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Saint
Bruno's Catholic Church
21st Sunday in Ordinary
Time
August 24th, 2008 -
Bulletin
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Welcome
to St. Bruno’s
Church
Bienvenidos
a la parroquia de San
Bruno
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At
our Sunday Mass, we come
together from all our
small communities and
celebrate our oneness in
Christ. Take a little
time to get to know the
folks you are
celebrating Mass
with.
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Weekly
Schedule
Monday,
August 25th
- Esquipulas
7-9 pm Main Hall (Upper
Room)
- Confirmation
Study 6:30-8:30pm Main Hall (Upper
Room)
- Spanish Bible
Class 7-9:00 pm St. Michael’s
Hall
Tuesday,
August 26th
- Legion de
Maria 7-8:30 pm
Pilgrimage
- 12 Step Group
7-9 pm St. Gabriel’s
Hall
- Tongan Choir
Practice 8-9:30 pm Main
Hall
- Y.L.I. 12-3
pm Main Hall - 2nd Tuesday of the
month
Wednesday,
August 27th
- Our
Lady’s Prayer Group 6-10 pm
Church
- Holy Spirit
Choir Practice 8:00 pm Main
Hall
- Gift Shop
Opens 5:00-9:00 pm
- Women’s
Guild 11:30-1 pm Main Hall - 1st
Wednesday of the month
Thursday,
August 28th
- OE Group 5-6
pm St. Gabriel’s
Hall
- RCIA 7:00 PM
Upper Room
- Legión
de María 7-8:30 pm St.
Gabriel’s Hall
- Tongan Choir
Practice 8-9:30 pm Main
Hall
Friday,
August 29th
- La Purisima
6:30-8:30 pm St.
Michael’s
- Grupo de
Jóvenes 7:30-9:30 pm Upper
Room
- St.
Bruno’s Youth Group 7:30-9:30 pm
Upper Room
- Holy Spirit
Choir 9-11 pm Church
Saturday,
August 30th
- CCD 9-11 am
All Rooms
- Gift Shop
Opens 7:00-9:00 pm
Sunday,
August 31st
- Gift Shop
Opens 11:30 am
- Tongan Choir
Practice 2-4 pm St.
Michael’s
- Gift Shop
Opens 6:00-8:30 pm
Readings
for the week of August 25,
2008
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Monday:
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2
Thessalonians 1:1-5,11-12;
Matthew
23:13-22
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Tuesday:
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2
Thessalonians 2:1-3a,14-17;
Matthew
23:23-26
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Wednesday:
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2
Thessalonians 3:6-10,16-18;
Matthew
23:27-32
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Thursday:
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1
Corinthians 1:1-9; Matthew
24:42-51
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Friday:
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1
Corinthians 1:17-25 Mark
6:17-29
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Saturday:
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1
Corinthians 1:26-31; Matthew
25:14-30
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Sunday:
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Jeremiah
20:7-9; Matthew
16:21-27
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Your
Contribution / Su
Contribución
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We are
grateful for your consistent
financial support each week.
Please remember us in prayer and
offering even when you are not
able to be
present.
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First
Collection $ 2,410.19
Second Collection $
836.87
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Estamos muy
agradecidos por su constante
ayuda financiera. Por favor
recuérdenos en sus
oraciones y ofrendas aún
cuando no pueda estar
presente.
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MASS INTENTIONS
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Saturday,
August
23th
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4:30
PM
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+Victor
Farr (Rest in
Peace)
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7:00
PM
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Elisa
Alvarez
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Sunday,
August
24th
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8:00
AM
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+Joseph
Ellul (Deceased)
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10:00
AM
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+Eva Linez
(Fallecido)
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Noon
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+Teodulo
& Timotea Alndoy
(Deceased)
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6:00
PM
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+Pilar
Tiangco (Deceased)
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Monday,
August
25th
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8:00
AM
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+Giusa
Bugeja (Deceased)
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6:00
PM
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All Souls
in Purgatory
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Tuesday,
August
26th
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8:00
AM
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+Ramona
Lantoria
(Deceased)
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6:00
PM
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+Asencion
Benitez (Deceased)
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Wednesday,
August
27th
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8:00
AM
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Arturo
Macabeo (Birthday)
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Thursday,
August
28th
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8:00
AM
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Watkins
Family
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6:00
PM
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Gomez
Family
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Friday,
August
29th
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8:00
AM
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Norma
Alcazaren
(Thanksgiving)
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6:00
PM
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Diaz
Family
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Saturday,
August
30th
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8:00
AM
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Carmen
Pineda
(Thanksgiving)
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A
reflection on
the Gospel for
The Twenty
First Sunday in
Ordinary
Time
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It seems
we like to hear
what others
think about
us...especially
if it happens
to be good. We
like to be
portrayed as
having a good
image. Could
this be the
reason Jesus
asks his
friends what
others were
saying about
who he was? In
some way, yes
and also
becuase he
wanted it to be
part of a
greater lesson.
By saying what
they thought of
Jesus, they
were not only
verbalizing
their faith or
confronting it
for the first
time; they were
also realinzing
who they were.
By stating that
Jesus is the
son of living
God, it is
reverberated;
if Jesus is the
Son of God,
then we must
also be
children of
God. This
revelation is a
gift and a
source of great
joy. By
proclaiming who
Jesus is, we
affirm the gift
of God in our
lives. We
affirm that
through Jesus
we are made
children of
God. Now no
matter what is
said about
Jesus, no
matter what is
said about us,
we know the
absolute and
greatest truth:
we are the
beloved
children of
God, therefore,
we posses
immense
dignity. It is
a dignity that
forces us to
fight for those
who, like us,
are the
children of God
and as a result
filled with
dignity and
rights. It is
dignity that
demands us to
fight for
justice
regardless of
where we may
find ourselves.
That is, it
obligates us to
fight for the
rights of
immigrants, for
the right to
fair housing,
and for a
quality
education. We
must also fight
for fairness in
lur homes, in
our
relationships
with one
another in the
family and in
our place of
work.
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Una
reflexión
sobre el
evangelio del
Vigesimo
Primero Domingo
del Tiempo
Ordinario
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Siempre
nos gusta que
nos digan lo
que piensa de
nosotros...sobre
todo si es
bueno. Nos
encanta que nos
reflejen con
una buena
imagen.
¿Sería
por eso que
Jesus pregunta
a sus amigos
quién
dicen que es
él?
Posiblemente en
parte
sí. Y
también
posiblemente lo
hiciera como
parte de una
lección.
Al decirle
quién
piensa que es,
nos sólo
verbalizan su
fe, o se
enfrentan a
ella por
primera vez,
sino que
también
se dan cuenta
de
quiénes
son ellos
mismos. Al
decir que
Jesús,
afirmamos el
don de Dios, se
hace como un
eco. Si
Jesús es
el Hijo de Dios
vivo, nosotros
tenemos que ser
también
hijos de Dios.
Esta
revelación
es una gracia y
una enorme
alegría.
Al proclamar
quién es
Jesús,
afirmamos el
don de Dios en
nuestras vidas.
Afirmamos que
por
Jesús,
somos hechos
hijos de Dios.
Y ahora digan
lo que digan de
nosotros,
sabemos la
verdad
más
absoluta y
mejor: somos
amados hijos de
Dios, y por lo
tanto, tenmos
una inmensa
dignidad. Es
una dignidad
que nos obliga
a luchar por
todos
aquéllos
que
también,
como nosotros,
son hijos de
Dios y por lo
tanto llenos de
dignidad y
derecho. Es una
dignidad que
nos obliga a
luchar por la
justicia sea
donde sea que
nos
encontremos. Es
decir, nos
obliga a luchar
por los
derechos de los
inmigrantes,
por el derecho
a una vivienda
justa y una
educación
de calidad.
Pero
también
a buscar un
trato justo en
nuestra casa,
en nuestras
relaciones de
unos con otros
en familia y en
eltrabajo.
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 the
sick, Maria Olivas,
Vince Jimenez, Angela
Sierro-Brusseau, Jesus
Rodriguez, Frank
Miranda, Pablo Ruiz,
Jorge Chaux, Cordelia
Griffin, Armida
Muñoz, Shirley
Celestine, Travis Barb,
Ted Cuenco, Rena
Coturri
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We meet many people throughout our lives
and some of these, after some time, become
our friends and even spend with them, the
more we get to know them and we deepen the
friendship and love that unites us. But if
someone who does not know our best friend
or spouse asks us to describe either one
for him or her, could we do it? We could
obiously describe his or her physical
appearance, line of work, the way he or
she dresses but we could not exactly
convey who that other person truly is. We
need to have a personal relationship, a
human bond, a heart to heart connection if
we are to know who someone really is. When
Jesus asks his disciples who do they think
he is, only Peter—making himself the
spokeperson of the others—answers
correctly. Jesus and his apostles know
each other well because they are united by
their faith in a God who does not abandon
his people. It is also because they have
faith that other characters from the
Gospels also recognize that Jesus is the
Son of God. Our faith must be lived out by
loving and giving ourselves to others. The
apostles, following Jesus who died because
of love, dedicated their lives to proclaim
the reign of God and serve those in need.
It is not an easy task, even Peter denied
knowing Jesus, but it is not an impossible
one. The faith that we have received as a
gift from God sustains us at difficult
times and it overcomes the hardest
obstacles, even death
itself.
Al
largo de nuestras vidas conocemos a muchas
personas y algunas de estas se convierten
en amigos de muchos años o incluso
en nuestras esposas o esposos. Cuanto
más tiempo pasamos con ellos,
más sabemos de ellos y
profundizamos la amistad y el amor que nos
unen. Pero si alguien que no conoce a
nuestro mejor amigo o a nuestro
cónyuge nos pide que se lo
describamos, ¿seríamos capaces
de hacerlo? Obviamente podemos detallar su
aspecto físico, gustos, trabajo,
forma de vestir. . . pero no
podríamos comunicar exactamente y
en su totalidad quien es de verdad. Hace
falta esa relación personal,
humana, de corazón a corazón
para saber quien es alguien. Cuando
Jesús les pregunta sus
discípulos quien cree la gente que
es él sólo
Pedro—haciéndose el vocero de
los apóstoles se conocen bien
porque los une la fe en Dios que no
abandona a su pueblo. Es por
eso—porque tienen fe que otros
personajes en los evangelios, los cuales
se encuentran con Jesús en una sola
ocasión, también reconocen
que es el Hijo de Dios. La fe verdadera
tiene que ser vivida amando y
dándose a los demás. Los
apóstoles, siguiendo el ejemplo de
Jesús que aceptó morir por
amar, dedicaron sus vidas a predicar el
Reino de Dios y servir a los necesitados.
No es una tarea fácil, incluso
Pedro negó conocer a Jesús,
pero no es imposible. La fe que recibimos
como don de Dios nos sostiene en los
momentos difíciles y vence los
obstáculos más duros,
incluso la muerte.
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