Don't forget who you are...
Since today was the last daily Mass at my summer assignment, (I will leave the parish on Sunday after I serve Mass), I gave a reflection on my favorite saint---Maximilian Kolbe, priest and martyr. I will expand upon what I said at Mass below, since I (maybe not so) obviously didn't use the YouTube clip during Mass: The following clip from The Lion King possesses a strong Christian message... See, when one is baptized into the body of Christ, s/he becomes a beloved daughter/son of our Heavenly Father. THAT is our identity. IF we forget who we are, that is, beloved daughters/sons, we can easily fall off the path toward living a holy and virtuous life. When our identity is first and foremost rooted in being a beloved child of God, we are more open to discerning what He has created us for, what our vocation is, and we will seek to live a Godly life. Today the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe a Polish Franciscan who was killed in the Nazi concentratio...