2009-2010
GREAT ADVENTURE BIBLE STUDY
THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

For your convenience the Bible Study sessions are scheduled at
two different times.
 

You pick which session is best for you! 
 

Tuesday's from either
10AM-NOON or
7PM-9PM
in the Ephesian Room of St. Paul's School.

BEGINS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6th

Click Here to Pre-Register for the Bible Study Class.

A Message from Father McGinnis

Dear Friends,
The Church calendar has returned to Ordinary Time. This is the Season when we don’t celebrate any of the “big” events of the Faith as we just did in the Christmas Season. It should not be conceived as just “filler” time between the “big seasons” because we consider such time to be unimportant and Ordinary Time is anything but unimportant. During this time we explore in our Scripture readings the “ordinary” things that Jesus did during his ministry; such ordinary things as teaching the crowds and choosing from those crowds his disciples and his apostles. We listen to the accounts of how Jesus took pity on the people who came to listen to him and those who came to him for healing. The parables that our Lord told to help the people of his day, and us today, to understand the great love God has for us and how we should respond to that love. We could say that these are not just “ordinary” things and we would be right. They are the things that connect the dots between Jesus’ birth and his passion, death and Resurrection, the “extraordinary” things of Jesus’ ministry. Without these ordinary times we would fail to understand the fullness of what God has done for us in the life of Jesus and that would be a shame because it is from these times that we learn how to appreciate and respond to the salvation Jesus has won for us. Without that understanding and call to action we can never respond fully to the call of God’s love.

God bless you,
Fr. Jay W. McGinnis