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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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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parables, Anyone?


When Jesus answers the apostles’ question about why he speaks in parables, it may seem as if he is using them to confuse people. We know he is trying to spread the good news of God’s kingdom. So he talks to the crowds in parables, easily understood stories that usually have a moral or that end with a question for the hearers. He uses these stories to teach the crowd.

Jesus threw out parables like a farmer sowing seeds. Some of them fell on the ears of those who would be disciples. But most fell on the ears of people not ready to understand. So how do we receive his word? Do we hear it without understanding, letting it go in one ear and out the other? Do we hear it joyfully, but then forget it when troubles or difficulties come along? Do we listen to the word but ignore it in the face of some later temptation?

If we want the word to grow strong in us, we can take steps to help ourselves understand it. We can come to church early and spend a few minutes with the readings before Mass. After Mass we can talk about the readings or the homily with our family over breakfast. We can pick out one practical point to practice that week.

Keeping the word in difficult times is not easy. The cross teaches us to expect troubles, but we have to endure them to really learn that we can go through suffering to a new life.

To be strong enough to resist temptations, we have to decide each day that we want to follow Jesus’ word. We can pray for that strength and ask God to help us remember that word when temptations come. And we can decide to stay away from the places, people, or situations that so tempt us.

God’s word can be likened to a ball game. We can sit back and watch, not really involved or caring who wins. Or we can jump in and participate and make the game ours. Let us ask God how we can take the word and run with it.


Decimoquinto Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario

¿Alguien quiere escuchar unas parábolas?


Cuando Jesús responde a la pregunta de los apóstoles sobre por qué habla en parábolas, puede parecer que las utiliza para confundir a la gente. Sabemos que está intentando difundir la buena nueva del Reino de Dios y por eso habla a la multitud en parábolas, historias fáciles de entender que generalmente tienen una moraleja o que terminan con una pregunta para los oyentes. Utiliza estas historias para enseñar a la multitud.

Jesús lanzó parábolas como un agricultor que siembra semillas. Algunas cayeron en los oídos de los que serían discípulos. Pero la mayoría cayó en los oídos de personas que no estaban listas para entender. ¿Cómo recibimos su palabra nosotros? ¿Lo oímos sin comprender, dejándolo entrar por un oído y salir por el otro? ¿Lo escuchamos con alegría, pero luego lo olvidamos cuando surgen problemas o dificultades? ¿Escuchamos la palabra pero luego la ignoramos frente a alguna tentación?

Si queremos que la palabra se fortalezca en nosotros, podemos tomar medidas para ayudarnos a entenderla. Podemos llegar temprano a la iglesia y pasar unos minutos con las lecturas antes de la Misa. Después de la Misa podemos hablar sobre las lecturas o la homilía con nuestra familia durante el desayuno. Podemos escoger un punto práctico para poner en práctica esa semana.

Guardar la palabra en tiempos difíciles no es fácil. La cruz nos enseña a esperar problemas, pero tenemos que soportarlos para realmente aprender que podemos atravesar el sufrimiento hacia una nueva vida.

Para ser lo suficientemente fuertes para resistir las tentaciones, tenemos que decidir cada día que queremos seguir la palabra de Jesús. Podemos pedirle a Dios por la fuerza y que nos ayude a recordar su palabra cuando vengan las tentaciones. Y podemos decidir alejarnos de los lugares, personas o situaciones que tanto nos tientan.

La palabra de Dios se puede comparar con un partido de béisbol donde podemos sentarnos y mirar sin realmente involucrarnos ni preocuparnos por quién gana. O podemos animarnos a participar y hacer que el partido sea nuestro. Preguntemos a Dios cómo podemos oír su palabra y seguirla.



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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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