Censings

TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME June 20, 2015 Church of the Beloved, Northglenn, Colorado Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Job 38:1; 8-11 Psalm 107:23-26; 28-31 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 Mark 4:35-41        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.        For those of you who don’t know me, I am the Pastor of Saint Cecilia Catholic Community in Palm Springs, California, a place with triple-digit temperatures, very little rain, and no snow, ever. We’re a very new congregation. We started on April twelfth of this year, and we’re getting about twelve people at Sunday morning Mass.   I can identify with Jesus in this story. Why? God wanted Jesus to be like us, becoming flesh in the person of Jesus. God’s intentional act was to be among us as one of us, to be a part of us, to feel the same things we do.  Like Jesus, I have pastoral responsibilities for a new community of about a dozen people. Being a pastor, I assure you, is not a glamour job. On

FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI June 07, 2015 St. Cecilia Catholic Community Rev. Dcn. David Justin Lynch Exodus 16:2-15;31-34. Psalm: 105:23-24;37-42 Cor: 10:16-17. Gospel: John 6:41-56 + In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. A few years ago, right here in Palm Springs, I had an encounter with a sidewalk  evangelist who saw the cross on my shirt-collar and asked if I was a Christian. I said “Yes”. He then asked me, “Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus?” I responded “I sure do. I eat His Body and drink His Blood every Sunday at Mass. How much more personal can you get?” He then proceeded to call me a cannibal and to tell me I was surely going to suffer in the next life for talking about Jesus that way. What became very obvious to me was that this young man had a very different idea about what happens at Mass than I did. The  Real  Presence  of  Jesus  in  the  Bread  and  Wine in the Eucharist  has  always been controversial, beg