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Our Lady of Prompt Succor
Check out homilies and talks from Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Chackbay, Louisiana! Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to our help!
If we go through life tired, it’s a sign that we are carrying the burdens on our own. Jesus invites us to take His yoke to experience rest.
When we let go of expectations, God allows us to bear more fruit than we thought possible.
As we persevere through trials, we see that they are actually something we can praise God for.
When we come before God with blank tablets, we give Him the space to change everything.
It is only by the power of the Spirit that our hearts will be changed. Pray for the grace to give the Spirit total control!
St Paul shows a witness of how to handle when we feel like God keeps asking more and more from us.
Do you ever doubt God? What should you do when you find yourself struggling with it? Jesus offers us some encouraging words today.
We are only able to love like Jesus when we recognize that we have been loved by Him first.
God can bring good things out of the most difficult trials, so we can always have confident hope in Him.
There is no other message than to proclaim in every aspect of our lives that Jesus is the Lord. When we let Him, we dont have to be.
No matter how hard we might try, we cannot stop God’s will. This should give us an incredible confidence to trust in Him totally.
When we listen to the Lord, we are utterly safe, no matter what it may feel like in the moment.
Because the disciples held nothing for themselves, they had true unity. May we imitate them and experience the same unity!
For mercy to be real, I have to acknowledge that I need it. In the Gospel today, Jesus shows us what mercy is and how to receive it.
Like John, pray for the grace to recognize the Lord present with you in the midst of daily life.
None of the apostles recognized Jesus with them at first. Yet He drew close anyway. Pray today for the grace to see Him walking with you.
When Mary Magdalene hears Jesus say her name, everything changes. That personal encounter with Christ is indispensable.
Satan thought he had conquered Christ when He died. The beauty of Easter is that nothing could be further from the truth.
Knowing what we will do in return - the good and the bad - Jesus holds nothing back in His love for us.
Jesus gave us the two greatest gives today to show us that He truly loves us to the end - the Eucharist and the priesthood.
Judas’ worst mistake wasn’t betraying Jesus - it was believing that He couldn’t be forgiven for betraying Jesus.
At the Last Supper, even his closest disciples are a mess. If your life feels like a mess, Jesus knows!
The centurion in the Passion account had his life changed simply because he saw the love of God poured out. We can have that same encounter if we enter into this week well.
Jesus stands at the tombs of our hearts, invites us to unseal them, and asks, “Do you believe that I can bring this back to life?”
As we celebrate the Annunciation, may we imitate Mary’s trust that God’s will was best.
In our final session, we talk about how to remain where the Lord is with us, rather than moving on without Him. Follow along with the handout here: https://www.olopschackbay.org/_files/ugd/92ee9a_fb966418d01d42f6a44ed2ff4ed898b4.pdf
If we bring to the Lord the places where we feel forgotten or forsaken, He can remind us of the truth of His love.
St Joseph is described as a righteous man. That means he does WHATEVER it is that God asks him, even if he doesn’t see the full story.
Jesus comes so that we might truly see Him - and invites us to surrender to Him so that He can heal our blindness.
Night Three of our Lenten Mission series, where we dive into the struggles we often face in prayer and how to enter into them well. Handout can be found here: https://www.olopschackbay.org/_files/ugd/92ee9a_7e7636a5eafd4d19a1af18f2e7deef08.pdf
Jesus is demanding about forgiveness because He know what unforgiveness can do to our hearts.
Jesus waits for us by the wells of our hearts to ask us a question - to give Him everything without holding back.
The remedy to envy is not focusing more on ourselves, but rather focusing on how much God wants to give to us.
It’s easy for us to get used to the ways we turn away from the Lord and one another. Pray today for the grace of a sensitized heart to notice where God is calling us to conversion.
When I follow the Lord, He doesn’t promise it will be easy. But He does promise He will be with us.
Check out Night 2 of our Lenten mission series, where we go deeper into the relational dynamics of prayer. Handout can be found here: https://www.olopschackbay.org/_files/ugd/92ee9a_5591e09e3c274accb018d3b78d996233.pdf
Jesus wants to offer you a life that is transfigured - where the hurts and pains become sources of new life rather than sources of despair. Allow Jesus to chisel away at your heart to reveal the hidden glory within.
God perfectly gave Himself to us, and He invites us to perfectly give ourselves to Him in return.
Salvation and holiness will never be the result of a calculation, but a result of our total surrender to Jesus.
Jesus invites us to ask, seek, and knock with confidence and boldness, and Queen Esther shows us just that.
Night 1 of our Lenten Mission. Click here for the handout: https://www.olopschackbay.org/_files/ugd/92ee9a_a317dbefce1a45c4aac23938f8f8cc0d.pdf
Jesus desires to offer each of us the grace of deep healing. He knows our wounds, and He came to minister to them. But we have to let Him.
Even now, you can turn the Lord with your whole heart. Even with your past, your sins, your weaknesses - you can turn to Him. That’s all He wants.
In the end, the invitation is always the same - trust. Keep trust. Only trust. If we do, He will never disappoint.
Loving your enemies is HARD! If we really hear Jesus’ words, we see how painful that kind of love can be. But is the only thing that really heals. Jesus promises to make us holy like He is holy, if we let Him.
God works slowly, contrary to what we might want most of the time. He invites us to stretch and deepen our faith in Him.
Jesus invites us to remember who the real source of provision is. We look not with human eyes but with a spiritual vision.
The goal of the Christian life is not to not go to hell, but rather to be a saint, to strive for heaven. Jesus’ words today get at the root of why we so often struggle with that.
The readings today give us a glimpse at who the real enemy is and who we can combat him in our daily lives.
Jesus tells us to be salt and light, but what does that really mean? Listen to find out!
What if we really lived as if God would never abandon us, but would always provide. May we have that deep and lasting peace.
God’s discipline is not a sign that He has left us, but rather He is closer to us than we could ever imagine.
St John Bosco gives us a beautiful witness and exhortation to be truly patient with others - a struggle for many. May God give each of us that grace!
The Beatitudes don’t seem to pain a picture of a blessed or happy life. But Jesus invites us to a deeper understanding of happiness that we don’t have to make for ourselves.
God invites us to not forget the confidence we can have in Him, especially when we find ourselves in moments of suffering.
Whenever you feel discouraged, take comfort in the fact that even the apostles were there too. And God can overcome even the realest discouragement.
St Paul shows us that the essence of conversion is not in what we do, but in how we are known by God.
The power of a single “Yes” to God can change the world. He has an invitation for each of us to follow Him. What will you say?
Jesus doesn’t just call those who are perfect or good enough. He calls those whom He desires. Listen to His desire for you today.
Jesus heals every infirmity that is brought to Him. That means that we need to bring ours to Him!
Jesus doesn’t hide from or dance around the harder things. Rather, He goes right there to bring His healing presence.
As we celebrate our patroness, we ask her to help us to have deep faith in the God who desires to save us.
“God can paint the most exquisite works of art with the littlest brush.” -St. Andre Bessette
If we can let go of our own expectations, we can truly experience the peace of God’s will for us.
Let’s make a commitment to ponder and reflect this year, creating space in our day for God to speak to us.
Keeping faith is hard when I don’t see God. But we worship a God who never breaks His promises.
God invites to trust in Him one step at a time, just as He trusts us one step at a time.
There is no greater truth than seeing ourselves as the disciple whom Jesus loved, like St John did.
Today a Savior is born for every single one of us. Praise God for the greatest gift we could ever imagine.
Nothing has to hold us back from giving our whole heart to God - not even our failures. God is always ready to receive whatever we have to offer to Him.
Hannah and Mary give us beautiful examples of what trust can look like, especially when we can be tempted to grasp rather than surrender.
The Song of Songs describes the way that God sees us and the depth of His love for us. I invite you to sit with the First Reading today and see it as God pursuing you.
Jesus is the one key that comes to unlock the prison doors that hold us bound. Let Him enter!
Whether we realize it or not, every day we respond to what Jesus has done for us. May we respond with living faith, with bold witness, and bring as many people to heaven with us!
It is only through the thicket of the cross that we will come to the joy of the resurrection.
Because of what Jesus has done, we are set free from the tyranny of sin and death that once held us bound. We have a reason for unshakeable hope and unending joy.
It’s so easy to make excuses, but when we take a step in trust, God can do incredible things.
May Mary always be our source of hope, that God’s response to darkness cannot be stopped.
Today we break open the question of what went wrong with the world. Why is everything so messed up? We cannot forget who the real enemy is, how powerless we are, and that we need to be rescued.
If only we know the authority God has given us to make His kingdom present here and now!
Today the Lord invites us to be like a child, to have hope that He can bring new life from what seems dead.
We love stories. What kind of story to see yourself living in? If we know the story, Christmas takes on a whole new meaning. Journey with us over these four weeks of diving into THE greatest story ever told.
If you want to experience peace, then it can only come under the Kingdom of Christ. Surrender yourself to His rule!
When God doesn’t answer our prayers, it’s easy to feel disconnected. What is God doing, and how should we respond?
Our faith and our relationship with the Eucharist is usually something that can get put on the back burner. But there is nothing more urgent than this great mystery.
Jesus changes everything about death. What was once completely separate from life is now the way by which we enter into true life!
Do you ever feel like you miss your encounter with Jesus? Jesus seeks each of us out just like He sought Zacchaeus and asked to stay with him.
How do we more deeply encounter Jesus in the Eucharist? By admitting to ourselves and to Him that we need a Savior.
My image of God impacts everything about my relationship with Him. Do I see a loving Father, or someone else?
When we live with a true spiritual gratitude, we look at every experience we have in a different light.