February 9th The Fifth Sunday in ordinary time
Jesus, this week we celebrate our Lady of Lourdes.
Again and again, Mary our mother, has reached out to us to show us the way to You.
Help us to truly come closer to You through mom's interceding for us.
Help us to realize how much You and mom love us inspite of our failings.
Help us also to realize that Your mercy is boundless, if only we come back to You through the sacrament of
reconciliation.
Help us to truly see You in the breaking of the bread.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday GOD'S WAYS OF HEALING
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"Your wound shall quickly be healed." -Isaiah 58:8
In a world of suffering, pain, and brokenness, the Lord makes the amazing promise of quick healing. This
promise, like many of the Lord's promises, is preceded and followed by several commands. The Lord commands
us to fast in the right spirit and serve the basic needs of the poor (Is 58:6-7). Then He will fulfill
several promises, if we are willing to respond to these graces by obeying further commands related to doing
justice (Is 58:9ff).
When we are hurting, we tend to want God to heal us so that we can return to the lifestyle that may have
contributed to our sickness. However, the Lord wants our healing to be the centerpiece of major developments
in our lives based on repentance, love, justice, and mercy.
Will we accept healing on the Lord's terms? Will we let Him be Lord of our healing and Lord of our lives?
Will we let the Lord tear down and restructure our lives through healing? Will you subordinate your healing
to the Lord, the Healer? (see Mk 2:1ff)
Prayer: Father, I repent of making an idol of my lifestyle. I accept Jesus as my Lord.
Promise: "I determined that while I was with you I would speak of nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified."
-1 Cor 2:2
Praise: "The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus whom you put to death, hanging him on a tree" (Acts 5:30).
Alleluia!
Monday OBEDIENCE SCHOOL
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"Wherever He put in an appearance, in villages, in towns, or at crossroads, they laid the sick in the market
places and begged Him to let them touch just the tassel of His cloak. All who touched Him got well." -Mark 6:56
Tuesday HAVE A HEART
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"Their heart is far from Me." -Mark 7:6
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PM Internet Prayer Requests
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Please heal us inside and out. Please help our marriage. Please help all those in my life that need you.
Thank you for all the blessings love and acceptance.
(Anonymous, , 2/8/2020 6:33:58 AM)
Jesus you take over every aspect of the lives of our children as they cope with parenthood of twin boys.
Fill them with wisdom understanding discernment patience and may they experience your peace that passes
all understanding specially when faced with challenging situations. Bless the grand parents/siblings and
all who accompany them with their prayers and assistance now and always. Mary be a mother to them now.
(A, , 2/8/2020 6:15:17 AM)
Abba Father Jesus Holy Spirit pour out every grace n blessing on the 65 children receiving the sacrament
of Confirmation today. May they be filled to overflowing and go proclaim the good news by their lives.
Bless the parents/siblings/relatives as they support them in their journey of faith. Abundant blessings
on the catechists and all taking part in this holy sacrament today.
(A, , 2/8/2020 6:12:43 AM)
1.For my parents Good health, happiness and peace; for the healing of my father's shoulder which
experiencing pains in his shoulders bones 2.For the salvation of souls in our family,for peace and unity
in our family, there is greater miss understanding between us; our first brother is against parents and
even threaten their lives we pray that they may forgive each other and make peace; this also caused by
idleness most of us are jobless my God intervene and help us find opportunities to be employed or employ
ourselves.
(Anonymous, , 2/8/2020 3:31:44 AM)
Thank you Lord for another day.Father,my trust is in you.please help me to go through it,in Jesus name we
pray Amen
(Naa, , 2/8/2020 1:23:27 AM)
Fear is useless.... LORD please look kindly on he petitions posted and all the requests said silently in
our hearts. Through JESUS all is possible. JESUS allow me to be a true humble Christian presence and a
true humble Christian inside.
(Jim, Wisconsin, , 2/8/2020 12:11:27 AM)
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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
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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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