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- 12/09/2019
- 8:00 am
- Sacred Heart Catholic Church
655 C Ave
Coronado, CA 92118
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
655 C Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
Phone: (619) 435-3167
sacredheart@sacredheartcor.org
Stay Awake
The practice of contemplative prayer is the discipline by which we begin to “see” the living God dwelling in our own hearts. Careful attentiveness to the One who makes a home in the privileged center of our being gradually leads to recognition. As we come to know and love the Father of our hearts we give ourselves over to this incredible Presence who takes possession of all our senses. By the discipline of prayer we are awakened and opened to God within, who enters into our heartbeat and our breathing, into our thoughts and emotions, our hearing, seeing, touching, and tasting. It is by being awake to this God within that we also find the Presence in the world around us. Here we are again in front of the secret. It is not that we see God in the world, but that God-with-us recognizes God in the world. God speaks to God, Spirit speaks to Spirit, heart speaks to heart.
Contemplation, therefore, is a participating in the divine self-recognition. The divine Spirit alive in us makes our world transparent for us and opens our eyes to the presence of the divine Spirit in all that surrounds us. It is with our heart of hearts that we see the heart of the world. . . .
-Fr. Henri Nouwen
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Gospel of the Day - St Matthew 7:6:12-14
Jesus said to His disciples: “Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.
“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.”
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We thank God for the gift of our Pastor, Fr. Michael Murphy on the anniversary of his Ordination which took place on this day, here at Sacred Heart in 1983!
A well spoken message stirs a heart to rejoice
There is nothing like a strong, resilient voice
But when sorrow comes, there is no better gift to impart
Then the gift of a caring, pastor’s heart
A sacrament shared or just a kind word
A moment of counsel from God’s holy word
A telephone call—after you just heard..,
Is the gift of our pastor’s heart.
Lord, bless our pastor
In each new day
Bless his ministry along the way
Tending his flock as he follows our Lord
Is the gift of our pastor’s heart
God Bless & Keep You, Fr. Mike!
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We are so blessed to have Fr. Mike as our pastor. He is a precious gift who inspires us to live lives of holiness by his example. ❤️
God bless you Fr Mike. You have given me a kind word when it was most needed, and you didnt even know
God Bless you Fr. Mike 🤍
Friends, today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Luke 1:57–66, 80). From time immemorial, God has sent messengers, prophets, and spokespersons. Think of that whole line of prophets and the patriarchs of Israel.
John the Baptist sums up all of these figures. In the Gospel of John, the Baptist identifies himself as “the voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord.’” The point John makes is that Jesus is not just one more biblical figure. He’s something altogether different—not just a speaker of the Word but the Word himself.
We are destined for union with the Word of God, but we don’t get it. Why do we run after everything but Christ? Because there’s something seriously off-kilter in us. But here’s the good news from John’s Gospel: “To those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God.”
We can’t grasp this on our own. God must lift us up. The Word of God, with God from the beginning, does not remain in splendid isolation. It comes down, joins us, and lifts us up. That is the essence of the Christian message.
-Bishop Robert Barron
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St. John’s Eve
Midsummer night, and bonfires on the hill
Burn for the man who makes way for the Light:
‘He must increase and I diminish still,
Until his sun illuminates my night.’
So John the Baptist pioneers our path,
Unfolds the essence of the life of prayer,
Unlatches the last doorway into faith,
And makes one inner space an everywhere.
Least of the new and greatest of the old,
Orpheus on the threshold with his lyre,
He sets himself aside, and cries “Behold
The One who stands amongst you comes with fire!”
So keep his fires burning through this night,
Beacons and gateways for the child of light.
- M. Guite
Tomorrow is the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
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The passage of the Gospel today is a simple and beautiful reminder of how Jesus shared in our humanity. We hear: “…as evening drew on Jesus said to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side!” Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was.”
Jesus was tired — he was probably tired every day from the labors of his ministry. Jesus was fully human. He shared in every aspect of our humanity. But he was also fully divine — he was God come in human flesh.
Today we see Jesus sleeping deeply in the boat with his disciples. There’s a big storm and Jesus is sleeping through it — this is a moment in Jesus’ earthly life where he reveals his divinity to his disciples.
As the violence of the storm woke Jesus and the waves were filling the boat, the apostles said to Jesus: “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” The apostles were really afraid, but Jesus says to them: “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
I think we can be like those apostles — there are times in our lives when trials and storms come and we feel threatened and overwhelmed. And we can experience that feeling that Jesus is sleeping — he’s not answering our prayers. Sometimes we can be tempted to think like that.
Jesus’ question to the apostles is also for us — do we have faith? We do, as the apostles did. This is a beautiful lesson for us — never be afraid to tell Jesus how you are feeling. He loves us, he knows our fears, our needs. He knows when we feel vulnerable and weak.
Today we ask for the grace to have faith that Jesus wants us to have — for the grace to feel his love and care for us. And to have total trust in him. We are safe. We are secure. Just as the apostles were. Our lives are in his hands.
Let us never forget that Jesus goes with us. He shared our humanity and he continued to walk with us in our daily lives, even with the storms and trials of our lives. And his love for us is so strong! Let us never doubt it!
-Archbishop José H. Gomez
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Amen 🙏
Prayer and patience go hand in hand I had the results with my granddaughter yesterday she was so happy and excited telling me about a new beginning she is about to explore . God is good 🙏♥️
Amen 🙏
“All that ever we have, of God we have received.”
—St. Thomas More
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A LITANY of the PERSON
image of God
born of God’s breath
vessel of Divine Love
capacity for the Infinite
after God’s likeness
dwelling of God
eternally known
branch of Christ
chosen of God
abiding in Christ
called from eternity
home of Infinite Majesty
temple of the Holy Spirit
receptacle of the Most High
wellspring of Living Water
life in the Lord of all Life
heir of the reign of God
abode of the Trinity
the Glory of God
God sings this litany
eternally in the precious Word.
This is who you are.
- written by an anonymous Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani
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Gospel of the day Matthew 6:24-34
Jesus said to his disciples:
“No one can serve two masters.
He will either hate one and love the other,
or be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink,
or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the sky;
they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are not you more important than they?
Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
Why are you anxious about clothes?
Learn from the way the wild flowers grow.
They do not work or spin.
But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was clothed like one of them.
If God so clothes the grass of the field,
which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow,
will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’
or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’
All these things the pagans seek.
Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given you besides.
Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.
Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”
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