Yes, my brothers and sisters in Christ it's
that time!
We are entering into a period of great
meditation!
We are all called to place ourselves at the
foot of the Holy Cross...a call for repentance and a reminder
of our own mortality.
As Catholics we know who and where God is.
Because Jesus took on our weak and mortal
nature, we can receive what is his...we become the very righteousness of God.
"A clean heart create for me, O God."
For all our parish Lenten services please go to the Mater Dei website for a complete schedule.
materdeivermont.com
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First things first...
Continuing to remember all of our
priests and deacons in our prayers...
"Gracious and loving God,
we thank you for the gift of our priests and deacons. Through them, we experience your presence in the sacraments.
Help our priests and deacons to be strong in their vocations. Set their souls on fire with love of your people.
Grant them the wisdom, understanding, and strength they need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Inspire them with the vision of your Kingdom.
Give them the words they need to spread the Gospel.
Allow them to experience joy in their ministry.
Help them to become instruments of your divine grace.
We ask this through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns as our Eternal Priest."
Amen..
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~~ADORATION ST. EDWARD'S~~
Jesus invites you to spend an hour (or a few minutes)in His presence
EachMonday from 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
at St. Edward the Confessor Church.
Join me in Morning Prayer (Liturgy of the Hours)
from the Shorter Christian Prayer,
and in the praying of the Divine Mercy Chaplet
....from 9:00 - 10:00.
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~~ADORATION ST. MARY'S~~
NOTE!
Holy Adoration on Friday Evening
has been suspended until after Easter
Holy Adoration
****FRIDAYS!****
"It is easier for the world to exist without a sun than to exist without the Eucharist."
(St. Padre Pio)
...Starting at 7:00 PM!
Come and join us (or online) for
Holy Adoration andHoly Rosary (Led by Fr. Rijo)
from St. Mary Star of the Sea Church
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Happy St. Valentine's Day!
What is love? Love is an act of the will...more accurately, the willing of the good of another.
To love is nothing less than wanting what is good for someone else and...here's the important part...then to act on that desire.
Real love is the crossing over of the confines of our own needs and desires, and embracing the other's good for the other's sake.
It's an escape from the black hole of the ego...which tends to draw everything around it into itself.
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Thomas Merton
For contemplation I offer you the spiritual writings of
Thomas Merton...monk, poet, spiritual writer and activist...
Spiritual lesson of the day...
"Keep your eyes clean and your ears quiet and your mind serene. Breathe God's air.
Work, if you can, under His sky.
But if you have to live in a city and work among machines and ride in the subways and eat in a place where the radio makes you deaf with spurious news and where the food destroys your life and the sentiments of those around you poison your heart with boredom, do not be impatient, but accept it as the love of God and a seed of solitude planted in your soul.
If you are appalled by those things, you will keep your appetite for the healing silence of recollection.
But meanwhile...keep your sense of compassion for the men who have forgotten the very concept of solitude.
You, at least, know that it exists and that it is the source of peace and joy.
You can still hope for such joy. They don't even hope for it any more."
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May your journey through the season of Lent, until the beauty of the Holy Resurrection, be filled with with His love and mercy!
St. Andre Bessette Parish Essentials and Expressions Deacon Ward Nolan St. Edward the Confessor St. Mary Star of the Sea St. Benedict Labre St. James the Greater 🌹🌹🌹🌹 J * M * J Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart, I give you my life. 🌹🌹🌹🌹 For the latest update of events, daily and Sunday Holy Masses, and hours of confession, Prayer List, Holy Adoration times, please go to the parish website: standrebessetteparish .com or give us a call at the St. Andre Bessette Parish office: 802-744-4066 🌹🌹🌹🌹 Pray for vocations ...
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion Essentials and Expressions Deacon Ward Nolan St. Mary Star of the Sea St. Edward the Confessor St. Benedict Labre St. James the Greater For the latest update of events, Holy Week Masses, and hours of confession, please go to the parish website: materdeivermont.com or give us a call at the St. Mary's rectory: 334-5066 🌹🌹🌹🌹 Palm Sunday is the final Sunday of Lent. .. ...the beginning of Holy Week, and commemorates the triumphant arrival of Christ in Jerusalem, days before he was crucified. Palm Sunday is known as such because the faithful will often receive palm fronds which they use to participate in the reenactment of Christ's arrival in Jerusalem. In the Gospels, Jesus entered Jerusalem riding a young donkey, and to the lavish praise of the townspeople who threw clothes, or possibly palms or small branches, in front of him as a sign of homage. This was a customary practice for people of great respect. P...
The Third Week of Lent Alms Giving, Prayer, Abstinence and Fasting Essentials and Expressions Deacon Ward Nolan St. Mary Star of the Sea St. Edward the Confessor St. Benedict Labre St. James the Greater For the latest update of events, Holy Masses, and hours of confession, please go to the parish website: materdeivermont.com or give us a call at the St. Mary's rectory: 334-5066 🌹🌹🌹🌹 "Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning: Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment." Joel 2:13 In this period of forty days we devote our time and energies to not worrying or concerning ourselves with our own needs, but we turn our attention to the needs of others. We make the effort to be more repentant, more humble...more giving. We make ourselves to be a new creation...a true people o...
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