St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church 12001 69th Street East, Parrish, FL 34219 THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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OFFICE HOURS M,T, Th, F 9:00am-3:00pm Closed Wednesday

PARISH STAFF Administrator: Fr. Joseph Gates

Operations Manager: Richard Lind

Sacramental Coordinator: Chris Malone

Liturgy Coordinator: Lydia Herrera

Maintenance & IT: Ernie Nolder

Maintenance: Roger Rodriguez

Data Entry: Tom Moline

SCHEDULE OF MASSES Daily Mass: T, W, TH, F - 8:30 AM

Saturday Vigil: 4:00 PM Sunday: 9:30 AM & 11:00 AM

Music Director and Rel. Ed. Coordinator:

David Collins

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Mass Intentions

Tuesday FEBRUARY 9

8:30am +BUCK BUCHANAN

Req. By: Homebound Ministry

2nd Int. Herman & Josie Ivy 50th Wedding Ann.

Wednesday FEBRUARY 10

8:30am +KIMBERLY STADTHER

Req. By: Edna Mae Beston Thursday FEBRUARY 11

8:30AM +DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE GEORGE STULLER FAMILY

Req. By: Daughter Friday FEBRUARY 12

8:30 am +RUDOLPH KLEIN

Req. By: Malloy & Richard

2nd Int.: +Poor Souls

Req. By: Kay Saturday FEBRUARY 13

4:00pm PARISHIONERS Sunday FEBRUARY 14

9:30am +JOHN MORAN

Req. By: Wife & Children

11:00am MR.& MRS. Wm. GLEBA

Req. By: Daughter & Grandsons

RECEPTION OF THE SACRAMENTS

Baptism: For registered and active parishioners: Please contact the Church Office. Baptism instruction is required for Parents.

Reconciliation (Confessions) Saturdays 2:00-3:00 PM in Adoration Chapel

Or by Appointment Weddings: For registered and active parishioners: must be arranged with the pastor at least 6 months before the date desired. Please contact the Church Office for more details.

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE READINGS

First Reading: Jb7:1-4,6-7 Psalms: 147:1-6

Second Reading: 1 Cor 9:16-19,22-23 Gospel Reading: Mk 1 ;29-39

Safe Haven Sunday - Pornography is one of the leading causes of addictions, abuse, adultery, divorce, and even human trafficking: it is, in short, a pervasive evil inflicting grave wounds on our families. Pornography creates unsafe environments for children and confuses others about attitudes towards sex and marriage. It is a moral issue. For this reason, March 7, 2021, has been designated as Safe Haven Sunday in the Diocese of Venice. This day for awareness will give an opportunity to address the harmfulness of pornography in marriages, families, and culture, while providing helpful resources for all. Detailed information about the implementation of this program will be shared in the coming weeks through your Parishes. If you have any questions, please contact Carrie Harkey, Diocesan Coordinator of Family Life at harkey@dioceseofvenice.org.

THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Readings for the Week

Monday Sts.JeromeEmiliani & JosephineBakhita

329:Gn1:1-19 Ps104:12-2a,5-6,10,12,24,35c Mk6:53-56 Tuesday

330:Gn 1:20—-2:4a Ps 8:4-9 Mk7:1-13 Wednesday St.Scholastica

331:Gn2:4b-9,15-17Ps104:1-2a,27-28,29bc-30Mk7:14-23 Thursday Our Lady of Lourdes

332: Gn2:18-25 Ps128:1-5 Mk7:24-30 Friday

333:Gn 3:12-8 Ps 32:1-2,5-7 Mk 7:31-37

Ash Wednesday

Mass Schedule

8:30 AM

6:00 PM

40 Days for Life Kick-off Ash Wednesday, February 17

Greetings! My name is Ann Petryniec and I am the leader of our Culture of Life Team here at St. Frances Cabrini. Our Culture of Life Team is going to begin an off branch of 40Days for Life, called 40days for Life 365. Previously 40Days for Life was focused solely on abortion, but it has now grown to cover the Dignity of the aging as well. From Birth to a seasoned age, 365 days of the year! I am reaching out because I need your help. If your willing to help, we pray once a month at Planned Parenthood in Sarasota. We offer carpool, pickup and driving services — so getting there won’t be an obstacles. We’ve tried to do this in the past and have received very little response from the community, but like Joshua, I’m throwing that fleece out hoping members of the community might hear our prayer and join together for dignity of human life, from conception to natural death. If this is something you feel God calling you to, or , you would like more information, please reach out!

My information is: Anna Petryniec, 727-510-3390, call or text, email ampetryniec@gmail.com.

God bless you for all you do. Fondly in prayer,

Anna

THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Statuary Donations

St. Frances Cabrini is looking to update some of our Statuary, specifically Our Lady and St. Joseph. In many parishes statues had candle stands in

front of them and we’d like to go back to that tradition.

Thank you for your Generosity!

( 5 Ft. ) Statue of Our Lady and Child: $6,000

( 5 Ft. ) Statue of St. Joseph the Worker: $4,500

Candle Stands are $2,5oo (Each) 2 are needed; one for each statue

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Our Lady of Lourdes and the Song of Bernadette

The year was 1858 and the place was the French foothills of the Pyrenees. A young girl named Bernadette Soubirous, her sister Toinette, and their friend Jeanne Abadie were out gathering firewood for their families. Toinette and Abadie crossed a stream to gather wood on the other side, but Bernadette hesitated, fearing that wading in the cold water would bring on an asthma attack.

When her sister and friend moved out of her sight, she decided to take a chance anyway, and started to remove her shoes. It was at that moment that she was startled by a great noise like thunder. Turning towards a grotto behind her, she saw a single rosebush swaying as if being blown by a strong wind. Almost immediately she also saw a golden cloud form over the rose-bush and a young and beautiful lady appear in the cloud. The lady smiled at Bernadette and motioned for her to come closer. All the fear that Bernadette had felt a few moments earlier faded away at the sight of this lady. She felt safe as if with her mother.

The Lady was dressed in an ivory-colored robe tied at the waist with a sapphire-colored sash. A long ivory-colored mantle trimmed in gold hung in folds flowing down to her feet. On her bare feet were two golden roses than shone like the gold trim on her mantle. Bernadette was awestruck by the vision of this Lady and didn’t speak, nor did the Lady. Bernadette found herself reaching for her rosary, which she always carried with her, and dropping down on her knees. It was then that Bernadette noticed the pearl rosary hanging on the Lady’s right arm, which she now also took into her delicate hands. Bernadette tried to lift her hand to cross herself before reciting the rosary, however, her arm seemed paralyzed. It was only after the Lady crossed herself that Bernadette was able to move her arm and do likewise. Bernadette prayed aloud, by herself. The Lady was silent except at the end of each decade when she recited, with Bernadette, the Gloria. When Bernadette finished praying the Rosary, the Lady and the golden cloud disappeared.

Bernadette had many other visions of the Lady in the grotto. At first her parents were very upset and unbelieving of the visions. Her mother thought that either Bernadette was imagining things or that what she was seeing was demonic. Word spread in the small village about her visions of this mysterious lady and crowds of people started following Bernadette to the grotto. Many ridiculed her, but some were supportive. One woman thought Bernadette might be encountering the spirit of one of her deceased friends. Bernadette’s family implored her to take holy water and throw some on the Lady. She did take some with her, but poured in on the ground.

The Lady repeatedly asked Bernadette to pray for the conversion of sinners and asked for penance for sins. When she instructed Bernadette to wash herself and drink from a place at the base of the grotto, Bernadette was perplexed. She looked, but could find no water. The Lady told her to dig in the ground, which Bernadette did, which caused quite a stir among the onlookers. Some thought she was insane. Bernadette continued to dig in the gravel and dirt until the ground started to feel damp. Then a trickle of water appeared and more started bubbling up from the ground forming a small puddle. Following the Lady’s instructions, Bernadette rubbed the water on her body and cupped some in her hands and drank it. Still Bernadette’s mother refused to believe her daughter and other family members continued to ridicule her. When Bernadette spoke to the Lady about this, the Lady replied, “I do not promise to make you

happy in this world, but in the next.”

The next request of the Lady to Bernadette was to have a chapel built on the site of her visits. For Bernadette, a shy, 14-year-old girl, this was an impossible task. She felt compelled, though, to go to the parish priest with the request. She received a curt dismissal from him with these words: “Tell the beautiful Lady that the Cure of Lourdes is not in the habit of dealing with mysterious strangers. If she wants a chapel and has the right to one, she must reveal her identity.”

On the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 1858, Bernadette got the answer to her question. “I am the Immaculate Conception,” replied the beautiful Lady. Bernadette was so excited to have an answer for the priest that she immediately set out for the rectory, repeating the words over and over to herself so as not to forget them. Although Bernadette didn’t understand the words, when she repeated them to the priest he was convinced that the mysterious Lady was the Blessed Virgin Mary. He knew that Bernadette, a poor, uneducated young girl, could not have been aware of the term “Immaculate Conception,” especially since this was a newly-proclaimed dogma in the Church that most people were not familiar with.

In 1864, Bernadette entered the order of the Sisters of Nevers and went to live in a convent. Two years later a chapel was erected and dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. The puddle that had appeared when Bernadette scratched at the soil continued to get larger and larger and today produces 32,000 gallons of water daily. Thousands of pilgrims visit Lourdes each year to bathe in the miraculous waters. Today Lourdes is the most well-known healing and pilgrimage site in the world.

On January 18, 1862, the Church officially confirmed the apparitions at Lourdes. Sixteen years later, in 1879, Sister Bernadette died. Her body, however, on display in the Sister’s Chapel, has never decomposed. Bernadette was canonized on December 8, 1933.

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

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Sunday, February 14, 2021

FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Every Friday in Lent!

5:00-7:00 PM (February 19 to March 26)

Lenten Menu

~ Option 1 Fish, Fries, Coleslaw,

~Option 2

Shrimp, Fries, Coleslaw,

~ Combo Platter ~ (Fish and Shrimp)

w/ Fries and Coleslaw.

$10 per plate.