St. Bernard, L.A.

👶🏼 Infant baptism
For children 0 to 6 years old.

👼🏼 Children's baptism (under Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults [RCIA])
For unbaptized children, 7 to 17 years old.

🙎🏽 Adult sacraments (under RCIA)
For unbaptized adults, 18 years or older.

🧔🏾 Adult communion, or confirmation (under RCIA)
For baptized adults, 18 years or older, who need either sacrament, or both.

👨🏾‍❤️‍👨🏼 Marriage
Adults who wish to marry, or have their civil union blessed.

This, of course, is not an exhaustive list. Your life situation and circumstances will also vary. But we are here to help! For more information on any or all of theses sacraments, call the church office at (323) 255-6142, or email Victor Mojica, director of religious education, at vmojica@stbernard-church.com. We will be glad to sit down with your family and talk you through the process.

In today's Gospel, we have not one, but two, hopeless cases. Impossible!

A woman bleeding profusely for 12 years. No doctors could help. No amount of money could secure a cure. Simply impossible!

A child near death. With only a brief delay while healing this bleeding soul, the girl dies. All come to the same conclusion; why bother the teacher any more? —

"Your daughter has died."

Not one, but two hopeless cases. Impossible! And yet, Jesus brings life out of death.

Does this same Jesus have anything to do with our lives and our impossible situations?

Una mujer que sangraba profusamente desde hacía 12 años. Ningún médico podía ayudarla. Ninguna cantidad de dinero podía asegurar una cura. ¡Simplemente imposible!

Una niña al borde de la muerte. Con solo un breve retraso mientras se cura su alma sangrante, la niña muere. Todos llegan a la misma conclusión: ¿para qué molestar más a la maestra?

"Ya se murió tu hija."

No uno, sino dos casos sin esperanza. ¡Imposible! Y, sin embargo, Jesús saca vida de la muerte.

¿Tiene este mismo Jesús algo que ver con nuestras vidas y nuestras situaciones imposibles?