WHAT’S HAPPENING YOUTH PAGE ♦ 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 ♦ 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 ♦ (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) [ 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
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