READINGS FOR NEXT SUNDAY
Isaiah 25:6-10a; Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20; Matthew 22:1-14
IN THE HOUSE OF GOD
"Music at St. Robert’s"
Once, in my younger days, as a friend and I were leaving work I said,
"So, do you have to go home to your wife?" He said, "No, I don’t have
to—I get to go home to see her." He had an eagerness and a love for being
with her. When people ask, "Do we have to sing so much during Mass?" I answer,
"No, we don’t have to, but we get to." I hope that for most
of us, praying and singing during Mass is a welcomed opportunity to express love for God.
Next week..."When the song is too difficult."
We welcome into the family of God: Alyssa
Bingham, Kayla Schleining, Cameron Amores, and Demetrius Alvarez Jr. who were baptized
in Christ.
We pray for the ill: Tony Coogan, Koret Koelman, Terry
McLeod, Adela Florez, Ana Cosgaya, Peter Capodonicco, Rosemary McHale, Arthur Candia,
Bastiaan Blumenthal, Muriel Krause, Sister Cabrini, Don Vickery, Jeanne McHugh, Catherine
Cook, Ann Burns, Imelda Daly, Margarita Velez, Marky, Marlyn Arancibia, Marcia Bourne,
Sandra Dill, & Randall Guerro.
As a Parish Community, We Pray
that the people of the earth respect all life...from the yet-to-be-born to
those waiting to die... may we feed the poor, welcome strangers and establish a just and
lasting peace.
RESPECT LIFE Month is dedicated to the sanctity of every human
being, and we medidate on the words of Pope John Paul II to the United Nations on October
5, 1995:
"We must not be afraid of the future. We must not be afraid of
man. It is no accident that we are here. Each and every human person has been created in
the ‘image and likeness’ of the One Who is the origin of all that is. We have
within us the capacities for wisdom and virtue. With these gifts and with the help of
God’s grace, we can build in the next century and the next millennium a civilization
worthy of the human person, a true culture of freedom. We can and must do so! And in doing
so, we shall see that the tears of this century have prepared the ground for a new
springtime of the human spirit."
