November 5th 31st Sunday in ordinary time.
Lord God, we are now in a time of year where we have good days, cold days, and in some
areas snowy days.
Jesus, isn't this just the way we are also.
Sometimes our feelings to You are very good, and sometimes really cool to You, and
sometimes just a mess.
Christ, please continue to shower us with grace to focus on You, and You alone.
Please keep us from getting bogged down with life, and forget to give You all the praise
and glory.
Keep us mindful that only in You, will we ever have rest.
Jesus, open our hearts, mind, and souls, to feel Your love, and to sense Your presence
with us at all times.
Christ, keep us truly focused on You.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday PRIESTLY PEOPLE
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"And now, O priests, this commandment is for you." -Malachi 2:1
"The lips of the priest are to keep knowledge, and instruction is to be sought from his
mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts" (Mal 2:7). When priests do not
properly exercise their God-given ministry of teaching, they cause "many to falter" by
their instruction (Mal 2:8). Then the Lord, in order to protect His people, tries to
correct His priests by turning their blessings into curses (Mal 2:2) and by making the
priests "contemptible and base before all the people" (Mal 2:9).
If you are a baptized Christian, you are a priest (1 Pt 2:9; Rv 5:10; Catechism, 783,
1241, 1546). Therefore, the words of God through Malachi apply to you. St. Thomas Aquinas
taught: "To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of
each believer" (quoted in Catechism, 904).
What are you teaching others by your conversation and way of living? Do you know your
faith so as to be able to teach it rightly and fully? Do you know the teachings of the
Church? Have you read the Catechism? Have you ever read one of the Pope's encyclicals?
How well do you know the Bible? Have you even tried to learn it? Do you look for
opportunities to share your faith? Have you ever invited someone to give his life to
Jesus? Could you explain the Mass to those asking questions about it? "I charge you to
preach the word, to stay with this task whether convenient or inconvenient - correcting,
reproving, appealing - constantly teaching" (2 Tm 4:2).
Prayer: Father, make me hungry for Your Word and not spiritually anorexic.
Promise: "We thank God constantly that in receiving His message from us you took it, not
as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God at work within you who believe."
-1 Thes 2:13
Praise: Praise the risen Jesus, eternal High Priest (see Heb 7:24).
Monday MISERY OR MYSTERY?
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"...how inscrutable His judgments, how unsearchable His ways!" -Romans 11:33
Tuesday FISHIN' HOLE
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"Go out into the highways and along the hedgerows and force them to come in. I want My
house to be full." -Luke 14:23
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· How to Fight False Teachings
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· Be Holy, For I Am Holy
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· Hope and Healing Through Aborted Children
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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
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PM Internet Prayer Requests
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Fear is useless. LORD please look kindly on the petitions posted and all the requests said
silently in our hearts. JESUS thank you for the faith you have given me. May I humbly
listen to You. LORD please allow me to be a true Christian presence today and a true
Christian inside. All good that has come to me came through You. May I humbly share the
good with others.
(Jim, Wisconsin, , 11/4/2017 11:06:09 AM)
bl sr. rania maria pray for my special intention on this beautiful day of your beatification.
For my wife's mental, emotional, physical healing so that she understands the value of Holy
Matrimony, forgiveness, confession, eucharist, motherhood, being a devoted self-giving
Christian Wife and respect marital obligations. For Jessy my wife to be healed at once in the
name of Jesus Christ our Lord and have our marriage healed, reconciled and our home filled
with eternal peace. I pray for my wife's purity of mind, body and soul and for the Lord God
to wash her head to toe inside out and seal her with the precious blood.
(Anonymous, , 11/4/2017 11:02:02 AM)
Pray please God will help my husband, that God gives comfort to my husband, restores his faith
and confidence -Please God watch over my husband today, help him through his stress today and
grant him a peaceful night sleep tonight. Lord Jesus Christ son of our living God please have
mercy on my husband. I ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen. Thank you.
(Virginia, United States, 11/4/2017 7:25:19 AM)
I do not need a perfect life, just a life knowing God is with me through all of it. Pray that
I feel God's love, know God's peace, God's strength, protection and comfort - please God bring
peace to my husband's and my troubled souls. Some financial relief would help. Please hear my
prayer and the prayers of all the faithful. I ask this through Christ our Lord .. Amen -
Thank you.
(VRAS, United States, 11/4/2017 7:23:09 AM)
For reconciliation healing, forgiveness and peace in my family. Abba, please cure my wife
inside out from her health, mental, emotional issues and make her a new bride for me a new
mother for our son. This I ask through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns, one God
forever and ever. Amen
(Anonymous, , 11/4/2017 7:16:52 AM)
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Audio by Topic
Catholic MP3 Talks & Teachings
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
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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 26 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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Canada:
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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
FATIMA AND HOPE
JESUS OUR HOPE
When Jesus ascended to heaven, He brought to the Heavenly Father our humanity ... Like an
anchor, let us fix our hope on that humanity, seated in heaven at the right hand of the
Father ... May this hope guide our lives! It is a hope that sustains us always, to our
dying breath.
GIVING THANKS
Confirmed in this hope, we have gathered here to give thanks for the countless graces
bestowed over these past hundred years. All of them passed beneath the mantle of light that
Our Lady has spread over the four corners of the earth ...
PRAY WITH HOPE
... Let us pray to God with the hope that others will hear us; and let us speak to others
with the certainty that God will help us.
(Source: Homily at Mass and Rite of Canonization of Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto,
May 13, 2017, feast of Our Lady of Fatima)
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