As we move through the summer months with more quality time opportunities with family and friends we are reminded that life is relational and God is family. Conscious of not being consumed in consumerism nor possessed by our possessions we are invited to realize that it is good, loving relationships that make for a healthy and happy life. All of us are called to cultivate and deepen the garden of our own interior lives through prayer, Eucharist, and humble service to others. Our first and foremost relationship with Christ connects to the importance of forming good loving relationships with people making for the way we treat people is the way we treat Christ. To show our gratitude and appreciation for those we live with and work with brings us home to the awareness that all is gift from God and we are all in the family of God. AG may stand for silver, but Appreciation and Gratitude are on God's gold standard. By showing our gratitude to God and our appreciation for people in our lives, our good relationships make for a good life.
Fr. Dennis
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Good Relationships Make for a Good Life
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8 comments:
Fr. Dennis,
Great idea about spending more quality time with friends and family in the summer. Is St Denis going to offer any family activities in July and August? Mike S
Hi Mike,
We do have a great week of Vacation Bible School planned next week July 14-18 in our Parish Hall for children. I understand we have over 100 kids coming. It should be fun. Don't forget too our sessions on St. Paul on Tuesday evenings and Wednesday mornings! Everyone is welcome!
Fr Dennis
Hi Fr. Dennis! It's Kassandra. I was just checking out the website and I found your blog. Going online is a good move, maybe more people will get involved. =D
BTW, we missed you at the 5:30 mass yesterday, haha. See you this weekend (I guess?)
~K
Hi Father Dennis - I really enjoyed your talk on St. Paul. You are always succinct and go to the heart of the lessons we should take from the readings. I also enjoyed your blog and agree that our relationships with family and friends need to be nurtured. - Susan K.
Hi Father Dennis,
This is cool.. I can always comminicate with you!! Thank you for your guidance and support in our spiritual life.
We love you!! and God bless...
Yenny and John Ang
Hi Fr. Dennis! Hopefully you'll have time to answer my question, although it's quite a long and complicated one.
I've always wondered about the modern day clergy's opinion of the ideas from the era of Enlightenment back in the 17th and 18th centuries. I am reading "Candide" by Voltaire, who was a French philosophe, and his work was heavily steeped in abhorrence of Catholicism due to the often hypocritical treatment the clergy doled out to alleged heretics. He and many other radical thinkers at the time branched out into all sorts of beliefs because of the mayhem, primarily into Deism and Atheism.
This is very interesting to me because in history, the Catholic church in Europe had been quite backward. For example, the practice of the "auto-da-fe," which was a ceremony that involved the flogging and general torture/execution of supposed heretics.
Obviously the Church has changed, but I've never really heard a member of the clergy's opinion on this subject.
(BTW, sorry about the history lesson this has turned out to be ;D)
Anyway, I don't mind if you decline to answer, I just thought I'd throw that out there for the sake of livening up your blog.
Now that I think of it, this would have been a very interesting question to ask Father Lucio too, knowing his tendency to be very outspoken on certain things, hehe.
Fr. Dennis,
I would like to forward some of the information on St. Denis web site to other emails. Is it possible to install a forward on all the information you have on St. Denis site?
Thank you for being a priest.
God Bless,
Roger
Fr Dennis,
We love your sermons with details of your growing up in So Cal. Can we hear more via this blog?
We would especially like to hear about surfing and how you came to become a priest.
Mike
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