December 30th Feast of the Holy family
Jesus, as we end this year, let us see the power of love that exists in the human family that should
be like Your Holy Family.
We all have our faults and failings, but they can be given to You, so that we can be free to love
those who gave us life and took care of us as children.
Let us see that our parents did the best they could where they were at.
And let us pray for them to come and find the love that You have for all families.
Jesus, help all children, especially those who had difficult childhoods, and give them the grace to
forgive.
Let this next year be a year of peace and love and forgivness.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday LIFE IS A ...
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"On the third day they came upon Him in the temple." -Luke 2:46
Shakespeare said the world is a stage and we are all players in the theater of life. Others say life
is a party or game. Job said life was a drudgery (Jb 7:1). The Lord reveals to us that life is a
Passover (see Lk 2:41) - a communal celebration of our God-given freedom from slavery. Life is not
just a nostalgic look at Passovers past, but a living of Passover present. Life is losing Christ for
three days (see Lk 2:46), being crucified and buried with Him (Rm 6:3-4), and searching for the Lord
in sorrow (Lk 2:48; Jn 20:15). Life is also finding Christ and rising with Him "on the third day"
(Lk 2:46; Jn 20:16).
All of this is "the Father's business" (Lk 2:49, our translation). This is everyday life and family
life. This is the way of holiness in life and in family. We become holy by becoming like God
(see 1 Pt 1:15-16). We become like God by being baptized into Jesus' death and Resurrection (Rm 6:3ff)
and living our Baptisms through daily crosses and repeated experiences of the Resurrection. As our
lives become Passovers, we and our families become holy. Like Jesus, we progress "steadily in wisdom
and age and grace before God and men" (Lk 2:52). Holy Family, pray for us.
Prayer: Father, center my life on celebrating, receiving, and living the New Passover, the Eucharist
(see Lk 22:15).
Promise: "Beloved, if our consciences have nothing to charge us with, we can be sure that God is with
us and that we will receive at His hands whatever we ask. Why? Because we are keeping His commandments
and doing what is pleasing in His sight." -1 Jn 3:21-22
Praise: Praise Jesus, Who "grew in size and strength, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was
upon him" (Lk 2:40).
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O Christ Child, Savior of the world, send down your Holy Spirit to my husband who continues to suffer
from a 1991 car wreck. Pray also for his conversion to the Catholic Church. He is a wonderful man,
husband and father. Please also keep my uncle Larry in your prayers-diagnosis Sqamous cell lung
cancer. Please give me the guidance of the Holy Spirit about my job. Lastly for my kids to grow in
their faith, shun worldly ways that teens are attracted to. Blessed be the name of the Lord! Father
Al, pray for us!
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Please help us have a great weekend . Thanks for all your blessings love and acceptance. Heal us
inside and out.
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Thank you Lord for another week. Father we have been through a lot with my daughter's paperwork,
Father please let your favor follow us,in Jesus name we pray Amen.
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Please continue to pray for my complete healing from Cancer!
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Lord, hear our prayers. Thank You!
(Anonymous, , 12/29/2018 2:07:42 AM)
Here I ask your prayers for my friend Kumud Lotlikar who is a retired teacher, released from the hugs
of the deadly disease Cancer, and now was living a healthy life, but something went wrong, and from
last month she is suffering from back pain, which is unbearable, she went to Tata hospital yesterday,
and did all the necessary tests, she will get the reports today, but she is very much afraid now,
thinking that the cancer has touched her life again. Hope nothing wrong happens to her. May all the
reports are good, Please pray for my lovely friend. Thank you all. All this I ask in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
(Sushmita, Goa, India, 12/28/2018 9:45:47 PM)
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END HUNGER
"LACK OF POLITICAL WILL"
There is a fundamental lack of political will. What is needed is the willingness to end hunger, and
this ultimately will not happen without a moral conviction that is shared by all peoples and all
religious persuasions, where the integral good of the person is at the heart of all initiatives and
consists in "doing to another what we would want done to ourselves."
DON'T BE INDIFFERENT
... These are some reflections I wish to share with those men and women who do not allow themselves
to succumb to indifference; who hear the cry of those who do not have the minimum needed to lead a
dignified life.
THE CHURCH AND THE POOR
For her part, the Catholic Church, in the exercise of the mission with which her divine Founder has
entrusted her, struggles daily throughout the world against hunger and malnutrition in multiple ways
and through her various structures and associations, remembering that those who suffer from misery
are not different from us. They share our flesh and blood. They deserve ... a friendly hand to help
and support them, in such a way that no one is left behind, so that in our world fraternal solidarity
may boast its own identity card and citizenship, beyond any flashy slogans void of substance.
(Source: Message for World Food Day 2018, issued 10/16/2018)
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