St. Michael`s Messenger - St Michael`s Parish, St Joseph, Trinidad
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St. Michael`s Messenger - St Michael`s Parish, St Joseph, Trinidad
Stations of the Cross St. Michael’s Fri 6:00pm Benediction every first Friday of the Month 7:00 - 9:00pm St. Cecilia’s Tuesdays 6.30 am to 6.30 pm St. Theresa’s Wednesdays 6.30 am to 6.30 pm St. Michael’s Thursdays 6.30 am to 6.30 pm Eucharistic Adoration Fri 9:00 am - 12 noon Sat St. Cecilia’s 4:30 - 4:55 pm Or by Appointment Intercessory Prayer St. Michael’s church Confession Eucharistic Service (Lluengo) Third Sunday of every month 9:30am Weekend Masses: St. Cecilia’s Sat 5:00 pm; Sun 5:00pm St. Michael’s Sat 6:30 pm; Sun 7:30 am St. Theresa’s Sun 9:30am Spanish Mass (St. Cecilia’s) Sun 11:00am (Once per Month) Community Centre (Lluengo) First Sunday 9:30am Weekday Masses: St. Michael’s First Sat 6:30am St. Michael’s Wed, Fri 6:30 pm St. Cecilia’s Tue, Thu 5:45 am St. Cecilia’s First Fri 5:45am St. Michael’s Chaplet &Novena Wednesdays 5:30 pm St. Theresa’s Wednesday 6.00 am [email protected] Website: http://stmichaelsparishtt.org/ Parish Priest’s Office Hours: Wed 9am –11am Parish Office Hours: Mon– Fri 8am-2pm Parish Office 662-4103 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ StMichaelRcChurchMaracas Lay Ministers: Earl Clement, Hugo Huggins, Stephen Johnston, Wendy Johnston, Rosalie Labban, Gail Meade, Diane Narine, Judy Narinesingh, Michael Pancham, Eileen Richardson Regenerating Moral and Spiritual Values 6 Happy Birthday 7 Finance Chairman: Mr. Wayne Johnson Classifieds 7 Parish Council Chairman: Dr. Karl Theodore Sick Corner 7 Mass Schedule 8 Sextons: Mr. Francis Lezama (St. Michael’s), Ms. Daisy Laltoo (St. Cecilia’s), Ms. Jean Narine (St. Theresa’s) Data Entry: Hazel Ann Michelle Daniel Secretary: Patricia Plaza Admin. Assistant: Ms. Jacqueline Jeffrey Serving the Communities of: St Michael, Maracas; St. Cecilia, La Seiva; St Theresa, Acono; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Lluengo Pray with the Scriptures 2 Spiritual Communion Prayer 2 Fr. Gerard Tang Choon O.Carm Parish Priest, Episcopal Vicar of the Suburban Vicariate Deacon Rev. Sheldon Narine Meditation on the Sunday Scriptures 3 Maracas RC School: 662-5814 Principal: Ms. Denise Gordon Saint of the Week 4 Notices 5 In Residence: Fr. Joseph Phuong Entrusted to the pastoral care of the Carmelite Friars Inside this issue: 2 Sunday 15th February 2015 Parish of St Michael the Archangel Royal Road, Maracas Valley, St. Joseph Phone: 662-4103 Fax: 696-0160 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B) enger St. Michael’s Mess THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST Parish Mass Schedule St. Michael’s Messenger Page 2 St. Michael’s Messenger Pray with the Scriptures Page 8 Page 3 St. Michael’s Messenger Meditation on the Sunday Scriptures Isaiah 58:9-14 Luke 5:27-32 Sat, Feb 21 Isaiah 58:1-9 Matthew 9:14-15 Fri, Feb 20 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Luke 9:22-25 Thu, Feb 19 Joel 2:12-18 Ps51:3-6, 12-14, 17 2 Corinthians 5:20--6:2 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Wed, Feb 18 Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 Mark 8:14-21 Tue, Feb 17 Genesis 4:1-15, 25 Mark 8:11-13 Mon, Feb 16 Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11 1 Corinthians 10:31--11:1 Mark 1:40-45 Sun, Feb 15 Ps50:1, 8, 16-17, 20-21 Ps29:1-4, 3, 9-10 Ps 1:1-4, 6 Ps 51:3-6, 18-19 Ps 86:1-6 Spiritual Communion Prayer My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. AMEN. We Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood and the Carmelite Religious Life " “Go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded." (Mark 1, 44) Some say that priesthood is a creation of the Church and that Christ did not intend to make a priesthood. Here he acknowledges the Levitical priesthood, which he raised up and made perfect by his own sacrifice, creating an eternal priesthood which shall not pass away. The bodily healing of the stain of leprosy is a sign of the perfect healing of redemption made once for all by Christ the High Priest. The one priesthood of Christ Everything that the priesthood of the Old Covenant prefigured finds its fulfillment in Christ Jesus, the "one mediator between God and men." (1 Tim 2:5) The Christian tradition considers Melchizedek, "priest of God Most High," as a prefiguration of the priesthood of Christ, the unique "high priest after the order of Melchizedek'; (Heb 5:10; cf. 6:20; Gen 14:18) "holy, blameless, unstained," (Heb 7:26) "by a single offering he has forever perfected for all time those who are sanctified," (Heb 10:14) that is, by the unique sacrifice of the cross. (CCC 1544) The redemptive sacrifice of Christ is unique, accomplished once for all; yet it is made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Church. The same is true of the one priesthood of Christ; it is made present through the ministerial priesthood without diminishing the uniqueness of Christ's priesthood: "Only Christ is the true priest, the others being only his ministers." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Hebr. 8, 4) (CCC 1545) (Paragraph numbers indicate reference to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.) Page 4 St. Michael’s Messenger Saint of the week Page 5 St. Michael’s Messenger Notices St. Bernadette Feast Day: February 18 Born:1844 :: Died:1879 Bernadette Soubirous was born in Lourdes, France to Francois and Louise Casterot who were very poor. She was the oldest of six children but was frail and often sick. On Thursday, February 11, 1859, around the time of her First Communion, Bernadette was sent with her younger sister and a friend to gather firewood. She looked up and caught sight of the cave where she saw a lady wearing a lovely white dress with a bright belt. On top of each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the same color as her rosary beads. Then she began to say the rosary while the lady let her beads clip through her fingers, without moving her lips. The beautiful lady who appeared to Bernadette above a rosebush in the grotto of Massabielle was God's Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. She appeared to Bernadette eighteen times and spoke with her. She told Bernadette that she should pray for sinners and do penance.The Lady also told her to have a chapel built there in her honor. Many people did not believe Bernadette when she spoke of her vision. She had to suffer very much. But one day Our Lady told Bernadette to dig in the mud. As she did, a spring of water began to flow. The next day it continued to grow larger and larger. Many miracles happened when people began to use this water.When Bernadette was older, she became a sister. She was always very humble and did not want to be praised. She did not want to receive special treatment just because she had actually seen the Blessed Virgin.Although her own health was poor, she helped care for the sick and elderly sisters. She died in 1879 at the age of thirty-six. Her last words were: "Holy Mary, pray for me, a poor sinner." Reflection: Let us pray for conversion of hearts and minds so that many people will come to know and love God Page 6 St. Michael’s Messenger Regenerating Moral and Spiritual Values in our Society What should I do for Lent? Well, here are 10 suggestions by Pope Francis. 1. Get rid of the lazy addiction to evil “[Lent] is a ‘powerful’ season, a turning point that can foster change and conversion in each of us. We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us and thus we leave behind old habits and the lazy addiction to the evil that deceives and ensnares us.” 2. Do something that hurts “Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.” 3. Don’t remain indifferent “Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience. God is not indifferent to our world; he so loves it that he gave his Son for our salvation.” Ash Wednesday Masses are as follows 6am St. Theresa’s, 9am Maracas R.C. School, 5:30pm St. Cecilia’s and 7pm St. Michael’s. St Theresa is having their Family Day on 26th April 2015. There will also be Bar-Be –Que on sale for $35.00 The Archdiocesan Catechetical Office Suburban Vicariate invites Young Adults and Adults to Lenten Reflections on Pope Francis’ The Joy of The Gospel at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Curepe from 19th –26th February and 05th March from 6:30pm –7:30pm. Presenter: Fr. Arnold Francis Generation S is challenging all young people ages 15 to 35 years to a Fast for a Cause. This fast begins from 6pm on Thursday, March 5th and end at 6pm on Friday, March 6th, 2015. You can check Mr. Gary De Freitas or their facebook page for more information. The Catholic News will be sold for $5.00 for the month of March due to a coupon which entitles the purchaser to win a trip to Poland, Prague and Vienna. The draw takes place on Wednesday 8th April on TCN. Page 7 St. Michael’s Messenger Happy Birthday - February 4th—Antoinette Henry, Saadiah Ramdial 8th—Fr. Gerard, Joan Frederick, Josiah Meade 14th—Jared Scott 15th—Faustina Villaroel 16th—Juliana Hernandez 18th—Cindy Sadaphal, Virginia Alexander 19th—Suresh Narine 24th—Anton De Silva 26th—Kimberly Dennis 27th—Jean Narine 28th—Zéa Jackman, Richard Jay Williams, Peter Jay Williams The Sick Corner Patricia Ali Petra Beatrice Gerald Bennett Annie Caesar Mary Cedeno Dianne Dennis Joan Flavergny Anne Clarke Cyril Gonzales Lynn Harewood Juanita Mendoza Camilla Morris Gertrude Noreiga Matilda Noreiga Michail Ramsumair Keith Clarke If you know of any sick that wish to be visited, please contact the Parish Office and submit the information. Classifieds Caregiver/ Geriatric Nurse available. Call 381-0698 or 498-3566