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“Thank you for the huge effort to assemble our Advent kit. It means a lot to our family to be centered by our parish community in faith and love!
St. Nicholas inspired me to sneak him into our Advent calendar! Would love to see other families' faith corners’❤️😊🙏🏼”
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A HEART OPEN TO THE WHOLE WORLD
128. If the conviction that all human beings are brothers and sisters is not to remain an abstract idea but to find concrete embodiment, then numerous related issues emerge, forcing us to see things in a new light and to develop new responses.
Excerpt: FRATELLI TUTTI
Pope Francis Encyclical
On Fraternity and Social Friendship
*Part of a sequential daily series to read and reflect on this new encyclical.
Psalm 27
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge;
of whom should I be afraid?
One thing I ask of the LORD;
this I seek:
To dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
That I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD
and contemplate his temple.
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD with courage;
be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.
#dailyingodsword
Missing our choir? Here’s a beautiful gift, from their hearts to yours.
This gave me goosebumps. Beautiful.
I had a lump in my throat listening .. it is so beautiful we are so blessed with beautiful voices in our choir .. thank you for lifting my Spirits 🙏♥️
The Cook Family is enjoying their Family Advent kit and love using the cards with their Advent Wreath 💜 #shfamilyfaithformation #advent2020 #faithandfamilycollective
The holy is not a spectacle. It is more often felt in small graces and blessings, although you do have to be paying attention to catch the momentousness of the moment. That’s the rub. It is around us, above us, below us, and inside us all the time. It’s here, but often we’re not. -Annie Lamott
Thursday, Dec 03, 2020
MEMORIAL OF FRANCIS XAVIER, PRIEST
Gain from apparent loss
While focus is often on Francis’ youthful fervor, which sparked his missionary adventures in Asia, less emphasis falls on his maturation. In Japan, he learned to appreciate local culture, connecting it with the gospel. While ocean travel in the 16th century was perilous, long separation from Ignatius of Loyola may have been an even greater suffering. Francis was one of Ignatius’ first companions at the founding of the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits, as they are commonly known. And imagine Francis’ disappointment when he couldn’t reach his ultimate dream destination: China. Have you ever had a “dream deferred,” an unrealized goal? What have you learned from the apparent failure that you might not have learned from success?
TODAY'S READINGS: Isaiah 26:1-6 Matthew 7:21, 24-27.
"The house . . . did not collapse it had been set solidly on rock."
#takefiveforfaith
Gospel
MATTHEW 7:21, 24-27
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them
will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.
And everyone who listens to these words of mine
but does not act on them
will be like a fool who built his house on sand.
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
And it collapsed and was completely ruined.”
#dailyingodsword
127. Certainly, all this calls for an alternative way of thinking. Without an attempt to enter into that way of thinking, what I am saying here will sound wildly unrealistic. On the other hand, if we accept the great principle that there are rights born of our inalienable human dignity, we can rise to the challenge of envisaging a new humanity. We can aspire to a world that provides land, housing and work for all. This is the true path of peace, not the senseless and myopic strategy of sowing fear and mistrust in the face of outside threats. For a real and lasting peace will only be possible “on the basis of a global ethic of solidarity and cooperation in the service of a future shaped by interdependence and shared responsibility in the whole human family”.[108]
Excerpt: FRATELLI TUTTI
Pope Francis Encyclical
On Fraternity and Social Friendship
*Part of a sequential daily series to read and reflect on this new encyclical.
