Pastor’s Reflection
16 September 2018
Twentieth-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the Gospel this week (Mark 8:27-35) Jesus asks his disciples two questions which are as relevant today as they were to his own generation: “Who do people say that I am? . . . Who do you say that I am?” Our generation could answer the first question exactly as his contemporary disciples, “The people (i.e. the popular culture) say you are one of the prophets.” The modern, politically correct, answer to the question runs something like this: “Yes, we believe Jesus was a good man, an inspirational religious figure who had many good insights into the meaning of life just like many other ‘enlightened’ religious or philosophical thinkers such as Buddha, Gandhi, Muhammad, or any number of new age gurus or founders of other religious movements or sects.” Thus Jesus, they would claim, is merely ‘one of the prophets.’ Now, as disciples of Christ, we have a major problem with this answer – Jesus himself said it was wrong! In contrast to the “peoples’” answer to the question of who Jesus is, Peter responds with the right answer: “You are the Christ!” What does that mean? Ultimately, in the context of the whole Gospel narrative, it means Jesus is the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Son of the Living God, equal in dignity and in being to God the Father, the Savior of the entire world and every person in it; He is THE Way (not a way) THE Truth and THE Life. He must be worshiped as God, and his teaching must be received and obeyed as divinely revealed. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2466, teaches us
Liturgical Roles
Saturday: Sep 23, 5:00 pm
Reader: Joe Pauli
EM: Cheryl Pauli
Ushers: Patricia Harbin, John Robert Clemente
Altar Servers: Isaac & Vince, Joseph
Sunday: Sep 24, 8:00 am
Reader: Paul Zahn
EM: Mike Monticello
Ushers: Aubrey Treakle & Romie Powell
Altar Servers: Daniel, Joseph
Sunday: Sep 24, 10:30 am
Reader: Len Whitehead
EM: Jesse Evans
Ushers: Ron Lloyd & David Bowman
Altar Servers: Jackson, Danni
Counters: Chris & Tina Riley, Thomas Allsbury
Upcoming Events
Sunday, Sep 16
- Mass – 8:00 am
- CCD – 9:00 – 10:15 am
- Mass – 10:30 am
Monday
- Mass – 8:30 am
- Legion of Mary – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Tuesday
- Mass – 8:30 am
Wednesday
- Mass – 12:15 pm
- Choir Practice – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Thursday
Friday
- Confession – 12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
- Mass – 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
Saturday
- Confession – 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
- Mass – 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday, Sep 24
- Mass – 8:00 am
- CCD – 9:00 – 10:15 am
- Mass – 10:30 am
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Orange, VA 22960-2573
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Weekend Mass Schedule
- Saturday evening: 5:00 pm
- Sunday morning: 8:00 am and 10:30 am
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