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The First Sunday of Lent
Sunday, February 18, 2018
MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Evening:
4:00-4:30 p.m. Reconciliation 5:00 p.m. Mass
Sunday Morning: 10:00 a.m. Mass
Holy Days 7:00 p.m. Mass
CHURCH OFFICE Secretary: Nadine Crosby (912) 437-4750
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.nativitydarien.us
OFFICE HOURS Monday: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Closed Holidays
Nativity of Our Lady Catholic Church
“A Catholic Community With A Welcoming Heart”
1000 North Way (Hwy 17), P.O. Box 1079, Darien, Ga 31305 Fr. Timothy McKeown, Pastor Fr. Christopher Ortega, Parochial Vicar
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PRIESTS’ OFFICE Fr. Tim and Fr. Chris have offices at St. Francis Xavier
Church located at 405 Howe St., Brunswick, GA 31520.
The office is open Monday - Friday from 9 am - 4 pm.
The SFX Church Office: (912) 265-3249
(Fr. Tim Ext. 11 and Fr. Chris Ext. 12)
Fr. Chris is in the Nativity office on
Tuesdays 10 am—2 pm
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CATHOLIC TRIVIA ~ Lent 1. What snack originated during Lent because it contains only flour water and salt? A. bread B. pasta C. cake D. pretzels 2. What event in the life of Jesus do the Palms recall for us? A. The entrance into Jerusalem B. Palm Sunday C. Jesus’ birth D. the crucifixion 3. Who helped Jesus carry his cross? A. Judas of Kerioth B. Simon of Cyrene C. Peter of Bethsaida D. Paul of Tarsus 4. When does the liturgical season of Lent end? A. Palm Sunday B. Easter Sunday C. Pentecost D. Holy Thursday 5. What do Catholics call the period of 3 days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Holy Thursday and ends with evening prayer on Easter Sun-day? A. Salve Regina B. Agnus Dei C. Tricesimus D. Triduum
The Spirit drove Jesus out into the
desert, and he remained in the desert
for forty days, tempted by Satan.
Mark 1:12-13
Please pray for our Parish members: Dody Sheppard, Lou Casebonne, BrandonO’Brien, Michelle Skolnitsky, James Karwacki, Lorraine Karwacki, Jack Salay, Michael Pistritto, Linda Moore, Clare Moore, Cori Kusik, Meg Wallace, Caryn Pinto, Patricia Kusik, Star Purcell, Dionne Pierce, M.J. Hogan, Courtney Cobb, Michele Mey-ers, Wayne Doke, Carol Whitson, Sammy Gale, Carla Mucha, Cory Adamson, Madison Woolett, John Tompkins, Michael Higgins, Saundra Leon, Brigett Conlin, Ann Doherty, Glenford John, Rosa Marie Santos, Maria Bourget, Bob Walczak, Bruce Lowie, Kathy Tailer, Scarlett Bosque, Dorothy Thomas, Randy Morris, Bill Reale, Joan Vannmen, Jennifer O’Day and Donna Cole (Shuman) Also, for all of our loved ones serving our Mili-tary and for the Christians in the Middle East
~ WELCOME TO NATIVITY OF OUR LADY PARISH ~ February 18, 2018 ~ ~ the first Sunday of lent ~
If you are not taking your bulletin with you, please return them to the back table. Thank you. If you are not taking your bulletin with you, please return them to the back table. Thank you.
Feb 3 & 4 Offertory $1,815.45
Candles $33.75 Food Pantry $20.25
Ash Wed. $25 Boston Butt Sale $223
BAA $376 Ash Wed. $25
Eastern Europe $25 Mass Int. $50
Bishop’s Annual Appeal
collection has been moved to
February 24 & 25
Around the Diocese
Nativity News
Mass Intentions
Saturday 24 @ 5 pm GREETER: Jane Meyer READER: Carol O’Connor COLLECTORS: Jerry Meyer & Bill Wikoff EUCH MIN: Catherine Caauwe & Rick Caauwe ALTAR SERV: Abby Sipe & Amanda Wood Sunday 25 @ 10 am GREETER: Paula Gardner READER: Sandy Stalgaitis COLLECTORS: Carlos Chacon & Kevin Heying EUCH MIN: Laura Daniel & Olivia Daniel (stairs) ALTAR SERV: Grace Daniel & Roxanne Kranz
Liturgical Ministry
Schedule
February 2018
Come and pray the DIVINE CHAPLET OF MERCY—Fridays @ 3 pm during Lent
Saturday, February 17 †Bob Morgan
RB Theresa Morgan
Sunday, February 18 † Leonard L. Sitterle RB Theresa Morgan
GEORGIA MARTYRS On the first Sunday of the month the Rosary that is said
before Mass and the Intention of the Mass will be for the Five Georgia Martyrs.
Father’s Reflection
Nativity Ladies’ Luncheon is the 3rd Tuesday of every month at Skipper’s in Darien at 11:45 am. All Nativity ladies are welcome. This month will be on the 20th.
Discover the Inner Path: A Gathering of Women
Take time to get in touch with God, yourself
and other women.
Spend Saturday February 24, 9-3PM at Inner Path: A Gathering of Women at beautiful Villa Marie Center on the Isle of Hope at 6 Dolan Drive. Sr. Grace Agate, RSM will facilitate the day, “In the Company of Women”. Donation $20. Bring a bag lunch and a mug. Beverages and snacks provided. Seating is limited. PRE-REGISTRATION RE-QUIRED. Call/e-mail Sr. Donna Loeper at (912) 484-7860 or [email protected] for registration form and details.
CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE BELLA-ITALIA!!!!
12 DAY PILGRIMAGE
Now is the best time ever to take a Pilgrimage!
(June 12-23, 2018). Experience a once in a lifetime pilgrimage
with two Priests, including daily Masses, first class hotels, meals and round trip airfare for
12 days This affordable and inspiring pilgrimage takes you to beautiful breathtaking areas with Spir-
itual meanings. This tour is fully escorted, customized and guided, with daily Masses.
Call Father Hoyer at 954-854-0079, or the
tour agency at 1-800-242-4122 (Altura Tours) for complete information and group pricing
for Catholic Italy!
Come and experience a pilgrimage of a life-time!
St. Francis Xavier School seeks qualified person to establish a development office. Primary responsibility will be year-round fundraising through coordinating special events, obtaining grants, and direct solicita-tion. Candidate should be mature, energetic, self-motivated, and have good interpersonal skills. Experi-ence in fundraising preferred. Secondary responsibilities will be marketing and alumni relations. Please send your letter of interest and resume to: St. Francis Xavier Catholic School, 1121 Union Street, Bruns-wick, GA 31520 or [email protected]
Single women age 16 – 35 are invited to participate in a Convent Crawl on Saturday March 3. It’s an opportunity to meet some sisters, hear their stories, and see where they live. The experience begins at 2:00 in the parking lot of the Pastoral Center and will include prayer, food, and discussion. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Call/e-mail Sr. Donna Loeper at (912) 484-7860 or [email protected]. Fliers are available in the back of church or from Sr. Donna.
To help coordinate an Easter Egg Hunt. Please contact the church office if you can help.
LENTEN DINNER, STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND ADORATION
On Fridays during Lent, we will be having a Lenten Dinner starting at 5:45 pm, then the Stations of the Cross at 6:30
with Adoration to follow. We have a signup sheet for those who wish to prepare a Lenten meal.
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Once again, the Pasch of the Lord draws near! In our preparation for
Easter, God in his providence offers us each year the season of Lent as a “sacramental sign of our conversion”. Lent summons us, and enables us, to come back to the Lord wholeheart-edly and in every aspect of our life. With this message, I would like again this year to help the entire Church experience this time of grace anew, with joy and in truth. I will take my cue from the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: “Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold” (24:12).
False prophets Let us listen to the Gospel passage and try to understand the guise such false proph-
ets can assume. They can appear as “snake charmers”, who manipulate human emotions in order to enslave others and lead them where they would have them go. How many of God’s children are mesmerized by momentary pleasures, mistaking them for true happiness! How many men and women live entranced by the dream of wealth, which only makes them slaves to profit and petty interests! How many go through life believing that they are sufficient unto themselves, and end up entrapped by loneliness!
False prophets can also be “charlatans”, who offer easy and immediate solutions to suffering that soon prove utterly useless. How many young people are taken in by the pana-cea of drugs, of disposable relationships, of easy but dishonest gains! How many more are ensnared in a thoroughly “virtual” existence, in which relationships appear quick and straightforward, only to prove meaningless! These swindlers, in peddling things that have no real value, rob people of all that is most precious: dignity, freedom and the ability to love. They appeal to our vanity, our trust in appearances, but in the end they only make fools of us.
A cold heart In his description of hell, Dante Alighieri pictures the devil seated on a throne of ice,
in frozen and loveless isolation. We might well ask ourselves how it happens that charity can turn cold within us. What are the signs that indicate that our love is beginning to cool? More than anything else, what destroys charity is greed for money, “the root of all evil” (1 Tim 6:10). The rejection of God and his peace soon follows; we prefer our own desolation rather than the comfort found in his word and the sacraments. All this leads to violence against any-one we think is a threat to our own “certainties”: the unborn child, the elderly and infirm, the migrant, the alien among us, or our neighbour who does not live up to our expectations.
What are we to do? Perhaps we see, deep within ourselves and all about us, the signs I have just de-
scribed. But the Church, our Mother and Teacher, along with the often bitter medicine of the truth, offers us in the Lenten season the soothing remedy of prayer, almsgiving and fasting. By devoting more time to prayer, we enable our hearts to root out our secret lies and forms of self-deception, and then to find the consolation God offers. He is our Father and he wants us to live life well.Almsgiving sets us free from greed and helps us to regard our neighbour as a brother or sister. What I possess is never mine alone. How I would like almsgiving to become a genuine style of life for each of us! How I would like us, as Christians, to follow the example of the Apostles and see in the sharing of our possessions a tangible witness of the communion that is ours in the Church! Yet I would also hope that, even in our daily en-counters with those who beg for our assistance, we would see such requests as coming from God himself. When we give alms, we share in God’s providential care for each of his chil-dren. If through me God helps someone today, will he not tomorrow provide for my own needs? For no one is more generous than God. Fasting weakens our tendency to violence; it disarms us and becomes an important opportunity for growth. On the one hand, it allows us to experience what the destitute and the starving have to endure. On the other hand, it ex-presses our own spiritual hunger and thirst for life in God. Fasting wakes us up. It makes us more attentive to God and our neighbour. It revives our desire to obey God, who alone is capable of satisfying our hunger.
The fire of Easter Above all, I urge the members of the Church to take up the Lenten journey with en-
thusiasm, sustained by almsgiving, fasting and prayer. If, at times, the flame of charity seems to die in our own hearts, know that this is never the case in the heart of God! He constantly gives us a chance to begin loving anew.
During the Easter Vigil, we will celebrate once more the moving rite of the lighting of the Easter candle. Drawn from the “new fire”, this light will slowly overcome the dark-ness and illuminate the liturgical assembly. “May the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds”, and enable all of us to relive the experience of the disci-ples on the way to Emmaus. By listening to God’s word and drawing nourishment from the table of the Eucharist, may our hearts be ever more ardent in faith, hope and love.
With affection and the promise of my prayers for all of you, I send you my blessing. Please do not forget to pray for me.
-Pope Francis Excerpts from Message for Lent 2018
