PARISH OFFICE HOURS Tuesday - Friday 9:00 am - 12 noon, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Parish E-mail: [email protected]Visit us on the web at www.StAugustineOH.org S T M ARY C ATHOLIC C HURCH 207 N Main Street, Coupeville, WA 98239 - (360) 678-6536 MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm St Augustine Spanish 1st Saturday 7:00 pm St Augustine Sunday 8:00 am St Augustine 9:30 am St Augustine 11:15 am St Mary Latin 2nd & 4th Sunday 11:00 am St Augustine Thu, Fri & 1st Sat 9:00 am St Augustine Thursday 12:10 pm St Mary Latin Friday 12:00 pm St Augustine CONFESSION Friday 11:30 am St Augustine Saturday 4:00 pm St Augustine 3rd Sunday 12:15 pm St Mary ANOINTING OF THE SICK & HOLY COMMUNION Please call the Parish Office Pastor Rev. Paul Pluth, JCL Administration Mary A. Waters Religious Education Coordinator Mary Rose Anderson Music Director Kathleen Dodge-DeHaven Receptionist Peggy McCormick PARISH MINISTERS
See Lisa Dugger or the sign-up sheet in Harrington Hall to sign up to bring soup and requirements for hosting Soup Night.
5:30 pm
Stations of the Cross on Tuesdays 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 & 3/31
See Mike Hay to sign up to lead the Stations of the Cross
S t a t i o n s o f t h e C r o s s
& S o u p N i g h t s
This Week at St Mary
—Sun 2/15 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
• 10:45 am Rosary
• 11:15 am Mass
• 12:15 pm Confessions will be heard
• 12:15 pm K of C Breakfast for Right to Life
• 6:30 pm Lutheran Service
—Mon 2/16 - Presidents’ Day
• Office is closed on Mondays
—Wed-2/18 Ash Wednesday
• 10:30 am-12:00 pm Living the Eucharist
• 12:10 pm Mass with Distribution of Ashes
• 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Living the Eucharist
-Thu 2/19
• 10:00 pm Bible Study (clsrm 4)
• 11:30 am Rosary
• 12:10 pm Mass
• 1:00 - 2:00 pm Adoration in the church
-Sat 2/21
• 10:00 am-11:30 am Choir rehearsal
-Sun 2/22 - 1st Sunday of Lent
• 9:15 am RE gr. Pre-K—6th
• 10:45 am Rosary
• 11:15 am Mass
• 12:15 pm Confessions will be heard
• 12:15 pm Coffee & donuts
• 6:30 pm Lutheran Service
Mass Intention:
Thursday, February 26th for Albert Bisig+
Sessions for Living the Eucharist will begin on
Ash Wednesday,
February 18th.
For those who signed up, the sessions are on Wednesdays
10:30 am - 12 noon or 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
St. Mary mailing address is
St Mary Catholic Church
A�n: (Name)
PO BOX 1443
Coupeville, WA 98239
Right to Life Breakfast Join us over in Harrington Hall for a
Yummy breakfast TODAY a�er Mass
Sponsored by the K of C.
Your dona-ons are gratefully appreciated.
Catholic Community Services (CCS) of Western Washington has returned 25% of the St Mary CCS donations. The $38.75 check is for use in our Outreach Ministry.
Your generosity to the CCS Mission of Compassion provides shelter to the homeless, warm meals for the hungry and medical appointments for our veterans. Thank you!
LENT, TRIDUUM, EASTER SUNDAY 2015
P L E A S E S A V E T H I S F L Y E R F O R I N F O R M A T I O N T H R O U G H O U T T H E S E A S O N
MY SOUL THIRSTS FOR YOU ! As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God.
Psalm 42
Everyone thirsts for meaning in our lives. All of us want to know we have a purpose for living. We have found our thirst for meaning satisfied in Jesus Christ, the Water of Life.
The season of Lent gives an opportunity to pursue our thirst for God. During the 40 Days of Lent, while individuals at St Augustine and St Mary and around the world enter their final preparations for their Baptism at the Easter Vigil on Easter Eve, baptized Christians prepare themselves for their Renewal of Baptismal Promises at the Easter Masses. When we were baptized, we died and rose with Jesus in the waters of Baptism, and embarked upon our new life and friendship with Jesus. We use the 40 Days of Lent to recommit ourselves to take up our personal crosses every day of our lives, and follow Jesus. Our recommitment culminates on Easter, at Mass, when we will renew our promises made at Baptism, promises to walk in new life with Jesus and serve him in those we meet on the way.
How do we accomplish this recommitment during the 40 Days of Lent? By making use of the Four Disciplines of Lent: Repentance, Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving (Works of Charity) [Matthew 4:17; 6:2–18]
Repentance lays claim to the grace God poured out on us at our Baptism, washing away our sins. When we follow the path of Repentance, God restores the sinlessness and innocence he gave us in our Baptism.
Prayer puts us back in touch with the Father, whom we may not have spoken with in the past months as often as we’d like. Prayer builds our friendship with Jesus, because friends talk things over. By placing all things in the hands of God through Prayer, we relearn to trust God and walk in faith. By our prayers, we also come to the aid of our brothers and sisters, growing in compassion for them as we carry out the ministry of prayer for the world.
Fasting—either by doing without something we like to eat (“giving up something for Lent”) or by letting go of destructive forces in our lives (such as fasting from anger, or fasting from self-hatred)—sets us free for God. Like an athlete in training, through Fasting we uncover the spiritual strength God has given us. We discover that the things we are fasting from are not in charge of us—only God is! No wonder the time-tested experience of Christians has been that Fasting is a profitable way of increasing our focus in prayer.
Almsgiving (Works of Charity) takes us out of ourselves, making us grow more like Jesus, who gave all he had for us. Charity tears down those things that divide us from our brothers and sisters. “Charity, love, is sharing with the one we love in all things. Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.” (Pope Francis)
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 18, and ends with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, April 2.
P a g e 2 L e n t - T r i d u u m - E a s t e r S u n d a y 2 0 1 5
F a s t & A b s t i n e n c e R e g u l a t i o n s i n L e n t
Ash Wednesday, February 18, is a Day of Repentance
and Conversion. Ashes, the ancient sign of that
repentance and conversion, will be blessed and
distributed at Mass at 9 am (St Augustine) 12 noon
(Latin, St Augustine), 12:10 pm (St Mary) and
6 pm (St Augustine). The ashes come from the
palm branches blessed on the preceding Palm Sunday,
to show how fleeting are the honors of this world.
Also, the wearing of ashes can be a way to quietly
evangelize your places of work and neighbors. I well
remember the Ash Wednesday when one TV news team
reported the news on air, each member wearing ashes.
“The wearing of ashes is meant to
be a sign of our inward
conversion”
A s h W e d n e s d a y
Abstinence and Fasting are spiritual disciplines Catholics are obliged to practice during Lent.
ABSTINENCE
Ash Wednesday, and every Friday of Lent including Good Friday, are Days of Abstinence. Catholics 14 years and older are not to eat meat and poultry on these Days of Abstinence. Vegetarians, Vegans, and others who customarily do not eat meat and poultry, should choose another sacrificial practice on Days of Abstinence.
FASTING
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, are Fast Days. Catholics 18 to 58 years old are bound to the spiritual obligation to fast on these two days. On a Fast Day, one full meal is allowed. Two smaller meals, or snacks, may be taken but are not to equal a full meal.
Pregnant and nursing women, and those in ill health, or for other reasons, e.g. diabetes, are not bound by the obligations of abstinence and fasting. They are urged to substitute another form of self-denial suitable to their condition.
Christ Died for Our Salvation on Friday
For this reason, Friday itself remains a special day of penitential
observance throughout the year, not only during Lent. Friday should be
to each week what Lent is to the entire year
It would bring great glory to God and good to souls if Fridays found
our people doing volunteer work in hospitals, visiting the sick, serving
the needs of the aged and the lonely, instructing the young in the
Faith, participating as Christians in community affairs, and meeting
our obligations to our families, our friends, our neighbors, and our
community, including our parishes, with a special zeal born of the
desire to add the merit of penance to the other virtues exercised in good
works born of living faith. “Penance & Abstinence”, 1983, US Bishops
P a g e 3
R i c e B o w l : F o r L e n t , F o r L i f e
in Africa. Could we feed the
hungry through prayer, fasting
and almsgiving? The answer
was yes—and it came in the
form of a small cardboard box.
40 years later it still does!
The Rice Bowl is a great way
for individuals and families to
come together during Lent.
Rice Bowl Lenten
Calendars and Bowls are
available in the church.
Visit the Rice Bowl
website at crsricbowl.org
to find Family Activities,
Resources, and Recipes
in English and Spanish.
Download the free
Rice Bowl Mobile App for
your phone or tablet.
25% of Rice Bowl donations
return to local ministries that
include St Augustine Agape.
#4Lent4Life
S t a t i o n s o f t h e C r o s s
& P a r i s h S o u p S u p p e r s
The Stations of the Cross
are prayed at St Augustine
on Thursdays in Lent at
5 pm, and at St Mary on
Tuesdays in Lent at
5:30 pm. The Stations at
St Augustine are led by the
youth of the parish, and
the Stations at St Mary by
a variety of parishioners.
At both St Augustine and
St Mary, the Stations are
followed by our Parish
Soup Suppers, benefiting
CRS Rice Bowl.
Please bring your own bowl
and spoon.
Stations of the Cross also
are prayed at St Augustine
on Fridays in Lent after the
9 am Mass.
“We adore you
O Christ and we
praise you.”
S a c r a m e n t o f P e n a n c e
C o n f e s s i o n s i n L e n t
In place of a Penance Service with long lines, this year
take advantage of expanded opportunities to go to Confession in Lent!
During Lent at Saint Augustine, Confessions will be heard every Wednesday, 4 to 6 pm;
every Friday at 8:30 am and 11:30 am; and every Saturday at 4 pm.
During Lent at Saint Mary, Confessions will be heard every Sunday at 12:15 pm.
The Catholic Relief Services
Rice Bowl is a Lenten faith-in-
action program. 40 years ago
Catholics in the United States
wanted to respond to famine
R C I A i n L e n t
In the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), those who are unbaptized prepare to enter the Catholic
Church through Baptism. At some point in their RCIA journey they have been accepted into the Order of
Catechumens. In Lent, those Catechumens who will receive the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist
at the Easter Vigil begin their final preparations. At the start of Lent they participate in the Rite of Election. The
bishop, in the name of the Church, announces the names of those Catechumens who will receive the Easter
Sacraments, and their names are written into the Book of the Elect of the Archdiocese of Seattle. With that, they
become the Elect. Our parish Catechumens, with family members, sponsors and other parishioners, will celebrate the
Rite of Election with Bishop Eusebio Elizando at St Mary Church, Anacortes, on February 25. Then, on the Third,
Fourth, and Fifth Sundays of Lent, the Elect will present themselves at the 9:30 am Mass for the Scrutinies. In the
Scrutinies, our parish prays for our Elect, that in preparation for Easter Baptism they will be purified from sin and
strengthened in their resolve to follow Jesus Christ—just as the Samaritan woman, washed clean from sin, found
Jesus to be the Water of Life (Gospel of the 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year A), the man born blind, given his sight, found
Jesus to be the Light of the World (Gospel of the 4th Sunday in Lent, Year A), and Lazarus, raised from the dead,
found Jesus to be the Resurrection and the Life of the World (Gospel of the 5th Sunday of Lent, Year A).
T h e T r i d u u m
The Triduum—the Three Days that are One Day—marks the Passion, Death, and Glorious Resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ. The Triduum is one continuous feast, beginning with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on
Holy Thursday and concluding with Easter Sunday. Our life as Christians flows out of the events of the Triduum,
the Paschal (Passover) Mystery in which the world “passes over” with Jesus from death to life. Join us on the
Triduum journey, at these liturgies:
Holy Thursday, April 2, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 6 pm at both St Augustine and St Mary. At both
churches, the Washing of Feet, at Jesus’ command, takes place during the Mass. Please bring your Catholic Relief
Services Rice Bowl offerings for the Procession of the Gifts. At the end of Mass at both churches, we will carry the
Blessed Sacrament in procession to the Altar of Repose in the parish halls—the sign of the arrest and powerlessness
of Jesus, delivered into the hands of sinners for our sake. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on Holy Thursday
continues until 10 pm. Adoration is a time to spend with Jesus who is present to us in the Blessed Sacrament, as we
“stay with him one hour”, recalling the watch in the Garden of Gethsemane. [Matthew 26:40]
Good Friday, April 3 (Day of Fast & Abstinence), St Augustine, Stations of the Cross, 3 pm, to mark the
hour of the death of Christ, followed by Celebration of the Passion of the Lord, 6 pm. This liturgy includes the
Adoration of the Holy Cross and the distribution of Holy Communion. Good Friday is the only day of the year that
Mass cannot be celebrated, because Christ, the Source of the Sacraments, enters into the mystery of Death. We
depart in silence. St Mary, Celebration of the Passion of the Lord, 12:10 pm.
The Easter Vigil, April 4, 8 pm, St Augustine. We begin in darkness, with the lighting of the Paschal Candle.
We tell the unfolding story of God’s plan to save the world, climaxing in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We
baptize and confirm our Elect, and all the baptized join in the Renewal of Baptismal Promises, the culmination of the
Lenten journey.
Easter Sunday, April 5, St Augustine, Easter Mass, 8 am, 9:30 am, 11 am (additional Mass!). St Mary, Easter
Mass, 11:15 am. The Renewal of Baptismal Promises, the culmination of the Lenten journey, is celebrated at all the
“Oh Lord, my God, inspire the hearts of Your people with Your Word and Your teaching. Protect
them under the shadow of your wings…”
- Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Feast: Feb 14
Pray for the intercession of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, the apostles to the Slavs,
and ask them to inspire you with courage and faith to find and accept God’s
great mercy and love.
March 6-8, 2015
Call Valerie: 1-800-822-HOPE (4673) You are loved with an everlasting Love!
Project Rachel is a program of Catholic Community Services.
Rincón de Raquel Sanar las Heridas del Aborto Provocado
“O Señor, mi Dios, inspira los corazones de Tu pueblo con Tu palabra y Tus enseñanzas. Protégelos bajo la sombra de Tus alas…”
-Santos Cirilo y Metodio, día festivo: Febrero 14
Ruegue a San Cirilo y San Metodio, los apóstoles de los Eslavos, y pida que le inspiren
valor y fe, para encontrar y aceptar la gran misericordia y el amor de Dios.
El re�ro confidencial en español se llevará a cabo:
abril del 2015
Para mayor información, deje un mensaje confidencial:
Marisela 206.450.7814
¡Con amor eterno te he amado!
El Proyecto Raquel es un programa de la agencia de Catholic Community Services.
2/15/2015
All women of St. Mary: Do you know that when you register with St. Mary Parish that you become a member of “The Women of St. Mary”? The WOSM are very involved with raising funds and donate to several local charities, e.g. Small Miracles, Ryan’s House, Gifts from the Heart food bank. For our parish, we help fund gifts, receptions and other events needed for the Religious Education (RE) department outside of their budget. We provide a funeral reception for our parish families at a time of sorrow, send cards to
parishioners that may need a cheery note
Our fund raisers are: A Garage Sale in May, baby shower for the Pregnancy Care Center in June, we provide a brunch for our fathers on Father’s Day also in June, and we have a Holiday Bazaar the first Saturday in December. If you have time available to attend our monthly meetings and wish to get involved with our missions you are invited to join us (few that we are). We are reaching out to you to expand our numbers. We do not pressure anyone. Give us a call if you have questions call 678-6536 We normally meet on the 1st Thursday of each month after the 12:10 pm Mass. The next meeting of the Women of St. Mary will be in Harrington Hall on Thursday, March 5th after the 12:10 pm Mass.
Bring your lunch to eat during the meeting. Bring a friend and come join us for some fun and fellowship.
St. Mary
Dr. Tom Curran is the
Director of My Catholic
Faith Ministries, a non-
profit ministry dedicated
to helping Catholics
understand, explore and
live out their faith more
deeply. Host of the local
radio program Sound
Insight, Dr. Curran can be
heard at 8 am every Mon -
Fri, on Sacred Heart Radio,
1050 AM. Dr. Curran is the
author of The Mass: Four
Encounters With Jesus
That Will Change Your Life,
Confession: Five Sentences
That Will Heal Your Life
and Shepherd Me Lord:
Daily Reflections for Your
Lenten Journey. He holds a
Ph.D. in theology from
Catholic University in
Washington, DC. He lives
in Federal Way, WA with
his wife, Kari, and their
nine children.
In this engaging presentation, Dr. Curran will break open the idea of spiritual warfare in a way that is easy to understand, applicable to your daily life, and based on scripture and our Catholic tradition. Come and learn how to identify true spiritual warfare in yourself or a loved one. Come and receive tools that will help you fight the battles that can keep you from growing, finding joy and excelling in life. This event will be eye-opening, powerful and different than any other event on Spiritual Warfare that you may have attended. Don’t miss this opportunity to receiving freedom and victory in the battles that you face. For Jesus wants us all to be “more than a conqueror because of Him Who has loved us (Rm 8:37).
St. Augustine Catholic Church (in the Parish Hall)
185 N Oak Harbor St., Oak Harbor
Thursday, February 26th , 6:30pm
The event is free. All are welcome. A free-will collection will be taken. Childcare is provided.
What to Expect
A highly, engaging presentation full of truth, scripture references, stories and examples that are applicable to your daily life.
An eye-opening understanding of what “Spiritual Warfare” is and how it is at play in your own life
To receive the tools (available to all Christians) that will allow you to stand strong in the midst of hardship and attack
An opportunity to draw near to the Lord with the realization that His power can conquer any foe you may encounter.
Evening Schedule 5:00pm Stations of the Cross 5:30 pm Soup Supper 6:30 pm Presentation by Dr. Tom Curran
For more information, please call the church office at 360-675-2303.
