December 29th 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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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday THE ETERNAL FAMILY REUNION
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"Christ's peace must reign in your hearts." -Colossians 3:15
We want to celebrate Christmas with our families. Therefore, Christmas is especially difficult for us if
a loved one has died in the last year. However, we have the great hope of our families getting together
for the eternal happiness of heaven. We will have a family reunion in heaven in the not too distant
future, and if the Lord has His way, not one family member will be missing (see Jn 6:39; 1 Tm 2:4).
For your family to stay together for an eternity of Christmases, you must:
1. Repent of sin and decide to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mk 12:30).
2. Talk to your family members about your love for Jesus.
3. Be in right relationship with family members. Honor your parents (Sir 3:2), be submissive to your
husband, lay down your life for your wife (Col 3:18-19), disciple your children.
4. Pray together daily as a married couple and as a family (see Mt 18:19-20).
5. Forgive family members seven times seventy times (Mt 18:22; see Col 3:13).
Many of you feel very discouraged about the spiritual state of your families. Be instead confident that
the Lord loves each member of your family, even to death on the cross. Jesus will change the hardest heart.
Be hopeful.
Prayer: Father, may I remove the plank of sin from my own eye so as to help family members remove the specks
from their eyes (Mt 7:5).
Promise: "Kindness to a father will not be forgotten, it will serve as a sin offering - it will take lasting
root." -Sir 3:14
Praise: We praise You, Father, "from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name" (Eph 3:15).
May your light shine through our family for the world to see.
Monday THE FIRST DETACHMENT?
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"Have no love for the world, nor the things that the world affords." -1 John 2:15
Tuesday THE EJECTION OF REJECTION
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"He was in the world, and through Him the world was made, yet the world did not know who He was." -John 1:10
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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 make this my best Christmas season ever. May the new born Christ stay in my heart.
(Jim, Wisconsin, , 12/27/2019 10:55:59 PM)
I pray that I will follow Christ more than I have before.Also I pray that the holy Spirit will come on my
daughter and granddaughter as well as myself , I love you Lord I understand a little more now than I have
before about your goodness I love you Lord please don't let me stray from you like I did before,I love you
lord please give me the strength to go threw Amen
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Thank you lord for my new job which is a miracle. Abba, father thank you for this job. Holy Saint and
angels along with arch angels, mother Mary and our patron saints we thank you for interceding to our good
lord.
(Anonymous, , 12/27/2019 9:27:23 PM)
Thank you Lord for another day.Lord fill my heart with your love, in Jesus name we pray Amen.
(Naa, , 12/27/2019 7:55:52 PM)
Please pray for my marriage, husband, children and grandchildren.Pray they all come to know and love you
Jesus and to follow all of your commandments.Pray my daughter has our grandson baptized in our Catholic
faith and that our other grandson be able to make his holy communion and confirmation together.
(Anonymous, , 12/27/2019 7:28:54 PM)
Please pray for my son, Jd, that is an alcoholic. Too much to say of the mental issues he has. I just ask
for God to cleanse him guide him love him and turn him around in God's time not mine. Let thy will be done.
(Mary O, Lawrenceville , GA , United States, 12/27/2019 7:20:53 PM)
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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
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."
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.
(Source: Message for World Food Day 2018, issued 10/16/2018)
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