Entries for August 2024

Our readings today call us to pause for a moment and consider how we respond to God’s love for us each day.   Our Gospel recounts a dialogue between the Pharisees and Jesus. The Pharisees questioned why Jesus’ disciples did not practice the ritual washing before eating a meal. &n...

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Fr. Daniel Huang, SJ will be presenting an enlightening talk titled, “Servants of the Joy of the Gospel” at St. Luke Church on Friday, August 30, at 5:00pm. All are encouraged to attend, especially those who serve the parish.  This is a wonderful opportunity to deepen our faith...

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Our readings offer us examples of how we should be living, and they present us with an opportunity to make a radical change in our lives. In our first reading, Joshua tells the leaders of the Israelites to decide as to who they shall serve in this life. As he presents them with this choice, he bo...

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Jesus said to the crowd, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life...” We can hardly blame the crowd for their shock at this statement — eating the Flesh and drinking the Blood of our Lord should cause us a bit of a shock. Yet how easy it is to show up at Mass Sun...

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The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15) is a Holy Day of Obligation. Holy Day of Obligation Masses at St. Luke: 8:30am & 6:00pm This solemnity proclaims that the Blessed Virgin Mary, the first and model disciple of Christ, had been taken up, body and soul, in...

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Our readings today continue to educate us on the Eucharist.   Jesus tells us in our Gospel that He is this Food that sustains us as He says, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven…and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” Th...

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Often, we live our lives working for temporary happiness. But today, Jesus reminds us to “not work for food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life.”   Our Eucharistic meal is the Spiritual Food that we consume — Jesus Himself, Body, Blood, Soul, and Di...

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