Impact Issues
2025
June:
In June, we celebrate the fullness of the mystery of God through pivotal feasts and solemnities: the Ascension of the Lord, Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Each invites us to focus on who God is and who we are called to be as God’s people. This month’s issue of Impact includes a reflection on the Holy Spirit, ever-present and yet often-hard-to-understand as well as one on the Body of Christ. I pray this month in a particular way for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon you and all in your community as you grow in communion with Christ and one another.
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May:
May 2025 As is always the case during Easter, we ponder readings from the Acts of the Apostles each Sunday of the season. In a moment in which many people are weighed down by the effects of scandal and polarization in the Church and the growing secularization and pressure to leave active practice of the faith behind, the stories of the early communities of believers may rouse our commitments to be Church in our time. The Easter season is a perfect time to reflect on the incredible love of God and our call to steward the love and hope we have in Christ. May the Lord’s peace and love be with you and all in your community.
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April:
We enter into April with hearts that are full — filled with the grace of God, which we have witnessed and experienced in the season of Lent, and which now leads us to ponder the fullness of Christ’s Paschal Mystery in the sacred Triduum and the Easter season to come. In order to bring faith to life this month, we must hear the story again, for the first time. May we hear the Good News of the passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord, invite the Holy Spirit to dispel any doubts we may have, and bring peace to our lives and world. May you and all in your community be filled with grace and peace in this holy season.
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March:
As we enter into Lent, we invite people to make the season one that will have lasting impact on their life and faith. We place ourselves alongside Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem, and take up the practices of prayer, fasting, and sharing with renewed commitment. We pray you and your people find meaning at the foot of the cross in this holy season within the Jubilee Year 2025.
A pastoral note about Impact this March and April: since Easter falls in the middle of April, the March issue focuses on Lent, while the April issue will focus on Triduum and Easter joy.
February:
This month, we focus on the grace of God who is always with us, in times when we must wait for something, in times when we are called to share hope, in times when we are mindful of the call to live as Christ’s people in the world. May you and your people find hope and strength in God’s grace in all of the circumstances of your life as individuals and in community.
January:
Blessings in this new year of our Lord 2025! As we begin this year, we reflect on the difference in our lives that might be experienced in living each day with the commitment to make this the “year of our Lord,” entrusting our hearts and lives to the Lord. With this commitment, we vow to “do whatever he tells us,” and to share love and care as a sign of Christ’s love for all. As we enter into a Jubilee year, may we place our hope in the Lord!
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- December:
We begin a new liturgical year and enter into the season of Advent this month. Many of our parishioners, and perhaps we ourselves, will find it difficult to focus on the waiting and anticipation of the season in the midst of the shopping, social gatherings, and celebration preparations that consume much of our attention during December. This month’s issue of Impact reminds us of the incredible Good News of the incarnation and our call to share Christ’s light and love as good stewards who pray, serve, and share. Page 1 of Impact focuses on Advent; page 2 on Christmas. May your Advent be richly blessed with God’s grace and goodness.
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