Aug 24, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – John 6:60-69
“The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life”. Exactly in the meaning of these words, we must understand the Word of God. The Words Jesus spoke are spirit and life. They are spirit because they are the energy to act in a way different. They are the energy to react in a good way to a bad act. They are the energy to pardon for something someone has commited. They are the energy to start again after a failure. The Words Jesus spoke are the energy to feel good after a trauma. The Words Jesus spoke are spirit and life. They are life because He even in His tomb He is life. So even in the worst circumstances, Jesus is life. His words are life. And His Words in us are life to overcome the challenges present. The Words of Jesus Christ is the motor of our action in our day today life. His life is in us with baptism. What we must do is to see how much we can really live according to the Baptism. Let’s reflet: How much I live with the Word of Jesus Christ?
Don Giorgio
Aug 23, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Bartholomew, Apostle – Feast
Gospel – John 1:45-51
Today we are celebrating the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is often identified with Nathanael, a disciple mentioned in the Gospel of John. This identification is supported by the consistent pairing of Bartholomew with Philip in the Synoptic Gospels’ lists of apostles, and Nathanael’s close association with Philip in the Gospel of John. Nathanael is the disciple to whom Jesus gave promises. “You will see greater things than that.’ And then he added ‘I tell you most solemnly, you will see heaven laid open and, above the Son of Man, the angels of God ascending and descending.” The heaven being laid open with the Ascension of Jesus to heaven. The heaven is open to us. It’s open to each one of us. The Angels of God are continuously ascending and descending. The graces are continuously pouring from heaven and our prayers are continuously taken to heaven by the angels. How beautiful is the Christian life! A life based on faith in the heaven open, in the graces pouring down, and in the prayers taken up to heaven. This is the promise given to Nathanael by Jesus. We are the People of God who live in this promise. Let’s reflect: Am I aware that I must live in the hope of the promise given by Jesus to Nathanael?
Don Giorgio
Aug 23, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Friday of week 20 in Ordinary Time
Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin
Gospel – Matthew 22:34-40
Jesus said, ‘You must 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. You must love. How can love becomes a commandment? Can you command someone to love? Pope Benedict XVI in his encyclical Deus Caritas Est describes it well. The “commandment’ of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be “commanded” because it has first been given. This means that God’s prior love for humanity makes it possible for humans to love in return. Our ability to love God and others is rooted in God’s initial gift of love to us. Love can be “commanded” because it has first been given. Our love for God and neighbor flows from having first received God’s love. It’s not primarily about following rules but responding to a gift. Christian love goes beyond mere human effort or ethical imperatives. It flows from God’s grace and enables us to love in return. Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. In this encounter, the encounter with the person of Christ, a response becomes imperative as a return of His love for us. Let’s reflect: Do I see my faith as an encounter with the person of Christ?
Don Giorgio
Aug 22, 2024 | NEWS
On 17.08.2024r a group of pilgrims from Mieszkowice, Szybowice and Nysa wandered in the footsteps of our servant of God Fr. John Schneider. We were accompanied by a group of 8 of our sisters from Nysa. We prayed at Fr. Schneider’s grave asking for graces, experienced the Eucharist together at the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Sand. In Wroclaw Cathedral we visited the exhibition DEFENDER OF WOMEN dedicated to our servant of God. in St. Mary’s Chapel we gave thanks for the gift of his 175th anniversary of priestly ordination. We also visited the Panorama of Raclawice and at the end , in front of the face of Our Lady Help of Christians of Wroclaw, before whom Fr. Jan Schneider entrusted the Association, the girls and our congregation every year, we recited together the act of entrustment to Mary with the words of Fr. Jan’s prayer. It was a wonderful time of grace. We are already arranged for the next pilgrimage next year:)
s. Barbara Mroziak
Aug 22, 2024 | SPIRITUALITY
Feast Day: August 23
Born: April 20, 1586, Lima, Peru, as Isabel Flores de Oliva
Died: August 24, 1617, Lima, Peru
Canonized: April 12, 1671 by Pope Clement X
Patronage: embroiderers, gardeners, florists, Latin America, Peru, Philippines, India, California, against vaniry, ridiculed for piery.
Prayer for intercession
Glorious Saint Rose of Lima, you who knew what it was to love Jesus with such a fine and generous heart.
You, whom since infancy, despised the world’s vanities in order to embrace His Cross.You who loved, with unfailing devotion, our Heavenly Mother and professed a great tender dedication to the destiture, serving them the same why Jesus did.
Teach us to imitate your greatest virtues, so that we, following your example, can enjoy your glorious protection in Heaven.
For our Lord, Jesus Christ, Who lives and reigns forever.
Amen
