March 17th 2nd Sunday of Lent
Lord God, we have asked You for more faith, hope and love.
Please Jesus, open our hearts, souls and minds to really let go and let You totally take over in
our lives.
Fill us with the grace needed to truly do this, and really see others through Your eyes.
Jesus, the world has become what it always becomes, selfish.
Jesus, let us be in the world, but let us work and act from Your world of love and forgiveness.
Lord, it is so easy to slip into the cares and worries of today.
So Christ, lift us up, and let us praise and adore You our living God.
Jesus, let us celebrate this lent, as a time of rooting out all the things that causes us to be
fearful of the future.
Let us all realize, that nothing is happening that You aren't totally aware of, and that You
have already worked out the perfect plan for all of us.
Let us prepare for our home coming this Lent.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday LOVE AND DAILY DYINGS
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"Unfortunately, many go about in a way which shows them to be enemies of the cross of Christ."
-Philippians 3:18
Jesus commanded us to take up our crosses each day (Lk 9:23). A Roman cross existed only for the
purpose of causing a person's death. A daily cross is daily dying to self. This is the ultimate life
of love, which is the greatest expression of freedom. However, a life of daily crosses and daily
dyings requires so much love that we may not choose this life of selfless love and thereby be
paralyzed by selfishness and fear. Only by obeying the Lord can we be set free to choose the way of
daily crosses, the way of love.
Jesus takes us up Transfiguration mountain where the veil is removed from the hidden Christ
(see Col 3:3) of faith so that we can see the transfigured Christ of glory. This may happen through
the sacraments, the Bible, the poor, a healing, a miracle, a marriage, a birth, a blessing, or other
spiritual experiences. When we see Christ transfigured, we are led to receive a new Pentecost. Then
the Spirit proclaims that Jesus is Lord (1 Cor 12:3). Knowing not only in our heads but also in our
hearts that Jesus is Lord, we listen to Jesus (Lk 9:35) - even about the love-filled life of daily
crosses and daily dyings. In submission to the transfigured Lord Jesus, we are free to love as He
loved - even to death on the cross.
Prayer: Father, by obedience to the truth purify me for genuine love (1 Pt 1:22).
Promise: "You whom I so love and long for, you who are my joy and my crown, continue, my dear ones,
to stand firm in the Lord." -Phil 4:1
Praise: Glory and praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory.
Monday "MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER JUDGMENT" (JAS 2:13)
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"Pardon our sins for Your name's sake." -Psalm 79:9
Tuesday "DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS"
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"Joseph her husband, an upright man unwilling to expose her to the law, decided to divorce her quietly."
-Matthew 1:19
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PM Internet Prayer Requests
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Please help my son get accepted to a new high school (WF). He's not going down the right path at his
current school. We also wish for him to always remain humble, caring, and committed to God. Thank you!
(Miriam , Washington , DC, United States, 3/16/2019 1:06:14 PM)
Pray for '"whistleblower' who have risked their careers to get the truth out to the public.
(Anonymous, , 3/16/2019 11:03:27 AM)
Fear is useless. LORD please look kindly on the petitions posted and all the requests said silently in
our hearts. Thank you FATHER for this new day you created. Through JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT may I use
it wisely. May I come closer to you and may I bring others closer to JESUS. JESUS please let this be
my best lent ever.
(Jim, Wisconsin, , 3/16/2019 10:30:21 AM)
Please help us have a great week with KET. Please help safe travels. Thanks KS for all your blessings
love and acceptance.
(Anonymous, , 3/16/2019 7:30:40 AM)
Our custom is like that when a kid sleeps we have to carry them on our back. So like that I usually
carry my 3yrs old nephew. On my back when he sleeps or to make him sleep I must carry him. As he is a
healthy Kid .and healthy weight. So this makes my back pain. Every time. I feel like wether I may not
hurt my back. This scares me lot and concerns me. I want pray request for me so that even if I carry
my nephew on my back. Let me feel no hurt. Or heavyness. Pray for me to get strength to carry nephew.
In the name of Lord Jesus Christ Amen.
(Tage Caroline , Arunachal Pradesh. , State , , 3/16/2019 7:23:51 AM)
Thank you Lord for another week. Father I pray for my job and my patients ,Lord show my your way and
keep given the heart to do this job,please open all close doors for me and show me your will,in Jesus
name we pray Amen.
(Naa, , 3/16/2019 7:00:33 AM)
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Bible Telephone Line
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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.
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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
"WE MUST DO BETTER"
We are all called to go further. We can and we must do better for the helpless. We must move to
concrete action, so that the scourge of hunger disappears completely.
WE CAN DO IT
We do indeed have the adequate means and framework so that beautiful words and good wishes may become
an action plan of substance that leads effectively to the eradication of hunger in our world. To this
end we need joint efforts, upright hearts, and persistent concern to firmly and resolutely make the
other's problems one's own.
"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."
(Source: Message for World Food Day 2018, issued 10/16/2018)
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