YOU are a GEM! You are God’s Emerging Masterpiece! God has made us eternally beautiful and valuable in His Kingdom. Like rough gems found in the rock and mire of the earth, we are cut and polished to be brilliant jewels, royal diadems of the Lord, Isaiah 62:3. As a parish, “like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house” 1 Peter 2:5.
Just as Jesus rose from the dead, body and soul, our human body is integral to the Masterpiece of God’s creation, always to be treated with dignity and respect. With the communion of saints, our bodies are living temples of the Holy Spirit and will be glorified by Christ on the Last Day. God continues to bestow powerful graces upon the faithful through the relics of His Saints.
Sacred Scripture is clear that God works miracles through the remains of His saints and that it is praiseworthy to venerate them: As soon as the (dead) man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood on his feet” 2 Kings 13:21; That they might only touch them hem of His (Jesus’) garment and as many as touched it were made well” Matt 14:36, Mark 6:56; The bleeding woman touc hed the fringe of Jesus’ garment and was healed, Luke 8:42-48; “God did extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.” Acts 19:11-12.
St. Columbkille’s VISION 2012 identifies our present ministry goals, objectives and leading parishioners. By your stewardship of time, talent and treasure, the radiant light of God’s Love shines through YOU. Be the GEM you are called to be!
Sing with me, “O when the Saints go marching in. O when the Saints go marching in! Lord, how I want to be in that number, when the Saints go marching in!”
God Bless your family,
Father Gabriel Anderson
