Feast of All Saints – Holy Wins 2016
FESTIVIDAD DE TODOS LOS SANTOS – HOLY WINS 2016 TODOS UNIDOS PARA VIVIR LA LUZ, LA ALEGRIA Y EL AMOR… La Parroquia del Santo Cristo del Calvario de Marbella, quiso vivir la festividad de Todos los Santos con un encuentro muy especial, organizado por catequistas, padres y niños de la…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, XXXII Sunday in ordinary time
GOSPEL, Luke 20, 27-38: Some Sadducees – those who say that there is no resurrection – approached him and they put this question to him, ‘Master, we have it from Moses in writing, that if a man’s married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, XXXII Sunday in ordinary time
Pope Leo the Great-Feast Day November 10th. Leo was born in to an aristocratic Tuscan family in Rome in 390 AD. We first hear of him serving as a deacon under Pope Sixtus 111. He was an erudite man that commanded respect and was often called to act as a powerful…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, XXXI Sunday in ordinary time
GOSPEL, Luke 19, 1-10: Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town when a man whose name was Zacchaeus made his appearance: he was one of the senior tax collectors and a wealthy man. He was anxious to see what kind of man Jesus was, but he was…
Voice of pope Francis, God loves us the way we are
Zacchaeus couldn’t see the Master because he was little. Even today we can risk not getting close to Jesus because we don’t feel big enough, because we don’t think ourselves worthy. This is a great temptation; it has to do not only with self-esteem, but with faith itself. For…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, XXXI Sunday in ordinary time
All Saints Day-Feast Day November 1st. All Saints day is a solemn holy day of the Catholic Church celebrated annually on November 1st and is a day of holy obligation where Catholics are bound to celebrate in the Holy Mass.The day is dedicated to all the saints of the Church…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, XXX Sunday in ordinary time
GOSPEL , Luke 18, 9-14 Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous and despised everyone else: ‘Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself,…
Voice of pope Francis, who humbles himself will be exalted
Jesus concludes the parable with the judgment: “I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted” (v. 14). If God prefers humility it is not to…
Saints´Feast Days Coming Up, XXX Sunday in ordinary time
St Anthony Mary Claret-Feast Day October 24th. Anthony was born in Sallent in Barcelona, Spain in 1807. He was one of eleven children and the son of a wool manufacturer. At the age of 12 he became a weaver, however as a young adult he felt the call to a…
Sunday´s Gospel and Words for life, XXIX Sunday in ordinary time
GOSPEL, Luke 18, 1-8 Jesus told his disciples a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart. ‘There was a judge in a certain town’ he said ‘who had neither fear of God nor respect for man. In the same town there was a widow who…