In the last several weeks, we have heard a lot about vineyards in our readings in our Sunday Masses. As we just celebrated the feast day of St Francis of Assisi this past week, we can reflect upon the way we live in the vineyard of God’s creation here on earth, called to be good stewards of the resources and gifts that we have been given. We also celebrate several feast days this upcoming week that help us reflect upon our faith in different ways. Tuesday, we celebrate St Daniel Comboni, a priest from Italy in the 19th century who had a dream of evangelizing Africa with Christ’s Good News. I served with the religious order that he founded, the Comboni Missionaries, as a lay missionary in Ecuador. Wednesday, we celebrate the feast day of John XXIII, who served as Pope from 1958 to 1963. He called the Second Vatican Council, which called for the Church to help transform our modern world, but to also to return to our apostolic traditions. Finally, we celebrate Our Lady of the Pillar on Thursday, the first apparition of the Blessed Mother, which took place in Zaragoza, Spain in the first century, when she appeared to the Apostle James to encourage him in his missionary work. These feast days celebrate a dedicated missionary, a 20th century Pope, and the Blessed Mother, celebrating three wonderful aspects of our Catholic faith. May we grow in our appreciation of the richness and diversity of our Catholic faith. May these different aspects of our Catholic faith help us on our journey. Father Lincoln.
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