Men' Weekend Led by Fr. Steve Pugliese, S.J.
-
September 22, 2023 - September 24, 2023Is today a very different time for the Church and for us all? A time very different from all others? Or do you believe it is somehow the same as always? The answer to that question makes a great difference, for I firmly believe that the Church today is being challenged in ways it has never been before. Hebrews 13:8 famously tells us that, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today and forever." And that is, of course, most true. But that is in no way true of his Church. The two are simply not the same. One is the Word made flesh. The other is simply the flesh redeemed by its creator.
Whether you call it the mystical body of Christ, or simply, "My Church," as Jesus called it when he gave Peter the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, what we need to understand and understand fully is that although the gates of hell, as Jesus said, shall not prevail against it, they shall continue to try with all their might until the Kingdom actually comes in its fulness with Jesus at the resurrection. We are closer to that resurrection than ever before and thus closer to what is simply a final reckoning.
Does that fill you with hope or with dread? Where is our hope? If it is in the flesh, even the flesh always embodied in Christ's Church, then we are truly hopeless. What is it to hope only in Christ? To hope only in God? It is intimately and completely connected with the understanding of love that Jesus came to proclaim to us, and nothing more, for as Paul told the Corinthians, without that love, nothing else, no matter how seemingly great or lofty ("though I have faith that can move mountains..." ) has any meaning. Join us as we discuss that hope and its many manifestations on our weekend retreat.
Traditionally sponsored by Saddle Brook, St. Teresa - Summit, St. Anthony Hudson County Lawyers
REGISTER FOR A WEEKEND RETREAT
