Pastor's Reflections

Dear St. Mary Parishioners,

As we celebrate this Feast of Christ, King of the Universe which is the last week of the Liturgical Calendar, we always use this as an opportunity to reflect upon how we have let Christ be the King and Center and Source of our Life in this past year. Have we followed His inspirations and daily callings?

As we prepare for Advent, which begins next weekend, we also prepare for Christ's second coming where He will be our judge but more currently and importantly, we prepare ourselves to receive Him in all the ways and times that He comes to us. And so, in these next 5 weeks before Christmas, we truly open ourselves to God and invite Christ who is King to rule our lives because we are ready for Him to lead and form us.

We are ready for Him to come! Now while that may not be completely true or something we are completely comfortable with, that is what we must prepare ourselves to be ready for. In the next 5 weeks, even if it makes you uncomfortable, make that your prayer otherwise, we are not getting ourselves ready for His second coming nor for Christmas.

I invite you O Christ who is King to rule my life because I am ready for you to lead and form me. I am ready for you to come.

Fr. Sonnier