Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 100 Diamond Street, San Francisco, CA (2026)

09/06/2026

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Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 6, 2026, 10:00 AM PDT

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Parish Offering - We sincerely appreciate your ongoing financial support towards our ministries and expenses, which enables our small community to achieve great things. You can donate conveniently through various ways, including by text at (650) 262-0965, by dropping off at the parish office, mailing to 100 Diamond St, San Francisco, CA 94114, or through our website at mhr.org. Thank you for your generosity.

Prayer of Spiritual Communion - My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things and I desire you with all my heart. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, I ask you to come spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself to you completely. Please do not let me ever be separated from you. Amen.

08/31/2026

🎉 Our Annual Back-to-School Cookout is Just Two Weeks Away!

We’re getting ready for a wonderful afternoon of food, fellowship, and community, and we need volunteers to help make it happen!

As the saying goes, many hands make light work, and every person who lends a hand helps make this gathering more welcoming and memorable for our parish community, our guests, and our friends from Saint James.

Whether you can help with setup, serving, hospitality, cleanup, or wherever an extra set of hands is needed, we would love to have you join the Social Committee.
Interested in helping? A member of the Social Committee will be in Ellard Hall after the 10:00 AM Mass this coming weekend to share more information and help you find a way to get involved.

Come be part of the team that brings this celebration to life. Your time, energy, and presence can make a real difference!

08/30/2026

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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 30, 2026, 10:00 AM PDT

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Parish Offering - We sincerely appreciate your ongoing financial support towards our ministries and expenses, which enables our small community to achieve great things. You can donate conveniently through various ways, including by text at (650) 262-0965, by dropping off at the parish office, mailing to 100 Diamond St, San Francisco, CA 94114, or through our website at mhr.org. Thank you for your generosity.

Prayer of Spiritual Communion - My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things and I desire you with all my heart. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, I ask you to come spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself to you completely. Please do not let me ever be separated from you. Amen.

08/25/2026

A child stands in the middle of the circle, small, unguarded, without status or strategy to defend. Jesus places this child among grown men arguing about greatness, and in that instant every assumption about power is undone. This is where God meets us today, not in our achievements or our arguments about who matters most, but in the quiet posture of a child who simply receives. Somewhere in your life this week, God is inviting you to set down the need to be impressive and simply be present, open, dependent on grace.

The truth here is not sentimental. It is a hard teaching about the shape of the Kingdom itself. Greatness is not measured by influence but by humility, by the willingness to be small before God and attentive to those the world overlooks. Then the image shifts from the child to the sheep. A shepherd leaves ninety-nine safe to search for the one who wandered. This is not arithmetic. It reveals who God is, a Father who cannot rest while even one child is lost, whose love refuses to be satisfied with majorities.

This is where the Blood of Christ speaks most clearly. If you have ever felt like the one who wandered, the one written off, the one whose absence would barely be noticed, hear this: you are the one He leaves everything to find. No wound, no failure, no distance disqualifies you from that search. His mercy was poured out precisely for the lost and the little ones. And once found, you are not only healed. You are sent, to notice the overlooked, to welcome the small, to go looking for whoever has wandered from the people around you.

Heavenly Father, teach me to become small again, to receive Your Kingdom like a child, without pretense or fear. Where I have wandered, come and find me. Where others feel lost or forgotten, use me to carry Your search for them. Let me never despise the little ones You love so fiercely, through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

08/24/2026

Nathanael asks a question many of us have asked in different words. Can anything good come from this, from my family, my past, my wounds, my ordinary life that never seems to measure up to what I once imagined for myself. Philip does not argue with him. He simply says, "Come and see." That is how God so often works, not through proof, but through invitation.

Before Nathanael offers Christ a single word of faith, Christ already sees him. Under the fig tree, in the hidden place where no one else was watching, Jesus was already present. This is the truth at the heart of the Gospel. God does not wait for us to become worthy of His attention. He is already there in the quiet places of our lives, in the moments we thought were unseen, in the doubts we have never spoken aloud.

Nathanael's honest skepticism becomes the doorway to a deeper confession. "Rabbi, you are the Son of God." Christ does not rebuke his doubt. He tells him he will see greater things still, heaven opened, and the closeness between God and humanity fully restored.

This is the mercy poured out for every wounded and searching heart. Whatever fig tree you are sitting under today, whatever place of hiddenness or shame or waiting, Christ already sees you there, and He is not looking away. He does not ask for polished faith. He asks for an honest yes, however small, however uncertain.

And when we say that yes, we become like Philip. We are sent to someone else who is asking the same question Nathanael once asked. We do not need every answer. We only need to say, "Come and see."

Lord Jesus, You saw me before I ever looked for You. In the hidden places of my heart, meet me with Your mercy. Where I doubt, strengthen me. Where I hide, find me. Where I am healed, send me to invite others to come and see, through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

08/23/2026

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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 23, 2026, 10:00 AM PDT

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Parish Offering - We sincerely appreciate your ongoing financial support towards our ministries and expenses, which enables our small community to achieve great things. You can donate conveniently through various ways, including by text at (650) 262-0965, by dropping off at the parish office, mailing to 100 Diamond St, San Francisco, CA 94114, or through our website at mhr.org. Thank you for your generosity.

Prayer of Spiritual Communion - My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things and I desire you with all my heart. Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally, I ask you to come spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself to you completely. Please do not let me ever be separated from you. Amen.

08/21/2026

A scholar of the law tests Jesus with a question, and Christ answers with a truth so simple it is easy to miss: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Every commandment, every prophet, the entire law, rests on these two.

Pause here. Where today are you caught between simply following rules and truly loving? Perhaps you have practiced faith for years without letting it touch your heart. Perhaps you love others freely while withholding that same mercy from yourself, believing you do not deserve it. Christ meets you in that exact gap, between what you do and what you believe about His love for you.

This is not sentiment. It is the structure of the whole Gospel. Love of God and love of neighbor are not separate commandments placed side by side; they are one movement, each proving the truth of the other. Faith that never moves outward toward the wounded has not yet understood the God it claims to worship. And love for others with no root in God will eventually run dry, because only God can sustain a love this costly.

Christ did not only teach this commandment. He bled it out on the cross, pouring out every drop of Himself so that no one, not the outcast, not the ashamed, not the one who has given up on being loved, would fall outside its reach. If you feel far from this love today, you are not disqualified. You are exactly who it was poured out for.

Let this truth send you outward. Find one person today who needs to know they are not forgotten, and love them without condition. That is the whole law, lived.

Lord, teach me to love You with all that I am, not in pieces but wholly. Where my love for others has grown thin, restore it with Your own. Where I have withheld mercy from myself, heal me with the mercy You poured out on the cross. Send me from this moment into the ordinary places of my day, ready to love as I have first been loved, through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

08/20/2026

The king sends his servants twice, and twice the invited refuse to come. Not because they are unworthy, but because they are distracted. A farm to tend. A business to run. Life goes on, and the feast waits.

Where are you right now, distracted from an invitation that has already been extended? God is not waiting for you to become impressive enough to deserve a seat. He is standing at the door of your ordinary Tuesday, your unfinished to-do list, your quiet exhaustion, asking you to come as you are.

This parable is startling in its honesty. The first guests reject the invitation outright, some indifferent, some violent. So the king opens the banquet to everyone in the streets, the bad and the good alike. Grace does not begin with merit. It begins with mercy. No one is disqualified from the wedding feast by their past, their wounds, or their wandering.

But the parable does not end there. A man enters without a wedding garment, and he is asked to leave. The invitation is free, but it is not without cost. To sit at the table is to be changed by the one who set it. Grace clothes us. It asks something of us in return: conversion, humility, a willingness to be transformed rather than simply admitted.

This is the heart of the Gospel. Christ's blood was poured out not to leave us as we were, but to make us new. The feast is set for the broken, the outcast, the ones who never thought they belonged. And once we are seated, love asks us to put on Christ himself, and to go out and bring others in from the streets.

You are invited. Not because you have earned it, but because the table was never about earning. Come as you are. Be changed by what you receive. Then go and call others who are still standing at the edges, wondering if the door is really open for them.

Lord, you have called me to your feast long before I was ready to answer. Forgive me for the times I have let distraction and fear keep me from your table. Clothe me in your mercy, and make me new. Where I have been indifferent, awaken me. Where I have wandered, bring me home. Send me now to invite others who do not yet know they are welcome, through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

08/19/2026

There is a moment in every life when we stand idle in the marketplace, waiting to be chosen. Perhaps you know that waiting well: passed over, overlooked, arriving late to a goodness others seem to have found early. The landowner in this parable does not walk by. He returns again and again, at nine, at noon, at three, at five, searching for the ones still standing there. This is God. He does not grow tired of seeking us out, even in the last hour of our doubt or delay.

The grumbling of the first laborers reveals something true about the human heart. We measure grace like wages, expecting God to reward effort with proportion. But the Kingdom does not run on merit. It runs on love freely given. The landowner is not unjust; he is simply more generous than fairness requires. This is the scandal of grace. The thief who repents at the very end and the saint who labored eighty years receive the same embrace, the same Christ, the same eternity.

This truth should not wound us. It should free us. If God's love cannot be earned, then it cannot be lost through lateness, failure, or a wasted decade either. Whatever hour you enter, He meets you at the door of the vineyard with the very wage he promised the first: Himself. His mercy is not divided smaller for those who labored longer, and it is not withheld from those who arrive worn, unsure they belong at all.

Let this send you outward today. Look for the one still standing idle, uncertain anyone wants them, and be the voice that says, you too, come into the vineyard. There is room. There is work. There is love enough for all of it.

Lord, thank You for seeking me even in my latest hour. Free me from envy when Your mercy falls generously on others. Teach me to labor for love and not for wages, and send me to call in the ones still waiting at the edge of the field, through Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

08/18/2026

Experience an unforgettable evening of sacred music in San Francisco. 🎶 Sacred Voices Concert brings together singers from the Roman and Vatican choirs for a special performance at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.

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