Prayers for Fr. Stephen Schultz

As we welcome Fr Jonathan Fioramonti as PVI’s new chaplain, and as we bid farewell with gratitude and love to Fr Ramón, we would be remiss if we didn’t also acknowledge, thank, celebrate, and continue praying for the healing of Fr Stephen Schultz, PVI’s chaplain for five years prior to his sudden health issue in October 2023

Featured here are just a few of the many inspirational one-liners and messages Fr. Schultz shared in his homilies at schoolwide and daily Masses. The last bulleted message in the list is from his 7:10 a.m. Mass on Friday, September 29, 2023. During this homily, Fr. shared the miraculous story of how a wounded United States Marine was saved by Saint Michael the Archangel during the Korean War.

• Look for Christ in everything.

• How do I live my journey with people I don’t choose? See Christ in everyone.

• If you want to love God today, love your neighbor. There is a hole in our hearts that only God can fill. God wants to be invited into your hearts. Peace and joy are possible. Jesus loves you. Make good decisions.

• We are on a path to Heaven. There is no excuse to not treat each other with respect.

• If we are rooted in Christ, we will shine like the sun with God's grace.

• We are made to live in communion.

• Our guardian angels see us as God sees us.

• We don't have to be self sufficient.

• We are fully known by God.

• We are called to be truth tellers.

• We need to have integrity.

• We can live Jesus by living the truth. Time is a gift, and it is used better when it is appreciated.

• The Mass shows our gratitude to God.

• Receive the moment that God has given to us.

• Be patient with yourself.

• If you draw away from the fire, you will get cold.

• I don’t know if that story is as funny as I hoped it to be. Only a Bishop can preach sitting down.

• Faith is fidelity; it’s not a feeling.

• Jesus is coming soon; you better look busy.

• You can only do one thing at a time.

• I am letting the Holy Spirit guide me in my virtues.

• We can’t give someone else Grace.

• All the angels were created at one.

• When you arise, make an offering, "I am giving everything to you today."

• When Jesus heals a person, he sees the whole person.

• The phsychology 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.

• God wants us to have that encouragement by the way that we live and encourage each other.

• Be okay with things not being okay.

• God is my stronghold.

• We have to do something good with the suffering we endure. Don’t thrive on the unhappiness; don’t thrive on things that tear people down.

• Respond to challenges with love.

• Choose to love life, each other, ourselves, Him.

• I have TWO guardian angels and an archangel!