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Solemnity of the Ascension
of the Lord

May 20th  2012

“It is not for you to know the times or seasons
that the Father has established by his own authority.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you[...]."

Acts 1:7-8


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Dear Friends:
                       

A multitude of blessing to all our parish mothers today! May the Lord reward your invisible deeds. The following is a story a parish mother sent me last year.

THE INVISIBLE MOTHER: It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I’m on the phone and ask to be taken to the store.  Inside I’m thinking, ‘Can’t you see I’m on the phone?’  Obviously not; no one can see if I’m on the phone, or cooking, or sweeping the floor, or even standing on my head in the corner, because no one can see me at all.  I’m invisible… the invisible Mom!
Some days I am only a pair of hands, nothing more! Can you fix this? Can you tie this?  Can you open this?  Some days I’m not a pair of hands; I’m not even a human being.  I’m a clock to ask, ‘What time is it?’  I’m a satellite guide to answer, ‘What number is the Disney Channel?’  I’m a car to order – ‘Right around 5:30, please.’  Some days I’m a crystal ball: ‘Where’s my other sock?  Where’s my phone?  What’s for dinner?’  I was certain that these were the hands that once held books and the eyes that studied history, music and literature – but now, they had disappeared into the peanut butter, never to be seen again. She’s going, she’s going, she’s gone!
One night a group of us were having dinner, celebrating the return of a friend from England. She had just gotten back from a fabulous trip, and she was going on and on about the hotel she stayed in.  I was sitting there, looking around at the others all put together so well.  It was hard not to compare and feel sorry for myself. I was feeling pretty pathetic, when she turned to me with a beautifully wrapped package, and said, ‘I brought you this!’  It was a book on the great cathedrals of Europe.  I wasn’t exactly sure why she’d given it to me until I read her inscription: “With admiration for the greatness of what you are building when no one sees.”
In the days ahead I would read – no devour, the book.  A story in the book told of a rich man who came to visit a cathedral while it was being built, and he saw a workman carving a tiny bird on the inside of a beam. He was puzzled and asked the man, “Why are you spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that will be covered by the roof, no one will see it. And the workman replied, “Because God sees.” 
When I really think about it, I don’t want my son to tell the friend he’s bringing home from college for Thanksgiving: “My Mom gets up at four in the morning and bakes homemade pies, and then she hand bastes a turkey for three hours and presses all the linens for the table.”  That would mean I’d built a monument to myself. I just want him to want to come home. And then, if there is anything more to say to his friend, he’d say: “You’re gonna love it there ….”

Dear Mothers, you are building great cathedrals.  You cannot be seen if you are doing it right. But one day, the world will marvel, not only at what you have built, but at the beauty that has been added to the world by the sacrifices of invisible mothers.

Great Job MOM!  God Bless YOU!

Father McNamara

Coming up at St. B's


Wednesdays May 2, 9, 16 & 23- 9:30 to 11:30am Writing Workshop with Rita Keeley Brown

 

Food Gathering:
May 19-20
Please bring your non-perishable items to benefit the Guadalupe Center food pantry.

 

Thursday May 24 @ 7:30pm: Theological Tour of St Bernardine of Siena with Parker Sandoval.

 

Thursday  May 27 @ 7:30pm in the Veranda Room, please join the Tuesday evening Bible Study group as they welcome Rabbi Gary Oren Associate Rabbi at Temple Aliyah

 

Mondays (2nd & 4th): @ 7p.m. April 16 (instead of 23) Music Room:  Bible Study The Book of Revelation

 

Tuesdays @ 7-8:30 p.m. Parish Library:  Bible Study The Gospel of John.  April 17-Aug. 28


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Prayer For Priests

O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests, for your unfaithful and tepid priests, for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant missions, for your tempted priests, for your lonely and desolate priests, for your young priests, for your dying priests, for the souls of your priests who have died. But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me: the priest who baptized me, those who absolved me from my sins, those at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me your Body and Blood in Holy Communion; those who taught and instructed me, all those to whom I am indebted in any other way. O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.  St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests, pray for us now and forever.  Amen


 

    
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