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Dear friends, I love these summer days. I enjoy seeing people happy, visiting friends and family members and sharing meals together outside. One of the things that I always like to do is to be thankful to God for these days and for our faith.
Wherever I go to share a meal with family and friends, we stop for a second before the meal starts to give thanks to God. The other day I was really impressed with a family from the area, I went to have dinner with some friends at a local restaurant and this father with his children did a prayer before their meal in the restaurant. That really touched me!
This day is a gift from God, that is why we call it the present. We have today to love and to forgive. We have today to become better disciples of Jesus. We can be good and do good things but if we do not have a relationship with the Lord, it is just simple acts of kindness but does not have a transcendence with the Lord.
Acts of kindness are important but most important is our relationship with the Lord. It is through that relationship that we can see others as brothers and sisters and we can offer more than an act of kindness. We can bring them to the feet of the Lord and we will be able to hear the voice from heaven that invites us to listen and to love the Lord: "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him."
Finally, there are a few things that are coming up at St. Anthony's: We will have our first Friars’ Basketball Camp August 7th - 11th, then we will have Vacation Bible Camp August 14th - 18th. The campers are all registered and ready to have some fun at Church. I pray that all of you continue enjoying these beautiful days. With love and appreciation for each one of you, Fr. Carlos
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