December 17th Third Sunday of Advent
Jesus as we get closer to the greatest moment in all of history, Your birth.
Let us stop all the Christmas preparation, and come and just sit with You in adoration.
Let us just sit before the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings and let us just be in awe of
the fact, that You are really present in the Most Blessed Eucharist.
You love us so much that You want us to eat the Bread of Life, and slowly become truly
Christ to others.
Let us see in the breaking of the Bread, the love, the help and the healing that You
always give us.
Let us become new creations in, to and through 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 I'VE BEEN HAD
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"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me." -Isaiah 61:1
To meet Christ this Christmas, we need the Holy Spirit to guide us (see Jn 16:13). Most of us
have the Holy Spirit because we have been baptized and confirmed. However, the central question
is: "Does the Holy Spirit have us?"
- Do we relate to the Holy Spirit as a Person? (see Catechism, 686)
- Does the Holy Spirit possess our lives to direct us as He wills?
- With Mary, have we said to the Holy Spirit: "Let it be done to me according to Your word"?
(see Lk 1:38)
- Are we quenching the Spirit (1 Thes 5:19) - or are we baptized in, that is, immersed in the
Holy Spirit? (Mk 1:8)
- Are we preoccupied with the Holy Spirit?
- Do we walk, talk, work, pray, eat, buy, love, think, and sleep in the Holy Spirit?
(see Gal 5:25)
- Have we offered our bodies to be the temples of the Spirit? (1 Cor 6:19)
- Do we have the life in the Spirit or merely occasional moments in the Spirit?
The only true Christmas Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Are you in the Christmas Spirit?
"Come, Holy Spirit!"
Prayer: "May the God of peace make you perfect in holiness. May He preserve You whole and entire,
spirit, soul, and body, irreproachable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thes 5:23).
Promise: "He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from
the Lord." -Is 61:1-2
Praise: "O Wisdom, O holy Word of God, You govern all creation with Your strong yet tender care.
Come and show Your people the way to salvation."
Monday BE LIKE JOSEPH
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"When His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with
child through the power of the Holy Spirit." -Matthew 1:18
Tuesday FRUIT FOR CHRISTMAS
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"His wife was barren and had borne no children." -Judges 13:2
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· An Isaiah Advent
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December 18 Isaiah 54-55
December 19 Isaiah 56-57
December 20 Isaiah 58-60
December 21 Isaiah 61-64
December 22 Isaiah 65-66
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Who Am I in Christ?
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PM Internet Prayer Requests
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Please pray for me. I have uncontrollable shivers.
(Anonymous, , 12/16/2017 3:26:17 PM)
Fear is useless. LORD please look kindly on the petitions posted and all the requests said
silently in our hearts. May all glory and praise go to the FATHER, JESUS and the HOLY
SPIRIT. Thank you LORD
(Jim, Wisconsin, , 12/16/2017 1:51:56 PM)
Please pray that my aunt Clara will get better very soon and not stay the way she is
permanently. Please help her to recover very soon from the heart surgery she had. Let there
not be any permanent damage. She is such an awesome person and we need here. Please let her
be better later today when I go see here. Let her hyper ness go away very soon
(Sue, Mesquite, Texas, United States, 12/16/2017 10:57:18 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 .. please pray for me I need some hope. Amen - Thank you.
(VRAS, United States, 12/16/2017 10:21:10 AM)
Lord, please help my son kevin in finding a job. Please help him accomplish the requirements
necessary. Please guide him Lord, Pour Your Mercies, Your help, Your Blessings on my son.
Thank you My Lord and Savior, Jesus I trust in You. AMEN
(Anonymous, , 12/16/2017 10:10:06 AM)
Thank you God for helping Jor G. With his job and managers . You answer his prayer, please
fulfill our other prayers of the restoration of his health. AMEN
(Anonymous, , 12/16/2017 10:06:18 AM)
Please pray for son Pranoy to be a good responsible obedient well manered prayerful boy
everything he does
(C.f, , 12/16/2017 9:39:26 AM)
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Bible Telephone Line
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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.
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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
MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
"MANY CHALLENGES"
This is a great responsibility, which the Church intends to share with all believers and
men and women of good will, who are called to respond to the many challenges of
contemporary migrati on with generosity, promptness, wisdom and foresight, each according
to their own abilities.
"OUR SHARED RESPONSE"
... I wish to reaffirm that "our shared response may be articulated by four verbs: to
welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate."
WELCOME, PROTECT
... Welcoming means... offering broader options for migrants and refugees to enter
destination countries safely and legally... Protecting ... may be understood as a series
of steps intended to defend the rights and rights and dignity of migrants and refugees,
independent of their legal status.
(Source: Message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees, issued 8/15/17)
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