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Stations of the Cross St. Michael’s Fri 6:00pm
Benediction every first Friday of the Month 7:00 - 9:00pm
St. Cecilia’s
Tuesdays
6.30 am to 6.30 pm
St. Theresa’s
Wednesdays
6.30 am to 6.30 pm
St. Michael’s
Thursdays
6.30 am to 6.30 pm
Eucharistic Adoration
Fri 9:00 am - 12 noon
Sat St. Cecilia’s 4:30 - 4:55 pm
Or by Appointment
Intercessory Prayer St. Michael’s church
Confession
Eucharistic Service (Lluengo) Third Sunday of every
month 9:30am
Weekend Masses:
St. Cecilia’s
Sat 5:00 pm; Sun 5:00pm
St. Michael’s
Sat 6:30 pm; Sun 7:30 am
St. Theresa’s
Sun 9:30am
Spanish Mass (St. Cecilia’s) Sun 11:00am (Once per Month)
Community Centre (Lluengo) First Sunday 9:30am
Weekday Masses:
St. Michael’s First Sat
6:30am
St. Michael’s Wed, Fri
6:30 pm
St. Cecilia’s
Tue, Thu
5:45 am
St. Cecilia’s
First Fri
5:45am
St. Michael’s Chaplet &Novena Wednesdays 5:30 pm
St. Theresa’s
Wednesday 6.00 am
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Website: http://stmichaelsparishtt.org/
Parish Priest’s
Office Hours:
Wed 9am –11am
Parish Office Hours:
Mon– Fri 8am-2pm
Parish Office
662-4103
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StMichaelRcChurchMaracas
Lay Ministers: Earl Clement, Hugo Huggins,
Stephen Johnston, Wendy Johnston, Rosalie
Labban, Gail Meade, Diane Narine, Judy
Narinesingh, Michael Pancham, Eileen
Richardson
Regenerating Moral
and Spiritual Values
6
Happy Birthday
7
Finance Chairman: Mr. Wayne Johnson
Classifieds
7
Parish Council Chairman: Dr. Karl Theodore
Sick Corner
7
Mass Schedule
8
Sextons: Mr. Francis Lezama (St. Michael’s),
Ms. Daisy Laltoo (St. Cecilia’s), Ms. Jean
Narine (St. Theresa’s)
Data Entry: Hazel Ann Michelle Daniel
Secretary: Patricia Plaza
Admin. Assistant: Ms. Jacqueline Jeffrey
Serving the Communities of: St Michael,
Maracas; St. Cecilia, La Seiva; St Theresa,
Acono; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Lluengo
Pray with the
Scriptures
2
Spiritual Communion
Prayer
2
Fr. Gerard Tang Choon O.Carm Parish Priest,
Episcopal Vicar of the Suburban Vicariate
Deacon Rev. Sheldon Narine
Meditation on the
Sunday Scriptures
3
Maracas RC School: 662-5814
Principal: Ms. Denise Gordon
Saint of the Week
4
Notices
5
In Residence: Fr. Joseph Phuong
Entrusted to the pastoral care of the Carmelite
Friars
Inside this issue:
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Sunday 15th February 2015
Parish of St Michael the Archangel
Royal Road, Maracas Valley, St. Joseph
Phone: 662-4103 Fax: 696-0160
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time
(Year B)
enger
St. Michael’s Mess
THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST
Parish Mass Schedule
St. Michael’s Messenger
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Pray with the Scriptures
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Meditation on the Sunday Scriptures
Isaiah 58:9-14
Luke 5:27-32
Sat, Feb 21
Isaiah 58:1-9
Matthew 9:14-15
Fri, Feb 20
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Luke 9:22-25
Thu, Feb 19
Joel 2:12-18
Ps51:3-6, 12-14, 17
2 Corinthians 5:20--6:2 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
Wed, Feb 18
Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10
Mark 8:14-21
Tue, Feb 17
Genesis 4:1-15, 25
Mark 8:11-13
Mon, Feb 16
Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46
Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11
1 Corinthians 10:31--11:1 Mark 1:40-45
Sun, Feb 15
Ps50:1, 8, 16-17, 20-21
Ps29:1-4, 3, 9-10
Ps 1:1-4, 6
Ps 51:3-6, 18-19
Ps 86:1-6
Spiritual Communion Prayer
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy
Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive
You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You
sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace
You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to
You. Never permit me to be separated from You. AMEN.
We Pray for
Vocations to the
Priesthood and the
Carmelite
Religious Life
"
“Go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your
cleansing what Moses commanded." (Mark 1, 44)
Some say that priesthood is a creation of the Church and
that Christ did not intend to make a priesthood. Here he
acknowledges the Levitical priesthood, which he raised up
and made perfect by his own sacrifice, creating an eternal
priesthood which shall not pass away. The bodily healing
of the stain of leprosy is a sign of the perfect healing of
redemption made once for all by Christ the High Priest.
The one priesthood of Christ
Everything that the priesthood of the Old Covenant
prefigured finds its fulfillment in Christ Jesus, the "one
mediator between God and men." (1 Tim 2:5) The Christian
tradition considers Melchizedek, "priest of God Most
High," as a prefiguration of the priesthood of Christ, the
unique "high priest after the order of Melchizedek'; (Heb
5:10; cf. 6:20; Gen 14:18) "holy, blameless,
unstained," (Heb 7:26) "by a single offering he has forever
perfected for all time those who are sanctified," (Heb
10:14) that is, by the unique sacrifice of the cross.
(CCC 1544)
The redemptive sacrifice of Christ is unique, accomplished
once for all; yet it is made present in the Eucharistic
sacrifice of the Church. The same is true of the one
priesthood of Christ; it is made present through the
ministerial priesthood without diminishing the uniqueness
of Christ's priesthood: "Only Christ is the true priest, the
others being only his ministers." (St. Thomas Aquinas,
Hebr. 8, 4) (CCC 1545)
(Paragraph numbers indicate reference to the Catechism of
the Catholic Church.)
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Saint of the week
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Notices
St. Bernadette
Feast Day: February 18
Born:1844 :: Died:1879
Bernadette Soubirous was born in Lourdes,
France to Francois and Louise Casterot who
were very poor. She was the oldest of six children but was frail and often sick.
On Thursday, February 11, 1859, around the time of her First
Communion, Bernadette was sent with her younger sister and a
friend to gather firewood. She looked up and caught sight of the
cave where she saw a lady wearing a lovely white dress with a
bright belt. On top of each of her feet was a pale yellow rose, the
same color as her rosary beads. Then she began to say the rosary
while the lady let her beads clip through her fingers, without moving her lips. The beautiful lady who appeared to Bernadette above
a rosebush in the grotto of Massabielle was God's Mother, the
Blessed Virgin Mary. She appeared to Bernadette eighteen times
and spoke with her. She told Bernadette that she should pray for
sinners and do penance.The Lady also told her to have a chapel
built there in her honor. Many people did not believe Bernadette
when she spoke of her vision. She had to suffer very much. But
one day Our Lady told Bernadette to dig in the mud. As she did, a
spring of water began to flow. The next day it continued to grow
larger and larger. Many miracles happened when people began to
use this water.When Bernadette was older, she became a sister.
She was always very humble and did not want to be praised. She
did not want to receive special treatment just because she had
actually seen the Blessed Virgin.Although her own health was
poor, she helped care for the sick and elderly sisters. She died in
1879 at the age of thirty-six. Her last words were: "Holy Mary,
pray for me, a poor sinner."
Reflection: Let us pray for conversion of hearts and minds so
that many people will come to know and love God
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Regenerating Moral and Spiritual Values in our Society
What should I do for Lent?
Well, here are 10 suggestions by Pope Francis.
1. Get rid of the lazy addiction to evil
“[Lent] is a ‘powerful’ season, a turning point that can
foster change and conversion in each of us. We all
need to improve, to change
for the better. Lent helps us and thus we leave
behind old habits and the lazy addiction to the
evil that deceives and ensnares us.”
2. Do something that hurts
“Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do
well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order
to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let
us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial
is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust
a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.”
3. Don’t remain indifferent
“Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each
year during Lent we need to hear once more the
voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our
conscience. God is not indifferent to our world; he
so loves it that he gave his Son for our salvation.”
Ash Wednesday Masses are as follows 6am St. Theresa’s, 9am Maracas R.C. School, 5:30pm St. Cecilia’s and
7pm St. Michael’s.
St Theresa is having their Family Day on 26th April 2015.
There will also be Bar-Be –Que on sale for $35.00
The Archdiocesan Catechetical Office Suburban Vicariate invites Young Adults and Adults to Lenten Reflections
on Pope Francis’ The Joy of The Gospel at Our Lady of
Fatima Church, Curepe from 19th –26th February and
05th March from 6:30pm –7:30pm. Presenter: Fr. Arnold
Francis
Generation S is challenging all young people ages 15 to
35 years to a Fast for a Cause. This fast begins from 6pm
on Thursday, March 5th and end at 6pm on Friday, March
6th, 2015. You can check Mr. Gary De Freitas or their facebook page for more information.
The Catholic News will be sold for $5.00 for the month of
March due to a coupon which entitles the purchaser to win
a trip to Poland, Prague and Vienna. The draw takes place
on Wednesday 8th April on TCN.
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Happy Birthday - February
4th—Antoinette Henry, Saadiah Ramdial
8th—Fr. Gerard, Joan Frederick, Josiah
Meade
14th—Jared Scott
15th—Faustina Villaroel
16th—Juliana Hernandez
18th—Cindy Sadaphal, Virginia
Alexander
19th—Suresh Narine
24th—Anton De Silva
26th—Kimberly Dennis
27th—Jean Narine
28th—Zéa Jackman, Richard Jay Williams, Peter Jay Williams
The Sick Corner
Patricia Ali
Petra Beatrice
Gerald Bennett
Annie Caesar
Mary Cedeno
Dianne Dennis
Joan Flavergny
Anne Clarke
Cyril Gonzales
Lynn Harewood
Juanita Mendoza
Camilla Morris
Gertrude Noreiga
Matilda Noreiga
Michail Ramsumair
Keith Clarke
If you know of any sick that wish to be visited, please contact the
Parish Office and submit the information.
Classifieds
Caregiver/ Geriatric Nurse available.
Call 381-0698 or 498-3566