March 2024 archive of The Seed
He Has Given Us Himself
Posted by St. Henry Cluster on 3/18/24
There is a connection between faith in the Eucharist and the strength of our faith in general. Reports abound that many Catholics – church-going Catholics – do not really believe Jesus is present in the Blessed Sacrament. Many think It is a mere symbol; others perhaps just a ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: We are a Holy Week People
Posted by St. Henry Cluster on 3/18/24
As we enter into Holy Week, the days in which we remember the passion, crucifixion and death of our blessed Lord, one might be tempted to say that this is a desert, a barren land, something that we would rather not have to endure, something that we would ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: The School of Mary
Posted by St. Henry Cluster on 3/13/24
The rosary has been described by Pope St. John Paul II as the “School of Mary.” He writes, “With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty of the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.” ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: The Power of the Rosary
Posted by St. Henry Cluster on 3/13/24
The roots of the rosary go back pretty far in the history of our Faith. It is a very powerful form of prayer to our most powerful intercessor, the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Dominic preached praying the rosary when he worked to stop the Albigensian heresy. During the ... Read More »
Rejoice, Jerusalem!
Posted by St. Henry Cluster on 3/01/24
Rose is the color of joy, and we wear it on the two Sundays in which “joy” is the theme of the day: Gaudete Sunday in Advent, and Laetare Sunday in Lent. It isn’t that only these two Sundays are joyful, but they are uniquely joyful in their ... Read More »
A Season of Healing
Posted by St. Henry Cluster on 3/01/24
Lent gets a bad rap; it has negative connotations as a time of drudgery. The whole tenor of these weeks is defined by expressions of repentance, conversion, sacrifices, and the frustration of having to give things up and finding ourselves quite feeble in the face of even the ... Read More »