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O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, Which gained for us so great a Redeemer! The power of this holy night dispels all evil, washes guilt away, restores lost innocence, brings mourners joy. Night truly blessed when heaven is wedded to earth And man is reconciled with God
–liturgy of Holy Saturday

Somehow, original sin, that inner anguish and brokeness that is even beyond our own doing, can become the place where we come in touch with our original blessing. Somehow our broken father, our limited mother, our neurotic brother, our confused sister and our own inner struggle push us and create in us a hunger to go beyond the pain. "My soul is restless," as St. Augustine says, "until it rests in you, O Lord."

When we begin to know intimacy with God and to accept others and ourselves as we are, we then begin to speak about "happy guilt" or "happy brokenness." Our inner struggle is no longer such a burden, but a way to the truth, to the light, to the life. How could we ever become children of God, embraced by the love of the Father, the Son and the Spirit, and be let into the intimacy of the triune life if God hadn't shown compassion with us, as we are? Through Jesus' incarnation we come to know about the inner life of God. It is in our fragile and mortal flesh that God's original blessing is revealed to us.
–Fr. Henri J.M. Nouwen

Again welcome to this mission. You may be attending or thinking about attending a Catholic Mass, or maybe you have considered attending the Catholic RCIA program or this may be your first experience with the Catholic Church, or maybe you have had previous contact with members of the Catholic faith. In any case, you have probably come to this site with some questions about the Catholic Church, its beliefs and the Catholic RCIA.

God always speaks the truth to us. Jesus described himself as "the way, the truth and the life" (John 14: 6-11).  God encourages us to live in His truth through Jesus Christ, within the Trinity. Faith cannot be built upon a false pretense. Faith-seeking is one of the oldest preoccupations of the human mind. We seek to understand as best we can God our Creator and His love for each one of us. At one time or another we all may feel alone. Some of us have been rejected; some of us have rejected another. Some have come against great trials and given up on life altogether.

It is our hope that we can share the Love of Christ with you, because He can help our lives become happier and more meaningful. The peace that Christ can bring when we come to Him for strength in our suffering and our joy can replace every pill ever made, every drink ever drank and every new age psychiatrist that ever lived.

Jesus did not come to condemn you or me; Jesus came as a physician to heal us, to save us.  As we all say together at Mass “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the Word and I shall be healed. All sinners are welcome in God's Church. To know God's love through Jesus is the ability to give Gods love to others. To help others find a special place in this life where one can go to receive unconditional love that only God, through Jesus can give. To find peace, true happiness in good times as well as in bad times. To be taken in by the Most Holy Trinity.

 "We are all in need of our Savior"

The Parable of the Prodigal Son in the Gospel of Luke is familiar to all of us, as we are all in need of our savior. The Prodigal son has the nerve to ask for his inheritance even before his father has died. Then without thought or good Conscience he goes out and spends every last penny on those things that only the world could offer.   Not until he is confronted with hopeless failure and a deep despair, does he yearn to return home, to his fathers embrace. 

Repentant and willing to do anything possible to win back his father's love he begins his journey back home. . . as he approaches his home to his surprise his father comes running towards him with open arms.

He embraces his son, glad that his son has returned home to him, and giving no mind to what he has done or what he has failed to do. Its a breathtaking story of God's mercy for all of us, God's patient grace, and His willingness to welcome each of us home into His loving and forgiving arms forever.

 "For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.


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Why the   Crucifixion?
   
Why did Christ die on the cross?

Scripture says that it was to free us from the bonds of sin, to redeem us (Romans 5:1-11). Sin had created a chasm between us and God that we could never bridge. Mere created beings could not atone for the insult of sin against their Creator. The bond of friendship between people and God could be restored only if God took the initiative. God did that in the Incarnation. By becoming one of us, Jesus Christ brought us God's perfect love.
    But God's love is a threat to evil, and evil always lashes out against it. By becoming human, Jesus made himself vulnerable, liable to suffering and death. Evil attacked Jesus when his enemies decided that he must be killed.
    This would happen in any age. If Jesus came to earth today and went to a troubled spot, asking enemies to love one another, he would quickly be eliminated. Once Jesus became one of us, it was just a matter of time until he would be murdered. He knew and accepted this. He came armed only with love, completely vulnerable to his enemies, "like a lamb led to the slaughter" (Isaiah 53:7).
    Nothing but God's love could save us. Jesus' death on the cross was the greatest act of God's love in the history of the universe, and it brought us salvation. "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15:13). "...God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Thus, "we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son" (Romans 5:10).