Baker's Bits - January 7, 2018 - East River Catholics

January 3, 2018

BAKER’S BITS

NOTE: Roosevelt Island - January 7th the Sunday Mass in Cabrini Chapelwillbeat9amandat2pm there will be a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Dolan.

1. Christ is Born! Blessed Christmas to all our Parishioners who, like myself, keep the Julian Cal- endar Christmas!

2. Welcome to Cardinal Dolan, who will today at 2 pm dedicate our new church on Roosevelt Island.

3. God grant many years to Lilia DeFrancesco Gorman who will be baptized in our church today at the 12 noon Mass.

Prayer - Oh Jesus, present in the Blessed Sacrament, I have only begun to know you, and I realize how much more there is to know. Draw me closer to you every day. As I look forward to the coming year, I ask for a deeper hunger to eat your Body and drink your Blood. -from A Eucharistic Christmas

This week’s "What Is?", a new series that will look at the teachings of Holy Catholic Faith.

WHAT IS GOSSIP AND IS IT A MORTAL SIN?
Gossip can be true, partially true, or completely false and while it can be motivated by good intentions, it always contains negative information about another that puts them in a bad light. Similarly, we can also participate in gossip by remaining silent or using approving body language such as nodding our head in agreement. Unless the matter under discussion is a common news item, when someone’s gossip negatively alters the opinion another has regarding a third person, one has committed a grave action. If it is done with full knowledge and deliberate consent, the grave action then becomes a mortal sin. Gossip is a far more serious matter than most of us like to consider. There is a popular story about a woman who had confessed the sin of gossip. For her penance she was told to go to the top of a nearby hill, pillow in hand, and cut it open. Shaking all the feathers into the wind, she had to go collect every last feather from the wilderness into which they had blown. Only then would her penance would be complete.

So it goes with each time we speak a word against another; we can never hope to recover all the information from whence it has been carried.

Z PERA OTCA BAKERA

DÔLEŽITÉ: V nedeľu 7. januára budú sv. omše v Cabrini kaplne na Roosevelt Island nasledovne: ranná sv. omša o 9 am, o 2 pm bude sv. omšu celebrovať Kardinál Dolan.

1. Kristus sa narodil! Všetkým farníkom, ktorí, tak ako ja, slávia Vianoce podľa Juliánskeho kalendára, prajem požehnané Vianoce.

2. Vítame kardinála Dolana, ktorý dnes o 2 pm vysvätí náš nový kostol na Roosevelt Island.

3. Nech Pán Boh daruje veľa rokov Lilii DeFrancesco Gormin, ktorý bude pokrstený dnes počas omše o 12 hod v našom kostole.

Modlitba - Ó, Ježišu, ktorý si prítomný v Najsvätejšej sviatosti, iba teraz Ťa začínam viac a viac spoznávať a uvedomujem si, že ešte veľmi veľa neviem. Každý deň ma privádzaj bližšie k sebe. Teraz, keď sa teším na budúci rok, prosím Ťa o hlbšiu túžbu prijímať Tvoje telo a a piť Tvoju krv. - z Eucharistickej Vianočnej modlitby

Tento týždeň začína nová séria "Čo je to?", ktorá bude informovať o učení svätej katolíckej viery.

ČO SÚ KLEBETY A JE TO SMRTEĽNÝ HRIECH? Klebety môžu byť pravdivé, čiastočne pravdivé alebo úplne falošné, aj keď môžu byť motivované dobrými úmyslami, vždy obsahujú negatívne informácie o inom, čo tú osobu dáva do zlého svetla. My sa môžeme podieľať na klebách tým, že zostaneme mlčať alebo vyjadrujeme svôj súhlas svojimi pohybmi, ako napr. prikývnutím hlavy. Pokiaľ nie je záležitosť, o ktorej sa diskutuje, bežne známa, keď niekto negatívne ovplyvňuje názor inej osoby voči tretej osobe, došlo k zlému činu. Ak sa to robí s plným vedomím a úmyselným súhlasom, potom sa tento zlý čin stane smrteľným hriechom. Klebeta je oveľa vážnejšia záležitosť, ako si väčšina z nás uvedomuje. Existuje populárny príbeh o žene, ktorá vyznala hriech klebety. Ako pokánie jej bolo uložené, aby zobrala vankúš, išla na vrchol neďalekého kopca a tam ho rozrezala. Keď všetko perie vytriasla do vetra, mala ísť a všetko pozbierať z okolia, kam bolo rozfúkané. Len potom by bolo jej pokánie úplné. Tak je to vždy, keď povieme zlé slovo proti inému; nikdy nemôžeme dúfať, že sa nám podarí vziať späť všetky naše klebety odvšadiaľ, kam sa dostali.