Cornerstone Bible Study - 9/29: "Blessed are you among women!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

• Bible Study: Luke 1:39, Maria will lead
• Date/Time: 9/29 (Friday) 8:00pm
• Location: St. Joseph of Cupertino School. 10110 N. De Anza Blvd., Cupertino. (click on link below for map)
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• 8-8:30pm - Children sing along praise and worship session. Michelle will be our family worship leader. Please arrive promptly
• Snacks: Lucia will bring snacks. Please bring beverage for your own and your children's needs.

The gospel of Luke begins with great joy when the first news of salvation were brought to Zechariah and Mary. We continue to see how this joy is lived out through Mary and with the very presence of the Lord God in her that Elizabeth, when greatedby Mary, exclaimed in a loud cry of joy and her baby St. John the Baptist in her womb leaped for joy.

We too through our baptism and the mystery of the Eucharist has Christ in us. We are the living Tabernacle. Lord, teach us each day to live out our faith that others may come to see the joy of the living Christ in us. In Jesus name we pray.

God Bless,

Maria

Cornerstone Bible Study - 9/22: Special topic "How to be a good Christian"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

• Special topic: "How to be a good Christian" Guest speaker Carol
• Date/Time: 9/22 (Friday) 8:00pm
• Location: St. Joseph of Cupertino School. 10110 N. De Anza Blvd., Cupertino. (click on link below for map)
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• 8-8:30pm - Children sing along praise and worship session. Maria will be our family worship leader. Please arrive promptly
• Snacks: Jennifer will bring snacks. Please bring beverage for your own and your children's needs.

We welcome Carol as our guest speaker for this week and thank her for giving us her time and sharing her faith with us. Her topic will be centered around Mark 8:34 " if anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me". This also happens to be last Sunday's Gospel.

God Bless,

Maria

Cornerstone Bible Study - 9/15: We will begin a new book - Gospel of Luke

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

• Bible Study: Luke 1:1, Lucia will lead
• Date/Time: 9/15 (Friday) 8:00pm
• Location: St. Joseph of Cupertino School. 10110 N. De Anza Blvd., Cupertino. (click on link below for map)
• http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=10110+N.+De+Anza+Blvd.&city=Cupertino&state=CA&zipcode=
• 8-8:30pm - Children sing along praise and worship session. Lucia will be our family worship leader. Please arrive promptly
• Snacks: WenChing will bring snacks. Please bring beverage for your own and your children's needs.

Thanks to Angela for leading the last chapters of Acts of The Apostles last week and giving us a good summary of the book we have been studying most of this year. Last week, we also had many new friends join us. We welcome Bethany, Michelle, Heidi and their families and look forward to see them regularly at our gatherings.

This week we will begin to study the Gospel according to Luke. As the name implies, the author of the third Gospel is St. Luke who also happens to be the author of the Acts of the Apostles. It is believed that Luke was a close follower and disciple of Paul. He wrote the Acts through first hand knowledge of having been around Paul throughout much of his journey up till Paul's Martyrdom. Luke also wrote the Gospel through much of Paul's narrative and his own research. Thanks to Mike for the suggestion, we will see a lot of continuity in both books as the central believe, ideal and theme flows from Paul's main teachings: the universality of salvation and God's immense mercy towards sinners.

God Bless,

Maria

Cornerstone Bible Study - 9/8: The Storm at Sea

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.

• Bible Study: Acts: 27:1, Angela/Michelle will lead
• Date/Time: 9/8 (Friday) 8:00pm
• Location: St. Joseph of Cupertino School. 10110 N. De Anza Blvd., Cupertino. (click on link below for map)
• http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=10110+N.+De+Anza+Blvd.&city=Cupertino&state=CA&zipcode=
• 8-8:30pm - Children sing along praise and worship session. Jennifer will be our family worship leader. Please arrive promptly
• Snacks: Maria will bring snacks. Please bring beverage for your own and your children's needs.

Praise and Thank God for letting us have a smooth rooms arrangement last week to have both our bible study and the young adult group's 20/20 meeting. We are back to our usual room this week, meeting in the Art room. In Paul's journey as a prisoner to Rome, in chapter 27 we see how God has used what must have been a painful and sorrowful experience for Paul in his captivity, to bring about Mercy for all on the shipwreck.

God Bless,

Maria