WHAT’S HAPPENING
YOUTH PAGE
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Gros Islet Parish will be holding a Job
Training Programme for recent school
leavers and unemployed parishioners
between the ages of 17-25 years. The
programme will take place over the
four Saturdays from June 27th to July
18th. Register with the Parish Office or
with Aunty Bev, Joan Norville or Beverly
Skerrett in Gros Islet, Lysa Esnard in
Grande Riviere, Gloria Graham in Monchy.
Fee $30.00. Deadline for registration
June 21st.
The School of Liturgy at the Pastoral
Centre will be holding classes on The
Sacraments and Holy Orders August 10th 13th from 5 to 9 p.m. Registration fee $25.
Freedom in doing His will.
The great challenge for man was and is to overcome his limits, to go
beyond his creaturely condition, in other words to be a "little god" for
himself and for others. Scripture warns us that this is a utopia, a
temptation.
People of our time are easily swayed by this temptation. They have
broken the boundaries between good and evil and have made
themselves "moral legislators," ignoring God. They struggle to
achieve something like immortality – to eat of the fruit of the tree of
life within God’s paradise. History teaches that when we do without
God, human achievements turn against man himself. The moral
legislator becomes a criminal against humanity, a slave to some
ideology. The utopian seeking immortality in this world ends up not
knowing what to do with the disabled, the elderly and the terminally
ill; he dooms them to death so that others may live. As a result,
mankind is dehumanized.
A Christian, a new man, is someone who maintains a healthy balance
between dependence on God and human freedom. God wants us free,
and only if we are free can we live as God desires.
Human freedom is not licentiousness, because it is the freedom to be
fully human, not to lower humanity or to aspire to a superior condition
like God´s. God is not a rival or enemy of man, but his father and
benefactor. A free man is not God’s enemy, because it is God who has
given him the gift of freedom so that he might make correct and just
use of it. Man is free when he is freed from every interior or external
conditioning that prevents him from exercising his free will in perfect
accord with what God wants.
This kind of man is the truly new man, one who follows in the
footsteps of Christ, who came not to do His will, but that of His Father
in heaven. The new man, truly free, is at the same time a happy man.
Blessed, happy, are those who hear the Word of God and put it into
practice! "Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and
mother".
Gros Islet, Grande Riviere & Monchy
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10TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR B - 7TH JUNE 2015
Parents & guardians are asked to note that
registration for Year One First Communion
and Confirmation classes is now open.
Forms can be obtained from the Parish
Office or Catechists. Please return the
completed forms to the Parish Office.
St. Joseph the Worker Parish
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(excerpt: sacerdos.org)
CONFESSIONS
Daily
6.30 a.m.
(excerpt..dltk-bible.com)
10.00 p.m.
Every Saturday
9.00 - 10.00a.m
6.00 - 6.45p.m.
&
by appointment
Parish Priests: Msgr. Michel Francis, Fr. Athanase Joseph
Deacons: Rev. Girard Glace, Rev. Winston Taylor, Rev. Jeremy Joseph
P.O. Box Choc 8192, Castries, Saint Lucia
Tel: (758) 450450-8325 / (758) 450450-9390 Cell: (758) 285285-8831
Email: [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected]
Website: www.grosisletchurch.org Facebook: facebook.com/grosisletparish
First Reading
Gen.3: 9-15
Second Reading
2Cor.4:13. 5:1
Gospel
Mk.3:20-35
MASS TIMES
GROS ISLET
Morning Prayers:
5:45a.m.
MONDAY:
6:00 a. m./12:30 p.m.
TUESDAY:
6:00 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
12:30 & 6:00 p.m.
G/Riviere: 6:00 p.m.
THURSDAY
6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m.
Monchy: 6:00 p.m.
FRIDAY
6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
6:30 a.m./7:00 p. m.
SUNDAY
GROS ISLET/G.RIVIERE
7:30 A.M.
Gros Islet/Monchy
10:00 a.m.
HOLIDAY
7:00 a.m.
THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
PLEASE PRAY FOR
THE SICK
T
he Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in
Tracy Mondesir
the liturgical calendar of the Church. It falls nineteen
Priscillia Henry
days after Pentecost, on a Friday.
Claude Griffith
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus goes back at least
to the 11th century. The devotion to the Sacred Heart is
DECEASED
one of the most widely practiced and well-known Roman
Claude Guillaume
Catholic devotions, taking Jesus Christ's physical heart as the
representation of His divine love and compassion for humanity, and its Marie Rosita Tisson
Theresa Cox
long suffering.
Marguerite Peters
The first feast of the Sacred Heart was celebrated in 1670, in Rennes,
Cynthiere James
France. From Rennes, the devotion spread, but it took the visions of St.
Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), a French nun, for the devotion
to become universal. She said she learned the devotion from Jesus WEEKDAY READINGS
during a series of apparitions to her between 1673 and 1675. In these
visions, Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary, asking her to request that
the Feast of the Sacred Heart be celebrated on the Friday after the
MONDAY
octave of the Feast of Corpus Christi, in reparation for the ingratitude of
2Cor.1:1-7
men for the sacrifice that Christ had made for them.
Matt.5:1-12
The devotion became popular after St. Margaret Mary's death in 1690,
but, because the Church initially had doubts about the validity of St.
TUESDAY
Margaret Mary's visions, it wasn't until 1765 that the feast was
2Cor.1:18-22
celebrated officially in France. Almost 100 years later, in 1856, Pope
Matt.5:13-16
Pius IX, at the request of the French bishops, extended the feast to the
WEDNESDAY
universal Church.
2Cor.3: 4-11
The Sacred Heart of Jesus represents not simply His physical heart but
Matt.5:17-19
His love for all mankind. Devotion to the Heart of Jesus reminds us that
it is in His Sacred Humanity that we find the pattern for becoming fully
THURSDAY
human ourselves. In His Incarnation, saving life, death and
Acts11:21-26:13:1-3
Resurrection, we receive both the pattern - and the means - to become
Mk.10:7-13
more like Him.
The Feast of the Sacred Heart reminds us of our mission in a Culture
FRIDAY
which has forgotten God. Let us spend the month of June in Prayer to
Hos.11:1.3-4.8-9
the Sacred Heart of Jesus, lifting up our Nation, indeed the whole
Eph.3:8-12.14-19
Jn.19:31-37
world, to the One in whom we place all of our trust. He will not
disappoint us. His Heart still beats with Mercy and Love for the world.
SATURDAY
2Cor.5:14-21
(excerpt: catholicism.about.com)
Matt.5:33-37
(excerpt: catholic.org)
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MASS INTENTIONS
GROS ISLET
CLERGY / RELIGIOUS
INTENTIONS
10TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Thks: St. Jude Hosp & Recon Project
B’day: Imani Elliott
Sat Jun 6 - 7:00 p.m.
Archbishop Robert Rivas
Sr. Frances Norbisch OSF
Sun Jun 7 - 7:30 a.m.
MISSA PRO POPULO
Guid & Protec: Catherine Isidore
Philomene Moses
B’day: Faith Danzie
10:00 a.m.
Grande Riviere - 7:30 a.m.
Parishioners
Monchy - 10:00 a.m.
Parishioners
WEEKDAY MASS INTENTIONS
Mon Jun 8 - 6:00 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
Tues Jun 9 - 6:00 a.m.
Fr. Amal Raj
Fr. Victor Mariasuaia
Sr. Christine Alphonse
Sr. Rosaria Joseph
Sr. Giovanna Mabunda
Thks: Miguel Louisy & family
Success: Max Donald William
Fr. Jason Biscette
Thu Jun 11 - 6:00 a.m.
Thks: Julienne Morgan
Sr. Scholastica Felician
Parishioners
Monchy 6:00 p.m.
Fri Jun 12 - 6:00 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Sat Jun 13- 6:30 a.m.
Immaculate Heart of B.V.M.
Parishioners
Parishioners
Grande Riviere - 6:00 p.m.
St. Barnabas, Apostle
Sp. Int: Leonie Abenaty
Amir Surage, Melissa Hackshaw
Fr. Will Howard
Rev. Andrew Edward
Thks: M.T. Hessie Alcide
Sr. Ramona George
Sr. Benedicta Chanda OSB
Wed Jun 10 - 12:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
B’day: Ruth Wiggins
Msgr. Bonifacio Burlaza
Ann. Priestly Ord:
Thks:
Franklyn & Richard Palton & family
Fr. Linus Clovis
Thks: Robert & Frank Baptiste
B’day: Annie Ambrose
For Clergy & Religious
Thks: Diane Palton & family