Pentecost

Humility is fundamental in our relationship to God -

- an emptiness of ourselves that allows Life and Love

to fill us. This kind of relationship to God belies closeness

-- a deep sense of God’s Presence -- we are brought to Peace.

When a person is at Peace in God’s Love, then we

become recipients of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Our

lives are complete -- full -- as they should be.

We all get caught up in the routine of our lives that

we have created or has been created for us. The challenge

for us is to connect the routine, the ordinary, the

mundane with the eternal. “By the mystery of this water

and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of

Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.”

Everything we are -- everything we do -- matters in the

building of God’s Kingdom when we do what we do

and be what we are as God’s children and disciples of Jesus Christ.

The courage and strength of Pentecost is ours. May

we come before God humbly this day and each day

open to receive the Fire of God’s Love and thus be

enabled to renew the face of the earth as instruments of God’s Spirit.

Fr. Jim

Parish Mission to La Puente 2013

June 24-28, 2013

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Last Year's Mission

The Month of May is dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin Mary

"In the hierarchy of holiness it is precisely the 'woman', Mary of Nazareth, who is the 'figure' of the Church. She 'precedes' everyone on the path to holiness; in her person 'the Church has already reached that perfection whereby she exists without spot or wrinkle'". — JOHN PAUL II Mulieris Dignitatem, 1988

An Act of Consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Holy Mary, Mother of God and Virgin, I choose thee this day for my queen, patron, and advocate, and firmly resolve and purpose never to abandon thee, never to say or do anything against thee, nor to permit that aught be done by others to dishonor thee. Receive me, then, I conjure thee, as thy perpetual servant; assist me in all my actions, and do not abandon me at the hour of my death. Amen. — St. John Berchmans

Devotions to the Mother of God

Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven)

The Rosary

Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Litany of Loretto)

The Brown Scapular -- Fr. William G. Most

The "Akathistos" Hymn

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Feasts in the Month of May

1. Joseph the Worker, Opt. Mem.
2. Athanasius, Memorial
3. Philip and James, Feast
5. Sixth Sunday of Easter, Sunday
10. St. Damien Joseph de Veuster, priest, Opt. Mem.

12. Ascension or the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Sunday
13. Our Lady of Fatima, Opt. Mem.
14. Matthias, Feast
15. Isidore the Farmer (USA), Opt. Mem.
18. John I, Opt. Mem.

19. Pentecost; Whitsunday, Sunday
20. Bernardine of Siena, Opt. Mem.
21. Christopher Magallanes and companions; Eugene de Mazenod (Canada), Opt. Mem.
22. Rita of Cascia, Opt. Mem.
25. Bede the Venerable; Gregory VII; Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Opt. Mem.
26. Trinity Sunday, Solemnity
27. Augustine of Canterbury, Opt. Mem.

31. Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast

Information taken from www.catholicculture.org

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

Mother Teresa 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