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MARY’S SON:
THE CARPENTER
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WITH MARY, SERVING CHRIST IN THE WORLD.
JESUS:
Vision and Heart
Today's Gospel shows how difficult it is for us to attain to a universal
vision. When we are faced with someone like Jesus, someone with a
generous heart, a wide vision and a great spirit, our reactions are
very often filled with jealousy, selfishness, and meanness of spirit. His
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never really accepted their own. They couldn't honor his relationship
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belonging to the Lord. They couldn't see the Messiah standing right
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own people couldn't recognize the holiness of Jesus, because they had
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with God because they had never fully explored their own sense of
beside them, because he looked too much like one of them. Until we
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see ourselves as people beloved of God, miracles will be scarce and
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heard and accepted for whom they truly are.
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the prophets and messengers who rise among us will struggle to be
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In today's Gospel story, Mark tells us that Jesus was amazed at their
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unbelief. Listening to Jesus, his own people were initially filled with
admiration in him and pride because of him. His message of
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liberation was marvelous. Then they recognize this young prophet as
one of them and they say: "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?"
The most severe critics are often people very familiar to us, a member
of our family, a relative, or neighbor we rub shoulders with on a
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Formation
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IS HE NOT THE CARPENTER, THE SON OF MARY?
By, Father Thomas Rosicachief
cannot forget that Jesus is the Savior of
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regular basis. The people of Nazareth
refused to renounce their possessive
attitude toward Jesus. When possessive love
is obstructed it produces a violent
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as "everyone in the synagogue was enraged
(Luke 4:28) and they sought to kill
Refusal to open our heart can lead to such
extremes.
the world (John 4:42), and not of the
village, town, city or nation!
Jesus was bitterly criticized because he
demonstrated great openness of heart,
particularly toward people on the fringes
and borders of society. His openness caused
rising opposition that led him to the cross.
Today's Gospel warns us to be on guard
against certain attitudes that are
incompatible with the example of Jesus: the
human tendency to be possessive, and
egoistic and small in mind and heart. We
possible satisfaction and happiness that
rightly belongs to the other! Magnanimity is
capable of looking beyond itself, it can grant
In order to approach and imitate Jesus,
who is total beauty and uniqueness, the
quality of magnanimity is necessary in
our hearts and minds. The opposite and
enemy of magnanimity is envy. Envy is
that fault in the human character that
cannot recognize the beauty and
uniqueness of the other, and denies the
other honor. Envy can no longer see
because the eyes are "nailed shut,"
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many dramas of jealousy and passion. They
took offence at him in Mark's account just
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What does Mary have in store for you?
blinded to one's own beauty and the
beauty in others. Envy inevitably leads to
forms of violence and destruction, of self
and of others. In order to approach and
imitate Jesus, who is total beauty and
uniqueness, the attitude of envy must be
first acknowledged and then banished.
the other what oneself
perhaps bitterly
lacks, and can perhaps even rejoice in the
other's goodness, greatness and beauty.
Let us pray that Jesus not be amazed at our
own unbelief, but rather rejoice in our small,
daily acts of fidelity to him and our service to
our sisters and brothers. May the Lord grant
us magnanimous hearts so that we may look
far beyond ourselves and recognize the
goodness, greatness and beauty of other
people, instead of being jealous of their gifts.
God's power alone can save us from
emptiness and poverty of spirit, from
confusion and error, and from the fear of
death and hopelessness. The gospel of
salvation is "great news" for us today.
Magnanimity lets others be free, for the
other person must become great enough
to be an image of God's beauty.
Magnanimity arouses the desire in each
of us for the other to receive the greatest
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Mass Intentions
Be still and know that
I am God.
Monday • July 06
9:00am
† Felicidade Honoria Texiera– da filha Evelinda Sousa
Tuesday • July 07
No Mass / Não haverá Missa
Ps.46:10
Wednesday • July 08
6:00pm
Father of goodness and love, hear our prayers for
† Vitalina Batista – da nora Rosália
the sick members of our community and for all who
Thursday • July 09
are in need. Amid mental and physical suffering
10:00am
may they find consolation in your healing presence.
† Maria da Conceição Oliveira Rosa – do marido e filhos
Friday • July 10
Show your mercy as you close wounds, cure illness,
10:00am
† Maria da Conceição Luis e Maria Rosa Luis – dos filhos e sobrinhos make broken bodies whole and free downcast spirits.
May these special people find lasting health and
† Manuel e Maria Clementina Silva – da filha Maria das Neves Brasil
† Manuel Sousa – de Elvina e António Flores
deliverance, and so join us in thanking you for all
† Maria Guadalupe Alamo – do filho Ray Alamo
your gifts. We ask this through the Lord Jesus who
† Almas do purgatório – de Odelta Luis
healed those who believed. Amen.
† Francisco Lopes e defuntos de Albina Lopes
Por Jerry Vieira – da mãe Maria Vieira
Por Ana Bettencourt, aniv. natalíco
Pela conversão dos pecadores – de Lee Cabral
Saturday • July 11
7:30pm
† Miguel Soares – da esposa
Teresa Pires
Eduardina Silveira
Pelas intenções de Maria José Soares
Manuel e Luisa Brasil
Roberto da Silva
Sunday • July 12
Pe. José Carlos
Maria Inacio
8:00am
Maria Leonesa Dinis
Mark Sousa
Pela comunidade Paroquial
Angela Agueda
Grayson Sousa
9:30am
Maria
Azevedo
Guilhermina Gonçalves
† Jessie Orosco – from family
Fatima
Simões
Carlos Alberto Brasil
† Rose Clarot – from Joe Clarot & family
† John Thomas – from Trinkler family
Adam Mattos
Reese Derryman
† Rose da Silva – from Helio e Lurdes Cardoso
Belina Estacio
Joseph Calderon
11:15am
Francisco Nunes
Peggy Howard
† Defuntos de Manuel e Filomena Silva
Francis Conville
José Teixeira
† Scorro e Adelino Amaral – de Tony Amaral
Jacob Mercado
Francisco Gomes
† Julio Vitoria Brasil – da família
Alex
Mercado
Georgina Gomes
† José Jordão – da esposa, filho e família
Carlos Teixeira
António Brasil
† José Casemiro e Maria da Conceição Nunes – da família
Filomena Cardoso
Lina Correia
† Rosa Morais – da família
† Maria Bernardete Brasil e Manuel Azevedo Sousa – da família
Tony Silva
Evelyn Calderon
† Manuel e Maria da Conceição Duarte – do filho Dr. Jorge Duarte
Helena A De Sousa
Francisco Linhares
† Manuel e Maria Glória Dinis e Francisco Vaz – da filha Maria Dinis
Robert Areias
Marie Dixon
† Manuel e Maria Zulmira Machado, José e Artur Machado – da família
Gina Aguiar Dihn
Paz Cajucam
† João Oliveira Fernandes – da esposa Rosa Fernandes
Albina Lopes
Florinda Freitas
† Leontina Silva – do marido e filhos
Maria Emília Nunes
Maria Brasil
† Alberto Dias, José e Rosa de Silva – da esposa e filhos
Dolores
Frittsch
Diana Tovar
† José e Maria Alda Valadão – das filhas e netos
Michael
Lourenço
† Steve Arlindo Cardoso – dos pais
Maria A Silva
Por José e Conceição Madruga, aniv. do casamento
Por Teresa Madruga, aniv. do baptismo
John Silva
6:00pm
Joao Silva
† José Avila – from José & Jovina Matos
Francisco Silveira
† Denia, John & Rui Machado – from family
† David Freitas & Salvador Vieira – from Tony & Zélia
† Cassy Mancebo – from mom, dad & family
For the sons, daughter and grandchildren of José & Maria Brasil