Daily Mass is celebrated:
Monday through Saturday at 8 a.m.
The Sunday Mass schedule is:
Saturday at 5 p.m. in English
Sunday at 7:30 a.m. in English
Sunday at 9 a.m. in English
Sunday at 11 a.m. in English
Sunday at 1 p.m. in Spanish
Please contact the parish office at
949-494-9701 to schedule.
We commit ourselves to: being a welcoming sanctuary and a place of prayer and worship.
Blessed Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus! We have a special Daily Jolt from Pope Saint John Paul II.
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Our greetings from the Basilica of St. Anthony of Padua.
Peace and all good❤
𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒚.
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✝️ WHY DOES GOD HIDE HIMSELF FROM US? 😲🤔
One of the oldest and most painful questions ever asked is this:
"If God is real, why doesn't He just show Himself?"
Why doesn't He appear in the sky?
Why doesn't He speak audibly to everyone?
Why doesn't He perform undeniable miracles every day?
Why does God seem hidden?
Many people have lost their faith over this question.
Many believers secretly struggle with it.
And surprisingly...
The Bible itself asks the same question.
✝️ EVEN THE PROPHET ISAIAH ASKED IT
Isaiah once cried out:
"Truly, You are a God who hides Himself." (Isaiah 45:15)
Think about that.
A prophet chosen by God acknowledged that God often seems hidden.
So if you have ever wondered where God is, you are not the first.
Even the saints asked.
✝️ BUT IS GOD REALLY HIDING?
The first surprise is this:
God is not hiding because He wants to be found by nobody.
He is hiding because He wants to be found freely.
There is a difference.
Imagine if every time you sinned, God appeared visibly before you.
Imagine if every atheist suddenly saw Christ standing in front of them.
Would people still choose God?
Or would they simply surrender because they had no other option?
Love cannot be forced.
Love requires freedom.
And freedom requires faith.
✝️ GOD REVEALS ENOUGH TO BELIEVE, BUT NOT SO MUCH THAT WE ARE FORCED
This is one of the great patterns of Scripture.
God gives signs.
God gives evidence.
God gives grace.
But He rarely overwhelms human freedom.
Why?
Because He wants sons and daughters.
Not prisoners.
✝️ JESUS HIMSELF DID NOT FORCE BELIEF
Many people imagine:
"If I had seen Jesus, I would certainly have believed."
But the Gospel tells a different story.
People saw:
the blind receive sight,
the dead raised,
demons cast out,
storms obey His voice,
Yet many still rejected Him.
The problem was never lack of evidence.
The problem was the human heart.
✝️ GOD IS OFTEN HIDDEN IN THE ORDINARY
Many expect God to appear in earthquakes, fire, and thunder.
But when the prophet Elijah met God, something surprising happened.
God was not in the wind.
God was not in the earthquake.
God was not in the fire.
God came in a "still small voice." (1 Kings 19:11-12)
The lesson is powerful.
God often comes quietly.
We miss Him because we are looking for spectacle.
✝️ THE GREATEST HIDING PLACE OF GOD
Want to know where God hides most astonishingly?
In humanity.
The Creator entered creation.
The Infinite became an infant.
The Almighty became a carpenter.
The King of Heaven became a man who could be rejected, mocked, and crucified.
God hid His glory inside human flesh.
And many did not recognize Him.
✝️ GOD IS STILL HIDING TODAY
He hides:
in the Eucharist,
in Scripture,
in prayer,
in the poor,
in acts of charity,
in ordinary moments of grace.
Many want God to write messages in the clouds.
Meanwhile, He is already speaking through countless signs every day.
✝️ WHY DOES GOD ALLOW PERIODS OF SILENCE?
Perhaps the hardest part is when God feels absent.
The saints experienced this too.
St. Teresa of Calcutta endured years of spiritual darkness.
Many holy men and women experienced periods where God seemed distant.
Not because He abandoned them.
But because He was teaching them to love Him for Himself, not merely for consolations.
Faith grows strongest when it learns to trust without seeing.
✝️ THE CROSS GIVES THE DEEPEST ANSWER
Even Jesus cried out:
"My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46)
At that moment, Christ entered the deepest human experience of abandonment.
So when you feel that God is silent, remember:
God understands that pain from the inside.
✝️ THE CONCLUSION
God is not hiding because He hates you.
God is not hiding because He enjoys confusion.
God is not hiding because He is absent.
He hides because love cannot be forced.
He reveals enough for faith.
Enough for hope.
Enough for those willing to seek Him.
The greatest tragedy is not that God is hidden.
The greatest tragedy is that many stop searching.
Because Jesus made a promise:
"Seek, and you will find." (Matthew 7:7)
And for two thousand years, countless saints, sinners, scholars, kings, peasants, and ordinary people have discovered that His promise is true.
The God who seems hidden is often much closer than we think.
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