Dear Parishioners,

I am going to tell you about a great resource written by one of our parishioners, Michael McCormick, called “Perfect Sense”. It is about why we go to Mass, which is a topic I don’t think even life-time weekly-attending Catholics think about very often. So, here is a short excerpt from the pamphlet which can be found in the back of the Church. Feel free to take one, read it and give it to someone who needs it.

Sin, being an offense against God, is an offense against Him who is All Perfect. In the case of Adam and Eve, their sin destroyed the perfect human nature that God created. So what can we say then about the reparation that must be made in order to properly restore what was lost?

IT MUST BE PERFECT! Why? Because Sin destroyed our perfect human nature and offended God who is All Perfect.

Where must the reparation come from? It must come from the human race. Why? Because Adam and Eve were human and they brought sin into the world. The generations that followed, being flawed by sin continued to sin.

So what do we have here? We have an offense where reparation is required in order to restore what was lost. This reparation must come from the human race and must be perfect.

But wait a minute. Now that the human race is flawed by sin, it is no longer perfect, and, since it is no longer perfect, there is nothing that it can offer for sin that would qualify as perfect.

We have a dilemma. We were created to dwell with God, but now because of sin we are separated from Him and have nothing sufficient to offer to repair what was lost. So how do we solve this problem?

If you want to know the answer, you’ll have to read the pamphlet!

Happy Easter!

Fr. Carter

P.S. It can also be found on this website: https://www.catholicmadesimple.com/