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Today is Saturday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time and here is Bishop Robert Barron’s Gospel Reflection: LUKE 14:1, 7-11 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus notices people jockeying for the highest place at a banquet. So do you see what Jesus does? He notices how this game interrupts God’s intention for his people and so he endeavors to interrupt the interruption. What he is urging in his parable is that we have the courage not to play the game of honor at all. When every inst...inct in your body says to take the higher place, you should in fact take the lowest place, the place where you are least likely to be noticed. What if you tried this on the sports field, at work, in your family, among your friends? It would be like breaking yourself of an addiction. Then he pushes it even further. Sometimes we invite people to parties or we are kind to them so that we might be repaid. So, the Lord says, don’t invite people who can invite you back; don’t be kind to people who are likely to be kind to you. Love your enemies; invite the poor, the forgotten, the homeless. The quest for honor is an addiction like any other. It interrupts what God wants for us. Pray for the grace to break it.

Today is Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time You can follow the scripture readings using the following link: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/103120.cfm Gospel LK 14:1, 7-11... On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted. See more

This Sunday is the Solemnity of All Saints Saturday, October 31 3:30-4:25 p.m. CONFESSIONS 4:30 p.m. Fr. Dave Richards 4:30 p.m. Fr. Tom Roman (Aud)... Serving Deacon Dave Rotterman Sunday, November 1 8:30 a.m. Fr. John Kelly Preaching Deacon Dave Rotterman 10:00 a.m. Fr. Dave Richards 10:00 a.m. Fr. Tom Roman (Aud) Serving Deacon John Gaulin 11:30 a.m. Fr. Dave Richards Serving Deacon John Gaulin Please note: schedule is subject to change. See more

Today is Friday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time and here is Bishop Robert Barron’s Gospel Reflection: LUKE 14:1-6 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus heals a man on the sabbath, thus demonstrating his authority over the Law. The Jesus portrayed in the Gospels consistently speaks and acts in the very person of Yahweh, the God of Israel. On another occasion, defending his disciples against the charge of picking grain on the sabbath, Jesus reminds his interlocutors that priests ...serving in the temple can, under certain circumstances, violate the sabbath and still remain innocent; then he adds with breathtaking laconicism, "I say to you, something greater than the temple is here." The only one who could reasonably claim to be "greater" than the temple would be the one who was worshiped in the temple. In a number of places in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus states, "You have heard it said . . . but I say . . . " This almost casual dismissal of the Torah, the revelation given by Yahweh to Moses himself and hence the court of final appeal to any pious Jew, would have overwhelmed any first-century Jew. Once more, the only one who could legitimately overrule the Torah with such insouciance would be the one who was himself the author of the Torah.

Today is Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time You can follow the scripture readings using the following link: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/103020.cfm Gospel LK 14:1-6... On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not? But they kept silent; so he took the man and, after he had healed him, dismissed him. Then he said to them Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day? But they were unable to answer his question. See more

Today is Thursday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time and here is Bishop Robert Barron’s Gospel Reflection: LUKE 13:31-35 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus compares himself to a mother hen who longs to gather her chicks under her wing. As the theologian N.T. Wright points out, this is much more than a sentimental image. It refers to the gesture of a hen when fire is sweeping through the barn. In order to protect her chicks, she will sacrifice herself, gathering them under her w...ing and using her own body as a shield. On the cross, Jesus used, as it were, his own sacrificed body as a shield, taking the full force of the world’s hatred and violence. He entered into close quarters with sin (because that’s where we sinners are found) and allowed the heat and fury of sin to overwhelm him, even as he protected us. With this metaphor in mind, we can see, with special clarity, why the first Christians associated the crucified Jesus with the suffering servant of Isaiah. By enduring the pain of the cross, Jesus did indeed bear our sins; by his stripes we were indeed healed.

Today is Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time You can follow the scripture readings using the following link: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102920.cfm Gospel LK 13:31-35... Some Pharisees came to Jesus and said, Go away, leave this area because Herod wants to kill you. He replied, Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and I perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I accomplish my purpose. Yet I must continue on my way today, tomorrow, and the following day, for it is impossible that a prophet should die outside of Jerusalem.’ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling! Behold, your house will be abandoned. But I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. See more

Today is the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude and here is Bishop Robert Barron’s Gospel Reflection: LUKE 6:12-16 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus chooses the Twelve, whom he names Apostles. In the apse of the church of San Clemente in Rome, there is a gorgeous twelfth-century mosaic, which gives visual expression to the call of the Twelve. At the center of the composition is the crucified Jesus. Surrounding the cross are twelve doves, symbolizing the Apostles who would fly aro...und the world with the message of salvation. No biblical figure is ever given an experience of God without receiving, at the same time, a commission. Moses spies the burning bush, hears the sacred name of Yahweh, and is then told to go back to Egypt to liberate his people; Isaiah enjoys an encounter with God amidst the splendor of the temple liturgy and is then sent to preach; Saul is overwhelmed by the luminosity of the risen Jesus and is subsequently called to apostleship. Now the Apostles are not simply a distant memory; rather, they live on through what we call the apostolic succession. Therefore, the apostolicity of the Church is our guarantee that we are, despite many developments and changes across the centuries, still preserving the faith that was first kindled in that company of Jesus’ friends.

Today is the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles You can follow the scripture readings using the following link: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/102820.cfm Gospel LK 6:12-16... Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. See more

Today is Tuesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time and here is Bishop Robert Barron’s Gospel reflection: LUKE 13:18-21 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus says that the kingdom of God is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened. What’s the kingdom of heaven? It is God’s way of ordering things. How often the Bible contrasts it to the world, which is the way of ordering things that is born of sin.... When self-interest, rivalry, egotism, violence, and fear are fundamental, things will get ordered in a certain wayeconomically, politically, socially. But the Kingdom of God is the way of ordering things born of lovelove for God and love for neighbor. Generosity, peace, nonviolence, and trust will give rise to a new way of ordering things. This is true of a family, a school, a parish, a community, a nation state. Now how in the world does one get this project off the ground? As should be clear, this never happens all at once overnight. Rather, in small ways, people begin living according to the kingdom. And then, in God’s time, this new community begins to have a leavening effect on the wider society.