PASTOR’S CORNER

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ!

The Asian New Year is over. Our parish will continue with 2019 PSA Campaign. I strongly encourage all of you to participate actively with our parish goal of $70,000 dollars. Each family, please consider donate $350 dollars. I hope that many families in our parish will participate. Please take an envelope home and bring back your donations next week. You either put the pledged envelope in the collection basket or deliver it to our parish office. May the Lord continue to bless each one of you with love peace and joy! The central theme of today’s readings is God's call to a person, and the positive response to this call which leads the person to discipleship. As in our own lives, that call has three steps: 1) The revelation of God Himself, or of Jesus’ identity as the One sent from God 2) The recognition and confession of one’s unworthiness and inadequacy to receive this call 3) The word of reassurance from God, or Jesus, and a call to share in his life-giving mission. Today’s readings tell us that God has His own criteria for selecting people to be prophets and ministers. Presenting the special calls, or vocations, of Isaiah, Paul and Peter as life-changing events, the readings challenge us to examine our own personal calls to conversion and discipleship.