March 2027

2 Cor 1:3-4: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all consolation, who comforts us in all our sorrows, so that we can offer others, in their sorrows, the consolation that we have received from God ourselves" 

Matthew 27:46: "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" 

This month we will focus on transforming suffering into love. In his abandonment, Jesus redeems us by identifying himself with every human suffering, especially with the universal human experience of feeling distant from God. Each of our small and big sufferings can be a kind of sacrament through which we encounter and embrace this same Jesus, finding resurrection through each little death. It is the unfathomable paradox of God crying out to God, Jesus feeling abandoned by the Father, the same Father with Whom He had claimed to be one. Jesus’ heroic love through this ordeal, entrusting himself into the Father’s hands, gives us a glimpse into the life among the Persons in the Trinity - a reciprocal self-emptying agapeic love which generates and glorifies the Other. We are invited to live this same love on earth, until its fulfillment - That all may be one. 

MONTHLY GATHERING:

• Monday, March 8, 2027

• 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 

• Located in the Main Church

• The speaker will be Dr. Bill Neu