Saint Joseph the Worker Charismatic Prayer Group

06/17/2024

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Come REVIVE your soul on June 29th in Anaheim, CA!
We pray to our Heavenly Father that this extraordinary gathering may be as St. Paul desired when he wrote: "I may come to you with joy by the will of God and be REFRESHED TOGETHER WITH YOU." Rom. 15:32
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02/11/2023

St. Joseph the Worker Charismatic Prayer Group Thanksgiving Anniversary Mass on June 25, 2019
6:30-7:00 - Fellowship
7:00-7:30 - Praise & Worship
7:30-8:30 - Mass Celebration

12/03/2018

Youth Mass celebrating the first Sunday of Advent
Tagged to StJoseph TheWorker Cpg

05/11/2017

HOMILY 3/26/17
The blind man kept telling his story. He must have told it a number if not, a hundred of times. He narrates the story with details and passion. It is not an ordinary story. It is a story of an encounter of the divine. His experience of the divine that started from the voice of unknown man.
His obedience has become the key to his healing and salvation. As he allowed Jesus to put mud on his eyes ( mud to put in your eyes by stranger?) as he even obeyed Jesus command to go to Sinaloam to wash the eyes. Can you imagine the blind person traveling to a certain place? That must be an enormous task. He did as what he was told anyway. How and what did he hear to follow Him? He must have heard a compassionate voice.

As the blind man told his story of his encounter of God, he got he got different reactions from people around him. Some were amazed like his neighbors, a few got fearful akin to his parents, others got mad like the Pharisees. No matter how they feel, the blind man tell his story with accuracy and without fear. Even in front of the authority, he expressed his conviction in a crystal clear affirmation"He is a prophet".
In today's gospel we focus in blind man's character. Fearless and without inhibition as portrayed in the gospel. No matter who are the audience, he make known of his encounter with the messiah. He does not get tired of telling his story.
In today's scenario, that blind man's character is hard to find. In the family or in society, it is rare to hear someone telling their Jesus story unless you are in the prayer meeting. Maybe it is always out of topic or awkward to say. Nonetheless, it is good to tell your Jesus story whenever there is opportunity. Is our Jesus story deserve to be in our closet only? Is it very private? or it deserve to be proclaimed and make known to everyone? If you do that, are you willing to take the risk to be judged or encounter different reactions from the people around you? Are you willing to create amazement, fear, and anger like the blind man? or just be quiet and keep it to yourself?
In our world full of cynicism, doubt and fear, it would be like an oasis to hear a Jesus story. No matter how small or great it may be, they are always encouraging to listen to. Miracles do happen to everyone big or small they are all the same. Air that breath, water that we drink, food on the table, playful children and their laughter, our salary and provisions, our good health are just some of the daily miracles that we experience and ignore. They do happen everyday. We are just blinded by fanfare and entertainment that's why we don't see them. God is very active in our daily lives. We just need to listen to our heart always to be aware. We need to proclaim the One who is greater than us who dwells in us.
To proclaim or declare our God in our life, is the only way we spread the good news that we receive and share throughout the earth. It is then that His mission is fulfilled through us.
In a simple way like the blind man did, he proclaimed that " HE IS THE MESSIAH!" and told his story, we too can do the same in ordinary fashion through our WORDS and WORKS. People around us can clearly see the GOD the that we proclaim is within us through the kindness, charity, kind words that we share to our family and neighbors.

03/19/2017

06/02/2016

05/14/2016

12/08/2015

Happy Feast of Immaculate Conception !

The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Holy Day of Obligation. It is the infallibly defined dogma of the Church that "God freely chose Mary from all eternity to be the Mother of his Son. In order to carry out her mission she herself was conceived immaculate. This means that, thanks to the grace of God and in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ, Mary was preserved from original sin from the first instant of her conception" (Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church). Chosen by God to be the Mother of the Savior and the "New Eve," God did not allow sin to contaminate her, which makes her a model of the holiness of life for all Christians.

12/07/2015

St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Doctor of the Church, pray for us. ~From the desk of: Michael Joseph Vivar T.

Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397; born probably 340, at Trier, Arles, or Lyons; died 4 April, 397. He was one of the most illustrious Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and fitly chosen, together with St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Athanasius, to uphold the venerable Chair of the Prince…

12/07/2015

From the desk of Michael Joseph Vivar T.

The Eucharist - Holy Communion - simply is Christ's body, blood, soul, and divinity under the appearance of bread and wine. It is not a symbol of Christ, but rather, it is truly and really Jesus Christ! At the point in the Mass known as the consecration the priest, acting inpersona Christi, will say "This is my Body, which will be given up for you" and "This is my Blood...". These were the words of Our Savior when He turned the bread and wine at the Last Supper into His Body and Blood, and, by the divine power of God in the priesthood, the bread and wine become Jesus Christ. Note: It is correct to say the Bread and wine become Jesus, not Jesus becomes bread and wine.

http://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2005/06/eucharist.html

At the Consecration during the Mass everyone present except the celebrant should kneel in adoration because by God's divine power the bread and wine become His eternal Son, Jesus Christ (GIRM 21). The bread and wine become Jesus Christ's Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity as Our Lord Himself taught in Sacred Scripture specifically at the Last Supper. The only thing remaining of bread and wine is the appearance of bread and wine (called the "accidents"). Jesus Christ gave this awesome power to his disciples, the first bishops who have passed this down through the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a collection of all Catholic beliefs produced in 1992, calls the Eucharist the "source and summit of our faith" (1324). It is in that moment when we receive the Eucharist that our soul is in ecstasy because Christ is truly in us. Jesus Christ loved us so much at the last Supper, even though He knew His death was near, He gave us the joy of being with Him eternally.

Clearly we need Jesus Christ as He is the "...only way, truth, and life", and it is in the Most Holy Eucharist that the veil between Heaven and earth is the shortest and we receive Our Lord, Most High. That intimate moment can not be put into words as it is only the soul that speaks with such fervent love that some are moved to tears. We truly are living Our Savior's Command: "Take ye, and eat. This is my body" (Matthew 26:26).

12/06/2015

From the desk of Michael Joseph Vivar T.