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Sunday Bulletin
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AN ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNIONMy Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen. 
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Adoration Chapel - It's Open for You!
The Chapel will be unlocked from Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
We are happy to announce that we have an adoration tabernacle in the chapel! When you enter the chapel - purify your hands - if the outer double wooden doors of the tabernacle is closed, you can open them up. There is glass protecting the Blessed Sacrament inside. After adoration, if you are the last one to leave the chapel, close the wooden doors, and purify your hands as you leave.
We are happy to announce that we have an adoration tabernacle in the chapel! When you enter the chapel - purify your hands - if the outer double wooden doors of the tabernacle is closed, you can open them up. There is glass protecting the Blessed Sacrament inside. After adoration, if you are the last one to leave the chapel, close the wooden doors, and purify your hands as you leave.
Stations of the Cross
The Passionate Way of The Cross video is an excerpt taken from the DVD produced by Paul Ellis of St. Helen Church. It is the perfect solution for the homebound to pray the Stations of The Cross. This devotional is rich in moving theological reflections as well as a visually stunning production.
Copyright 2010 and used with permission for St. Helen Church in Newbury, OH.
Click here to watch The Passionate Way of the Cross.
Copyright 2010 and used with permission for St. Helen Church in Newbury, OH.
Click here to watch The Passionate Way of the Cross.
The Eucharist
It’s important to understand that there’s a parallel between the fall (forbidden food - command food).
Our souls just like our bodies need food—and what our souls need most is Jesus.
In Mathew, Mark, Luke and 1 Corinthians the bible tells of the Last Supper when Jesus says, “This is my body…this is my blood” –there are lots of words Jesus could have used to say “this represents my body or this symbolizes my body—or this should remind you of my body” –but Jesus doesn’t use them –He uses this is my body…this is my blood.
In John 6 Jesus says four times we must eat His body and drink His blood if we are to be saved [see John 6 slide] John 6:47-60; 66-70
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; 50 this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
52 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” 59These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
As a result of this, many [of] his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. 67 Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” 70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?” 71 He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve
In 1 Corinthians 11:27-30 it says if anyone eats the bread or drinks the cup without recognizing the body—they eat and drink a judgment on themselves [see I Corinthians 11 slide] 1 Corinthians 11
Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. 28 A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
Notice that there are terrible consequences of eating and drinking unworthily or in eating and drinking without faith that it’s really Jesus.
Our souls just like our bodies need food—and what our souls need most is Jesus.
In Mathew, Mark, Luke and 1 Corinthians the bible tells of the Last Supper when Jesus says, “This is my body…this is my blood” –there are lots of words Jesus could have used to say “this represents my body or this symbolizes my body—or this should remind you of my body” –but Jesus doesn’t use them –He uses this is my body…this is my blood.
In John 6 Jesus says four times we must eat His body and drink His blood if we are to be saved [see John 6 slide] John 6:47-60; 66-70
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; 50 this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
52 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?” 53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” 59These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
As a result of this, many [of] his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. 67 Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.” 70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?” 71 He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve
In 1 Corinthians 11:27-30 it says if anyone eats the bread or drinks the cup without recognizing the body—they eat and drink a judgment on themselves [see I Corinthians 11 slide] 1 Corinthians 11
Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. 28 A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
Notice that there are terrible consequences of eating and drinking unworthily or in eating and drinking without faith that it’s really Jesus.