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"Come Out of Him!" Print E-mail
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:12

A Sunday school teacher wanted to impress on the children the moral of the Good Samaritan. So she gave them vivid details of the beaten and robbed man taken to an inn by a stranger and shown the greatest respect and charity-while the religious types had all avoided him.

Finally, she asked the class, "So--if you saw a person lying on the roadside all wounded and bleeding, what would you do?" hoping to hear the morally correct answer. Into the total silence, one little girl whispered, "I think I'd throw up."

Feeling Our Feelings

She cut right to the chase! Wouldn't that be true for most of us if we were confronted by the deranged man in the gospel today? We'd feel sick, irritated-or just relieved that Jesus was dealing with it!

There is nothing wrong with feeling our honest feelings. But today we are almost overcome with TV, radio, and internet reporting on wars, violence, starvation, and tragedies. People cry out on every side for relief and justice-how can we possibly deal with all of this pain? When the psalm today says "Don't harden your hearts" to God's voice-we wonder how NOT to harden our hearts, how to avoid getting "compassion fatigue."

Silence, the First Step

How does Jesus deal with demands for help? When others walk away, Jesus approaches, and listens. Only after he lets evil speak does he confront it, and sets the person free.

When Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez was asked, "How do you meet the needs of the poorest of the poor in Latin America?" he replied, "The first step is silence." Silence allows us to look, to see, to contemplate what is happening right in front of our eyes. Silence allows us to LISTEN to God's urgings. This is why, even when we are tired, troubled in spirit, and want to give up, it is important to keep our connection to God open.

Jesus must have often been exhausted, sad, worn out by the effects of evil-just picturing Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane gives us some idea. But he nurtured his state of contemplation with God, always turning to God for strength and help. Then he could face the reality of sin and evil squarely, so that the person can be set free.

Look how the unclean spirits in the gospel today want to hide-we know from our own sins, whatever is of darkness wants to hide from God. Evil doesn't want to be known, as Jesus wants to know it and heal it. Jesus' way of dealing with evil is the opposite of silence and hiding-he requires evil to "Come out of him!" Be seen, be known, and identify yourself- and then, "Begone, Satan!"

Meet Evil Where It Lives

Have you noticed how some of our greatest ministries operate just like that-by tearing the lid off of the pain and suffering, revealing it for what it is, so that it can be healed? For example, when we see pierced and tattooed kids on the streets, we might walk the other way to avoid them. Covenant House takes these children off the streets and listens to their terrible stories of abuse, fear, abandonment, and violence. Once their stories are revealed to the light, healing hands can help the children slowly begin to heal.

Or do you know a miserable married couple who are heading for divorce? Maybe we avoid them so we don't "get caught in the middle." In the Retrouvaille ("retro-vi") program, those troubled couples listen to the stories told by the lead couples who have already healed their failing marriages. The Retrouvaille leaders do not hide their sad truth from the light-they reveal the unclean spirits of violence, cheating, abuse, addiction, and the misery of a disintegrating marriage. The new couples listen, and learn to face the unclean spirits in their own marriages honestly.

Vatican II documents tell us the Church's goal is quite simply "to carry forward the work of Christ under the lead of the befriending Spirit" (Gaudium et Spes).

Do you have a brother, mother, or friend who is a complete pain in the neck? They're depressing and angry, and they complain constantly about their medical problems, until you can feel your heart hardening the minute you see them. You've resolved to avoid them, because why listen? They're just wasting your time with their whining. Or are they?

Jesus knows the unhappiness in each suffering person's heart. To be Christ to a suffering person, we first have to meet them where they are; and it will require "receiving" some of the unclean spirits which take the form of disease, rage, confusion, and ungratefulness.

In that "unclean" time and place, in the midst of the wailing and moaning, we can be Christ's ears and hands. While we are listening, we are seeing Jesus' body on the cross, being the magnet for all the world's suffering. So, as the person's anguish comes to us, we are empowered to hand everything over to Jesus for healing.

We can still set fair limits on our time, but we are no longer a "captive audience" who can't wait to get away. Through grace and patience, we are a pathway for love and forgiveness to enter that person's life… and for unclean spirits to "come out of him" or her.

 
Prayers, Jan. 28 & 29, 2011 Print E-mail
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:43

Join us in praying for the sick of our parish family

Dear Jesus, Divine Physician and Healer of the sick, we turn to you in this time of illness. O dearest comforter of the troubled, alleviate our worry and sorrow with your gentle love, and grant us the grace and strength to accept this burden. Dear God, we place our worries in your hands. We place our sick-Susanna Acosta, Brenda L. Anderson, Kery Bartel, Daniel & Danny Ibarra, Rae Marrero, Henry Mata III, Susan Munoz, Alyson Victoria Oviedo & Family, Helen Pickard, Yolanda Sanchez, Joe Silva, Msgr. Lawrence Stuebben, Bertha Trevino, Wally Vara, David Christropher Woods, Joe Ybarra,Ofelia Badillo, Sandra Cave, Mary Cerha, Rose Coronado, Penny Cranek, David Delperdang, Aurora Dyer, Ed Fischnar, Julian Galindo, Deacon Jesse Galvan, Dee Hancock, Grace Heinze, Aaron Holmbo, Bill Jennings, Robyn Marcum, Margie Morones, Tracy Oviedo, D.M. & Diana Salas, Linda Santos, Billie Sievers, Sister Madonna, Dick Sledden, Nancy Souhrada, Mark Spiekerman, Anthony Trevino, Roberto Trevino, Rosaura Trevino, Gabby Truly, Carmel Van Alen, Carlos Vazquez and Bishop Yanta-under your care and humbly ask that you restore your servants to health again. Above all, grant us the grace to acknowledge your will and know that whatever you do, you do for the love of us. Amen.

(New names run four consecutive weeks.)

 
Mass Intentions, Jan. 28 & 29, 2012 Print E-mail
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 22:41

MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK

Saturday, Jan. 28 5 P.M. Birthday Blessings for Jackie Carian by Carian Family
Sunday, Jan. 29 8 A.M. Albert (D) & Margaret Suarez (D); Alan J. Ponce (D) by Alma Ponce
  10 A.M. Birthday Blessings for Minerva Renfro by Family
  12 P.M. Jose Manuel Ramos (D)
  3 P.M. For Law Enforcement Officers Slain in the Line of Duty (D) by An Officer Still on the Force
  6 P.M. Jim Keeton (D) by St. Anthony Claret Men's Club
Monday, Jan. 30 8 A.M. For the Parish
  6:30 P.M. Holy Hour
  7:30 P.M. For an End to Abortion
Tuesday, Jan. 31 8 A.M. Jackie Reeves (D) by DeGennaro Family
Wednesday, Feb. 1 8 A.M. Tomas Canedo, Sr. (D); Birthday Blessings for Elliano Canedo by Canedo Family
Thursday, Feb. 2 8 A.M. All Miscarried Children by Danielle & Evan Schelb
  7 P.M. Jerry Smith (D) by Ringen Family
Friday, Feb. 3 8 A.M. Birthday Blessings for Ben by Family
Saturday, Feb. 4 5 P.M. Bert (D) & Michael Bednarz (D) by Martha Bednarz
Sunday, Feb. 5 8 A.M. Albert (D) & Margaret Suarez (D); Alan J. Ponce (D) by Alma Ponce
  10 A.M. Birthday Blessings for Emma Caroline Shearer by Bea Peterson
  12 P.M. Birthday Blessings Dennis Bergkamp by Family
  3 P.M. Rosa (D) & Rosendo Leanos (D) by Maria Leanos
  6 P.M. For the Parish

 

 
Ministry Schedule, Jan. & Feb. 2012 Print E-mail
Monday, 26 December 2011 01:07

Ministry Schedule, Jan. & Fab. 2012

 
Prayers, Dec. 24 & 25, 2011 Print E-mail
Sunday, 25 December 2011 10:48

All together now--let's pray ! What have you got to lose? There's one catch. These prayers are for someone else, maybe someone you don't know: the man you sat beside at church last week, the child attending religious education classes with your kids, the mother of one of our parishioners—it could be anyone. Still, 90 seconds is all it takes to say one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be. You never know—one day you or someone you love might be on the receiving end of these prayers. Please pray for the sick of our parish family:Teresa De Gennaro, Jack Donohue, Henry Mata III, Alyson Victoria Oviedo & Family, Braulio Rodreguez, Msgr. Lawrence Stuebben, Wally Vara, Andrew Wasmus, Christopher David Woods, Joe Ybarra, Ofelia Badillo, Sandra Cave, Mary Cerha, Rose Coronado, Penny Cranek, David Delperdang, Aurora Dyer, Ed Fischnar, Julian Galindo, Deacon Jesse Galvan, Dee Hancock, Grace Heinze, Aaron Holmbo, Bill Jennings, Robyn Marcum, Margie Morones, Tracy Oviedo, D.M. & Diana Salas, Linda Santos, Billie Sievers, Sister Madonna, Dick Sledden, Nancy Souhrada, Mark Spiekerman, Anthony Trevino, Roberto Trevino, Rosaura Trevino, Gabby Truly, Carmel Van Alen, Carlos Vazquez and Bishop Yanta in their sickness. Help them to accept this illness as sharers in your cross, and bring them back to full health. Lord Jesus, we praise You, for You are Lord forever and ever. Amen.

(New names run four consecutive weeks.)


 

 
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