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Message from Our Associated Pastor
Fr. Renzo Rosales, S.J.
The year progresses and we see how different experiences give us material to reflect, pray, and invite us to action at a personal, family, parish, community, and global levels.
We have seen that we ended the month of July with the celebration of the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, the religious order to which the priests who serve in our two parish communities of St. Patrick and Our Lady of Guadalupe belong. For this reason, our parish community hosted a series of formation activities to make known some elements of the spiritual legacy that God has given to the church and the world through St. Ignatius.
We are grateful, on the one hand, for the collaboration of our visiting Jesuit, Fr. Phil Cooke, who has been sharing with the community his knowledge of Ignatian spirituality. And, on the other hand, we congratulate the parishioners who took advantage of this offer of training and interior growth.
This spirituality, which is based on an attitude of attentive observation of reality to then discern what God reveals to us and what God invites us to do through it, must serve as an animator of our experience of faith. That is why, in this month of August, let us take advantage of the legacy of this spirituality by being especially attentive to what God is saying to us through everyday events (from the appreciation of the sun at dawn, the sound of the voice or the treatment of loved ones, the images of those who suffer violence and injustice here and in other parts of the world, etc.).
If we ensure a space of inner silence and pay attention, on the one hand, to the feelings that these events provoke in us. (joy or sadness, hope or grief, encouragement or demotivation) and then we notice, on the other hand, where the feelings experienced lead me (increase of faith, hope or love, or rather the opposite), we will be opening ourselves to the experience of Ignatian discernment.
Fr Renzo.
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