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Serving the King of Truth
Imagine this true story, if you can. You're a 19 year old kid dying in the jungle in Vietnam. The enemy fire is so intense they’ve ordered the Medical Evacuation helicopters to stop coming in. As you think of the family you’ll never see again, you know this is the moment of truth for you. Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear the sound of a different helicopter. Ed Freeman is coming for you. It’s not his job, but Ed Freeman flies in, loads you on board. Then he flies you to safety through the gunfire—and he keeps coming back--13 more times. Ed Freeman died last year, months after finally receiving the US Congressional Medal of Honor. But he wasn’t trying to be a hero. Ed knew the truth about himself, and he used his life to testify to the truth that God had placed deep within him. This is the kind of truth that it is hard to know in this world—where broken vows and lies seem all around us. Today, the feast of Christ The King, we hear how Jesus is not merely a king of this puny world—he is actually the King of All Truth. Truthful actions spring from a much deeper place, where Jesus calls us to go: he longs to show us the truth of our own existence! Facing the WHOLE truth of our own lives is probably the hardest thing we will ever do, because it goes far beyond our earthly roles as a mother, a father, a daughter, a son. Those are good things, but still, Jesus wants us to strip off all of our roles, to stand before the heart of the King of All Truth to ask, “Who am I? What would you have me do?” Is our earthly role too noisy and busy to hear God’s voice calling us into a deeper role? Do we dare reveal all to the King of All Truth? Go in peace, to love and serve our God!

Please pray this week for the following Priests, Religious and Communities or Groups of our Dioceses

St. Michael’s Parish is seeing some new & renewed initiatives. A new initiative is a Bi-lingual Holy Hour from 8 to 9 o’clock on the evening of First Friday.
The Holy Hour concludes the time of Exposition that begins after the Friday morning Mass. Next holy hour is Dec. 4th.

Spanish Community News: Another new initiative also connected to Friday Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will be a time of prayer and reflection by members of the Spanish Community led by Fr. Cesar from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on the 2nd & 3rd Fridays of the month.

Adult Spanish Bible Study on 2nd & 4th Wednesday’s of the month from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. held in the basement meeting r

conversations with Fr. Joe each Wednesday evening in the Church Meeting

room at 7:30 the topic this week: Divorce, the implications of it on a family. The talks include scripture based Videos. All are welcome! No fees!

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