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Join us for two great talks by two great speakers to inspire you with purpose and equip you for mission.

Today we hear in the Gospel reading Jesus teach his disciples how to pray through the Our Father. It is considered the perfect prayer, but have you ever considered praying it not just praying the words but slowing down and praying each word/phrase with intentionality allowing the words to bring your own heart closer to God and allowing them to teach us the way we ought to pray. The following is a brief prayerful reflection on each word/phrase in the Our Father, but I would encourage you to go deeper in reflecting on these words by reading the Catechism’s (2759-2865) breakdown of this important prayer.

Whenever another driver zoomed by my father on the road, only to stop at the red light ahead of us, Dad would say, “Yeah buddy, hurry up and wait.” His voice often echoes in my head when impatient drivers cut me off. But when we consider our lives as a whole, there are times to hurry up and there are times to wait. Wisdom helps us decide when each is appropriate. And both of them are on clear display in today’s readings.

Join us as we get Back to Mission. We will have two talks to help us get back to our call as Catholics to “Go” out.

If you looked up the word neighbor in the dictionary, the first definition is obvious: a neighbor is one who lives near another. It could be your next-door neighbor. But I really liked the next two definitions of a neighbor: one is a neighbor who is a fellow human being, and the other definition is one who shows kindness and helps another person who is in need.

St. John Paul II spoke these words in a homily while visiting the United States in 1995, and they always come to mind every July 4th for me. We live in a world that tells us to do whatever you want: “You do you!” But that is not what we truly celebrate every year on July 4th; that is not what the Founding Fathers did when they signed the Declaration of Independence. They signed it out of a sense doing what they ought to do for the sake of the people of the 13 colonies. But we can take these words of JPII to a deeper level if we desire to be disciples of Jesus. We all struggle to do what we ought to instead of just doing what we want, but I would argue that despite how difficult that can be at times, it is the bare minimum of what we are called to do as disciples. And if we only remain at that base level, we are missing out on what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and a Catholic.

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