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(Received as email) Knights of Columbus Bible Tuesday 7:00 p.m. K. C. Hall Hwy 90 - Del Rio, Texas Opening Prayer/ Psalm 95 Lenten Journey: Third Sunday of Lent (cycle A) First Reading; Exodus 17:3-7, the Israelites murmured against God in thirst. God directs Moses to strike a rock with his staff, and water issues forth. The Responsorial Psalm is Psalm 95, “if today you hear his voice harden not your hearts.” Second Reading; Romans 5:1-8, Through Jesus we have received the grace of faith.   The love of God has been poured upon us.   Jesus laid down his life for us while we were still sinners. The Gospel; John 4:5-42, Jesus speaks to the Samaritan woman at the well.   He searches her soul, and  she recognizes him as a prophet. Jesus speaks of the water of eternal life.   He also notes the fields are ready for harvest. Catechism of the Catholic Church Living waters-Baptism CCC 1265   Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but also makes us neoph...

Pray for a cool breeze to blow through us so that we may hear the Holy Spirit. All of us are the Samaritan woman at the well. On any ordinary day we can encounter Jesus. The “well” symbolizes three (3) things: 1) Well of God Living Waters Jesus fills us with water. When we give to Jesus our sins and our selves we receive living water. 2) Conversation Jesus leads us into deeper conversations. When we have a conversation with Jesus it will change our life. We must listen to what Jesus is saying to us and honestly confront our habits and routines. We must live how Christ asks us to live. 3) Leisure We are too busy texting, talking and playing games, that our lives are frenzy. We must take time to relax to talk to God. The Lord invites us to the well, to come to the well where we will have more peace and more hope. If today you hear His Voice harden not your heart. Then we are ready for transformation, for redemption. We must trust God and hear when He tells us that He lov...

(Received as email) Knights of Columbus Bible Tuesday 7:00 p.m. K. C. Hall Hwy 90 - Del Rio, Texas Opening Prayer/Psalm 33 “Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.” The Church unites herself to the journey of Abraham, Father of believers Sacred history begins with a story of disobedience (Genesis 2-3) and its consequences punctuated by four curses – “Because you have done this, you shall be banned from all the animals and from all the wild creatures,” God said to the serpent (Genesis 3:14). Then, “cursed be the ground (Genesis 3:17). Then God said to Cain, “you shall be banned from the soil (Genesis 4:11). Finally, “cursed be Canaan!” (Genesis 9:25). In Genesis 12: 1-25 (2nd Sunday of Lent Lectionary reading, cycle A), the words “blessed” and “blessings” are used five times…”I will make you a great nation.” “I will make your name great…”, “…I will bless those who bless you and curse those who cruse you.” “All the communities of the earth shall find blessing...

(Received in email) Knight of Columbus Bible Study Tuesday 7:00 p.m. K. C. Hall Hwy 90 - Del Rio, Texas Opening prayer/ Psalm 24 By the forty days of Lent the Church unites herself to the mystery of Jesus in the desert Temptation = an attraction either from outside or from within, to act contrary to right reason and the Commandments of God. Jesus himself during his life was tempted, to manifest opposition between himself and the devil and the triumph of his saving work over Satan. Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC 538 Jesus rebuffs Satan’s attacks, which recapitulate the temptations of Adam and Eve in Paradise and of Israel in the desert. CCC 539 Jesus is the new Adam who remained faithful just where the first Adam had give in to temptation. Jesus fulfills Israel’s vocation perfectly; in contrast to those who had once provoked God during forty years in the desert. Jesus Christ reveals himself as God’s servant, totally obedient to the divine will. In this, Jesus is the devi...

Ask the Holy Spirit to anoint us in our Lenten journey. Fa ther Moreno sensed that something was terribly wrong. He started gasping for air, he felt his chest constricted, it was very painful. He was at a loss for breath, he couldn’t drink water, and it was an awful feeling. He felt like death was at hand, because if he could not breathe he would faint and possibly die. We must acknowledge, claim and be open to the Breath of God. If we do not have the Breath of God, the Life of God flowing through us, we will be gasping for life, we will feel the torment and torture of trying to live and feeling like we cannot survive. Let us continue on our Lenten journey, because we began our Lenten journey on Ash Wednesday. Let us claim the Breath of God, the Life of God; because separated from God we die. God is the Source of Life. The devil is cunning which means crafty, playing games, telling us half-truths and luring us away not to think about the Breath of Life. Whe n we st...

1) When faith flutters in; fear flees. 2) Fight fear and it will flee. Fear is a bully: fight it and it will flee from you forever; run away from it and it will run after you forever. 3) Fear is a bully who tries to take your faith away. Keep your faith and fight your fear . Stand up to your fear and the fear will run away. 4) Don’t let the fear factor make you a loser; rather let the faith factor make you a winner. 5) Break down the wall of fear and build up the bridge of faith. 6) Don’t let fear paralyze you; rather let fear propel you forth instead. Don’t remain frozen in fear ; instead move forward in faith. 7) Realize that the evil one does not want us to utilize our God-given gifts and talents and therefore we are tempted with anxieties, doubts, fears , insecurities and uncertainties. 8) In the midst of fear we can have God’s Peace, with the Calmness of God’s Spirit we can know everything is going to be all right. 9) When confronted with fear , at that...

1) How we live today determines how we will live tomorrow. 2) We worried about things yesterday that we can’t even remember today ; so don’t worry about things today that won’t even be remembered tomorrow. 3) Don’t believe the lies that things will not change, that things will not pass. Believe the truth that everything changes, that everything passes; maybe not today , maybe not tomorrow, but certainly some day. 4) Today we are not the same person we were yesterday and tomorrow we will not be the same person we are today . 5) God knew from all eternity that today you would be reading this. 6) Vision is seeing things that are invisible today become reality tomorrow. 7) Just because it’s never been done before doesn’t mean it can never be done. Maybe today ’s the day to do it and maybe you’re the one to get it done. 8) Let us accomplish what God wants us to accomplish today . 9) Let go of yesterday, live for today and look forward to tomorrow. 10) God turn ou...

This prayer was composed by Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930) Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See under Pope Saint Pius X the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church serving from 1903 to 1914 O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me . From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus . From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus . From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, Jesus . From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, Jesus . From the desire of being praised, Deliver me, Jesus . From the desire of being preferred to others, Deliver me, Jesus . From the desire of being consulted, Deliver me, Jesus . From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, Jesus . From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, Jesus . From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, Jesus . From the fear of suffering rebukes, Deliver me, Jesus . From the fear of being calumniated, Deliver me, Jesus . From the fear of being forgotten, Deliver me, Jesus . From the fear...

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Fr. Carr discusses Jesus' admonition not to worry found in the Sermon on the Mount from the gospel http://www.usccb.org/nab/022711.shtml Fr. Carr is the pastor of St. Benedict Parish in Somerville,MA http://www.stbenedictsomerville.com/ He is the author of Living Catholic Catholicism found at http://www.carrbooks.com/ He is also is an alliance member of the Canção Nova [New Song] Catholic Community http://www.cancaonova.com/ He also blogs for the New Song Community in English at http://blog.cancaonova.com/catholicismanew

God gives us great gifts and great graces , in order for us to give back to Him through our giving to others, even greater gifts and even greater graces . God gives us graces and gifts galore. Receive every gift from God with grace . Receive gratefully. Respond grace fully. React graciously. With God’s grace be assertive, bold and courageous. Build solid foundations of faith, connecting bridges of hope and glorious, grace ful gardens of love. In everything there go I except for the grace of God.

On Monday, February 28, 2011 the members of the Legion of Mary - The Nativity of Mary Praesidium went to leave bouquet of flowers for two (2) deceased Legion of Mary - The Nativity of Mary Praesidium active members. February is a special month for both of them. Sister Edelmira "Mache" Rubio died on February 19 and Sister Hortensia "Tencha" De La Rosa celebrated her birthday on February 28, she was born in a leap year. For Sister Edelmira "Mache" Rubio the smaller spring colored bouquet was placed inside the larger red flower bouquet that was already there. For Sister Hortencia "Tencha" De La Rosa, her daughter Anna De La Rosa just happened to come by at the same time, so she took the white colored bouquet of flowers that was there and placed the "purple and gold" colored bouquet in the flower stand, because they are the colors of her mother's beloved San Felipe High School. May the souls of our departed legionaries and t...