Saint Kathryn's Church issued the following announcement on June 14

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

This week we conclude our series of reflections on the renewal of Christian fervor within our hearts and the continual call of Jesus to oppose lukewarmness within ourselves. This series of reflections flowed from the final intention of the Divine Mercy Novena in which Jesus asked St. Faustina, to bring to Him “souls who have become lukewarm and [to] immerse them in the abyss of [His] mercy.” So, in the final chapter of this series, let us turn to the last letter to the Churches in the Book of Revelation which is written to the Church of Laodicea. The city itself is forty miles south east of Philadelphia. Today, the remains of this ancient city, known for its great wealth and its prominent school of medicine, lies near the modern city of Denizli, Turkey. According to the footnotes of the revised edition of the New American Bible, the wealth of the city was so great, it was rebuilt without any outside financial assistance when it was completely destroyed by the earthquake of 61 A.D. In his words to this Church, the Lord says, “To the angel of the church in Laodicea, write this: ‘The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the source of God’s creation, says this: ‘I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments to put on so that your shameful nakedness may not be exposed and buy ointment to smear on your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent” (Rev. 3: 14-16; 18-19)

What is at the heart of the Lord’s words is that we must continually be growing in His divine life, for the more we apply ourselves to His ways, the more we grow in the love of God and this love becomes an all-consuming fire which then ignites our neighbor. The continual application of ourselves to the spiritual life allows the flavor of God’s grace to be brought out in us. Take the example of food: cold food is not palatable and when food is only lukewarm, its taste is barely perceptible. However, when food is cooked to its proper temperature and is hot, the flavors within it ignite and its taste is picked up by the senses. The same is true for us when we truly apply ourselves to the spiritual life, the flavor of God’s presence permeates us. However, when as Christians we remain lukewarm, we become like that food whose flavor is barely perceptible and this weakens us and renders us spiritually bankrupt. We can never remain half-hearted in our commitment to Christ. We may recall the collapse of the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University back in 2018. Its collapse came about not just from errors in its design but the lack of attention to structural cracking which rendered the bridge weak. As the fifth century Church father, St. John Cassian wrote: “The same thing happens with a house: it collapses one fine day due to some ancient defect in its foundation or long neglect by the occupiers.”

Today we celebrate the beautiful feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. We are reminded that He gives of Himself so completely that He remains with us in our tabernacles until He returns again. Our Eucharistic Lord invites us to give of ourselves to Him so completely that we become transformed in Him and become a pleasing offering to the Father. Our goal is always to become Him whom we receive. As we return to the public celebration of Mass as a parish family, let us offer our thanks to Jesus for His total self-gift to us and let us ask Him to live this gift out through our reception of Him. As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wrote in his encyclical Deus Caritas Est, “The Eucharist draws us into Jesus' act of self-oblation…we enter into the very dynamic of his self-giving….[which] grounded in God's condescension towards us, operates at a radically different level and lifts us to far greater heights than anything that any human mystical elevation could ever accomplish” (13). Indeed, by our greater fervor, we like Christ, become structurally sound bridges, over which others may pass to encounter the Lord!

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