WELLSPRING
Fransalian Center for Spirituality
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.
PSALM 46:10
Wellspring is a Catholic spirituality center, located in Whitehouse, Texas, that offers spiritual growth opportunities such as classes and retreats and promotes contemplative spirituality. The center is owned and operated by The Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales and operates on a basic vision that all of God’s people are called to holiness and that it is possible for all to live a contemplative life style while being active in ministry.
RETREATS
OUR MASSES
RETREATS
SERENITY
RETREAT
Saturday, September 12, 2026
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Join us as we continue our study of serenity.
Serenity is a calm, confident, and peaceful
state of being, a conviction that everything is in
the hands of our Loving Father.
Our trust in God’s presence brings us
serenity even in the midst of storms.
You are invited to join us
as we strive to live a life of serenity.
Fr. Gus Tharappel will
guide the retreat.
To register, please email us at retreatsatwellspring@gmail.com
masses
SUNDAY MASSES
9:00 am and 5:00 pm
DAILY MASSES
Monday - Friday
6:00 am Adoration
6:45 am Holy Mass
The Mother of Compassion Shrine
is open on
weekdays from
6:00 am - 6:00 pm
and on weekends from
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
for prayer and meditation.
twenty-second sunday
in ordinary time
REFLECTIONS FOR PRAYER AND WORSHIP
Brothers and Sisters,
We have been making our journey with Jesus through the Gospel of Mathew. The following is what we have learned so far about being his disciples. We are sent into the world with a positive attitude to bless and befriend the world. We must nurture a blessing attitude and cultivate virtues of hospitality, fidelity, humility, gentleness, patience, generosity and a habit of listening to the voice of God, as well as listening and responding to those beyond family and friendship circles. Last Sunday, we heard a profound and challenging call to be the rock on which Christ would build his Church. Our Scripture readings today call us to reflect on the cost of being the rock on which Christ builds his Church…the cross, suffering, and death await all disciples who follow Jesus.
Jeremiah was a young man when he heard God’s call. He didn’t want to respond, and he had a good excuse of being young. The Lord persisted and Jeremiah finally accepted the Lord’s call and began his mission as the Lord commanded. The response to his mission was hatred and rejection of his people and being thrown into a cistern to die. Jeremiah cried out his frustration (today’s first reading). He cursed even the day of his birth. In spite of it all, he surrendered to God, “I say to myself, I will speak his name no more…then it becomes like fire burning in my heart…I must speak.” He remained faithful. He took up his cross and carried it well.
In his desperate moment, as he cried out his frustrations to God, Jeremiah found the “spark within” and fanned it into a flame and he was on fire with the mission that God had given him. St. Paul reminds us as he reminded the Romans, “the love of God is poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit” (Romans 5:5); “nothing will separate us from the love of God” (Romans 8:39).
Saint Paul invites us, as he invited the Romans, to offer ourselves as a “living sacrifice.” We, the disciples of Jesus cannot conform to this world and its values. We must be formed, shaped and transformed in Christ…...become living sacrifices of praise in all we do (today’s second reading).
To read more of these reflections, please click on the link below…
daily meditations
Click on the date to read Fr. Gus' meditations
on the Scripture readings of the daily Mass.
