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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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21-0125 |
Henry Dsa |
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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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21-0132 |
Francis B Fernandes |
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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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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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21-0549 |
Stevan Serrao |
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21-0652 |
Peter Doraiswamy |
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21-0821 |
Josphine Pereira |
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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 |
April 23rd, 2019
Tuesday in the Octave of Easter
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April 23rd, 2019
Tuesday in the Octave of Easter
Lectionary: 262
Reading 1
ACTS 2:36-41
On the day of Pentecost, Peter said to the Jewish people,
“Let the whole house of Israel know for certain
that God has made him both Lord and Christ,
this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart,
and they asked Peter and the other Apostles,
“What are we to do, my brothers?”
Peter said to them,
“Repent and be baptized, every one of you,
in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins;
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is made to you and to your children
and to all those far off,
whomever the Lord our God will call.”
He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them,
“Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
Those who accepted his message were baptized,
and about three thousand persons were added that day.
Responsorial Psalm
PS 33:4-5, 18-19, 20 AND 22
R.(5b) The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Upright is the word of the LORD,
and all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right;
of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full.
R. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
R. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield.
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.
R. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Alleluia
PS 118:24
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
This is the day the LORD has made;
let us be glad and rejoice in it.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
JN 20:11-18
Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping.
And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there,
one at the head and one at the feet
where the Body of Jesus had been.
And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “They have taken my Lord,
and I don’t know where they laid him.”
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there,
but did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?”
She thought it was the gardener and said to him,
“Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,”
which means Teacher.
Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me,
for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
But go to my brothers and tell them,
‘I am going to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God.’”
Mary went and announced to the disciples,
“I have seen the Lord,”
and then reported what he had told her.
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