Fr. Stephen Schultz From our publication’s grassroots initiative in September, our school Chaplain, Fr. Stephen Schultz, graciously and humbly embraced the invitation to contribute to each month’s issue. As he finishes working on his January contribution, I thought I would share with the PVI community some of the many one-liners and notes I jotted down in my journal from his daily homilies during 7:10 a.m. Mass each morning. #25 is from his most recent homily with us on Friday, September 29, 2023; during this homily, Fr. shared the miraculous story of how a U.S. Marine was saved by St. Michael when wounded in Korea in 1950. Schultz’s ay for Fr. r p n to e u ntin tercessio Please co ugh the in o r th y r e ey. recov lanus Cas complete Father So d e s s le B of e prayer: This is th
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1. Receive the moment that God has given to us. 2. Look for Christ in everything. 3. How do I live my journey with people I don’t choose? See Christ in everyone. 4. If you want to love God today, love your neighbor. 5. Be patient with yourself. 6. If you draw away from the fire, you will get cold. 7. I don’t know if that story is as funny as I hoped it to be. 8. Only a Bishop can preach sitting down. 9. Faith is fidelity; it’s not a feeling. 10. Jesus is coming soon; you better look busy. 11. You can only do one thing at a time. 12. I am letting the Holy Spirit guide me in my virtues. 13. We can’t give someone else Grace. 14. All the angels were created at once. 15. When you arise, make an offering, “I am giving everything to you today.” 16. When Jesus heals a person, he sees and heals the whole person. 17. The psychology of spirituality - we have an innate capacity to connect with something transparent and bigger than us; we are made to be in that state of Grace-friendship. 18. God wants us to have that encouragement by the way that we live and encourage each other. 19. Be okay with things not being okay. 20. God is my stronghold. 21. We have to do something good with the suffering we endure. 22. Don’t thrive on the unhappiness. Don’t thrive on things that tear people down. 23. Respond to challenges with love. 24. Choose to love life, each other, ourselves, Him. 25. I have TWO guardian angels and an archangel!
