Dear Parishioners,
Our Gospel today is often read at funerals. “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places…” I wonder if people find comfort in this saying from Jesus because they think their deceased loved one was unique and didn’t fit the standard mold. Jesus’ words indicate that people of all different flavors will find a place in heaven. Your loved one had some rough spots and difficult qualities? Well, don’t worry, Christ has just the room for him or her. Other translations of the Gospel text say, “In my father’s mansion there are many rooms.”
Dear Parishioners,
Peter does something that many of us, I think, wish we could do. He converts people. He gets them to change.
Dear Parishioners,
A running theme throughout all of the Resurrection appearances is the struggle of the disciples to accept the risen Lord. Saint Peter and the apostles don’t believe the account told them by the women. Saint Thomas doubts. And this Sunday we hear about Cleopas and the other disciple on the road to Emmaus. “Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him,” we read in the Gospel. Why were their eyes prevented from recognizing the Lord?
Father James Wallace grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and attended Sts. Faith Hope and Charity grammar school, New Trier High School, and then The George Washington University in Washington DC, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science in 2007. He attended seminary at The Pontifical North American College in Rome and was ordained a priest in 2012 for the Archdiocese of Chicago. In addition to being the pastor of Saint Paul of the Cross Parish, he serves as a canon lawyer for the Archdiocese, a dean in Vicariate II, and a professor of canon law and spiritual director at Mundelein Seminary. He is also one of the featured Mercy Home Sunday Mass celebrants, airing Sundays at 9:30am on WGN.
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