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"We recognize that the Sacraments have a visible and invisible reality, a reality open to all the human senses but grasped in its God-given depths with the eyes of faith." (USCCB) The Sacraments are divided into: the sacraments of Christian initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist); the sacraments of healing (Penance and Anointing of the Sick) and the sacraments at the service of communion and mission (Holy Orders and Matrimony). The sacraments touch all the important moments of Christian life. All of the sacraments are ordered to the Holy Eucharist “as to their end" (Saint Thomas Aquinas).

CONFESSION:
Cathedral: Saturdays: 7.00 a.m. - 8.00 a.m.
Confession is also available at other Mass centers upon request and at the Cathedral parish during office times.
HOLY HOUR & ADORATION
(Weekly)
5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. at Cathedral on Fridays
(except 1st Friday’s)
5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. at Tempe on Thursdays
7.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. at Mt. Moritz on Thursdays
MASS TIMES:
CATHEDRAL:
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Monday to Friday - 6.15 a.m., & 12.15 p.m.,
Saturday - 6.00 p.m.
Sunday - 8.00 a.m.
COMMUNITIES OF THE CATHEDRAL
Our Lady Queen of Peace, BELMONT: Saturday - 6.00 p.m.
Saints Joachim & Anne, BRIZAN: Sunday - 6.30 a.m.
Blessed Trinity, FONTENOY: Sunday - 10.00 a.m.
Church of the Uganda Martyrs, HAPPY HILL: Sunday - 8.00 a.m.
Our Lady Queen of the Universe, MT. MORITZ: Sunday - 10.00 a.m.
Our Lady Lily of the Valley, TEMPE: Sunday - 8.00 a.m.
SACRAMENTS & LITURGIES
REFLECTION AND READINGS
22ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
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INTRODUCTION:
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Welcome! ​
​We have come to honour the invitation of Jesus to His Eucharistic Supper. He is the Host, we are the guests. Here every place is a place of honour. Let us humble ourselves in His presence.
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First Reading: From the Book of Ecclesiasticus chapter 3 verses 17 to 20 and 28 to 29. The person who is humble is praised in this reading.
Second Reading: From the letter to the Hebrews chapter 12 verses 18 to 19 and 22 to 24. As a father shows his concern for his son by training him in discipline, so God trains his children through suffering.
Gospel: According to Luke chapter 14 verses 1, 7 to 14. The Kingdom of God is offered, not just to the Jews, but to people from the four corners of the world.​
WEEKDAY READINGS / C
(PSALTER WEEK II / YEAR C)
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01st Monday Ordinary Time - Weekday
First Thessalonians 4:13-18; Luke 4:31-37
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​​02nd Tuesday Ordinary Time - Weekday
First Thessalonians 5: 1-6, 9-11; Luke 4: 31-37
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03rd Wednesday Ordinary Time - Weekday
St. Gregory the Great, Bishop & Doctor
Colossians 1:1-8; Luke 4:38-44
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04th Thursday Ordinary Time - Weekday
Colossians 1:9-14; Luke 5:1-11
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05th Friday Ordinary Time - Weekday
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Colossians 1:15-20; Luke 5:33-39
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​​06th Saturday Ordinary Time - Weekend
Colossians 1:21-23; Luke 6:1-5
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07th Sunday- 23rd Sunday in OT - Weekend
First Reading: Wis 9:13-18
Psalm: Ps 89: 3-6. 12-14. 17 r.1
Second Reading: Phlm 9-10, 12-17
Gospel Acclamation: John 15:15
Gospel: Luke 14:25-33

22ND SUNDAY IN OT REFLECTION
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
The first analogy of today’s gospel is set at a wedding banquet. Jesus says: “When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man’, and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place” (Lk 14:8-9). With this recommendation, Jesus does not intend to give rules of social behaviour, but rather a lesson on the value of humility. History teaches that pride, careerism, vanity and ostentation are the causes of many evils. And Jesus helps us to understand the necessity of choosing the last place, that is, of seeking to be small and hidden: humility. When we place ourselves before God in this dimension of humility, God exalts us, he stoops down to us so as to lift us up to himself; “For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (v. 11).
Jesus’ words emphasize completely different and opposing attitudes: the attitude of those who choose their own place and the attitude of those who allow God to assign it and await a reward from Him. Let us not forget this: God pays much more than men do! He gives us a much greater place than that which men give us! The place that God gives us is close to his heart and his reward is eternal life. “You will be blessed”, Jesus says, “you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just” (v. 14).
This is what is described in the second parable, in which Jesus points out the attitude of selflessness that ought to characterize hospitality, and he says: “But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you” (vv. 13-14). This means choosing gratuitousness rather than self-seeking and calculating to obtain a reward, seeking interest and trying to increase your wealth. Indeed, the poor, the simple, those who ‘don’t count’, can never reciprocate an invitation to a meal. In this way Jesus shows his preference for the poor and the excluded, who are the privileged in the Kingdom of God, and he launches the fundamental message of the Gospel which is to serve others out of love for God.
Today, Jesus gives voice to those who are voiceless, and to each one of us he addresses an urgent appeal to open our hearts and to make our own the sufferings and anxieties of the poor, the hungry, the marginalized, the refugees, those who are defeated by life, those who are rejected by society and by the arrogance of the strong. And those who are discarded make up the vast majority of the population.
Let us ask the Virgin Mary, who was humble throughout her whole life, to lead us every day along the way of humility, and to render us capable of free gestures of welcome and solidarity with those who are marginalized, so as to become worthy of the divine reward.
