Category: Pastor’s Message

7/12/09 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 6:7-13 “He began to send them out” It is said that Jesus has no hands but our hands. As Christians and followers of Jesus, we are called to be the hands that reach out to the sick and caress the afflicted. We are also to be the…
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7/5/09 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 6:1-6 “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place” Dr. Seuss ( the late Theodor Geisel), creator of the popular Cat in the Hat and other books, wrote his first children’s book in 1937. His writing career might have ended early had he not…
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6/28/09  THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIMEGOSPEL MARK 5:21-43  “Little girl, I say to you, arise!” In today’s Gospel, as Jesus restores the daughter of Jairus to life, he gently commands her to rise from her bed. He speaks in his Aramaic language. “Talitha cumi.” This is one of the rare occasions when the actual Aramaic…
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6/21/09 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time                   Gospel: Mark 4:35-41 “Who is this whom even wind and sea obey?”A storm can be a terrifying experience. The wind shrieks in the rigging. Mammoth waves of black water crash on top of each other and burst into white foam. The boar slams into an advancing wave. As it…
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6/14/09 Solemnity – Most Holy Body and Blood of ChristGospel: Mark 14:12-16“This is my body. This is my Blood.”Three years after Christopher Columbus discovered America, Leonardo da Vinci, then 43 years old, began to paint his vision of the Last Supper on the wall of the dining room in the Santa Maria delle Gracie Church…
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