​Gospel: Matthew 19:13-15
 
Children were brought to Jesus
   that he might lay his hands on them and pray.
The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said,
   “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them;
   for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
After he placed his hands on them, he went away.

Preacher: Andy Misquez

​Gospel: Matthew 19:3-12
 
Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying,
   “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”
He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning
   the Creator made them male and female and said,
   For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
   and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.”
They said to him, “Then why did Moses command
   that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss her?”
He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts
   Moses allowed you to divorce your wives,
   but from the beginning it was not so.
I say to you, whoever divorces his wife
   (unless the marriage is unlawful)
   and marries another commits adultery.”
His disciples said to him,
   “If that is the case of a man with his wife,
   it is better not to marry.”
He answered, “Not all can accept this word,
   but only those to whom that is granted.
Some are incapable of marriage because they were born so;
   some, because they were made so by others;
   some, because they have renounced marriage
   for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven.
Whoever can accept this ought to accept it.”

Preacher: Margarita Rodriguez

Gospel: Luke 1:39-58

​Mary set out
   and traveled to the hill country in haste
   to a town of Judah,
   where she entered the house of Zechariah
   and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
   the infant leaped in her womb,
   and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,
   cried out in a loud voice and said,
   “Blessed are you among women,
   and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me,
   that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,
   the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed
   that what was spoken to you by the Lord
   would be fulfilled.”

And Mary said:
   “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
   my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
   for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
   the Almighty has done great things for me,
   and holy is his Name.
   He has mercy on those who fear him
   in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
   he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
   and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
   and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
   for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
   the promise he made to our fathers,
   to Abraham and his children for ever.”

Mary remained with her about three months
   and then returned to her home.

​Gospel:  Luke 1:39-58
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
 
Mary set out
   and traveled to the hill country in haste
   to a town of Judah,
   where she entered the house of Zechariah
   and greeted Elizabeth.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
   the infant leaped in her womb,
   and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit,
   cried out in a loud voice and said,
   “Blessed are you among women,
   and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me,
   that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears,
   the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed
   that what was spoken to you by the Lord
   would be fulfilled.”
 
And Mary said:
   “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
   my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
   for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
   the Almighty has done great things for me,
   and holy is his Name.
   He has mercy on those who fear him
   in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
   he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
   and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
   and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel
   for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
   the promise he made to our fathers,
   to Abraham and his children for ever.”
 
Mary remained with her about three months
   and then returned to her home.

Preacher: Christian McNally

Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20

​Jesus said to his disciples:
“If your brother sins against you,
   go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.
If he does not listen,
   take one or two others along with you,
   so that every fact may be established
   on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the Church.
If he refuses to listen even to the Church,
   then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.
Amen, I say to you,
   whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven,
   and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Again, amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth
   about anything for which they are to pray,
   it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name,
   there am I in the midst of them.”

Preacher: Adriana Haro

​Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
 
The disciples approached Jesus and said,
   “Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?”
He called a child over, placed it in their midst, and said,
   “Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,
   you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.
Whoever becomes humble like this child
   is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.
And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me.
 
“See that you do not despise one of these little ones,
   for I say to you that their angels in heaven
   always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.
What is your opinion?
If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray,
   will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills
   and go in search of the stray?
And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it
   than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.
In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father
   that one of these little ones be lost.”

Preacher: Tony Mercado

​Gospel: Matthew 17:22-27
 
As Jesus and his disciples were gathering in Galilee,
   Jesus said to them,
   “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men,
   and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.”
And they were overwhelmed with grief.
 
When they came to Capernaum,
   the collectors of the temple tax approached Peter and said,
   “Does not your teacher pay the temple tax?”
“Yes,” he said.
When he came into the house, before he had time to speak,
   Jesus asked him, “What is your opinion, Simon?
From whom do the kings of the earth take tolls or census tax?
From their subjects or from foreigners?”
When he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him,
   “Then the subjects are exempt.
But that we may not offend them, go to the sea, drop in a hook,
   and take the first fish that comes up.
Open its mouth and you will find a coin worth twice the temple tax.
Give that to them for me and for you.”

​Gospel: John 12:24-26
Saint Lawrence, Memorial
 
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
   unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
   it remains just a grain of wheat;
   but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it,
   and whoever hates his life in this world
   will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me,
   and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me.”

Preacher: Mila Rolle

​Gospel: Matthew 16:24-28
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
 
Jesus said to his disciples,
   “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,
   take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
   but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world
   and forfeit his life?
Or what can one give in exchange for his life?
For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory,
   and then he will repay each according to his conduct.
Amen, I say to you, there are some standing here
   who will not taste death
   until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

Preacher: Harold Lucas

​Gospel: Matthew 16:13-23
Saint Dominic, Memorial
 
Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi
   and he asked his disciples,
   “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah,
   still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Simon Peter said in reply,
   “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.
For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.
And so I say to you, you are Peter,
   and upon this rock I will build my Church,
   and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven.
Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven;
   and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Then he strictly ordered his disciples
   to tell no one that he was the Christ.
 
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples
   that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly
   from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
   and be killed and on the third day be raised.
Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him,
   “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.”
He turned and said to Peter,
   “Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me.
You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”

Preacher: Mico Radan