Guardian Angels Parish

Guardian Angels Parish
1310 Westport Road
Kansas City, MO  64111
(816) 931-4351
guardianangelskc.org

Please call the Parish Office (816) 931-4351 and make an appointment during the Corona Virus pandemic.

Each day at 3 P.M. Monday through Saturday, while we are ordered to have gatherings with limits at church, please join us in praying the chaplet.  You will need to install the Zoom Application on your computer, or IOs, or Android phone.  The app is free. After installing, click "Join Meeting", enter ID, 137 914 446.  If using your phone, call 1-312-626-6799 or 1-301-715-8592.  (long distance & data charges may apply).  Using Zoom, be aware!  If you choose "video on" or "audio on", everyone will see you and/or hear you, along with any sights & sounds from your surroundings.   

"The roar we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in our ear…that’s a fact. Another fact is when we stop getting thirsty, that’s when we need to drink more water because when the human body is dehydrated its thirst mechanism shuts off!

Your soul acts similar to the body. When you don’t feel any need to pray is the reason because your soul is dehydrated and its spiritual thirst mechanism has shut down? You’re confusing me, you say. I don’t understand why I should even feel a need for more prayer when daily I say my morning and night prayers, pray before meals and go to church every Sunday. How can my soul be dehydrated? And besides, who ever heard of a thirsty soul?

The mysteries of our soul are better pondered by poets than priests, so I quote the 17th century English poet and playwright, Ben Jonson, “The thirst that from the soul doth rise doth ask a drink divine.” We will never quench the thirst of our souls by simply going to divine wells like churches, shrines or cathedrals. While these are holy places, they are more reminders of the 10,000 holy fountains surrounding us.

Our soul thirsts for the Divine in the beautiful, in harmonic melody, creativity, and awesome astonishment. When you see an apple tree or a springtime magnolia in full bloom, don’t rush on to some appointment; stop and drink in deeply that stunning natural beauty. Do the same with an insignificant, budding yellow-headed dandelion growing out of a crack in your concrete driveway. You say, “But I live in the middle of the asphalt and concrete of the city.” To quench your soul’s thirst, go on a pilgrimage to the closest park full of living springs or to an art museum to make the stations of creative wonder prayerfully moving from painting to painting. Step inside an empty darkened church and quietly sit, absorbing its ambience. Let your soul soak in the echoes of silent meditations and prayers, the great pipe organ previously performing Bach’s soul-stirring Fugue in C minor, inhale the smells of candle wax and incense. Then with your soul staggering drunk from these inebriating moments descend the steps and return to your daily life. ..."  Father Ed Hays

The Pastoral Council and Finance Council have continued to meet during the Corona Virus shutdown on ZOOM.

Other activities, other than Masses, will resume once it is safe to do so.  Please be safe; we need YOU.
 

You may also choose participating in Adoration the same way you are "going" to the Sunday Mass and Daily Mass.  Adoration is available on the same YouTube website./calendar