The most obvious example is a person who is in love. When given the chance and the proper setting, the lover cannont stop talking about the beloved. One notes a similar dynamic with parents and their children or even rabid fans of a particular sports team. Someone sho cares deeply about something or someone speaks from the heart with an energizing passion.
I have spent the past three and a half years of my life studying how Mary helps Christians enter more deeply into the mystery of her Son, Jesus Christ. I have taken 84 graduate credits during this period of time at the International Marian Research Institute and invested a considerable amount of my time studying the original Greek text of the New Testament in order to gain greater understanding of how Jesus came to us through Mary and how she is our model for loving and following HIM. Bishop Doherty was kind enough to give me no significant pastoral duties for one of these years so that I could focus single-heartedly on these studies. I have worked with and under scholars from five continents including, monks, nuns, priests, married men, career women and housewives. I can think of nothing about which I am more passionate that sharing with others how contemplating Mary can help us to know and love her Divine Son more and see how to come into a deeper relationship with the Blessed Trinity.
While my passion for Jesus and Mary is always present when I preach, I feel as if a ten to fifteen minute homily does not give me a canvas of sufficient size on which to depict the scope of the spiritual vision that I have received in these past three and a half years. I long for the chance and the proper setting to share the fruit of my labor with you. This parish mission presents an ideal way for you to receive the best of me in an easily digestible and fun way. I have already been working very hard on preparing everything we will need on March 11, 12 and 13 at 6:30 pm at Holy Family. Trusting in God's providence, I am convinced that this mission will be a very powerful way for us to experience God's healing love. Come with your bibles and bring a friend. Childcare will be provided.