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Category: Pastor’s Message

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

FOCUS: Life is best when loving the Lord and living his Word wholeheartedly. Halfheartedness never brings the best results in anything. Living one’s life with the wholehearted desire to love the Lord and live by both the Commandments and the precepts taught and lived by Christ, will bring a fulfillment in life far beyond one’s…
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FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

FOCUS: We are sent out by Holy Mother Church with the Good News of Jesus Christ. It has been said that the Church can be compared to Jerusalem which was regarded as a loving mother to the Jewish people. Just as babies find comfort on the laps of their mothers, so are we to find…
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THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

FOCUS: We are to live as disciples of Christ God calls each of us to live lives of holiness. Each day, this will require us to make decisions to follow Christ in a world filled with competing priorities and messages.

TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Nothing is to take precedence over our relationship with God. Jesus Christ was sent by the Father to purify us, to expiate our sins. We, however, have a part to play in our salvation. Through faith in Jesus, we put ourselves, body and soul into God’s hands, humbling ourselves before him. Nothing else in the…
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ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Forgiveness is freely given to all, even when we judge or believe another is unworthy or sinful. When we really understand the meaning of the forgiveness of sins, it changes us. We alter our attitudes and realize that every person has the opportunity to experience renewal and a change of heart. We can be drawn…
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