19 August 2018
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings at Mass
1st: Proverbs 9:1-6
Ps: 33:2-3,10-15
2nd: Ephesians 5:15-20
Gospel: John 6:51-58
My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink
Jesus said to the crowd:
‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’ Then the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied: ‘I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you. Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him. As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me. This is the bread come down from heaven; not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’
Dwell in Me
Men desire meat and drink to satisfy hunger and thirst, this effect is only really produced by that meat and drink, which makes the receivers of it immortal and incorruptible; i.e. the Communion of Saints, where there is peace and unity, full and perfect. On which account our Lord has chosen for the types of His body and blood, things which become one out of many. Bread is a quantity of grains united into one mass, wine a quantity of grapes squeezed together. Then He explains what it is to eat His body and drink His blood: He that eats My flesh, and drinks My blood, dwells in Me, and I in him. So then to partake of that meat and that drink, is to dwell in Christ and Christ in you. He that dwells not in Christ, and in whom Christ dwells not, neither eats His flesh, nor drinks His blood: but rather eats and drinks the sacrament of it to his own damnation.
St. Augustine, Catena Aurea
THIS WEEK’S FEASTS
Mon 20 St. Bernard, Abbot, Doctor
Tue 21 St. Pius X, Pope
Wed 22 Our Lady, Mother and Queen
Thu 23 St. Rose of Lima, Virgin
Fri 24 St. Bartholomew, Apostle Feast
Sat 25 St. Louis, also Saint Joseph of Calasanz, Priest. Also BVM memorial.
Psalter week IV
21st Sunday OT:
1st: Joshua 24:1-2,15-17,18
Ps: 33:2-3,16-23
2nd: Ephesians 5:21-32
Gospel: John 6:60-69
St. Rose, the first Saint of the Americas
St. Rose was born in 1586 in Lima, Peru to Spanish colonists, her name was Isabel Flores de Oliva but her nickname was “Rose,” so she took that name at her confirmation. From childhood she was very religious, a daily communicant and adorer of the Blessed Sacrament, always obedient to her parents except when they wanted her to marry as she kept rejecting all suitors, until they finally came to accept that she had vowed herself to Christ. Her daily life was full of acts of charity and work, she helped the poor and contributed to her home with her embroidery. In time, and with the consent of her confessor, she practically became a recluse in her room where she would give herself to prayer, fasting, long vigils and penances as she fought against great temptations. When she was twenty, she received the habit of St. Dominic at which time she increased her acts of penance, even her bed looked more like a torture device than a place to rest. She offered all her mortifications in expiation for offences against God, for the conversion of sinners, and for the souls in Purgatory. She died in 1617 when she was only 31 and many miracles followed her death. In 1671 Pope Clement X declared her a saint. She was the first American to be canonized.
Parish/Hospice Shop XII Anniversary Congratulations to Ruth Mott and thanks to all who have helped make it possible.
We will have a Dinner Dance 2018 Fri 30 November at Aquamare Hotel. More details to come.
Help CARITAS We need someone to bag the vegetables for the food program, can be temporarily. Call Wendy 9904 0294. Donations and prayers are always welcome.
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