August 2022

August 2022 Each issue of Impact features the tag line, “Bring faith to life. Find life in faith.” Since in many ways, this month’s readings focus on faith, this issue of Impact is a reflection on the role of faith in our lives. Does our faith really direct the way in which we live, how we gather and use material possessions, the ways in which we interact with others? In the month of August, we celebrate the feasts of St. Monica and St. Augustine. We look to Monica as a model of steadfast prayer and witness when one we love does not have faith or struggles with the Church; we turn to Augustine to learn how to remain open when faith and/or belonging to the Church are difficult. As we continue to enjoy the more relaxed pace of summer, I pray that you and your people will be renewed in faith, ready to be good and faithful stewards of the blessings of life, grace, and love. — Leisa Anslinger

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July 2022

This month’s readings ask us to reflect on the place of God in our hearts and lives. Where our people’s understanding of love may be influenced by movies, television, and articles on the internet as much or more than by the Gospel, we have a great opportunity to invite them to ponder the ways God’s love may make a difference in their lives, and through them, the lives of others. May you be filled with the warmth of the sun and of God’s love in these summer weeks of Ordinary Time.

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June 2022

June 2022  In June, we celebrate the fullness of the mystery of God through pivotal feasts and solemnities: Pentecost, Holy Trinity, Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Each invites us to focus on who God is and who we are called to be as God’s people. This month’s issue of Impact is an extended reflection on the Holy Spirit, ever-present and yet often-hard-to-understand. We pray this month in a particular way for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon you and all in your community.— Leisa Anslinger

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May 2022

May 2022  As is always the case during Easter, we ponder readings from the Acts of the Apostles each Sunday of the season. In a moment in which many people are weighed down by the effects of pandemic, economic instability, war, and polarization in the Church and the growing secularization and pressure to leave active practice of the faith behind, the stories of the early communities of believers may rouse our commitments to be Church in our time. This is our focus for the May issue of Impact. May you find hope, light, and peace as you live and proclaim the Good News of the Risen Lord this Easter season.— Leisa Anslinger

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April 2022

We enter into April with hearts that are full — filled with the grace of God, which we have witnessed and experienced in the season of Lent, and which now leads us to ponder the fullness of Christ’s Paschal Mystery in the sacred Triduum and the Easter season to come. In order to bring faith to life this month, we must hear the story again, for the first time. Even as we experience the horror of war, we must ponder and celebrate the story of God’s undying love for us in Jesus Christ. This month’s issue of Impact includes encouragement to participate and reflect deeply upon the Triduum and to embrace the life of the believer, the life of Christ, which is poured out on the cross and shared with us in the Eucharist. May you and all in your community be filled with grace and peace in this holy season.

Please note that the April issue in Spanish is slightly different than this month’s issue in English.

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March 2022

As we enter into Lent, we invite people to make the season one that will have lasting impact on their life and faith. We place ourselves alongside Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem, and take up the practices of prayer, fasting, and giving with renewed commitment. We pray you and your people find meaning at the foot of the cross in this holy season.

 A pastoral note about Impact this March and April: since Easter falls in the middle of April, the March issue focuses on Lent, while the April issue will focus on Triduum and Easter joy. 

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February 2022

This month, we focus on love. While we might say that every reflection on the message and call of Christ is that of love, the Sunday readings this month lead us to reflect on love in a very mindful and intentional way. As you lead your people to take to heart the great love of God and their call to reflect this love in every possible way, may you be filled with this love and let it renew you in mind, heart, and spirit. — Leisa Anslinger 

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