Mass Sunday at 6:00 PM
All Respectful People Are Welcome
Sunday’s Ministers:
“'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of the least brothers of mine, you did for me.”
Sunday’s Ministers:
'Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master's joy.'
Sunday’s Ministers:
“Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
Sunday’s Ministers:
"You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Lesson: We cannot love God if we do not love our neighbor. And who is our neighbor: everyone.
\SSunday’s Ministers:
"Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God."
Lesson: (borrowed from Sister Maru McGlone from NCR}
“Jesus is unequivocal that love of God and neighbor summarize the human vocation, but he avoids giving us details about how love should be incarnated in particular situations — the only hard and fast rule would be love. “
Sunday’s Minister:
“Do whatever he tells you.”
Lesson: Jesus can deny his Mom nothing. Pray to her to undo any knots affecting your life.
Sunday’s Ministers:
“Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Lesson: In God’s mind, all of us are entitled to His abundant generosity regardless of how late we were to change our ways.
Sunday’s Ministers:
"Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times? Jesus answered, 'I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. ’"
Lesson: Forgiveness of those who hurt us, is the core Christian value - and probably the most difficult. We must remember that we have been forgiven and be ready to play that forward when needed.
Sunday’s Minister:
"For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them."
Lesson: Building the community demands a constant focus on love of neighbor.
Sunday’s Minister:
"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.”
Lesson: "If we are to be true followers of Jesus we must be as selfless as He is”
Sunday’s Ministers:
“Who do you say that I am?”
Lesson: "Jesus asks this of us. Because if He is who He says He is…it has profound implications for us all.”
Sunday’s Ministers:
“She said, "Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters." Then Jesus said to her in reply, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish."”
Lesson: "Jesus’ compassion has no bounds, especially for those who society pushes away.”
Sunday’s Ministers:
"If it's really you, call me to join you out there!" Jesus replied, "Come."
Lesson: "Jesus invites us to respond to him with deep faith....and when we fail, He is there to lift us and save us.”
Sunday’s Ministers:
" This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him."
Lesson: "Jesus is revealed as the true Son of God to us. We must respond with an overwhelming acclamation of praise and adoration.”
Sunday’s Ministers:
" The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls..."
Lesson: "The Kingdom of God is a thing of great value. The question for us is what are we willing to pay to achieve it?"
Sunday’s Ministers:
" Whoever has ears ought to hear."
Lesson: "God interacts with humankind through countless small acts of love. We are called to do the same and do our part to bring about the kingdom. "
Sunday’s Ministers:
""But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear."
Lesson: “God spreads around the seeds of goodness and does so generously. It is ours to do our best to help the seeds sown in us, to sprout and flourish.”
Today’s Minister:
“And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because the little one is a disciple— amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”
Today’s Ministers:
“Fear no one. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.”
Lesson: We are all created in God’s wonderful image. Who we truly and authentically are should never be concealed but be proudly revealed.
Today’s Minister:
“He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them;and his mother kept all these things in her heart.”
Lesson: Mary is the role model for us all with a heart that is Immaculate and dedicated only to God.”
Today’s Minister:
“"I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
Lesson: The Eucharist is central to our faith as Catholics. It brings the Sacrificial Lamb, Jesus into our lives. Let us celebrate this great gift and take up the Lord’s invitation to give ourselves to others.
Today’s Minister:
Today’s Minister:
“Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
Lesson: The Holy Spirit has been sent to us, to enter our hearts and minds, and to excite us into becoming partners with Christ is saving the world."
Today’s Ministers:
“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
Lesson: The mission Christ gives to the Apostles on the mount of His Ascension to His Father, is our mission too. Pray that we may be up to the task.”
Sunday’s Minister:
• Fr. Al Risdorfer - Celebrant & Homilist
Readings
Lesson: In this brief but powerful passage from Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus reiterates his favorite theme: love. He emphasizes the intimate unity of Jesus, God, the Spirit, in an eternal communion of love….AND makes it very clear that this community of love includes we, the believers.
Sunday’s Minister:
• Fr. Al Risdorfer - Celebrant & Homilist
Readings
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father.”
Sunday’s Minister:
• Fr. Al Risdorfer - Celebrant & Homilist
Readings
Sunday’s Minister:
• Fr. Al Risdorfer - Celebrant & Homilist
Readings
• Acts 2:14, 22-28
• Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11
• 1 Peter 1:17-21
• Luke 24:13-35
“...he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.
Today’s Ministers
Fr. Al Risdorfer, Celebrant and Homilist
Readings
“All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their property and possessions and divide them among all according to each one’s need.”
Today’s Minister:
“He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said.”
Today’s Minister:
“Woman, behold, your son. Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.”
Today’s Minister:
“Do you realize what I have done for you? You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet.”
Sunday’s Minister:
Sunday’s Minister:
Sunday’s Minister:
Sunday’s Minister:
“...whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Sunday’s Minister:
"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him."
Sunday’s Minister:
"Get away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.”
Sunday’s Minister:
"You have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you,….”
Sunday’s Minister:
“You have heard it said to your ancestors….but I say to you.”
Sunday’s Minister:
“You are the salt of the earth…you are the light of the world.”
Sunday’s Minister:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven”
Sunday’s Minister:
"FOLLOW ME”
Sunday’s Minister:
"Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.”
Sunday’s Minister:
" "And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
since from you shall come a ruler, who is to shepherd my people Israel.”
Sunday’s Minister:
"The shepherds went in haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph,
and the infant lying in the manger.”