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“Like Jesus, let our love towards others be unconditional”
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 12, 2012
INTRODUCTION: This Sunday we celebrate Christ’s perfect and unconditional love that reaches out to us and to the outcasts; a love that was willing to come down from His heavenly Throne on high as Son of God and put on the weakness of our human flesh; a love that was powerful enough to heal the sick and raise the dead; a love that was willing to give everything including His own life to those He loved; a love that restored to a poor leper his health, his family, and his community; a love that brings hope in hopeless situations.
In the FIRST READING, the disease of leprosy was one of those hopeless situations, where the victims were suddenly excluded from family and the rest of the community because they were considered unclean.
In the SECOND READING, St. Paul teaches that whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. He urges us to be imitators of Christ who came to seek out the lost and the outcast so that everybody might be saved.
In the GOSPEL, we see Jesus restoring the leer to good health and dignity through the power of his healing touch. This perfect and unconditional love and compassion that reaches out to the abandoned, the neglected, the isolated, and the sick is the kind that Jesus recommends to each one of us to practice.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
- As Christians, we all have a duty to respond to the needs of others with perfect and unconditional love, kindness and compassion.
- For our own failures and sins that often get in the way of our own ability to love as we should, we need to humble ourselves and ask the Lord to reach out and touch us and say to us: “be healed.“
Prayer
“Father in heaven, the loving plan of your wisdom took flesh in Jesus Christ, and changed the history of mankind by his command of perfect and unconditional love. Grant that our fulfillment of his command may reflect your wisdom and bring your salvation to the ends of the earth. Amen.”
Schedule of Masses and Sacraments
Sunday: 8 and 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. (Spanish)
Weekdays: 8 a.m. Monday through Friday (Except when there is a funeral Mass)
Tuesdays: 6 p.m. Charismatic Praise and Worship
Saturday: 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer
(The Mass schedule for holydays varies and will be announced.)
(Personal listening systems are available. Please see the music director before Mass.)
First Fridays: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after the 8 a.m. Mass until noon
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday, 2:30-3:30 p.m. and upon request
Marriage: Registered parishioners should contact the office at least six months in advance of planned marriage.
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): Call the Parish Office if you are considering becoming a Roman Catholic, joining in full communion with the Church, or seeking the sacrament of Confirmation. The study and preparatory program for candidates is called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.
In the hospital? Contact the office if you need a priest for the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick or to be anointed at a weekday Mass.
Healing Ministry every month:
After the 4 p.m. Mass on the first Saturday
After 8 a.m. Mass on the last Sunday
After 6 p.m. charismatic worship on the last Tuesday
Baptism: Registered parishioners should contact the office for instructions, preferably before the birth of your baby. Students and adults considering Baptism or full communion in the Catholic Church should contact the coordinator of Faith Formation in the parish office.
Parish Office Phone Number: 352-746-2144
