism we were given grace, God’s very life, and it was placed inside each of us.

God’s power is God’s Love. Nothing can separate you from God’s love. No matter how difficult things may get, how broken life may feel, or how broken you may feel at times, nothing, nothing can separate you from the love of Jesus Christ. This is a perfect example of God’s love, his generosity.

Even though we experience brokenness in our lives, there is good news for those who love God. “We know that all things work for good for those who love God…..

The Holy Spirit Groaning” The Holy Spirit wants to come to the aid of our weakness. Our weakness could refer to the general sense of vulnerability in the conditions of our present age. It also refers to the fact that we can not even imagine the goal to which God is leading us. Hence we do not know what to pray for and we do not know what is the appropriate prayer to make.

God will bring restoration, in spite of our pain and brokenness. Christ has won the victory over death; our suffering has an end. This should not only give us comfort, but a great hope in a God who loves us so much he would share in our suffering so we could live eternally with Him.

Jesus calls us to rest. The ability to step away from the busy world, and to enter into a divine rest, is a blessing that can be yours. Stepping away from the world and trying to figure everything out never works. “For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Give your worries to Jesus and trust in Him.

In Baptism, we are united to Christ and His Church as an accepted and redeemed member of the family of God.

Jesus becomes like us, so we can become like him. We read in the bible that we are created in God’s image. Throughout our life we should be growing, maturing, from God’s image into God’s likeness, and the Son of God, Jesus, makes that possible because he remakes us, recreates us, and leads the way, showing us how to mature through life from God’s image to his likeness.

Message Matters Monday -  Corpus Christi means the Body of Christ, but why do we celebrate one day specifically called Corpus Christi? It is basically a celebration of the fact that the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is present in the bread and wine during the Eucharist, a reenactment of the Last Supper, the final meal that Jesus Christ shared with his disciples. “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever” Episode 6 - June 15, 2020

Corpus Christi means the Body of Christ, but why do we celebrate one day specifically called Corpus Christi? It is basically a celebration of the fact that the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is present in what appears to be bread and wine during the Eucharist, a re-enactment of the Last Supper, the final meal that Jesus Christ shared with his disciples. “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever”

Message Matters Monday Monday, June 8, 2020 - Episode 5 With Fr. Doug Martin and Scott Gulig www.saintmary.life/messagematters/ Saint Mary Catholic Church - Fort Walton Beach, Florida

We begin this new series on Trinity Sunday, as we honor God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  For this message series, we are taking a very close look for five weeks at Jesus, the Son of God. We will take each letter of Jesus’ name and apply it to a message for five weeks. This first week we are looking at the letter J, and our theme is Jesus, the Son of God.

This is week 4 of our homily series More than Words.  Go to our website, https://saintmary.life/messagematters/ to follow along as we break open the word and answer some questions about how what we say reveals our hearts. With Fr. Doug and Amanda Martin Saint Mary Catholic Church - Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit because fire purifies. Fire purifies metals. It kills germs and impurities. The Holy Spirit purifies our hearts. He purifies our souls. When the Holy Spirit came to the first disciples, they were then able to speak in different languages. God was giving the disciples an ability speak in different languages and bring unity of speech because they were filled with God’s spirit and unified with the desire to bring the Gospel to the world. No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.