PRAYER – FOR EVERYDAY AND EVERYBODY
Blessing of Hope
In Your goodness Lord, bless us. Help us to know Your abundance and Your gifts. Help us to hear Your voice and know Your assurance. Help us remember what You have done, and look forward to what You will do. Amen.
GOSPEL MEDITATION - ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE
March 1, 2026
2nd Sunday of Lent
Matthew 17:1-9
When I sit down to answer emails or write a Gospel reflection or return a phone call, I sometimes wonder: Does any of this humdrum work matter? Maybe you ask the same thing about your daily labor. Today’s Gospel, the Transfiguration, offers a surprising answer.
Jesus leads Peter, James, and John up a mountain. There, “his face shone like the sun face and his clothes become white as light” (Matthew 17:2). That detail regarding his clothes is worth considering.
We know Jesus’ body is inseparably united to the divine nature. But his clothing? That’s something made by human hands. It’s an artifact. And yet it shines with the same uncreated light. What does this detail mean? The early Church noted that Adam and Eve’s first act after the Fall was to make clothing. This clothing symbolizes all human labor that supports our dignity. In Jesus’ glorified garments, we see not just the redemption of our body, but of human effort to protect and uplift human dignity.
Parents, your family is your work. Baristas, plumbers, nurses, accountants — your labor, your emails, your phone calls, your spreadsheets — can all become radiant when offered to God in love. The question isn’t just do I believe in Jesus’ glory, but do I believe he can share it with the work of my hands?
Lenten Challenge: Identify the “artifact” you are making to uplift the dignity of others: your job, your home, your relationships. Consciously bring it to the Lord this Sunday at Mass. Offer it to share in His glory. It will begin to shine.
— Father John Muir
(PRACTICING) CATHOLIC - RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS
By Colleen Jurkiewicz Dorman
Three Tents
You guys, I was such a good Catholic at the National Eucharistic Congress.
Mass every day? Check. Rosary every day? Check (and check — we said a lot of rosaries). Deep thoughts and deep conversations about God with total strangers? Check. Hours in adoration reflecting on the state of my soul? Check.
When I went to Indianapolis in the summer of 2024 to cover the NEC for our archdiocesan newspaper, I knew it would be a fun and spiritually rich experience. But I didn’t expect that it would make me think differently about my whole life (and afterlife). And when people ask me why — “What happened in Indianapolis that changed you?” — I can only tell them this: I spent time with God.
Of course, I do all these things in my regular life at home, too. I try to be a good Catholic here. But good grief, it’s a lot harder. In Indianapolis, I didn’t have a calendar full of appointments and to-do lists that filled me with dread. I didn’t have the world crowding around me, grasping at my attention and my will.
Indianapolis was the mountain, and if I could have, I would have built three tents.
So I understand Peter’s feelings at the Transfiguration. He’s thrilled — he sees it all clearly now. Here is the fullness of Truth, revealed in all its glory, and he’s ready to start bringing groups of tourists up to see it. He’s ready to bring people to Christ. But in the blood-soaked, fear-filled days to come, Peter will realize that it’s not his job to bring the world to the Truth. His job is to bring the Truth into the world.
What a tragedy it would be, if Truth only lived on the mountaintop.
So build three tents, strong and durable shelters for the Truth to dwell. But build them in your heart. And then, the Transfiguration won’t be just an event, something that happened at a certain time and a certain place. It’ll be a reality that lives within us all. And we will bear it with us wherever we go.
Mass Times
St. Albert
Saturday Vigil:
4:30 PM
St. Pius
Sunday:
NO MASS
St. Brendan
Sunday:
10:00 AM
9 AM MASS
ON MONDAY
Mar 2
St Albert
9AM MASS
ON TUESDAY
Mar 3
St Brendan
Office Hours
Monday: 8-3
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 10-2
Thursday: 10-2
Friday: Closed
CLOSED ON HOLIDAYS
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Our Mission Statement:
We, the North American Martyrs Parish, a strong community of faith, Nourished by the Holy Eucharist, Guided by the Holy Spirit and Trusting in the grace of God, Dedicate ourselves to live God’s Word and Let the light of Christ shine through our Community. We strive to provide sound religious formation for people of all ages; To care for the spiritual, social well-being of one another With particular attention to the stranger and the poor in our midst.
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