2024 PSA CAMPAIGN | CAMPAÑA DEL PSA 2024

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Starts February 18th | Inicia el 18 de febrero

2024 Pastoral Services Appeal


Praise the Lord who heals the broken hearted

Alabado sea el Señor que sana a los de corazón quebrantado.


Pledges—Promesas: $27,246.75


Participating families— Familias participando: 96


Given—Donado: $15,626.75


WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!


Our Goal—Nuestra Meta:


$150,000

 

100% participating households


Participating families— Familias participando: 8.0%


THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S

3rd Sunday of Easter


When we look at the early post-Resurrection ap pearances of our Lord Jesus, He begins many of His encounters with His followers by offering to them His Peace. Why did He need to do this? Because most of His followers were struggling to find happi ness and hope in their lives because they lacked inner peace in their hearts. St. Jerome reminds us, “Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you." While St. Francis of Assisi contributes, “While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it more fully in your heart.” 


Are we at peace in our hearts and souls? This may be difficult for us to achieve since we live in a world that is not at peace. We have violence between countries, and violence in our own country amongst ourselves. We have violence against the unborn with abortion, and violence with the elderly and vulnerable with abuse. Yet our Lord Jesus offers us His peace and invites us to transform our world with it. St. John Paul II teaches us, “If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.”   


This may seem like an impossible task in an uncaring world, but St. Francis de Sales invites us not to give up, "Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, not even if your whole world seems upset. If you find that you have wandered away from the shelter of God, lead your heart back to Him quietly and simply. " The only way for our objec tive to accomplish God’s goal of peace in our world is to not forget that this peace can only be achieved with God and in unity with each other.


This begins with changing the mentality of the world, where we are thinking only of ourselves to being concerned about the needs of others first. St. Mother Teresa challenges us to consider, “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” In our endeavors for peace, we must remember that this can only be achieved with the peace that our Lord offers to us first, and the peace that we wish to share with others. Otherwise, it will only be a peace that last temporally and one that is subjective to the opinion of each person rather than one of permanent and objectivity in our world. St. Therese of Lisieux inspires us "Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors." While St. Bru no urges us to remember, “While the world changes, the cross stands firm.”


Let us pray with St. Francis of Assisi

 Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, joy.   


O Divine Master,

Grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console;

To be understood, as to understand;

To be loved, as to love;

For it is in giving that we receive,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen. 


Take care and God bless,

                                                                   

Fr Steve Correz

      LAS CAMPANAS DE SANTA MARIA

3o Domingo de Pascua


Señor Jesús después de la Resurrección, Él comienza muchos de Sus encuentros con Sus seguidores ofre ciéndoles Su Paz. ¿Por qué necesitaba hacer esto? Porque la mayoría de Sus seguidores luchaban por encontrar felicidad y esperanza en sus vidas porque carecían de paz interior en sus corazones. San Jeróni mo nos recuerda: "Ten paz con tu propia alma, entonces el cielo y la tierra estarán en paz contigo". Mientras que San Francisco de Asís contribuye: "Mientras proclamas la paz con tus labios, ten cuidado de tenerla". más plenamente en tu corazón”. 


¿Estamos en paz en nuestros corazones y almas? Esto puede resultarnos difícil de lograr, ya que vivimos en un mundo que no está en paz. Tenemos violencia en tre países y violencia en nuestro propio país entre nosotros. Tenemos violencia contra los no nacidos con el aborto y violencia con los ancianos y vulnera bles con el abuso. Sin embargo, nuestro Señor Jesús nos ofrece Su paz y nos invita a transformar nuestro mundo con ella. San Juan Pablo II nos enseña: “Si quie res la paz, trabaja por la justicia. Si quieres justicia, defiende la vida. Si quieres vida, abraza la verdad”. 


Esto puede parecer una tarea imposible en un mundo indiferente, pero San Francisco de Sales nos invita a no rendirnos: "No pierdas tu paz interior por nada, ni siquie ra si todo tu mundo parece trastornado. Si descubres que te has alejado del refugio de Dios, lleva tu corazón de regreso a Él tranquila y simplemente ". La única manera de que nues tro objetivo cumpla la meta de Dios de paz en nues tro mundo es no olvidar que esta paz sólo se puede lograr con Dios y en unidad unos con otros.


Esto comienza con cambiar la mentalidad del mundo, donde pensamos sólo en nosotros mismos para preo cuparnos primero por las necesidades de los demás. Santa Madre Teresa nos desafía a considerar: "Si no tenemos paz, es porque hemos olvidado que nos pertenecemos unos a otros". En nuestros esfuerzos por la paz, debe mos recordar que ésta sólo se puede lograr con la paz que nuestro Señor nos ofrece primero y la paz que deseamos compartir con los demás. De lo contrario, será sólo una paz temporal y subjetiva a la opinión de cada uno, más que permanente y objetiva en nuestro mundo. Santa Teresa de Lisieux nos inspira: "Avancemos en paz, con los ojos puestos en el cielo, única meta de nuestros trabajos". Mientras que San Bruno nos insta a recordar: “Mientras el mundo cambia, la cruz permanece firme”.


Oremos con San Francisco de Asís

Señor, haz de mí un instrumento de tu paz;

Donde haya odio, lleve yo tu amor;

Donde haya injuria, tu perdón;

Donde haya duda, fe en ti;

Donde haya desesperación, esperanza en ti;

Donde haya oscuridad, lleve tu luz;

Y donde haya pena, tu gozo, Señor. 



Maestro, Ayúdame a nunca buscar

Ser consolado sino consolar;

Ser entendido sino entender;

Ser amado, sino amar;

Es perdonando que nos das perdón,

Es dando a todos que tú nos das,

Y es muriendo que volvemos a nacer. Amén 


Cuídense, y que Dios los bendiga,

                                                 

Padre Steve Correz


GriefShare, a special help seminar and support group for people experiencing grief and loss, will be held on

Thursday Evenings (7-9pm) at St Mary's Catholic Church...

Beginning June 1, 2023


Griefshare features nationally recognized experts on grief recovery topics. Seminar sessions include "Is This Normal?" "The Challenges of Grief," "Grief and Your Relationships," "Why?" and "Guilt and Anger."


For more information call

Deacon Tony Mercado

714.525.2500

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We would like to invite you to contact the parish office at 714.525.2500

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Called to Serve is a show that is to remind how much Jesus loves us and how ordinary people love Jesus by answering the call to serve our Lord in every day ways...

Called to Serve is a show that is to remind how much Jesus loves us and how ordinary people love Jesus by answering the call to serve our Lord in every day ways...

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And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."
Matthew 28: 18-20 (RSV-CE)

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