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24th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
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“The Community as God’s Family and Mutual Forgiveness”
We, as the children of the Family of the Father are brothers and sisters. This Family provides a great opportunity for us to live together joyfully and peacefully and become true children of God inheriting our heavenly home, the Kingdom.
In the Community Discourse in Matthew, Jesus teaches us about right living with emphasis on the spirit of living and working together, acceptance, forgiving and supporting each other, building a community ie. the Church, following a crucified Messiah.
Our Lord is compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy. Whether we live or die we belong to the Lord. St Paul’s reminder to the Romans would suffice to instill in us the wisdom to embrace the understanding and love for our neighbors by reciprocating the compassion, love and mercy of God bestowed upon us.
In the ‘Our Father’, a prayer we recite as one community daily at every Eucharist, “… and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us…”, God is teaching us that when there is bitterness, anger and vengeance in our hearts, we leave no room for His love. Dare we approach God to be merciful and forgive our sins if we hold grudges against our brothers and sisters in the Community? As disciples in the Family, we are to called to see Christ in others, be charitable and generous. Our Father wants all of us, His children, to live joyfully and peacefully, propagating love and reconciliation in this big Family. Like the Disciples, we are not perfect and have our strengths and weaknesses susceptible to temptations. Let us pray to God asking for strength to adhere to the Will of the Father and continue to love and forgive our brothers and sisters without limits. (Matthew 18:21–22)
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Hallow Video
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FEEDING OUR SOUL
HALLOW is an aid to recharge yourself to enter fully into a more spirit-filled engagement with the author of all life. Prayer helps us to come closer into an intimate relationship with God.
Daily seek God to enter more fully into his wonderful light so that we are ready to stand with confidence for his coming.
A refreshing video that encounters our senses of Sacred Scripture!
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Memorize a Verse from THE BIBLE
The chalice of blessing that we bless
is a communion with the Blood of Christ;
and the bread that we break
is a sharing in the Body of the Lord. 1 Cor 10:16
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News from the Vatican
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The audience and the statement from the Rome diocese, they said, demonstrate that “the church isn’t interested at all in the victims and those who ask for justice.”
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Pope Francis has condemned the use of “conventional weapons” against civilian targets in a message to Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson the day after a warehouse in Ukraine containing several tons of...
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“Pope Francis recalled his meeting with Patriarch Kirill in Havana warmly, and expressed the hope that it will not be the last, that he can see the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church again,” Ivan...
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