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13th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Join us at our Saturday mass, at 4:30 p.m., in the Sanctuary or on Zoom. The passcode to enter is: liturgy. Please mute yourselves upon entering. This week’s worship aid is found here.

This week’s readings remind me of the old Sly and the Family Stone song “We Are Family”. Jesus is trying to get us to think about what a family is constituted from. In the reading from 2 Kings, Elisha becomes almost part of the family of the wealthy couple to make a room just for him whenever he comes through the area. That’s family. In St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, he suggests that because we were baptized into Christ, we are family –all of us—not just those we like and agree with. In the gospel, Jesus is not trying to suggest we not love our biological or adoptive families with everything we have, but to recognize that it is only one part of the much larger family of God.

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that salvation is offered to all. Our unity is built on the teachings and example of Jesus Christ as we seek compassion, justice and peace in the world. We seek to live our faith through liturgy, prayer, community building and collaboration, study and service. Eucharist is a visible sign of that unity.

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