Yesterday was a memorable experience and I am still basking in what I can only call joy: my very close friend Anna Maria Piccirillo married Tom Loewe at St. Thomas the Apostle in Ann Arbor.
Fr. Eric Weber, formerly of St. Thomas but now stationed at a parish near Jackson, officiated. He gave the most amazing sermon I have ever heard at a wedding--perhaps the most amazing I have ever heard at Mass.
He was calling fallen-away Catholics back to the Lord and Church, and lukewarm Catholics and normal Catholics to renew their relationships with God. It was so direct, so simple, so real and so effective. Using the examples of two saints--St. John of God and St. Paul--he argued that the twists and turns of our life do not matter to God, who merely waits for us to come to the place where we can receive His love and let Him shape our lives and hold us in His love from that point forward.
It was amazing; but it was the kind of sermon that should be preached almost every weekend from every pulpit in every parish.
I spoke with Fr. Erik at the reception afterwards and he said he targeted his sermon that way because Tom and Anna asked him to. How appropriate! These two people who have been serving Catholics in the local area in very evangelistic ways wanted their Wedding Mass to reach out. God's blessings on them both for their new life in this wonderful sacrament!
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