Mary, Star of the Sea 

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We invite you to a Miscarriage and Infant Loss Memorial Mass with a Special Ritual to Name Children Lost to Miscarriage. When: Thursday, 29 Sept 2022 at 6:00 PM. Where: St Theresa’s Co-Cathedral Presider: Bishop Larry

The Gospel is from St. Luke 15:1-32. The lesson that these stories, made up by our Lord himself, has for us is clearly a lesson of hope and confidence in the infinite mercy of God in His dealings with us. We are all sinners in one way or another. We have all gone astray, got lost like the sheep and the coin in those stories, sometime or other. What is worse, we are all capable of going astray from God again at any moment. If we had only the justice of God to deal with we might well despair, our chances of reaching heaven would be slight indeed.

The Gospel is from St. Luke 14:25-33 and teaches us that the essential condition for true discipleship, demanded by Christ, was, and still is, total dedication, total commitment of oneself to Him. There can be no such person as a half-Christian. "He that is not with me is against me," He said on another occasion. We cannot be for Christ on Sunday and against Him for the remainder of the week. To be His true disciples, His true followers, we must live our Christian life every day and all day.

We have finally come to this moment in time -- the much-anticipated celebration of the 75-Year Anniversary of our beloved Mary, Star of the Sea Church & Schools. Together as a community, we will officially culminate the year-long celebration of this Diamond Jubilee on Sunday, August 28, 2022, at the 8:15 AM Mass, when we allow ourselves to focus on the Eucharistic Celebration and be challenged by the theme "Live Truth, Live Eucharist." We will celebrate in a way that honors God and encourages hearts to look forward with unity and hope -- a much-needed expectation as we envision the ending of this pandemic.

The Gospel is from St. Luke 12:13-21. Jesus was surrounded by a large crowd to whom he was giving his message of salvation. Some men in the crowd asked him to arbitrate in a family dispute over property. This Jesus refused to do. This interest in property gave him the occasion to teach his hearers, and all of us, in a very effective parable, the relative value of this world's goods.

The Gospel is from St. Mark, 10:2-16. On the "divorce" section of this Gospel see today's first reading. Christ clearly states that from the very beginning, God's plan for marriage was that it should be a life-long unity of one man and one woman. Its purpose is the procreation of children and their education, as well as the mutual love and fulfillment of the husband and wife. These demand this life-long bond. Divorce, which tries to break this bond, breaks the law of the Creator who decreed what was best for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the human race.