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| This weeks Scripture Readings
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Ezekiel 18:25-28
The sinner who decides to turn against sinfulness deserves to live.
Phillipians 2:1-11
In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus.
Sunday Gospel: Matthew 21:28-32
He went out moved by regret. The tax collectors and prostitutes will precede you into the kingdom of God.
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| Year A, 26th Sunday in Ordinary time - 28 September 2008
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Thoughts on the Gospel
Jesus is making it clear that saying that one loves God and wishes to be a part of the Kingdom is not enough. The chief preist and the elders honoured the Law and taught it - but had become stuck in their observation of it. The tax collectors and prostitutes turned their backs on the Law and were, therefore, seen as outside God's salvation.
However, they were the ones who saw that God was doing a new thing in Jesus and were changing their ways - repenting of the sin and setting out on a new life that was to lead them into the kingdom.
The Gospel is a challenge to change - to grow. It is not to become comfortable with the idea that we have "arrived" and have all the answers but to be constantly aware that there are failings in ourselves to overcome. We need constantly to fix our eyes on Christ - and be prepared to leave behind the things that hold us back - travel lightly and join the tax collectors and prostitutes on the journey to heaven.
Commentary on the Gospel, (c) 2007 Wellspring.
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| Please Pray for Our Sick
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Please Pray for Our Sick:
Judy Johnston, Christopher Christie, Terry Gleeson, Joe Paliisi, Jurka Ascic, Anhar hindi, Claudit Hindi, Alyssa Henderson, Christopher Neil, John McMillan, Lyn Ovens, Pat Sutton and all those in our Parish bulletin.
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| Please prayer for the Repose of the Souls of:
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Please Pray for the Repose of the Souls of:
Recently Deceased: John Thompson, ALbert Ferrazzano, Sean Hanrahan, Marie Hutchens, Alan Gallagher, Margaret Mary Harman, Lauren Kathleen Sadler, Vicky Noel, Hilde Kallos, Manlio Massimo Clochiatti, ALexander Howes.
Anniversary: Michael Hartley, Keith Gollan, Josephine Pheinberger (2) Salvatore Manna (3), Filemon Luego (1), Gloria Hanrahan, Marie Chizzoniti, Stephen Rebeiro, George Fernandez.
In Remembrance: Guido Mennolo, Paul Gambin, Cronin, Graham, Burgin and Fox Families, Patterson family, Giovanna Costa, John Favaloro, Mary Knight, Patricia McGrane, Francesco Piccolo, Rosa Piccolo, Rocco Trimarchi, Carmela Trimarchi, Louis Postoletti, James Spice, Elizabeth Quinn, Therese McInnes, Joe Delia, Frank and Grace Zammit, Teresa Delia, Crisara, Fante, Fimmano and Chizzoniti Families, Maria and Tony Galletta.
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