Prayer for the Week (January 14, 2023-January 20, 2024)

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Look upon us O Lord and let the darkness of our souls vanish before the beams of your brightness. Fill us with holy love and open to us the treasures of your wisdom. All our desires are known unto you, therefore perfect what you have begun, and what your Spirit has awakened us to ask in prayer. We seek your face, turn your face to us and show us your glory. Then shall our longings be satisfied, and our peace shall be perfect. Amen.

                                                                                          (St. Augustine)                    

               

                                   

                         

Sunday Sermon January 14, 2024

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Devotion January 10, 2024

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Devotion January 9, 2024

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Sunday Reflection (January 7, 2024)

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Why have we in Christ’s Church been chosen? Is it for arrogance? Eternal Fire Insurance? Or does it have nothing to do with arrogance or figuring out the ultimate judgment? “We are chosen “to be holy and blameless in love (Ephesians 1:4).  Christian holiness and blamelessness are bound up with love and not self-righteousness and arrogance. Christians should be different in the way they treat others: We have been caught up in God’s plan for the ages and our part is “to be holy and blameless in love” (1:9-10).

Prayer for the Week (January 7, 2023-January 13, 2024)

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Let us pray being grateful for the glory revealed in Jesus Christ: Father of light, you reveal to the faithful the resplendent beauty of the Word made flesh in Jesus Christ. Your light is strong, your love is near; draw us beyond the limits which the world imposes to the life where your Spirit makes all life complete. We ask this through Christ our Lord, who eternally dwells with you and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever more.  Amen.

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Sunday Sermon January 7, 2024

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Sunday Sermon December 31, 2023

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Sunday Reflection (December 31, 2023)

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In the fullness of time, we Gentiles have been adopted as God’s own in Christ’s Church, yet our adoption as God’s own does not mean we are better or more special than Jews (Galatians 4:4-7). Rather, we have been adopted as God’s children so that, alongside Israel, we display God’s love and kindness to the world.  How have we Christians done?
 
The history of Christianity demonstrates that on social and personal levels we have rejected the light of God’s love. We Christians have done things that Jesus Christ would never have endorsed because the “fullness of time” revealed by Jesus Christ is not about hatred, prejudice, or violence. Rather, it is about love, kindness, mercy, peace, and justice. When we enflesh love, kindness, mercy, peace, and justice the world will know what God is like (Isaiah 61:11).

Prayer for the Week (December 31, 2023-January 6, 2024)

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Let us pray to God that we be open to the coming of his Son among us: Glory to you, God, our Father in heaven, for showing us the depth of your love in Christ Jesus. May we be aware of the poverty of our hearts, so that he make us rich with his forgiveness and life. Lead us to a desire for goodness and justice and fill us with concern for all who suffer. We ask this in the name Christ. Amen.

                                                                                          (Claretian Publications)