Parish Priest’s Email Address: [email protected]Twenty-Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time 14th / 15th September 2019 The Prodigal Us Who would be dumb enough to adore something they have constructed with their own hands! Imagine worshipping a molten calf! … In the First Reading we find God becoming quite upset because the people in ancient days put up cheap products as their God. While Moses is away, they have built a golden calf, and are making it their God. Ridiculous. God had a different idea of his relation to the people. We could sum it up as follows: What about the two-way covenant of love I have been offering you? “I will be your God and you will be my people. I will love you more than you can ask or imagine. Won’t you just love me in return?” But they refuse and wilfully run away to their paltry desires. God becomes angry, maybe in the way a parent would with a seriously disobedient child. He shouts at Moses, … A few lines later, Moses acts as a family friend. … Just calm down, Give them some time. God agrees. Yet they were “worshipping” false gods! Maybe you and I do not exactly worship (fall down and adore) all the man-made items that demand our time, but have you ever run away from God so you can have whatever arouses your own addictions? For sure the prodigal son did. He left what he felt were the "shackles" of home life and also the confining love from his father. He made himself “free”! He squandered everything on a life of dissipation, the equivalent of our many refrigerators, cars, houses, magazines and clothes. When he finally comes crawling back home, defeated, we would expect his father to say: “Oh sure, now you turn up, thinking everything will be just like it used to be. Well think again, pal.” But instead his father actually runs to meet his son, embraces him and prepares a huge feast of welcome. Did the young man get what he deserved? No, he got what his father prepared for him. Entire forgiveness. God does not want to keep us from the things that attract us. He wants us to value them in due proportion. Love God above all things. Then you can love everything and everyone else as they deserve. We fail, of course, like the prodigal, and like the ancient Israelites did. So Jesus pleads for us, just as Moses pleaded. God puts his arms around us and says, “welcome, welcome, welcome. You came back! We can love one another again, can't we?” We will do our best, we say. John Foley, SJ
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Twenty-Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time 14th / 15th September 2019
The Prodigal Us
Who would be dumb enough to adore something they have constructed with their own hands! Imagine worshipping a molten calf!
… In the First Reading we find God becoming quite upset because the people in ancient days put up cheap products as their God. While Moses is away, they have built a golden calf,
and are making it their God. Ridiculous. God had a different idea of his relation to the people. We could sum it up as follows:
What about the two-way covenant of love I have been offering you? “I will be your God and you will be my people. I will love you more than you can ask or imagine.
Won’t you just love me in return?”
But they refuse and wilfully run away to their paltry desires. God becomes angry, maybe in the way a parent would with a seriously disobedient child.
He shouts at Moses, … A few lines later, Moses acts as a family friend. … Just calm down, Give them some time. God agrees.
Yet they were “worshipping” false gods! Maybe you and I do not exactly worship (fall down and adore) all the man-made items that demand our time, but have you ever run away from God
so you can have whatever arouses your own addictions? For sure the prodigal son did. He left what he felt were the "shackles" of home life
and also the confining love from his father. He made himself “free”! He squandered everything on a life of dissipation, the equivalent of our many refrigerators,
cars, houses, magazines and clothes. When he finally comes crawling back home, defeated, we would expect his father to say:
“Oh sure, now you turn up, thinking everything will be just like it used to be. Well think again, pal.” But instead his father actually runs to meet his son, embraces him and prepares a huge feast of welcome.
Did the young man get what he deserved? No, he got what his father prepared for him. Entire forgiveness. God does not want to keep us from the things that attract us.
He wants us to value them in due proportion. Love God above all things. Then you can love everything and everyone else as they deserve.
We fail, of course, like the prodigal, and like the ancient Israelites did. So Jesus pleads for us, just as Moses pleaded. God puts his arms around us and says,
“welcome, welcome, welcome. You came back! We can love one another again, can't we?” We will do our best, we say.
Fri 4th Oct/Sat 5th Oct Brisbane Assembly for 2020 Plenary Council Please note the Parish Office will be closed on the Friday as staff will be attending
NEXT WEEKEND MASSES
St Peter’s: Saturday 6.00pm
Sunday 7am, 10am, & 5.30pm
Little Flower: Saturday 6.00pm
Sunday 8.30am
Beachmere: Sunday 8.30 am (24 Rogers Street)
RECONCILIATION
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PARISH BAPTISMS
St Peter’s 10.30am 1st & 2nd Saturdays of each month
Little Flower 10.30am 3rd Saturday of each month
SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK
This Sunday - 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time ( Yr C)
Ex 32: 7-11,13-14; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Luke15:1-32
Weekday Readings:
Monday Sts Cornelius & Cyprian 1 Tim 2:1-8; Luke 7:1-10
Tuesday 1 Tim 3:1-13; Luke 7:11-17
Wednesday 1 tim 3:14-16; Luke 7:31-35
Thursday 1 Tim 4:12-16; Luke 7:36-50
Friday St Andrew Kim Tae-gon 1 Tim 6:2-12; Luke 8:1-3
Saturday St Matthew Eph 4:1-7,11-13; Matt 9:9-13
Next Sunday– 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Yr C)
Amos 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Luke 1616:1-13
Response:
I will rise and go to my Father.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, Alleluia! God was in Christ, to
reconcile the world to himself: and the Good
news of reconciliation he has entrusted to us.
Alleluia!
News from St Peter’s
SUNDAY
6.00 pm Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
7.00 am Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
8.30 am Mass of the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Beachmere)
10.00 am Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
5.30 pm Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)