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Sunday, 5th Week of Lent

4/2/2017

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Today's Gospel
John 11:3-7,17,20-27,33b-45

The sisters of Lazarus sent word to Jesus, saying, 
"Master, the one you love is ill."
When Jesus heard this he said,
"This illness is not to end in death, 
but is for the glory of God, 
that the Son of God may be glorified through it."
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
So when He heard that he was ill, 

He remained for two days in the place where he was.
Then after this He said to His disciples, 
"Let us go back to Judea."

When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus 
had already been in the tomb for four days.
When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,
she went to meet Him; 
but Mary sat at home.
Martha said to Jesus, 
"Lord, if you had been here,
my brother would not have died.
But even now I know that whatever you ask of God,
God will give you."
Jesus said to her,
"Your brother will rise."
Martha said,
"I know he will rise,
in the resurrection on the last day."
Jesus told her,
"I am the resurrection and the life; 
whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, 
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this?"
She said to Him, "Yes, Lord.
I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world."




He became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said, 
"Where have you laid him?"
They said to him, "Sir, come and see."
And Jesus wept.
So the Jews said, "See how He loved Him."
But some of them said, 
"Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man 
have done something so that this man would not have died?"
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So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb.

It was a cave, and a stone lay across it.
Jesus said, "Take away the stone."
Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him, 
"Lord, by now there will be a stench; 
he has been dead for four days."
Jesus said to her,
"Did I not tell you that if you believe 
you will see the glory of God?"
So they took away the stone.
And Jesus raised his eyes and said, 
"Father, I thank you for hearing me.
I know that you always hear me; 
but because of the crowd here I have said this, 
that they may believe that you sent me."
And when He had said this,
He cried out in a loud voice, 
"Lazarus, come out!"
The dead man came out,
tied hand and foot with burial bands, 
and his face was wrapped in a cloth.
So Jesus said to them,
"Untie him and let him go."

Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary
and seen what he had done began to believe in Him.
Reflection
  Br. Steve Eguino is studying for the Priesthood with the Salesians of Don Bosco. He is one half of the rapping duo, 
The Bosco Boys and is featured in the Array of Hope Concert. 


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Saturday, Annunciation of the Lord

3/25/2017

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Today's Reading 
Hebrews 10:4-10 
Brothers and sisters:
It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats 
take away sins. For this reason, 

when Christ came into the world, He said:

"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight.
Then I said, 'As is written of me in the scroll,
behold, I come to do your will, O God.'"

First he says, "Sacrifices and offerings,
holocausts and sin offerings,
you neither desired nor delighted in."
These are offered according to the law.
Then He says, "Behold, I come to do your will."
He takes away the first to establish the second.
By this "will," we have been consecrated
through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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Reflection
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, or you could say the Feast of Jesus’ conception. The second reading comes from Hebrews and gives the reason for the second person of the Trinity becoming man interpreted through Psalm 40, today’s Responsorial Psalm. The Word of God became man to do His Father’s will; this was His delight!
 
Sometimes we think discerning God’s will is just about vocations, or we think God is not speaking to us and we get confused as what to do. Let’s talk about doing God’s will. Yes, sometimes God dramatically speaks to us or guides us towards a life-changing decision. But every day we can do His will. Start with the fact that we are Catholics. We follow God’s will when we follow the lead of Mother Church in living out our faith in daily life, avoiding sin, and praying. Then we all have family responsibilities and acts of love and mercy to show to our family members. Jesus tells us to forgive always. If you are consecrated, God’s will is manifested in your rule, constitutions and through your superiors. Even if you are in a temporary state of discerning your vocation, God’s will is to give your extra time in volunteer work and to live in right relations with others. Your job also manifests God’s will to you: to fulfill your duties with due diligence and attention, to study when you are a student, to nurture when you are a housewife and to treat your co-workers with respect.
 

God’s will is manifested to us every day in multiple ways and the more we listen in prayer and request His presence throughout the day, the more we will be accustomed to the way He guides us. Today, spend an extra ten minutes in prayer listening to the ways that God is leading you. Let us start being more attentive to God’s will in our lives.
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Monday, 3rd Week of Lent: Solemnity of Saint Joseph

3/20/2017

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​Today’s Gospel
Matthew 1: 16, 18-21, 24a
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Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.

Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. When His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found with child through the Holy Spirit.

Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly. Such was his intention when, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.
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For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home.

Reflection
In today’s Gospel we hear about Mary and Joseph. Just imagine what they must have felt. They did not have the whole story presented to them, and nothing like it had ever occurred before in history, but what they did have was extraordinary trust in the Lord. When Mary was visited by the Angel Gabriel, she obediently consented to the will of God, though she did not know what would happen. How do you tell your husband, parents, family, and friends that you conceived God’s Son? Do you think she wondered about what others would think? If she feared that they would not understand or believe her? Whatever she may have been thinking, nothing stopped her from saying "yes." Can we say the same when God asks us to serve Him? Even when we are convicted of our mission, do we put it aside because we are afraid?  How can we place our trust in the Lord as Mary did and respond?

Think of Joseph’s role in all of this. He discovered his wife was pregnant and knew it was impossible for the child to be his. As a result, he planned to divorce her. But the story does not end there, for God intervenes. An angel appears to Joseph in his dreams, encouraging him to not be afraid to receive his wife and her son. The little information he was given still would have been impossible to understand, but he chose to trust. 

Though we have seen Jesus fulfill every promise, we can still find it hard to trust Him. May we follow the example set before us by Joseph and Mary. Today in honor of St. Joseph's feast day, spend some time in silent prayer asking him to intercede on your behalf. Ask the Lord to help you to fully trust in Him. Pray that you may have the courage to answer His call and say "yes" to His will for your life just as St. Joseph and Mary.
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Tuesday, 1st Week of Lent

3/7/2017

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Today's Reading
Isaiah 55:10-11


Thus says the LORD: 
Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down 
And do not return there  till they have watered the earth, 
making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed to the one who sows 
and bread to the one who eats,  So shall my word be that goes
forth from my mouth;
  It shall not return to me void, but shall
do my will,
  
achieving the end for which I sent it.
​Reflection It doesn't take much faith to believe that when it rains, moisture will be brought to the earth. This is a scientifically observable fact; simple cause and effect. God's word, by whom all creation was made, is no less reliable. We can attest to this by the hope that the resurrection provides. God's word came to earth like a drop of water and as the Church has long held, Mary is the mystical rose, whom receives the divine "drop" of life giving water. Mary believed that what was spoken to her would come to fruition, even when it seemed against all odds. We are called to imitate Mary and in doing so we have the confidence that God's will may be done.
 
This assurance is a gift, which needs to be cultivated by each one of us. When we cultivate, we plant the roots of faith, which bring forth the growing stem of hope, and of these comes the crowning rose that is love. But we do not rely on our own power to make this flower bloom. God is the sower. He is the one who sends forth His word, and that word will not come back desolate, but will bring new and everlasting life. Our role is to have faith in that word. 
  
Despite our circumstances, when we allow ourselves to be formed by God's word, we have the absolute certainty of that word bearing fruit in our life, because His word is life. 
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Even the chains of death could not hold God's word. Likewise, there is no situation in life which we find ourselves that His will is not done. Through every circumstance, we are further conformed to Christ, which is our ultimate joy. Today, as a means of cultivating a deeper faith, make an act of hope in prayer. No matter how you feel, tell God that you love and trust Him!
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