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✝️ MASS INTENTIONS
Masses are now available. Please contact the Parish Office if you wish to schedule a Mass.
Please note that our Mass schedule has changed for both the weekend and weekday Masses.
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Thank you to all the parishioners within our Family of Parishes who took part in the fourth Life in the Eucharist Retreat afternoon held at St. George Parish in West Falls.
This next Sunday we will reflect on Eucharist as Mission at The Church of the Annunciation in Elma. Fr. Aaron Kulczyk will be the guest priest and Sue Pivarunas is the witness speaker. Please join us.
We are quickly approaching Holy Week and our Celebration of Easter. I encourage you to take advantage of the many spiritual opportunities available. Our Reconciliation Service will take place on the 25th of March at St. Vincent de Paul Parish. Tuesday, March 26th is the Chrism Mass at 7PM at St. Joseph Cathedral. If you have never been to the Chrism Mass it is a beautiful way to begin Holy Week. This week- end is the last Life In The Eucharist Retreat which will take place at the Church of the Annunciation from 2:00-3:30PM. May these next two weeks help you to journey deeper into your spiritual life. Take some “YOU” time with Jesus and just be still and listen. The following reflection might help you to peacefully stay with Jesus.
Father Jerry
Jesus was a master story teller. He spoke to largely farming and fishing communities about fish, gardening, baking bread, farming, seeds, vines, sheep and shepherds. He used images that the people appreciated and understood.
When speaking about himself He says; ‘unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.’ Farming and garden- ing are processes of transformation.
Seeds are sown in the earth. The ground is tended to and cared for; weeds are removed and the seeds are watered. Then the waiting starts until what was sown slowly and somehow, mysteriously, is transformed from a single seed into something altogether new; a plant bursting with new life. The old gives way to the new.
There is a sense of sacrifice and dying; the seeds let go, yield and are transformed. One can imagine that this is a painful pro- cess of the seed seemingly losing itself. But, new life comes from this painful transformation.
Holy Week and Easter are in sight. The Gospel today points to the Passion of Jesus. Jesus is the seed that will be ‘sown’ in the earth. He will let go, yield, offer His life and be trans- formed. From His death will come new life. Through His life, death and resurrection, Jesus offers us the fruit of eternal life. From this apparent loss will come the ultimate good. Only with death is there Resurrection.
Next week we begin Holy Week. We are being invited by Jesus to stay with Him so we can experience Good Friday and the stark reality of the cross. These are only steps on the way. We are called to stand at the cross before we can stand at empty tomb at Easter. The cross is central not only to Lent, but to the whole message of Christianity. In the Gospel today Jesus clearly says, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.’ This glory will not come through power or prestige but through His dying and rising. From His death will come our new life.
If you wish to pray the Rosary with another voice the following links will provide you with that opportunity:
CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary
CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary
CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary
CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary
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New Schedules for
WHEAT Scattered and Sown Family of Parishes
WEEKENDS
Saturdays:
4 pm St. Vincent
4:30 pm Immaculate Conception
Sundays:
8 am Annunciation
8 am Immaculate Conception
9 am St. Joseph
9:30 am Immaculate Conception
10 am St. Vincent
10:30 am St. George
11 am Annunciation
5 pm Annunciation
WEEKDAYS
Monday:
7 am Annunciation
8 am Immaculate Conception
Tuesday:
8 am St. George
8 am St. Vincent
9:15 am Immaculate Conception
6 pm Mass at St. Vincent then 6:30-7:30 pm Adoration
Wednesday:
7am Annunciation
8am Immaculate Conception
Thursday:
8am Immaculate Conception
8am St. Joseph
6pm Mass at St. Vincent then 6:30-7:30 pm Adoration
Friday:
7 am Annunciation
1st Friday Nocturnal Adoration
3rd Friday Adoration at 9:30am
8 am St. George
6 pm 1st Friday of the month only,
devotions at
St. Vincent’s (Adoration, Rosary, Confession) followed by 7 pm Mass,
Anointing of the Sick, then a social.
Saturday:
8 am St. Joseph
Check the bulletin for Holy Day times.
Food Donation
for MARCH
FISH can always use paper or plastic garbage bags.
Please protect the barrel - it is not for disposal of garbage.
Stewardship is having the wisdom to understand that everything we have is a gift from God.