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May 25, 2025 6th Sunday of Easter bulletin - Eight Deadly Thoughts - Anger

Dear People of God,

Continuing our discussion of the Eight Deadly Thoughts: Anger often follows greed or envy because we become angry that other people seem to be doing well. Other people appear to be happy with the world’s goods. Society puts on a show that it doesn’t need God. Yet, why do we feel empty without God? Why do we have to live a moral life? Why should we have to be the ones who sacrifice and work? Why can’t we have what everyone else has…because the grass is NOT greener on the other side. This is one trick of the Devil to make us leave our Christian faith and to walk away from the things that our God has given us. But if we embrace the ways of the world and live as if morality doesn’t exist, we don’t feel better, we feel worse. Then, we will get angry because of that! Either way, there appears to be a false choice between two options: live morally and be angry that it seems like it doesn’t matter, or live like everyone else and be angry that that doesn’t make us happy.

We often hear that emotions are not good or bad in themselves, it is what someone does with them that is important. Though this is true, we also need to understand the classical Christian understanding of anger as sinful. We can view anger as being an interior reaction to outside stimuli that then becomes manifest when someone decides to express it. The language that we speak can also influence how we view anger. In English, we say things like: “he is making me angry.” As opposed to a Romance language, such as Spanish, wherein a person would say: “me enojo” (that is: “I make myself angry”). Really the Spanish way of speaking is correct, we make ourselves angry in given situations, but we can control ourselves. That is where the sin enters into the situation. We can control ourselves, but we don’t.

May God bless you all,
Very Rev. Samuel Moses Brown

Querido Pueblo de Dios,

Continuando nuestra discusión sobre los Ocho Pensamientos Mortales: La ira a menudo sigue a la avaricia o envidia porque nos enojamos al ver que otras personas parecen estar haciéndolo bien. Otras personas parecen ser felices con los bienes del mundo. La sociedad hace un espectáculo de que no necesita a Dios. Sin embargo, ¿por qué nos sentimos vacíos sin Dios? ¿Por qué debemos vivir una vida moral? ¿Por qué deberíamos ser nosotros los que sacrificamos y trabajamos? ¿Por qué no podemos tener lo que tienen los demás... porque la hierba NO es más verde al otro lado? Este es un truco del Diablo para hacernos abandonar nuestra fe cristiana y alejarnos de las cosas que nuestro Dios nos ha dado. Pero si abrazamos las formas del mundo y vivimos como si la moralidad no existiera, no nos sentimos mejor, nos sentimos peor. ¡Entonces, nos enojaremos por eso! De cualquier manera, parece haber una falsa elección entre dos opciones: vivir moralmente y enojarse porque parece que no importa, o vivir como los demás y enojarse porque eso no nos hace felices.

A menudo escuchamos que las emociones no son buenas ni malas en sí mismas, lo que importa es lo que alguien hace con ellas. Aunque esto es cierto, también necesitamos entender la comprensión clásica cristiana de la ira como un pecado. Podemos ver la ira como una reacción interior a estímulos externos que luego se manifiesta cuando alguien decide expresarla. El lenguaje que hablamos también puede influir en cómo vemos la ira. En inglés, decimos cosas como: “me está haciendo enojar”. A diferencia de un idioma romance, como el español, donde una persona diría: “me enojo” (es decir: “me hago enojar”). Realmente la forma de hablar en español es correcta, nos hacemos enojar en ciertas situaciones, pero podemos controlarnos. Ahí es donde entra el pecado en la situación. Podemos controlarnos, pero no lo hacemos.

Que Dios los bendiga a todos,
El Muy Rev. Samuel Moses Brown

May 18, 2025 5th Sunday of Easter bulletin - Eight Deadly Thoughts - Anger

Dear People of God,

Continuing through the Eight Deadly Thoughts, we come to anger. We all feel overwhelmed at times and we feel like yelling, hitting, making bad gestures. Those behaviors do not respect the dignity of other people and they are usually motivated by an interior sense of self righteousness. That is often the root of anger in our life. Living in a culture where people are free to express their emotions, we feel as if it’s acceptable to express anything we want. But in many other cultures of the world, people are expected not to show emotion if it will cause difficulty for others. People are expected to be polite even when they are upset. When we yell at people without a real reason or scare our kids by being so angry, we are sinning. The time for yelling is some kind of actual emergency. We would yell at someone to prevent that person from getting hit by a car, for instance. Anger is when we surrender our rationality if we do not get what we want. We yell when someone else is driving poorly. We use foul language when we don’t get our way. We hit someone because they “won’t listen.” These are all common examples of things that do offend our God. Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount: “judge not, that you may not be judged,” “whatever you wish that other would do to you, do also to them,” and “everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment.” We are not perfect and will continue to give into anger. When that happens, we should seek to reconcile in a way that improves the relationship even when there has been significant strife or conflict.

Very Rev. Samuel Moses Brown

Querido Pueblo de Dios,

Continuando con los Ocho Pensamientos Mortales, llegamos a la ira. Todos nos sentimos abrumados a veces y sentimos ganas de gritar, golpear, hacer gestos negativos. Esos comportamientos no respetan la dignidad de otras personas y generalmente están motivados por un sentido interior de autojusticia. Esa es a menudo la raíz de la ira en nuestra vida. Viviendo en una cultura donde las personas son libres de expresar sus emociones, sentimos que es aceptable expresar lo que queramos. Pero en muchas otras culturas del mundo, se espera que las personas no muestren emociones si causará dificultades para otros. Se espera que las personas sean educadas incluso cuando están molestas. Cuando gritamos a las personas sin una razón real o asustamos a nuestros hijos al estar tan enojados, estamos pecando. El momento para gritar es en alguna clase de emergencia real. Gritaríamos a alguien para evitar que esa persona fuera atropellada por un coche, por ejemplo. La ira es cuando entregamos nuestra racionalidad si no conseguimos lo que queremos. Gritamos cuando alguien más está manejandoconduciendo mal. Usamos lenguaje grosero cuando no conseguimos lo que queremos. Golpeamos a alguien porque "no escuchará". Estos son ejemplos comunes de cosas que ofenden a nuestro Dios. Jesús dijo en el Sermón del Monte: "no juzguen, para que no sean juzgados", "todo lo que deseen que otros les hagan, háganlo también a ellos", y "cualquiera que esté enojado con su hermano será responsable de juicio". No somos perfectos y seguiremos cediendo a la ira. Cuando eso sucede, debemos buscar reconciliarnos de una manera que mejore la relación, incluso cuando ha habido un conflicto o una tensión significativa.

Muy Rev. Samuel Moses Brown

May 11, 2025 4th Sunday of Easter bulletin - The Blessing of Mothers

Dear Mothers,

Thank you to all the mothers in the parish and beyond. Your work in raising the next generation and forming them in the holy Catholic Faith is so important. We want you to feel special and blessed on this day and truthfully on every day. I pray that your hard work and dedication to raising your children pays off in having appreciative children who express their gratitude on a regular basis and tell you how much they love you. The job of being a mother is one of the most demanding and difficult jobs and yet mothers get paid nothing. In truth, being a mother is a vocation, not a "job" in the normal sense. Thus, having a day of gratitude for mothers is very important.

THANK YOU to all the mothers and those who function as mothers in other ways.

God Bless You!
Father Brown

Queridas Madres,

Gracias a todas las madres de la parroquia y de otras partes. Su trabajo en criar a la próxima generación y formarla en la santa fe católica es muy importante. Queremos que se sientan especial y bendecidas en este día y sinceramente todos los días. Ruego que su arduo trabajo y dedicación a criar a sus hijos dé frutos al tener hijos agradecidos que expresen su gratitud de manera regular y les digan cuánto las aman. El trabajo de ser madre es uno de los trabajos más exigentes y difíciles y, sin embargo, a las madres no se les paga nada. En verdad, ser madre es una vocación, no un "trabajo" en el sentido normal. Por lo tanto, tener un día de gratitud para las madres es muy importante.

GRACIAS a todas las madres y a las que funcionan como madres de otras maneras.

Que dios te bendiga!
Su párroco, el P. Brown

May 4, 2025 3rd Sunday of Easter bulletin - Acknowledgments for our Holy Week liturgies

April 27, 2025 2nd Sunday of Easter bulletin - The 8 Deadly Thoughts (continued)

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September 15, 2024 24th Sunday of Ordinary Time bulletin - Penitential Rite

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