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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
655 C Avenue
Coronado, CA 92118
Phone: (619) 435-3167
sacredheart@sacredheartcor.org
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We Are Windows to God’s Love
The discipline of community makes us persons; that is, people who are sounding through to each other (the Latin personare means “sounding through”) a truth, a beauty, and a love that is greater, fuller, and richer than we ourselves can grasp. In true community we are windows constantly offering each other new views on the mystery of God’s presence in our lives. Thus the discipline of community is a true discipline of prayer. It makes us alert to the presence of the Spirit who cries out “Abba,” Father, among us and thus prays from the center of our common life. Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply “Where does God lead me as an individual person who tried to do his will?” More basic and more significant is the question “Where does God lead us as a people?” -Henri Nouwen
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“Laudato si’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with coloured flowers and herbs”.
Introductory words of Pope Francis’ encyclical on Care for our Common Home. Laudato Si’ is an encyclical of Pope Francis published in May 2015. It focuses on care for the natural environment and all people, as well as broader questions of the relationship between God, humans, and the Earth. The encyclical’s subtitle, “Care for Our Common Home,” reinforces these key themes.
An encyclical is a public letter from the Pope developing Catholic teaching on a topic often in light of current events. Laudato Si’ is addressed to “every living person on this planet”.
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At the origin of Christian life is our encounter with the Lord, which does not depend on our merits or efforts, but on the love with which He comes to seek us...
- Pope Francis
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A good reminder as we plan and calendar for a new year.Friends, today in the Gospel (Mark 9:38–40), John complains to Jesus that someone not of their group was driving out demons in Jesus’ name. Jesus responds, “Do not prevent him. . . . Whoever is not against us is for us.” What a wonderful, generous attitude!
John was undoubtedly angry that someone outside of their little circle was going to get credit. If you think that this sort of thing only happened in biblical times, you haven’t spent too much time around the Church! I’m a proud churchman, and I love and admire all of the great people who do so much for Christ’s kingdom, and for very little compensation. But I’ve also been around long enough to see this problem on parish staffs, in diocesan offices, within rectories, and among parish communities. We get so tied up in our little games and protecting our turf and making sure things go according to the bureaucratic structures that we have established that we forget what the mission is about.
What Jesus saw was that the mission is what matters. Bringing God’s love to the world, being a conduit of grace: that’s what matters. All of our personal glory, position, privilege—all of that is finally a matter of indifference.
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Coronado local Erika Rosas named principal of Sacred Heart Parish School ... See MoreSee Less
Coronado local Erika Rosas named principal of Sacred Heart Parish School
Father Michael Murphy announced the appointment of Erika Rosas as the new principal of Sacred Heart Parish School beginning in the academic year of 2024-25. Rosas is a resident of Coronado and a paris...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Over and over again, people didn’t recognize Jesus after the resurrection. Mary thought he was the gardener (until he said her name).
The disciples on the road to Emmaus thought he was someone who’d just gotten to town and hadn’t heard what was happening (until he broke the bread). His friends on the Sea of Galilee didn’t recognize the man on the beach calling to them (until the miraculous change in their catch of the day). They all had conversations with him (quite extensively, in the case of the Emmaus Road!), heard his voice, saw him. So why didn’t they recognize him?
Maybe because he was *something new* this post-resurrection body, and it was unrecognizable to even his dear friends, at first (even when they knew the tomb was empty, even-in the case of the fishermen-when he had told them he’d meet them there). What was different about this Jesus who had gone through death and harrowed hell to come out alive on the other side? Enough that he didn’t initially seem to be himself. He could apparently walk through walls now, appearing (and disappearing, at Emmaus!) at will among them. What else was changed? What else was possible?
So often, we are in the same boat as the disciples-resurrection showing up in various ways in our worlds; us not recognizing those moments for what they are, never expecting they *could* be God present to us.
Consider how you might tune in today-to where God is inviting you into conversation, into new awareness, into new possibilities in a world that includes resurrection.
• via Anam Cara Ministries
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On National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Mariners and People of the Sea, we pray today and every day for the safe passage of those who work and travel on our global waters.
Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Mother of God and our Mother,
you know all the dangers of soul and body that threaten mariners.
Protect your sons and daughters who work and
travel on the waters of the world, and
protect also their families that await their return.
Star of the Sea, Mother of the Church, give light and strength to those chaplains and lay ministers who bring the love of your Divine Son among mariners.
Fill their hearts with a supernatural and life-giving zeal for the apostolate. Star of the Sea, light shining
in the darkness, be a guide to those who sail amid the storms and dangers of life.
Enlighten the hearts of ardent disciples and bring us all to the safety of heaven’s port.
Amen
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God is the answer to our inner restlessness and emptiness
- Gerard W Hughes SJ
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