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Saint
Bruno's Catholic Church
First Sunday of Lent
March 1st, 2009 -
Bulletin
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Welcome
to St. Brunos
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,
March 2nd
- 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. Michaels
Hall
Tuesday,
March 3rd
- Legion de
Maria 7-8:30 pm
Pilgrimage
- 12 Step Group
7-9 pm St. Gabriels
Hall
- Tongan Choir
Practice 8-9:30 pm
Church
- Y.L.I. 12-3
pm Main Hall - 2nd Tuesday of the
month
Wednesday,
March 4th
- Our
Ladys Prayer Group 6-10 pm
Church
- Gift Shop
Opens 5:00-9:00 pm
- Womens
Guild 11:30-1 pm Main Hall - 1st
Wednesday of the month
Thursday,
March 5th
- OE Group 5-6
pm St. Gabriels
Hall
- RCIA 7:00 PM
Small room by the
kitchen
- Legión
de María 7-8:30 pm St.
Gabriels Hall
- Tongan Choir
Practice 8-9:30 pm
Church
- 2nd Thursday
Meeting 7:30 pm Upper
Room
- Finance
Committee Contact person Maritza
A.
- Finance
Council Contact person Lola
L.
Friday,
March 6th
- La Purisima
6:30-8:30 pm St.
Michaels
- Grupo de
Jóvenes 7:30-9:30 pm Upper
Room
- 2nd Friday
Meeting 7:00 pm Upper
Room
- Liturgy
Contact person Pamela
R.
Saturday,
March 7th
- CCD 9-11 am
All Rooms
- Gift Shop
Opens 7:00-9:00 pm
Sunday,
March 8th
- Gift Shop
Opens 11:30 am
- Tongan Choir
Practice 2-4 pm St.
Michaels
- Gift Shop
Opens 6:00-8:30 pm
Readings
for the week of March 2, 2008

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Monday:
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Leviticus
19:1-2,11-18; Matthew
25:31-46
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Tuesday:
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Isaiah
55:10-11; Matthew
6:7-15
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Wednesday:
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Jonah
3:1-10; Luke
11:29-32
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Thursday:
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Esther
C:12,14-16; Matthew
7:7-12
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Friday:
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Ezekiel
18:21-28; Matthew
5:20-26
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Saturday:
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Deuteronomy
26:16-19; Matthew
5:43-48
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Sunday:
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Genesis
22:1-2,9a; Mark
9:2-10
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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 $3,636.87
Second Collection
$1,104.46
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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,
February
28th
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4:30
PM
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Anacleta
& Arlene Alvarado
+Pete C. Decastro
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7:00
PM
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+Imelda
Orozco
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Sunday,
March
1st
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8:00
AM
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+Josephine
Conway
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10:00
AM
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+Maria
Corona
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Noon
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Emmie M.
Sotto
+Rosa Delfin
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6:00
PM
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+Richard
Parsons
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Monday,
March
2nd
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8:00
AM
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Santification
of all the Priests &
Religious
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6:00
PM
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+Lucia
Reyes
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Tuesday,
March
3rd
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8:00
AM
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+Vincent
Barron
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6:00
PM
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Teresita
Hernandez
(Healing)
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Wednesday,
March
4th
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8:00
AM
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+Victoriano
Palad
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Thursday,
March
5th
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8:00
AM
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Marian Mc
Kenna (Birthday)
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6:00
PM
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Dee
Villaflor
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Friday,
March
6th
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8:00
AM
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+Jimmy
Bordello
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7:00
PM
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+Victoriano
Tagulao
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Saturday,
March
7th
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8:00
AM
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Maritza
Aberouette
(Birthday)
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A
reflection on
the Gospel for
the First
Sunday of
Lent
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Each
morning as we
rise, we have
every good
intention to be
the best we
can: to do our
work well, to
take care of
our family, to
be faithful to
our commitments
to our spouses
and our
relatives and
friends, to
stop drinking
too much. We
make a thousand
resolutions. We
want to know
that we are
good and
deserve the
love of all.
Later,
throughout the
day,
temptations
arise. If we
have a bad
habit, the
temptation
might be to do
it again; if we
drink, we might
see a bar or
run into some
friends who
invite us
again. Perhaps
at work we feel
tempted not to
do things as
well as we
could, not to
make as much
efforts as we
should, to
waste time.
Some of us
might want to
show that we
are the ones in
charge at home
or we get
carried away by
our bad
temptation to
be unfaithful
to our spouses,
like the people
in soap operas.
We might feel
tempted to lie
about some
money we have
spent without
telling the
rest of our
family. The
gospel today
tells us that
Jesus felt
tempted not to
do what God had
asked of him,
or to show his
power and his
strength. But
Jesus
remembered who
he was and who
he wanted to
be. He wanted
to fulfill and
preserve the
covenant that
God had made
with the
people.
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Una
reflexión
sobre el
evangelio del
Primer Domingo
de
Cuaresma
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Es
muyCada
mañana,
al levantarnos,
tenemos
intenciones de
ser lo mejor
que podamos:
hacer nuestro
trabajo bien,
cuidar bien de
nuestra
familia, ser
fieles a
nuestros
compromisos con
nuestros
cónyuges
y nuestros
familiares y
amigos, dejar
de
tomar
.Mil
cosas que nos
proponemos.
Queremos saber
que somos
buenos y que
merecemos el
amor de todos.
Luego, a lo
largo del
día,
vienen las
tentaciones. Si
tenemos alguna
mala costumbre,
puede ser de
volver a
hacerlo, si
tomamos,
quizá
veamos un bar,
or a algunos
amigos que nos
invitan de
nuevo.
Quizá en
el trabajo
tengamos
tentación
de no hacer las
cosas todo lo
bien que
podríamos,
de no poner
tanto esfuerzo
como
deberíamos,
de perder el
tiempo. Algunos
de nosotros
queremos
demostrar que
somos los que
mandamos en
casa, o nos
dejamos llevar
del mal humor y
les gritamos a
nuestros
cónyuges
o a nuestros
hijos. Incluso
podríamos
sentir la
tentación
de ser infieles
a nuestros
cóyuges,
como la gente
de las novelas.
O de mentir
sobre
algún
gasto o algo
que hemos hecho
sin el
conocimiento de
nuestra
familia. El
evangelio de
hoy nos habla
de cómo
Jesús
también
tuvo
tentaciones de
no hacer lo que
le había
pedido su Padre
Dios, de
demostrar su
poder y su
fuerza. Pero
Jesús
recordó
quién
quería
ser.
Quería
cumplir y
mantener la
alianza que
Dios
había
hecho con su
pueblo.
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the sick, Vince Jimenez,
Maria Robledo-Mora,
Maria Olivas, Miguel
Aquino, James Moye,
Sergio Cangura, Carlo
Soberano, Athena Olivas,
Robert Flores, Hilia
Morales, Sara
Lucchrese.
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Why
do we fast?
The
church invites us to fast during Lent.
This is not just a twisted idea to make
people suffer or to turn these 40 days
into torture. It is, rather, an invitation
to grow closer to the Lord. Fasting is not
merely abstaining from food, it has a much
more radical meaning. It means leaving
behind everything that does not lead to
Jesus. It means giving up ones own
ways and following Jesus path. Thus
its not enough simply to fast from
meat if we do not leave behind resentments
or the desire to get even. Lenten
sacrifice does not merely involve giving
alms from our surplus. It asks us to go
beyond and share what we have, but above
all, what we are: our gifts, our time, our
generosity. The Lenten way calls us to
give up things that perhaps give us
immediate gratification but are passing.
It invites us to follow Jesus as a way of
permanent and full happiness. Depriving
ourselves of something that we might not
even need is simply a sign of what is
essential in life: God and Gods
ways. Everything else is relative. Perhaps
nowadays what is an obstacle in opening
ourselves up to God is not so much food
but images and words. Perhaps our fast
this year could be a fast from TV and of
all those things that a consumerist
society offers instead to make room for
silence to listen to God and to one
another. That would be much more useful
than any other sacrifice. One of the signs
that we understand the fast that God asks
of us is that it translates into sharing
goods with others. The Lenten fast is not
just negative; it opens us up to prayer.
Feeling the physical hunger of fasting, we
are reminded of our hunger and thirst for
God. On the other hand, hunger makes us
think of all those people throughout the
worldparticularly childrenwho
are forced to fast because of poverty. Our
voluntary fasting invites us to an active
solidarity with the poor.
¿Por
qué ayunar?
En
Cuaresma, la iglesia nos invita al ayuno.
No es una mala idea para hacer
sufrir a nadie, o convertir los cuarenta
días en una tortura. El ayuno no se
reduce a la ausencia o limitación
de alimentos, sino que tiene un contexto
más radical. Es dejar atrás
todo lo que no conduce a Jesús. Es
renunciar a los propios caminos para
abrazar los de Jesús. Por eso, no
basta con dejar un plato de carne, por
ejemplo, si al mismo tiempo no se deja
atrás el rencor o deseo de
venganza. El sacrificio cuaresmal no
consiste simplemente en dar limosna de lo
que nos sobra, sino en compartir lo que
tenemos, pero sobre todo, lo que somos:
nuestra generosidad. El camino cuaresmal
llama a renunciar a cosas que quizá
nos den un placer inmediato, pero
pasajero, para seguir a Cristo, que se la
felicidad total. El privarse de algo es
signo de nuestra vuelta a lo esencial de
la vida: Dios y sus caminos. Lo
demás es todo relativo. Tal vez hoy
día lo que más estorba para
pensar en Dios no son tanto los alimentos,
cuanto las imágenes y las palabras.
Una renuncia a la televisión, a
tantas cosas que nos ofrece la sociedad de
consumo para dar tiempo para escucharnos
unos a otros y escuchar a Dios puede ser
mucho más útil que otros
sacrificios. Una de las señales de
que se comprende el ayuno que pide Dios es
que termina en ofrecer bienes al
prójimo. El ayuno cuaresmal no es
sólo negativo, sino que nos abre a
Dios en la oración y al
prójimo por medio de la caridad. El
sentir hambre física nos recuerda
el hambre y la sed que tenemos de Dios.
Por otro lado, nos invita a recordar a
todas aquellas personasy sobre todo
los niñosque sufren un ayuno
forzado por la pobreza de sus vidas, y nos
llama a la solidaridad con
ellos.
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