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We are a welcoming Catholic community called by God to live out the message of Christ in love and service to all people. Our parish mission is:



To proclaim the Gospel of Christ to our local community in word, deed, and truth.

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

A Truly Wise Person

The ending of today’s Gospel speaks about “the new and the old.” Jesus is saying that a person “instructed in the kingdom” has wisdom both old and new; in other words, that person learns from the past as well as from the present. Let’s look at each of those.

We learn from the past by studying it. So the wisdom of the Kingdom comes first from the scriptures. The more familiar we are with the word of God, the more wisdom we possess. Along with studying the scriptures, we must pray over them and ask the Spirit to show us how they apply to our lives. We can also learn from the lives of the saints and writings of the Church. The saints may have lived extraordinary lives, but they all began as ordinary people who gave their lives to Christ. The writings of the Church, though sometimes very technical, contain the wisdom of centuries of living the faith. If you only have time to go to Mass on Sunday, just listening to the homily can help to apply the scriptures to your life.

One way we can learn from “the new” is to learn from our mistakes. That includes learning from our sins. When we are truly sorry, we make an effort to change our ways. You might say we have to learn a new way to respond to that situation. In the Bible, the word repentance itself means a change of heart, a new way of seeing and doing things.

We can also learn from the mistakes and the successes of our friends. As we share our faith with them, we share the stories of our lives, both good and bad. These stories can teach how to live our faith (or how not to!). One of the advantages of having friends whom we trust enough to confess our faults to is that we do not have to figure out life on our own. God can speak to us through a friend or relative whose advice we seek. A truly wise person is one who has received a lifetime of good advice.


Decimoséptimo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario

Una persona verdaderamente sabia

El final del evangelio de hoy habla de “cosas nuevas y cosas antiguas”. Jesús está diciendo que una persona “instruida en las cosas del reino” tiene sabiduría tanto antigua como nueva. En otras palabras, esa persona aprende tanto del pasado como del presente. Analicemos a cada uno de ellos.

Aprendemos del pasado estudiándolo. Así que la sabiduría del Reino viene de las escrituras primero. Mientras más nos familiarizamos con la palabra de Dios, más sabiduría poseemos. Además de estudiar las Escrituras, debemos orar con ellas y pedirle al Espíritu Santo que nos demuestre cómo se aplican a nuestras vidas. También podemos aprender de la vida de los santos y de los escritos de la Iglesia. Puede ser que los santos hayan vivido vidas extraordinarias, pero todos comenzaron como personas ordinarias que entregaron sus vidas a Cristo. Los escritos de la Iglesia, aunque a veces muy técnicos, contienen la sabiduría de siglos de vivencia de la fe. Si solo tienes tiempo de ir a Misa los domingos, tan solo escuchar la homilía puede ayudarte a aplicar las Escrituras a tu vida.

Una forma en que podemos aprender de “las cosas nuevas” es aprender de nuestros errores. Eso incluye aprender de nuestros pecados. Cuando nos arrepentimos de verdad, hacemos un esfuerzo por cambiar nuestros hábitos. Se podría decir que tenemos que aprender una nueva forma de responder a esa situación. En la Biblia, la palabra arrepentimiento significa un cambio de corazón, una nueva forma de ver y hacer las cosas.

También podemos aprender de los errores y los éxitos de nuestros amigos. Al compartir nuestra fe con ellos, compartimos las historias de nuestras vidas, tanto las buenas como las malas. Estas historias nos pueden enseñar cómo vivir lo fe (¡o cómo no vivirla!). Una de las ventajas de tener amigos de confianza para poder confesarles nuestras fallas es que no tenemos que descubrir la solución a la vida por nuestra propia cuenta. Dios nos puede hablar a través de un amigo o un familiar cuando les pedimos consejo. Una persona verdaderamente sabia es aquella que ha recibido buenos consejos durante toda la vida. 


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Only love makes way for unity, which is the fruit of God’s action. For a Christian, having enemies is forbidden. We must love all people, not just those who think like me, or practice the same faith as me. The important thing here is to ask myself what makes me the master of my heart. Or even better, what allows the Lord to be the master of my heart? Is it love or hatred? If, despite wanting to forgive, I cannot do it because I have been a victim of terror or hatred, then I need to ask that question: Who is the master of my heart? Love offers something new to us: to include the enemy, so that it is not hate or revenge that has the last word. In the reign of the Holy Spirit, evil is never the end.

MASS TIMES

Monday - 9:00 am at St. Henry Chapel - Convent

Tuesday - 10:30 am at Catholic Center for Charismatic Renewal 

Wednesday - 9:00 am at St. Henry Chapel - Convent

Thursday - 9:00 am at St. Henry Chapel - Convent

Friday - 11:00 am at Catholic Center for Charismatic Renewal 

Saturday - 4:30 pm English

Sunday - 8:30 am Spanish

                 11:00 am English 

Holy Days of Obligation - 6 pm


Sacrament of Reconciliation:

Saturday - 3:30 pm-4:20 pm


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