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The sheepfold represents a place of security,
No one can enter the fold except through the Good Shepherd.
My sheep hear My voice, t expresses personal intimacy between the shepherd and his sheep.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 13:14, 43-52
While they went on
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Turn yourself round like a piece of clay and say to the Lord I am clay,
and you, Lord, the Potter. Make of me what you will.
– St. John Avila
St. John of Avila, priest and doctor
St. Damien Joseph de Veuster of Molokai, priest
1st Reading: Acts 9:31-42
Meanwhile, the Church had peace.
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When Jesus hung on the cross, With that sacrifice, Jesus paid it all.
Is not based on what you can do but on what He has done.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 6:8-15
Stephen, full of grace and power,
列印 The Eucharist is sacrament, in which Christ himself offered.
and by which the Church constantly lives and grows.
In receiving the Eucharist, we are nourished by the Lord.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 9:1-20*
(...) There was a disciple
列印 Hundreds saw Jesus after His resurrection.
They be beaten, But they will not be discouraged.
"that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name"
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41
So they brought them
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“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 8:26-40
An angel of the Lord said to Philip,
列印 Saint James the Less,
His mother Mary was either a sister or a close relative of the Blessed Virgin,
was the first Bishop of Jerusalem.
Saint James was a witness of the Resurrection of Christ;
he is also a "pillar" of the Church.
Saint Philip, is mentioned as one of the Apostles
He was called by Jesus Himself and brought Nathanael to Christ.
He was crucified upside down.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
1 Corinthians 15:1-8
Let me remind you,
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“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger,
and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
The life Jesus is referring to is not physical life, but eternal life.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 8:1b-8
All, except the apostles,
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One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints
unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
St. Athanasius, bishop and doctor
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
1st Reading: Acts 5:34-42
But one of them,
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You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears,
Paul portrays regeneration as becoming a new creation in Christ Jesus.
It is seen as being born again.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 7:51-8:1a
But you are a stubborn people.
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In 1870, Pope Pius IX declared Saint Joseph the patron of the universal Church.
In 1955, Pope Pius XII added the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker.
The Church held up Saint Joseph as a model for all to emulate.
＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊
Acts 5:27-33
So they brought them
