JUNE 18: CONFESSION – 08:30 AM, DIVINE LITURGY – 09:00 AM (LIVE-STREAMED), DIVINE LITURGY – 11:00 AM.
On June 18th we commemorate all our fathers (birth, adoptive, role-models, father figures). Father’s Day gives us all a chance to really think about what our own father or father figure means to us, or what being a “father” brings to our lives.
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Parishes live-streaming in the Diocese can be found here: https://www.eparchyofpassaic.com/directory
Today’s Gospel is Matthew 6:22-34 and and it starts: “22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.” We learn about desire, and what shapes our desires. Just as the light of the body is the eye, the soul also has an eye that enlightens it. Our physical eyes can easily discern light and darkness, but the eye of the soul must be trained to do this, because without training, the eye of the soul will not know light from darkness. Desire is good, when it is used for good, that is when we understand what life is and how to live our life accordingly. And the way you think determines who you are. This is what the Lord is speaking of when He says, the light of the body is the eye; because the eye sees and desires. What you desire is who you are, no matter how much Scripture you know or anything else that you accomplish in life, and it affects your soul. This is very critically important for us to understand. The eye determines where the soul goes. So your eye must desire to see God. He also warns us that we cannot serve God and man.
