In his Pastoral Letter for the Year of Hope, Bishop James Golka encouraged “all the faithful of the diocese, through prayerful reading and study, [to] rediscover the beautiful and inspiring teachings of Vatican II through which the Holy Spirit has brought about a new and fresh outpouring of the spirit of Pentecost for a New Evangelization.” 
In order to help the faithful rediscover these teachings,  Lucas Pollice, Director of the New Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship for the Diocese of Colorado Springs, will be presenting a nine-part video series on Vatican II.

What would you do if Jesus told you that he was amazed by your faith?

The Gospels are filled with accounts of the Lord wondering at the faith of certain people who encounter him: the centurion in Capernaum, the paralytic, the woman with the hemorrhage, the Canaanite woman. Perhaps even more surprising than the miracles themselves is the fact that Jesus is amazed by faith. Since he is God, he knows everything and sees inside the secrets of the heart. Yet it is striking that he wonders at faith.

"The Church, therefore, earnestly desires that Christ’s faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers or silent spectators . . . by offering the Immaculate Victim, not only through the hands of the priest, but also with him, they should learn also to offer themselves; through Christ the Mediator, they should be drawn day by day into ever more perfect union with God and with each other, so that finally God may be all in all.” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 48)

We love because He first loved us. — 1 John 4:1

As we celebrate the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 7 (and honor the Sacred Heart during the entire month of June), it seems appropriate to reflect on the love of Christ.