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PARENTS & GUARDIANS
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Come pray
the Liturgy
of the Hours
Join us daily in the
MORNING:
immediately
following
the 6 am Morning
Mass.
And in the
afternoon
Weekdays & Sundays
at 4:00 pm
Saturdays
at 3:00 pm
How to reverently receive
Holy Communion:
Those who receive Communion may receive either in the hand or on the tongue, and the decision
should be that of the individual receiving, not of the person distributing Communion.
If Communion is received in the hand, the hands should first of all be clean. If one is right handed the
left hand should rest upon the right. The host will then be laid in the palm of the left hand and
then taken by the right hand to the mouth. If one is left-handed this is reversed. It is not appropriate to reach out with the fingers and take the host
from the person distributing.
(USCCB.org - Prayer and Worship)
"No sin or crime is greater than God's mercy. The sacrifice of the Cross reveals that Christ's greatest desire is to forgive those with a repentant heart."
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities "Death Penalty: Catholic Q&A"
POPE FRANCIS
PRAYER
TO ST. JOSEPH
In the name of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life. Obtain for us grace, mercy, and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen
Election day is near, a day of great importance for our country.
All parishioners are urged to vote after prayerfully considering the issues and candidates. We call your attention to Bishop Silva’s letter in this regard link below.
30th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Today’s Gospel offers a beautiful story of encounter, healing, faith, and discipleship, and offers many insights and lessons. Jesus is going through Jericho and a blind man, Bartimaeus, hears of it, and begins to call out to him. He eventually succeeds in catching Jesus’ attention and Jesus calls for him to come over. In response, Bartimaeus doesn’t just get up and walk over. No, Mark tells us that Bartimaeus threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
It isn’t just the enthusiasm that should catch our attention. The cloak he threw would be the cloak upon which he’d collect whatever coins people might throw his way, a cloak he needed as a beggar. But he threw that aside, confident that he wouldn’t need it anymore, ready to let that way of life go on the hope that Jesus would make something different possible.
In response to Jesus’ question, Bartimaeus tells Jesus that he wants to see. Jesus gives him that, and more. Not only does Bartimaeus receive his eyesight, but even more importantly, he is granted salvation because of his faith. Bartimaeus responds by becoming a disciple of Jesus – by embracing that new life he had been ready for when he’d heard Jesus was coming through town and following Jesus on the way.
If we think about it, we can see that sometimes, when we pray, rather than praying for change, we are praying for restoration, for things to go back to the way they were, and we are praying for that miracle that will make it possible. But today’s Gospel reminds us that sometimes the Lord is about more than restoration. Sometimes, that perseverance in prayer and that encounter with the Lord are meant to prompt a change, perhaps a radical change, in us, one that orients us to be willing to let go of everything and follow him.
Let today’s Gospel challenge us to consider whether the Lord is inviting us to find that new way of seeing and being. Are we ready to throw aside our cloak and accept his healing and salvation?
October is Respect Life Month
“When we meet Jesus in the Eucharist,
this encounter has the power to change us.
The Eucharist has the power to
transform
the depths of our hearts and the heart of our culture.
United to the power of his Eucharistic Presence, may we work to ensure that each person has life—and has it in abundance.”
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
Respect Life Reflection:
“I Came So That They Might Have Life”
National Eucharistic Revival Prayer
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Lord Jesus Christ, you give us your flesh and blood for the life of the world, and you desire that all people come to the Supper of the Sacrifice of the Lamb.
Renew in your Church the truth, beauty, and goodness contained in the Most Blessed Eucharist.
Jesus living in the Eucharist,
come and live in me.
Jesus healing in the Eucharist,
come and heal me.
Jesus sacrificing yourself in the Eucharist,
come and suffer in me.
Jesus rising in the Eucharist,
come and rise to new life in me.
Jesus loving in the Eucharist,
come and love in me.
Lord Jesus Christ, through the paschal mystery of your death and resurrection made present in every Holy Mass, pour out your healing love on your Church and on our world.
Grant that as we lift you up during this time of Eucharistic Revival, your Holy Spirit may draw all people to join us at this Banquet of Life. You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.
Our Lady of Peace, Mother of the Eucharist, Pray for us.
St. Joseph, silent adorer of the Eucharist, Pray for us.
As part of our response for the Year of
Eucharistic Revival,
St. Joseph Church
will offer
Eucharistic Adoration
on the 2nd Sunday of each month
from 10:30am to 11:30 am.
Please plan to join us on November 10
Mother of Perpetual Help
Prayer Group
Come join our Novena devotions on Tuesday,
at St. Joseph Church;
6:00p.m. (evening).
Come join us every Tuesday praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Rosary, Consecration and Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help.
Novena to Our Mother of Perpetual Help
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Oh Mother of Perpetual Help, grant that I may ever invoke your powerful name, the protection of the living and the salvation of the dying. Purest Mary, let your name henceforth be ever on my lips. Delay not, Blessed Lady, to rescue me whenever I call on you. In my temptations, in my needs, I will never cease to call on you, ever repeating your sacred name, Mary, Mary. What a consolation, what sweetness, what confidence fills my soul when I utter your sacred name or even only think of you! I thank the Lord for having given you so sweet, so powerful, so lovely a name. But I will not be content with merely uttering your name. Let my love for you prompt me ever to hail you Mother of Perpetual Help. Mother of Perpetual Help, pray for me and grant me the favor I confidently ask of you.
(Then say three Hail Marys).
What is the National Eucharistic Revival?
The National Eucharistic Revival is a three-year initiative sponsored by the Bishops of the United States to inspire and prepare the People of God to be formed, healed, converted, united, and sent out to a hurting and hungry world through a renewed encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist – the source and summit of our Catholic faith. The Revival officially launched in June 2022, and its milestone event will be a National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, IN, from July 17-21, 2024. The National Eucharistic Revival and National Eucharistic Congress are a direct response to the Holy Father’s call for a “pastoral and missionary conversion which cannot leave things as they presently are” so that the Church in the United States might be “permanently in a state of mission” (Evangelii Gaudium, n. 25).
This eucharistic movement seeks to bring together clergy, religious, laity, apostolates, movements, and parish and diocesan leaders to spur momentum, collaboration, and lasting impact for the renewal of the Catholic Church in the U.S. over the next three years. Each year will have a strategic focus for formation and missionary discipleship.
Teaching the Mass
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Use of Candles for Prayer
In the scripture, fire is associated with God. And Jesus himself said: "I am light of the world." At baptism, a lighted candle is presented with the words: "Received the light of Christ." Today we lit candles during liturgy and prayer moments as a token of the yearning of our hearts to be one with the Lord. And we refer them to as prayer candles or intention candles.
As Catholics, we light candles for a prayer intention for an individual. This may be for the soul of a deceased loved one or someone who is sick or one who is in need of divine intervention. Individuals also light prayer candles when seeking divine guidance. But we also lit a candle in gratitude blessings received.