St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church Parish Office: 972‐542‐4667 Fax: 972‐542‐4641 Faith Formation Office: 972‐542‐4685 Mailing Address: 411 Paula Road McKinney, Texas 75069 Email: [email protected]Website: [email protected]Office Hours: Monday ‐ Friday: 9:00am ‐ 5:00pm Office is closed on Saturday & Sunday After Hours Sick Call & Funeral Request: 469.667.7324 Daily Masses Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 8:00 am Tuesday and Thursday: 5:30 pm CLERGY PRIEST: Rev. Salvador Guzmán Rev. Eugene Az0rji DEACONS: George Polcer, John Rapier, Sid Little, Juan Jorge Hernández Weekend Mass Schedule: Saturday: Vigil Mass 5:00pm Sunday: 8:00am & 11:30am Spanish: 9:30am & 1:30pm Confessions Thursday 6:00pm ‐ 7:00pm Saturday 3:00pm ‐ 4:00pm Adoration Thursday 6:00pm ‐ 7:00pm 1st Friday of the month 8:30am ‐ 10:00am Holy Family (Quasi‐Parish) 919 Spence Road P.O. Box 482 Van Alstyne, Texas 75495 903.482.6322 Website: www.holyfamily‐vanalstyne.org Mass Times: Deacon Patrick Hayes Sunday 9:00am English 12 noon Spanish Thursday 9:00am English EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2017 ¿Y por qué se inquietan por el vestido? Miren los lirios del campo, cómo van creciendo sin fatigarse ni tejer. Yo les aseguro que ni Salomón, en el esplendor de su gloria, se vistió como uno de ellos. Matthew 6:28-29 OCTAVO DOMINGO DEL TIEMPO ORDINARIO DOMINGO 26 DE FEBRERO 2017 Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. Matthew 6:28-29
Adoration Thursday 6:00pm ‐ 7:00pm 1st Friday of the month 8:30am ‐ 10:00am
Holy Family (Quasi‐Parish) 919 Spence Road P.O. Box 482
Van Alstyne, Texas 75495 903.482.6322 Website: www.holyfamily‐vanalstyne.org Mass Times: Deacon Patrick Hayes
Sunday 9:00am English 12 noon Spanish Thursday 9:00am English
EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2017
¿Y por qué se inquietan por el vestido? Miren los lirios del campo, cómo van creciendo sin fatigarse ni tejer. Yo les
aseguro que ni Salomón, en el esplendor de su gloria, se vistió
como uno de ellos.
Matthew 6:28-29
OCTAVO DOMINGO DEL TIEMPO ORDINARIO
DOMINGO 26 DE FEBRERO 2017
Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that
not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of
them.
Matthew 6:28-29
Children’s Liturgy Corner Sunday, February 26, 2017 - Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
God’s Invitation Lent is a season of being invited by God in a deeply personal way. “Come back to me, with all of your heart,” our Lord beckons. "We will," we respond, but we aren’t quite ready yet, our hearts are not prepared. We want to squirm, evade, avoid. Our souls not yet perfect. We are not ready for God to love us. Yes, of course we want to have a deeper relationship with God, we tell ourselves earnestly. And we will….Soon. God calls to us again: Come back to me, with all of your heart. Ok, ok, I really will. Just a few more things to do at work. Let me spend a little more time in prayer first. Let me get to Reconciliation. Let me clean my oven, tidy my closets. Sell my yoke of oxen. Check a field I have purchased….
Come back to me, with all of your heart. It is an extraordinary invitation to each one of us. To me in a personal, individual way. God invites me to drop the defenses that I hold up between myself and God. All God wants is for me to realize that my standards, my way of judging and loving are so very different from God’s way, and so much smaller. God offers an entire Lent season, an entire lifetime, of loving me unconditionally, no matter what I have done or how much I think I have hidden from God.
From the first day of Lent, the Ash Wednesday readings make God's call to us clear: “Return to me with your whole heart.”
“A clean heart create for me, O God,” Psalm 51 offers. “Give me back the joy of your salvation.” That is exactly what our loving God wants to give us, the joy of salvation. In North America, Lent falls in winter and these days are cold and dark, perfect for hiding ourselves indoors, perfect for hiding from God - or so we imagine. But our God is insistent, loving, gently prodding. God is the parent of the Prodigal Child, waiting faithfully, eagerly on the road for our return, night after night. There are no folded arms and stern judging stares, only the straining eyes of a parent eager for our return, longing to embrace us and rejoice in us. Yet we spend so much time trying to think of how to return and what to say, how to begin the conversation. It’s only when we finally appear after so much time away, embarrassed and confused, that we understand we don’t have to say anything. We only have to show up. Look up there on the road ahead of us: our loving God is jumping up and down for joy. The invitation to us has been heard. We have returned home! But, wait... What stops us from this great reunion? What keeps us from accepting this invitation to something deeper in our lives with God? We feel in our hearts that there are things we should say first: “wait…but…if only” and finally, “If God really knew about me…” It doesn’t matter. None of it matters. Only the joy that we have turned to God and that like a loving father or mother, God is smothering us with embraces and joyful cries. We have returned!
Come back to me, with all of your heart. Our acceptance of this call, this appeal to our hearts is simple if we can only get beyond the fear. All we have to do is say to our Lord, "I'm here. Where do I start? Yes, I want to be with you." Our hearts have been opened and we have taken the first step toward the rejoicing parent on the road. No explanations are necessary, only to pause and picture in our hearts the joyfully loving and unblinking gaze of God that falls on us. What's the next step on our journey home? We could take the earliest moments of our day, before we have gotten out of bed to thank God for such a loving invitation and ask for help in opening our hearts to it. We could read about beginning our Lenten patterns. We could remember throughout the day the invitation that has moved our hearts:
Come back to me, with all of your heart. And we can rejoice along with God.
That is the invitation of each day of Lent. Today is the day to accept it. Taken from http://onlineministries.creighton.edu
ASH WEDNESDAY PRAYER
Merciful God of infinite compassion, whose creating power called us forth from the dust of
the earth, in this, the acceptable time, lead us inward to be at peace with you,
impel us outward to be reconciled with our neighbor, that we may embrace the sacred
discipline of Lent with broken, humbled hearts and so come to the blessed joy of your Paschal
feast cleansed and renewed. This we ask of you. Amen.
FAST & ABSTINENCE Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory
days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days
of abstinence. For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a
person is permitted to eat one full meal. Two smaller meals may also be taken, but not to
equal a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon
members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.
- Taken from usccb.org
Mass Intentions for the week of: February 25th - March 4th Saturday, February 25th 5:00 pm Arthur Paul Sunday, February 26th 8:00am John Edema 9:30am Santiago Iriarte Bernaola 11:30am Josefina Roxas , For the People 1:30pm Federico Marquez
Monday, February 27th 8:00 am Edward Hulse
Tuesday, February 28th 5:30pm Alvino Perez, Sr.
Wednesday, March 1st 8:00am For the People 12noon Jose Isaac Marquez Muñoz 4:00pm Dr. Sheridan S. Evans 6:00pm For the People 8:00pm Jose Federico Cervantes Perez
Thursday, March 2nd 5:30 pm Steven Christopher Lovett
Friday, March 3rd 8:00 am Sanctity of Life
Saturday, March 4th 5:00pm Sarah Oliver Deceased Family Members of Emile Haydel
Readings for the week of: Feb. 26th - March 5th
Sunday, 26th of Feb., 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 49:14-15; Ps 62; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Matthew 6:24-34 Monday, 27th of February: Sir 17:20-24; Ps 32; Mark 10:17-27
Tues., 28th of February: Sir 35:1-12; Ps 50; Mark 10:28-31 Wednesday, 1st of March: Ash Wednesday Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51; 2 Cor 5:20-6:2; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday, 2nd of March: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1; Luke 9:22-25
Friday, 3rd of March: St. Katharine Drexel, 1st Friday World Day of Prayer Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51; Matthew 9:14-15 Saturday, 4th of March: St. Casimir Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86; Luke 5:27-32 Sun., 5th of March: 1st Sunday of Lent Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7;Ps 51; Rom 5:12-19;Matthew 4:1-11
OUR SUNDAY OFFERING
Sunday, February 19th - Collection: $15,153.00 Online Giving: $2,601.00 Total Giving: $17,754.00
Sunday, February 19th - 2nd Collection: (Mortgage Reduction): $3,702.00 Online Giving: $782.00 Total Giving: $4,484.00 St. Vincent de Paul: $2,590.00 Online Giving: $20.00 Total Giving: $2,610.00
Attendance: 3,254 Thank you for your constant giving.
Each one must do just as he has purposed in his
heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God
loves a cheerful giver.”
2 Corinthians 9:7
Holy Family Hall Food Distribution is held
on the Tuesday & Thursday Open: 2:00 - 4:00 pm
2nd Saturday of the month
7:30am - 9:45 am Helpline: 214-314-5698 Thrift Store Pickup: 214.373.7837 Email: [email protected]
Baptisms in English are held every 2nd Sunday of the month after the
11:30am Mass.
Pre-baptismal class registrations are held every Wednesday in the parish office from 3pm-5pm. Pre-baptismal classes are held every 4th Saturday of the month in the parish office from 9am - 10:30am. You must register prior to attending the class.
Upcoming baptismal class dates will be: March 25, 2017 April 22, 2017
Remembrance If you would like to have a loved one or a special intention remembered by providing for the sanctuary candle, please stop by the parish office.
Pope’s Prayer Intention for March: Evangelization Intention: Support for Persecuted Christians. That persecuted Christians may be supported by the prayers and material help of the whole
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
M e e t i n g G o d W i t h o u t F e a r What would you feel if God suddenly walked into a room? Fear? Shame? Joy? Apprehension? Panic? A desire to hide? Relief when God finally left? Indeed, how would we even recognize God should God walk into a room? Jane Tyson Clement, a poet and a member of the Bruderhof community, fantasizes about what might run through her mind and heart if Jesus suddenly walked up to her. In a poem entitled, Vigil, she writes:
“What would I do, O Master, if you came slowly out of the woods. Would I know your step? Would I know by my beating heart? Would I know by your eyes? Would I feel on my shoulder too, the burden you carry? Would I rise and stand still till you drew near or cover my eyes in shame? Or would I simply forget everything except that you had come and were here?”
Those last lines highlight the most important of all truths, namely, that God is love and only by letting that kind of love into our lives can we save ourselves from disappointment, shame, and sadness. I don’t often remember my dreams, nor do I set much stock by them, but, several years ago, I had a dream that I both remember and set some stock by. It went something like this: For whatever reason, and dreams don’t give you a reason, I was asked to go to an airport and pick up Jesus, who was arriving on a flight. I was understandably nervous and frightened. A bevy of apprehensions beset me: How would I recognize him? What would he look like? How would he react to me? What would I say to him? Would I like what I saw? More frightening yet, would he like what he saw when he looked at me? With those feelings surging through me, I stood, as one stands in a dream, at the end of a long corridor nervously surveying the passengers who were walking towards me. How would I recognize Jesus and would his first glance at me reflect his disappointment? But this was a good dream and it taught me as much about God as I’d learned in all my years of studying theology. All of my fears were alleviated in a second. What happened was the opposite of all my expectations: Suddenly, walking down the corridor towards me was Jesus, smiling, beaming with delight, coming straight for me, rushing, eager to meet me. Everything about him was stunningly and wonderfully disarming. There was no awkward moment; everything about him erased that. His eyes, his face, and his body embraced me without reserve and without judgement. I knew he saw straight through me, knew all my faults and weaknesses, my lack of substance, and none of it mattered. And, for that moment, none of it mattered to me either. Jesus was eager to meet me! In that moment, as Jane Tyson Clement suggests, one forgets everything, except that God is here. There’s no place for fear or shame or wondering what God thinks of you. And that’s a lesson we must somehow learn, somehow experience. We live with too much fear of God. Partly its bad theology, but mostly we fear because we’ve never experienced the kind of love that’s manifest in God and we take for granted that anyone who sees us as we really are (in our unloveliness, weaknesses, pathology, sin, insubstantiality) will, in the end, be as disappointed with us as we are with ourselves. At the end of the day we expect that God is disappointed with us and will greet us with a frown. The tragedy and sadness here is that, because we think that God is disappointed in us, especially at those times when we are disappointed with ourselves, we try to avoid meeting the one person, one love, and the one energy, God, that actually understands us, accepts us, delights in us, and is eager to smile at us. We are relieved that we never have to pick up Jesus at an airport. That’s also true of church: We stay away from church exactly at those times when we would most need to be there. A prairie poet and former Oblate confrere, Harry Hellman, gets the last word on this. He puts it well: Let’s go back to the weather. Most days you don’t notice there is any until you fall into love, and/or sin, and then you see the clouds and stare holes into heaven, looking for Christ when He’s really at your shoulder looking for you and in such great shape, you’d never believe what he’s been through. Then before you know how it happened, it’s July again or August and you have time to do what you should have been doing all your life, sitting or walking on the grass in bare feet and loving. … Then you’re all petals once more, and tendrils till the storm breaks your heart. And the biggest piece goes to heaven, and to hell with the weather.
- Taken from www.ronrolheiser.com
LENT
In the cycle of weekday readings (and in the Divine Office), Lent falls into two parts. The first part, including the "pre-Lent" of Ash Wednesday and the rest of that week, runs through to Saturday of Week 3. In these three and a half weeks, the Gospel texts are taken from the Synoptics and the Old Testament readings are chosen accordingly. The message running throughout is a call to a life of Gospel conversion. The pericopes speak of beginning anew, of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving; of conversion; of mutual forgiveness; of hardness of heart; of love of enemies; of absolute claims of iustice and love over ritual and cult; of the call to holiness, and so forth.(Occasionally, what appears to be salvation history narrative is interspersed among these moral texts - a story like the call of Naaman or the workers in the vineyard, for example - but, In this context they are meant to be read as call to conversion rather than as referring to Christ or to the Easter mysteries.) The readings for the second half of Lent are taken from the Gospel of John, beginning on the Monday of the fourth week of Lent at John 4:43 and going through, omitting passages read on Sundays and during Easter, to chapter 13. It is clear that these readings from John do not constitute a kind of "crash course" in the life of Jesus, so much as a presentation of the mystery of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, of whom John says that all who believe in him will have eternal life. Christ is presented as the healer and life-giver, as the one who gives life through his confrontation with death and gathers Into one the scattered children of God. How do these two sections of the lectionary fit together and what can they tell us about the spirit of Lent? The shift from the "ethical" to the "christological" is no accident. The purpose of the first part of Lent is to bring us to compunction. "Compunction" is etymologically related to the verb "to puncture" and suggests the deflation of our inflated egos, a challenge to any self-deceit about the quality of our lives as disciples of Jesus. By hitting us again and again with demands which we not only fail to obey, but which we come to recognize as being quite beyond us, the Gospel passages are meant to trouble us, to confront our illusions about ourselves. "Remember, you are dust . . ." From this perspective, Lenten penance may be more effective if we fail in our resolutions than If we succeed, for its purpose is not to confirm us in our sense of virtue but to bring home to us our radical need of salvation. It is in answer to this profound awareness of need that the lectionary shifts from the Synoptics to John, from the demands of discipleship to the person of Jesus. John presents Jesus as the Savior, but Jesus can only save those who know their need for salvation.
Next week, on Ash Wednesday, we will take up the Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. This collection supports the Church in over 20 countries, many of which are still struggling to recover in the aftermath of Soviet rule. Funds from this collection support pastoral care, catechesis, building renovations, and seminary formation. Your support restores the Church and builds the future in this region. Please prayerfully consider how you can support the collection next week. More information can be found at www.usccb.org/ccee.
We pray for those in need of healing May the Holy Spirit Light Their Way
Mercedes Peltz, Kay Dayton, Irma Avila, Antonio Garcia, Leonor Dominguez, Alejandro Gomez, Kristina Greer, Frank Stevens, Art Burke, Al Frettoloso, Joseph Bell, Kay Stevens, Starnes Family, Andrew Hernandez,
Elizabeth Sanchez, Jose Arturo Ramos, Gabriela de la Torre,.Bertha Villasana, Bonnie Wilkerson, Maria Faz Hernandez, Casimiro A. Diaz, Madeline Prugh, Priscilla Rodriguez, Narciza Bravo,
Cipriano Castillo Aguilar, Cheri Mills, John Christopher Cortes, Patricia Trejo, Luis Gonzalez, Florene Hendricks, Susie Alvarez, Fabiola Afanador, Narcisa Bravo, Lourdes Diaz, Maria Louise Sanchez, Dan Crum,
Collville Bain, Judy Coenen, Andrew Karl, Kelly Claffey, Alexandra Venegas, Maria Niño, Yuritza Huerta Ibarra, Antonio Garcia, Andrew Hernandez, Christy Lane, Erin Knapik, Walker Phillips, Carroll Family, Marcy Roberts, Cathy Greise,
Maria Nerios, Mary Williams, Maria del Rocio Garcia Calles, Evan Flores, Terry Hanoski, Emiliano Peña, Jason McCune, Susy Martilla, Paula Carrion, Pat Guidry, Toni Hawley, Lupe Gomez, Jeff Frazier, Francisco Morales, Steven Neville, Steve Macias,
Bettye Holmes, Margarita Rodriguez, Lorenzo Vasquez, Lilia, Carlos Enrique Lopez, Kenadi Pearson, Hunter Starnes, Gina Portillo, Maria Bueno, Judith Lopez, Milagros Balderas, Isidra Arrellano, Rick Hart, Rose Marie Snell, Brenda Bulot,
Sherry Campbell, Marguerite Martin, Francisco Olvera, Jeff Hull, Natalie Alexander, Mike Sullivan, Sherry Matthews, Roberto Segura, Angela Soto, Andrew Sanchez, Graciela Espinoza, Nina Roger, Alejandra Moreno, Ana J. Ruiz,
Karen Beaty, Patrick Greise, Juanita Beasley, Terry Good, Matiana Chavez, Luis Enrique Alejos, Rebecca Guerrero, Gloria Gutierrez, Bill Munsel, Pat Kendall, George Lawrence, Ann Davidson, Mary Kalupa , Chris Cagile, Martha Gonzalez, Ruben Martinez, Lidia Segura, Alexander Rafael Cruz, Teresa Martinez, Mr. & Mrs. Perez, Miriam Stevens, Idolina Santos,
Alissa Ramirez, Audrey Abel, Elizabeth Barrett, Mary Jo Van Grinsven To add someone to the prayer list for healing, please kindly call the parish office.
It is almost Baby Bank time! Next weekend the banks will be available for pick-up in the narthex from the Pro-Life Group Auxiliary. An average bank can
bring in as much as $25, enough to help with diapers, train a Sidewalk Counselor, or provide instructive material. Be sure to
get yours and join the fight for life!
This Ash Wednesday official kicks off the Plano 40 Days for Life Spring campaign! The Pro-Life Group
Auxiliary invites all who are interested to join the peaceful, prayerful witness of 40 Days for Life
during Lent in an effort to shut down the Plano Planned Parenthood located at 600 North Central Expressway. Thanks to your prayerful efforts and
God’s grace the McKinney Planned Parenthood was shut down. The danger of abortion still exists in nearby Plano, however. If you are interested in
giving one or more hour of your time to this effort during the six weeks of Lent, please contact Mary
Borchard for sign up times and dates at 469-573-3985 or [email protected].
You may also go online at 40daysforlife.com/plano for sign ups and more information.
Come Join Us
When: Tuesday, February 28th at 6:30 P.M.
Where: St. M ichael Hall Please bring a dish to share. Invite a
parishioner that you might know who would enjoy an evening of food and fellowship.
RETURN TO GOD WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO YOU. SHARE YOUR TIME, TALENT & TREASURE!
Stations of the Cross
Fridays during LENT
5:30pm
Please come join us in prayer.
Knights of Columbus will host their first Fish Fry next Friday, March 10th
in St. Michael’s Hall beginning at 5pm. Please come share in the meal.
Queridos hermanos: Todos tenemos la tentación de pensar, después de escuchar estos domingos los textos de San Mateo, que Jesús sólo nos habla de moral, de normas, conductas. Es mucho más, nos presenta del sentido de la vida, la actitud ante ella. Hoy se nos habla de la posesión del dinero y las preocupaciones del día a día. Lo contrario a Dios es el dinero: “Nadie puede estar al servicio de dos amos. Porque despreciará a uno y querrá al otro; o, al contrario, se dedicará al primero y no hará caso al segundo. No podéis servir a Dios y al dinero”. Parece claro, hay que elegir, veamos. No se nos dice, que no hay que dar ninguna importancia a los bienes materiales, a nadie se le ocurre desear la pobreza para su familia, o confiar la alimentación o la salud de los suyos, a la providencia. De lo que se habla, es de considerar al dinero “amo y señor”, de hacer de él una preocupación que nos esclavice. Esta, es una tentación muy fuerte hoy en día, cuando no vemos más allá de los billetes de cincuenta euros, estamos en peligro de deshumanizarnos y perder la dignidad. El dinero no lo compra todo, es verdad que ayuda al bienestar, pero el amor, la amistad… si se compran con dinero, sólo pueden llevar a la ansiedad y la angustia, y el no tener dinero al descarte y la exclusión. Alguno puede que piense que es este un Evangelio romántico, basado en el buenismo y fuera de la realidad. Nunca más lejos de esta consideración. Es extremadamente actual, sino, a que responden tantos programas y concursos televisivos de comida, tantas pasarelas de moda, como si el comer y el vestir fueran toda nuestra vida. Nos dice Jesús: “No andéis agobiados pensando qué vais a comer, o qué vais a beber, o con qué os vais a vestir. Los paganos se afanan por esas cosas. Ya sabe vuestro Padre del cielo que tenéis necesidad de todo eso”. Basta con echar una mirada a nuestra casa y ver lo que no utilizamos hace tiempo, lo que es superfluo y nos sobra. En cierta manera hay una crítica al sistema, que nos lleva a pensar que somos más en la medida que tenemos más que los demás. Cómo explicar que mientras algunos poseen tanto, a otros les falta lo necesario. Todo ésto sólo se puede entender, desde una sociedad basada en la competitividad y el individualismo (que son las bases del capitalismo), pero esa no es la respuesta del Evangelio, que termina hoy diciendo: “Sobre todo buscad el Reino de Dios y su justicia; lo demás se os dará por añadidura”. Nos andamos mucho por las añadiduras y nos chirría un poco la justicia, sobre todo la social, que debe ser como el Reino para la vida futura. Pero resulta que es para cada día, lo pedimos a diario: “Venga tu Reino. El pan nuestro de cada día, dánosle hoy”. Los pájaros, los lirios, la hierba… no nos vendría mal a los cristianos un poco de poesía, no de la que evade, sino de la que está cargada de realismo y futuro. Entre tantos agobios como nos buscamos, sin un poco de sentido de lo poético, lo simbólico, es difícil que podamos entender algo tan sencillo como la austeridad gozosa, he dicho bien, gozosa, no impuesta; el compartir la mesa (Eucaristía); la vida después de la vida ( la trascendencia). Al final, parece clara aquella exclamación de Jesús: “Te doy gracias, Padre, Señor del cielo y de la tierra, porque has escondido estas cosas a los sabios y entendidos, y se las has revelado a los pequeños. Sí, Padre, así te ha parecido bien” (Mt.11:25). Que esta Eucaristía, que es manifestación del Reino, nos ayude a tener como único Señor a Dios, que como dice la primera lectura de Isaías: “Pues, aunque una madre te olvidara, yo no te olvidaré”; a valorar más a las personas que a las cosas y aprender la sabiduría que nos enseña esta página evangélica. PD: Podemos terminar con un poco de humor, ante un tema tan comprometido. Ahora que celebramos el centenario de la poeta Gloria Fuertes, recordemos unos de sus versos breves, se titula: MI VECINO. “El albañil llego de su jornada/con su jornal enclenque y con sus puntos. /Bajaron a la tienda a por harina, /hicieron una gachas con tocino, /pusieronlo a enfriar en la ventana, /la cazuela se cayó al patio. /El obrero tosió:/como Gloria se entere, / esta noche cenamos Poesía.”
Julio César Rioja, cmf
miércoles de ceniza, 1 de marzo
Misa: 8:00 am Misa: 12 del medio día Misa: 4:00 pm Misa: 6:00pm (Bilingüe) Misa: 8:00 pm (Español)
“Acuérdate de que eres polvo y
al polvo has de volver.” Génesis 3:19
ORACIÓN DEL MIÉRCOLES DE CENIZA
Dios misericordioso de compasión infinita, cuyo poder creador nos sacó del polvo de la
tierra, en este tiempo aceptable, guíanos interiormente para que estemos en paz contigo, muévenos para que estemos
reconciliados con nuestro prójimo, para que podamos recibir con los brazos
abiertos la disciplina sagrada de la Cuaresma, con corazones humildes y
quebrantados, y así lleguemos al bendito gozo de la fiesta pascual
limpios y renovados. Todo esto te lo pedimos. Amén.
AYUNO Y ABSTINENCIA
El ayuno consiste en hacer una sola comida fuerte al día. La abstinencia consiste en no
comer carne. Son días de abstinencia y ayuno el Miércoles de Ceniza y el Viernes Santo.
La abstinencia obliga a partir de los catorce años y el ayuno de los dieciocho hasta los cincuenta y
nueve años de edad. Con estos sacrificios, se trata de que todo nuestro ser (espíritu, alma y cuerpo) participe en un acto
donde reconozca la necesidad de hacer obras con las que reparemos el daño ocasionado con nuestros
pecados y para el bien de la Iglesia. El ayuno y la abstinencia se pueden cambiar por otro sacrificio, dependiendo de lo que dicten las
Conferencias Episcopales de cada país, pues ellas son las que tienen autoridad para determinar las
diversas formas de penitencia cristiana.
Si un miembro sufre, todos sufren con él (1 Co 12:26) – La Iglesia
La caridad de Dios que rompe esa cerrazón mortal en sí mismos de la indiferencia, nos la ofrece la Iglesia con sus enseñanzas y, sobre todo, con su testimonio. Sin embargo, sólo se
puede testimoniar lo que antes se ha experimentado. El cristiano es aquel que
permite que Dios lo revista de su bondad y misericordia, que lo revista de Cristo, para llegar a ser como Él, siervo de Dios y de los
hombres. - Tomado del Mensaje del Papa Francisco para la
Cuaresma 2015
El Vía Crucis Cada viernes durante la CUARESMA
a las 7:30pm
Los Caballeros de Colon estarán vendiendo pescado frito el próximo viernes, 10 de marzo en el salón de San Miguel. La venta empieza a las
5pm. !Los esperamos!
Intención del Papa para el mes de marzo: Por la evangelización: El Apoyo de los Cristianos Perseguidos. Que las oraciones y la ayuda material de toda la Iglesia apoyen a los cristianos perseguidos.
Cristo venció al Tentador en beneficio nuestro. La Iglesia se une todos los
años, durante los cuarenta días de Cuaresma, al Misterio de Jesús en el
desierto. (CIC no. 540).
Minutos de Sabiduria Ya en camino, sigue avanzando.
Si todos te abandonan, sigue tu marcha.
Si en tu derredor crecen las tinieblas, existe una razón más para que tú mantengas encendida la pequeña llama de tu fe.
No dejes que esa luz se apague, para no quedar-te en tinieblas.
Ilumina con tu luz las tinieblas que te rodean.
C. Torres Pastorino
NUESTRA OFRENDA
domingo, 19 de febrero - Primera Colecta: $15,153.00 Donaciones Online: $2,601.00 Total: $17,754.00
domingo, 19 de febrero - Segunda Colecta (Reducción de Hipoteca): $3,702.00 Donaciones Online: $782.00 Total: $4,484.00 San Vicente de Paul: $2,590.00 Donaciones Online: $20.00 Total: $2,610.00
Asistencia: 3,254 Gracias por su apoyo constante.
“Que cada uno dé como propuso en su corazón, no de mala gana ni por obligación, porque Dios
ama al dador alegre.” 2 Corintios 9:7
Los Bautismos en español se celebran el segundo y el cuarto sábado del mes a las 11am.
La próxima clase de bautismo será lunes, 27 de febrero en la iglesia de 7:00pm – 9:00pm. Por favor sin niños. Pasen a la oficina para registrarse antes de la fecha.
Próximas fechas de bautismo:
11 y 25 de marzo - 11am 22 de abril - 11am
Lecturas de la Semana: 26 de febrero a 5 de marzo 26 de febrero: Octavo domingo del Tiempo Ordinario Is 49:14-15; Salmo 62; 1 Corintios 4:1-5; Mateo 6:24-34
Lunes, 27 de febrero Sir 17:20-24; Sal 32; Marcos 10:17-27 martes, 28 de febrero Sir 35:1-12; Sal 50; Marcos 10:28-31 miércoles, 1 de marzo: Miércoles de Ceniza Jl 2:12-18; Sal 51; 2 Cor 5:20 - 6:2; Mateo 6:1-6, 16-18 jueves, 2 de marzo Dt 30:15-20; Sal 1; Lucas 9:22-25 viernes, 3 de marzo: Santa Katharine Drexel Primer viernes; Jornada Mundial de Oración Is 58:1-9a; Sal 51; Mateo 9:14-15 sábado, 4 de marzo: San Casimiro Is 58:9b-14; Sal 86; Lucas 5:27-32 5 de marzo: Primer domingo de Cuaresma Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Sal 51; Rom 5:12-19; Mateo 4:1-11
Sólo en Dios he puesto mi confianza.
Salmo 61
Salón Sagrada Familia
Despensa de Comida cada martes y jueves de 2 pm a 4 pm
