Join Seminarian Intern Peter Binder at Blessed Sacrament Church on Sunday, March 24 at 6:30pm for a quiet evening of adoration and reflection on the three most important days of the Christian year: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. This event will also be live-streamed and can be watched online at: blessedsacramentwaterloo.org/blesac-live OR Blessed Sacrament Church's facebook page. Click me for more details!
Our popular Summer and Winter Forum programs offer Catholic adults and young adults an opportunity to learn and grow in a comfortable, familiar environment. We choose presenters from among pastors, pastoral leaders and academic experts on both the local and diocesan level. We ask them to address a variety of interesting and important issues which shape the lives of adults and young adults in the Church and society today.
Join other Catholic Women from the Waterloo Catholic Parishes and Surrounding areas for a morning of Friendship, Faith and Formation at St. Edward Parish!
A group of Young Adult women walking the road that leads to a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, together! Click the picture to let us know you want to join!
Join us to attend Mass together at Blessed Sacrament and make breakfast together after in the parish center. Click this picture to fill out the form to let us know you are joining us!
Our popular Summer and Winter Forum Series offer Catholic adults and young adults an opportunity to learn and grow in a comfortable, familiar environment..
Should we really get rid of all the important things that trouble us? This question refers to the Gospel reading for Sunday, Sept. 30, from Mark 9:47-48. In this reading Jesus advises the disciples to cut off their hand, foot or eye if it causes them to give scandal. In this reading Jesus is instructing the disciples on the responsibilities of discipleship. The most serious responsibility is to avoid giving scandal, particularly to the "little ones" who could be most easily misled. Jesus is not literally recommending physical mutilation; he is saying that giving scandal is so serious that a disciple must do everything he or she possibly can to avoid those attitudes and behaviors which give people the wrong impression of what it means to be a Christ-follower. The reference to physical mutilation is a rhetorical device to emphasize how serious the situation is. It is worth noting the emphasis Jesus puts on scandal, which is apparently the most serious wrong a Christian can commit. Often Christians think that the most seriously wrong things we do happen privately in our relationship to God; Jesus seems to be saying that the most seriously wrong things happen publicly, in our relationships to other people.