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Dear parishioners and visitors; “I am the vine and you are the branches” (Jn. 15:5) All of us naturally want to be closely connected with our loved ones. Today modern communication-technologies bring us much closer with one another even we may live thousand miles away from each other. We have an image of the vine and the branches in this Sunday’s gospel. It is a great and beautiful image of u...
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Dear parishioners and visitors; Jesus says that He is the good shepherd in this 4th Sunday of Easter (Jn. 10: 11-18). This image of a good shepherd tells us his unconditional loving care for everyone, his followers. He is the good shepherd being promised by the prophets not only for the Israelites, the chosen people, but also for the whole world. Today Jesus continues to speak, to guide, to ...
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Dear parishioners and visitors; “He said to them look at my hands … and he showed them his hands” (Lk. 24:38-40). Our Risen Lord Jesus shows his wounded hands to his fearful apostles reminds me of a true story of the Praying Hands, painted by Albrecht Durer in 1508. Albrecht Durer was from a big and poor family of 18 children in a village near Nuremberg, Germany. He and his brother, Albert, wan...
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Dear parishioners and visitors; It is my wish and prayer that all of you had a good blessed Easter and now we are all invigorated to be faithful witnesses joyfully proclaiming the resurrection of our risen Lord and Savior as Mary Magdalene did (John 20:1-9). The gospel reading for the 2nd Sunday of Easter is always about the doubting Thomas (John 20: 19-31). Like Thomas, each of us on our jo...
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Dear parishioners and visitors; “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mk. 15:39). We learn from the Passion narrative (Mk. 14:1-15:47) that the centurion, after seeing and witnessing Jesus’ crucifixion and death, cried out “truly this man was the Son of God”. The centurion’s personal acknowledgment and profession of faith in Jesus’ divinity may be considered as the 1st fruit of Jesus’ passion and...
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Dear parishioners and visitors; “Very truly, I tell you, unless the grain of wheat falls into earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit (Jn.12: 2O-24”). Jesus, using the image and example of a grain falling and dying, teaches us that his suffering and death will bring new life to all and that we, his followers, must die to sins in order to rise to a ...
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My dear parishioners and visitors; “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life”(John 3:16). Everyone knows Jn. 3: 16. It is one of the most widely quoted verses and one of the most well-known verses in the Gospel of St. John. This beautiful verse gives us the reason for the mystery of the Incarnation, t...
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