15th Sunday (C)
Fr. Michael Depcik offers us a reflection of our Lord’s words to us on the 15th Sunday of Ordinary time year C in American Sign Language. The Archdiocese of Washington gives us the readings in ASL.
Tags: Access, ASL, Deaf Church, Deaf Ministry, OC Deaf Church, Sign LanguageDeaf Ministry Videos
Deaf Ministry Videos in ASL are posted weekly. We are doing so because we want a host of sign language videos at your fingertips. Particularly, ASL how to foster discipleship in our Lord Jesus Christ. Providing access to him through the church, revelation, and social media is what we are striving for. Introductions are big in any relationship. So, we want you and others to foster a meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ.
Starting the faith filled relationship with our Lord and savior is only the beginning. Other parts of this relationship is being in a community of believers. This is because as a community we receive and enjoy the many fruits of fellowship together. His love is within us who follow his commands, ordinances, and precious body and blood.
We communicate with each other at our services in American Sign language so that everyone has access.
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14th Sunday OT (C)
Fr. Michael Depcik gives us a ‘ferverino’ on Jesus’ words to us. Christopher at ASL Catholic Media, and ADW provide all Catholic Deaf Ministries with the readings for the 14th Sunday OT (C).
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ASL Catholic Media, FR. MD, and the ADW share us this week’s readings and gospel reflection; 13th Sunday OT (C). Please be sure to check out their webpages and social media outlets.
Tags: ASL CatholicCorpus Christi
Fr. MD gives us a sermon homily video is ASL of Corpus Christi. ASL Catholic Media provides the gospel for Corpus Christi.
Holy Trinity (C)
The readings for the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity (C) in ASL are brought to you by ASL Catholic Media and ADW ministry. These two powerhouse enterprises truly serve and assist every parish that does ministry. Hats off to them.
Fr. MD offers a reflection or sermon in ASL. We appreciate all he gives us each week. We particularly like when his videos are 10 minutes or more; because we get more of the faith handed down to us and practical ways to live out the teachings of Jesus Christ. 😛
But hey! We can’t just rely on deacons, priests, catechists, and ministers to do all the work to solidify our faith for us. Our Lord offers himself in Eucharistic adoration so that we can spend time with him. He also offers himself to be understood in the Bible to know of His love for us, and how he has acted throughout time.
We need not be afraid of God. Turning to him should be our first step. When we seek God we have to listen. A trained ear will identify his response in a myriad of ways. The response to our petitions and prayers are not only found in our encounter with him in our mind. Yes, he does respond and speak to us in our mind, but other ways are through signs, actions of others, and sometimes through a host of providential events around us. But even if were to count signs, actions of others, and a slew of providential events as a sign of God’s blessings, we could falsely reduce God to the “prosperity Gospel” adage. This implies that if everything is rosy in our life, God is with me. But, besides the temptation to subscribe to the “prosperity Gospel’s’ line of thought, we should be open to experience God working through all things and in all things. Thus over a period of time often in reflection we can deduce God’s hand-at-work since the time of our petitions.
Was not Job tested in the bible tested? Did not most saints have the “Dark night of the soul” where they felt abandoned? Such trials are ways to deepen our relationship with God. Does not the rainbow come after the storm? For many of us the storm is life itself and hopefully we will enjoy an eternal reward of blissfulness.
Sounds nice. But we are in the here and now and things may be quite uncomfortable. Let’s look recall all of the events in the Old Testament. The chosen people went astray, were at war, enslaved in bitterness, but were redeemed because they repented and sought the Lord. Their hope was in the Lord our God, and thus they were delivered and brought to the promised land.
Granted, the Israelites were enslaved for over 400 years and only those last remnants who were not present at Sinai enjoyed the promised land. Sounds like a cruel God. But, God foretold what would happen if they rejected him. Remember the episode? Israel was the only nation without a human king. They got jealous and wanted one. So, the people wanted a human king and God warned them not to appoint a human one, because he was their king and God. The people refused God’s offer and God permitted a human king…..God was just in his punishment.
But once the people of God recalled and realized their transgression and obeyed God once more they were given new life. This episode of our history pertains to us as well. We have a similar history yet not found in a book, but in the soul. Our personal relationship with God is similar to that of the Israelites. What evil we endure may be a temporal punishment of past transgressions, or maybe it is just a test. But when we continue seeking God and live by his commands despite what is happening, God is pleased.
So it is all about pleasing God? Yup. When we do this well, it indirectly pleases others because then there is a communal communion with God. Said differently, God dwells in and within his people. Going to mass is a sure way to experience God dwelling in and within His people. Many find the offering of peace during mass refreshing, a relief, and an opportunity to be at peace. Then, what follows is God giving us His peace through grace (the indwelling of the Holy Spirit) via the Body and Blood of his sacrificed son, Jesus Christ.
Moreover today (Sunday) we celebrate and honor the Holy Trinity (C). We celebrate the two divine missions coming from God the father so that we can be his people. We celebrate the mission of Jesus Christ coming down from heaven and incarnating through the humanity of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and dying on the cross to fulfill the Father’s will. We celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit (at Pentecost) to sanctify, gather, and lead all to Jesus Christ in truth.
Amen.
For those of you who still want more on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (C). Feel free to research and summarize in your own words the theological terms and meanings below. 😛
The Holy Trinity: 5 notions 4 relations 3 persons 2 missions 1 God O comprehension
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Pentecost Sunday (C)
Pentecost Sunday (C) in ASL is brought to us by ASL Catholic Media and Fr. MD. Check out more Deaf Ministry Videos on our website.
Catholic
Catholic ASL Deaf Church Community in the Diocese of Orange, California. We follow Jesus Christ which makes us Christian. Followers of Christ all over the world is summed up with being universal followers. We are Catholic because the word itself means ‘universal.’ Christianity is predominantly Catholic even though there are many denominations. Our Catholic-Christian Deaf ministry is centered on the Eucharist. Our efforts here for brothers and sisters in Christ to seek to receive the sacraments especially the Eucharist.
Hallmarks of the Catholic faith is the hierarchy. We have the vicar of Christ on earth, the pope. We also have cardinals, bishops, priests, deacons, religious brothers and sisters, and the lay faithful. This body of faith in unique and diverse that it cultivates life as we have grace within us. Our prayer is that we all are united in Jesus Christ. That we confess to one faith, one church, and one Lord of all.
Catholic
An interesting fact about the Catholic faith is that you can go anywhere in the world and the service is the same. The mass, the unbloody sacrifice is offered unto God the Father just as on Calvary. It is not a new and separate sacrifice aside from Christ’s it is the same. Our notion of time thinks that it is impossible to do, say, and believe such a thought.
Time is a creation of God that we humans know and experience. However, with God it is not the case. He is outside of time. He gives us his one eternal sacrifice throughout all time. The scriptures attest that the lamb was already slain from the foundations of the world.
Mass
We Catholics take Jesus’ words really seriously even more so than Baptists, Adventists, Methodists, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, and all others. Our Lord’s words are placed in the proper context. A sure way to be sure to stand behind such teachings and decrees of the Church is to look at all the councils, synods, and responses to heresies. They all attest to the same truth that the Church proclaims.
Eucharist
John 6:53-58
53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats[a] my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
We truly believe that Jesus’ body, blood, soul and divinity is present in the Catholic mass.
ASL
Our ministry exists to proclaim and hand down the faith in American Sign Language to Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Hearing, disabled, and those with special needs. ASL Ministry is fulfilling and so come join us on Sundays.
Tags: ASL Catholic, California Deaf Ministry, OC Deaf5th Sunday of Easter Year C
Praise be Jesus Christ! Now and Forever! Fr. MD, Christopher at ASL Catholic Media, and our brothers and sisters in the ADW deliver the 5th Sunday of Easter Year C.
