Readings: next Sunday, 27th November 2016 - 1st SUNDAY ADVENT - “A” ISAIAH 2:1-5 ROMANS 13:11-14 MATTHEW 24:37-44

Tuesday, 22nd November: 17.00: MASS St Cecilia - Choirs’ Patron

DUTY: ALL PARISH CHOIRS; CHOIR: MAIN CHOIR —————————————————————————————————

Wednesday, 23rd Nov.: 17.00: MASS —————————————————————————————————

Thursday, 24th November: 17.00: MASS St Andrew Dunc-Lac and

Companions —————————————————————————————————

Friday, 25th November: 17.00: MASS Memorial Mass for the Departed

Members of St Francis SCC —————————————————————————————————

Saturday, 26th November: 08.30: MASS

16:30: ADORATION/BENEDICTION/ROSARY: ST TERESA SCC

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SUNDAY, 27th Nov.: Duty: ST TERESA SCC 1st Sunday - Advent Time

ENGLISH: READERS: MR PROTASIO CHIPULU, MRS MALAMA NTWANGA (MR B. SHOKO).

CHOIR: ST AUGUSTINE SCC

NYANJA: READERS: MR JAMES TEMBO, MRS VERONICA CHANGWEREZA (MR S. PHIRI).

CHOIR: ST JOSEPH SCC —————————————————————————————————

Tuesday, 29th November: 17.00: MASS

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Wednesday, 30th November: 17.00: MASS St Andrew, the Apostle

CHOIR: ST MARY SCC

READERS: MS CLARA MOYO, (MR M. PHIRI). —————————————————————————————————

Thursday, 1st December: 16.00 - ADORA-

TION & BENEDICTION (FOR VOCATIONS); 17.00: MASS; DUTY: ……………… —————————————————————————————————

Friday, 2nd December: 16.00 - ADORATION & BENEDICTION (PLEA TO SACRED HEART OF JE-

SUS); 17.00: MASS —————————————————————————————————

Saturday, 3rd December: 08.30: MASS St Francis Xavier

16:30: ADORATION/BENEDICTION/ROSARY: ST MARTIN SCC

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SUNDAY, 4th Dec: Duty: ST MARTIN SCC 2nd Sunday - Advent Time

ENGLISH: READERS: MR BEN SHOKO, MS BEENE MAPONDO (MRS H. CHIPULU).

CHOIR: ST FRANCIS SCC

NYANJA: READERS: MR SOLOMON PHIRI, GEN HARRISON PHIRI (MS E. MWANZA).

CHOIR: ST KIZITO SCC

Sunday Masses: 07:30 (in English) 09:30 (in Nyanja)

(Confession - before each Mass) Children’s Mass: 15:00 (3rd Sunday of Month)

Weekday Masses: Tuesday - Friday: 17:00hrs

Saturday: Mass: 08:30 (+ catechism classes)

Adoration/Benediction: 16:30-17:30(confession)

Pastoral Office Tuesday - Friday: 9.00-12.00 / 14.00-17.00 Saturday: 9.00-12.00 &/ 14.00-17.00

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SR. MARIA (CHUY) serves in the Pastoral Office: tel. number: (+26) 0 978 316 375

MR MARTIN SEMENTI serves in the Pastoral Office: tel. number: (+26) 0 978 013 259

Parish Priests’ Office Tuesday - Friday: 14.00-16.00 Saturday: 09.30-12.00

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For other arrangements call the Priests Parish House/Office: (+26) 0 211 273 048 Parish Priest: (+26) 0 976 447 000 Assistant Priest: (+26) 0 977 570 595

Church Council Executive Office (Room No. 14) Saturday: 10.00-12.30 & 14.00-16.00 Sunday: 10.00-12.30

Home Based Care Office - Monday - Friday: 8.00-15.00 SR. AQUILINA PARAFFIN serves in the HBC: tel. number: (+26) 0 976 445 182

CHRIST THE REDEEMER MAKENI PARISH

P.O. Box 38117, Lusaka

Parish Website: www.makeniparish.com

Email: newsletter.makeni@gmail.com

Parish Weekly Newsletter. Sunday, 20th November 2016

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Readings: Christ the King Sunday - ‘C’ 1ST READING: 2 SAMUEL 5:1-3: They anointed David king of Israel RESPONSORIAL PSALM 121: I REJOICED WHEN I HEARD THEM SAY: “LET US GO TO GOD’S HOUSE” 2ND READING: COLOSSIANS 1:12-20: He has created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves GOSPEL: LUKE 23:35-43: Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom

HOLY CHILDHOOD MEETINGS - EVERY SUNDAY AT 14:00HRS

Thy kingdom come ! The coming of the kingdom of God, says our Lord

and Saviour, does not admit of observation, and there will be no-one to say “Look here! Look there!” For the kingdom of God is within us and in our hearts. And so it is beyond doubt that whoever prays for the coming of the kingdom of God within himself is praying rightly, praying for the kingdom to dawn in him, bear fruit and reach perfection. For God reigns in every saint, and every saint obeys God’s spiritual laws — God, who dwells in him just as he dwells in any well-ordered city. The Father is present in him and in his soul Christ reigns alongside the Father, as it is said: We will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

Therefore, as we continue to move forward with-out ceasing, the kingdom of God within us will reach its perfection in us at that moment when the saying in the Apostle is fulfilled, that Christ, His enemies all made subject to Him, shall deliver the kingdom to God the Father that God may be All in All.

For this reason let us pray without ceasing, our souls filled by a desire made divine by the Word Himself. Let us pray to our Father in heaven: hal-lowed be thy name; thy kingdom come.

There is something important that we need to un-derstand about the kingdom of God: just as right-eousness has no partnership with lawlessness, just as light has nothing in common with darkness and Christ has no agreement with Belial, so the kingdom of God and a kingdom of sin cannot co-exist.

So if we want God to reign within us, on no ac-count may sin rule in our mortal body but let us mor-tify our earthly bodies and let us be made fruitful by

the Spirit. Then we will be a spiritual garden of Eden for God to walk in. God will rule in us with Christ who will be seated in us on the right hand of God — God, the spiritual power that we pray to receive — until he makes his enemies (who are within us) into his foot-stool and pours out on us all authority, all power, all strength.

This can happen to any one of us and death, the last enemy may be destroyed, so that in us Christ says Death, where is your sting? Death, where is your victory? So let our corruptibility be clothed to-day with holiness and incorruption. With Death dead, let our mortality be cloaked in the Father’s immortali-ty. With God ruling in us, let us be immersed in the blessings of regeneration and resurrection.

From a discourse of Origen on prayer

today’s Reflection / Inspiration

“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” JOHN RUSKIN

Today ! ! !

Closure of the Jubilee Year of Mercy

The Jubilee Year of Mercy will close today, the Feast of Christ the King .

All Christians are invited at the Cathedral of the Child Jesus to celebrate the closure of this im-portant Jubilee.

The Rite will start at 15.00hrs with the EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.

Cloth the naked / Kubveka opanda cobvala / Ukufwika abali ubwamba

YOUTH COUNCIL CORNER

South Deanery - Youth AGM. Saturday, 26th November. Venue: St Ignati-us Parish.

Youth Council Meeting. Sun-day, 4th December. Venue: St Joseph Hall. Three [3] Top Leaders from each Youth SCC and Group with their respective Pa-trons & Matrons to attend.

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

South Deanery Catechetical Meeting. Sunday, 27th November. Kab-wata Parish. Three [3] Top Parish Cate-chetical Leaders, Catechist, Pastoral Sister to attend.

St Joseph SCC - Day of Pray-er. Sunday, 27th November. After Nyanja Mass, up to 16.00hrs. St Joseph Hall.

South Deanery Pastoral Meeting. Saturday, 3rd December. Holy Spirit Parish, Libala South. Three [3] Top Parish Executive Members to attend.

South Deanery Catechetical Day of Prayer. Saturday, 10th De-cember. Chilongolo, St Anthony Parish. Catechists/Catechisers to attend. The list of attendants to be delivered to S/Deanery Catechetical Executive by 30th November.

MAKENI PARISH TURNS 37

The Parish Priest, Fr Krzysztof Mróz, the Assistant Priest, Fr Mabvuto, the Parish Council Executive members led by Brig Gen Harrison Phiri (Rtd) and the Communications Team join other parishioners in wishing Makeni Parish a happy 37th birthday (1979-2016). The team also wishes to express its gratitude to all former and current parish

priests, former and current parish council ex-ecutives and parishioners in general, both alive and posthumously for those that have passed on, for their immense contributions to the growth of Makeni Parish. Your hard work and dedication to the development of the par-ish has made it where it is today. We wish our parish many more happy returns.

HAPPY 37TH BIRTH DAY TO MAKENI PARISH !

(Pictures from: 1970’ - above: construction [casting of slab]; left: drilling of borehole)

Thandizo Orphans Day Care Centre (PRESCHOOL) - Enrolment The Children must be between four [4] and

six [6] years old. Enrolment will run from 6th

November to 9th December 2016. The enrol-ment fee is ten-Kwacha (K10.oo).

For more details come to school with the Under-Five Card of your child.

We are asking the SCC and the H.B.C. to help us to identify the Orphans and Vulnerable Children, who can be enrolled.

By School Management

To counsel the doubtful / Kulangiza amene ali ndi chikaiko / Ukufunda aba twishika

Prayer for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy

God, You are a Father to us all, You love us and Your Mercy en-dures forever. You are compas-sionate and gracious. You sent Your Son Jesus to show us Your Mercy through healing and for-

giveness and by dying for us on the Cross. Help us to follow His foot-

steps, so that we too, may be merci-ful to all and love all. We ask this in the name of Jesus Your Son our

Lord. Amen

Saint Faustina about the Feast

of Christ the King Today is the Feast of Christ the

King. [27 October 1935] During Holy Mass I prayed fer-

vently that Jesus might become King of all hearts and that divine grace might shine in every soul. Then I saw Jesus as He is depicted in the image, and He said to me, My daughter, you give Me the greatest glory by faithfully fulfilling My desires.

Oh, how great is Your beauty, Jesus my Spouse! Living Flower enclosing life-giving dew

for a thirsting soul! My soul is drowned in You. You alone are the object of my desires and strivings. United me as closely as possible to Yourself, to the Father, and to the Holy Spirit. Let me live and die in You Only love has meaning; it raises up

our smallest actions into infinity. My Jesus, truly I would not know how to live

without You - my spirit is welded to Yours. No one can really understand this; one must first live in You in order to recognize You in others.

Diary of St Faustina, No. 500-503

Prayer through the Intercession of Saint John Paul II

St. John Paul, * from the window of Heaven * grant us your bless-ing! Bless the Church * that you have loved, served and guided, * pushing Her with courage * towards the paths of the world * to bring Christ to all, and all to Christ. From the window of Heaven, * where we see you next to Mary, * send down upon us * all the blessing of God. Amen. St John Paul II - Pray for us

Saint John Paul II Project Appeal

Today marks one month since the Second Mass at John Paul II was celebrated (22 October 2016). Since then, the work at the plot started more seriously, to start Masses for the John Laing Community as soon as possible.

The Committee is now working hand-in-hand with Fr Christopher Mróz (Parish Priest) and Mr Kazimiro Piejko (Constructor), being supported by the SCC Members.

On Saturday, 12th November 2016, the Commit-tee held another meeting, looking at the possibility to start Masses at the Plot. The suggestion came that the temporal construction will be made in

order to secure the altar and part of assembly gathering.

Therefore, the Committee in collaboration with the Parish Priest, appeals to the People of Good Will for support. The materials which are mostly needed: - Iron sheets: 8.5m x 80cm x 42 (second hand) - the used tires (still needed to burn the rocks on

the ground) - any other donation towards the same is most

welcome. Contact Fr Christopher Mróz, Mr Donald

Mulubwa (0977 359 668) or any other JP2 Com-mittee Members.

St John Paul II Project Committee