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Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish Millis, Massachusetts
Saint Thomas the Apostle Church
January 31st, 2021
Mass Times Saturday5:00PMSunday
*8:30AM**10:30AM (Family Mass)*
Monday-Wednesday*6:30PM*
Thursday-Saturday*9:00AM*
*Adoration and Confession*to follow Masses
Tuesday-Friday11:00AM-4:00PM
Monday-Friday8:00AM-8:00PM
Saturday8:00AM-6:30PM
Sunday8:00AM-2:00PM
SacramentsFor questions regarding First
Communion, Marriage, or Annointing ofthe Sick please call the
Rectory
Church82 Exchange Street
Rectory111 Exchange Street
Millis, MA 02054(508) 376-2621
saintthomasparish.org
PastorFr. Sinisa Ubiparipovic
[email protected]
Matt [email protected]
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Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish Millis, Massachusetts
Weekly Parish OfferingOffertory – $ 1,538 Online – $
2,660Maintenence – $ 20 Total – $ 4,218
Why are Priests celibate?
In today’s second reading, Saint Paul (a celibate himself) sums
up the answer with this question, “I should like you to be free of
anxieties. Anunmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord,
how he may please the Lord.”
Priests are celibate for three main reasons:
1. To imitate Christ, who Himself did not marry.2. To
communicate the coming of the Kingdom where marriage is consummated
between the human person and God. Additionally, if a person
serving the Lord, the faithful have more reason to
and living for.3. To be free to fully serve the Lord
withouthaving to worry about the obligation of serving one’s own
family. More time is dedicated to com-municating the Gospel. A
priest is more free to engage with his parishioners and
mission.
For these reasons, celibacy allows for a small foretaste of
heaven to be made visible here on earth. Since there will be no
marriage in heaven (at least in the way we experience it here on
earth).
Is it hard being celibate?
Lord is that one can more frequently engage with the Divine. One
of the greatest privileges for most priests is that they live under
the same roof as Jesus, who is present fully in the Eucharist. To
be able to spend time with Him and engage with Him is what feeds
the intimacy of the priest’s heart and everyone’s heart. The
difference is that the priest has more direct, frequent, and
opportune contact with our Lord on a daily basis. Therefore,
celibacy can only be hard if one has no love or intimacy. A priest
is set apart to enjoy intimacy with the Lord, thus meeting the
deepest longings of the human heart and making celibacy more of a
joy andprivilege than a cross or burden.
AnnouncementsScripture Study and Lectio Divina –Join with us and
Fr. Sinisa every Monday from 8:25PM-9:15PM for a short, basic, easy
to understand Scripture study and meditation! This week’s topic:
The Baptism of Jesus (MT 3:13-17). The Zoom link can be found on
the parish website hompage. Meeting ID: 448-724-5156
Family Rosary – Join us on Thursday evenings at 7:00PM and pray
the Rosary with Fr. Sinisa and your fellowparishioners. Mary told
the children of Fatima in 1917 to “say the Rosary every day to
obtain peace for the world” Pope Pius XII said, “There is no surer
means of calling down God’s blessings upon the family than the
daily recitation of theRosary.” For the Zoom link, see above.
Radio Station– For those unable to come inside for Mass, please
tune into FM 103.1 from the parking lot. Please letsomeone know if
you would likeCommunion brought out to you.
Online GivingPlease consider signing up for online giving on the
parish website under Register/Donate!
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Reading IDt 18:15-20Moses spoke to all the people, saying:“A
prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for youfrom among
your own kin;to him you shall listen.This is exactly what you
requested of the LORD, your God, at Horebon the day of the
assembly, when you said,‘Let us not again hear the voice of the
LORD, our God,
And the LORD said to me, ‘This was well said.I will raise up for
them a prophet like you from among their kin,and will put my words
into his mouth;he shall tell them all that I command him.Whoever
will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name,I myself
will make him answer for it.But if a prophet presumes to speak in
my namean oracle that I have not commanded him to speak,or speaks
in the name of other gods, he shall die.’”
Responsorial PsalmPs 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9
R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Reading II1 Cor 7:32-35Brothers and sisters:I should like you to
be free of anxieties.An unmarried man is anxious about the things
of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.But a married man is
anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is anx-ious about
the things of the Lord,so that she may be holy in both body and
spirit.A married woman, on the other hand,is anxious about the
things of the world,how she may please her husband.
not to impose a restraint upon you,but for the sake of
proprietyand adherence to the Lord without distraction.
GospelMk 1:21-28Then they came to Capernaum,and on the sabbath
Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished
at his teaching,for he taught them as one having authority and not
as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean
spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of
Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?I know who you are—the Holy
One of God!”Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!”
The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of
him. All were amazed and asked one another,“What is this? A new
teaching with authority.He commands even the unclean spirits and
they obey him.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole
region of Galilee.
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Family, LIV5:00PM
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8:30AMMartha Chory
10:30AMKennedy
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9:00AMMcFadden
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5:00PMMartha Chory
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