MASS FOR THE DEARLY DEPARTED

The AAA held it’s second of three for the year, Holy Mass offered for Dearly Departed Alumnae and Relatives last June 10, 2023. We were privileged to have Fr. Dave Concepcion to be our speaker and priest presider for this occasion.

Pope Francis calls us to encounter our Lord and one another in this Year of the Synod. We, in the AAA Faith and Spirituality Committee, endeavor to create these encounters. This activity encourages the alumnae to come home to AC and we would like to thank AC Highschool 73 Gold Jubilarians, AC Highschool 83 Ruby Jubilarians , and AC Highschool 93 Pearl Jubilarians for being our sponsors and mass readers. We would also like to thank Francine Campos AC Highschool 2017, for singing beautifully in our mass.

Called to Become What We Receive – A Talk Fr. Dave gave before our Mass had so many messages that we took to heart.

* We become what we eat, Avoid things that will make you sick
* We have to sustain ourselves and nourish ourselves by the Body of Christ, Recognize Jesús in the breaking of the bread not in the scriptures (Domus ecclesia)
* By the bread we share, the family that eats together stays together, it is in the breaking of the bread that keeps us together
* Go to mass in Church already, receive communion (most important not the hearing of mass alone)
* If you cannot tame your appetite you cannot tame your soul
* We eat to live and not live to eat – St Thomas
* St. Augustine, we receive little so we can share more
* The only thing we can keep in this world are the things we have given away.
* We not only receive Christ, we share Christ
* If we have more of Christ it is because we want to be more like Christ
We feed the hungry
Give drink to the thirsty
Shelter the homeless
Visit the sick
Visit the prisoners
Bury the dead
Give alms to the poor
Clothe the naked
* St Teresa of Calcutta- if you have clothes that you don’t use then there are people naked in the streets because their clothes are in your closet
* Nobody becomes poor by keeping
* What really matters is not what our hands can hold but what our hearts can keep
* An easy life creates weak people
* Learn to understand the values that we need to
* Many would like to take the bread but avoid the cup of suffering
* Glory comes with suffering
* Joyful mystery comes with sorrowful mystery
* When we receive we become a person of submission and total dependence to God, Dependence – total surrender to the will of God
* God knows what is in our hearts
* If you are giving things that you do not need, it is just a decent way of throwing away
* The poor who have not shoes? Their shoes are in your cabinet. Spring clean and give those shoes and clothes to the needy!

We are called to become what we receive because it is who we are, what we are.

The AAA held it’s second of three for the year, Holy Mass offered for Dearly Departed Alumnae and Relatives last June 10, 2023. We were privileged to have Fr. Dave Concepcion to be our speaker and priest presider for this occasion.

Pope Francis calls us to encounter our Lord and one another in this Year of the Synod. We, in the AAA Faith and Spirituality Committee, endeavor to create these encounters. This activity encourages the alumnae to come home to AC and we would like to thank AC Highschool 73 Gold Jubilarians, AC Highschool 83 Ruby Jubilarians , and AC Highschool 93 Pearl Jubilarians for being our sponsors and mass readers. We would also like to thank Francine Campos AC Highschool 2017, for singing beautifully in our mass.

Called to Become What We Receive – A Talk Fr. Dave gave before our Mass had so many messages that we took to heart.

* We become what we eat, Avoid things that will make you sick
* We have to sustain ourselves and nourish ourselves by the Body of Christ, Recognize Jesús in the breaking of the bread not in the scriptures (Domus ecclesia)
* By the bread we share, the family that eats together stays together, it is in the breaking of the bread that keeps us together
* Go to mass in Church already, receive communion (most important not the hearing of mass alone)
* If you cannot tame your appetite you cannot tame your soul
* We eat to live and not live to eat – St Thomas
* St. Augustine, we receive little so we can share more
* The only thing we can keep in this world are the things we have given away.
* We not only receive Christ, we share Christ
* If we have more of Christ it is because we want to be more like Christ
We feed the hungry
Give drink to the thirsty
Shelter the homeless
Visit the sick
Visit the prisoners
Bury the dead
Give alms to the poor
Clothe the naked
* St Teresa of Calcutta- if you have clothes that you don’t use then there are people naked in the streets because their clothes are in your closet
* Nobody becomes poor by keeping
* What really matters is not what our hands can hold but what our hearts can keep
* An easy life creates weak people
* Learn to understand the values that we need to
* Many would like to take the bread but avoid the cup of suffering
* Glory comes with suffering
* Joyful mystery comes with sorrowful mystery
* When we receive we become a person of submission and total dependence to God, Dependence – total surrender to the will of God
* God knows what is in our hearts
* If you are giving things that you do not need, it is just a decent way of throwing away
* The poor who have not shoes? Their shoes are in your cabinet. Spring clean and give those shoes and clothes to the needy!

We are called to become what we receive because it is who we are, what we are.