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Christmas Bazaar Raffle Ticket Pre-Sale is this weekend only at all Masses!! $20 for 20 tickets or $50 for 60 tickets! Our baskets are beautiful and full of amazing gifts and gift cards as usual! You’ll be able to fill out your name and phone number at home and bring your tickets back to the Bazaar on November 6 & 7 to drop them into the bucket of your favorite baskets. Raffles will be called at the end of our day on Saturday, November 7. You do not need to be present to win, we will contact all winners! Thank you for your generous donations to the baskets and your participation in the raffles!
Youth Group had their last October meeting yesterday and closed out Respect Life Month with messages of human dignity!HS Youth Group - Acts Chapters 3-8 - We learned about our purpose in life, being bold in our faith and the origins of the Deaconate. We then had fun playing games and decorating onesies for expectant moms. Jr. Youth Group - Discussed Catholic Social Teachings, human dignity for all life from conception to natural death, and loving and caring for your neighbor (Sunday’s Gospel). They made cards for nursing home residents and “Cupcakes for Life” because every life deserves to be celebrated! They presented them to the high schoolers and Magnolia attended 6:45 am Mass today to give out more. Grab a cupcake in the gathering space today while they last!
The Clergy Corner as taken from the 10/25/26 bulletin:In our Gospel today, we hear Jesus proclaim the greatest commandment. It’s delivered to the people about one week prior to his death. In this period of history, wherein religious leaders tried their best to test Him, perhaps they needed to reassure themselves at what they were about to do. It would be much more bearable if they could get their consciences to reconcile their hearts concerning what they were about to do to the Son of God.However, how quickly the other religious leaders of the Pharisees were to respond upon to the news that the Sadducees failed miserable in their attempt to trap Jesus. You see, they quickly learned any their own question that in the Resurrection, a woman widowed seven times does not belong to any husband because in the life hereafter, we are much more intimate with God meaning that man and woman will be completely fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The Sadducees were ey posed the question to Jesus about the number of times a woman has married. In this example, she married seven times and the Sadducees tried to trap Jesus by asking Him whose wife shall she be when she dies. Basically appalled by His answer, they couldn’t “HEAR” that particular news because of their hardness of heart. They were taught that “there is no resurrection from the dead” and could only adhere to that belief. Jesus tried to teach this understanding had no grounding of truth whatsoever. And so, the Pharisees now want chance to trap Jesus to appease their impending guilt. They sent one of their most advanced scholars to ask Jesus about the greatest commandment of all. Of course, today we know it by heart, but when we give it is proper credence; the fact that Jesus elevated the human person to the level of His divine being, Herein lies our greatest hope of all. We learn that His love is indeed a gift from God and not ever to be taken lightly. We owe love to others, to all peoples mind you, in a manner in the exact way that Jesus loves us. Why? Because if we don’t love Him with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, what kind of love would we then pass on to our neighbor? Yes, we know that law and the prophets are summed up in the Gospel message today, but do we really have it seared into our hearts and beings that it automatically oozes out? In loving God and others, discipline and sacrifices are necessary. For the more one humbly sacrifices for another, the greater the love is. And when you or I recognize that from any given individual, we could become a better person, it brings nothing but expectant joy to all hearts. May God be praised forever and may we show the great depth of the love of Jesus Christ to all. God’s blessings and peace along with a listening heart.- Fr. Chris
Get over to the Knights of Columbus pancake breakfast!Supports scholarship and the breakfast is delicious!
30th Sunday in Ordinary TimeExcerpts from the English translation of Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation, (ICEL); excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, ICEL; All rights reserved. Permission to podcast / stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, License # A-734915. All rights reserved.
