The Solemnity of The Annunciation of the Lord
(excerpt: catholicism about.com)
LENTEN CALVARY DEVOTIONS
Sundays in Lent 4:00 p.m.
MARCH 1
MARCH 8
MARCH 15
MARCH 22
MONCHY
GRANDE RIVIERE
YOUTH
HOLY NAME SOCIETY
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The Lenten Retreat for Gros Islet begins
Monday March 23rd at 6:00 p.m..
The facilitator is Fr. Andrew Rosiac SAC
5TH SUNDAY OF LENT - YEAR B - 22ND MARCH 2015
The annual Witness for Life March takes
place Saturday March 28th at 9:00 a.m. from
the Derek Walcott Square. All are invited.
First Reading
ur readings today are filled with anticipation. The days are
Jer.31:31-34
coming, Jeremiah prophesies in the First Reading. The hour Second Reading
has come, Jesus says in the Gospel. The new covenant that God
Heb.5:7-9
promised to Jeremiah is made in the “hour” of Jesus - in His death,
Gospel
resurrection, and ascension to the Father’s right hand.
Jn.12:20-30
The prophets said this new covenant would return Israel’s exiled
tribes from the ends of the world. Jesus too predicted His passion
MASS TIMES
would gather the dispersed children of God. But today He promises
Morning Prayers:
to draw to Himself, not only Israelites, but all men and women.
5:45a.m.
The new covenant is more than a political or national restoration.
As we sing in the Psalm, it is a universal spiritual restoration. In the MONDAY: GROS ISLET
Mass 6:00 a. m.
“hour” of Jesus, sinners in every nation can return to the Father to Mass:
12:30 p.m.
be washed of their guilt and given new hearts to love and serve
Him.
TUESDAY: GROS ISLET
6:00 a.m.
In predicting He will be “lifted up,” Jesus isn’t describing only His
coming crucifixion. Isaiah used the same word to tell how the
WEDNESDAY
Messiah, after suffering for Israel’s sins, would be raised high and 12:30 & 6:00 p.m.:
Gros Islet
greatly exalted. Elsewhere the term describes how kings are
6:00 p.m.- G/Riviere
elevated above their subjects.
Troubled in His agony, Jesus didn’t pray to be saved. Instead, He
THURSDAY
offered himself to the Father on the cross as a living prayer and 6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m.:
Islet
supplication. For this, God gave Him dominion over heaven and 6:00 Gros
p.m. - Monchy
earth .
FRIDAY
Where He has gone we can follow, if we let Him lead us. To follow
Jesus means hating our lives of sin and selfishness. It means 6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m.:
Gros Islet
trusting in the Father’s will, the law He has written in our hearts.
SATURDAY
Jesus’ “hour” continues in the Eucharist, where we join our
sacrifices to His, giving God our lives in reverence and obedience, 6:30 a.m./7:00 p. m.:
Gros Islet
confident He will raise us up to bear fruits of holiness.
♦
There will be no Novena in Church for
Divine Mercy Sunday. Parishioners are
encouraged to pray the Novena privately.
Divine Mercy devotions will take place at
the Gros Islet Church Sunday April 12th at
3:00 p.m.
♦
The Archdiocesan Lenten Collection will
be taken up Sunday March 29th. Please be
generous.
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Parishioners are reminded to bring in their
gifts for the needy to Mass on Holy
Thursday. These donations will be brought
up during the Offertory.
Lenten Action
Surprise someone with an act of kindness.
PARISH LENTEN RETREATS
Grande Riviere
Monchy
Gros Islet
Youth 15-22 yrs
Youth 9-14 yrs
March 09 to 13
March 16 to 20
March 23 to 27
March 20 to 22
March 27 to 29
He will draw all men to Himself.
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Gros Islet, Grande Riviere & Monchy
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St. Joseph the Worker Parish
T
he Feast of the Annunciation is one of the
most important in the Church calendar. It
celebrates the angel Gabriel's appearance to the
Virgin Mary (Lk.1:26-38), his announcement that
the Blessed Virgin had been chosen to be the
Mother of Our Lord, and Mary's fiat - her willing
acceptance of God's holy plan and the actual
Incarnation of Our Savior - the Word made flesh in
the womb of His mother, Mary.
Celebrated as a Marian feast, the Annunciation
dates back at least to the fifth century. When Mary
signaled to Gabriel her acceptance of God's Will,
Christ was conceived in her womb through the
power of the Holy Spirit. Mary becomes the
eminent figure she is only by God’s grace.
She is the human being who best, after Jesus,
exemplifies the possibilities of human existence.
She received into her lowliness the infinite love of
God. She shows how an ordinary human being can
reflect God in the ordinary circumstances of life.
She exemplifies what the Church and every
member of the Church is meant to become. She is
the ultimate product of the creative and redemptive
power of God. She manifests what the Incarnation
is meant to accomplish for all of us.
The Feast of the Annunciation is on 25th March,
nine full months before Christmas, the birthday of
Jesus, unless that date falls during Holy Week
or Easter Week or on a Sunday.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
Way of the Cross: 6:00 p.m.
(excerpt: salvationhistory.com)
20-Feb
27-Feb
6-Mar
13-Mar
20-Mar
27-Mar
Every Friday of Lent
In Gros Islet, Monchy & Grande Riviere
CONFESSIONS
Every Saturday
9.00 - 0.00a.m
6.00 - 6.45p.m.
&
by appointment
Parish Priests: Fr. Stephen Quinlan, 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]
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SUNDAY
7:30 a.m. at
GROS ISLET/G. RIVIERE
10:00 a.m. at
Gros Islet/Monchy
HOLIDAY
7:00 a.m.: Gros Islet
PLEASE PRAY
FORTHE SICK
The Easter Triduum
Tracy Mondesir
A triduum is a three-day period of prayer, usually in preparation for an
Theresa Cox
important feast or in celebration of that feast.
The Easter Triduum begins with the Vigil of Holy Thursday. It marks the end
Annie Etienne
of the forty days of Lent and the beginning of the three-day celebration of the
Pearl St. Helene
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ - Holy Thursday, Good Friday and
Priscillia Henry
Easter Vigil/Easter Sunday.
Claude Guillaume
The Second Vatican Council reminded us of the extraordinary significance of
Claude Griffith
the Triduum."Christ redeemed us all and gave perfect glory to God principally
DECEASED
through His paschal mystery: dying He destroyed our death and rising He
restored our life. Therefore the Easter Triduum of the passion and resurrection Christopher Monrose
of Christ is the culmination of the entire liturgical year."
Godfrey Baptiste
The last Forty Days have been a time of preparation for these great three days.
Joseph Clarke
These three days lead us to an empty tomb and an Octave, eight days, of
Celestine
Emanus
celebrating the Resurrection. They also introduce an entire liturgical season,
Marie Therese Fontelio
the Easter Season, which lasts for fifty days until Pentecost.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church instructs us: "Beginning with the WEEKDAY READINGS
Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the Resurrection fills the
whole liturgical year with its brilliance”. “Therefore Easter is not simply one
MONDAY
feast among others, but the "Feast of feasts," the "Solemnity of solemnities,"
just as the Eucharist is the "Sacrament of sacraments" “The mystery of the Dan.13:1-9.15-17.1930.33-62.
Resurrection, in which Christ crushed death, permeates with its powerful
Jn.8:1-11
energy our old time, until all is subjected to Him."
We will soon attend the Mass of Last Supper and receive the gift of the Holy
TUESDAY
Eucharist, the Body, Blood Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. We will enter
Num.21:4-9
into the deep meaning of the Holy Priesthood. We will be invited to pour
Jn.8:21-30
ourselves out like the water in the basins used to wash feet on Holy Thursday.
We will be asked, with the disciples in the Gospel accounts we will hear
WEDNESDAY
proclaimed, to watch with the Lord. We will be invited to enter with Him into
Is.7:10-14.8:10
His anguish by imitating His Holy surrender in His Sacred Humanity in the
Heb.10:4-10
Garden of Gethsemane.
Lk.1:26-38
Through the stark and solemn Liturgy of Good Friday we will stand at the
Altar of the Cross where heaven is rejoined to earth and earth to heaven, along
THURSDAY
with the Mother of the Lord. We will enter into the moment that forever
Gen.17:3-9
changed, and still changes all human history, the great self gift of the Son of
Jn.8:51-59
God who did for us what we could never do for ourselves, by in the words of
the ancient Exultet, "trampling on death by death". We will wait at the tomb
FRIDAY
and witness the Glory of the Resurrection and the beginning of the New CreaJer.20:10-13
tion.
Jn.10:31-42
Let us enter fully into the Sacred Triduum Liturgies. The Great Three Days of
Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter invite us into Heart of the Mystery of
SATURDAY
Faith.
(excerpt: catholic.org )
Eze.37:21-28
Jn.11:45-56
MASS INTENTIONS
GROS ISLET
CLERGY / RELIGIOUS
INTENTIONS
5TH SUNDAY OF LENT - YEAR B
Thks: St. Jude Hosp & Recon Project
Claude & Mary Severin & family
Int: The Destang family
Sat. Mar 21 - 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Mar 22 -7:30 a.m.
Rev. Thomas Alexander
Fr. Cecil Goodman
MISSA PRO POPULO
Success : Caren Piper
B’day: Marian Dariah & Mary St. Ange
10:00 a.m.
Int: The Roserie family
B’day: Kimberly Geoffrey
GRANDE RIVIERE
Eucharistic Service
MONCHY
WEEKDAY MASS INTENTIONS
Mon Mar 23 - 6:00 a.m.
Lenten Retreat 6:00 p.m.
Tues Mar 24 - 6:00 a.m.
Lenten Retreat 6:00 p.m.
Wed Mar 25- 6:00 a.m.
Annunciation of the Lord
Lenten Retreat 6:00 p.m.
G. Riviere: 6:00 p.m.
Thu Mar 26 - 6:00 a.m.
Lenten Retreat 6:00 p.m.
Msgr. Theophilus Joseph Holy Spirit: Ayinde Popo & family
Fr. Linus Clovis
Healing: Mona Cyril
Sr. Adinase Mumba
B’day: Grissel Leon
Rev. Girard Glace
Sr. Mary Muskosa OSB
Thks: Gloria & Cecil Graham
Fr. Konrad Mair
Fr. Stephen Quinlan
Fr. Kenneth Haakyav VC
Saroj Naidu & Veerendra Singh
Fr. Henry Nmor OP
Fr. Peter Hill C.Ss.R
Eucharistic Service
Fr. Andrew Rosiac SAC Dc’d: Marcelline Chitolie
Rev. Nathalbert Husbands
Sr. Stephania Banda OSB
Monchy 6:00 p.m.
Fri Mar 27 - 6:00 a.m.
Lenten Retreat 6:00 p.m.
Sat Mar 28 - 6.30 a.m.
B’day: Lisa Charles, Merona Joseph
Thks: Saroj Naidu & Veerendra Singh
Eucharistic service
B’day: Michele Lesmond
Fr. Kevin Murray C.Ss.R
Int: Fr. Athanase Joseph
Rev. Gabriel Geoffrey
Thks: Saroj Naidu & Veerendra Singh
For Clergy & Religious
Dc’d: Sixtus Charles