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November 22, 2009 – (11/22/2009)
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King

Sunday November 22 2009 is the The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King Year B

The LORD is king; he is robed in majesty

His dominion is an everlasting dominion

that shall not be taken away

 “My kingdom does not belong to this world.

Dn 7:13-14
Ps 93:1, 1-2, 5
Rv 1:5-8
Jn 18:33b-37

Revelations 1:5-8
Jesus Christ is the faithful witness,

the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood,
who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father,
to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

Behold, he is coming amid the clouds,
and every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him.
All the peoples of the earth will lament him.
Yes. Amen.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ” says the Lord God,
“the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty.”

His kingship shall not be destroyed

Christ the King

GOD BLESS YOU

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For the LORD, the God of Israel, says,
‘The jar of flour shall not go empty,
nor the jug of oil run dry,
until the day when the LORD
sends rain upon the earth.’”

She left and did as Elijah had said.
She was able to eat for a year, and he and her son as well;
the jar of flour did not go empty,
nor the jug of oil run dry,
as the LORD had foretold through Elijah.
Responsorial Psalm
Praise the Lord, my soul!
The LORD keeps faith forever,
secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets captives free.
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!

The LORD gives sight to the blind.
The LORD raises up those who were bowed down;
the LORD loves the just.
The LORD protects strangers.
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!

The fatherless and the widow he sustains,
but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
The LORD shall reign forever;
your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!

2nd Reading
Christ’s one and only sacrifice
…Just as it is appointed that human beings die once,
and after this the judgment, so also Christ,
offered once to take away the sins of many,
will appear a second time, not to take away sin
but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.

from the Gospel…
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury
and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury.
Many rich people put in large sums.
A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents.

Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them,
“Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more
than all the other contributors to the treasury.
For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth,
but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had,
her whole livelihood.”

GOD BLESS YOU

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Rv 7:2-4, 9-14
Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
1 Jn 3:1-3
Mt 5:1-12a 

The first reading in today’s Mass is from Revelation. 

Then I saw another angel come up from the East, holding the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, “Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
- Rev 7:2-3

During the Sacrament of Confirmation, Christ puts his seal on us.

“The seal of the Holy Spirit

marks our total belonging to Christ,

our enrollment in his service for ever,

as well as the promise of divine protection in the great eschatological trial.

Responsorial Psalm

Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.

The LORD’s are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
R.        Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
One whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
R.        Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.

Second Reading
See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Beloved, we are God’s children now;
what we shall be has not yet been revealed.

We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure,
as he is pure.

From today’s Gospel, the Beatitudes
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the land.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you
and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.
Rejoice and be glad,
for your reward will be great in heaven.”

GOD BLESS YOU

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Jer 31:7-9
Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6
Heb 5:1-6
Mk 10:46-52  The LORD has delivered his people,
the remnant of Israel. 

Behold, I will bring them back
from the land of the north;
I will gather them from the ends of the world,
with the blind and the lame in their midst,
the mothers and those with child;

they shall return as an immense throng.
They departed in tears,
but I will console them and guide them;
I will lead them to brooks of water,
on a level road, so that none shall stumble.
For I am a father to Israel,
Ephraim is my first-born.

The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

Every high priest
is taken from among men
and made their representative before God,
to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring,
for he himself is beset by weakness
and so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself
as well as for the people.

No one takes this honor upon himself
but only when called by God,
just as Aaron was.

In the same way,
it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest,
but rather the one who said to him:
You are my son:
this day I have begotten you;
just as he says in another place:
You are a priest forever

according to the order of Melchizedek.

As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus,sat by the roadside begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.”
And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent.
But he kept calling out all the more,
“Son of David, have pity on me.”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called the blind man, saying to him,
“Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you.”
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus said to him in reply, “What do you want me to do for you?”

The blind man replied to him, “Master, I want to see.”
Jesus told him, “Go your way; your faith has saved you.”
Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.

 

GOD BLESS YOU

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“Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left.”

“You do not know what you are asking…”

October 18, 2009 – (10/18/2009)

Whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.

“The cup that I drink, you will drink,
and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; 

but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to

give

but is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

Jesus Christ, the true high priest,

Sunday October 18 2009 is the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Is 53:10-11
Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22
Heb 4:14-16
Mk 10:35-45 or 10:42-45

GOD BLESS YOU

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http://www.frtommylane.com/homilies/holy_week/shroud_of_turin.htm
http://www.scborromeo.org/biblestu/b_ot_29.pdf
http://www.lifeteen.com/RSS/podcasts/sunday/LifeTeenPresentsSundaySundaySunday-10_18_09.mp3
http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/2009/091018.htm
http://www.loyolapress.com/29th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-b-sunday-connection.htm
http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_29.htm

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October 11, 2009 – (10/11/2009)

“Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“You know the commandments”
“Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.”

…”You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor
and you will have treasure in heaven then come, follow me.”

“How hard it is for those who have wealth
to enter the kingdom of God!”

…”Then who can be saved?”

“Jesus looked at them and said,
“For human beings it is impossible, but not for God.
All things are possible for God.”

Sunday October 11 2009 is the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Wis 7:7-11
Ps 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
Heb 4:12-13
Mk 10:17-30 or 10:17-27

What do you treasure?

Wealth?

Fame?

Prosperity?

Wealth, power, and merit generate a false kind of security.

As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up,
knelt down before him, and asked him,
“Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good?
No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: You shall not kill;
you shall not commit adultery;
you shall not steal;
you shall not bear false witness;
you shall not defraud;
honor your father and your mother.”
He replied and said to him,
“Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.”
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him,
“You are lacking in one thing.
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor
and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

…”How hard it is for those who have wealth
to enter the kingdom of God!”

…”Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

…”Then who can be saved?”
Jesus looked at them and said,
“For human beings it is impossible, but not for God.
All things are possible for God.”
Peter began to say to him,
“We have given up everything and followed you.”

Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you,
there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters
or mother or father or children or lands
for my sake and for the sake of the gospel
who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age:
houses and brothers and sisters
and mothers and children and lands,
with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.”

Salvation is a gift that comes from God alone because of his goodness.

AMEN
and
AMEN

Pray

Wisdom

Prudence

Temperance

Good Stewardship

Last Will Be First And The First Will Be Last

GOD BLESS YOU

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Father Jim Chern asks “What More Do You Want??”
http://www.frtommylane.com/homilies/year_b/28.htm
http://www.scborromeo.org/biblestu/b_ot_28.pdf
http://www.lifeteen.com/RSS/podcasts/sunday/LifeTeenPresentsSundaySundaySunday-10_11_09.mp3
http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/2009/091011.htm
http://www.loyolapress.com/28th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-b-sunday-connection.htm
http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_28.htm
A reflection from Gus Lloyd

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October 4, 2009 – (10/4/2009)

“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.”

…from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

Sunday October 4 2009 is the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Gn 2:18-24
Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6
Heb 2:9-11
Mk 10:2-16 or 10:2-12

Brothers and sisters:
He “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels, “
that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

For it was fitting that he,
for whom and through whom all things exist,
in bringing many children to glory,
should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering.

He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated
all have one origin.

Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers.”

The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked,
“Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?”

They were testing him.

He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?”

They replied,
“Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her.”

But Jesus told them,
“Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.

But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.

So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate.”

In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.

He said to them,

“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery.”

And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them,
but the disciples rebuked them.

When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,

“Let the children come to me;

do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
such as these.

Amen, I say to you,
whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child
will not enter it.”

Then he embraced them and blessed them,
placing his hands on them.

AMEN
and
AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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http://www.lifeteen.com/RSS/podcasts/sunday/LifeTeenPresentsSundaySundaySunday-10_04_09.mp3
http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/2009/091004.htm
http://www.loyolapress.com/27th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-b-sunday-connection.htm
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September 27, 2009 – (9/27/2009)Divine tolerance

 Avoiding jealousy and selfish ambition

“For whoever is not against us is for us.”

“Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.”

Sunday September 27 2009 is the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Nm 11:25-29
Ps 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14
Jas 5:1-6
Mk 9:38-43, 45, 47-48

The LORD came down on a cloud and spoke to Moses and bestowed some of the spirit that was on Moses to seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied. Eldad and Medad were not in the gathering…but they were prophesying. So, when a young man quickly told Moses,
“Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp, “
Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses’ aide, said,
“Moses, my lord, stop them.”
But Moses answered him,
“Are you JEALOUS for my sake?
Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets!
Would that the LORD might bestow his spirit on them all!”In a similar situation, Jesus’ disciples were concerned that an outsider had been casting out demons in Jesus’ name and they tried to prevent him.But, Jesus said…”Do not prevent him.
There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name
who can at the same time speak ill of me.”

Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink
because you belong to Christ,
Amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.

Jesus warns against sins of being injust, malicious, and intolerant of others outside the camp because of jealousy and selfish ambition.  ”Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,
it would be better for him if a great millstone

were put around his neckand he were thrown into the sea.If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed
than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.  It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.

Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye

than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”

The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart.
The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the LORD is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple. The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are true, all of them just. Though your servant is careful of them, very diligent in keeping them, yet who can detect failings? Cleanse me from my unknown faults! From wanton sin especially, restrain your servant; let it not rule over me. Then shall I be blameless and innocent of serious sin.

AMEN
and
AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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http://www.lifeteen.com/RSS/podcasts/sunday/LifeTeenPresentsSundaySundaySunday-09_27_09.mp3
http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/2009/090927.htm
http://www.loyolapress.com/26th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-b-sunday-connection.htm
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September 20, 2009 – (9/20/2009)

“If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”

“Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me.”

Sunday September 20 2009 is the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Wis 2:12, 17-20

Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6 and 8

Jas 3:16-4:3

Mk 9:30-37

For if the just one be the son of God, God will defend him
and deliver him from the hand of his foes.

The Lord upholds my life.
Behold, God is my helper;
the Lord sustains my life.
Freely will I offer you sacrifice;
I will praise your name, O LORD, for its goodness.Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist,
there is disorder and every foul practice.
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure,
then peaceable, gentle, compliant,
full of mercy and good fruits,
without inconstancy or insincerity.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace
for those who cultivate peace.

Jesus was teaching his disciples and telling them,
“The Son of Man is to be handed over to men
and they will kill him,
and three days
after his death
the Son of Man will rise.”

But they did not understand the saying,
and they were afraid to question him.

The disciples had been discussing among themselves
who was the greatest.
Then Jesus sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,
“If anyone wishes to be first,
he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.”
Taking a child,
he placed it in the their midst, and putting his arms around it, he said to them,

“Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me;
and whoever receives me,
receives not me but the One who sent me.”

AMEN
and
AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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http://www.scborromeo.org/biblestu/b_ot_25.pdf
http://www.lifeteen.com/RSS/podcasts/sunday/LifeTeenPresentsSundaySundaySunday-09_20_09.mp3
http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/2009/090920.htm
http://www.loyolapress.com/25th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-b-sunday-connection.htm
http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_25.htm
http://www.geraldtondiocese.org.au/homily__25th_sunday_in_ot__year%20B.htm

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September 13, 2009 – (9/13/2009)

Jesus said, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”

Sunday September 13 2009 is the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Is 50:5-9a

Ps 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9

Jas 2:14-18

Mk 8:27-35

Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do people say I am?”

“John the Baptist”

“Elijah”

“But who do YOU say I AM?”

“You are the Messiah”

“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
take up his cross, and follow me.”

“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake
and that of the gospel will save it.”

Isaiah…
I gave my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
my face I did not shield
from buffets and spitting.

Demonstrate Your Faith
Faith of itself,
if it does not have works, is dead.    

Indeed someone might say,

You have

faith 

and I have

works.

Demonstrate your faith to me without works,
and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that the Sacrament of Confirmation “gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly and never to be ashamed of the Cross.” (see CCC-303)

To be a totally committed disciple of Christ takes great sacrifice.  There is a cross to bear in rejecting the ways of the world which is so much in contradiction to the teachings of Jesus. 

The reward for picking up the cross and following Jesus is true happiness and eternal life. 

AMEN
and
AMEN

For the Lord has freed my soul from death,
my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

I shall walk before the Lord
in the land of the living.

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

GOD BLESS YOU

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http://www.scborromeo.org/biblestu/b_ot_24.pdf
http://www.lifeteen.com/RSS/podcasts/sunday/LifeTeenPresentsSundaySundaySunday-09_13_09.mp3
http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/2009/090913.htm
http://www.loyolapress.com/24th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-b-sunday-connection.htm
http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_24.htm
http://www.geraldtondiocese.org.au/homily__24th_sunday_in_ot__year%20B.htm

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September 6, 2009 – (9/6/2009)

And people brought a deaf man who had a speech impediment to Jesus and begged him to lay his hand on him.
He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak

Sunday September 6 2009 is the Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Is 35:4-7a

Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10

Jas 2:1-5

Mk 7:31-37

Say to those whose hearts are frightened:
Be strong, fear not!

Here is your God

he comes with vindication;
with divine recompense
he comes to save you.

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened,

the ears of the deaf be cleared;

then will the lame leap like a stag,

then the tongue of the mute will sing.

Streams will burst forth in the desert,
and rivers in the steppe.

The burning sands will become pools,
and the thirsty ground, springs of water.

Praise the Lord, my soul!

Listen to the Word of God

And offer praise to the Lord

Lord I offer you my life

My brothers and sisters, show no partiality
as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

For if a man with gold rings and fine clothes
comes into your assembly,

and a poor person in shabby clothes
also comes in,
and you pay attention
to the one
wearing the fine clothes

and say

“Sit here, please,”
while you say to the poor one,

“Stand there,” or “Sit at my feet,”
have you not made distinctions
among yourselves and become
judges with evil designs?

Did not God choose those who are poor in the world
to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom
that he promised to those who love him?

“Ephphatha!”— that is, “Be opened!” —
And immediately the man’s ears were opened,
his speech impediment was removed,
and he spoke plainly.

Lord, I offer my life to you…

Use it for your glory

They were exceedingly astonished and they said,
“He has done all things well.
He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

Listen to the Word of God and always speak the Truth…Be Opened…Ears Open…Speak Clearly

AMEN
and
AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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Mass Preparation for this Sunday
http://www.scborromeo.org/biblestu/b_ot_23.pdf
http://www.lifeteen.com/RSS/podcasts/sunday/LifeTeenPresentsSundaySundaySunday-09_06_09.mp3
http://www.catholicdoors.com/homilies/2009/090906.htm
http://www.loyolapress.com/23rd-sunday-in-ordinary-time-b-sunday-connection.htm
http://www.wellsprings.org.uk/weekly_wellsprings/year_b/sunday_23.htm
http://www.saintjames-nb.org/n23otb03.htm

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August 30, 2009 – (8/30/2009)

Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;
but the things that come out from within are what defile.
All good giving and every perfect gift is from above…He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Observe the commands of the whole of God’s law carefully

Dt 4:1-2, 6-8

Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5

Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27

Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you
and is able to save your souls.

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.

Religion that is

pure

and

undefiled before God and the Father is this:

to care for
orphans and widows
in their affliction
and to
keep oneself
unstained by the world.

Sunday August 30 2009 is the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

“From within people, from their hearts,
come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, malice, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
All these evils come from within and they defile.”

One who does justice

will live
in the presence of the Lord.

Whoever walks blamelessly

and does justice;

who thinks the truth in his heart
and slanders not with his tongue.

When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem
gathered around Jesus,
they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals
with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

—For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews,
do not eat without carefully washing their hands,
keeping the tradition of the elders.
And on coming from the marketplace
they do not eat without purifying themselves.
And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed,
the purification of cups and jugs and kettles and beds. —
So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him,
“Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders
but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?”
He responded,
“Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:
This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines human precepts.
You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”

God of Justice

Catholic Social Teaching Prayer Slideshow

Keep REAL the WORD of TRUTH

AMEN
and
AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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August 23, 2009 – (8/23/2009)

Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b

Ps 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21

Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32

Jn 6:60-69

Jesus told his disciples that “there are some of you who do not believe.”

Jesus: “Do you also want to leave?”

Simon Peter: “Master, to whom shall we go?
You have the words of eternal life.

We have come to believe and are convinced

that you are the

Holy One of God.”

Joshua addressed all the people:
“If it does not please you to serve the LORD, decide
today
whom
you will
serve…

Sunday August 23 2009 is the Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

He performed those
great miracles
before our
very eyes
and
protected
us
along our
entire journey and among the peoples
through whom we passed. Therefore we also
will serve the LORD,
for he is our God. Jesus said,
“just as the living Father sent me and I have life
because of the Father,
so also the one who
feeds on me
will have life
because of me.” The disciples said,

“This saying is hard; who can accept it?”  

 Jesus said,

“It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail.”

“The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life.”

Taste and see

the goodness
of the Lord

When the just cry out,
the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;

and those who are

crushed in spirit

he saves.

Wives should be subordinate
to their husbands
as to the Lord.

For the husband
is head of his wife

just as Christ is head of the church,

he himself the savior of the body.
As the church is subordinate to Christ,

so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives,

even as Christ LOVED THE CHURCH
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her,

He who loves his wife loves himself.
For no one hates his own flesh
but rather nourishes and cherishes it,
even as Christ does

THE CHURCH,

because we are

MEMBERS of HIS BODY.

For this reason a man shall
leave his father and his mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.

This is a great mystery,
but I speak
in reference to
CHRIST AND THE CHURCH

The words I have spoken to you are
Spirit and Life.

But there are some of you

who do not

believe.

Jesus knew from the beginning

the ones who
would not
believe

and the one
who would
betray him.

And he said,
“For this reason
I have told you
that no one can come to me
unless
it is granted him
by my Father.”

As a result of this,
many of his disciples returned
to their former way of life
and
no longer
accompanied him.

Jesus then said to the Twelve,
“Do you also want to leave?”

Simon Peter answered him,
“Master, to whom shall we go?”

“You have the words of eternal life.
We have come to believe
and are convinced that you
are the Holy One of God.”

AMEN
and
AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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August 16, 2009 – (8/16/2009)

Prv 9:1-6

Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7

Eph 5:15-20

Jn 6:51-58

Jesus said to the crowds:
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven;

whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

Sunday August 16 2009 is the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven columns; she has dressed her meat, mixed her wine, yes, she has spread her table.

Taste and see

the goodness
of the Lord
I sought the LORD, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears. Watch carefully how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise, making the most of the opportunity,

because the days are

EVIL.

Therefore,

do not continue in ignorance,

but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.

And do not get drunk on wine,

in which lies debauchery,

but be filled with the Spirit,

addressing one another in

psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

singing and playing to the Lord in your hearts,

giving thanks always and for everything

in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.

“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,

you do not have life within you.

For my flesh is true food,

and my blood is true drink.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my

blood remains in me and I in him. 

 AMEN
and
AMEN

GOD BLESS YOU

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