EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YEAR B)

SAINTS OF THE DAY ~ FEAST DAY: AUGUST 4, 2024

Greetings beloved family and Happy Sunday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time! 

On this special feast day, with special intention through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary, and the Saints, we pray for all Priests as we celebrate the Memorial of Saint John Vianney (the Curé of Ars), Priest and Patron of All Priests and Blessed Frédéric Janssoone, Priest. We humbly pray for the safety and well-being of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, for Bishops, all Parish Priests, the Clergy, for vocations to the priesthood and religious life, for the Church, for persecuted Christians, for the conversion of sinners, and Christians all over the world. 🙏

We continue to pray for justice, peace and unity in our families and our divided and conflicted world. We pray for the sick and dying. We especially pray for our loved ones who have recently died and we continue to pray for the repose of their gentle souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, may the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. May their gentle souls through the mercy of God rest in perfect peace with our Lord Jesus Christ… Amen 🙏 ✝️🕯✝️🕯✝️🕯

PRAYER FOR THE DEAD: In your hands, O Lord, we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters. In this life you embraced them with your tender love; deliver them now from every evil and bid them eternal rest. The old order has passed away: welcome them into paradise, where there will be no sorrow, no weeping or pain, but fullness of peace and joy with your Son & the Holy Spirit forever & ever. Amen🙏

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Today’s Bible Readings: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) | August 4, 2024
Reading 1, Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54
Reading 2, Ephesians 4:17, 20-24
Gospel, John 6:24-35

SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS:

Bible Readings for today, Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B) | Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest | USCCB | https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading

Gospel Reading ~ John 6:24–35

“Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst”

“When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when they found him across the sea they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.” So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.” So they said to him, “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”

Today’s Gospel reading from the Gospel of St. John is the discourse of the Bread of Life from the Lord to His disciples and to all those who have come seeking Him. At that time, which was just after the Lord performed the wondrous miracle of the multiplication of the loaves of bread and fishes, feeding many thousands of people, many among the people were astonished at what they had experienced, in receiving the miraculous feeding with bread, that they came seeking for the Lord when He went away with His disciples. They were seeking Him as the Lord Himself mentioned because they were satisfied after being fed with all the food and they were seeking satisfaction and pleasures of the world, but they did not truly have strong and genuine faith in the Lord yet. In the Gospel reading, our Lord Jesus speaks about a different kind of hunger that He was also very concerned about. The crowd whom Jesus fed abundantly in the wilderness went looking for Him after He had left them. They crossed the Sea of Galilee in boats to find Him. They wanted Him to repeat the miracle that He had done the previous day. When they finally caught up with Jesus, He spoke very directly to them, ‘Do not work for food that cannot last, but work for food that endures to eternal life, the kind of food the Son of Man is offering you’. Jesus was very concerned about ‘food that cannot last’, the physical food we all need to survive, and He was deeply troubled when people were deprived of it. However, on this occasion, Jesus is reminding people whom He had recently fed about the importance of another kind of food, the food that endures to eternal life. Apart from our physical hungers, there are deeper hungers in our lives that we also need to attend to. There is a kind of emptiness in our heart and spirit that physical food cannot fill. There is a longing within us, a deep hunger and thirst that nothing material or physical can fully satisfy. Jesus claims in the Gospel reading to be able to fill that emptiness, to answer that longing, to satisfy that deeper hunger and thirst within us. He declares Himself to be the bread of life, and He promises that those who come to Him will never be hungry in that deeper, spiritual, sense. It is a very powerful claim. Saint Augustine once said that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. Because Jesus is the fullness of God, God-with-us, we can say that our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. In the Gospel reading Jesus is calling on us to come to Him, to believe in Him, as the Bread of life who alone can fully respond to our deep spiritual hungers and thirsts.

When Jesus calls on the people in today’s Gospel reading to ‘work for food that endures to eternal life’, they understandably ask, ‘What must we do to do the works that God wants?’ In other words, if we are to work for this food that endures to eternal life, what works are we to do? In response to their question, Jesus gives a very striking answer, ‘This is working for God: you must believe in the one he has sent’. More important than any good works, Jesus is saying, is faith in Him, a trusting, faithful, loving relationship with Him. It is only such a relationship that will satisfy our deepest hunger for food that endures to eternal life. The Lord wants to have a deeply personal relationship with each of us, and He calls us into such a relationship. If we respond to his call, our deepest longings will be satisfied, our longing for a love that is faithful, our longing for truth and beauty, our longing for life. Also, if we grow in our relationship with the Lord, all sorts of good works will flow from it, including the good work of feeding the physically hungry. Jesus is bringing us back to what is most fundamental, our personal relationship with him, our daily coming to him and believing in him, in response to his invitation and call. This is what will really satisfy our deepest hunger. Jesus is calling on us to pay attention to the deeper hungers and thirsts in our lives. That call of Jesus remains very relevant in our part of the world where most peoples’ basic needs for food, clothing and shelter are met, and where the danger is that people will immerse themselves in the pursuit of the material to the neglect of the spiritual. This is also Paul’s concern in today’s second reading: ‘Your mind must be renewed by a spiritual revolution’.

In our first reading this Sunday from the Book of Exodus, the Lord provided His people, the Israelites, with food and provisions during the time of their Exodus and journey from the land of Egypt to the Promised Land of Canaan through the desert. At that time, the Israelites after having travelled through the desert for some time began complaining about their state of life, as they compared their status to when they were still enslaved back in the land of Egypt. They were saying that it would have been better for them to remain in Egypt as slaves and enjoying whatever bounties and food that they had in Egypt rather than to be free and to wander off in the desert on their way to this land promised to them by God. This showed that the people of Israel did not have faith and trust in the Lord, and showing just how little confidence they had in God Who up to that time had showed them repeatedly His love and kindness, His compassion and mercy. God has not abandoned His people even when they disobeyed Him and refused to listen to Him. He provided for them and helped them, just as He had done earlier on in Egypt. He showed them His power when He led the people out of Egypt, striking upon the Egyptians with ten great plagues that humbled the Egyptians and their Pharaoh, forcing them to admit that the Lord is truly the one and only God, the Master of all, and that He is the Lord over all the Israelites, whom He brought out of the land of Egypt with great power, even opening the sea itself before them. He kept on doing these even when His people doubted Him and did not fully put their faith and trust in Him. According to our first reading from the Book of Exodus, the Lord sent to the Israelites bread from Heaven itself, the manna, which gave them sustenance and provision for their entire time and journey in the desert, over the whole entire forty years period of that journey. He also gave them flocks of birds in the evening just as the manna came in the morning to make them all have their fill, and despite the desert being mostly inhospitable for life and without any food, but God made His people miraculously not just surviving in their forty years sojourn in the desert, but also thrived during that whole period. He also gave them crystal clear and good water to drink throughout their journey, giving them everything they needed even amidst all their rebellious attitudes and actions.

In our second reading from the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Church and the faithful in Ephesus, the words of the Apostle speaks to the people of the need for all of them to reject and abandon their past lives of sin, their disobedience against God and their wickedness, all of which should be exchanged for a new life filled with God’s grace and light, His truth and love. As Christians, St. Paul reminded all of us that we should no longer allow ourselves to be easily swayed by worldly temptations and all sorts of desires, ambitions, pursuits for fame and glory which many of us often indulged in, all of which can lead us astray from the Lord and His path as many of our predecessors had experienced. Instead, we should embrace the path that the Lord has shown us wholeheartedly, allowing Him to transform our lives to embody what we believe in Him.

As we reflect on the words of the Sacred Scriptures this Sunday, all of us are reminded on one very important aspects of our Christian faith, the very core tenet of our beliefs, namely that of the belief in the Real Presence of the Lord in the Most Holy Eucharist which we partake at every celebrations of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We are all reminded that as God’s people we are all cared by Him, and He has always loved us most generously and tenderly without any exception. Each and every one of us are beloved of the Lord, so much so that He has provided for us physically and spiritually in all things most wholesomely just as how He had shown it in the past through what we have heard in our Scripture reading this Sunday. And ultimately, He gave to us all the ultimate and best gift of all, namely that of His only begotten Son, Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Therefore, brothers and sisters in Christ, each and every one of us as part of His one united Body, through this sharing of the Most Holy and Sacred Communion, of all the believers in Christ, we are all called to sanctify our lives and existence by doing our very best in each and every circumstances in our respective lives that our whole lives, our every actions and deeds may be truly filled with God’s light and truth, His grace and love. We should be thankful for everything that God has given us, and make best use of the many opportunities and the talents and abilities which He has blessed us with, so that in everything we say and do, in our every interactions with one another, we will continue to be good examples and role models, inspirations and strength for one another to continue living our lives as genuine Christians at all times. May the Lord continue to guide us in our journey, and may He continue to strengthen and nourish us all with His Bread of Life, the Holy Eucharist that we continue to partake in. Let us all continue to focus and put the emphasis of our lives upon the Lord in all the things that we say and do, in all of our every moments in life. May we all as Christians also continue to live ever more worthily in all circumstances, doing our best so that we may continue to grow ever stronger in our love and faith in the Lord, and that our lives may continue to bring glory to the Lord, now and forevermore. May God in His infinite grace and mercy, grant us the grace to remain steadfast in our faith, even in our weakness and may the Lord continue to guide us all, and especially our Priests, that all of them and all of us may commit ourselves ever more to the good works and missions of the Church. May the good Lord continue to help and strengthen us in our path, and may He empower and ever encourage us always so that we can continue to strive to live our lives as faithful and devout Christians, as God’s beloved and holy people. Amen 🙏

SAINTS OF THE DAY: MEMORIAL OF SAINT JOHN VIANNEY (THE CURÉ OF ARS), PRIEST AND PATRON OF ALL PRIESTS AND BLESSED FRÉDÉRIC JANSSOONE, PRIEST ~ FEAST DAY – AUGUST 4TH: Today, we celebrate the Memorial of Saint John Vianney (the Curé of Ars), Priest and Patron of All Priests and Blessed Frédéric Janssoone, Priest. Please let us pray for the safety and well-being of all Priests on this feast of Saint John Vianney, Patron Saint of all Priests. Through the  intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and St. John Vianney, we pray for all our priests who are under constant attacks and surrounded by many challenges and temptations in the midst of their ministries and works. May God grant them His grace and  mercy as they continue to serve the Lord and shepherd His flock wholeheartedly, full of faith and love… Amen! We humbly pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis, for Bishops, all Parish Priests, the Clergy, for vocations to the priesthood and religious life, for the Church, for persecuted christians, for the conversion of sinners, and Christians all over the world. We pray for the sick and dying, especially those suffering from stomach cancer, other types of cancers and terminal diseases. We also pray for those going through difficulties especially during these challenging times, for the poor and the needy. And we continue to pray for the repose of the souls of all the faithful departed, may the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom. May their gentle souls through the mercy of God continue to rest in perfect peace with our Lord Jesus Christ… Amen🙏

SAINT JOHN VIANNEY (THE CURÉ OF ARS), PRIEST AND PATRON OF ALL PRIESTS: St. John Vianney (1786–1859) also known as St. John Mary Vianney (Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney), universally known as the “Cure of Ars” became one of the most celebrated parish priests in the Catholic Church after many obstacles and suffering. He was born in France to a farming family on May 8, 1786, one of six children of devout Catholic parents. He was baptized on the day of his birth. When he was four years old the French Revolution erupted, and priests were forced into hiding. Every day they risked their lives to give the sacraments, and St. John looked up to them as heroes. His First Holy Communion and Confirmation were made in secrecy. During the French Revolution all religious schools and churches were closed, and those who harbored priests were imprisoned. At the Vianney farmhouse near Dardilly, France, fugitive priests were offered a refuge. Here their son was prepared in his tenth year for the reception of Holy Communion by a hunted priest. While tending his father’s sheep, St. John Vianney fashioned a small statue of Our Lady out of clay. He hid it in the hollow of an old tree with this petition: “Dear Lady Mary, I love you very much; you must bring Jesus back to His tabernacles very soon!” On a visit to his aunt at Ecully, John listened to her praises of Father Balley, the parish priest, and he sought the Father’s advice regarding his vocation to the priesthood. The pastor appraised the overgrown, awkward youth of faltering speech and devoid of general education. Though St. John was unable to answer the questions pertaining to earthly science which Father asked him, yet, when the priest put to him the questions of the catechism, his face became luminous with lively interest. He answered every question correctly, and in a manner beyond his years. The amazed pastor took this evidence as a sign from heaven, prophesying, “You will become a priest!”

After the Church in France was reestablished, St. John studied for the priesthood. He had difficulty in his studies due to his lack of formal education during the turmoil of the revolution, but his great desire carried him through. He was ordained a priest in 1815 and became curate in Ecully. On his ordination, he remarked to Our Lady, Queen of the Clergy: “Here is your priest, O Blessed Mother! Stay close to me. Help me to be a good priest!” After three years at Ecully, he was then sent to the remote French community of Ars in 1818 to be a parish priest. Here he spent almost forty-two years of his life, devoting himself to prayer, mortification, and pastoral works. He ministered to the carnage the revolution had left in the souls of the French people. Many were indifferent to, and ignorant of, the Faith. John performed great penances for the people and received many graces for their conversion. He had the gifts of miracle-working, prophecy, hidden knowledge, and discernment of spirits. He was soon known internationally, and people came from afar to see him. Year after year he spent 11-12 hours a day in the confessional, and up to 16 hours in the summer. By 1855 there were 20,000 pilgrims traveling annually to Ars. Because of this St. John Vianney was tormented by evil spirits throughout his life, especially when he attempted to get his two to three hours of sleep a night. The devil often tempted him in the middle of the night, but he was so strong and so rooted in prayer that he was able to triumph. It is said that the devil once told St. John Vianney, “If there were three such priests as you, my kingdom [in France] would be ruined.” Plagued by many trials and besieged by the devil, the St. John Vianney remained firm in his faith, and lived a life of devotion to God. Dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament, he spent much time in prayer and practiced much mortification. He lived on little food and sleep, while working without rest in unfailing humility, gentleness, patience and cheerfulness, until he was well into his 70s. St. John Vianney died on August 4, 1859 at the age of 73 after serving 40 years as a parish priest. Over 1,000 people attended his funeral, including the bishop and over 300 priests of the diocese, who already viewed his life as a model of priestly holiness. St. John Vianney’s body, entombed in the Basilica at Ars, is incorrupt. St. John Vianney, The Holy Curé of Ars was beatified by Pope St. Pius X, himself once a parish priest and canonized by Pope Pius XI  on May 31, 1925. Over 450,000 pilgrims travel to Ars every year in remembrance of his holy life. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI, commemorating the 150th anniversary of St. John Vianney’s death, declared the Year for Priests. The Pope wrote a Letter to Clergy, encouraging all priests to look to the Curé of Ars as an example of dedication to one’s priestly calling. St. John Vianney is the Patron Saint of Priests; Confessors; Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa; diocese of Kansas City, Kansas. He is also a model for us through his great love for God, joy in the Eucharist, desire for repentance and high regard for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. His feast day is August 4th.

SAINT JOHN VIANNEY’S QUOTES: “I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the Cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.” “You cannot please both God and the world at the same time. They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.”

PRAYER: Father of mercy, you made St. John Vianney outstanding in his priestly zeal and concern for your people. By his example and prayers, enable us to win our brothers and sisters to the love of Christ and come with them to eternal glory… Amen🙏

BLESSED FRÉDÉRIC JANSSOONE, PRIEST: Bl. Frédéric Janssoone (1838-1916), a Franciscan priest, prolific and passionate preacher, Evangeliser “God’s Pedlar”, “Good Fr Frederic”, apostle of the Passion, of the poor, of charity of Marian devotions. He served in the Holy Land and he initiated a spiritual renewal in Canada based on meditation on the suffering and passion of Christ. Blessed Frédéric Janssoone was born on November 19, 1838, Ghyvelde, in the North of France. His mother was Flemish. His parents were devout and cultured people and gave him a solid education. He loses his father on January 13, 1848, when he is only nine years old. Four years later Frédéric feels a call to priesthood and enters the Collège d’Hazebrouck, first, and then the Institution Notre-Dame des Dunes. In 1855, though, he has to leave school to look for a job to support his mother. After his mother’s death, in 1861, Bl. Frédéric was able to complete his studies. In 1864 he entered the novitiate of the Franciscans in Amiens. He was ordained a priest in Bourges on August 17, 1870, and took part in the foundation of the convent of Bordeaux and becomes superior of this community. In 1876 he is sent to Holy Land to be the assistant to the head guard of the Sacred Sites in Palestine. He helps with administration, promotes a renewal of the custom of Holy Land pilgrimages, reestablishes the ritual of the Way of the Cross in the streets of Jerusalem, and directs the construction of Saint-Catherine’s parish, next to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. He revises the set of customary regulations that had developed through the centuries between the Latins, the Greeks and the Armenians for the use and maintenance of the shrines of Bethlehem and the Holy Sepulcher. He also is an excellent preacher.

In 1881 he makes his first trip to Canada to establish an annual fund-raising for the Holy Land. In 1888 he returns to Trois-Rivières where he founds the Commissariat for the Holy Land in Canada, that he will direct for 28 years. He preaches retreats and organizes pilgrimages to Saint-Anne-de-Beaupré, the Sanctuaire de la Réparation è Pointe-aux-Trembles and to Saint-Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, where he meets and becomes a friend of Frère André. He dies of stomach cancer in Montreal Canada on August 4, 1916. He was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II on September 25, 1988. He’s the Patron Saint of Priest and the Secular Franciscan Regional Fraternity of Eastern Canada.

“Tireless Apostle, his love of people and preaching, his goodness, austerity, his extreme poverty, his patience and his serenity during adversity, made others compare him to St Francis of Assisi.”

Blessed Frederic Janssoone, a Franciscan Priest ~ Pray for us 🙏

DEVOTION OF THE MONTH OF AUGUST:

MONTH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY: August is the Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! The Church dedicates the month of August to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is a dogma of the Catholic faith that Mary is the Immaculate Conception; that is, in preparation for the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity in her womb, she was conceived without the corruption of sin through the foreseen and infinite merits of her Son, Jesus Christ. Over the centuries, as saints and theologians reflected on how Mary pondered and treasured the sacred events from the life of Christ in her holy heart, as attested in Scripture, her pure heart was recognized as something to be imitated. Devotion to Our Lady’s purity of heart began to flower—so much so that in the 17th century, St. John Eudes promoted it alongside the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The devotion rose to a new level after the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, when Mary revealed an image of her Immaculate Heart to Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco.

THE POPE’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS FOR 2024: FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST – FOR POLITICAL LEADERS: We pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and for the common good, especially caring for the poor and those who have lost their jobs.

https://www.usccb.org/prayers/popes-monthly-intentions-2024

PRAYER FOR PEACE ~ POPE FRANCIS:

Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!

We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shattered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have been in vain. Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: “Never again war!”; “With war everything is lost”. Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace. Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness. Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words “division”, “hatred” and “war” be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be “brother”, and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam! Amen 🙏🏾

During this Ordinary Time, please let us all continue to pray for peace all over the world, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, for an end to the current war in Israel-Palestine, and the Ukraine-Russia conflicts and for peace in our families and throughout our divided and conflicted World. Amen 🙏🏾

Prayers for Peace | https://mycatholic.life/catholic-prayers/prayers-for-peace/

PRAYER INTENTIONS: During this season of the Ordinary Time, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and all the Saints on this feast day, we humbly pray for our children and children all over the world, we pray for their health, safety and well-being, we particularly pray for those who have no one to care for them and those who are terminally ill, we pray for God’s Divine healing upon them. We pray for all mothers, wives, those going through challenges in their marriages, Victims of verbal and spousal abuse, we pray for peace, love and unity in our families and our world. Every life is a gift. We pray for God’s deliverance from impossible causes or situations. We pray for the souls in Purgatory and the repose of the gentle soul of our beloved family members who recently passed away and the souls of all the faithful departed, may the Lord receive them into the light of Eternal Kingdom. For all widows and widowers. And we continue to pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis, the Bishops, the Clergy and all those who preach the Gospel. We pray for Vocation to the Priesthood and Religious life. We particularly pray for all Youths and all Seminarians, with special intention for those Seminarians who will be ordained into Priesthood. For the Church, for persecuted Christians, for all the innocent who suffer violence due to political or religious unrest, for the conversion of sinners and Christians all over the world. Amen 🙏🏾

Let us pray:

My Eucharistic Lord, You are the Bread of Life and the source of all satisfaction in life. Your Body and Blood, given to me through my participation in the Holy Mass, is the greatest Gift I could ever receive. Please renew and deepen my love for You in this Gift so that I will find full satisfaction and fulfillment in You alone. Jesus, I trust in You ~ Amen 🙏

Save Us, Savior of the World. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and Most Precious Blood of Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Most Blessed Mother Mary, Saint John Vianney and Blessed Frédéric Janssoone ~ Pray for us🙏

Thanking God for the gift of this day and praying for justice, peace, love and unity in our families and our world and for God’s Divine Mercy and Grace upon us all. Have a blessed, safe and fruitful month of
August and grace-filled Sunday and week🙏

Blessings and Love always, Philomena💖