July 21st 16th Sunday in ordinary time.
Jesus, we have all sinned and fallen far from Your presence.
We need to see examples of those who You have touched and freed them from their sinful ways.
This week, Jesus, Your church celebrates a feast of a lady who loved You dearly and followed You all the way
to the cross.
Mary Magdalene was a sinner who You freed from the clasp of satan.
When she was freed, she walked with You everyday for the rest of Your earthly life.
Give us all that same freedom from serious sin, and help us to follow You everyday, by picking up our crosses
of life, and knowing that You are with us always.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday THE SCHOOL OF SUFFERING
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"Even now I find my joy in the suffering I endure for you. In my own flesh I fill up what is lacking in the
sufferings of Christ for the sake of His body, the Church." -Colossians 1:24
Before we become committed to the Lord, we naturally choose to live a life of maximum pleasure and minimum
pain. Because true love often entails pain, the life of maximum pleasure and minimum pain amounts to a life
of maximum selfishness and minimum love.
If we repent, choose love, and totally commit our lives to the Lord, we choose a life of maximum love - no
matter what the pain. In effect, we choose to take up the cross daily and follow Jesus (Lk 9:23). We choose
to suffer redemptively in the pattern of Jesus' death (Phil 3:10).
As we grow in holiness, we not only accept suffering in Jesus but rejoice in it
(Col 1:24; see also 1 Pt 4:13). We rejoice to suffer with Christ because we love Christ and want to be like
Him. Moreover, we rejoice to suffer in Christ because we love others and we want all to be saved
(see 1 Tm 2:4). When we realize that "suffering, more than anything else...clears the way for the grace
which transforms human souls" (The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, Pope St. John Paul II, 27), we
rejoice that the Lord's saving grace is being accepted through a sharing in Christ's suffering.
Are you committed to Jesus? Are you growing holier? To answer these questions, look at your attitude toward
suffering in Christ.
Prayer: Father, send the Holy Spirit to transform my attitude toward suffering.
Promise: "One thing only is required. Mary has chosen the better portion and she shall not be deprived of
it." -Lk 10:42
Praise: Praise the risen Jesus, Who freely chose to leave the glory of heaven to suffer on earth for our
salvation.
Monday THE FREEDOM TRAIN
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"Far better for us to be the slaves of the Egyptians than to die in the desert." -Exodus 14:12
Tuesday PROBLEM AREAS
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"The Israelites had marched on dry land through the midst of the sea, with the water like a wall to their
right and to their left. Thus the Lord saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians."
-Exodus 14:29-30
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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. LORD please forgive me my sins and please guide me to a closer life with you
(Jim, Wisconsin, , 7/20/2019 9:42:49 AM)
Please heal us inside and out Please make this weekend go smooth. Thanks for all the blessing love and
acceptance.
(Anonymous, , 7/20/2019 9:17:47 AM)
Please help her at the doctor with good news
(Anonymous, , 7/20/2019 9:16:16 AM)
please join me in praying for my 10 month grandson Christopher. for complete healing of the Allergies.
God.give the doctors wisdom on how to treat him. in Jesus Name we pray.
(Lidia , , 7/20/2019 9:07:21 AM)
Praise the Lord! please pray for my daughter Dianna and her hubby and the three boys Asher 8 Ethan 6
and Steffy 5 yrs old, they are heading out on a road trip to three diffent states starting from Florida.
First stop The smokey mountains then KY and returning to Atlanta to see the birtanical gardens and then
drivning back home to Florida, they will be away there and back for 8 days please pray for their safety
there and back please, their guidiance, happiness health and finance also their, my finances as well
please. safety Thank you God amen.
(monica m., Wesley Chapel, Florida, United States, 7/20/2019 12:32:18 AM)
Pray for holiness. Saints promote and welcome -The Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God -welcomes and
promotes the saints(Saints).
(Anonymous, , 7/19/2019 10:54:07 PM)
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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 minute
Bible studies by Fr. Al Lauer.
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Bible Telephone Line
The Bible Telephone Line (BTL) has been in operation for 27 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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Pope Francis, Shepherd of Truth
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Notable quotations from Pope Francis and official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
END HUNGER
"HOPES OF MILLIONS"
The annual celebration of World Food Day emphasizes ... the needs, yearnings and hopes of millions of
persons who lack bread each day. Increasingly, there are more people who sadly make up part of that
great number of human beings who have nothing, or almost nothing to eat. It should be the opposite and
yet recent statistics are a painful proof of how international solidarity appears to be cooling.
"EFFECTIVE HELP"
The poor expect from us an effective help that takes them out of their misery... In this twenty-first
century that has seen considerable advances in the field of technology, science, communications and
infrastructure, we ought to feel shame for not having achieved the same advances in humanity and
solidarity, and so satisfy the primary needs of the most disadvantaged.
"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.
(Source: Message for World Food Day 2018, issued 10/16/2018)
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