As this is our last Tuesday night Mass, I first want to
thank you for your presence at our Tuesday night sacraments. Your faith is an inspiration to me and
to our college and I have looked forward to coming each week to pray and
worship with you. To you seniors I
want to congratulate you on completing your college education and for making
your belief in God the center of your lives.
We
hear the most basic foundation of our faith in the Acts of the Apostles: “Believe in the Lord Jesus and
you and your household will be saved…”
As
you enter summer break—the best time of year during college—I challenge you to
put the pedal to the metal with your faith. Summer can be an amazingly fruitful time to grow in your
relationship with the Lord, but it can also be easy to be lazy. This is the time to grow in your belief
in the Lord Jesus.
This
year you have come to Mass, confession and adoration. Can you believe that you can find each of these on a daily
basis in many Catholic churches?
When you have more free time this summer, make a commitment to get to
Mass during the week. When you fall,
seek out confession. Pick up a
good spiritual book. Try reading
the Bible. Take the discipline you
have learned in your studies and apply them to studying the faith and growing
closer to Christ.
Know
of my prayers that you will have a blessed summer. Indeed, this is what I will be offering for tonight. Wherever the summer takes you, take
Christ with and grow in your faith during this awesome time of year.
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