25th Sunday in ordinary time

September 22, 2019 Volume 3, Issue # 42

Our Pastor is Father Victor Ray

Today’s question to us is very simple: what kind of a steward am I with all that has been given

to me? It is not just a question about the ways that I handle money or material possessions, but a question about who I am and how I live. The Gospel gives us the story of the steward who was cheating. When his master fires him from his job, he gets together with others who are also willing to cheat his master and they all take advantage of the master. Then the steward is able to go and work with these other cheaters. Of course, we know that they could never trust one another, but they now have a bond because they have conspired together in their cheating. This illustrates what we often experience: if I tell one lie, then I have to begin to tell a whole string of lies because of the first one that I told. Cheating is the same kind of reality. It begins to create its own way of living and it is not good for anyone. Yet it brings a momentary gain. So often we are invited by our Lord Jesus to have wisdom in the way we live. Wisdom is about recognizing the effects of the choices that we make and the actions that we perform each day. Jesus can see in the steward of today’s Gospel story a cunning about living. That cunning will help the steward in the short run. Jesus wants us to have that same cunning with regard to spiritual reality: we need to recognize what will truly help us live and then have the courage to do it. Let us pray today for this gift of spiritual wisdom. Let us ask the Holy Spirit to show us the way to life!

Father Victor Ray

Wisdom From

Our Pastor

a CACINA Parish

Let’s Pray For:

Abrams, Al

Harper Family

Hartwig, Bill

Hickman, Bp. Peter

Judi and Larry

Kovar, Lyn

Little, Ron

Marx, D.A.

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Community is beside you in

your Prayer.

The Daily Prayer of Saint Teresa

Dear Jesus, help me to spread your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with

your spirit and love. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life

may only be a radiance of You. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I

come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul. Let them look up and see no

longer me but only Jesus. Stay with me and then I shall begin to shine as you shine, so

to shine as to be a light to others. Amen.

Reflections of the Week:

How can I imitate the father in Jesus’ parable?

Whom can I welcome back?

Meeks, James

Obuchowski, Essy

Patton Kelsi and Ben

Ray, Father Victor

Retke, Wayne

Rodrigues, Betty

Spano, Dee

Talboom, Mark

Villafana, Ivy

Warner, Bill

PRAYER BASKET

Prayers received by the air waves

Fernanda, Bruno Husband, Annette, Don

Fabien, Jack, Susan, Billy Family Intentions

Wesley Victor Adolfo

Javier Mike Ifeanyi

AnnMarie Tequila, Daughter, Sister

Shahana Aditya

Upcoming Celebrations

MONTHLY FINANCIAL STATEMENT 9/15/19 - 22 COLLECTIONS: $386.00

ACTUAL MONTHLY EXPENSE: $1,562.61 MONTHLY INCOME (PLUS/MINUS) (-$457.61)

For all those Celebrations that I have missed, Forgive Me and I sincerely hope they were all Wonderful. Wishing you all the Happiness and Repeat of your Special Day!

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BIRTHDAYS

Father Juan 9/4

Cindy Giddens 9/9

Frank Frazier 9/15

Joe Ursitti 9/19

Bill Hartwig 9/19

Michael Villafana 9/19

Jan MaGray 9/22

Ann Robin Whitlock 9/24

Barb Fichter 9/28

ANNIVERSARY

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church calendar PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES EVERY SUNDAY IN ROOM 107 AT 9:15 AM

Sunday, September 22, 10:30 am, Mass– 25th Sunday Ordinary

Tuesday, September 24, 6:30 pm, Homeless Mat Workshop

Saturday, September 28, 3:00 pm, Ordination for Barb Fichter

Sunday, September 29, 10:30 am, Mass– 26th Sunday Ordinary,

Saint Teresa Induction into CACINA, Blessing of the Chapel

with a Potluck to follow (Please sign up for the Potluck).

Sunday, October 4, 6:30 pm, First Friday

Saturday, October 5, 9:30 – 11:00 am, Pet Blessing

Sunday, October 6, 10:30 am, Mass– 27th Sunday Ordinary

Sunday, October 13, 10:30 am, Mass– 28th Sunday Ordinary

Sunday, October 13, 12:30 am, House of Ministry Meeting

Sunday, October 20, 10:30 am, Mass– 29th Sunday Ordinary

Sunday, October 27, 10:30 am, Mass– 30th Sunday Ordinary

Tuesday, October 29, 6:30 pm, Homeless Mat Workshop

Thursday, October 31, Happy Halloween

Sunday, October 27, 10:30 am, Mass– 30th Sunday Ordinary

Friday, November 1, 6:30 pm, First Friday

Sunday, November 3, 10:30 am, Mass– 31st Sunday Ordinary

Sunday, November 3, Daylight Savings Time Ends

Sunday, November 10, 10:30 am, Mass– 32nd Sunday Ordinary

Sunday, November 10, After Mass, House of Ministry Meeting

Monday, November 11, Veterans Day

September 29th, 2019

Bishop Ronald

Bishop Ronald Stephens

Bishop Ron Stephens was ordained late in life after a busy career of raising a family, teaching, administrating

schools, directing plays and being involved in parish work. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, he has been a United

States since 2000. He belongs to the Catholic Apostolic Church in North America with active parishes predominately

on the east coast of the United States. After ordination he was appointed pastor of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in

Warrenton, VA. In the United States he has taught and administered at all levels from Grade 1 to University, and

continues to teach on a modified schedule. Since none of these clergy are paid, they all need to have incomes from

some other source - an idea of Bishop Carlos Duarte-Costa, the founder, who felt that his priests should be closer to

the people and leading lives similar to theirs - meaning that they have day jobs to support themselves. Other

differences can be found on the CACINA website.

In 2013 Fr. Ron became Bishop Ron and is now the auxiliary Bishop of Holy Trinity Diocese. His love of teaching

inspires what he tries to do in his weekly homilies, many of which he has shared with other priests and lay persons

around the globe, and has received excellent feedback. The idea for a series of books - one for each of the Cycles of

the Church Year - has become a reality with the first volume of Teaching the Sundays, Year A. He is presently at

work on the other two volumes.

Books by Bishop Ron

RONALD WILBERT STEPHENS was consecrated Bishop in the Catholic Apostolic Church in North America on

September 14, 2013 at the Saviour Lutheran Church in Warrenton, Virginia by Anthony Francis Santore, Diocesan

Bishop, Diocese of the Holy Trinity and Presiding Bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church in North America

assisted by Carl Gregory Purvensas-Smith, Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of the Holy Trinity of the Catholic Apostolic

Church in North America and Willard Earl Schultz, Presiding Bishop Emeritus of the Catholic Apostolic Church in

GATHERING VIDEO

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 AMOS 8:4-7

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! "When will the new

moon be over," you ask, "that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the

wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating! We will buy

the lowly for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!"

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done!

Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church

Thanks be to God

Cantor 1st Responsorial Psalm PSALM 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8

R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.

Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. Blessed be the name of the LORD

both now and forever.

R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.

High above all nations is the LORD; above the heavens is his glory. Who is like the LORD, our God,

who is enthroned on high and looks upon the heavens and the earth below?

R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.

He raises up the lowly from the dust; from the dunghill he lifts up the poor to seat them with princes,

with the princes of his own people.

R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.

Reading 2 1 TIMOTHY 2:1-8

Beloved: First of all, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for

everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion

and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to

come to knowledge of the truth. For there is one God. There is also one mediator between God and

men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all. This was the testimony at the proper

time. For this I was appointed preacher and apostle — I am speaking the truth, I am not lying —,

teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger

or argument.

Hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church

Thanks be to God

PLEASE RISE

Cantor 1st Alleluia CF. 2 CORINTHIANS 8:9

R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Though our Lord Jesus Christ was rich, he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become

rich.

R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel LUKE 16:1-13

Jesus said to his disciples, "A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his

property. He summoned him and said, 'What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your

stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.'

The steward said to himself, 'What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward

away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. I know what I shall do so

that, when I am removed from the stewardship,

they may welcome me into their homes.' He called in his master's debtors one by one. To the first he

said, 'How much do you owe my master?' He replied, 'One hundred measures of olive oil.' He said to

him, 'Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.' Then to another the

steward said, 'And you, how much do you owe?' He replied, 'One hundred kors of wheat.'

The steward said to him, 'Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.' And the master

commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. "For the children of this world are more

prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. I tell you, make friends for

yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person

who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. If, therefore, you are not

trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy

with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters.

He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot

serve both God and mammon."

This is the gospel of the Lord

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

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SANCTUARY Oasis Worship

Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary. Pure and holy, tried and true

With thanksgiving, I'll be a living. Sanctuary for You

It is you, Lord. Who came to save

The heart and soul. Of every man

It is you Lord. Who knows my weakness

Who gives me strength. With thine own hand

Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary. Pure and Holy, tried and true

With thanksgiving I'll be a living. Sanctuary for you

Lead Me on Lord. From temptation

And Purify me. From within

Fill my heart Lord. With Your holy spirit

And Take away, Take away all my sin

Lord prepare me to be sanctuary. Pure and holy, tried and true

With thanksgiving, I'll be a living. Sanctuary for You

Lord prepare me to be sanctuary. Pure and holy, tried and true

With thanksgiving, I'll be a living. Sanctuary for You

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