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Day Date Time Intentions Sat 01/16 5:00 pm †Bob Yenco, offered
by Barb Yenco †Connie Tezyk, offered by Deacon Larry Seidemann 7:00
pm For the People Sun 01/17 8:00 am B-day intentions of Emmy Parrot
& Jude Parrott, offered by Nana & Papa 10:00 am Healing
prayers for Alexander Rodriguez, offered by Gabriela Vela 12:00 pm
13 Year Anniversary remembrance of †Petronila Bautista, offered by
Celina Briones †Fortino Hernandez, offered by Celina Briones
†Catalina Guardiola Rivera, offered by Liliana Gonzalez Mon 01/18
8:00 am Communion Service Tues 01/19 8:00 am †Connie Tezyk, offered
by Deacon Larry Seidemann Wed 01/20 6:30 pm Healing prayers for
Alexander Rodriguez, offered by Gabriela Vela Thurs 01/21 8:00 am
†Catalina Guardiola Rivera, offered by Liliana Gonzalez Fri 01/22
8:00 am †Catalina Guardiola Rivera, offered by Liliana Gonzalez
Sunday Offering 01/10 $4,577.00 Trujillo, Honduras 01/10 $
110.00 St. Vincent de Paul will be in next week’s bulletin.
WeShare Online 01/10 $2,684.66 Thank you all for your support of
the parishes operational
expenses. Online donations for the Sunday offering and Building
Fund may be made at:
www.stfrancislancaster.org. Collection envelopes may also be
mailed via USPS to the parish office or dropped in secure drop box
on south side
of parish center door.
Weekend Mass Schedule
Saturday English 5:00 PM
Spanish 7:00 PM
Sunday English 8:00 AM
English 10:00 AM
Spanish 12:00 PM
Daily Mass Schedule
Mon.-Comm. Ser. English 8:00 AM
Wed. Spanish 6:30 PM
Tues, Thurs, & Fri English 8:00 AM
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time January 17, 2021
Sanctuary Candle burns the week of January 17 –23, 2021 In
loving memory of
†Salvadodr Campos Peña Eternal rest grant unto Him O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon Him. May He rest in
peace.
Offered by Salvarina Peña
Readings for the week of January 17, 2021 Sunday: 1 Sm 3:3b-10,
19/Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 [8a, 9a]/1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20/Jn
1:35-42 Monday: Heb 5:1-10/Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 [4b]/Mk 2:18-22
Tuesday: Heb 6:10-20/Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9 and 10c [5]/Mk 2:23-28
Wednesday: Heb 7:1-3, 15-17/Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 [4b]/ Mk 3:1-6
Thursday: Heb 7:25—8:6/Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17 [8a and 9a]/Mk
3:7-12 Friday: Heb 8:6-13/Ps 85:8 and 10, 11-12, 13-14 [11a]/Mk
3:13-19 Saturday: Heb 9:2-3, 11-14/Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 [6]/ Mk
3:20-21 Next Sun: Jon 3:1-5, 10/Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [4a]/1 Cor
7:29-31/Mk 1:14-20 Observances for the week of January 17, 2021
Sunday: 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: January 18-25 Week of
Prayer for Chris tian Unity; Martin Luther King Day Wednesday: St.
Fabian, Pope and Martyr; St. Sebastian, Martyr Thursday: St. Agnes,
Virgin and Martyr Friday: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of
Unborn Children Saturday: St. Vincent, Deacon and Martyr; St.
Marianne Cope, Virgin; BVM Next Sun: 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
©LPi
I praise You and thank You, Lord, because You want to enter into
our lives healing
and delivering us from all our woes. Amen.
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
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Please keep the sick members of our Parish family in your
prayers: Jesus Ledezma, Alexander Rodriguez, Baruch Es-calante, Don
Mazoch, Stephen Juneau, Johnny Martinez, Sara Raines, Steve
Iannucilli, Deacon Larry and Phyllis Seide-mann, Esteban Lira, Pete
Romero, Diana Diaz, Bob Hanson, William Weissman, Raquel Baiza,
Kenneth Cruz, Jr., Richard Oishei, Kenny Gunderman, Margie &
Sam, Jesus Aguilar, Rosendo Lopez, Julia Lopez, K C Pena, Leah
Pena, Lillie Munoz, Oscar Guerrero, Isidra Reyna, Enemencio Jaso,
Alveno & Ruby Dickson, Mary Brown, Catalina Gonzalez, Bri-anna
Dean, Nicolas & Angelo Florido, Rosa Maria Santos, Yolanda
Diaz, Josefina Aguero, Laurie Williamson, Osvaldo Mendoza Jr.,
Abigail Renata, Jerry Donoho, Abraham Perez, Yamil Ramirez, Luis
Maldonado, and all those who are not listed and still are in need
of our prayers. If you have a person to add on this prayer list,
please call the office at 972-227-4124. You can also write the
names of your sick loved ones in the notebook on the stand in the
Narthex. Lancaster, TX Page 3
Guadalupe Radio Network
Radio for the Soul
KATH 910 English and KJON 850 Spanish
Televised English & Spanish Mass Schedule update—Please note
recent changes to the broadcast Mass schedule. All through the year
of 2021, the English Mass will be broadcast on KDFI Channel 27 at
11:00 AM and replayed at 12:00 PM. The Spanish Mass will be
broadcast at 8:00 AM on Univision 23.
Watch online Facebook- facebook.com/dallascath.
YouTube-youtube.com/dallascath. All videos are available any
time after their premiere at
https://www.youtube.com/dallascath.
EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP Christ Is Anything but Ordinary
We’re about to dive headlong into week two of Ordinary Time, and
we need to admit, after the hustle and bustle of the holidays,
things are indeed looking more ... ordinary, at least in our
spiritual lives. The transcendent highs of the Christmas season are
flatlining a bit and the vivid imagery of the Nativity scene has
faded. The solemn anticipation of the Advent season is by now a
distant memory. Are you bored yet? Here’s a secret: I think that
Ordinary Time can actually be quite extraordinary, if we’re really
living out our baptismal call. In today’s Gospel, Jesus point-blank
asks Andrew, who is following him after hearing John the Baptist’s
testimony: “What are you looking for?” He’s asking us the same
question. What are you looking for? Why are you following me? Is it
for the Christmas cookies and the Advent car-ols? Is it for the
King’s Cake on the Epiphany? Is it for the feeling we get on
Christmas when we just know God has done a wondrous thing? None of
those things are bad, but they are not what Andrew was looking for,
and they were not what Christ promised him when he said, “Come, and
you will see.” Andrew was looking for the Messiah — the One who
makes even Ordinary Time extraordinary. The One who can sanctify
the longest and dullest of to-do lists, on the longest and dullest
of days. The One whose peace can reign in our homes on January 25,
not just December 25. Remember what you are looking for. Come, and
you will see. Tracy Earl Welliver, MT—©LPi
MOMENTOS ORDINARIOS Cristo es Cualquier Cosa Menos Ordinario
Estamos a punto de sumergirnos de lleno en la se-gunda semana
del Tiempo Ordinario, y debemos admi-tir que, después del ajetreo y
el bullicio de las vacacio-nes, las cosas se ven más ...
ordinarias, al menos en nuestra vida espiritual. Las alturas
trascendentes de la temporada navideña se estancan un poco y las
imágenes impresionantes del pesebre se han desvanecido. La solemne
anticipación del tiempo de Adviento es ahora un recuerdo lejano.
¿Estás aburrido? Aquí hay un secreto: creo que el Tiempo Ordinario
puede ser realmente extraordinario, si realmente esta-mos viviendo
nuestro llamado bautismal. En el Evangelio de hoy, Jesús le
pregunta sin ro-deos a Andrés, que lo sigue después de escuchar el
tes-timonio de Juan el Bautista: "¿Qué estás buscando?" Nos está
haciendo la misma pregunta. ¿Qué estás buscando? ¿Por qué me estás
siguiendo? ¿Es por las galletas de Navidad y los villancicos de
Ad-viento? ¿Es por la rosca de reyes en la Epifanía? ¿Es por el
sentimiento que tenemos en Navidad cuando simple-mente sabemos que
Dios ha hecho algo maravilloso? Ninguna de esas cosas es mala, pero
no son lo que Andrés estaba buscando, y no era lo que Cristo le
pro-metió cuando dijo: "Ven y verás". Andrés estaba bus-cando al
Mesías, Aquel que hace que incluso el Tiem-po Ordinario sea
extraordinario. Aquel que puede san-tificar las listas de tareas
más largas y aburridas, en los días más largos y aburridos. Aquel
cuya paz puede reinar en nuestros hogares el 25 de enero, no solo
el 25 de diciembre. Recuerda lo que buscas. Ven y lo verás. Tracy
Earl Welliver, MTS—© LPi
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MEDITACIÓN DEL EVANGELIO – En este relato del Evangelio, se dice
que Juan estaba con sus discípulos y, que, en ese momento, Jesús
pasaba por ahí. Juan, ve a Jesús y dice a sus discípulos: “Ese es
el Cordero de Dios” (Juan 1:36). Desde ese momento, Juan deja de
ser importante y sede el lugar al Cordero de Dios. Por lo tan-to,
los discípulos, sin ningún retraso ni pregunta, siguieron a Jesús.
Era el momento del encuentro, de la intimidad, de pasar un buen
rato con él. El Papa Francisco lo describe de la siguiente manera:
“Verdaderamente cada uno tiene su encuentro con Jesús. Pensemos en
los primeros discípulos que seguían a Jesús y permanecieron con Él
toda la tarde - Juan y Andrés, el primer encuentro - y fueron
felices por esto”. El Papa continúa su reflexión diciendo: “Todos
nosotros hemos tenido en nuestra vida algún encuentro con Él, un
encuentro verdadero, en el que sentí que Jesús me miraba. No es una
experiencia sólo para santos. Y si no recordamos, será bonito hacer
un poco de memoria y pedir al Señor que nos dé la memoria, porque
Él se acuerda, Él recuerda el encuentro. Una buena tarea para hacer
en casa, sería precisamente volver a pen-sar cuando sentí
verdaderamente al Señor cerca de mí, cuando sentí que tenía que
cambiar de vida y ser me-jor o perdonar a una persona, cuando sentí
al Señor que me pedía algo y, por ello, cuando me encontré al
Se-ñor (Homilía en Santa Marta, 24 de abril de 2015). Para nosotros
ahora, cabe la siguiente pregunta. ¿Dónde, dónde, encontraré al
Señor? ©LPi
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Religious Education
Lancaster, TX Page 5
GOSPEL MEDITATION—Our faith is not just about ideas. It’s really
about having an encounter with God and, in particular, the Risen
Christ! Once we give ourselves over to the notion of God’s
presence, we have to train ourselves to listen for God’s voice and
be attentive to God’s call. Having companions on our faith journeys
is so incredibly important as they can help us fine-tune our
listening skills and discern God’s voice from others we may be
hearing. Faith is all about having these profound encounters not
only with God but with our brothers and sisters, and creation
itself. Anyone or anything that is alive with God’s presence
becomes an occasion for God to speak and call us to deeper graces
and experiences. “Come, and you will see.” The example and teaching
of Jesus, the lives of the saints, those living among us and those
glorified in heaven, and the wonder and beauty of creation can all
serve to help us listen more clearly and assist in posi-tioning
ourselves for this profound God meeting. It is an encounter that
can quickly and easily lead to a friendship and intimate
intertwining of our souls to their Maker, making a claim on us like
no other. Then, the Word of God moves from being just a body of
ide-as to something we simply accept and do. The person of Jesus
Christ swiftly moves from being just a good prophet in word and
deed to the incarnate presence of God Himself, the Lamb of God. The
voice leads us to the Person behind it. The Gospel is hard to
follow. We can intellectual-ly debate whether what Jesus said is
really what we are asked to do. The Gospel ideas do not always make
sense in our practical, secular world. The person of God always
does. We can debate the practicality and sense of ideas and doing
so often keeps the more diffi-cult ones at a safe distance away
from us. Jesus said to love our enemy, but we really don’t need to
do that, our minds try to convince us. It just doesn’t make sense.
Yet, if we are truly in love with the God who is behind the voice
of those words, they make perfect sense. Our deep and intimate love
of this God would even find us laying down our lives for Him if
neces-sary. Speak Lord, your servant is listening. ©LPi
Please remember to come and pick up UNIT 3 of Pflaum for grades
1 to 6. Please pick it up Monday—Friday during office hours. Also,
do not forget that the weekly assessment counts as attendance, so
those children that have not sub-mitted any assessments are
considered absent. As commit-ted parents, please help your
children; they count on you to prepare them and assist them in
their faith formation. This year our Lenten journey will begin on
February 17, 2021 with Ash Wednesday, so when you pick up Unit 3,
students will receive a Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl box. The
Rice Bowl box is a Lenten faith-in-action pro-gram to answer the
call to help those in need. We are invit-ed to reflect on how an
encounter with our neighbor—as companions on life’s journeys—can be
transformative. We will see how our prayers, fasting and alms can
support those worldwide who are forced to flee their homes to find
safety or better opportunities. Your donations will help as
follows: 75% supports CRS programs around the world in agriculture
projects, water and sanitation projects, micro-finance projects,
mother and child health projects, educa-tion projects. 25% go to
hunger and poverty alleviation ef-forts in your own community.
Driven by our faith, let’s commit ourselves to help those in need
no matter where they may live. Rice Bowls are due April 4, 2021.
For any questions about the RE program at St. Francis, email
[email protected]. Read the bulletin regularly to keep up with RE and
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Por favor no olviden venir por la UNIDAD 3 de Pflaum para los
grados 1 al 6. Por favor recójala de lunes a vier-nes en horario de
oficina. También, no olvide que la eva-luación semanal cuenta como
asistencia, así que aquellos niños que no han presentado ninguna
evaluación se consi-deran ausentes. Como padres comprometidos,
ayuden a sus hijos; cuentan con ustedes para prepararlos y
ayudarlos en la formación de su fe. Este año nuestra jornada de
Cua-resma iniciara el 17 de febrero del 2021 con el Miércoles de
Ceniza, cuando recoja la UNIDAD 3 también se le dará una Cajita del
Plato de Arroz de CRS. Este es un programa de Cuaresma de fe en
acción para responder al llamado a ayudar a los necesitados.
Estamos invitados a reflexionar sobre cómo un encuentro con nuestro
prójimo—como com-pañeros en los viajes de la vida—puede ser
transformador. Veremos cómo nuestras oraciones, ayuno y donativos
pue-den apoyar a aquellos en todo el mundo que se ven obliga-dos a
huir de sus hogares para encontrar seguridad o me-jores
oportunidades. Sus donaciones ayudarán de la si-guiente manera: el
75% apoya los programas de CRS en todo el mundo en proyectos
agrícolas, proyectos de agua y saneamiento, proyectos de
microfinanzas, proyectos de sa-lud materno infantil y proyectos
educativos. El 25% se dis-tribuye en a esfuerzos para aliviar el
hambre y la pobreza en nuestra propia comunidad. Impulsados por
nuestra fe, comprometámonos a ayudar a los necesitados sin importar
dónde vivan. Los Platos de Arroz vencen el 4 de abril, 2021. Para
cualquier pregunta sobre el programa RE en St. Francis, envíe un
correo electrónico a [email protected]. Lea el boletín regularmente
para mantenerse al día con RE y todos los demás eventos de la
parroquia.
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