Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

I hope you are very excited about the football game this weekend. I can't wait to see the game and socialize with you at the party in our parish center. I hope you have already purchased your tickets for the event.

Windfall is one of 2 major fundraisers which help us tremendously on weekends like the last ones we experienced. Once again thank you for your support and work during these fundraisers.

In advance I would like to thank Jerry Ziemba and his team for working hard on this Windfall fundraiser. I would like to thank those who cook, set up, and clean after the party. It is a team effort and the results are tremendous. Your help is greatly appreciated. Also, I would like to thank the members of Our Lady of the Scapular in Wyandotte for selling our tickets at their parish. Thank you all for buying and selling our tickets. May God bless you for your generousity and see you at the party.

The First Reading tells us of the call of Isaiah to the ministry of prophecy. In a vision in the Temple God reveals himself to Isaiah as the All-Holy One. The vision evokes in Isaiah a sense of his own sinfulness. But then, cleansed of his sins, he responds without hesitation to the divine call. This prepares us for the Gospel which deals with the call of the first disciples. Here again we see that it is God who takes the initiative, and also the total response he requires.

The miraculous catch of fish convinces Peter of the holiness of Jesus. This evokes in him a sense of their own sinfulness and unworthiness, so much so that he asks Jesus to depart from him. Peter has not yet grasped the fact that it was to call sinners that Jesus came, to call them away from sin to a new way of life. Nevertheless, at the word of Jesus, Peter and his companions leave everything and follow him. The phrase they left everything  shows the importance for Luke from detachment from possessions.

The Second Reading stresses the central belief of Christianity, the resurrection of Jesus. Paul declares that, inspire of his unworthiness, he is a witness to the resurrection.

It is very interesting to know that all saints were conscious of their sinfulness and this forced them to rely more on the grace of God than on their own strength. While our sinfulness humbles us, we have not to let it get us down, or make us feel that we do not belong in the company of Jesus. He came to help us to overcome our sins. For this we are very gracious.

                              God bless you all,

                                               Fr. Dariusz

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