At Mass this morning Fr. Chris Martin spoke of encountering the glory of God and how the weight of His presence makes an impression on all it touches.  He asked us to reflect on who and what has happened to us that makes us who we are today.

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“The fullness of what it means to be alive is to be in conformity to the life of Jesus Christ.”

When Moses saw the burning bush that day, it could have remained a day like any other day. Sometimes bushes catch on fire. What caught Moses’ attention was that the bush on that day was burning but unconsumed.

If we wanted to be like another person, it would cost us something of ourselves. We wouldn’t be able to become like another person without a part of us dying so that we can pretend we are another person. But, when God pours the Holy Spirit into our hearts, we are set on fire but not consumed. All that is good, beautiful, unique, and unrepeatable about you doesn’t disappear. It is amplified by the glory of God.

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This afternoon, Lisa Cotter reminded up that we live in a time when dating is really confusing. It is extremely difficult to navigate the dating world: there are no norms to dating anymore, and because of technology, as we scroll through our phones, we feel as if we’re connecting with someone, but in reality, we’re not. In order to connect with someone, you need that face to face interaction and we cannot get that through a screen. While texting is a wonderful and convenient thing, unfortunately it doesn’t let us see another’s emotion. We find it difficult to interpret what the other is saying and it can get confusing, so Lisa reminded us that “texting is for information, not emotion.”

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