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1. The Holy Season of Advent will begin on the 29th of November. During this sacred time, please try to go for confession, to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
2. On every Sunday the 7.45 p.m. English Mass will be always in the Big Hall, the Sacred Heart Hall.
3. In the Resource Centre, the Church Shop, you can find religious Christmas cards, Bibles, Rosaries and spiritual books.
4. Thanks and Congratulations to all who were a part of the Liturgy Unity Congress.
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| LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS DURING THIS WEEK : |
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NOV 22, 2009 - CHRIST THE UNIVERSAL KING
NOV 23, 2009 - St. Clement, Pope & Martyr
NOV 23, 2009 - St. Columban, Abbot
NOV 24, 2009 - St. Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions, Martyrs
NOV 25, 2009 - St. Catherine of Alexandria
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CHRIST THE KING |
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As the liturgical year draws to a close, we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. We usually think of kings as people whom others must serve and bow down to.
Kingship brings with it connotations of whims and fancies, ultimate power and privilege. Yet when we speak of Christ the King, the concept carries the opposite meaning. Jesus is a King, but his kingdom is not of this world (Mark 10:45) and he did not come to be served but to serve. Unlike the kings of this world he took up a position of love, service and humility: 'For which is the greater, one who sits at table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as one who serves' (Lk.22:27). Furthermore, the mystery of Christ is that Jesus is both the king and the kingdom - Christ in us the hope of glory (Col.1:27).
St. Cyprian of Carthage wrote: 'Thy kingdom come.' Christ himself, is the kingdom of God, whom we day by day desire to come, whose advent we crave to be quickly manifested to us. For since he himself is the resurrection, because in him we rise again, so also the kingdom of God may be understood to be himself, because in him we shall reign'. Jesus is worthy of all honor, praise and adoration. One day all creation will be subject to Jesus the King. Jesus turned the idea of worldly power on its head. His kingdom is not of this world - it is a kingdom of love and humble service of one another.'
Let us praise Jesus for being the King who is worthy of our love and total devotion. St. Paul, drawing from an early Christian hymn, proclaimed: 'Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father' (Phil.2:9).
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