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A Church of Second Chances and New Beginnings
Where
the Healing Power of Jesus Christ is experienced in all it's power and glory in community! Where children are always safe
and loved
and where everyone is appreciated for their unique God given gifts. Join us in experiencing God where He told us we could find Him, in Faith Community. Come and find joy!
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Welcome
to the Church of the Beatitudes, where "you" are honored to be the arms and legs of Jesus Christ.
We are a faith filled, servant community of the Apostolic
Catholic Church located in
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1.6 million U.S. children
lived in homeless shelters, motels, with relatives or
other families or living on the street in 2010
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As
America texts, Facebooks, Twitters and games, Godless people are
doing Godless things. Our country is
critically ill, Spiritually and Intellectually.
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From the Pastor,
The Church of the Beatitudes is
an Apostolic Catholic community dedicated to peace and social justice. It promotes that catholicity clearly demonstrated by
the early church in Acts, the Pauline Letters and the records of the Early Church Fathers. It competes with no other Christian
reflection and seeks cooperation with all in bringing about God's kingdom. In this we find joy and peace.
Becoming
a member is an acceptance that we are the arms and legs of Our Savior , Jesus Christ. As such we have faith journeys that
demand our extension well beyond a need for a comfortable Sunday Mass, an
idea opposed by scripture and all the Church Fathers.. As Christians we are and must be compassionate people in a world of
hate, greed, fear and indifference. We must meet hatred with love, fear with confidence, and greed with generousity. We recognize
that we have serious responsibilities that require a level of MATURITY that refuses to recognize the willful forgetfulness
of injustice or the blatant buy-in to a culture of consuming at the expense of those who are poor and hungry. We are an authentic
church, facing the realities of the world around us. As brothers and sisters we care
for each other so that we may have strength to care for all. The spirit is willing yet the flesh is weak. That is true
for all of us but we know that we are all strong in Christ and can depend upon Him for guidance and support.
Come join us in fulfilling the Lord's prayer and bringing about the reign of God on earth. Become a servant with us so that you may feel the limitless power of the Spirit. Begin a journey that will
end in your salvation and the salvation of those you touch. "Whatsoever you do for the least of these, you do for me."
Let ustogether heal this broken world in the powerful name of Jesus
Father Bernie
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We welcome all as Christ. We are firmly rooted in Scripture as we affirm the presence
of Christ in the poor, the needy and the oppressed. In the apostolic catholic tradition, we find "communion" in community
and relationship as well as in sacrament. We welcome all to share in Christ as we become His arms and legs in this world through Apostolic service.
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Acts 2:42-47
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common;
they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.
Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts,
praising God and having the goodwill of all the people. And day by day the Lord added to their number those who were being
saved.
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Now this is what God looks like!
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| Bishop Charles Leigh |
We welcome all as Christ. We are firmly rooted in
Scripture as we affirm the presence of Christ in the
poor, the needy and the oppressed. In the apostolic catholic tradition,
we find "communion"in community and relationship as well as in sacrament.We welcome all
to share in Christ as we become His arms and legs in this world through apostolic
service.
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Love God Love neighbor And who is your neighbor? Your answer is the meaning of your
life
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Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.
Michael Moore, in Madison
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From the Pastor
Ireland is the story of every country, it is only a matter of severity. We live in a world where the rich, the financial class, the oligarchy have pillaged civilization throughout the world persistently overthe span of lifetimes,
in every way possible both physically and spiritually. It has murdered millions through war, through the willful
withholding of food, through the denial of medical assistance and through the refusal to provide relief of any
kind to brothers or sisters in need.
It is insidious, pervasive and evil. It feeds on the good and extinguishes the light of the
world wherever it is present . It is anti-God, anti -Love, anti-Christ
as every true Christian knows Christ. It divides instead of uniting, it is angry instead of joyful, it diminishes rather than nourishes, it denies the very sacredness of creation. It seeks an end,
an end to happiness, to healing, to generosity andto compassion and love one for another. It is indeed Satanic.
Do not go gently brothers and sisters. Do not
fear this evil for God is with us and for us and God will never be denied. God calls us to be community and to be family and
to love one another as the most effective tool against this darkness. The Beatitudes invites all to be community
with us, everyone! We invite all who believe in the love, generosity and the power of God to join with us
in prayer and celebration of life each week at 10:30 AM
Father Bernie
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Join a joyful, faith filled, caring community
of Jesus followers who do not allow Hope to die. Experience this Healing Power of Jesus Christ at "The
Beatitudes" this week at
10:30 AM
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"See
how they love one another!"
This is how pagans described Christians
in the time of Church Father Tertullian (200 A.D.)
Are we not called to do the same?
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We give
our great grandchildren no opportunity for
existence
on this planet because we allow corporations and capitalism to feed our own greed at the cost of health, the common good and the environment. The greatest generation is being followed by an evil and perverse generation that destroys it's own world and devours it's own children.
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Let's make Corporations pay income taxes especially since our
"High" Court
affirms that they are individuals. Imagine the revenues that we would have to heal our suffering society! Why do they pay no taxes
?Aren't there laws? Are we to cut Social Security while they pay no taxes?
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Class warfare?
One of the richest Americans,
Warren Buffett, replies to that notion:
"There's class warfare, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and
we're winning."
What
Would Jesus Think????
Better
Yet...What Do You Think???????
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Capitalism demands profit at the expense of all other things.Is this the message of Jesus or is it the very opposite of the message of Jesus. Is it ... anti-Christ?
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Capitalism
It Kills Our ChildrenIt Steals Our Money It Destroys our PlanetIt Appoints our Government It
Makes War on the WorldIt is the perpetual
downward spiral of evil But guess
what? God wins! Woe to the loser.
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Commitment to Lay Leadership
Lisa is our Christian Education
Committee Chairperson and Council President
Secretary and the Communication
Kim
is a parish Community Health
and Welfare Coordinator and Musician
Alexei is a parish Community Health and Welfare
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What is wanted now is not simply the Christian who takes an inner complacency in the words and example of Christ,
but who seeks to follow Christ perfectly, not only in his own personal life, not only in prayer and penance, but also in his
political commitments and in all social responsibilities.
We have certainly no need for a pseudo-contemplative
spirituality that claims to ignore the world and its problems entirely, and devotes itself supposedly to the things of God,
without concern for human society. All true Christian spirituality, even that of the Christian contemplative, is and must
always be deeply concerned with man, since "God became man in order that man might become God" (St. Irenaeus).
The Christian spirit is one of compassion, of responsibility and of commitment. It cannot be indifferent to suffering, to
injustice, error, and untruth.
Thomas Merton. Peace in
the Post-Christian Era. Edited
by Patricia A. Burton
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Feeding the Poor at a Sacrifice
In
the first centuries
of Christianity
the hungry were fed
at a personal sacrifice,
the naked were clothed
at
a personal sacrifice,
the homeless were sheltered
at personal sacrifice.
And because the poor
were fed,
clothed and sheltered
at a personal sacrifice,
the pagans used to say
about the Christians
"See how they love
each other."
In our own day
the poor are no longer
fed, clothed, sheltered
at a personal sacrifice,
but
at the expense
of the taxpayers.
And because the poor
are no longer
fed, clothed and sheltered
the
pagans say about the Christians
"See how they pass the buck."
Peter Maurin
Catholic Worker Founder
Easy Essays
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Racism is America's sin of choice. It
has prevented our country from achieving greatness on the world stage and separated us from God. We have been punishing dark
skin in America since 1492.
The Pastor
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens
can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
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The Apostolic Catholic Church
This is what we are about...
Isaiah 58 6-10
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to
set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the
poor wanderer with shelter;
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Then
your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before
you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will
cry for help, and he will say: Here am I
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious
talk,
and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light
will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.
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Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth.......
What part don't you understand?
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Matthew 10:37 - 11:1
"Whoever
loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever
loses his life for my sake will find it.
"Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives
the one who sent me. Whoever receives a prophet, because he is a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward, and whoever receives
a righteous man, because he is righteous, will receive a righteous man's reward. nd whoever gives only a cup of cold water
to one of these little ones to drink, because he is a disciple, amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward."
They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of
the bread and to the prayers.
Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had
all things in common; they would sell their property and possessions and divide them among all according to each one's need. Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple
area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all the
people. And every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.
Acts 2: 44-47
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