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    11-22-2009

    Next Sunday is the Solemnity of Christ the King Year B

    BENEDICT XVI

    ANGELUS

    Saint Peter's Square

    Sunday, 26 November 2006

    Dear Brothers and Sisters,

    On this last Sunday of the liturgical year we are celebrating the Solemnity of Christ the King. Today's Gospel proposes to us anew part of the dramatic questioning to which Pontius Pilate subjected Jesus when he was handed over to him, accused of usurping the title, "King of the Jews".

    Jesus answered the Roman governor's questions by declaring that he was a king, but not of this world (cf. Jn 18: 36). He did not come to rule over peoples and territories but to set people free from the slavery of sin and to reconcile them with God. And he added: "For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice" (Jn 18: 37).

    But what is the "truth" that Christ came into the world to witness to? The whole of his life reveals that God is love: so this is the truth to which he witnessed to the full with the sacrifice of his own life on Calvary.

    The Cross is the "throne" where he manifested his sublime kingship as God Love: by offering himself in expiation for the sin of the world, he defeated the "ruler of this world" (Jn 12: 31) and established the Kingdom of God once and for all. It is a Kingdom that will be fully revealed at the end of time, after the destruction of every enemy and last of all, death (cf. I Cor 15: 25-26). The Son will then deliver the Kingdom to the Father and God will finally be "everything to everyone" (I Cor 15: 28).

    The way to reach this goal is long and admits of no short cuts: indeed, every person must freely accept the truth of God's love. He is Love and Truth, and neither Love nor Truth are ever imposed: they come knocking at the doors of the heart and the mind and where they can enter they bring peace and joy. This is how God reigns; this is his project of salvation, a "mystery" in the biblical sense of the word: a plan that is gradually revealed in history.

    The Virgin Mary was associated in a very special way with Christ's kingship. God asked her, a humble young woman of Nazareth, to become Mother of the Messiah and Mary responded to this request with her whole self, joining her unconditional "yes" to that of her Son, Jesus, and making herself obedient with him even in his sacrifice. This is why God exalted her above every other creature and Christ crowned her Queen of Heaven and earth.

    Let us entrust the Church and all humanity to her intercession, so that God's love can reign in all hearts and his design of justice and peace be fulfilled.

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted by Bob Kenward on June 27, 2009

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Thus says the LORD GOD!

And whether they heed or resist—for they are a rebellious house—they shall know that a prophet has been among them.

Jesus began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this?”

Ez 2:2-5
Ps 123:1-2, 2, 3-4
2 Cor 12:7-10
Mk 6:1-6

Is he not the carpenter’s son?

Sunday July 5 2009 is the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

He was REJECTED in his OWN NATIVE place

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place”

So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people

He was AMAZED at their

LACK of Faith.

 

COUNTER PRIDE AND DISOBEDIENCE WITH HUMILITY

Amen

DOUBLE UP

Oh Lord Increase Our FAITH IN YOU

AMEN

OPEN THE EYES OF MY HEART LORD

GOD BLESS YOU

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HOLY HOLY HOLY

I WANT TO SEE YOU

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Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted by Bob Kenward on June 21, 2009

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Raising_Jarius_Daughter005_Christians_UniteJune 28, 2009 – (6/28/2009)

A synagogue official named Jairus fell at Jesus’ feet and earnestly pleaded ‘My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.

Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24
Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13
2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15
Mk 5:21-43 or 5:21-24, 35b-43

Jesus went to Jairus’ daughter “do not be afraid; only have faith”. The child is not dead, but asleep.

“Talitha kum”
Little girl, I tell you to get up.

Go get something to eat

Sunday June 28 2009 is the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

“Eternal life? What is that?”

A woman was suffering for the longest time from hemorhages. She saw doctors and underwent painful treatments. She heard about Jesus and she came up from the crowd behind him and said to herself “if I can just touch his clothes I will be well again.”

Jesus felt the power coming out of him and asked who touched him.
Jesus said “My daughter your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be free from your complaint.

FAITH

Jesus is

never TOO LATE

DON’T BE

 

AFRAID Death need not be feared Jesus has done away with death Oh Lord, you have saved me and rescued me. You have raised my soul from the dead.

Remember how generous God is and be the same way to others. After Jesus raised Jairus’ daughter from the dead, he told the people to give her something to eat.

Our Savior Jesus Christ…

…has done away with death and…

…brought us LIFE through HIS GOSPEL.

ETERNAL LIFE IS LIFE ETERNAL

WHICH BY

ETERNAL LIFE MEANS

JUST THAT

LIFE…ETERNAL

Amen

and

AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted by Bob Kenward on June 13, 2009

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June 21, 2009 – (6/21/2009)

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They cried to the LORD in their distress; from their straits he rescued them, He hushed the storm to a gentle breeze, and the billows of the sea were stilled.

Jb 38:1, 8-11
Ps 107:23-24, 25-26, 28-29, 30-31
2 Cor 5:14-17
Mk 4:35-41

Like a ship out to sea in a storm, only Jesus
can bring me to shore. In a ship overcome by the waves, only Jesus has the power to save. They rejoiced that they were calmed, and he brought them to their desired haven.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his kindness
and his wondrous deeds to the children of men. 

 

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“Do you not yet have faith?”

Jesus Calms the Storm Video

Job 38:1, 8-11
The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said:
Who shut within doors the sea,
when it burst forth from the womb;
when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
When I set limits for it
and fastened the bar of its door,
and said: Thus far shall you come but no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stilled!

Be Still Video

Sunday June 21 2009 is the Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” [Mk. 4:38]

So whoever is in Christ is a new creation:
the old things have passed away;
behold, new things have come. – 2 Cor 5:17

Catholic Christian Soldier Video

Rejoice

Only Jesus Can Bring Me To Shore

NO

DOUBT

AMEN

DOUBLE UP

AMEN

Bible Stories for Kids: Jesus calms the storm

I Will Praise You in this Storm Video

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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

Posted by Bob Kenward on June 7, 2009

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June 14, 2009 – (6/14/2009)

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When Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation, he entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer’s ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

Sunday June 14 2009 is the

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Ex 24:3-8
Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18
Heb 9:11-15
Mk 14:12-16, 22-26

This Sunday in Mass we recall the institution of the Holy Eucharist, the source and summit of the Christian life

BODY

BLOOD

SOUL

DIVINITY

from the Catechism of the Catholic Church

1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”

1325 “The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the Church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God’s action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.”

1326 Finally, by the Eucharistic celebration we already unite ourselves with the heavenly liturgy and anticipate eternal life, when God will be all in all.

1327 In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith: “Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking.”

AT MASS THROUGH THE POWER OF CHRIST ACTING IN AND THROUGH THE PRIEST, THE REALITY OF BREAD AND WINE IS CHANGED INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST

CHRIST IS PRESENT IN THE HOLY EUCHARIST

Corpus Christi Sunday
from the Catholic Culture website

Prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ,
you gave us the eucharist
as the memorial of your suffering and death.
May our worship of this sacrament of your body and blood
help us to experience the salvation you won for us
and the peace of the kingdom
where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
AMEN

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