May 20th Pentecost
This week, oh Jesus, we celebrate the birthday of Your church.
Continue to send down upon us, Your fire of love.
Let Your Spirit continue to set us on fire with faith, and give us the graces that we will
need to help spread the truth and necessity of Your church.
Let Your church have freedom throughout the world.
Protect the Pope and all the clergy and religious.
Let us pray that all Catholics see You truly in the gift of the Eucharist.
Let us all adore You.
Thank you Jesus.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday "ONE SPIRIT" (EPH 4:4)
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"Receive the Holy Spirit." -John 20:22
Happy Pentecost! Happy birthday of the Church! Come, Holy Spirit! On this "last and greatest
day of the festival," Jesus continues to cry out: "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me; let
him drink who believes in Me. Scripture has it: 'From within Him rivers of living water shall
flow.' (Here He was referring to the Spirit)" (Jn 7:37-39).
The Holy Spirit will come to us and through us renew the face of the earth (Ps 104:30). The
Spirit will make us witnesses for the risen Christ (see Acts 2:32). He will give us the words
to say (Mt 10:19-20), and people of all nations will believe that Jesus is Lord
(see 1 Cor 12:3). Through faith, they will accept the Lord's gift of salvation, and the world
will be renewed.
The renewal of the earth, the acceptance of salvation, and our witnessing for Jesus depend to
a large extent on Christians being united. Jesus is praying even now that we would be one as
He and the Father are one so that the world will believe the Father sent Him (Jn 17:21). Our
unity is the basis for faith, which is the basis for salvation (Eph 2:8), which is the basis
for renewal. The Spirit will never renew the world unless He unites us.
Therefore, "it was in one Spirit that all of us...were baptized into one body" (1 Cor 12:13).
"Make every effort to preserve the unity which has the Spirit as its origin" (Eph 4:3). May
peoples of all nations, denominations, and divisions repent, forgive and understand each other,
and be one in the Spirit. Then all will be saved (1 Tm 2:4), and the world renewed. Come, Holy
Spirit of unity!
Prayer: Father, in Jesus' name, stir into flame the gift of the Spirit (2 Tm 1:6-7). Renew my
Baptism and Confirmation.
Promise: "All were filled with the Holy Spirit." -Acts 2:4
Praise: Praise Jesus, Who died, rose, and ascended so that we could be filled with the Holy Spirit! Alleluia!
Monday WANTING STRONGER FAITH?
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"I do believe! Help my lack of faith!" -Mark 9:24, our transl.
Tuesday A CLEAN WEEP
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"Begin to lament, to mourn, and to weep." -James 4:9
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Who Am I in Christ?
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Thank you Father for another week. Lord I pray for my daughter, to help her and show her the way to
go on with her life,heal her heart from any hurt from her marriage, her help her to understand that
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love heal my wife Jessy and let her be transformed yearning for her family that is her husband and
our only son Chris who is in his early teens.
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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
CALLED TO HOLINESS
CHOSEN BY THE LORD
...The Lord has chosen each one of us "to be holy and blameless before Him in love" (Eph 1:4). (2)
CONSTANT ADVANCE
The Letter to the Hebrews ... invites us to realize that "a great cloud of witnesses" (12:1) impels
us to advance constantly towards the goal. These witnesses may include our own mothers, grandmothers
or other loved ones (cf. 2 Tim 1:5). Their lives may not always have been perfect, yet even amid
their faults and failings they kept moving forward and proved pleasing to the Lord. (3)
LIVES OF LOVE
We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we
do, wherever we find ourselves. (14)
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