Meet our 707 COR Leadership Team!
John is a an 11th Grader at Coronado High School, and this is his sixth year as part of Sacred Heart’s Youth Ministry. John’s favorite hobby is sports, but during the quarantine, he stayed
positive by playing video games.
Who gave you your first God lessons? Who helps to enrich and encourage your faith today? On this Catechetical Sunday, we thank family members, preachers, teachers, RCIA teams, youth leaders, faith-filled friends and others who brought the Good News to us. What will your own example teach others?
“Seek the LORD while he may be found, call him while he is near.”
Isaiah 55:6
(Photos pre-pandemic - please wear a mask and keep safe social distancing)
Season of Creation Day 20: What's one thing you could do for the environment to widen your circle of positive impact?
Take a moment to reflect on the photo (Labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, France)
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours
What is one climate issue that you might advocate for? Write a letter, make a call, sign a petition, make a donation, cast a vote, etc. What would be your next step?
Effecting large-scale, systemic change for the planet can feel like a daunting, or impossible task. An organization that can be a companion on this journey is GreenFaith.org — inspiring, educating, organizing, and mobilizing people of diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds globally for environmental action.
Green Faith's work is based on shared beliefs: "protecting the Earth is a sacred act… environmental stewardship is a moral responsibility."
pause | reflect | act
“When we are hurt by the unfair treatment of others or their rejection, we frequently harbour grudges and resentment. God on the other hand, while hurt by our 'no', tries again; he keeps doing good even for those who do evil. Because this is what love does. Because this is the only way that evil is defeated. Today our God, who never abandons hope, tells us to do what he does, to live in true love, to overcome resignation and the whims of our peevish and lazy selves." - Pope Francis
Sunday Gospel Matthew 20:1-16
Jesus told his disciples this parable:
“The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner
who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage,
he sent them into his vineyard.
Going out about nine o’clock,
the landowner saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard,
and I will give you what is just.’
So they went off.
And he went out again around noon,
and around three o’clock, and did likewise.
Going out about five o’clock,
the landowner found others standing around, and said to them,
‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’
They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’
He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’
When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman,
‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay,
beginning with the last and ending with the first.’
When those who had started about five o’clock came,
each received the usual daily wage.
So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more,
but each of them also got the usual wage.
And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner, saying,
‘These last ones worked only one hour,
and you have made them equal to us,
who bore the day’s burden and the heat.’
He said to one of them in reply,
‘My friend, I am not cheating you.
Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
Take what is yours and go.
What if I wish to give this last one the same as you?
Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money?
Are you envious because I am generous?’
Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
#dailyingodsword
“A sower went out to sow his seed.
And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled,
and the birds of the sky ate it up.
Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew,
it withered for lack of moisture.
Some seed fell among thorns,
and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
And some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew,
it produced fruit a hundredfold.”
After saying this, he called out,
“Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear.” Luke 8:5-7
#dailyingodsword
Season of Creation Day 19:
How do we maintain hope?
Take a moment to reflect on the photo.
"We are changing all the time. You become what you love.
You’re always asked to sort of stretch a little bit more. But actually, we’re made for that.
There’s a song that wants to sing itself through us. And we’ve just got to be available. Maybe the song that is to be sung through us is a most beautiful requiem for an irreplaceable planet, or maybe it’s a song of joyous rebirth as we create a new culture that doesn’t destroy its world.
But this moment we’re alive. You are alive. So you can just dial up the magic anytime."
— Joanna Macy, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy.
Two perspectives from Pope Francis' Letter, Laudato Si' :
"The deterioration of the environment and of society disproportionately affects the most vulnerable people on the planet: Both everyday experience and scientific research show that the gravest effects of all attacks on the environment are suffered by the poorest..."
and
"May our struggles and our concern for this planet never take away the joy of our hope. Our faith calls us to hope."
We hold both in prayer.
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Holy Mary, we entrust our lives to you. Teach us to live in peace. Inspire us to act justly, to revere all God has made, to include all God’s children in the way of Love. Root peace firmly in our hearts and in the world.
O Mother, you know the sufferings and hopes of the world: come to the aid of your children in the daily trials which life brings to each one, especially those most in need, and be our guide as we follow the way of Jesus in faith, in hope, in love.
Amen.
#saturdayswithmary
707 clean-up at Tidelands Park 😊💛🗑Thank you, Emily Cook for organizing and supplying materials...especially popsicles🎉
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