Hello brothers and sisters,
This Thursday for Emmaus we will be joining the Young Adult Retreat Team and the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal from NY for adoration and confession at St. Ephrem Syriac Catholic Church at 7pm. St. Ephrems is located on Kernan Blvd. just north of UNF. The address is:
4650 Kernan Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32224
http://www.stephremjax.org/
This is a great opportunity to spend some time with our Lord in preparation for Advent. We hope to see you there! Invite your friends, all are welcome!
In JMJ,
The Emmaus Core Team
Our Spiritual Director
Father Ed Murphy (L), Pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish. E-mail: ewmurphy@windstream.net
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
No Emmaus This Thursday, November 22
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
We won't be meeting this Thursday, November 22, since it is Thanksgiving day. We hope everyone has a blessed day.
Emmaus Core Team
We won't be meeting this Thursday, November 22, since it is Thanksgiving day. We hope everyone has a blessed day.
Emmaus Core Team
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Emmaus this Thurs., 11/15 -- The Sacrament of Marriage
Hello brothers and sisters in Christ,
This Thursday at Emmaus we will have Mike Day speaking with us about the sacrament of marriage. Mike is the Director of Marriage and Family Life at the Diocesan Center for Family Life, http://www.dcfl.org/index.asp. How does the Church define marriage? What is it's purpose? What is the difference between natural marriage and sacramental marriage? How is marriage (and family) important to society? Come and learn the answers to these questions as well as others this Thursday! We will be in the Parish Family Center, Room 2A (the music room) at 7pm. You are welcome to join us for the Rosary at 6:30pm if you can. See you then!
In JMJ,
The Emmaus Core Team
Gen. 2:22-24 - "...and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh."
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1603 - "The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws... God himself is the author of marriage." The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent everywhere with the same clarity, some sense of the greatness of the matrimonial union exists in all cultures. "The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up with the healthy state of conjugal and family life."
This Thursday at Emmaus we will have Mike Day speaking with us about the sacrament of marriage. Mike is the Director of Marriage and Family Life at the Diocesan Center for Family Life, http://www.dcfl.org/index.asp. How does the Church define marriage? What is it's purpose? What is the difference between natural marriage and sacramental marriage? How is marriage (and family) important to society? Come and learn the answers to these questions as well as others this Thursday! We will be in the Parish Family Center, Room 2A (the music room) at 7pm. You are welcome to join us for the Rosary at 6:30pm if you can. See you then!
In JMJ,
The Emmaus Core Team
Gen. 2:22-24 - "...and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh."
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1603 - "The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws... God himself is the author of marriage." The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent everywhere with the same clarity, some sense of the greatness of the matrimonial union exists in all cultures. "The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up with the healthy state of conjugal and family life."
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Emmaus This Thursday, 11/8 - Fr Ed
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
This Thursday, November 8, we will be having our spiritual director, Fr Ed, speak to us about indulgences. It will be a great opportunity to grow deeper in our faith and grow closer to Jesus. We will be meeting at Assumption Catholic Church in the music room of the Family Life Center. Music, prayer and the talk will start at 7pm and the Rosary will start at 6:30pm if you wish to join us.
Emmaus Core Team
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