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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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3 |
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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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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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 |
June 12th, 2019
2 COR 3:4-11
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June 12th, 2019
Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 361
Reading 1
2 COR 3:4-11
Brothers and sisters:
Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
Not that of ourselves we are qualified to take credit
for anything as coming from us;
rather, our qualification comes from God,
who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant,
not of letter but of spirit;
for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, was so glorious
that the children of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses
because of its glory that was going to fade,
how much more will the ministry of the Spirit be glorious?
For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious,
the ministry of righteousness will abound much more in glory.
Indeed, what was endowed with glory
has come to have no glory in this respect
because of the glory that surpasses it.
For if what was going to fade was glorious,
how much more will what endures be glorious.
Responsorial Psalm
PS 99:5, 6, 7, 8, 9
R.(see 9c) Holy is the Lord our God.
Extol the LORD, our God,
and worship at his footstool;
holy is he!
R. Holy is the Lord our God.
Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
and Samuel, among those who called upon his name;
they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
R. Holy is the Lord our God.
From the pillar of cloud he spoke to them;
they heard his decrees and the law he gave them.
R. Holy is the Lord our God.
O LORD, our God, you answered them;
a forgiving God you were to them,
though requiting their misdeeds.
R. Holy is the Lord our God.
Extol the LORD, our God,
and worship at his holy mountain;
for holy is the LORD, our God.
R. Holy is the Lord our God.
Alleluia
PS 25:4B, 5A
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Teach me your paths, my God,
and guide me in your truth.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
MT 5:17-19
Jesus said to his disciples:
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter
will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place.
Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments
and teaches others to do so
will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven.
But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments
will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven."
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