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Deacon Rudy Villarreal
We can love our neighbors through the ART of social justice: act, reflect and transform.
Our readings today, particularly in light of current events, challenge us to use these 40 days of Lent to abandon strange teachings, to get involved in our community, and to share the Good News of Jesus Christ!
Our baptism sets us free from all the false images the world throws at us. Our baptism unites us with other believers. And our baptism empowers us to reach out into this world to bring a message of hope to people who desperately need to hear it.
Mercy as the willingness to enter into the chaos of another. Doesn’t that sound like what’s happening in the Incarnation? God willingly enters into the chaos of our world – of our lives.
iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | Google Podcast Mass Readings Thanks for listening! For questions or feedback, please email rudy@deaconrudysnotes.org. Reading 1: 1 Kings 17:10-16Responsorial: Psalm 146:7-10Reading 2: Hebrews 9:24-28Gospel: Mark 12:38-44 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110721.cfm https://www.deaconrudysnotes.org/ Welcome back for another edition of deacon rudy’s notes. I’m your host, Deacon Rudy Villarreal and together we’re going to break open the Word! I’d like to … Continue reading "Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time"
Going on foreign mission is like plunging into cold water! It opens our eyes in a way nothing else can!
Jesus said he came to serve, not to be served. Ask yourself, “How am I answering Jesus’ invitation to serve?”
Jesus is not picking on rich people. If anything, Jesus is calling out those who are more attached to their possessions than they are to the God who saves.
If we truly want to experience the Kingdom of God, then we need to approach life with the innocence of a child.
God invites you and me to support the church and to actively participate in ministry so that God’s church can continue to be the ordinary means by which God’s grace pours into the world.
If we truly want to be saved – if we truly want to experience the Kingdom of God, then we need to approach life with the innocence of a child (Mark 10:15).
James says to us it’s not enough to say, “I believe,” and not respond with works of love.