June 14, 2015

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.”  PS 92

Reading I – EZ 17: 22-24

Reading II – 2 COR 5: 6-10

Gospel -  MK 4: 26-34

 

 

 

 

 

 

  PUT PREVENTION INTO PRACTICE:

 

 

 

JUNE IS MEN’S HEALTH MONTH

 Men’s Health Month is celebrated across the country with screenings, health fairs, media appearances, and other health education and outreach activities. The purpose of Men’s Health Month is to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. This month gives health care providers, public policy makers, the media, and individuals an opportunity to encourage men and boys to seek regular medical advice and early treatment for disease and injury. The response has been overwhelming with thousands of awareness activities in the USA and around the globe. For more information and events you can attend, visit Men’s Health website at: http://www.menshealthnetwork.org

 

MEN’S HEALTH WEEK: JUNE 15-21,2015

Men live sicker and die younger. Wear BLUE was created by Men’s Health Network to raise awareness about the importance of male health and to encourage men to live longer and healthier lives.Men’s health awareness can mean many different things.It means raising awareness of making healthy lifestyle choices, making regular annual visits to the doctor, getting educated on heart disease or diabetes, starting general health conversations with their male friends, and much more. The information, tools, and resources on this website can help you plan an impactful Wear BLUE event where you live, work, play, and pray.(www.menshealthnetwork.org

 

 

JUNETEENTH – WORLD SICKLE CELL AWARENESS DAY

June 19, is World Sickle Cell Day!!!  This day is for Sickle Cell Awareness, because it is a global public health problem.  You can help by learning more, knowing if you have the trait, donating blood, and becoming a bone marrow donor or sharing about donating newborns cord blood to a public bank!

 

WHAT IS JUNETEENTH?

Juneteenth is an annual observance to celebrate the date Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.  Texas was the last state in rebellion, following the end of the Civil War, to allow enslavement. Although the rumors of freedom were widespread prior to this, actual emancipation was not announced in the last state practicing enslavement at the end of the Civil War until General Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas and issued General Order No. 3, on the "19th of June", almost two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation

 

REFLECTION ON THE GOSPEL

Have you ever noticed how many parables of Our Lord center on the image of the growth of small seeds?   These parables underline for us the need of patience.   These parables of growth underline for us the point that we should not look for immediate results and that harvests do not ripen quickly. In this age of instant results, it is difficult for us to be patient with the slow growth of our work.  We must live with the conviction that it is one person who sows and another who reaps.  Be content to think of yourself as a person who sows. If we, by the grace of God, gladly do some careful sowing now, God will give the increase in his good time. (McCullen, Deep Down Things, p. 70-71. St. Vincent de Paul Reflections, Second Quarter, 2015)