Sing "All Praises Be To Mary our Blessed and Holy Mother!
Father Patrick Francis O' Doherty reminds us quite often of this truth, " Heaven Is Not A Place, Heaven Is A Person", and that person is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
One of our beloved parishioners whose name is Mark, randomly cantors for us before we receive the Holy Eucharist at daily mass. Just today he looked up at the stain glass that read Ave Maria, " and said to my spouse, If it weren't for our Blessed Mother Mary, there never would have been Jesus". Our lives without Mary, without her Son, would have been so lonely, difficult, confusing, I can go on and on. Instead, we are shown Mary's love for her son, and what a powerful legacy and remembrance she gave us. We have her Son to turn to and now more than ever rely upon during our life time.
Mary is very much alive today, in our hearts, in our prayers, in our walk towards her Son. It is He and only He that can save our soul. Never dismiss this truth given to us directly from Jesus, from the Old testament, the New testament, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, The Liturgy of The Hours, we have at our fingertips the answers, all truths given to us directly from Christ, His Apostles, All The Saints, and we have an obligation to step up as we are next in line to serve as they served for over two thousand years and Christianity has and will continue to save souls from the evil entering into the hearts of man and woman.
