Saint John Neumann

Saint John Neumann Roman Catholic Parish of the Diocese of Cleveland in Strongsville, OH.

Committed to Encountering Christ & Serving Others

Pastor: Father Barry Gearing

Website: www.sjnohio.com

Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore You, I love You, an...
06/02/2026

Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus:

O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore You, I love You, and with lively sorrow for my sins, I offer You this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Your will. Grant, good Jesus, that I may live in You and for You. Protect me in the midst of danger. Comfort me in my afflictions. Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, Your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Amen.

06/01/2026

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.
-Bishop Barron’s Daily Gospel Reflections

On this feast of the Holy Trinity, let us grow in our union with God as creator, redeemer, and sanctifier!On the first S...
05/31/2026

On this feast of the Holy Trinity, let us grow in our union with God as creator, redeemer, and sanctifier!

On the first Sunday after Pentecost the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This revealed doctrine of God's nature is that the eternal God is one in essence and being, yet three distinct persons—God the Father, God the Son (the Incarnate Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit. This is the central and greatest mystery of the Christian faith. An everlasting and loving union with the Holy Trinity is the final end for which mankind is created. The divine inner life of the Holy Trinity is generously given to us as sanctifying grace through the Church's Sacraments, which is fully and perfectly possessed by the saints in heaven.
—The Catholic Company

05/30/2026

Lord, what must we do to be saved? How best can we do the work of God? The answer lies in listening to you, and not to the world’s cacophony, which pulls us in a thousand different directions. Please help us to hear you more clearly today. Amen.
—Rev. Herb Yost, C.S.C.

05/29/2026

“In our self-centered culture and classic American emphasis on work, we often feel we have to accomplish something during our times of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. We rate our experience by how 'good' our prayer was, how heartfelt our devotion was, or how focused we could remain. Yet prayer and contemplation are fundamentally God's work, in which we are invited to participate. We need only to give Him the opening, and He will do the rest. By coming to adoration, we are handing Him the keys to our hearts, allowing the rays of His love and grace to bathe our souls in the light of His Presence, as the rays of the sun bathe our bodies in light. If we can take the time to pull away from the busyness and distractions of life and just sit at His feet, He will lead us."
—Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, Manual for Eucharistic Adoration

05/28/2026

Lord, like Bartimaeus, we have sat in our own darkness, waiting, longing, unsure if our voices reach you. Teach us his courage; to call out even when the world tells us to be silent, to throw aside whatever holds us back, and to answer honestly when you ask, "What do you want me to do for you?" Open our eyes, Lord. And when you do, may we follow you without looking back. Amen.
—FaithND

05/27/2026

Graduation Prayer

Lord, we knew this day was coming, but somehow we're still not ready.
Thank You for the privilege of loving them all the way here.
Through every hard season, every ordinary day,
every moment we wondered if we were enough.
You were faithful in all of it.
Meet us in this strange mix of joy and ache.
The pride. The grief. The celebration with tears in it.
Remind us this ache exists because we love deeply.
They were Yours before they were ever ours.
You knit them together, called them by name, and You already stand in every tomorrow waiting for them.
So give us the courage to loosen our grip not because we love them less, but because we trust You more.
Go before them. Protect them. Keep calling them to You.
We spent years teaching them how to grow-up now give us the strength to let them.
Amen

05/26/2026

Friends, today’s Gospel exhorts us to see the radicality and rewards of Jesus’s call to discipleship, which cuts through so many of the social conventions of his time and ours. Jesus urges us to see that everyone—rich and poor, men and women, those on the inside and those on the outs—is summoned to discipleship, and that this summons is the most important consideration of all. It is the better part, to use Jesus’s words; it is the one thing necessary.

St. Augustine was right: “Lord, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” We are all wired for God. There is a hunger in us that nothing in this world can possibly satisfy. Only Jesus can lead us to the heavenly banquet; and that’s why we must follow him.
—Bishop Barron’s Daily Gospel Reflections

05/25/2026

With Gratitude and Honor

Gracious God, on this Memorial Day weekend,
we remember and give thanks
for those who have given their lives
in the service of our country.
When the need was greatest,
they stepped forward and did their duty
to defend the freedoms that we enjoy,
and to win the same for others.

O God, you yourself have taught us
that no love is greater than that
which gives itself for another.
These honored dead gave the most precious gift they had,
life itself,
for loved ones and neighbors,
for comrades and country - and for us.

Help us to honor their memory
by caring for the family members
they have left behind,
by ensuring that their wounded comrades
are properly cared for,
by being watchful caretakers of the freedoms
for which they gave their lives,
and by demanding that no other young men and women
follow them to a soldier's grave
unless the reason is worthy and the cause is just.

Holy One, help us to remember that freedom is not free.
There are times when its cost is, indeed, dear.
Never let us forget those who paid so terrible a price
to ensure that freedom would be our legacy.

Though their names may fade with the passing of generations,
may we never forget what they have done.
Help us to be worthy of their sacrifice,

O God, help us to be worthy.

- J. Veltri, S.J.

Heavenly Father, we ask the intercession of your Mother, Our Mother, Our Lady of Sorrows. You gave her to your church as...
05/25/2026

Heavenly Father, we ask the intercession of your Mother, Our Mother, Our Lady of Sorrows. You gave her to your church as one of your last acts on earth. May we rely on her prayers as we carry our cross, as we face the sadness and suffering in our lives. As she trusted in your words and promise that after the cross comes eternal life, from the sorrow of Good Friday comes the joy of Easter Sunday, may we too follow as your faithful disciples. Amen.
—Rev. Matt Kuczora, C.S.C.

Mary, by virtue of being the mother of Jesus Christ, has always been recognized as the Mother of the Church, which Jesus established during His Passion. Before He expired on the Cross, Jesus gave His final instructions to Mary and John, elevating the nature of their relationship within the Kingdom of God. He said to Mary, “Woman, behold thy son,” and to St. John the Beloved (who mystically represents all His disciples), “Behold thy mother.” The title “Mother of the Church” was formally bestowed on Our Lady by Pope Paul VI, and she was given a liturgical memorial under this title by Pope Francis. The feast of Mary, Mother of the Church is celebrated on the Monday following Pentecost, highlighting the fact that the Mother of God was praying alongside her spiritual sons, the Twelve Apostles, at the moment when the Holy Spirit descended upon them at Pentecost.
—The Catholic Company

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