COMMUNITY WORD FOR JUNE 2025

March 23, 2025

(WORD, THEMES AND PROMISES)

READINGS   (Cycle C, Year I)

June 1 – Acts 1:1-11/ Ps 47:2, 3, 6-9/ Eph 1:17-23/ Lk 24:46-53

June 8 – Acts 2:1-11/ Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34/ 1 Cor 12:3B-7, 12, 13/ Jn 20:19-23

June 15 – Prv 8:22-31/ Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9/ Rom 5:1-5/ Jn 16:12-15

June 22 – Gn 14:18-20/ Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4/ 1 Cor 11:23-26/ Lk 9:11b-17

June 29 – Acts 12:1-11/ Ps 34: 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9/ 2 Tim 4:6-8, 17-18/ Mt 16:13-19

COMMUNITY WORD

We celebrate the transforming power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

ORDER  

“Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I send you.” (Jn 20:21)

PROPHECIES:

  1. My love abounds in you, be inspired by My Spirit.
  2. Reach out with love to your brethren so that you may walk together in peace and harmony.

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Celebrating 40 years of BLD, be united as one community of Christ.
  2. Receive the sacraments of Holy Communion and Reconciliation regularly.
  3. Have a devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
  4. Study, reflect, and live by God’s word.
  5. Be a good and faithful lay under-shepherd to your lambs.

THEMES AND PROMISES

Week 1 (Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord)

Theme: The Holy Spirit empowers us to preach repentance and forgiveness of sins.

Promise: “…you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit coming upon you, and be witnesses to the ends of the world.” (Acts 1:8)

Week 2 (Pentecost Sunday)

Theme: The Holy Spirit empowers us to use His gifts to serve for the good of all.

Promise: “When you send forth your spirit, they are created and you renew the face of the earth.” (Ps 104:30)

Week 3 (Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity)

Theme: The Holy Spirit empowers us with the Truth of God’s love that has been poured into our hearts.

Promise: “Everything that the Father has is mine…he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.” (Jn 16:15)

Week 4 (Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)

Theme: The Holy Spirit empowers us to believe the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Promise: “As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.” (1 Cor 11:26)

Week 5 (Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles)

Theme: The Holy Spirit empowers us to proclaim that Jesus is our Lord and Savior.

Promise: “…the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord will award to me on that day.” (2 Tim 4:8)