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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

July 27, 2014

“All things work for good for those who love God.”

--Romans 8:28a

When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to

youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it

should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter

depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin

at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those

toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.

Edna Ferber, American writer

Priest answers Planned Parenthood's "I have a say" campaign

How can we protect our children when we don't respect life?

 I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.--Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

 

July is the Month of the Precious Blood   Almighty, and everlasting God, who hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son to be the Redeemer of the world, and hast been pleased to be reconciled unto us by His Blood, grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate with solemn worship the price of our salvation, that the power thereof may here on earth keep us from all things hurtful, and the fruit of the same may gladden us for ever hereafter in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer from the Roman Missal Lord Jesus, You became Man in order by your Passion and Death and the draining of your Blood on the Cross, might prove to us how much You, our God, love us. Protect us, dear Jesus, from ever running away from the sight of blood. Strengthen our weak human wills so that we will not only not run away from the cross, but welcome every opportunity to shed our blood in spirit in union with your Precious Blood, so that, dying to ourselves in time we might live with You in Eternity. Amen Excerpted from The Precious Blood of Christ, Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Chaplet of the Most Precious Blood Litany of the Blood of Christ   Let us pray: Precious Blood, Ocean of Divine Mercy: Flow upon us. Precious Blood, Most pure Offering: Procure us every Grace! Precious Blood, Hope and Refuge of sinners: Atone for us! Precious Blood, Delight of holy souls: Draw us! Amen. St. Catherine of Siena

 

Click here for more on all of the Feasts in the Month of July 1. Bl. Junipero Serra (USA); St. Oliver Plunket, Opt. Mem. 3. Thomas the Apostle, Feast 4. Independence Day (USA), Opt. Mem. 5. Anthony Mary of Zaccaria; Elizabeth of Portugal, Opt. Mem. 6. Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday In today's Gospel Our Lord tells us that His yoke is easy and His burden light. 9. Augustine Zhao Rong and companions, Opt. Mem. 11. Benedict, Memorial 13. Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday Jesus tells the parable of the sower. 14. Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha (USA), Memorial 15. Bonaventure, Memorial 16. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Opt. Mem. 18. Camillus de Lellis (USA), Opt. Mem. 20. Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday Jesus continues with the parable of the mustard seed. 21. Lawrence of Brindisi, Opt. Mem. 22. Mary Magdalene, Memorial 23. Bridget, Opt. Mem. 24. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhloof, Opt. Mem. 25. James, Feast 26. Joachim and Anne, Memorial 27. Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday Jesus says the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. 29. Martha, Memorial 30. Peter Chrysologus, Opt. Mem. 31. Ignatius of Loyola, Memorial

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