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fifth Sunday of lent
April 7, 2019 Volume 3, Issue #15
Celebrant:
Father Victor Ray
I once met a woman who told me that the biggest crisis in her married life was the time she found out that her
husband was unfaithful to her. He was having an affair with another woman for over a year. She was shattered and
consulted a close friend who asked her one question. “Do you really love your husband still in spite of this?” When she
answered that she did, her friend said she should confront her husband and tell him she was prepared to accept him back
if that was how she felt. She did and now many years later the marriage is working well. But at that time it wasn’t easy
and many would not have been surprised if she had refused to forgive her husband and had not given him another
chance.
She reminds me of today’s gospel that is primarily about who God is and how he treats us. Like the woman in the
story Jesus gives the woman caught in adultery another chance. Instead of sending her to her death, Jesus sends her to
life. Jesus is telling us as clearly as he can who God is and how he acts towards each one of us. We feel that if we do
good we will earn or merit a heavenly reward and if we consistently do bad God will punish us. What Jesus is saying is
‘If I look on you with God’s gaze of love, with God’s forgiving attitude then you are totally and freely loved and
forgiven’. It is God who decides all this. We cannot make God’s love and forgiveness depend on our worthiness or
goodness. What a misunderstanding of how God relates to us. Unfortunately, it is not our human experience. Many
people often want to exact revenge or punish those who hurt or wrong them. Not so God – it is so far from the God
Jesus is witnessing to. Of course, that does not mean if God loves me like that I can sin merrily. In fact it is the very
opposite – realizing how very much God loves me so unconditionally I will try to respond by trying to please him. I will
pray to be able to do the same to others as God does to me. Just as the woman in the story who forgave her husband. He
later told a friend that having been forgiven by his wife he would spend the rest of his life responding to her marvelous
love for him even though he didn’t deserve this because of his actions.
Jesus does something for the woman that goes beyond the law. The law condemns, Jesus forgives. He shows how
God deals with sinful people, that is, with each of us. He changes our view of God. At the same time he asks us to
change our view of sinful people. Each one of us, no matter what our sins are, has the capacity to change. Our sins are
not the sum total of who we are. They are parts of who we are, for sure. But God can do a new deed for and in all of us
if we allow him.
“Lord Jesus, thank you for showing to us again in this gospel that you have no interest in condemning us. You do
not deny that we sin but you constantly give us new opportunities to change. Help us by your Holy Spirit to be ever
ready to excuse others for their failings as you do ours. Amen”.
Father Victor Ray
Wisdom From
Father Victor Ray
Let’s Pray For:
Abrams, Al
Hartwig, Bill
Hickman, Bp. Peter
Judi and Larry
Kovar, Lyn
Little, Ron
Marx, D.A.
For all of our Parishioners
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you have sent us.
For all those that need a
Prayer, Raise, your Right
Hand Toward Heaven and
know that the Parish of Saint
Teresa of Calcutta Catholic
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.
Questions of the Week:
Where do you see God’s action in your life, family, or
parish bringing about something new? How has your
practice of fasting been this Lent? How has it enriched
or affected your relationship with God and others? How
have you experienced giving and receiving mercy in
your own life?
Meeks, James
Obuchowski, Essy
Ray, Father Victor
Retke, Wayne
Spano, Dee
Talboom, Mark
Villafana, Ivy
Warner, Bill
Please follow along with the Mass
by viewing the Blue Booklet
found in the Pew Pocket
in front of you.
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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!
For more detailed Church information, read the
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BIRTHDAYS
ANNIVERSARY Ivy and Jim Villafana 4/8
community meeting Sunday, April 28th after mass
topics:
• Affirmation of the Priest
• Election of the House of Ministry – Moderator and Assistant Moderator
• Open Discussion
The FAST Nehemiah Action Assembly
(TOMORROW)
April 8, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Tropicana Field
St. Petersburg, Florida
GATHERING VIDEO
OFFERTORY
VIDEO
VIDEO
COMMUNION
REPEAT REFRAIN IN THE
BEGINNING
COMMUNION SONG
IF NEEDED TO STRETCH
SANCTUARY
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
SENDING
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) Chris Tomlin
Amazing grace, How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me, I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed
My chains are gone, I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me, And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace
The Lord has promised good to me, His word my hope secures He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures
My chains are gone, I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me, And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace
My chains are gone, I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me, And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, The sun forbear to shine But God, Who called me here below, Will be forever mine.
Will be forever mine. You are forever mine.
Songwriters: Traditional / Chris Tomlin / Stan Roto Walker / Louie Giglio / David Pritchard-Blunt
VIDEO
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Have a Blessed Week!
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