Week of October 2, 2011

Greetings from the Pastor

Twenty-Seventh Sunday In Ordinary Time:
God’s Tenants

Today we gather together to celebrate the Mass for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time and the first
reading is from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah. The results of all that was being down was ruined. Sometimes that happens to us as followers of Christ, is that nothing good happens and we wonder why. We need to make changes in our way of life and we are given all kinds of hints. At many occasions we have to be brought up short so that we will reform our lives. The rules are there and we are asked to follow them. When we don’t, there are reminders to us that change is necessary. If we change, then we will be happier people.

In his letters to the Philippians, Paul exhorts the people to be at peace, have no anxiety. Rely on prayers and petitions to make your needs known to God. Then the peace of God, which is beyond all understanding, will guide your minds and hearts in Christ Jesus. We are rooted in our belief and there will be comfort in our lives, “Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me.” Then God will be with you.

Our belief in God will always be with us and we will have much consolation and God will be an important part of our lives and not a burden. God is first each day and our lives will have meaning.

On a personal note, I am going to the mainland to witness a wedding of the daughter of a friends of mine. I performed her mother and father’s wedding when I was a weekend assistant in her grandparents parish.

I will leave on Monday night, do the weeding next weekend, then return the following Friday. I’m glad it will be fall weather so I won’t freeze to death. I’m too used to the wonderful weather of Hawaii. Pray for my safe trip and my thanks to each of you. You are very good to me.

–FR DAVE