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holy family of jesus, mary and joseph

12/29/2019

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Hello friends,

As we come to the end of this year, I want to wish you a Happy New Year 2020!

The last Sunday of this year is dedicated to the Holy Family. The Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (Lumen Gentium) says, “The Family is… the domestic church” (11). The Christian household is the most basic visible expression of the church and a fundamental place where we foster unity with Christ and with one another. Just a few days ago we heard St. Luke describe the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem. Although the manger may not have been the Ritz, we imagined a scene described in the song: Silent night, Holy night. The silence of that night was broken only by the angels praising God and announcing peace to God’s people on earth. Now we hear Matthew’s gospel. The peace and quiet are gone. The paranoid king, Herod the Great, is intent on destroying the child Jesus and the Holy Family have to escape by leaving their own homeland and becoming refugees in neighboring Egypt. It’s like a splash of cold water in the face, but this splash is really a splash of cold reality, reminding us that no family, not even the holiest has a stress free existence. It also reminds us of the universal conflict and tension between the forces of good and evil, light and darkness, grace and sin. The forces of evil lined up against Jesus right from the beginning. Matthew’s story also reminds us that although our decision to follow Jesus takes us along a road that leads to eternal happiness, that road is not always paved or smooth.

Estimados amigos,

Estamos al final de este año 2019 y nos preparamos para recibir el nuevo año con gusto y esperanza. Espero y este 2020 traiga muchas bendiciones para todos ustedes. ¡Así que Feliz Año Nuevo! Este último domingo del año recordamos a la Sagrada Familia. Los documentos de la Iglesia nos hablan de la familia como la iglesia doméstica. Cada familia es la imagen visible de la iglesia y el lugar donde se aprenden buenos valores y se promueve la unidad y la paz. Dejemos que la Sagrada Familia de Jesús, María y José habiten en nuestros hogares este año nuevo que estamos por comenzar.

​ Fr. Alex Urena
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December 23rd, 2019

12/23/2019

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Hello Friends,

The Eucharistic Prayer is the chief of the priestly prayers at Mass. The prayer has these parts: Thanksgiving, Acclamation, Epiclesis, Institution Narrative and Consecration, Anamnesis, Offering, Intercession, and Final Doxology. Thanksgiving begins with the preface prayer that gives thanks to God on behalf of the people for all the blessings and gifts God has given. The priest has a dialogue with the people as they actively participate with their responses and then continues the preface prayer. The people and priest express their gratitude by singing the angelic hymn, the Sanctus (Holy). The priest acting in Persona Christi Capitis (in the person of Christ the head) invokes the Holy Spirit to come down on the offerings of bread and wine during the Epiclesis. The priest stretches out is hands over the offerings. The holiest part of the Mass is when the priest in Persona Christi Capitis uses the exact same words as Jesus at the Last Supper and speaks them over the bread and wine thereby consecrating them into the body and blood of Christ. The prayer includes the narrative of the Last Supper found in the Gospels. I will leave you with some homework to look up the other four parts of the Eucharistic Prayer in your Catechisms.

Father Gino

La oración eucarística es el jefe de las oraciones sacerdotals en la Misa. La oración tiene estas partes: Acción de Gracias, Aclamación, Epiclesis, Narrativa institucional y consagración, Anamnesis, Ofrenda, Intercesión y Doxología Final. El Día de Acción de Gracias comienza con la oración prefacio que da gracias a Dios en nombre del pueblo por todas las bendiciones y dones que Dios ha dado. El sacerdote tiene un diálogo con el pueblo mientras participa activamente con sus respuestas y luego continúa la oración prefacio. El pueblo y el sacerdote expresan su gratitud cantando el himno angelical, el Sanctus (Santo). El sacerdote que actúa en Persona Christi Capitis (en la persona de Cristo cabeza) invoca al Espíritu Santo para que baje sobre las ofrendas de pan y vino durante la Epiclesis. El sacerdote se estira es manos sobre las ofrendas. La parte más sagrada de la Misa es cuando el sacerdote de Persona Christi Capitis utiliza exactamente las mismas palabras que Jesús en la última cena y las habla sobre el pan y el vino, consafiándolos así en el cuerpo y la sangre de Cristo. La oración incluye la narración de la última cena que se encuentra en los Evangelios. Tienes algunos deberes para buscar las últimas cuatro partes de la oración eucarística en tus catecismos.

​ Padre Gino 
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Third sunday of advent

12/15/2019

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Dear friends,

A lady who was working as a phone order representative for a textbook publisher tells this story. One very busy day many customers had been put on hold. When she took one of her waiting calls, she heard an annoyed lady on the line muttering to herself: “Darn, damn, damn, darn, darn!” She smiled and asked: “What may I help you with today?” After brief silence, the caller said: “I’m sorry I got carried away talking to myself here; I guess I was in too much of a hurry. I would like to place an order for some books.” The lady taking the order said, “That’s hardly the worst thing I heard today. Now, first I need your name.” “Oh dear,” the caller said, “How embarrassing. My name is Sister Patience.”

This little story might help us remember what St. James tells us in today’s second reading: “Be patient, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord.” In our gospel, John the Baptist is now in prison. Was he becoming impatient because our Lord hadn’t rescued him? Didn’t Jesus claim, quoting Isaiah, that he had been sent “to proclaim liberty to captives?” One gets the impression from John’s preaching that he expected the Kingdom of God to come in a very short me. On the other hand, there’s always the possibility he was sending his disciples to Jesus so they would learn about Jesus and the marvelous things he was doing. I’m sure no one could know the motvation John the Baptist had for sending his disciples to Jesus to ask whether he was the one who is to come. Prophets can see things much more clearly than the rest of us can. The main point St. Matthew is making for the readers is that the work of Jesus shows that God’s kingdom has begun. The answer of Jesus to John’s disciples as to whether he is the expected Messiah sounds as if it comes right out of our first reading from Isaiah: “the blind see, the lame walk, the deaf hear, etc.”

Estmados parroquianos,

Un niño estaba dibujando un retrato, y su profesor se le acercó y le dijo: Ese es un retrato interesante. Dime algo de él. El niño le respondió: Es un retrato de Dios. Entonces, el profesor le dijo: Pero nadie sabe cómo es Dios. Lo sabrán cuando haya terminado, dijo el niño... Esta historia me trajo a la memoria una anécdota que escuché en estos días. Dicen que un hombre que escuchó una conferencia de la Madre Teresa de Calcuta en las Naciones Unidas, se acercó a la anciana religiosa y le dijo: “Hermana, le cuento que yo no creo en Dios. Soy ateo. Pero le aseguro que si Dios existe, debe ser muy parecido a usted”. Estando Juan el Bausta en la cárcel, oyó hablar de Jesús y envió a algunos de sus seguidores para que le preguntaran si él era de veras el que había de venir, o si debían esperar a otro. La respuesta fue muy clara: “Vayan y díganle a Juan lo que están viendo y oyendo. Cuéntenle que los ciegos ven, los cojos andan, los leprosos quedan limpios de su enfermedad, los sordos oyen, los muertos vuelven a la vida y a los pobres se les anuncia la buena nocia. ¡Y dichoso aquel que no encuentre en mí movo de tropiezo!” Jesús no da explicaciones ni fundamenta su autoridad en teorías o doctrinas de ningún po. Lo único que pide es que se fijen en su comportamiento. Las señales son evidentes y cualquiera que tenga los ojos abiertos y los oídos atentos, podrá reconocer que él es el Mesías de Dios.

​ Fr. Alex Urena
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St. Albert the Great Newman Parish
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