February 26th Eighth Sunday in ordinary time
Jesus, we are getting close to the start of Lent.
Help us to jump start this beautiful season of reparation by starting to pray and ask for
guidance for the fearless moral inventory we should all make during the Lenten season.
Help us to come and sit with You so that we can know what to really do during Lent that
would most please You.
Mary our mother, please intercede for us so that we will do God's will all the time.
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 GOD OF LIFESTYLE
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"You cannot give yourself to God and money. I warn you, then: do not worry about your livelihood."
-Matthew 6:24-25
It often seems that much of Western Christianity has sold its birthright for petty pleasures
(see Gn 25:34) and has blinded itself by bowing down before the god of the present age, the god
of lifestyle (2 Cor 4:4). Many of us who call ourselves Christians think we can seek the most
comfortable lifestyle possible and still serve God. However, the Lord says that's impossible
(Mt 6:24).
If we're set upon the things of the world, we're enemies of the cross (Phil 3:18-19). If we love
what the world affords, the Father's love finds no place in us (1 Jn 2:15). The unbelievers are
always concerned about what they are to eat, drink, or wear (Mt 6:31-32). Yet we have been chosen
out of the world (Jn 15:19). We have been crucified to the world and the world to us (Gal 6:14).
Because of our love for Jesus, we have come to rate all as loss and to consider it dung (Phil 3:8).
We despise the world's petty pleasures and refuse to take Satan's bribes (see Lk 4:6-7). We have
already devoted enough time to what the pagans enjoy (1 Pt 4:3). We must not spend what remains of
our earthly lives "on human desires but on the will of God" (1 Pt 4:2).
Prayer: Father, may my lifestyle make no sense to someone who doesn't know You.
Promise: "With God is my safety and my glory, He is the Rock of my strength; my refuge is in God."
-Ps 62:8
Praise: Praise be to the risen Jesus, Who is joy for all ages. Alleluia!
Monday SAVING FACE
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"You know the commandments." -Mark 10:19
Tuesday ANOTHER SEASON OF GIVING
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"Give to the Most High as He has given to you, generously, according to your means." -Sirach 35:9
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We need your prayers for Joe. He's living on the street and doing meth. Bring him home please Lord.
(Kenny, United States, 2/25/2017 7:12:50 PM)
For all prayers posted. Amen.
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For our son who is battling his addictions which have become life threatening. Request prayers that
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Daniel get called for second interview and be hired - for Conversion - spiritual , emotional,
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Father, we ask that You go before EB and surround her with Your Love and Angels. Protect her from
any breakdown, flat tires, bad traffic, bad weather, any delays, or evil and bring her home safely.
Thank You God, Amen.
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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
THE FAMILY, PEACE, NONVIOLENCE
Practice Nonviolence
If violence has its source in the human heart, then it is fundamental that nonviolence be
practiced before all else in families.
"Generous Concern "
The family is the indispensable crucible in which spouses, parents and children, brothers
and sisters, learn to communicate and to show generous concern for one another, and in which
frictions and even conflicts have to be resolved not by force but by dialogue, respect,
concern for the good of the other, mercy and forgiveness. From within families, the joy of
love spills out into the world and radiates to the whole of society.
Respect Not Fear
An ethics of fraternity and peaceful coexistence between individuals and among peoples cannot
be based on the logic of fear, violence and closed mindedness, but on responsibility, respect
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