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| Holy Father's intentions for September 2010 |  | | General: The Word of God as Sign of Social Development: That in less developed parts of the world the proclamation of the Word of God may renew people’s hearts, encouraging them to work actively toward authentic social progress.
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Sunday Bulletins
| Title | Month | Year | Language | Classification | 2nd Sunday of Advent
Today we celebrate the Good News of God's incredible love for all his people. Every messenger of this Good News says the same thing: he is coming to save you; he will make all things new; prepare a way for him, take him to your heart.
| December | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 3rd Sunday of Advent
A man came, sent by God. His name was John. He came as a witness, As a witness to speak for the light, So that everyone might believe through him. He was not the light, only a witness to speak for the light. This is how John appeared as a witness. When the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" he not only declared, but he declared quite openly, "I am not the Christ." "Well then," they asked "are you Elijah?' "I am not” he said.
| December | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 4th Sunday of Advent
Once David had settled into his house and the Lord had given him rest from all the enemies surrounding him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, "Look, I am living in a house of cedar while the ark of God dwells in a tent." Nathan said to the king, "Go and do all that is in your mind, for the Lord is with you." But that very night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: "Go and tell my servant David, "Thus the Lord speaks: Are you the man to build me a house to dwell in? I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader of my people Israel; I have been with you on all your expeditions; I have cut off all your enemies before you. I will give you fame as great as the fame of the greatest on earth. I will provide a place for my people Israel; I will plant them there and they shall dwell in that place and never be disturbed again; nor shall the wicked continue to oppress them as they did, in the days when I appointed judges over my people Israel; I will give them rest from all their enemies.
| December | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 34th Sunday In Ordinary Time
The Lord says this: I am going to look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view. As a shepherd keeps all his flock in view when he stands up in the middle of his scattered sheep, so shall I keep my sheep in view. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered during the mist and darkness. I myself will pasture my sheep, I myself will show them where to rest- it is the Lord who speaks.
| November | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 1st Sunday of Advent
You, Lord, yourself are our Father, Our Redeemer is your ancient name. Why, Lord, leave us to stray from your ways and harden our hearts against fearing you? Return, for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance. Oh, that you would tear the heavens open and come down - at your Presence the mountains would melt. No ear has heard, no eye has seen any god but you can act like this for those who trust him.
| November | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 28th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: 'The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son's wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come. Next he sent some more servants. “Tell those who have been invited” he said “that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen
and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding.”
| October | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 27th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Let me sing to my friend the song of his love for his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted choice vines in it. In the middle he built a tower, he dug a press there too. He expected it to yield grapes, but sour grapes were all that it gave.
| October | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 30th Sunday In Ordinary Time
The Lord said to Moses, 'Tell the sons of Israel this, You must not molest the stranger or oppress him, for you lived as strangers in the land of Egypt. You must not be harsh with the widow, or with the orphan; if you are harsh with them, they will surely cry out to me, and be sure I shall hear their cry; my anger will flare and I shall kill you with the sword, your own wives will be widows, your own children orphans. If you lend money to any of my people, to any poor man among you, you must not play the usurer with him: you must not demand interest from him. If you take another's cloak as a pledge, you must give it back to him before sunset. It is all the covering he has; it is the cloak he wraps his body in; what else would he sleep in? If he cries to me, I will listen, for I am full of pity.' The Word of the Lord
| October | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 29th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom he has taken by his right hand to subdue nations before him and strip the loins of kings, to force gateways before him that their gates be closed no more: It is for the sake of my servant Jacob, of Israel my chosen one, that I have called you by your name, conferring a title though you do not know me.
I am the Lord, unrivalled; There is no other God besides me. Though you do not know me, I arm you that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that, apart from me, all is nothing. The Word of the Lord
| October | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 25th Sunday In Ordinary Time
The love of God cannot be measured by any human standard. It is incalculable. By human reckoning it must even appear foolish. What sensible employer would behave like the man in the Gospel parable?
We see a reflection of that love in St. Paul's dilemma. He loved so much that he could not decide whether it was better to live or to die.
| September | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 24th Sunday In Ordinary Time
On the way through the wilderness, the Israelites lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water here; we are sick of this unsatisfying food." At this God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. The people came and said to Moses, "We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede for us with the Lord to save us from these serpents."
Moses interceded for the people, and the Lord answered him, “Make a fiery serpent and
put it on a standard. If anyone is bitten and looks at it, he shall live.” So Moses fashioned a bronze serpent which he put on a standard, and if anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked at the bronze serpent and lived.
| September | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 23rd Sunday In Ordinary Time
The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows, "Son of man, I have appointed you as sentry to the House of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, warn them in my name. If I say to a wicked man: Wicked wretch, you are to die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked man to renounce his ways, then he shall die for his sin, but I will hold you responsible for his death. If, however, you do warn a wicked man to renounce his ways and repent, and he does not repent, then he shall die for his sin, but you yourself will have saved your life."
| September | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 26th Sunday In Ordinary Time
The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: "You object, "What the Lord does is unjust." Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you do that is unjust? When the upright man renounces his integrity to commit sin and dies because of this, he dies because of the evil that he himself has committed. When the sinner renounces sin to become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to live. He has chosen to renounce all his previous sins; he shall certainly live; he shall not die."
| September | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 22nd Sunday In Ordinary Time
It comes to us as no surprise that the Prophet Jeremiah should have felt reluctance to offer himself as a living sacrifice to God's will,
| August | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 20th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown.
| August | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 19th Sunday In Ordinary Time
When Elijah reached Horeb, the mountain of God, he went into the cave and
spent the night in it. Then he was told, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord.”
| August | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 18th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Nothing can come between us and the love of Christ, even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who loved us. For I am certain of this: neither death or life, no angel, no prince, nothing that exists, nothing still to come, not any power, or height or depth, nor any created thing, can ever come between us and the love of God made visible in Christ Jesus our Lord.
| August | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 17th Sunday In Ordinary Time
The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, “Ask what you would like me to give you,” Solomon replied, “Lord, my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father.
| August | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 16th Sunday In Ordinary Time
There is no god, other than you, who cares for everything, to whom you might have to prove that you never judged unjustly. Your justice has its source in strength, your sovereignty over all makes you lenient to all. You show your strength when your sovereign power is questioned and you expose the insolence of those who know it; but, disposing of such strength, you are mild in judgment, you govern us with great lenience, for you have only to will, and your power is there. By acting thus you have taught a lesson to your people how the virtuous man must be kindly to his fellow men, and you have given your sons the good hope that after sin you will grant repentance.
| July | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The spirit came into me and made me stand up, and I heard the Lord speaking to me. He said, "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebels who have turned against me. Till now they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me. The sons are defiant and obstinate; I am sending you to them, to say, The Lord says this, "Whether they listen or not, this set of rebels shall know there is a prophet among them."
| July | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Bulletin 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Lord who is kind and full of compassion Our Lord has every claim to be the title and majesty of kingship, and yet he comes to us in humility and gentleness. We pray that this spirit of Christ may also be in us.
| July | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Solemnity of St Peter and Paul
We celebrate the Feast of the Princes of the Apostles, from whom we derive our Christian faith. The Lord stood by them and gave them power, so that through them the whole message might be proclaimed for the entire world to hear.
| June | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | BULLETIN 9TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, 2ND JUNE 2008
Christ, our Rock of Refuge
CONSOLATA SHRINE It is through Christ alone that we can keep our side of the covenant, which is to love God with all our heart and keep his commandments so as to gain his blessing.
| May | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | BULLETIN 5TH SUNDAY OF EASTER, 20TH APRIL 2008
Our Royal Priesthood
We are assembled here today to exercise our royal priesthood and to offer the
spiritual sacrifice which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God our Father.
| April | 2008 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 3rd Sunday of Advent 2009
Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has repealed your sentence; he has driven your enemies away. The Lord, the king of Israel, is in your midst; you have no more evil to fear. When that day comes, word will come to Jerusalem: Zion, have no fear,
| December | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 33rd Sunday In Ordinary Time 2009
'At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who mounts guard over your people. There is going to be a time of great distress, unparalleled since nations first came into existence. When that time comes, your own people will be spared, all those whose names are found written in the Book. Of those who lie sleeping in the dust of the earth many will awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting disgrace. The learned will shine as brightly as the vault of heaven, and those who have instructed many in virtue, as bright as stars for all eternity.'
| November | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Solemnity of Christ The King 2009
His sovereignty is an eternal sovereignty. I gazed into the visions of the night. And I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man. He came to the one of great age and was led into his presence. On him was conferred sovereignty, glory and kingship, and men of all peoples, nations and languages became his servants. His sovereignty is an eternal sovereignty which shall never pass away, nor will his empire be destroyed.
| November | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
Elijah the Prophet went off to Sidon. And when he reached the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks; addressing her he said, 'Please bring a little water in a vessel for me to drink.' She was setting off to bring it when he called after her. 'Please' he said 'bring me a scrap of bread in your hand.' As the Lord your God lives
| November | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | All Saints Day 2009
I, John, saw another angel rising where the sun rises, carrying the seal of the living God; he called in a powerful voice to the four angels whose duty was to devastate land and sea, 'Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea or to the trees, until we have put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.' Then I heard how many were sealed: a hundred and fourty-four thousand, out of all the tribes of Israel.
| November | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
The Lord God said,' It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.' So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:
| October | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
The Lord God said,' It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.' So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:
| October | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
I will comfort the blind man and the lame as I lead them back. The Lord says this: Shout with joy for Jacob! Hail the chief of nations! Proclaim! Praise! Shout! The Lord has saved his people, the remnant of Israel!' See, I will bring them back from the land of the North and gather them from the far ends of the earth; all of them: the blind and the lame, women with child, women in labour: a great company returning here. They had left in tears, I will comfort them as I lead them back; I will guide them to streams of water, by a smooth path where they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born son.
| October | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
I prayed, and understanding was given me; I entreated, and the spirit of Wisdom came to me. I esteemed her more than scepters and thrones; compared with her, I held riches as nothing. I reckoned no priceless stone to be her peer, for compared with her, all gold is a pinch of sand, and beside her silver ranks as mud. I loved her more than health or beauty, preferred her to the light, Since her radiance never sleeps. In her company all good things came to me, at her hands riches not to be numbered.
| October | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
The Lord has been pleased to crush his servant with suffering. If he offers his life in atonement, he shall see his heirs, he shall have a long life and through him what the Lord wishes will be done. His soul's anguish over he shall see the light and be content. By his sufferings shall my servant justify many, taking their faults on himself. The Word of the Lord
| October | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
The Lord came down in the Cloud. He spoke with Moses, but took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the spirit came on them they prophesied, but not again.
| September | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
The Lord has opened my ear. For my part, I made no resistance, neither did I turn away. I offered my back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who tore at my beard; I did not cover my face against insult and spittle.
| September | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
The ears of the deaf shall be unsealed and the tongues of the dumb shall be loosed. Say to all faint hearts, 'Courage! Do not be afraid. 'Look, your God is coming, Vengeance is coming, The retribution of God; He is coming to save you.'
| September | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Assumption of the BVM, 2009
Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, adorned with the sun, standing on the moon, and with the twelve stars on her head for a crown. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky, a huge red dragon which had seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet.
| August | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
Elijah went into the wilderness, a day's journey, and sitting under a furze bush wished he were dead. 'Lord,' he said, ‘I have had enough. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.' Then he lay down and went to sleep. But an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat." He looked
round, and there at his head was a scone baked on hot stones, and a jar of water.
| August | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; then he called the elders, leaders, judges and scribes of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. Then Joshua said to all the people; 'If you will not serve the Lord, choose today whom you wish to serve, whether the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are now living. As for me and my House, we will serve the Lord.'
| August | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
Moses said to the people: 'Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. You must add nothing to what I command you, and take nothing from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God just as I lay them down for you. Keep them, observe them, and they will demonstrate to the peoples your wisdom and understanding. When they come to know of all these laws they will exclaim, 'No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation.' And indeed, what great nation is there that has its gods so near as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call to him? And what great nation is there that has laws and customs to match this whole Law that I put before you today?'
| August | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
The whole community of the sons of Israel began to complain against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and said to them, "Why did we not die at the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt, when we were able to sit down to pans of meat and could eat bread to our heart's content. As it is, you have brought us to this wilderness to starve this whole company to death!' Then the Lord said to Moses, "Now I will rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the people are to go out and gather the day's portion; I propose to test them in this way to see whether they will follow my law or not."
| August | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing Elisha, the man of God, bread from the first-fruits, twenty barley loaves and fresh grain in the ear. 'Give it to the people to eat,' Elisha said. But his servant replied, 'How can I serve this to a hundred men?' 'Give it to the people to eat' he insisted 'for the Lord says this, 'They will eat and have some left over.' 'He served them; they ate and had some over, as the Lord had said.
| July | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 15th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Go, prophesy to my people. Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, said to Amos, "Go away, seer; get back to the land of Judah; earn your bread there, do your prophesying there. We want no more prophesying in Bethel; this is the royal sanctuary, the national temple. I was no prophet, neither did I belong to the brotherhoods of prophets,' Amos replied to Amaziah. "I was a shepherd, and looked after sycamores: but it was the Lord who took me from herding the flock, and the Lord who said, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel."
| July | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
'Doom for the shepherds who allow the flock of my pasture to be destroyed and scattered – it is the Lord who speaks! This, therefore, is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds in charge of my people: You have let my flock be scattered and go wandering and have not taken care of them. Right, I will take care of your misdeeds – it is the Lord who speaks! But the remnant of my flock I myself will gather from all the countries where I have dispersed them, and will bring them back to their pastures: they shall be fruitful and increase in numbers. I will raise up shepherds to look after them and pasture them; no fear, no terror for them anymore; not one shall be lost – it is the Lord who speaks!
| July | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 14th June 2009
Moses went and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. In answer, all the people said with one voice, "We will observe all the commands that the Lord has decreed." Moses put all the commands of the Lord into writing, and early next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve standing-stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
| June | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Solemnity of Ss Peter & Paul, 28th June 2009
King Herod started persecuting certain members of the Church. He beheaded James the brother of John, and when he saw that this pleased the Jews he decided to arrest Peter as well. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread, and he put Peter in prison, assigning four squads of four soldiers each to guard him in turns. Herod meant to try Peter in public after the end of Passover week. All the time Peter was under guard the Church prayed to God for him unremittingly.
| June | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Solemnity of Corpus Christi, 14th June 2009
Moses went and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. In answer, all the people said with one voice, "We will observe all the commands that the Lord has decreed." Moses put all the commands of the Lord into writing, and early next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve standing-stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
| June | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 5th Sunday of Easter
CHRIST THE TRUE VINE
When, like St. Paul, we "believe in the name of Jesus Christ," God lives in us and we live in him. We become branches of the true vine, Jesus Christ.
| May | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Passion Sunday 2009
My face I did not shield from buffets and spitting, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back.
| April | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 1st Sunday of Lent 2009
God spoke to Noah and his sons, "See, I establish my Covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; also with every living creature to be found with you, birds, cattle and every wild beast with you: everything that came out of the ark, everything that lives on the earth. I establish my covenant with you: no thing of flesh shall be swept away again by the waters of the flood. There shall be no flood to destroy the earth again."
| March | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 3rd Sunday of Lent 2009
God spoke all these words. He said, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no gods except me.
| March | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 2nd Sunday of Lent 2009
The sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith. God put Abraham to the test. "Abraham, Abraham," he called. "Here I am," he replied. "Take
your son," God said, "your only child Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him as burnt offering, on a mountain I will point out to you."
| March | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 6th Sunday In Ordinary Time 2009
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "If a swelling or scab or shiny spot appears on a man's skin, a case of leprosy of the skin is to be suspected. The man must be taken to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests who are his sons.
| February | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 5th Sunday In Ordinary Time 2009
1606 Every man experiences evil around him and within himself. This experience makes itself felt in the relationships between man and woman. Their union has always been threatened by discord, a spirit of domination, infidelity, jealousy, and conflicts that can escalate into hatred
and separation.
| February | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 4th Sunday In Ordinary Time 2009
Moses said to the people: "Your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from among yourselves, from your own brothers; to him you must listen. This is what you yourselves asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the Assembly. "Do not let me hear again," you said, "the voice of the Lord my God, nor look any longer on this great fire, or I shall die," and the Lord said to me, "All they have spoken is well said. I will raise up a prophet like yourself for them from their own brothers; I will put my words into his mouth and he shall tell them all I command him. The man who does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name, shall be held answerable to me for it. But the prophet who presumes to say in my name a thing I have not commanded him to say, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die."
| February | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2009
Samuel was lying in the sanctuary of the Lord where the ark of God was, when the Lord called, "Samuel! Samuel!"He answered, "Here I am." Then he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, since you called me." Eli said, "I did not call. Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down.
| January | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | The Baptism Of The Lord
Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though you have no money, come! Buy corn without money, and eat, and, at no cost, wine and milk. Why spend money on what is not bread, your wages on what fails to satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and you will have good things to eat and rich food to enjoy. Pay attention, come to me; listen, and your soul will live.
| January | 2009 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time 2010
The Lord says this: I am coming to gather the nations of every language. They shall come to witness my glory. I will give them a sign and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Moshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant islands that have never heard of me or seen my glory.
| August | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2010
Vanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity! For so it is that a man who has laboured wisely, skillfully and successfully must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This, too, is vanity and great injustice; for what does he gain for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under the sun? What of all his laborious days, his cares of office, his restless nights? This, too, is vanity.
| August | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2010
Moses said to the people: 'Obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and you shall return to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.
| July | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2010
Rejoice, Jerusalem, be glad for her, all you who love her! Rejoice, rejoice for her, all you who mourned her! That you may be suckled, filled, from her consoling breast, that you may savour with delight
her glorious breasts. For thus says the Lord: Now towards her I send flowing peace, like a river, and like a stream in spate the glory of the nations.
| July | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2010
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day. He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, and bowed to the ground. ‘My Lord,’ he said ‘I beg you, if I find favour with you, kindly do not pass your servant by. A little water shall be brought; you shall wash your feet and lie down under the tree. Let me fetch a little bread and you shall refresh yourselves before going further. That is why you have come to your servant’s direction.’ They replied, ‘Do as you say.’
| July | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2010
The Lord forgives your sin; you are not to die. Nathan said to David, 'The Lord the God of Israel says this, 'I anointed you king over Israel; I delivered you from the hands of Saul; I gave your master's house to you, his wives into your arms; I gave you the House of Israel and of Judah; and if this were not enough, I would add as much again for you. Why have you shown contempt for the Lord, doing what displeases him? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword, taken his wife for your own, and killed him with the Sword of the Ammonites. So now the sword will never be far from your House, since you have shown contempt for me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.' David said to Nathan, 'I have sinned against the Lord.' Then Nathan said to David, 'The Lord, for his part, forgives your sin; you are not to die.'
| June | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Solemnity Our Lady Consolata Feast
The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the poor, to bind up hearts that are broken; to proclaim liberty to captives, freedom to those in prison; to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord, a day of vengeance for our God, to comfort all those who mourn and give them for ashes a garland, for mourning robe the oil of gladness, for despondency, praise. But you will be named ‘priests of the Lord,’ they will call you ‘ministers of our God.’ I reward them faithfully and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their race will be famous throughout the nations, their descendants throughout the peoples. All who see them will admit that they are a race whom the Lord has blessed.
| June | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Pentecost Sunday 2010
When Pentecost day came round, the apostles had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.
| May | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Easter Sunday 2010
Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: "You must have heard about the recent happenings in Judaea; about Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil. Now I, and those with me, can witness to everything he did throughout the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and also to the fact that they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three days afterwards God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen, not by the whole people but only by certain witnesses God had chosen beforehand. Now we are those witnesses - we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead - and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his people and tell them that God has appointed him to judge everyone, alive or dead. It is to him that all the prophets bear this witness: that all who believe in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name."
| April | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 3rd Sunday of Easter 2010
The high priest demanded an explanation of the apostles. ‘We gave you a formal warning,’ he said ‘not to preach in this name, and what have you done? You have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and seem determined to fix the guilt of this man’s death on us.’ In reply Peter and the apostles said, ‘Obedience to God comes before obedience to men; it was the God of our ancestors who raised up Jesus, but it was you who had him executed by hanging on a tree. By his own right hand God has now raised him up to be a leader and savior, to give repentance and forgiveness of sins through him to Israel. We are witnesses to all this, we and the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.’ They warned the apostles not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them. And so they left the presence of the Sanhedrin glad to have had the honour of suffering humiliation for the sake of the name.
| April | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Vocation Sunday - 2010
Paul and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats. When the meeting broke up, many Jews and devout converts joined Paul and Barnabas, and in their talks with them Paul and Barnabas urged them to remain faithful to the grace God had given them.
| April | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 5th Sunday of Easter 2010
Paul and Barnabas went back through Lystra and Iconium to Antioch. They put fresh heart into the disciples, encouraging them to persevere in the faith. ‘We all have to experience many hardships’ they said ‘before we enter the kingdom of God.’ In each of these churches they appointed elders, and with prayer and fasting they commended them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe.
| April | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Palm Sunday 2010
A reading from the prophet Isaiah My face I did not shield from buffets and spitting, knowing that I shall not be put to shame The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help; therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.
| March | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | Easter Sunday 2010
Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: "You must have heard about the recent happenings in Judaea; about Jesus of Nazareth and how he began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism. God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all who had fallen into the power of the devil. Now I, and those with me, can witness to everything he did throughout the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and also to the fact that they killed him by hanging him on a tree, yet three days afterwards God raised him to life and allowed him to be seen, not by the whole people but only by certain witnesses God had chosen beforehand. Now we are those witnesses - we have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead - and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his people and tell them that God has appointed him to judge everyone, alive or dead. It is to him that all the prophets bear this witness: that all who believe in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name."
| March | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 3rd Sunday of Lent 2010
Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father in law, priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. ‘I must go and look at this strange sight,' Moses said ‘and see why the bush is not burnt.' Now the Lord saw him go forward to look, and God called him from the middle of the bush. ‘Moses, Moses!' he said. ‘Here I am' he answered. ‘Come no nearer' he said. ‘Take off your shoes, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your father,' he said ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.' At this Moses covered his face, afraid to look at God.
| March | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 4th Sunday of Lent 2010
The Lord said to Joshua, 'Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.' The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn, that same day. From that time, from, their first eating of the produce of that country, the manna stopped falling. And having manna no longer, the Israelites fed from that year onwards on what the land of Canaan yielded.
| March | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 1st Sunday of Lent (C) 2010
Moses said to the people: 'The priest shall take the pannier from your hand and lay it before the altar of the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of the Lord your God, you must make this pronouncement:
| February | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins | 2nd Sunday of Lent
Taking Abram outside the Lord said, ‘Look up to heaven and count the stars if you can. Such will be your descendants’ he told him. Abram put his faith in the Lord, who counted this as making him justified.
| February | 2010 | English | Sunday Bulletins |
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