The Huddle

02-07-2021The Pastor's PenRev. Matthew R. Paratore, S.T.L., J.C.L.

Dear Friend,

In football they have a "huddle."

The goal of the huddle is to give you thirty seconds to call the play, that is why they give you a huddle.

At a professional football game there may be sixty thousand people watching you huddle, they don’t mind you taking thirty seconds to call the play.

They understand that you have to get organized, you have to know where you are going to go, the ends need to know where they are going to go, the quarter¬back needs to know where he is going to go, the backs need to know where they are going to go.

A huddle is a necessary part of playing the game. But let us be assured, if we do not already know, sixty thousand people do not pay to watch us huddle.

We understand that people do not come to football games to watch the huddle. They want to see if their team can overcome the opposition who is daring them to snap the ball and move down the field to score.

What they want to know is does your practice work? Now what Catholics too often do is get "high" on their huddles.

We become content over the huddle! But what we so often forget is, that the huddle is so that we can play the "game" we call life.

The effectiveness of our Catholic Faith cannot be measured only by Sunday morning. The test of our Catholic Faith is how we live it at home, in school, at work, in the community and in our commitment to our parish.

What we will always need are Catholics that are representatives of Jesus Christ not only when gathered but when disseminated.

Let us pray always and never lose heart.