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St. Peter’s First Communion Class 2019<\/p><\/div>\n

Normally, at this time of year, in our parish, and in the parishes around the Archdiocese of Toronto, many young people would be celebrating their First Communion. Sadly, this year, due to the restrictions of COVID 19, these celebrations are being delayed until it is safe to have such gatherings in our Church.<\/p>\n

Recently, because of parish based catechesis and preparation, the focus at First Communion has been taken off of the school class and put where it belongs; on the family of the child who is preparing to receive the Eucharist. This has brought about a change in our First Communion celebrations that I just love. In the parishes that I have served in, we have taken to inviting the entire family of the young person making his or her First Communion to come up and receive the sacrament with the young person. I think it is so beautiful to see these young people coming forward, to receive Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist, while he or she is also surrounded by the family that loves and cares for this young person so much. Each family is filled with such joy as they witness the reception of First Communion for the young candidate. The experience of witnessing so many different families coming up with their young person to receive his or her First Communion has really emphasized something that all of us share in common, no matter what our backgrounds, and that is love and the desire for happiness for our friends and families.<\/p>\n

The love that radiates from each family that comes forward with their young person for First Communion, reflects the love that we all seek from the Lord in the Eucharist, and are called to share with one another. Usually, at our churches here in Toronto, those families that come up at First Communion, are from every continent on the face of the earth. We are so blessed to have families in Toronto from both of the Americas, and Central America, from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the far North and South. Despite all of these diverse backgrounds and cultures, there is the same beautiful bond of love in each family and the Lord desires to give Himself in love to all who come forward to receive Him and know of His \u201cabiding\u201d presence. As we normally see people young and old, from all around the world receiving the Eucharist in our parishes, we are reminded that this gift of the Eucharist was given to the Church so that the Church might continue the Mission that Christ gave to the Church. That mission is expressed in today\u2019s Psalm as it states: \u201cThe Lord has revealed his victory in the sight of the nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that Jesus came into the world for all people, and that all people are equally loved by God, is something that we hear Peter articulating in today\u2019s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles. One of the first questions that the early Church had to deal with was: \u201cFor whom was Jesus\u2019 message of salvation intended?\u201d There were some among the first Jewish followers of Christ who thought that Jesus had come only for the Jews. Yet, as Peter sees clear signs of faith in those who were not of Jewish origin, like Cornelius, a centurion from the Italian court, he understands that the message that Jesus brought was for all human persons. The faith of Cornelius leads Peter to proclaim: \u201cI truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.\u201d As he understands that Jesus has come to proclaim God\u2019s love for all people, he asks how it is possible that the water of Baptism should be withheld from anyone who fears God. God\u2019s love is for all His people.<\/p>\n

All of the other readings for this Sunday continue with this same theme of the universality of God\u2019s love and the love that we all owe one another because God has loved us first.  John is quite clear about this as he writes in today\u2019s second reading: \u201cBeloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.\u201d  God who made everyone, loves everyone. God has loved us into being and the way in which we are called to love God is to love the others that He has made and loves. For the Christian, God\u2019s love makes all of us members of the same family and we are called to love all people.<\/p>\n

This is also the message that we hear from Jesus in today\u2019s Gospel reading from the Gospel of John. Jesus has laid down His life to save all of us. He has done so because He loves each of us and desires us to be His friends.  We are not to be His servants, but His friends. In making us His friends by His love for us, Jesus leaves us one commandment: \u201cLove one another as I have loved you.\u201d This is not a commandment to love those who are similar to us. It is a commandment to love all people, as brothers and sisters made in the image and likeness of God.<\/p>\n

There is a beautiful word that Jesus uses to express how closely He desires to be with each of us. That word is \u201cabide.\u201d This word reminds us that Jesus loves each of us so much that He wishes to dwell in our hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit. In fact, the word \u201cabide\u201d is a reminder that we are all called to be a Temple of the Holy Spirit. In the sacrament of marriage, the couple is to love the other on behalf of Christ, because each is a Temple of the Holy Spirit. In today\u2019s Gospel and Sunday readings, we are reminded that we are to love others because God loves them and wishes to \u201cabide\u201d in them, as He wishes to \u201cabide\u201d in us. Each human being is sacred because he or she was created by God, is loved by God, and God wishes to abide in each person. God\u2019s love knows no partiality. Because of this, we are called to love all people.<\/p>\n

As I read these beautiful readings about God\u2019s love knowing no partiality, and the call that we have to love all people, I thought of something else that knows no partiality and that has frightened many people over this past year\u2014COVID 19. We have all seen over this past year how this disease has taken a toll on all people around the world. As fear of illness has been a global phenomenon, one of the secondary news stories that has been in the background of the pandemic has been that of racism and the fear that this has caused among many people. Whenever there is a surge in one country or area of the world, there has been a corresponding fear and sentiment of hatred that has sadly grown against people from that area. My own parents who are Canadian were frightened to drive up to Canada with their car that has an American license plate for fear of discrimination. There have been many reports of people of Asian background being attacked because of racist motivations. At the same time, other tensions have produced awareness among black and indigenous persons that have caused them, and others, to rightly speak out against racism and discrimination.<\/p>\n

The simple fact is that all Christians must oppose and be against racism.<\/p>\n

The readings this Sunday provide a call to recognize the solidarity of the human family\u2014the entire human family. Peter recognizes this call as he states in the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles: \u201cGod shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears Him\u2026is acceptable to Him.\u201d Salvation is for the Jews and all the Gentiles; for everyone. This is also the reason why the Psalm proclaims that His victory is intended to be revealed to all the nations. This universal love of God for all people is also what we are told about in the second reading from the Letter of John, and the Gospel of John, in which Jesus gives us the great commandment to love one another as He has loved us.<\/p>\n

On the day of our First Communion, we are invited to come forward with our immediate family to receive the Lord in our local parish community. On the day we gather for the eternal banquet in the Kingdom of Heaven, we are going to gather as all people, from every nation and land and tribe. Jesus invites us to live on earth as though we were aware that this will be our destiny in Heaven\u2014to be one family together. We will be admitted to Heaven because Jesus has loved us first and laid down His life that we might be His friends. His commandment is that we recognize one another as His beloved people and treat one another as such. As He wishes to abide in us, He desires to abide in all of our brothers and sisters from around the world and throughout time. All of us, made in His image and likeness are one family. He invites us to live as one, by caring for one another and keeping His commandments. For this reason, racism has no place in the life of any Christian.<\/p>\n

One thing that all of us also share in common is that we all also have a mother. This weekend, I will remember all of the mothers of our parishioners, living or deceased, at our parish Masses. To my own dear mother, and all of the mothers of our parish, my heartfelt thanks for the gift of life. Happy Mother\u2019s Day!<\/p>\n

Fr. Michael McGourty
\nPastor\u2014St. Peter\u2019s Parish\u2014Toronto, Ontario<\/p>\n

This reflection based on the readings for the Sixth Sunday of Easter\u2014Year B: Acts 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 4:7-10; and John 15: 9-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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