7th Sunday In Ordinary Time ST. PATRICK’S DAY …...2020/02/07 · 10:30am † Mary and † Mike...
Transcript of 7th Sunday In Ordinary Time ST. PATRICK’S DAY …...2020/02/07 · 10:30am † Mary and † Mike...
MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, February 22 5:00pm † Jim Gregory by Larry & Rosemary DeGrace Sunday, February 23
8:30am † Deceased members of our parish family by Seitz family Special Intentions for Rejane by Jungas family 10:30am † Mary and † Mike Gandour by Mike Gandour Tuesday, February 25 8:45am Special Intentions for Joe Kelly & May Walker and families by Kaela & Wray Anderson Wednesday, February 26 Ash Wednesday 9:00am † Evelyn Kent by St. Michael’s School staff 5:00pm † Frances & Bill Moher by Seraphine Dowd Thursday, February 27 8:45am Special Intentions for Baby Remington by Kaela & Wray Anderson Friday, February 28 Mass & stations of the cross 5:00pm Special Intentions for Frank & Helen Jankowski by Kaela & Wray Saturday, February 29 5:00pm † Ron Matway by Wayne Nyomtato Sunday, March 1
8:30am † Andrew DeCaire by Cheryl & Marie 10:30am † Mary Gandour by Larry & Rosemary DeGrace LECTORS: February 22 5:00pm Barb Sutcliffe February 23 8:30am Bernadette Poth February 23 10:30am Youth Mass February 29 5:00pm Steve Gandour March 1 8:30am Barb Sutcliffe March 1 10:30am Brooklyn Kettle-Bergstrand EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: February 23 8:30am Louise DeCaire February 23 10:30am Jasmine Moody March 1 8:30am Trenny Dockrill March 1 10:30am Jasmine Moody
“That was for me.” One day, Mother Teresa was asking a baker for some bread to feed the hungry children in her orphanage. The baker was furious with her request for free bread. Not only did he turn her down, he spat at her. In response to his outrageous actions, Mother Teresa calmly reached deep into her pocket, took out her handkerchief, wiped the spit off and said “That was for me; now what about some bread for my poor children?” The baker was touched by Mother Teresa’s love and greatness, complied and thereafter provided bread for the children in the orphanage.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY DINNER AND DANCE: will be
held on Saturday, March 14th
from 6pm till 11pm. This is a
fundraiser for the repair and
maintenance of our Parish
hall. Cost is $25 per person.
(Dinner menu: salad,
chicken, mashed potatoes,
gravy, vegetables , dessert,
coffee, tea etc. free snacks at
cocktail hour and during
dinner dance.) All alcoholic
beverages are $3 or 7 for $20. Pop, water & juice are free.
Music by “RURAL ROOTS”. Advance tickets sale
only. Invited guests only. Tickets will be available after
weekend Masses or call Margaret Kielbowich @ 905-774-
7024 or Ruth Rykse @ 905-899-3836 or Irene Marr @ 905-
774-5603.
YOUTH MASS & PANCAKE BREAKFAST: will be
held on Sunday, February 23rd (today) after 8:30am &
10:30am Masses. It’s a youth fundraiser. Freewill offering.
10:30am will be Youth Mass.
ASH WEDNESDAY: February 26th is Ash Wednesday.
We have two Masses on that day—9:00am (school Mass) &
5:00pm. Ashes will be distributed at both Masses. Ash
Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence.
FRIDAYS IN LENT : Mass will be at 5:00pm followed by
stations of the cross. Please join.
REPAIR & RENOVATION: Please continue to make
monthly offering to our building fund so that we will be able
to pay our $45,000 loan. We have to pay monthly $1,000 for
five years. DIOCESAN WIDE RECONCILATION Sacrament of Penance
Saturday March 28, 2020 10:00 am to 2:00pm In every
parish across the diocese, a priest is available to hear
individual Confessions. No matter how long it has been, you
are welcome to celebrate this wonderful sacrament of
Reconciliation
7th Sunday In Ordinary Time—February 23, 2020
MASS INTENTIONS: Every Mass is a wonderful gift of God for us. We consciously recall the love of God poured out for us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. At each Mass all the intentions of all God’s people, both living and dead, are included. If you need a specific date please let us know at least one month in advance.
Today’s readings explain why Christians are expected to be holy
and how we are meant to become
holy people. The first and second
readings give us reasons why we
should be holy, and the Gospel
describes four methods of becoming
holy people prescribed for us by
Jesus.
“I’m not so sure.” In the
movie Gandhi, the great Indian
leader is walking one day with a Presbyterian missionary, Charlie
Andrews. The two suddenly find their way blocked by young
thugs. The Reverend Andrews takes one look at the menacing
gangsters and decides to run for it. Gandhi stops him and asks,
“Doesn’t the New Testament say if an enemy strikes you on the
right cheek you should offer him the left?” Andrews mumbles
something about Jesus speaking metaphorically. Gandhi replies,
“I’m not so sure. I suspect he meant you must show courage–be
willing to take a blow, several blows, to show you will not strike
back nor will you be turned aside.”
We are angry over 9/11, but our anger doesn’t control us: In
May of 2006, the whole country had to confront an enemy. His
cold angry eyes stared at us from our newspapers and television
sets. Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison. He was
the only person tried in American courts for the terrorist attack on
9/11. Many people in our country, including many family members
of the victims of 9/11, had hoped that the courts would sentence
Moussaoui to death. Some people see a life sentence as an act of
mercy. One juror kept Moussaoui from a death sentence.
Technically, one of the issues was just how involved Moussaoui
was in the 9/11 plot. Nevertheless, many people interpreted the
jury’s decision as a declaration that we in the United States are not
ruled by vengeance. We can step back from our rage at 9/11 and
make careful distinctions. We are angry over 9/11, but our anger
doesn’t control us.
Hate destroys the hater: In Martin Luther King’s
sermon, “Knock at Midnight,“ King says, “My brother A.D. and
I were traveling from Atlanta to Chattanooga on a dark and stormy
night. For some reason, travelers were very discourteous that night.
Hardly a single driver dimmed their lights. Finally, A.D. who was
driving, said, ‘I have had enough’ as he powered his lights back on
bright. I said, ‘Don’t do that, you are going to cause a wreck and
get us killed.’ Somebody must have sense enough to dim their
lights, to break the cycle of hate. If somebody doesn’t have sense
enough to turn on the dim and beautiful lights of love, we are all
going to plunge into the abyss.”‘ A suicide bomber blows up a
crowded bus in Israel. Israel responds by destroying an entire
Palestinian village. The Palestinians react with more suicide
bombers. Who is going to break the cycle of hate? A Chinese
Proverb puts it succinctly, “Whoever pursues revenge should dig
two graves; one for his injurer, and one for himself.”
A murderer was gassed. The warden left the death chamber and
walked through the jail. A convict shouted, “Who’s the murderer
now?” An ABC News Poll says that almost 80% of Americans
support capital punishment. 42% of that number says that they seek
revenge for deeds done by the criminals. But Jesus in today’s
Gospel asserts that retaliation and revenge are not Christian.
FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS Kiannah Myke (4th), Emily Putman (5th),Payton LoRusso
(13th), Ryleigh Kettle-Bergstrand (20th), Malachi Tempeny (21st), Alice Headley (24th) All children will receive a chocolate bar on their birthday! Please ask
Laurie Rykse before or after the 10:30am Mass.
“With malice toward none; with charity for all:” In his
second Inaugural address,
March 4, 1865, just a little
over a month before he
would be assassinated,
Abraham Lincoln uttered
these immortal words:
“With malice toward none;
with charity for all; with
firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us
strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s
wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for
his widow and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all
nations.” Abraham Lincoln spoke those words at the end of a
time in our nation’s history when America almost did to herself
what no one else has been able to do—destroy her. Though the
war was over, the battle was not.
Bitterness, rancor and anger were still
at a fever pitch in this country. But
Lincoln knew something that Jesus
will teach us today, and that is that the
only salve that can cure the wound of
bitterness between enemies is the salve
of love. But this is more than just an
ordinary love. It is a super-ordinary,
supernatural love that loves the
absolutely unlovable.
*In Bill Adler’s popular book of letters from kids, an 8-year-
old boy from Nashville, Tennessee makes this contribution:
“Dear Pastor, I know God wants us to love everybody, but He
surely never met my sister.” Sincerely, Arnold.
*“What does agápe love mean?” asked the teacher. “When my
grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her
toenails anymore. So, my grandfather does it for her all the
time, even when his hands got arthritis too.
That’s agápe love.” (Rebecca- age 8).
*Forgiving others: The pastor’s Sunday homily on today’s
Gospel about was forgiving our enemies. Toward the end of
the homily, he asked his congregation, “How many of you
have forgiven their enemies”? About half held up their hands.
He then repeated his question. As it was past lunchtime, this
time about 80 percent held up their hands. He then repeated his
question again. All responded, except one small elderly lady.
“Mrs. Jones?” inquired the pastor, are you not willing to
forgive your enemies? “I don’t have any.” she replied. smiling
sweetly. “Mrs. Jones, That is very
unusual. How old are you?”
“Ninety-three,” she replied. “Oh
Mrs. Jones, what a blessing and a
lesson to us all you are. Would
you please come down in front of
this congregation and tell us all
how a person can live ninety-three
years and not have an enemy in
the world?” The little sweetheart
of a lady tottered down the aisle,
faced the congregation, and said “I outlived the old hags.”
EVENTS CALENDAR: APRIL 2020
2nd (Thursday) 6:00pm First Reconciliation
5th (Sunday) PALM SUNDAY
7th (Tuesday) 9:00am School Holy week Mass
9th (Holy Thursday) 9:30am-7:30pm Think Fast for
Youth 6:00pm The Lord’s Supper 10th ( Good Friday) 10:00am Stations of the Cross
3:00pm : The Lord’s Passion/ 4:00pm “Perch Dinner”
11th (Saturday) 8:00pm EASTER VIGIL
12th (Sunday) 10:30 EASTER SUNDAY
15th (Wednesday) 9:00am School Easter Mass
FIRST COMMUNION MASS: May 3rd at 10:30am
NEXT YOUTH MASS : will be on Sunday, March 29th
at 10:30am (Hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, ice cream, cookies,
juice, coffee, tea etc will be served.)
St. Vincent De Paul Conference of Dunnville
116 Lock Street East . N1A 1J7
Phone # 905-701-9999
Email: [email protected] Monday-Friday 10:00am-4:00pm
Saturday 10:00am-1:00pm
R. G. SIMPSON, C. A.
PROFESIONAL CORPORATION
208 Tamarac Street,
Dunnville, Ontario N1A 2C4
Phone: 905.774.7668
Welcome to Our Catholic Family, a Community United in Faith ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
204 Alder Street West, Dunnville, Ontario. N1A 1R4 CANADA. Tel.: 905-774-6972
Email: [email protected] Website: www.saintmichaelsparish.net Pastor: Very Reverend Father Sunny Sebastian M.A. B.Ed , V. F.
YOUTH CHOIR DIRECTOR
Laurie Rykse: 905-774-6052
YOUTH DIRECTOR
Emily Sutcliffe : 905-869-5396
LITURGY & MUSIC MINISTRY
Margaret Kielbowich: 905-774-7024
Elizabeth Nieé: 905-701-9033
Organists: Cindy Huitema: 905-774-7784
Karen Hofstede: 905-774 - 4488 LECTORS & EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS
Barbara Sutcliffe: 905 -774-5396
MINISTRY TO THE SICK
Margaret Noble 905- 481– 1244 SACRISTIAN & CHURCH DECORATIONS
Margaret Kielbowich: 905-774-7024
PARISH CELEBRATIONS
Bernadette Poth: 905-701-1153
Dan Rykse: 905-899-3826
SUNDAY COFFEE SOCIALS
Margaret Noble: 905-701-3399
PARISH COUNCIL
Bernadette Poth: 905-701-1153
BUILDING COMMITTEE & FINANCE
Carl Hofstede : 905-774 - 4488
ST. MICHAEL’S CEMETERY
132 Robinson Road, Dunnville
Don Weaver: 905 -774 -4132
Secretary: Lisa Ellis: 905 -736 - 0563
CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE President: Bernadette Poth: 905-701-1153
LEGION OF MARY
Martha Glaw : 289-377-8703
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Mike Dilse: 289-808 - 8599
ST. VINCENT DEPAUL
Mary Mater: 905-701-9999
MIKE LAVERTY
Anne Marie O’Brien
PHYSIOTHERAPY
3 Lighthouse Drive
Dunnville, N1A 2W6
Anne Marie O’Brien (Anna)
Registered Physiotherapist [email protected]
905 701 7420 / 647 839 3460
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OUR PARISH MISSION STATEMENT
We, as the Eucharistic family of St.
Michael the Archangel, believe in the life,
death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus
Christ. We foster a welcoming and active
faith community by sharing our gifts of
time, talent and treasure. Following Jesus
and guided by the Holy Spirit, we commit
ourselves to prayer, service, and living
our faith. We continue to give witness to
our faith as we attempt to lead all souls to
God’s eternal kingdom in the Roman
Catholic Tradition. WE CELEBRATE THE EUCHARIST
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
Monday: No Mass Tuesday: 8:45am
Wednesday: 8:45am Thursday: 8:45am
Friday: 8:45am
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday: 4:30 p.m or by appointment OFFICE HOURS
Tuesday: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm. Wednesday:
12:30 pm- 3:30 pm.
(Mon., Thur. & Fri.: Closed)
Secretary: Sue Secord
Phone: 905 -774 - 6972
Our Parish website:
www.saintmichaelsparish.net
Diocese of St. Catharines
website: www.saintcd.com
ST. MICHAEL’S SCHOOL Phone: 905 -774 - 6052
Principal: Anna Fortunato
Secretary: Irene Bowden
website: www.stmichaeldunnville.ca
Est.
1886
February 23, 2020 7th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Year A
10:30am YOUTH MASS