ST. CATHERINE of SIENA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH November 6, 2016—32Nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH November 6, 2016—32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time ALL ARE WELCOMED TO OUR PARISH! We are so pleased that you chose to celebrate with us this weekend. We warmly invite you to active participation in our liturgical celebration. Please feel free to approach one of our Ministers of Hospitality if you are in need of any assistance. No matter what your present status in the Catholic Church, your current family or marital situation, your past or present religious affiliation; no matter what your personal history, age, background, sexual orientation, gender, race, or color; no matter what your self-image or self-esteem: YOU are invited, welcomed, accepted, loved, and respected at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Ithaca, New York. During November, we will spend time at each of our liturgies exploring vocations: religious orders, the priesthood and deaconate, lay apostolates and lay ministry, and marriage. We hope that these presentations will help us all to support vocational awareness and to consider more deeply what Jesus wants of us. Let us pray for those discerning their vocations. THE VOCATION OF MARRIAGE A vocation is the committed state of life that God calls us to. We may be called to be married, to be single, to become a priest or deacon, or to be a member of a religious community. All of these vocational choices are ways in which we serve God and one another. Two of these choices, married life and the priesthood or deaconate, are also sacraments in the Church. What does the Church teach about sacramental marriage? Within marriage, the couple’s relationship uniquely expresses the unbreakable bond of love between Christ and his people.
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