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Mass Schedule: Monday through Saturday: 8am English Thursday: 7pm Spanish Saturday: 530pm English - Sunday Obligation (Live stream on Facebook) 1st Saturday of the month: 7pm Polish Sunday: 8am Polish 930am English 11am English (Live stream on Facebook) 1230pm Spanish Adoration: Thursday 6pm-7pm First Friday 430pm-530pm Confession/Sacrament of Reconciliation: Monday-Saturday 15 minutes before mass Thursday 6pm-7 pm Saturday 5pm-530 pm or by appointment
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church
Phone: 210 732-6295 Email: [email protected]
Website: olssa.org Like us on Facebook @
Our Lady of Sorrows, San Antonio
Office Hours: Monday 8am - 1pm Tuesday 9am - 4pm Wednesday 9am - 4pm Thursday 9am - 4pm Friday 9am - 4pm
Parish Priest: Fr Praveen Lakkisetti
Parochial Vicars: Fr Dennis Venegas [email protected] Fr Agustín Estrada [email protected]
Polish Mission: Fr Marian Piekarcyzk,SDS 210-730-1234
Deacon: Jesse Fraga (retired)
Pastoral Amada Briones Coordinator: [email protected]
Parish Secretary: Vanessa Guevara [email protected]
Parish Sacristan: Antonio Morales
MASS INTENTIONS
Thirtieth Sunday OT October 25 930am + Ramon Gomez 11am For the Holy Souls in Purgatory 1230pm + Leonar and Enr ique Mendez + Martha Garcia
Monday October 26 8am + Amparo Gonzales
Tuesday October 27 8am + Lee G. Martinez
Wednesday October 28 8am The intentions of Susan Nemec + For the Soul of Arthur A. Lozano
Thursday October 29 8am The health of Joseph Toro 7pm For the United States
Friday October 30 8am Intentions of Socor ro Tor res
Saturday October 31 8am Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos 530pm Philip Shaw’s Birthday
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Collection October 10-11 Candles $143.67 Mass Intentions $124.00 Donations $420.00 Rental Income $1,591.42 5:30 $366.10 8:00 $142.00 9:30 $823.55 11:00 $325.00 12:30 $304.00 2nd Collection $483.89 Total Collection $4,723.63 Attendance: 216 Second collections: October 24-25: Church Operating Fund Oct 31-Nov 1: Church Maintenance Fund
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Wednesday: Ss. Simon and Jude Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary
Sacraments
Baptisms are celebrated every second and fourth Saturday or every month at 11:00 a.m. Baptismal Preparation Class will be held the last Thursday of every month, at 6:00 pm. You must be registered a week before the class begins.
For Marriage, please kindly contact the office at least six months in advance, and before any plans for reception halls have been made. We will be happy to help you prepare to enter into the Sacrament of Marriage!
Please call the office for more information 210-732-6295.
UPCOMING PARISH ACTIVITIES Thursday, October 29- 6pm Holy Hour; 7:00PM Spanish Mass Friday, October 30- 530pm Devotion to Seven Sorrows of Mary
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Eph 4:32 — 5:8; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 13:10-17 Tuesday: Eph 5:21-33; Ps 128:1-5; Lk 13:18-21 Wednesday: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 6:12-16 Thurs: Eph 6:10-20; Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10; Lk 13:31-35 Friday: Phil 1:1-11; Ps 111:1-6; Lk 14:1-6 Sat: Phil 1:18b-26; Ps 42:2, 3, 5cdef; Lk 14:1, 7-11 Sunday: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24:1-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a
Ministry Personnel CCD Religious Education: Darlene Jimenez 210-771-5757
210-737-2203
210-422-5502
210-732-1945
210-259-3897 RCIA: Kimberly Brietske
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Sunday Scripture Speaks...October 25, 2020: The fundamental foundations of Christian/Catholic love... An ancient saying goes in Sanskrit: ‘Maanava seve Maadhava seva.’ It means, service to the humanity is the service to God. For us Christian Catholics, love isn’t an option. It is the foundation and fountain of love that embraces a dual manifestation: love of God and love of neighbor. It is the fundamental
foundation and an expression of our faith. The central theme of today’s readings is the greatest commandment in the Bible, namely, to respond to God’s love for us by loving Him, and then to express that love in action by loving Him living in our neighbor. Our love for God is tested and put into practice by the way we love our neighbor. We know that Jesus had been tested by the Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees, not with an intention to know the Truth, but only trap him. As a follow up from the previous Sunday’s argument regarding the payment of taxes, Jesus is challenged regarding the law of Moses, the Torah. A scholar of the law tested him asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” The true motivation behind asking this question wasn’t to know, or to move in the direction of a genuine sense of love. As the Gospel notes, the Pharisees came to know that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, and therefore devised a scheme by bringing a scholar of the law to test Jesus. Any religion that disregards the dignity of humanity isn’t a religion at all. As the Genesis account of Creation points, God created the humans in His own image and likeness Imago Dei. This is the core of our faith and an expression of our faith in a God who has Incarnated among us. Humanity is the visible reality and the presence of the invisible God we worship. We will truly understand this task of love when we love with these three elements: heart, soul and mind. God: Loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, in response to His total love for us, means that we should place God’s will ahead of ours, seek the Lord’s will in all things and make it paramount in our lives. God’s will is that we should love everyone, seeing Him in each of them. Since every human being is the child of God and the dwelling place of the Spirit of God, we are giving expression to our love of God by loving our neighbor as Jesus loves him or her. This means we need to help, support, encourage, forgive, and pray for everyone without discrimination based on color, race, religion, gender, age, wealth, or social status. How strong are these two fundamental foundations of love in my living of Christian Catholic faith?
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are preparing to update our parish database. In an attempt to record the most accurate information possible,
we need your assistance. Would you kindly take a moment to go visit our website: https://olssa.org/become-a-parishioner and fill out the Online Registration Form as
a "Parishioner Update".
If you would like to register as a new parishioner and become an active participant in the life of our parish
community, this is the perfect way to do so! Just go to the same link and register as "New Parishioner"
Please know how much your assistance is appreciated in this project. Thank you!
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THANK YOU!
We have surpassed our goal of $5,170.78! Thank you for your prayers and
contributions!
For this year, parishes will receive 50% of funds raised above their Appeal parish goal!
So, please continue to support the Archdiocese and its ministries.
Trigésimo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario
EL ESTADO DE DERECHO
Cualquiera que haya leído el Pentateuco (Génesis, Éxodo, Levítico, Números y Deuteronomio) de principio a fin aprecia la enorme
influencia de la ley en nuestros antepasados en la fe. De hecho, lo que los cristianos llaman el Pentateuco (en griego “cinco libros”), la
tradición judía lo llama la Torá (“enseñanza” o “ley”). En los primeros cinco libros de la Biblia no hay escapatoria de la ley, su meticuloso
detalle, regulaciones implacables, decretos y pronunciamientos de Dios
a Moisés y a Aarón. También algo común en estos libros, por desgracia, son las historias del pueblo elegido de Dios que se extravía. El
predominio de la ley nos recuerda que somos criaturas con tendencia a pecar; Dios nos proporciona la ley a nosotros, hijos amados, para
regular nuestro comportamiento y ayudarnos a vivir más pacíficamente en la tierra.
IMITANDO A DIOS Las leyes serían totalmente innecesarias si viviéramos vidas perfectas.
Sin embargo, como muy bien lo sabemos, a menudos nos quedamos cortos de las buenas intenciones que albergamos en nuestros corazones. Quizás la ley sería incluso innecesaria si viviéramos solos, aislados de
otras personas. Después de todo, ¿qué ermitaño en una cueva necesita un mandamiento para no cobrar intereses en un préstamo? Pero el
diseño de Dios para la humanidad incluye la unión. Y cuando vivimos juntos, tendemos a pisarnos los pies unos a otros. Gracias a Dios por las
leyes que nos ayudan a vivir en comunidad con justicia y compasión. Detrás de cada una de las leyes de Dios hay un eterno anhelo por la
justicia y la plenitud. Lo que, es más, Dios mismo, una vibrante
comunidad de Padre, Hijo y Espíritu, revela la profunda alegría de vivir en paz con uno mismo y con el prójimo. La naturaleza trinitaria de
Dios, tres personas en un solo Dios, nos asombra con su compromiso de amor fructífero. El amor es gratuito y abundante, produciéndose
constantemente y dándose a sí mismo. Cuanto amemos más generosamente a Dios, a nosotros mismos y al prójimo, más sabremos
que, como san Pablo dice, “el amor es el cumplimiento de la
ley” (Romanos 13:10).
SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES
October 28
Saint Jude, apostle and . . . Hollywood success story? Indeed! Beyond
Simon’s being a “ Zealot” for Israel’s liberation and Jude’s question about
Jesus revealing himself (John 14:22), no historic facts are known about either
saint. But Saint Jude’s well-known patronage of lost causes and hopeless
cases is largely due to a desperate vow made just before World War II by a
struggling entertainer, the son of Arab-American immigrants, Danny
Thomas. Unemployed, his wife about to give birth, Danny, attending Mass,
impulsively donated his last seven dollars to the collection, promising: “Saint
Jude, if you help me find my way in life, I will build a shrine in your honor!”
Older Americans remember well Danny’s long, successful movie and
television career. Grateful parents worldwide know the miracles that have
taken place for fifty years at his Saint Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
where needy children are cared for regardless of race, religion, or financial
resources, and monumental advances continue in healing and preventing
pediatric cancers and catastrophic childhood diseases. A living, life-giving
partnership is this “Communion of Saints”: Simon, Jude, Danny Thomas—
us!
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
THE RULE OF LAW Anyone who has read the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) from beginning to end appreciates the massive influence of the law on our
ancestors in faith. In fact, what Christians call the Pentateuch (Greek for “five books”), Jewish tradition calls the Torah (“teaching” or “law”). In the first five books of
the Bible, there is no escaping the law, its meticulous detail and relentless regulations, decrees, and pronouncements from God to Moses and Aaron. Also common in these books, alas, are stories of God’s chosen people going
astray. The predominance of the law reminds us that we are creatures with a tendency to sin; God provides the law to us beloved children to regulate our behavior and help us
live more peacefully on earth.
IMITATING GOD Laws would be entirely unnecessary if we lived perfect lives. As we know all too well, however, we often fall
short of the good intentions that we cherish in our hearts. Perhaps the law would even be unnecessary if we lived
alone, isolated from other people. After all, what hermit in a cave actually needs a commandment to charge no interest
on a loan? But God’s design for humanity includes togetherness. And when we live together, we tend to step on each other’s toes. Thank God for laws that help us to
live in community with justice and compassion. Underlying every one of God’s laws is an eternal longing for fairness and fullness. What’s more, God’s own self—a vibrant community of Father, Son, and Spirit—reveals the
deep joy of living in peace with self and neighbor. The Trinitarian nature of God—three persons in one God—
astonishes us with its commitment to fruitful love. Love is gratuitous and lavish, constantly producing and giving of
itself. The more generously we love God, self, and neighbor, the more we will know that, as Saint Paul says,
“love is the fulfillment of the law” (Romans 13:10).
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