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V
July 2015
July 2015
of Our Lady Parish Newsletter
3500 Ames Blvd., Marrero, LA 70072 504.347.2203
Website:
vol.org
Inside
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Discernment 101
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Come to Mass and Perk Up
4
VOL School 50th Anniversary
5
Pope Francis’ New Encyclical
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St. James, Pray For Us
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Youth Corner
Good Stewards Diet
Does God expect us to diet? I answer with great
enthusiasm: YESSSS!!!! So, what do you believe I’ll say next?
I suspect you’re thinking I’ll say something about our bodies
being temples of the Holy Spirit. You believe I’ll say we should
keep our bodies in great shape because they are gifts of God.
Maybe you believe I’ll say we should never abuse our bodies
because they, like our very essence, are made in God’s image.
You’re almost certain I’ll say we should respect our bodies
because, after we go to Communion, the Son of God becomes
part of us. The Communion wafer, the Real Presence of Jesus
Christ, metabolizes and literally becomes part of our bodies.
Well, those are all true enough, but that’s not the type of dieting I
will talk about in this article.
Go read Matthew 7:6-14. In those verses Jesus tells us
how to get to heaven. He says we get there by going through the
“narrow gate.” Okay, Jesus is once again using a metaphor.
What is he trying to tell us? Well, he’s telling us the Pearly
Gates are narrow; and, if we want to get through them, we’ll
fail...IF. If we’re...FAT.
Jesus is telling us we won’t get into heaven if we’re fat
with life’s things. He’s telling us we must lose our attachment to
putting houses, cars, boats, clothes, cell phones, jobs, hobbies
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