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AUGUST 14 - AUGUST 20, 2005
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CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. On Assumption Day, Monday August 15, 2005, a Holy Day of Obligation, the morning Mass will be at 6.15 a.m. and 7.00 a.m. The evening Mass in English will be
at 5.45, 6.45 and 7.15 p.m. The Rosary will be recited in the morning and evening.
The Arabic Mass will be at 8.00 a.m. and 8.30 p.m.
2. The Night Vigil will be conducted on Thursday August 18, 2005 at 10.00 p.m. in the Cathedral.
3. The Ahmadi Prayer Group Fellowship meets every Saturday after the 6.00 p.m. Holy Mass in the main Church (Our Lady of Arabia Church - Ahmadi). All are most welcome
to attend.
4. The God's Love Community Prayer Group meets every Thursday after the 6.30 p.m.
Holy Mass in the Salmiya Chapel. All are most welcome to attend.
5. For other Parish Ministry schedules please click on
LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS DURING THE WEEK
AUG 15, 2005 - THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
(Holy Day of Obligation)
AUG 16, 2005 - St. Stephen of Hungary
AUG 19, 2005 - St. John Eudes, Priest
AUG 20, 2005 - St. Bernard, Abbot & Doctor of the Church
REFLECTION - MARY OUR MOTHER
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On the feast of the Assumption of our Lady, which we will celebrate tomorrow, in the second reading St. Paul proves to us that there is life beyond the grave, an eternal life which Christ has won for us and which God has planned for us for all eternity. We shall all rise from the dead and enter into this new life. Christ's own resurrection is the proof that this will be so. We have another proof of this basic truth of our faith in the feast we are celebrating. This proof
has been infallibly defined by the successor of St. Peter, the head of the Church.
Our Blessed Lady, Mother of Christ and our Mother, has been taken up and is now in heaven in a glorified state next to the Incarnate Son of God who is her Son also. The Blessed Mother is one of us, a mere creature who was made of flesh and blood as we are. She differs from
us in this, that because of her honored and most special relationship with God's Incarnate Son she received greater graces than any other human being, and she cooperated with these graces. If we cooperate with them, each one of us is guaranteed enough graces and favors to
win our own resurrection to eternal life. As the Assumption of our Blessed Lady is a further proof and guarantee that we too shall one day rise in triumph from our graves, so also is it a source of greater confidence and hope for each one of us. She has influence with her Son and with the Holy Trinity. She will use that influence on our behalf if only we ask her.
On this feastday, let us thank God first and foremost for the Incarnation, for sending His Son on earth as man in order to lift us up to sonship with His Father. Then let us thank Him for choosing this human Mother - one of ourselves - for His Incarnate Son, and for giving her all the graces necessary for the position He gave her in life. She suffered with her Divine Son on Calvary and that suffering was for us. She, like her beloved Son, wants us in heaven. She is
able and willing to help us to get there. At the wedding feast in Cana she successfully interceded with Him to save a bridal pair from temporary embarrassment. Will she not be even more successful still in her intercession to save all her devoted children from
eternal embarrassment, now that she is with her Son?
All that is needed is trust and confidence on our part. Let us ask her, on this great feast of her triumph, to be ever watching over us directing and encouraging us to persevere in our loyalty to her Divine Son. Let us resolve to follow her example and climb our Calvary as she climbed hers. If we do so, the day is not far distant when we too will rise and join her and Him in the home prepared for us through the Incarnation and the infinite love of God.
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