4:00 pm Mass (Vigil) ENGLISH: August 31, 2024: “Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time”

Welcome to St. Peter the Apostle Parish We welcome all visitors and those who wish to make this Parish their home. We are committed to growing in faith, serving in love, and sharing the hope of new life, through Jesus Christ. Priest/Sacerdote: Rev. José Arturo Uribe Online Giving/Donaciones en línea: https://stpeter-fallbrook.weshareonli... Flocknote page - sign up to receive Parish alerts via text or email at/ Página de Flocknote - regístrese para recibir alertas de la parroquia por mensaje de texto o correo electrónico a:: https://stpeterfallbrook.flocknote.com/ Parish Website/Sitio web de la parroquia: http://www.stpeter-fallbrook.org/_ind... Follow us on Youtube at/Síguenos en Youtube en:    / stpetertheapostlecatholicparishfallbrook   The Eucharist Initiative videos are available at/Iniciativa de la Eucaristía videos están disponibles a: http://www.sdcatholic.org/eucharist = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = “Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time” This Sunday’s Readings First Reading: Dt 4:1-2, 6-8 Responsorial Psalm: Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5 Second Reading: Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27 Gospel: Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Questions of the Week Theme: The cross is a way that leads to true life. Breaking Open the Word Suggested text for faith sharing: Today’s Gospel Step One: Listen to the Word When you hear the Gospel proclaimed today, what words or phrases really strike you? What lingers in your memory from this reading? Step Two: Look into Your Life Question for Children: Jesus tells us that we each called to follow him. What is hard for you to do to follow Jesus? Question for Youth: In order to follow Jesus, we have to do hard things, to carry our own crosses. What is a cross that you are carrying right now? In what ways can you ask Jesus to help you with your cross? Question for Adults: Jesus gives us the core truth to life and eternal happiness — the cross. Name the cross that you carry. How is it bringing you closer to God? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Saint of the Day: STS. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND NICODEMUS, DISCIPLES OF THE LORD Doctors of the Law…: It’s hard enough for ordinary, simple people to open their hearts to a God who often reveals himself in unexpected, disconcerting ways. Often, it’s even harder for the learned who are esteemed as teachers of their people. It’s tempting to think that once we’ve studied and taught enough, we know it all, even about God. But, as we discover in two men who appear in the Gospels together at Jesus’ tomb, nothing is impossible for God. The Gospels describe Joseph of Arimathea as “a rich man” (Mt 27:57); a “respected member of the council,” or Sanhedrin (Mk 15:43), the governing body of the Jewish people that would have been the legal and religious reference point for the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and as a “good and righteous man” (Lk 23:50). “He was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly” (Jn 19:38); after all, Jesus was a controversial rabbi who disturbed the religious sensibilities of many of Joseph’s colleagues in the Sanhedrin. But it is Nicodemus, a Pharisee – the party of the strict observers and teachers of the Jewish law – who grants us deeper insight into the drama that unfolded in the lives of both these learned Israelites. The opened heart: Finally, the events themselves provide the catalyst that makes those small fissures in the heart open into an abyss of light. Jesus is crucified, his heart is opened with a spear, and Joseph of Arimathea no longer cares if people find out that he is a disciple. He goes to Pilate and asks for the body of the condemned man, so that he might give it a proper burial. He even knows where, a tomb he had bought for himself: “After this, Joseph of Arimathea … asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus…. Nicodemus also … came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds’ weight.” The teachers of Israel anoint the King of Israel. Their hands gently wrap in clean linen the greatest visitation of God their people had ever known. Together, “they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices,” and laid it in Joseph’s newly hewn tomb (Jn 19:38-42). BH = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = *Permission to reprint / podcast / stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, License #737009-A. All rights reserved. *The Theme, Breaking Open the Word, and Questions of the Week are used with permission. Read the full text from Our Sunday Visitor: https://lifelongcatechesis.osv.com/