GROW AS A DISCIPLE What struck me when I first read this passage from the Book of Genesis, in which the Lord speaks to Abraham, is God’s proclamation that it is through his will and his work that the blessings and goodness of Abraham’s future will come about. It is not a vague statement, in…
Fasting, Explained The practice of fasting predates Christianity. The Old Testament is full of examples of righteous men and women mortifying their flesh for the purpose of making atonement or simply to grow closer to God. Jesus himself fasted for forty days and forty nights in preparation for the beginning of his public ministry, and…
GROW AS A DISCIPLE Although we’re at the very beginning of Lent, today’s first reading from Genesis prepares us for words we will hear on the night of the Easter Vigil: “O truly necessary sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! 0 happy fault that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer!”…
If you would like to donate a dessert for the upcoming Parish Fish Fry dinners during Lent, they can be dropped off at the Activities Center on Fridays between 2 – 4pm starting February 20th through March 27th. Volunteers will be there to start cutting, plating and covering individual portions. This is a suggested time…
We will be collecting signatures and monetary donations again this year to place an ad for St. Geneveive-St. Maurice in the 2026 Right to Life – LIFESPAN Resource Book. Last year: from the generosity of our parishioners, we were able to place an ad on the back cover of the Resource Book! We hope to…
GROW AS A DISCIPLE My understanding of prayer changed when I read St. Teresa of Calcutta’s statement that says, “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.” Prayer is not an incantation that can change the will of God. It is the act…
A vocation or calling refers to a spiritual experience whereby a person senses within oneself the closeness of God and what he is asking in one’s life. It is a realization of what one’s part in God’s plan could be. Vocation comes in all kinds of ways. Some are as dramatic as St. Paul’s, being…