SATURDAY MORNING MASS HOMILY – MONSIGNOR CHILEN 

If you are to be perfect, be perfect. Do you think it is possible to be perfect? A mighty tall order to be perfect! In the beginning the Father imagined beauty, form, shape, etc. In the Father's imagination, He pictured you and me. He pictured it as it should be. He pictured us because we would be a gift for Jesus, His Son. We were meant to be a gift from the Father to the Son. We are not worthy, but we are forever worthy of redemption. His Son would come to heal.

God alone is good, but we deserve to be good for God's sake. The Father deserves to succeed for having us. He needs only our fiat. Let it be! We owe it to Jesus to allow His passion, death and resurrection to become reality in our faith. We owe it to Jesus to become saints for the glory of Him.

Who are we? We are dust, mud, bad mud. Did the words proclaimed by Jesus bring perfection to those who heard Him? Are we different from those who heard Jesus in Nazareth? We have known Jesus Sunday after Sunday, confession after confession. He forgives us. Are we different from those in Nazareth whose lack of faith prevented Jesus from performing miracles? Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.  Perhaps if we could be like His Mother. If we could just say "Be it done to me according to Thy word."

Should we not be as the Father imagined us to be?  "Jesus, make me perfect as your Father imagined me to be."

SATURDAY MORNING INSTRUCTION – DEACON BILL 

The power of prayer – to ask and it will be given to you! How do we pray? How do we approach the Lord when we come into Church? Are we aware of the silent presence of the Lord? How do you see? With perseverance. You have to work at everything.  

What do we find? We find our Lord and God. The Father wants to lavish His gifts on us because He sees His Son, Jesus, in us. God knows what we need. Do we listen? We are here in the solemn presence of God. How do we pray? We have to persevere in order to hear the Lord. We have to humble ourselves before the Lord.  

If you have a special intention or a prayer that you want the Lord to answer, go to daily Mass. Do not pay attention to anyone but Him. It is the Lord. Focus on Jesus Christ truly substantially present in the tabernacle. We should come to Church fifteen or twenty minutes early to get rid of all distractions in our minds and hearts. It is Jesus in the temple who leads us as they process with the priest leading us to Calvary. The Lord is here; be alert, be attentive. 

We have nothing to give God except fears, sins. We are nothing; we are nobody; nothing to give the Lord. If I want my prayer to be heard, I have to come to the altar of sacrifice. Jesus takes me in my miserable sins and takes us to His Father. Go to the eternal Father with Jesus in the Holy Mass. If you want a real conversion, make a Holy Hour. Wait with the Lord and listen. He knows your heart, every desire of your heart.

Water mixed with wine - our humanity blended with the Blood of Christ. With the piece of the consecrated host put in the precious blood, it is the resurrected Lord. 

Confession – go to confession weekly or more often. Confession is a sacrament – makes sacramentally present Jesus' call to conversion. It is called the Sacrament of Confession because it is the acknowledgment of our sins. Jesus is calling us right now to conversion. The Church has called us to penance and satisfaction. We have to make reparation. We cannot imagine the horror of sin. When you look at a crucifix, we see sin, but we also see love. It is also called the sacrament of forgiveness because God grants the penitent pardon and peace. There will never be peace in this world for a Catholic until you return to Confession. That holy confession will help us to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass worthily. 

Deacon Bill closed his talk with a meditation. 

HEALING SERVICE – FATHER JOSEPH 

You are saved by the Precious Blood of the Lamb, namely Christ. We ask Jesus by His Precious Blood to save us. That is really our salvation – the Blood of Jesus. We go through what He endured and went through for our salvation. St. Paul speaks about the Blood of Christ, the Paschal Lamb. We pray that the Precious Blood of Jesus will continue to save us. That is our hope. We are not without hope. We do not hope in ourselves. There are those struggles that we cannot seem to overcome. It is in that struggle that our love is proved again and again to live and choose God. In that choice we begin again and again and how it stirs up that faith of love in ourselves. It is not in ourselves, but in Him. We keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. We examine our consciences and confess our guilt, but our eyes are on Him – not on our weaknesses, but on His power, glory and His divinity.

Father then spoke about the reported miracles and the Church approved miracles at Lourdes.  
Faith and contact with our Lord will get your healing.  You can bring your needs and your wounds to Him. He restores, transforms us, beautifies us, sanctifies us. Jesus said to ask, knock and seek. The way the Father answers our prayers  -  sometimes He says slow (not now), grow, no, and go (answers prayer quickly). We only see from the standpoint of this world. We do not see the eternal perspective. Through the kiss of the cross, He draws a soul to Himself, so sometimes there is suffering. Trust Him and  persevere in our prayers. He is our Father.