November 2015
November 2015
isitation
OF OUR LADY PARISH NEWSLETTER
Inside
-2Jubilee Year of Mercy
-3VOL Celebrates the Year
of Mercy
-4Mass Intentions
Remembering our
Deceased
Thanksgiving Potluck
Supper
-5School News
-6Jesus is the Reason
VOL Church is Growing
-7Advent & Christmas
Schedule
None of us can be Christ. None of us will sacrifice his or her life for
others by being crowned with thorns, causing us extraordinary, excruciating
pain. None of us will be whipped to the point of near death, having huge
chunks of our flesh torn from our bodies by trained sadists who know how to
inflict maximum pain. None of us will have huge spikes driven through our
feet and through a bundle of nerves in our wrists to nail us naked to a cross.
None of us will do any of that. Thank God! Nonetheless, all of us all called to
this extent to be Christ-like. We are called to sacrifice ourselves for others,
especially those in great need. The sacrifices don’t need to be huge. Simple,
sacrificial acts of love will suffice. And what follows in the next paragraphs
describes such an act of simple but profound Christ-like sacrifice and love.
Francine Christophe,
now 83, was just a little girl
when the Nazis threw her
mother and her into Bergen
Belsen, one of their concentration camps. When it was
liberated in 1945 by the British, the soldiers discovered
approximately 60,000 prisoners inside, most of them halfstarved and seriously ill. Thirteen thousand unburied corpses littered Bergen
Belsen’s filthy grounds. In all, approximately 70,000 people died there. But
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