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Connections&
October 27th, 2002- 30th Sunday of the Year
"You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
Matthew 22: 34-40
A Lesson in love
As a class project in sociology, a group of college students were touring the slums of a city. As they walked along, they saw a little girl playing in the dirt and garbage. One student instinctively reacted to the sight, "God, why doesn't her mother clean her up?"
Her professor replied to the student, "That girl's mother probably loves her, but she doesn't hate dirt. You hate dirt, but you don't love the child enough to go down there and clean her up. Until the hate for the dirt and love for the child are in the same person, that little girl is likely to remain as she is."
CONNECTION: Every word of the Gospel comes down to love--love that is simple enough to articulate but so demanding that we shy away from it. The mystery of God's love is that the Supreme Being of Omnipotent Power should love his creation so completely and so selflessly--and all God seeks in return is that such love be shared by his people throughout his creation. As the professor challenges the student, God challenges us to love others completely and totally, to seek what is good and right for those we love regardless of the cost, the inconvenience, the consequences to us--to love enough both to "hate the dirt" that hurts another and love that person enough to go down into the dirt to make them clean. May we seek to follow the great commandment of the Gospel: to love with the same selfless compassion, care and completeness of God.
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27
7:30am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (SJB Adult Choir)
11:30am Mass (Wild Honey and the Locusts )
6:00pm Natural Family Planning (Kateri)
6:15pm Mass (Instrumental Music only)
7:00pm JustFaith Class
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
8:00am Rosary (Chapel)
8:30am Mass (Chapel)
2:45pm Moms in Touch (LL109)
6:30pm Handbells Rehearsal (Church)
7:00pm Little Rock Bible Study (Rm. 209)
7:00pm RCIA (St. Vincent de Paul)
7:30pm Bible Study (Kateri)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
8:00am Rosary (Chapel)
8:30am Mass (Chapel)
11:00 am Kindermusik (St. John Neumann)
4:30pm Sr. High Service Club (Youth Room)
5:00& 6:30 pm Elementary Faith Formation
7:15pm Wild Honey & The Locusts (St. Cecilia)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30
8:00am Rosary (Chapel)
8:30am Word/Eucharist (Chapel)
4:15pm & 5:15pm Hallelujah Chorus (St. Cecilia)
5:00 & 6:30pm Elem. Faith Formation/Odyssey
5:15pm Befrienders Training (St. Peter Claver)
7:15pm Adult choir Rehearsal (St. Cecilia)
7:00pm SPAC (St. Clare)
7:15pm Hosanna Choir (church)
7:30pm Jr. High Live (Youth Room)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31
8:00am Rosary (Chapel)
8:30am Mass (Chapel)
9:30am Circle of Women (Drexel etc.)
6:30pm Growing Through Loss (Upper Level)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
All Saints Day
8:00am Rosary (Chapel)
8:30am Mass (Church)
9:45am School Mass (Church)
7:00pm Mass
8:00pm Fallfest Appreciation Dinner
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2
All Souls Day
8:30am All Souls Day Mass
4:30pm Mass
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3
TURKEY DINNER
7:30am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (SJB Adult Choir)
10:30am New Parishioner Registration
11:30am Mass (Wild Honey and the Locusts )
1:00pm Baptisms
6:15pm Mass (Instrumental Music only)
7:00pm JustFaith Class
7:15pm Confirmation
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