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OUR LADY OF GRACE COMMUNITY
Our Lady of Graces or St Mary of Graces (Italian: Santa Maria delle Grazie) is a devotion to the Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church. Churches with this dedication often owe their foundation to thankfulness for graces received from the Virgin Mary, and are particularly numerous in Italy, India, Australia, United States, France and the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland.
Patronage : Our Lady of Graces is the patron saint of the diocese of Faenza. According to a legend, in 1412, Mary appeared to a local woman. Mary was holding broken arrows symbolizing protection against god's wrath and promised an end to the plague. Faenza Cathedral has a chapel dedicated to Our Lady, while residents often place ceramic titles with the image on their homes.
Among the many miraculous images of the Mother of God through which she deigns to grant her favors, there is one in the monastery church of the Carmelites in Vienna, entitled the Mother of Grace, or Our Lady of Grace, also known also as Our Lady of the Bowed Head.
In 1610 a Carmelite, Dominic of Jesus-Mary, found among the votaries of an old altar in the monastery church of Maria della Scala in Rome, and oil painting of the Mother of God, dust-covered and somewhat torn, which grieved him. Taking it into his hands, he shook the dust off it, and kneeling down venerated it with great devotion. He had the picture renovated and placed it on the shelf in his cell, where he made it the object of his love and supplications in favor of those who came to him in their necessities and afflictions.
One night while he was praying fervently before the picture, he noticed that some dust had settled on it. Having nothing but his course woolen handkerchief he dusted it with that and apologized,
“O pure and holiest Virgin, nothing in the whole world is worthy of touching your holy face, but since I have nothing but this coarse handkerchief, deign to accept my good will.”
To his great surprise, the face of the Mother of God appeared to take on life, and smiling sweetly at him, she bowed her head, which thereafter remained inclined.
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OUR LADY OF GRACE COMMUNITY FAMILY LIST |
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NAME |
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21-0139 |
Frazier Fernandes |
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21-0303 |
John Gonsalves |
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21-0301 |
Stella Raymond |
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21-0317 |
Clive Cowan |
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21-0306 |
Steven Sequeira |
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21-0134 |
Alwyn Noronha |
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21-0586 |
Henry Dantis |
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21-0879 |
Benedetta Patrau |
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9 |
21-0125 |
Henry Dsa |
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10 |
21-0127 |
Norbert Noronha |
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11 |
21-0682 |
Joseph Sayar Lobo |
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12 |
21-0136 |
Alice D'almeida |
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13 |
21-0216 |
Richard D'Lima |
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14 |
21-0766 |
Selwyn Pinto |
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15 |
21-0373 |
Rita Fernandes |
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16 |
21-0132 |
Francis B Fernandes |
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17 |
21-0201 |
Joaquim D'Costa |
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21-0128 |
Sandra Ryder |
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21-0634 |
Peter Tawde |
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20 |
21-0129 |
Gerald D'Souza |
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21-0130 |
Aloma Cowan |
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21-0135 |
James E Gonsalves |
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21-0138 |
D Julie |
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21-0670 |
Agnel D'silva |
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21-0873 |
Santrea Kambli |
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21-0384 |
Constancio Reveredo |
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27 |
21-0549 |
Stevan Serrao |
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28 |
21-0652 |
Peter Doraiswamy |
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21-0821 |
Josphine Pereira |
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NA |
Edward Kushero |
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21-0854 |
Michelle Fiahlo |
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21-0898 |
Thitaviyam Nadar |
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21-0777 |
Sebi Anthony Pulikokan |
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21-0555 |
Domnic Fernandes |
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Daily Readings |
February 17th, 2019
JER 17:5-8
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February 17th, 2019
JER 17:5-8
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 78
Reading
Thus says the LORD:
Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings,
who seeks his strength in flesh,
whose heart turns away from the LORD.
He is like a barren bush in the desert
that enjoys no change of season,
but stands in a lava waste,
a salt and empty earth.
Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD,
whose hope is the LORD.
He is like a tree planted beside the waters
that stretches out its roots to the stream:
it fears not the heat when it comes;
its leaves stay green;
in the year of drought it shows no distress,
but still bears fruit.
Responsorial Psalm
PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6
R. (40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked,
nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
but delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
He is like a tree
planted near running water,
that yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Not so the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.
R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Reading 2
1 COR 15:12, 16-20
Brothers and sisters:
If Christ is preached as raised from the dead,
how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead?
If the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised,
and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain;
you are still in your sins.
Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
If for this life only we have hoped in Christ,
we are the most pitiable people of all.
But now Christ has been raised from the dead,
the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Alleluia
LK 6:23AB
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Rejoice and be glad;
your reward will be great in heaven.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
LK 6:17, 20-26
Jesus came down with the twelve
and stood on a stretch of level ground
with a great crowd of his disciples
and a large number of the people
from all Judea and Jerusalem
and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.
And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said:
“Blessed are you who are poor,
for the kingdom of God is yours.
Blessed are you who are now hungry,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who are now weeping,
for you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you,
and when they exclude and insult you,
and denounce your name as evil
on account of the Son of Man.
Rejoice and leap for joy on that day!
Behold, your reward will be great in heaven.
For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way.
But woe to you who are rich,
for you have received your consolation.
Woe to you who are filled now,
for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will grieve and weep.
Woe to you when all speak well of you,
for their ancestors treated the false
prophets in this way.”
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