Atlanta Salesian Cooperators

We meet again on Thursday, May 31, 2018, and learn about the role of Mary, Help of Christians, in the life of a Salesian.  Please follow the class agenda here. Learn about the holiness of a Salesian Cooperator, Blessed Alexandrina da Costa

We will follow this Agenda in class In class today, we will have the opportunity to exchange reflections and ideas on the reality of ministry in our parish and in general, particularly in the areas of "Salesian interest", e.g. youth ministry, young adult ministry, young family ministry, religious education, etc.

Pope Francis published his newest Apostolic Letter on the Solemnity of the Annunciation 2018.  Gaudete et Exsultate , or Rejoice and Be Glad .  It's a practical suggestion of how to live a holy life in today's world. From the Vatican website Download PDF file here

Please see Class Agenda to easily follow. During class, we will discuss the plan of how to get involved in apostolates as a community

The center of our adoration today, Good Friday, is the cross, an instrument of terror and shame that has been transformed into the instrument of our salvation.   To understand such power from Jesus, we have to look at it this way.   One time a journalist asked a hospital chaplain, “You deal with human sufferings on a daily basis.   Where do you see the real power of Christ in the midst of all sufferings in the world today?”   The chaplain answered: “Come with me and I’ll show you.”   She led the journalist to the room of a young patient.   “I want you to meet Mikey.   He’s 19 and he has been bed-ridden for the past 2 years.   Mikey has a rare disease that began to show effect when he turned 16 and it’s getting worse everyday.   Now Mikey is just lying there, unable to move any muscle, unable to speak though he could see, hear and especially he could feel the pain.   Every time I come to sit with him, I witness the pain an...

The faithful usually ask each other around this time of the year: "How has your Lent been?"  I think I join many of my fellow faithful who started out on Ash Wednesday with a lot of noble plans to grow closer to God: giving up something, spending more time in prayer, picking up more spiritual reading, being more charitable, doing more self sacrifice, etc.  I think I may join many today, too, in realizing we have not been completely faithful to what we planned to do on Ash Wednesday. So here is the question: Am I meeting the objective of the Lenten practices? It depends.  Recognizing where we are spiritually, weaker than we thought we were and not as holy as we would like to be or imagine ourselves to be, it is a good starting point. At this deciding moment, we could say with the self-defeating attitude: "What's the point?  Why try anyway?"  Then we are not going anywhere. Or we could say, now I know more certainly how much I need God, even in my eff...

Here are the Scripture Readings for the Liturgy today. When I was a kid, I was really looking forward to Palm Sunday because it was the only day of the year when I could hold a palm leaf and play with it in Church, and during the long Gospel of the Passion, I got to say loudly in Church: "Crucify him," and no adult was going yell at me.   Now that I have grown, Palm Sunday continues to attract me but for a very different reason: there is something in the Liturgy that resonates with me about life experience.   If you pay close attention to the 2 Gospels, you will see they present conflicting experiences.   At the beginning of Mass, the Gospel presents a Jesus who is on top of the world: the people praised Him, admired Him, and wanted Him as their king.   But minutes later, the Gospel presents a Jesus who is at the rock bottom of human experience: everyone despised him, rejected him and wanted to get rid of him. Christ and his experience are relevant ...