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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5
8:00am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choral)
11:00am Mass (Contemporary)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6
8:30am Word/Eucharist
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
8:30am Mass
2:00pm Script/Comm (New Brighton CC)
2:00pm Script/Comm (Pres. Homes--RV)
WEDESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
8:30am Word/Eucharist
9:00am Quilter's Group (Rectory)
9:45am School Mass
2:00pm Cancer Support Group (Rectory)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
8:30am Mass
10:15am Script/Comm (Innsbruck CC)
7:00pm Script/Comm (St. Anthony CC)
7:15pm Mass (Trevilla New Brighton)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10
8:30am Mass
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
4:30pm Mass (Cantor & Organ)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12
8:00am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choir & Organ)
11:00am Mass (Contemporary)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
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Connections...
November 5, 2000
"'... love God with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself'" is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
Mark 12:28-34
A banquet among scraps
Jack Kelley, foreign affairs editor for USA Today, was deeply moved by this scene he witnessed in war-ravaged East Africa:
"We were in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, during a famine. It was so bad we walked into one village and everybody was dead& We saw this little boy. You could tell he had worms and was malnourished; his stomach was protruding. When a child is extremely malnourished, the hair turns a reddish color, and the skin becomes crinkled as through he's one hundred years old.
"Our photographer had a grapefruit, which he gave to the boy. The boy was so weak he didn't have the strength to hold the grapefruit, so we cut it in half for him. The boy picked it up, looked at us as if to say thanks, and began to walk back towards his village.
"We walked behind him so that he couldn't see us. When he entered the village, there on the ground was a little boy I thought was dead. He eyes were completely glazed over. It turned out to be his younger brother. The older brother knelt down next to his younger brother, bit off a piece of the grapefruit, and chewed it. Then he opened up his younger brother's mouth, put the grapefruit in, and worked his brother's jaw up and down. We learned that the older brother had been doing that for his younger brother for two weeks.
"A couple of days later the older brother died of malnutrition, but the younger brother survived. I remember driving back that night thinking, I wonder if this is what Jesus meant when he said that there is no greater love than to lay down our life for somebody else."
CONNECTION: There is no greater sacrifice of praise we can offer to God for his many blessings to us, no greater song of thanks we can raise than to honor God in those who have been created in God's image. Devotion to God is not genuine unless it includes love for neighbor; commitment to others is incomplete without recognition of God as the source of all love. It is in the love and kindness extended to others that our humanity most resembles God; it is in acts of charity and selflessness that we participate in the very life of God.v
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