Pentecost Sunday - Solemnity | Bulletin of June 08, 2025 Word from the Pastor

My Dear Family of Our Lady of Lourdes,

Happy Birthday!
Pentecost is celebrated as the birthday of the Church. We, the Body of Christ, have been confirmed in His Spirit. We have been joined to Christ and His Apostles, and we go out to the world for Christ, not alone, but together.

For that reason, Pentecost Sunday is when we have our Ministry Fair in Our Lady of Lourdes Hall. You will find a brief description of the work of all our parish groups and ministries in our new Ministry Guide which is being distributed at all Masses this weekend. There, too, you will find contact information should you wish to follow up with or to join a particular ministry. Please take one home and review the various ministries of the parish to help discern your call for the coming year. The Ministry Guide can also be found on our website.

I will be leaving for Lourdes for the 8th Annual Archdiocese of Miami Pilgrimage to Lourdes next week, so I want to draw our attention to the upcoming Solemnity of Corpus Christi as well. This day invites us to enter more deeply into Christ’s gift of Himself for our salvation and His continuing presence with us through and in the Eucharist. At the Last Supper, our Lord established the Eucharist as the saving memorial of His Passion. Nourishing the faithful by this sacred mystery He makes us holy, filling us with His life-giving presence.

The celebration of Sunday Mass, then, is the source and summit of our life in Christ. Here He makes us one with Him and with each other as we experience even now the fruits of our salvation, a taste of the peace and joy of heaven. We extend and deepen this intimate union through Eucharistic Adoration. Adoration of our Lord during our Holy Hours strengthens our unity and confirms us in faith. There we find the courage to trust the Lord’s love for us and to allow Him to mold us and the way we live.

This beautiful feast, then, is when we focus on that pillar of life here at Our Lady of Lourdes that is Perpetual Adoration. I invite each and every one of us to renew our yearly commitment to the Holy Hour. If you have not already, please choose a day and time to come each week for an hour to the Blessed Sacrament and pray for our parish family. To have the chance to enter into Christ through His Body and Blood, at Mass and in Adoration, is a supreme blessing. Let us embrace and celebrate this gift with a grateful and faithful heart.

Msgr. Schwanger
Pastor

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