Dear Parishioners,
A very kind parishioner forwarded the following
and I thought I would share it with you!
WHY GO TO CHURCH?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper
and complained that it made no sense to go to
church every Sunday.
"I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I
have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the
life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So I
think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting
theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor"
column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on
for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
“I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife
has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I
cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those
meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and
gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife
had not given me these meals, I would be physically
dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for
nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
When you are DOWN to nothing .... God is UP to something!
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible
and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical
AND our spiritual nourishment! !!
Easter Blessings
Fr. Jan
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