WCF Ends 30th School Year June 2009
The truth-seeking women who attend Women’s Christian Fellowship’s weekly Bible Study with charismatic prayer and praise to Our Wonderful Savior Jesus Christ are triply blessed. Not only do we experience the faith-filled attentiveness of our Teaching Leader Angie Lake, but we are shepherded weekly by 24 compassionate small group leaders who guide us through the sharing of our answers to our study. The third blessing is the clergy and lay speakers who enrich our lives by their Holy Spirit-inspired talks and prayer support.
We were blessed to have our Spiritual Director, Father Michael Barry SS.CC. , celebrate a Healing Mass, April 2, 2009 with the homily centered on the theme “Letting God Transform Defining Moments of Crisis into Healing.” He taught the standing room only congregation that these defining moments in our lives can pull us away from God or draw us closer. These moments are a call on our lives to change and can afford a closer intimacy with the Lord because there has been a “crucifixion” of a kind that wounds us.
A defining moment can come quickly as a realization. Father’s humorous illustration of this was when he announced to his father that he was going to quit school at 17. His father decided that his dropout son would then be an electrician who would rise 30 minutes earlier than normal, don overalls and carry a hammer, ladder and screwdriver. Father’s realization came quickly – school was easier, and a wrong vocation was avoided through the teaching of a wise dad.
Father Mike also described the defining moments of St. Paul who converted to Christianity after a bout with blindness. In Deuteronomy 21:22-23 we read …” anyone who is hung on a tree is a curse of God. “The defining moment of Jesus’ crucifixion as a curse upon Him is embraced as our saving symbol!
Defining moments cause you to let go of something, to forgive and to move you to deeper prayer and more scripture reading. Father Mike had us examine our thoughts – do we think we are created for our own happiness? Do we say to ourselves “I’m a good person,” yet we neglect our prayer s and our Bible? We can curse the darkness and light a candle or BE the candle.
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