May 13th, 2022
Prayer Service in China
12 Noon
No Mass
 

Pray for Special Intentions
 
 

Consecration Prayer for Peace

I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

     

Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.   

May 8, 2022

 
Happy Mother’s Day Mary
11:00 pm May 7, 2022

 



Mary Queen of Peace
Pray for us 

Happy Mother’s Day

 

R. The peace of the world has been entrusted to Mary.

 

4th Sunday of Easter

Acts 13:14, 43-52

The others carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats.

When the meeting broke up many Jews and devout converts followed Paul and Barnabas, and in their talks with them Paul and Barnabas urged them to remain faithful to the grace God had given them. The next Sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word of God. When they saw the crowds, the Jews, filled with jealousy, used blasphemies to contradict everything Paul said. Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. 'We had to proclaim the word of God to you first, but since you have rejected it, since you do not think yourselves worthy of eternal life, here and now we turn to the gentiles. For this is what the Lord commanded us to do when he said: I have made you a light to the nations, so that my salvation may reach the remotest parts of the earth.' It made the gentiles very happy to hear this and they gave thanks to the Lord for his message; all who were destined for eternal life became believers. Thus the word of the Lord spread through the whole countryside. But the Jews worked on some of the devout women of the upper classes and the leading men of the city; they stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their territory. So they shook the dust from their feet in protest against them and went off to Iconium; but the converts were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

 

Psalms 100:1-2, 3, 5

[Psalm For thanksgiving]

Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth,
serve Yahweh with gladness,
come into his presence with songs of joy!
Be sure that Yahweh is God, he made us,
we belong to him, his people, the flock of his sheepfold.

For Yahweh is good, his faithful love is everlasting,
his constancy from age to age.

Revelation 7:9, 14-17

After that I saw that there was a huge number, impossible for anyone to count, of people from every nation, race, tribe and language; they were standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palms in their hands. They shouted in a loud voice,

I answered him, 'You can tell me, sir.' Then he said, 'These are the people who have been through the great trial; they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the Lamb. That is why they are standing in front of God's throne and serving him day and night in his sanctuary; and the One who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. They will never hunger or thirst again; sun and scorching wind will never plague them, because the Lamb who is at the heart of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.'

 

John 10:27-30

The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me.I give them eternal life; they will never be lost and no one will ever steal them from my hand. The Father, for what he has given me, is greater than anyone, and no one can steal anything from the Father's hand.
The Father and I are one.
 

 

4th Sunday of Easter
May 2, 2004

INTRODUCTION – Today’s second reading from the book of Revelation pictures Christ as a Lamb. The symbol of the lamb symbolized Jesus’ sacrifice for us since lambs were offered in sacrifice in the Old Testament. We have held on to this image in the liturgy when we refer to Jesus as the Lamb of God before Communion. At the end of the reading another image is introduced: the lamb is our shepherd. But that is true
only to the extent that we hear his voice, as he tells us in the gospel. The setting for the second reading is heaven. This vision of heaven was meant to be an encouragement to early Christians to keep following our Lord in spite of a bitter persecution against them. The Lord leads us through the Holy Spirit, the Sacraments and the Scriptures, through prayer and those the Church appoints to be our spiritual leaders. We hear about two of these spiritual leaders in today’s first reading: Saints Paul and Barnabas. The reading describes an episode during St. Paul’s first missionary journey. He and Barnabas were in the area we todayknow as Turkey. Communities of Jews were scattered all throughout the Roman Empire and in the larger cities there was always a synagogue. Paul visited a synagogue on this first journey and, since he was a Pharisee, he was invited to preach to the people. His message was so powerful he was asked to return and preach on the following Sabbath. This is where our first reading comes in. He packed the house, but his teaching was too radical for many of his hearers. Notice that in spite of rejection, they were filled with joy. They knew they were doing Christ’s work and that the Spirit was leading them.

HOMILY – When was the last time you saw a shepherd with his or her flock of sheep walking down the street? Well if you lived in Israel at the time of Jesus you would have seen it almost every day. You could still see it frequently today if you want to take your life in your hands and visit the Middle East. Because it’s not a familiar sight to most of us, it’s probably a little difficult for us to relate to the image Jesus uses in today’s gospel. Most of us are aware that sheep are not very smart animals. Yet for the Jewish economy they were extremely important. They were their main source of meat, milk and cheese. They provided wool for clothing. Because they were so important and precious, it was natural for the Jews to use them as a sacrifice, a gift to God.

    Since sheep weren’t too bright, the shepherd needed to be with them constantly. And there developed a relationship between sheep and shepherd, much like the relationship people have with their pets today. At night many shepherds would bring their sheep together to one safe place and one shepherd would keep watch over them while the other shepherds slept. In the morning, each shepherd would call out for his or herown sheep so they could be taken out to pasture. And the sheep knew enough which voice to respond to. The gospel reflects this situation when Jesus said “My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me.”

    Some people are offended to hear themselves compared to sheep. Perhaps those who are offended don’t realize they need God's constant care. Sometimes we can feel fairly independent until we have a problem. We forget we need God in good times too.

    We live in a society where everyone is trying to get us to hear their voice. You can’t turn on the radio or TV without someone trying to get your attention. Even to go for a drive, you have billboards trying to catch youreye. Companies spend significant amounts of money to buy just 30 seconds of advertising time in order to get their message across. Jesus says “My sheep hear my voice.” If we want to belong to him we do have to hear his voice, but in today’s world it takes a conscious effort to do so. We have to shut out all the other noises so we can listen to him. If we don’t make the effort, we can easily lose touch with our shepherd. This is one reason (among many) to take time to pray and to come to church every Sunday. We need to keep in touch.

    Our Lord does not want to lose any of us. His desire is for us to be with him forever, in heaven, where therewill be no more sadness or pain, whereas he said, he would wipe every tear from our eyes. One of the ways he leads us is through the Eucharist. He is with us as wecome together in his name, he speaks to us in Scriptures, he feeds us with his own body and blood. We have a shepherd who will not abandon us. Even sheep
are smart enough to recognize the voice of their shepherd and to know they need their shepherd’s guidance. Let us pray we remain smart enough to listen to our Shepherd’s voice and to know that we always need him.

 

January 15, 2022

Mysteries of Light in Petition

Fr. Carter’s Birthday

The Baptism of Jesus

1.The sky was thrown open and the voice of the Father was heard.
2. "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."
3. The Holy Spirit was seen above Jesus' head.
4. John the Baptist didn't understand why Jesus wanted him to baptize Him.
5. Envision the scene, the sky, the Dove, the Voice of the Father and the waters in the Jordon River. The Presence of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
6. Jesus was sinless, He didn't need to be baptized.
7. But John the Baptist did as Jesus told Him to do.
8. John the Baptist was Jesus' cousin, He was to prepare the way of the Lord.
9. When Mary came, at the Visitation, to visit her cousin Elizabeth, the babe, John the Baptist, leaped in Elizabeth's womb at the presence of Mary and Jesus in Mary's womb.
10. John the Baptist was chosen, too, to prepare the way for his cousin Jesus at the proper time. Elizabeth, they thought, was barren. Elizabeth had John very late in life.

 

The Marriage at Cana

1. Jesus and Mary went to a wedding at Cana.
2. Nothing is impossible with God.
3. Jesus worked His first public miracle at Cana.
4. Jesus changed water into wine.
5. Mary told Jesus, they had no wine.
6. Mary told the servers to do what Jesus told them to do.
7. Mary has powerful intercession.
8. Jesus told the servers to fill the water jars.
9. Jesus changed water into wine at the wedding feast at Cana.
10. In the Mass bread is changed into the Body of Jesus and wine is changed into the Blood of Jesus.

 

The Kingdom of God

1. Jesus is the King of Kings.
2. We were created by God the Father to help promote the Kingdom of God.
3. God the Father has a unique plan for us.
4. Our vocation is the way we are to live, to help us prepare for eternal salvation in heaven.
5. God calls us to serve Him and spread the Good News.
6. We can say "yes" or ignore God's plan for us, we have a free will.
7. The Kingdom of God is at hand.
8. We are to live virtuously.
9. God gives us the sacrament of Baptism, that takes away original sin.
10. In Baptism we receive a sharing in Divine life. In Baptism we receive the supernatural virtues of faith, hope and love.

 

The Transfiguration

1. Jesus took Peter, James and John up Mt. Tabor. Jesus was transfigured before them.
2. God calls us to live virtuously, but we still have a wounded human nature and tendencies to the deadly sins even after we are baptized.
3.Can you imagine the beauty of our own graced soul?
4. When Jesus appeared transfigured, the voice of the Father was heard: "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him."
5. Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus.
6. Moses represents the Law because he received the 10 commandments.
7. Elijah was a prophet.
8. In this vision, Jesus was talking to Moses and Elijah. This was a wonderful vision.
9. Jesus was in tremendous light, they never saw Jesus like this before!
10. After the resurrection Jesus appeared to the Apostles in His Glorified body. God is Divine!

 

The Institution of the Holy Eucharist

1. Envision Jesus and the Apostles around the table at the Last Supper.
2. Jesus took the bread and blessed it.
3. Jesus said this is My Body.
4. Jesus Blessed the wine and He said this is My Blood.
5. The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present.
6. We can make a Morning Offering everyday and unite everything we do all day to the Mass.
7. So much grace is outpoured, when we unite all we do to the Mass, everyday.
8. Priests celebrating Mass is so important to the world.
9. We thank God for the Mass and for our priests. We pray for our priests in our Morning Offering.
10. We help make reparation for our sins when we unite to Jesus in the Mass and offer our sacrifice to the Father.
Amen
 

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