PASTOR’S VOICE
Brothers and sisters, some important information for us in this week of August 8th:
The church office is closed for the entire month of August, as the admin assistant is on vacation. If something is urgent, leave your message on the answering machine and as soon as possible, the priest will respond and return;
In September, the Image of Our Lady of Fátima will visit the homes of families in our Parish. If you want to receive the image to pray with her, give her name to Mrs.. Gabriella Dias who is organizing the visits and has more information;
Mrs. Maria Marques announces that if you want to receive a visit from the Holy Family Image at your home, call her to schedule it. We still have a few days to fill: 780-476-8082 / Maria Marques;
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Commission is selling tickets for a social party to be held on August 28th. That's right, we're coming back with our parochial hall parties. Tickets are being sold before and after Masses on weekends;
Every Sunday at 3pm we have the participation of Fr. Sérgio in the program of Aguarela Portuguesa with Mr. Alberto de Carvalho: Radio - CKJR 1440 Am - Internet: www.w1440.com;
Brothers and sisters, the liturgy of the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time makes us aware, once again, of God's concern to offer men the "bread" of full and definitive life. On the other hand, it invites men to give up pride and self-sufficiency and welcome, with gratitude, the gifts of God.
And you ?! Have you been feeding on the Word of God and the Eucharist in Sunday Masses?! Think about it! A blessed week for you!
FIRST READING I 1 Kings 19.4-8
Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”
Then Elijah lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an Angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.” He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
The Angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.” Elijah got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mountain of God.
HOLY GOSPEL I John 6.41-51
The people began to complain about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw them; and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life.
“I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
