October 30th, 31st Sunday in ordinary time
This week, Jesus, we celebrate all saints, and all souls day.
Help us to truly pray for all people who are being totally purified and purged of effects
of sin in purgatory.
Help us to intercede with the saints who can go before You for all those souls.
Help us to totally realize that You are the true intercessor before the Father, but that
You want the saints, and us, to also intercede for the graces we all need to someday come
to You as unstained as possible.
Thank You for loving us eternally.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday THE RETURN OF THE PENITENTIAL PEOPLE
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"Today salvation has come to this house." -Luke 19:9
After salvation had come to his house, Zacchaeus immediately stated his intent to make
reparation for the damage done by him through his sins. This is traditionally called "doing
penance." Zacchaeus "said to the Lord: 'I give half my belongings, Lord, to the poor. If I
have defrauded anyone in the least, I pay him back fourfold' " (Lk 19:8). Likewise, if we have
truly repented from our sins, we will want to do penance and repair in some way the damage done
by our sins.
Because sin is such a great evil, its damage is very extensive. Zacchaeus realized this. So he
began to make partial reparation by giving half of his possessions to the poor. Because
Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector and tax collecting was a lucrative business, half of
Zacchaeus' assets could probably be at least the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars.
This shows the extent of the need to make reparation and do penance.
The indulgences given by the Church also imply that the victims of sin are severely damaged. An
indulgence is the Church's application of Christ's merits and the Church's share in those merits
to the repair due to sin. Unless the repair job was extensive, why would we need help of such
magnitude?
Purgatory is partly for reparation of the damaging effects of sin. This again implies that
justice and love require reparation for our sins and that this repairing is extensive.
Zacchaeus is a patron of reparation and penance. Let us follow his example and return to being a
people of penance.
Prayer: Father, through the sacrifices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting, make my life
increasingly penitential.
Promise: "You have mercy on all, because You can do all things; and You overlook the sins of men
that they may repent." -Wis 11:23
Praise: Glory, power, and might to the Lamb of God!
Monday LIVING AND LOVING AS NEVER BEFORE
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"Never act out of rivalry or conceit; rather, let all parties think humbly of others as superior
to themselves, each of you looking to others' interests rather than to his own."
-Philippians 2:3-4
Tuesday HIGH LIFE
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"They stood before the throne and the Lamb, dressed in long white robes and holding palm branches
in their hands." -Revelation 7:9
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Brochures
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· Who Am I in Christ?
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"He who seeks only himself brings himself to ruin, whereas he who brings
himself to nought for Me discovers who he is." -Matthew 10:39
We must know who we are before we .....................................
· Mother Mary
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MARY-WHO IS SHE IN GOD'S PLAN?
"When the designated time had come, God sent forth His Son born of a woman." -Galatians 4:4
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· How To Renew Your Parish
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· The Bible on Money
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· The Secret of the Rosary
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· Seek Prophecy
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· The Challenge of Making Disciples in a "Culture of Death"
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PM Internet Prayer Requests
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Lord when I am overwhelmed by things that surround me and overburdened, help me to look at you
on the cross and draw strength, grace and courage to keep on going on. I realise that as I am
growing older I need to slow down. Give me a good person to help me out, specially now that my
helper is ill and unable to work. Lord I am trusting you will hear my prayer and send me the
right person. Thank you and Praise you Jesus. Glory and honor to you Lord. Alleluia Lord.
(Nimi, , 10/29/2016 2:17:49 PM)
Divine mercy, I place Nish, Agnes, Mary in your loving care. Touch them with your divine healing
love and make them perfectly well. Let them have a deep and peaceful restful nights sleep even
as Jesus Mary and Joseph all the angels and saints guard, guide and protect them. Let them feel
your comforting presence at all times. Thank you Divine mercy for your love.
(Marge, , 10/29/2016 2:14:11 PM)
Dear friends in Christ, I have found many people no longer want to talk about eternal death,
eternal punishments and hell fire because it is too disturbing a topic. However. I would rather
be disturbed about it now than be disturbed about it later.
(Anonymous, , 10/29/2016 2:02:16 PM)
Greetings Brothers and Sisters and Friends of Saints Francis and Clare: Asking for your wonderful
loving prayers for Chuck: for truly infinite vast oceans of ever deepening, all pervasive,
complete, permanent, radical healing of every fibber and cell of his desires towards
self-destructive, truly harmful behaviors and tendencies, leanings and inclinations. Asking for
truly infinite vast oceans of truly ever deepening, all pervasive, radical, permanent healing of
all such deeply seated desires for corruption and self annihilation --spiritual,psychic, emotional
and physical healing.
(Anonymous, , 10/29/2016 1:53:17 PM)
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MP3 4 You
The internet ministry for PM is highlighting our downloadable tapes online. The Gospels of
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are featured as well as covering the entire New Testament thru Revelation.
Also available, many MP3 formatted Audio tapes of most epistles in the bible and numerous 15
minute Bible studies by Fr. Al Lauer.
Take a moment and check the link below
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Small Christian Communities
We believe the Lord is calling us to build hundreds of more communities by raising up leaders who will
form communities
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Small Christian Community Resources
Introduction to Small Christian Community
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"Unless the Lord Build the House..." - Psalm 127:
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Building Small Christian Communities (Team Manual)
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Bible Telephone Line
The Bible Telephone Line (BTL) has been in operation for 24 years. Begun by Fr. Al in 1991, it now
continues with one deacon of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and two lay teachers trained by
Presentation Ministries. The BTL provides callers with a short teaching on the readings for the
daily Mass. It is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Callers may also leave a short prayer
request which will be shared on the line with the other callers the next day on a separate line.
THE BTL RECENTLY WENT TO A SINGLE NUMBER FOR THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES
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Pope Francis, Shepherd of Truth
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Notable quotations from Pope Francis and official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA
"DARING AND COURAGE"
Following Jesus is a serious task, and at the same time, one filled with joy; it takes a certain
daring and courage to recognize the divine Master in the poorest of the poor and those who are
cast aside, and to give oneself in their service.
"GENEROUS DISPENSER"
Mother Teresa ... was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone
through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded.
She was committed to defending life, ceaselessly proclaiming that "the unborn are the weakest,
the smallest, the most vulnerable." She bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on
the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity; she made her voice heard before the
powers of the world ...
SAINT OF MERCY
For Mother Teresa, mercy was the "salt" which gave flavor to her work, it was the "light" which
shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their poverty and suffering.
(Source: Homily at Mass and Canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 9/4/16)
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2016 RETREATS
Online Registration
2016 RETREATS
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