Jesus: The Face of Love

Fr. Ray came up with the most brilliant conclusion to these sermons. We ended this event on Saturday with a Youth Mass and the homely was all about Jesus being the face of love present in the Eucharist. This mass was one of the liveliest I've ever been to. It made me realise that the church can be alive if it wants to. True, there were some people that criticized the parish for having four drum kits just behind the alter. But, if it takes four sets of drum kits to bring the church to back to life a bit, why not use them? Is the church's architectural integrity so important that you're ready to risk celebrating mass with empty church benches in the future? That was Fr. Ray's very bold reply to all the criticism.

Well, for us to have such a set up that we felt very necessary, it took a lot of our time and effort to mount. And what we set up last week, we had to dismount yesterday. Believe me, I cannot say that I fully appreciated scrubbing off the double sided tape on the marble church floor at 9:30pm (together with the help of other people of course). However, when it comes to spreading the Good News, there are cases where the ends do justify the means of evangelizing.

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18