Blog - June 2024

June 30, 2024: "All the sickness and disease in the world, the scourge of death — this was not how God intended his creation. Death only entered our world because of human sin. But God made us for life, God made us for love! This is what Jesus is showing us today. By his death on the cross, Jesus destroyed the power of death so we don’t have to be afraid of death."

June 22, 2024: "St. Josemaría was always looking for new opportunities to explain the Gospel, and new ways to bring people to Jesus. In a sense, he was like St. Paul, I was thinking. St. Paul said, 'I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.'"

June 16, 2024: "The Church started as a tiny seed, a tender shoot — it was just the twelve apostles and Jesus’ mother Mary in the upper room in Jerusalem. And God sent his Holy Spirit upon them and filled them with grace and power and sent them out to the ends of the earth to spread the good news of his love. No one would have ever believed that from this tiny “seed,” the Church would grow and become a great tree of love with branches that extend to every corner of the world."

June 8, 2024: "Brothers, each of you is being called to a life of friendship with the living God. And each of you is being called today to a life of service in persona Christi Servi, “in the person of Christ the Servant.” By your ordination, you are being called to a relationship with Jesus that is rare and beautiful, and only a few are entrusted to share it."

June 2, 2024: "The Eucharist is the great gift that Jesus left for us, on the night before he died. Jesus leaves us the Eucharist as a sign of his love, the sign of his love for each one of us, as the sign of his desire to share his divine life in tender friendship with each one of us."

June 1, 2024: "Jesus calls you his friends today, because he has told you everything that the Father told him. He is entrusting to you, his words of eternal life."