St Rose CC Charlotte TX

St Rose CC Charlotte TX Catholic Church in Charlotte, TX

When a person is faithful to his or her times of prayer, day after day, week after week, it’s like someone with a well i...
06/03/2026

When a person is faithful to his or her times of prayer, day after day, week after week, it’s like someone with a well in a garden that is choked with rubbish - branches, leaves, stones, mud - but underneath is water, clean and pure. In spending time in prayer, you’re setting to work patently to unblock the well. What comes up at the start is the mud and dirt: our wretchedness, worries, fears, guilt, self-blame - the things we normally avoid. Plenty of people run away from themselves. There’s a real fear of silence today: But those who have the courage to go forward into the desert end of finding an oasis."
—Jacques Philippe
An excerpt from The Way of Trust and Love

Daily Gospel Reflections From Bishop Robert BarronTuesday, June 2, 2026 Ninth Week in Ordinary TimeMark 12:13–17Some Pha...
06/02/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Mark 12:13–17
Some Pharisees and Herodians were sent to Jesus to ensnare him in his speech. They came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion. You do not regard a person’s status but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?” Knowing their hypocrisy he said to them, “Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius to look at.” They brought one to him and he said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?” They replied to him, “Caesar’s.” So Jesus said to them, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” They were utterly amazed at him.

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus enunciates a principle that is an implicit resolution of the vexing problem of religion and politics: “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”

God is the deepest source and inspiration for everything in life, from sports to law to the arts to science and medicine. Everything comes from God and returns to God. So what about our famous question of religion and politics?

Politics is not in a realm separate from the religious; rather, its deepest ground is spiritual. Thomas Aquinas held that law comes from the eternal law, which is identical to the mind of God. This eternal law is reflected in the human mind and heart, those basic principles that are called the natural law. Positive laws—from traffic regulations to antitrust laws—are then concrete applications of the natural law.

Hence, all law—the very stuff of politics—has to do with God, since positive law nests in the natural law, which nests in the eternal law. This is why we should expect our politicians and judges to be acting in accord with moral and spiritual goods.

Good is the Lord to one who waits for him, to the soul that seeks him. Lamentations 3:25Magnificat Meditation It’s a com...
06/02/2026

Good is the Lord to one who waits for him, to the soul that seeks him.
Lamentations 3:25

Magnificat Meditation
It’s a common mistake to think that God’s “works” and “mighty deeds” are told only in Scripture. Every person’s life is God’s work of art, an expression of his creative love, his goodness, his compassion. A little thought can personalize this psalm for everyone who prays it.

"We've been taught that God did not make the world for no reason, but for the sake of the human race. As I said before, ...
06/02/2026

"We've been taught that God did not make the world for no reason, but for the sake of the human race. As I said before, he takes pleasure in those who imitate his attributes, and is displeased with those who embrace what is worthless, whether in word or deed." —St. Justin Martyr
An excerpt from A Year with the Church Fathers

Daily Gospel Reflections From Bishop Robert BarronMonday, June 1, 2026 Memorial of Saint Justin, MartyrMark 12:1–12Jesus...
06/01/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Monday, June 1, 2026

Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr

Mark 12:1–12
Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey. At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard. But they seized him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent them another servant. And that one they beat over the head and treated shamefully. He sent yet another whom they killed. So, too, many others; some they beat, others they killed. He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ So they seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, put the tenants to death, and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this Scripture passage:

The stone that the builders rejected/ has become the cornerstone;/ by the Lord has this been done,/ and it is wonderful in our eyes”?

They were seeking to arrest him, but they feared the crowd, for they realized that he had addressed the parable to them. So they left him and went away.

Friends, today’s Gospel tells of the landowner who planted a vineyard and leased it to tenants. This vineyard stands for Israel, but it could be broadened to include the whole world. Like the landowner, God has made for his people a beautiful and productive place, a place where they can find rest, enjoyment, and good work.

When vintage time drew near, the landowner sent his servants to the tenants to obtain the produce. But the tenants seized the servants, and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. Is this not the whole sorry history of Israel and its prophets, of the world and the people whom God has sent?

Then we hear the event upon which the parable turns: “He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants . . . seized him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.” After the terrible treatment that his representatives have received, the owner sends his son? Is he crazy? Yes, a little. But this is the over-the-top patience and generosity of God, his crazy love. “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,” knowing full well what his fate would be.

Mary’s “let it be to me” indicates not a passive acceptance of God’s will, but an active, loving embrace of it. Mary doe...
06/01/2026

Mary’s “let it be to me” indicates not a passive acceptance of God’s will, but an active, loving embrace of it. Mary does not just submit to God’s plan; she longs to fulfill it…
Dr. Edward Sri

Daily Gospel Reflections From Bishop Robert BarronSunday, May 31, 2026 Solemnity of the Most Holy TrinityJohn 3:16–18God...
06/01/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

John 3:16–18
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Friends, today’s Gospel gives us the famous assurance that God gave his Son that we might have eternal life.

There is a terrible interpretation of the cross that holds the view that the bloody sacrifice of the Son on the cross was “satisfying” to the Father, an appeasement of a God infinitely angry at sinful humanity. In this reading, the crucified Jesus is like a child hurled into the fiery mouth of a pagan divinity in order to assuage its wrath.

What eloquently gives the lie to this awful interpretation is today’s passage, which is often proposed as a summary of the Christian message. God the Father is not some pathetic divinity whose bruised honor needs to be restored; rather, God is a parent who burns with compassion for his children who have wandered into danger. It is not out of anger or vengeance that the Father sends the Son but precisely out of love.

Does the Father hate sinners? No, but he hates sin. Does God harbor indignation at the unjust? No, but God despises injustice. Thus God sends his Son not gleefully to see him suffer but to set things right.

Magnificat Mass MeditationSunday, May 31, 2026The Solemnity of the Most Holy TrinityThe Catechism teaches that “by sendi...
05/31/2026

Magnificat Mass Meditation

Sunday, May 31, 2026

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

The Catechism teaches that “by sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange” (221). “The three persons are one truth” (Saint Augustine). By pondering the truth of the Trinity, we also realize the full truth of ourselves: By his gift of faith, God has made his own life available to us even now. “The complete Trinity dwells in us” (Father Marie-Michel Philipon, o.p.). God reveals the fullness of his very self to us that we “might not perish but might have eternal life,” and that we might be received as his own.

Only when we are convinced, like Mary was, of how little we can really do on our own and how utterly dependent we are on...
05/31/2026

Only when we are convinced, like Mary was, of how little we can really do on our own and how utterly dependent we are on God can the Lord begin to act in magnificent ways in us and through us.
Dr. Edward Sri

05/31/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Mark 11:27–33
Jesus and his disciples returned once more to Jerusalem. As he was walking in the temple area, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders approached him and said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things? Or who gave you this authority to do them?” Jesus said to them, “I shall ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. Was John’s baptism of heavenly or of human origin? Answer me.” They discussed this among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘Of heavenly origin,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ But shall we say, ‘Of human origin’?”—they feared the crowd, for they all thought John really was a prophet. So they said to Jesus in reply, “We do not know.” Then Jesus said to them, “Neither shall I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Friends, in today’s Gospel, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders approach Jesus and ask him, “By what authority are you doing these things?”

The first witnesses of Jesus were astonished by the authority of his speech and his actions. This wasn’t simply because he spoke and acted with conviction and enthusiasm; it was because he refused to play the game that every other rabbi played, tracing his authority finally back to Moses. He went, as it were, over the head of Moses, as he did at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount: “You have heard that it was said . . . but I say . . .”

His listeners knew they were dealing with something qualitatively different than anything else in their religious tradition or experience. They were dealing with the prophet greater than Moses.

And Jesus had to be more than a mere prophet. Why? Because we all have been wounded, indeed our entire world compromised, by a battle that took place at a more fundamental level of existence. The result is the devastation of sin, which we all know too well. Who alone could possibly take it on? A merely human figure? Hardly. What is required is the power and authority of the Creator himself, intent on remaking and saving his world, binding up its wounds, and setting it right.

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