22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

“My Ways Are Not Your Ways”

Peter knew that Jesus was the messiah awaited by God’s people, but he did not understand
that Jesus would be a suffering messiah. God forbid that any such thing ever happen to you!

But it did happen to Jesus, and it happens to those who follow him: If a man wishes to come af-
ter me, he must deny his very self (and) take up his cross.

Jeremiah had foretold the suffering of those who work for the coming of the kingdom: All
the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me... The word of the Lord has brought me derision and
reproach all the day.

It is not easy, this business of following Christ.

You work for peace, and people accuse you of being unpatriotic. You stand up for the poor,
and people write you off as a naive dreamer. You work for nonviolent change, like Martin
Luther King, or Ita Ford, or Archbishop Oscar Romero, and they shoot you. Meanwhile, you
calmly go about your life, praying that God fill our hearts with love and increase our faith.

Do not conform yourselves to this age, Paul wrote to the Romans. We pay a price for such an ap-
proach, but we do so willingly because of our faith in the promise of salvation.
Gerald Darring

“The Church, like a pilgrim in a foreign land,

presses forward amid the persecutions of the
world and the consolations of God, announcing
the cross and death of the Lord until he comes.

By the power of the risen Lord, she is given

strength to overcome patiently and lovingly the
afflictions and hardships which assail her from
within and without, and to show forth in the
world the mystery of the Lord in a faithful
though shadowed way, until at the last it will be
revealed in total splendor.”
Vatican II, Constitution on the Church (1964) 8

August 31, 2008

Some καιρός / kairos thoughts…
καιρός / kairos—Greek—time—viewed as an occasion rather than an extent

A fist
shaken

against

anyone
or
anything

can be Prayer List

relaxed Pray the rosary for world peace, Avis Cox, Fr. Clarence Biggers, Gladys and
Ben Kramkowski, Rita Moenk, Doug Bearden, Sarah Snider, Thornton/Lynch
family, Ryan Amsberry, Annie & family, Connie, her mother & family, Blake,
Erik, Campbell family, Jonathan & family, Sharon & family, Will, FMS, Cap.
and the Corp., Patrick & Brittany, Broughman family, Fannie Crowder & family, VAL,
Father Ingram’s father & family, Karen’s mother, Cheryl Mobley & family,
rock re- William Hudson, Robert, Walter, Danielle, Christopher, Barbara, Katherine,
Nicholas, Kaylin, Kasie, Mary Beth & family, Mary Ann Mahoney & family,
Donna & family, Ann Chancellor & family, Sheila & family, cancer patients &
families, military & families, Brandon, Plantation Villa residents, Don, Mrs.
leased Carpenter, Mr. & Mrs. Rooks, Katherine & family, Mr. Dunn, Mr. & Mrs.
Barlow, Jane & family, Scott & family, Diane & Peter, Michele & Gary, Lucy’s
father & family, Bobbie, Joan & family, Karl’s mother & family, June & family,
Tina & family, Belinda & family, OLM family, Kat, Delgratia & family, Mr.
to make Gomez & family, Sara’s mother, Dr. Lynch & family, Rob/Allie & family,
Chuck & family, Frank & family, Liesa & family, mother of Dr. Petros, Dr. Issa
fire & family, Odessa, Anita’s mother & family, Ruby, Ruby’s mother & family,
Davies family, Katie & family, family of Angie, Ann & family, Gretchen &
family, Eileen, Scott & family, Robert, Flavia & family, Tony’s family, Roy &
Martha Wright, Roy, Alice Swygert, Alan, Nard, Tony, Glenda, Nelson, J. Bob,
Munn, Vogt, Wolfe families, Russell & family, Ola, Gene Wilson & family, Jane
to cup Brock & family, Janet Kramer & family, Elayne & family, Winnie, Phil & family,
Tony, Stan, Emily & family, Ruthie & Ed, Mr. Bergin & family, Russell &
water family, Mrs. Sanseverino & family, CC Center, veterans & families Jessie
Emmett, Mark, Michael’s mother, Carrie, VAMC, Rambo’s mother & family,
Josephine Mary, Mary Anna, S. Paul, Tony, J. W. Wilson & family, Jason &
Kim, Josie, Kelly, Mickey’s family, Jon & Janet Cook & family, Karen’s cousin,
to bless Mike Aguado & family, Carl & family, Dr. Lopez & family, Dr. Vanapalli &
family, Dr. Nair & family, Garrett & family, family of Duffie, Aaron Christian,
the day Marina & family, Mitchell’s father & family, Estella’s mother & family, Kerry’s
anda Poem from liturgy.slu.edu mother & family, Gail & family, Beth & family, Bernard, Anna & family, Sara
Lucas & family, Mary Gilliam & family, Delgratia & family, Bobbie Elayne &
family, Carol, Cheryl Mobley & family, Bettie & family, Jane & family, Scott,
Chris & family, Michael & family, Berger family, Mendez family, Ikai family,
God labors for us so that we might work Joshua Moser, Stephanie Christian, Carolyn Williamson, Patricia Finch, Ed
Schaffer, Justine, Chris B., Joyce Jones, Anna & Henry, Doris Bishop, Sean
for him. Gently, the Lord encourages us to McHugh, Debbie McCloud, Joey Milani, Julia Dahm, Mary Ondovchik, Ann
Rudy, Sonja Robinson, Gary Toler, Julian Campbell, Peggy Cable, Claude
take up the cross of our baptismal initia- Rickman, Z.C., Dames gang, Anderson family, Chris Stahler family, Mary Jo
Shamas, Frances Homsey, Gus Kneidinger, Frank, Ana Maria & Erwin Molano,
tion and follow Jesus. This encouragement Ligia Restrepo, Isabel Vribe, Alvaro Penagos, Chris & Stevie, Paula, Dan &
takes many forms tailored to each of our kids, Mary Foster, Jim Cannon, Nancy Truesdale, Mary Platt, Amy & family,
Lee family, Robin Renc, Denise Kell, Patricia and Kenneth Booth, Lauren &
weaknesses and strengths. By pushing us, Baby Brown, Elaine Cole, Elysa Cole-Ali, Marie McDemmond, Anthony
Morgan, Eric Hawthorne, Lynn & Leroy Burrows, Shirley Walton, Edna &
encouraging us and helping us, the Lord Louis, Norman Hightower, Russ family, Gary Bright, Melanie & Matt Stanley,
Carlo Dellaquila, Katherine Catti, Joanna & Michael Spataro, Maria Beck,
points us toward the goal of salvation. Je- Angela & Justino Prado, Stephanie & Matt Fletcher, Chinelo, Heidi B., Fred
Arterburn, Helen Anderson, Kelly Timken, Robert S. & family, Michael Coates,
sus seeks us out; he pulls us toward him by Wright family, Louis Talbot, Doane family, Sandra Connell, Raymond &
Virginia Jones, John Crowe, Caron, Anais, & Ken Pierre, Rick Long, Janelle
many paths. Be quiet and feel his tug! Powell, Mr. & Mrs. Cotton Elphingstone, John Chatham, Josslyn Sharkey, Deb
Moore, Jaki Turner, Jerrell family
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