Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 5/16 The parable of the Vineyard

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
"Lord Jesus, I want you to be the cornerstone of my life so that whatever understakings I make will never shake or cumble. Holy Spirit, help me to understand what it means to have Jesus as my cornerstone adn to know that all that is lasting is built on him."

God Bless,
Maria

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 5/9 "My house shall be a house of prayer"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
The mental image of Jesus driving out merchants who turned His father's holy temple into a market place has always been a challenging message for me. Thinking of Jesus being holy and pious and mild, chasing people out of the temple and turning over tables is hard to imagine. I guess being charitable, nice, and showing love and support for those around us, does not equate to tolerating outright abuse of God's purpose. I see in Jesus an example of choosing and proclaiming God's desire above things in our lives that turns our soul and body (the very temple of God) into anything unfit as the the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit and a holy place of prayer and worship.

"Dear Jesus, just as you have taught daily in the temple having driven out the unworthy, come into our lives, clense us of all sin and make us pure dwelling places. Be with us every day to comfort, fill us with peace and joy, and empower us to do your will."

God Bless,
Maria

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 5/2 Catholic Catechism

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

God Bless,
Maria

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 4/18 "I must stay at your house today!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
What joy Zacchaeus must have felt when Jesus spotted him from afar amongst a huge crowd, and said to him: "I must stay at your house today!". Just as Jesus sees right through Zacchaeus' heart, He knows ours too. Just as Jesus invited Himself to Zacchaeus' house, He also extends his invitation to each of us to let Him into our hearts.

"Lord Jesus, we invite you into our hearts. Come and fill us with the joy of your salvation. Grant us the freedom to lay at your feet every possession or desire that we have considered more precious than you."

God Bless,
Maria

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 4/11 "Lord, let me receive sight!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
"Jesus, we come to you as the blind man did, without hesitation or fear. Open the eyes of our hearts so we might see you in all your purity, love, and faithfulness. Jesus, Son of David, have mcercy on us!"

God Bless,
Maria

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 4/4 Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

God Bless,
Maria

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 3/28 Sharing of prayer reflections

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

Jesus Christ is Risen today! Alleluia!! Happy Easter season to everyone.

God Bless,

Maria

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 3/14 "Sell all you have and come follow me"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
This week, we will attempt to apply the practice of our lent spiritual exercise to read, reflect upon and share the harvest of our prayers and reflections using this week's Luke's gospel 18:18-30. Rae and Ana, please assist Thomas in leading this spiritual exercise for the group.


God Bless,
Maria

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 3/7 "Let the childrem come to me"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

How well intended the disciples of Jesus must have been when they turned away moms and dads bringing their children to be blessed by Jesus, indicating perhaps Jesus is a very busy man and what he is proclaiming carries such a deep spiritual message that even adults find difficult to grasp. Perhaps suggesting that they should take the children to be blessed by the town rabbi instead. But Jesus surprises them to welcome the children to be close to him, and went on proclaiming that it is to such children that the kingdom of God belongs.

Dear Lord Jesus, we know how much you love and welcome any movement from us to be close to you. May we accept our role as children of God and open our hearts with tenderness and seek all opportunities to flock to you like a child would do. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Do not forget your Lenten prayer exercise and bring the harvest of your prayer or your experience of the presence of God for sharing after Bible study.

God Bless,

Maria

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 2/29 "He who humbles himself will be exalted"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

We are justified and saved by grace alone from God through the merits of Jesus, not from our own "good" deeds. Such is the theme of this week's gospel passage.

"Lord, how easy it is for us to be like the pharisee in this story, reminding you how hard we have worked to please you and expecting you to reward us for our labors. Give us a new and humble heart to be like the children, where all we ask for and desire is to be near to you and receive your blessing despite our unworthiness".

Do not forget your Lenten prayer exercise and bring the harvest of your prayer or your experience of the presence of God for sharing after Bible study.

God Bless,
Maria

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 2/22 "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

In this week's gospel, the Pharisees were asking the question to Jesus of when the kingdom of God was coming, when signs were all around them that the kingdom of God was already in their midst. In own very own day and age, were there times that we also missed the very obvious movement of God in our midst? Let us not cease to ask God to reveal his love and the power of the Gospel to us and pray for a deepening awareness of His presence in our lives, our Church and our world.

Do not forget your Lenten prayer exercise and bring the harvest of your prayer or your experience of the presence of God for sharing after Bible study.


God Bless,

Maria

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 2/8 "Your faith has made you well!"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

Happy Ash Wednesday to all! and Happy Chinese New Year too. Lent is upon us once again. The beginning of Luke chapter 17 talks about faith in God and faith in Jesus Christ. Lent is a time to deepen our friendship and relationship with Christ to prepare to receive in fullness what he promises through his passion and resurrection. It is through this deepening experience that our faith grows. Do not forget your Lenten prayer exercise and bring the harvest of your prayer or your experience of the presenc of God for sharing after Bible study.

God Bless,
Maria

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 2/1 Luke Chapter 17

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

We have Fr. Deutsch back with us this week. As we prepare to enter the season of Lent, father will share a simple message of the meaning of Lent. Following that, father will lead us to continue our journey through Luke's gospel by leading a scripture study of Luke Chapter 17.

Thank you father!

God Bless,

Maria

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Cornerstone professional group - 2008-02-02 (Saturday) 9:30 am/Vincent

Dear Friends and Families,

How are you? We talked about our professional group since last year. Finally we discussed with Fr. Kimm and got his support for using church office in the Saturday morning. We now decided to start our Cornerstone Professional Forum Group monthly meeting in the coming month. Our kickoff meeting is 2008-02-02 Saturday morning 9:30~11:30 am. Please see detail about our group, meeting location and schedule in the following.

We are welcome anyone from our friends and families including, spouse, relatives, friends, etc. whoever like to share, help others, or seeking for help. Please do let me know if you like to join us. We need to get an idea about how many people will join and report back to the church for the room reservation.

Thanks,
Vincent

Cornerstone Professional Forum / Group


Our simple goals:

  • Help ourselves and help others

  • Strengthen ourselves and ready to serve

  • Simple philosophy: Serving God, living life.

What we do:

  • Presenting ourselves and willing to share

    • Introduce ourselves and prepare for sharing

    • Position ourselves and understand how world is changing

    • Share / exchange our knowledge, experiences, specialties, etc.

  • Mentoring and exchanging spiritually and technically

    • Be a mentor and a mentee

    • Educate echo other - presentations, classes, projects, seminars, etc.

    • Explore new opportunity / new fields from the group

    • Practice technology leadership and teamwork with others

    • Exercise our management skills in any aspect

  • Helping our communities

    • Work on projects for the special needs

Where we meet:

  • St. Joseph of Cupertino - Parish Rectory Office.

10110 North DeAnza Boulevard

Cupertino, CA 95014-2211

Tel: (408) 252-7653


What day and time we meet: (we always can change it as we needed)

  • Every first Saturday in the month, 9:30 ~ 11:30 am.

    • 2008-02-02

    • 2008-03-01

    • 2008-04-05

    • 2008-05-03

    • 2008-06-07

    • 2008-07-12 (Second Saturday, because of ID4)

    • 2008-08-02

    • 2008-09-06

    • 2008-10-04

    • 2008-11-01

    • 2008-12-06

What we do in the meeting:

  • People introductions, presentations.

  • Tech talks, study reports, experience sharing, etc.

  • Project, special needs discussions.

  • More, to be updated.

Cornerstone Bible Study - 1/25 Introduction to 8 weeks Lenten prayer program

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

God Bless,

Maria

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 1/18: "No servant can serve two masters"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
"Heavenly father, thank you for your promise of true riches in heaven. Give us the grace that we need each day to live wholly surrendered to you so that we can be your most trusted friends both here on earth and in heaven." God Bless, Maria

Friday, December 21, 2007

Our study on December Luke 14:17~27 our 十字架

We discussed Luke 14:15~14:27 in our Bible study. Everyone shared our own 十 字架 in our daily life during the study. It was a very sharing and discussion. So we decided to write it down to remind us for our next study review and discussion to see what is our real 十字架 in our life, does it changes, or any new finding after this long Christmas and New Year.. We also will discuss the following remaining part in chapter 14, especially the meaning of 鹽 in our life. Please be prepared and think about it deeply....

路加福音 Luke 第十四章
宴席的比喻 
15 有一個同席的人聽了這些話,就向耶穌說:「將來能在天上的國裏吃飯的,才是有福的!」
16 耶穌給他說:「有一個人設了盛宴,邀請了許多人。
17 到了宴會的時刻,他便打發僕人去給被請的人說: 請來罷! 已經齊備了。
18 眾人開始一致推辭。第一個給他說:我買了一塊田地,必須前去看一看,請你原諒我。
19 另一個說:我買了五對牛,要去試試牠們,請你原諒我。
20 別的一個說:我才娶了妻,所以不能去。
21 僕人回來把這事告訴了主人。家主就生了氣,給僕人說:你快出去,到城中的大街小巷,把那些貧窮的、殘廢的、瞎眼的、瘸腿的,都領到這裏來。
22 僕人說:主,已經照你的吩咐辦了,可是還有空位子。
23 主人對僕人說:你出去,到大道以及籬笆邊,勉強人進來,好坐滿我的屋子。
24 我告訴你們:先前被請的那些人,沒有一個能嘗我這宴席的。」

做耶穌門徒的條件 
25 有許多群眾與耶穌同行,耶穌轉身向他們說:
26如果誰來就我,而不惱恨自己的父親、母親、妻子、兒女、兄弟、姊妹,甚至自己的性命,不能做我的門徒。
27 不論誰,若不背著自己的十字架,在我後面走,不能做我的門徒。
28 你們中間誰願意建造一座塔,而不先坐下籌算費用,是否有力完成呢﹖
29 免得他奠基以後,竟不能完工,所有看見的人都要譏誚他說:
30 這個人開始建造,而不能完工。
31 或者一個國王要去同別的國王交戰,那有不先坐下運籌一下,能否以一萬人,去抵抗那領著兩萬來攻打他的呢﹖
32 如果不能,就得趁那國王離得尚遠的時候,派遣使節去求和平的條款。
33 同樣,你們中不論是誰,如不捨棄他的有一切所有,不能做我的門徒。
34 鹽原是好的,但如果連鹽也失了味道,要用什麼來調和它呢﹖
35 既不利於土壤,又不適於糞料,惟有把它丟在外面。有耳聽的,聽罷!」

Wish everyone have a Marry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 12/14 The true meaning of Discipleship

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

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

This week's gospel has some very challenging messages: True disciples must renounce anyone or anything that stands in the way of a thorough commitment to Jesus. - "so therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple!"

"Holy Spirit, we look to you for guidance and wisdom. Continue to fill us with God's presence and power. Teach us to maintain the various aspects of our lives in good order as we wait expectantly for Jesus' return."

God Bless,
Maria

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 12/7 "he who humbles himself will be exalted"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
"Heavenly Father, we have no works worthy of you. Help us to be humble as we await your work in us."

God Bless,
Maria

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Cornerstone Bible Study - 11/30 "What is the Kingdom of God like?"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
"Lord, open my eyes to the ways you would work in my life this very day. I pray that your kingdom would come and benefit all whom you desire to touch and save through my life. Let me know your love that I might allow you to work through me."

God Bless,
Maria