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March 19th , 2017

PARISH DIRECTORY Bishop Francis Kalabat Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit

Fr. Pierre Konja Administrator

Fr. Emanuel Rayes Retired in residence

Linda Arabo Office Administrator

Nancy Beba Pastoral Associate

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8:00 am - 4:00 pm

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The Powerful 30 Day Prayer to St. Joseph For centuries Christians have turned to St. Joseph as a powerful patron and faithful guardian, father and friend. Invoked as the Glory of home life, Patron of the Dying and Terror of Demons, Christians call upon St. Joseph for healing and conversion, help with their children, a new job or home, and for all their needs of body and soul.

Honored as the Patron of the Universal Church, St. Joseph's paternal protection of the Lord Jesus continues even from heaven, as he watches over Christ’s Mystical Body on earth. The foster-father of the Son of God is also a father to those who have become God’s sons and daughters through the sacrament of baptism.

Saints and popes down the centuries have experienced and extolled St. Joseph’s great power to intercede. “Would that I could persuade all men to be devout to this glorious saint,” wrote St. Teresa of Avila in her autobiography, “for I know by long experience what blessings he can obtain for us from God.”

“Men of every rank and country should fly to the trust and guard of the blessed Joseph,” especially fathers of families, Pope Leo XIII wrote in his encyclical on devotion to St. Joseph, Quamquam pluries.

Pope Benedict XVI especially encouraged married couples and parents to turn to St. Joseph, saying: “God alone could grant Joseph the strength to trust the Angel. God alone will give you, dear married couples, the strength to raise your family as he wants. Ask it of him! God loves to be asked for what he wishes to give. Ask him for the grace of a true and ever more faithful love patterned after his own. As the Psalm magnificently puts it: his ‘love is established for ever, his loyalty will stand as long as the heavens’ (Ps 88:3).”

And Pope St. John Paul II, with Pope Benedict and their predecessors, held up

St. Joseph as a model of the interior life, pointing to the silence of St. Joseph

which speaks louder than words. “The Gospels speak exclusively of what Joseph

‘did,’” Pope John Paul II said. “Still, they allow us to discover in his ‘actions’ —

shrouded in silence as they are — an aura of deep contemplation. Joseph was in

daily contact with the mystery ‘hidden from ages past,’ and which ‘dwelt’ under his

roof.”

The liturgical feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Confessor of the

Faith, is celebrated each year on March 19th. In preparation for this feast, we offer our

readers a powerful 30 Day Prayer to St. Joseph.

Why 30 days, you might wonder? According to tradition, St. Joseph died just before

Jesus entered into his public ministry. (continued on page 2)

4th of Lent

GEN. 11:1-32

ROM. 8:12-27

MT. 21:23-46

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The prayer therefore honors St. Joseph for each of the 30 years

he spent with Jesus and Mary on earth.

This prayer can be said during any 30-day period, but with St. Joseph’s feast fast approaching, now is a particularly opportune time to turn to him asking his help and guidance for all your needs, the needs of your family, loved ones, friends, and all those in need of prayer.

And if you begin one or two days late, no need to worry. St.

Joseph lives outside of time, and has been known to answer on

the March 25th Feast of the Annunciation.

THIRTY DAY PRAYER TO

ST. JOSEPH

IN HONOR OF THE 30 YEARS HE

SPENT WITH JESUS AND MARY

Ever blessed and glorious Joseph, kind and loving father, and helpful friend of all in sorrow! You are the good father and pro-tector of orphans, the defender of the defenseless, the patron of those in need and sorrow.

Look kindly on my request. My sins have drawn down on me the just displeasure of my God, and so I am surrounded with unhappiness. To you, loving guardian of the Family of Naza-reth, do I go for help and protection. Listen, then, I beg you, with fatherly concern, to my earnest prayers, and obtain for me the favors I ask.

I ask it by the infinite mercy of the eternal Son of God, which moved Him to take our nature and to be born into this world of sorrow.

I ask it by the weariness and suffering you endured when you found no shelter at the inn of Bethlehem for the Holy Virgin, nor a house where the Son of God could be born. Then, being

everywhere refused, you had to allow the Queen of Heaven to give birth to the world’s Redeemer in a cave.

I ask it by the loveliness and power of that sacred Name, Jesus, which you conferred on the adorable Infant.

I ask it by the painful torture you felt at the prophecy of holy Simeon, which declared the Child Jesus and His holy Mother future victims of our sins and of their great love for us.

I ask it through your sorrow and pain of soul when the angel declared to you that the life of the Child Jesus was sought by His enemies. From their evil plan, you had to flee with Him and His Blessed Mother to Egypt.

I ask it by all the suffering, weariness, and labors of that long and dangerous journey.

I ask it by all your care to protect the Sacred Child and His Im-maculate Mother during your second journey, when you were ordered to return to your own country.

I ask it by your peaceful life in Nazareth where you met with so many joys and sorrows. I ask it by your great distress when the adorable Child was lost to you and His mother for three days.

I ask it by your joy at finding Him in the temple, and by the comfort you found at Nazareth, while living in the company of the Child Jesus.

I ask it by the wonderful submission He showed in His obedi-ence to you.

I ask it by the perfect love and conformity you showed in ac-cepting the Divine order to depart from this life, and from the company of Jesus and Mary.

I ask it by the joy which filled your soul, when the Redeemer of the world, triumphant over death and hell, entered into the pos-session of His kingdom and led you into it with special honors.

I ask it through Mary’s glorious Assumption, and through that endless happiness you have with her in the presence of God. O good father! I beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows, and joys, to hear me and obtain for me what I ask.

(Here name your petitions or think of them.)

Obtain for all those who have asked my prayers everything that

is useful to them in the plan of God. Finally, my dear patron

and father, be with me and all who are dear to me in our last

moments, that we may eternally sing the praises of: JESUS,

MARY AND JOSEPH. “A blameless life, St. Joseph, may we

lead, by your kind patronage from danger freed.”

Diane Montagna - Aleteia.org

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LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil Mass 4:00 PM English

Sunday Masses 8:30 AM Arabic/عربي

01:11 AM English 11:30 AM Morning Prayer

12:00 PM Chaldean/سورث

7:00 PM English

Weekday Masses 8:00 AM English at ECRC

9:30 AM Morning Prayer

10:00 AM Chaldean/سورث

Wednesday

5:00 PM Adoration 6:00 PM English Mass

Confession

5-6 pm Wednesday 6-7 pm Sunday

(or by appointment)

PARISH SCHEDULE AND WEEKLY INFORMATION

FINANCIAL STATUS

Sunday Goal: $7,000

Sunday Collection (March 12th ): $6,937

Over/(Under): ($63.00)

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Monthly Online Donation Goal: $4,000

Monthly Online Collection (February): $2,395

Over/(Under): ($1,605)

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BAPTISM: We celebrate Baptism at 2:00 pm on

the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Please call the parish office at least two weeks in advance to see if a date is available.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the parish office to make arrangements for Anointing or to receive the Eucharist.

MARRIAGE: Please schedule at least six months before you plan to be married and before you make arrangements for the reception, please call the parish office to make an appointment with the priest to begin the necessary preparations.

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING CLASSES First and third Wednesday of every even month from 7:30 - 9:30 pm.

MARRIAGE CLASSES First, second and third Thursday of every odd month from 8:00 - 10:00 pm.

YOU CAN LISTEN TO MOG SUNDAY HOMILIY BY

VISITING OUR CHURCH WEBSITE AT:

www.ourladyofchaldeans.com

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PART ONE

THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION TWO

THE PROFESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON

OF GOD

ARTICLE 4 "JESUS CHRIST SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE, WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED, AND WAS

BURIED"

I. JESUS AND THE LAW

580 The perfect fulfillment of the Law could be the work of none but the divine legislator, born subject to the Law in the person of the Son.

337 In Jesus, the Law no longer appears

engraved on tables of stone but "upon the heart" of the Servant who becomes "a covenant to the people", because he will "faithfully bring forth justice".

338 Jesus fulfills the Law to the

point of taking upon himself "the curse of the Law" incurred by those who do not "abide by the things written in the book of the Law, and do them", for his death took place to redeem them "from the transgressions under the first covenant".

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581 The Jewish people and their spiritual leaders viewed

Jesus as a rabbi.340

He often argued within the framework of rabbinical interpretation of the Law.

341 Yet Jesus could not help

but offend the teachers of the Law, for he was not content to propose his interpretation alongside theirs but taught the people "as one who had authority, and not as their scribes".

342 In Jesus, the same Word of God that had

resounded on Mount Sinai to give the written Law to Moses, made itself heard anew on the Mount of the Beatitudes.

343 Jesus did not abolish the Law but fulfilled it by

giving its ultimate interpretation in a divine way: "You have heard that it was said to the men of old. . . But I say to you. . ."

344 With this same divine authority, he disavowed

certain human traditions of the Pharisees that were "making void the word of God".

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582 Going even further, Jesus perfects the dietary law, so important in Jewish daily life, by revealing its pedagogical meaning through a divine interpretation: "Whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him. . . (Thus he declared all foods clean.). . . What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts. . ."

346 In presenting with divine authority the definitive

interpretation of the Law, Jesus found himself confronted by certain teachers of the Law who did not accept his

interpretation of the Law, guaranteed though it was by the divine signs that accompanied it.

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was the case especially with the sabbath laws, for he recalls, often with rabbinical arguments, that the sabbath rest is not violated by serving God and neighbor,

348 which his

own healings did.

II. JESUS AND THE

TEMPLE

583 Like the prophets before him Jesus expressed the deepest respect for the Temple in Jerusalem. It was in the Temple that Joseph and Mary presented him forty days after his birth.

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the age of twelve he decided to remain in the Temple to remind his parents that he must be about his Father's business.

350 He

went there each year during his hidden life at least for Passover.

351 His public ministry itself was patterned by his

pilgrimages to Jerusalem for the great Jewish feasts.352

584 Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of his Father, a house of prayer, and he was angered that its outer court had become a place of commerce.

353 He drove

merchants out of it because of jealous love for his Father: "You shall not make my Father's house a house of trade. His disciples remembered that it was written, 'Zeal for your house will consume me.'"

354 After his Resurrection his apostles

retained their reverence for the Temple.355

585 On the threshold of his Passion Jesus announced the coming destruction of this splendid building, of which there would not remain "one stone upon another".

356 By doing so, he

announced a sign of the last days, which were to begin with his own Passover.

357 But this prophecy would be distorted in its

telling by false witnesses during his interrogation at the high priest's house, and would be thrown back at him as an insult when he was nailed to the cross.

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586 Far from having been hostile to the Temple, where he gave the essential part of his teaching, Jesus was willing to pay the Temple-tax, associating with him Peter, whom he had just made the foundation of his future Church.

359 He even identified

himself with the Temple by presenting himself as God's definitive dwelling-place among men.

360 Therefore his being put

to bodily death361

presaged the destruction of the Temple, which would manifest the dawning of a new age in the history of salvation: "The hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father."

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