09.24.2024

50°F NE4mph SR0553CST SS1755CST

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Coffee good

Reflexology & Chiro today. They just work for me. Probably because Tracy & Pene know their stuff.

Need to pick up candles today. I use the cheap ones from Dollar General in my altar sconce as 1.50/candle vs 5.00 is more to my liking although the inexpensive ones don’t burn as long and are not made from beeswax, about a 78.21 savings per year. Not a huge savings but it’s mentionable.

The boy will be moving his stuff on Thurs. The man will enjoy having the extra space on his side of the garage.

In the Catholic tradition… Christ is not re-sacrificed at every Mass. We recognize that God lives in all time yesterday, today, and in the future. In the Mass we enter we bring into the present that same sacrifice from the past. A re-presentation. Christ’s sacrifice is eternal, for all mankind and in all times. It is not contained in the moment it first happened. John 6:49-71 NAB

_{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.b 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.” 59 These 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?” 61 Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? 62 What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?* 63 It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh* is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. 65 And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.” 66 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.}

We do not keep Christ hanging on the Cross over and over again. We realize His “death & resurrection” are salvation.

Know you are prayed for.