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28/01/2023

Guide to Perfect Easter Egg Colors Every time - Saving this!

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12/10/2021

Tuesday’s Gospel )Oct. 12, 2021)

Friends, Jesus concludes today’s Gospel by prescribing giving alms as a key to holiness. I’ve quoted to you before some of the breathtaking remarks of saints and popes about almsgiving: Leo XIII says, “Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest of your money belongs to the poor.” John Chrysostom says,“The man who has two shirts in his closet, one belongs to him; the other belongs to the man who has no shirt.”

The deepest root of all of this is in the prophets, who continually rail against those who are indifferent to the poor. The prophets teach us that compassion is key to biblical ethics, feeling the pain of others in our own hearts. We’re not dealing with an abstract Aristotelian moral philosophy, but rather with something more visceral.

This is precisely why the two great commandments are so tightly linked: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart . . . and love your neighbor as yourself.” In loving God you feel the feelings of God, and God is compassionate to the poor and oppressed. That’s all the argument that a biblical person needs.

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101221.cfm

07/09/2021

Tuesday’s Gospel (Sept. 7, 2021)

Friends, today’s Gospel recounts Jesus selecting and appointing the Apostles. Bible scholar and theologian N.T. Wright has explained why Jesus commissioned twelve disciples as Apostles.

Wright tells us that when a first-century Jew spoke of the arrival of God’s kingdom, he was taken to mean something very specific. He was announcing that the temple was going to be restored, that the proper worship of Yahweh would obtain, that the enemies of Israel would be dealt with, and that, above all, the tribes of the Lord—and through them, the tribes of the world—would be gathered.

Recall the great vision from the second chapter of Isaiah: “The mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain. . . . All nations shall stream toward it.” This is why Jesus chose twelve disciples, evocative of the twelve tribes. They would be the prototype and the catalyst for the gathering of Israel and hence the gathering of everyone. They would be the fundamental community and sign of unity.

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090721.cfm

23/09/2019

The Filipino American Association of Lawton Fort Sill is having their annual performance at the 2019 International Festival on Saturday (September 28) @ 1:00 pm at Elmer Thomas Park (Lake Helen North Stage)!!! Please come & join us in these festivities! 🇵🇭🇺🇸😊🇵🇭🇺🇸

17/05/2019

FAALFS Annual Fundraising!!! Please come & join us in this festive event showcasing different Filipino food & desserts, dances & music and carnival games!

Be sure to “save the date” and buy or reserve your tickets now from any of the FAALFS Officers & Advisers. Admission Tickets with Dinner are $10.00 per person (Dinner includes 3 entrees, rice & 1 bottled water).

You may also call Racquel Colburn @ (253) 985-5422 and Winnie Morita @ (580) 704-3019 for more infos. Thank you! 🇵🇭😊🇺🇸

01/05/2019

2018 - 2020 FAALFS Officers & Advisers!!!
(Updates to follow with some changes)

30/01/2019

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