TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

KidsRelig On-line Registrationat 35%

Please Register Now

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Use the New Credit Card Payment Option.

*Go to Parish Website (www.sjsmrcc.com) *Click Religious Education--CCD tab on left

*Read letter on Religious Education Page

*Go to top of page and find two links to:

1. On-line Registration Form
2. Fees & Payment Options Page

It’s quick; it’s easy, and it’s a big help to us in forming classes, getting teachers in the classrooms, planning the year and setting up our classrooms.

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KidsRelig Calendar

It’s here! Where? On the Religious Education Page of the Parish Website.

• Go to www.sjsmrcc.com
• Click Religious Education tab on the left
• Click KidsRelig Calendar link on the right

At the bottom of the Calendar, tab to the month you want. Go right to October, since . . .

FIRST DAY OF KIDSRELIG IS

OCTOBER 4^TH

All scheduled class days and times, “no class” days, holiday and recess days, the dates of First Penance and First Communion, Lenten Confessions and Stations of the Cross are on the calendar right now. As the year goes on, other events will be added, which will remain available for easy and quick access on the Parish Website.

This Week’s Gospel—A Non-Jewish Woman Asks Jesus to Cure Her Daughter (Mt 15.21-28)

Scandalizing—that’s what this week’s gospel is. And not because of the poor woman who wanted a few scraps like a dog. But because of Jesus, who wouldn’t even give her a few scraps. Why? Because all of us human beings build such high walls to divide ourselves from each other that not even God could breach them. (After all, the woman was a Canaanite, as foreign as the Sharks to the Jets in West Side Story.) But what does breach the divide? Faith! Even a scandalous God could be touched by faith and reach across the human divide with the release of a miracle.

Sounds so simple, but it is both a terrible and awesome story. We have the power to build divisions that can even keep out God. And the power to destroy them and let miracles happen. Terrible and awesome, and ours to believe or not.

Love,

Deacon Charlie