Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Greensboro, NC

06/17/2026

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06/17/2026

Holy Hour of Reparation

06/17/2026

Announcement
Please be advised that in observance of the federal holiday on June 19th, known as Juneteenth, only one Mass will be held at 10 am, with no confessions, and the parish office will be closed.

Por favor, tomen nota de que en observancia del feriado federal del 19 de junio, conocido como Juneteenth, solo se celebrará una misa a las 10 de la mañana, sin confesiones, y la oficina parroquial estará cerrada.

06/16/2026

The 5 PM Confessions are canceled today, June 16th. Thank you for your understanding.

Las Confesiones de las 5 PM se cancelan hoy, 16 de junio. Gracias por su comprensión.

06/15/2026

The 5 pm Confession on June 18th has been canceled. Thank you for your understanding. 

La confesión de las 5 pm del 18 de junio ha sido cancelada. Gracias por su comprensión.

06/15/2026

06/15/2026

Friends, today, in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:38–42), the Lord exhorts us to nonresistance to evil. Martin Luther King Jr. was deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi’s techniques, and Gandhi learned them, largely, from the Sermon on the Mount.

Both Gandhi and King appreciated that the text dealing with the nonresistance to evil has nothing to do with passivity in the face of injustice, but rather with a new and distinctive type of resistance.

Consider the Lord’s injunction “When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.” I realize that this sounds like mere passivity, fleeing before evil, but the truth is anything but. In Jesus’s time, you would not have used your left hand for any type of social interaction, since it was considered unclean. Therefore, to strike someone on the right cheek is to strike him with the back of your hand, the way a master might treat a slave.

By turning the other cheek, one neither fights back directly nor flees, but rather stands his ground and declares, “You will not treat me that way again.” It thereby effectively mirrors back to the aggressor his aggression. It is the declaration that the aggressed person refuses to cooperate with the world of the aggressor.

06/14/2026

11:30am, English

06/14/2026

8:30 am

06/11/2026

Friends, in today’s Gospel (Matthew 5:20–26), Jesus commands us to be reconciled with one another. I want to say something about the role of forgiveness in repairing our broken relationships.

When you are at worship and realize that you need to forgive someone (or be forgiven by someone), go and do it. Go get reconciled, then come back. It’s like a rule of physics. There is something hidden in the deep mystery of God, and I can’t fully explicate it. Somehow, if there is a lack of forgiveness in you, it blocks the movement of God in you. Perhaps it’s simply because God is love, and so whatever is opposed to love in us blocks the flow of God’s power and God’s life.

One reason we do not forgive is that we feel that some injustice has been done to us, and we resent it. A good cure for this feeling is to kneel before the cross of Jesus. What do you see there? The innocent Son of God nailed to the cross—the ultimate injustice. What does he do? He forgives his persecutors. Meditate on that, and your sense of being treated unjustly will fade away.