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Hospital visitation is this Sunday April
19th at 3:00 p.m. All are invited especially
the men, the Holy Name Society and
Knights of Columbus.
3rd SUNDAY OF EASTER - 19TH APRIL 2015
He is with us always.
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The Benedictine Nuns will be holding a
fundraising Family Fun Day this Sunday
April 19th at the Mount of Prayer, Coubaril
from 10:00 a.m. Tickets cost $100 adults,
$50 children 4 to 12 years and are available
from Welcome St. Rose. Proceeds are in aid
of the Zambia Mission.
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The Vocations Collection will be taken up
next Sunday April 26th. Please be generous.
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May 1st is our Parish Feast. Mass is at
7:00 a.m. and there will be blessing of the
tools which you use for work. All are invited
to attend.
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The Missionary Childhood Association
Rally takes place on Sunday May 3rd at the
Micoud Church from 10:00 a.m. All
members, parents/guardians and friends are
invited to attend.
The St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Gros Islet
Presents a Grand Barbeque
(excerpt sermons4kids.com) IN AID OF MONCHY CHURCH FENCING
Gros Islet, Grande Riviere & Monchy
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St. Joseph the Worker Parish
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$15.00
“Blessed are those who have not
seen and yet believe.”
Jn.20:29
1st May 2015
On the Monchy Church Grounds
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Entertainment: Secret Band
Bring your appetite and come on down!
CONFESSIONS
Every Saturday
9.00 - 0.00a.m
6.00 -6.45p.m.
&
by appointment
oday’s Gospel tells about the disciples who were
not in the Upper Room but walking dejectedly
from Jerusalem to a nearby hamlet called Emmaus and Jesus’
appearance among them. The disciples were talking about all of the
stupendous events that had occurred surrounding the crucifixion and
death of Jesus. They were extremely upset because they had thought
Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, and look at what had happened!
They were dazed, bewildered and trying to make sense out of it all.
The Gospel account then takes us to the one thing that opened their
eyes, the event that allowed them to make all of the connections. It was
the breaking of the bread. The “stranger” who was among them took
bread, said the blessing, broke it and gave it to them to eat.
Suddenly their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. They no
longer saw Him with just their eyes, but they recognized Him with
their hearts. They saw Him with their newly awakened faith. They
recognized Him because they encountered Him in a totally different
light. They saw Him now in that event wherein He promised to be with
them always.
Jesus comes to you and me in ways we least expect. This is why we
need times of reflection. For it is in moments of quiet reflection that
we begin to “see” Jesus and come into a deeper awareness of His
presence to us.
To deny that He is in fact present to us is to deny the testimony of
countless numbers of people who, down through two thousand years of
Christian history, tell us of their similar “walks to Emmaus”, of their
similar moments of coming to recognize Jesus and of their encounters
with Him.
May we come to recognize Him not only in the breaking of the bread
but in all those other moments where God tries to break in on our time
and walk with us as we face all the events life hurls at us. For without
His presence with us we certainly will feel depressed and defeated.
First Reading
Acts3:13-15.17-19
Second Reading
1Jn. 2:1-5
Gospel
Lk.24:35-48
MASS TIMES
Morning Prayers:
5:45a.m.
MONDAY: GROS ISLET
Mass:
Mass 6:00 a. m.
12:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: GROS ISLET
6:00 a.m.
WEDNESDAY
12:30 & 6:00 p.m.:
Gros Islet
6:00 p.m.- G/Riviere
THURSDAY
6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m.:
Gros Islet
6:00 p.m. - Monchy
FRIDAY
6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m.:
Gros Islet
SATURDAY
6:30 a.m./7:00 p. m.:
Gros Islet
SUNDAY
(excerpt: frcharlie.org)
7:30 a.m. at
GROS ISLET/G. RIVIERE
Parish Priests: Fr. Stephen Quinlan, Fr. Athanase Joseph
10:00 a.m. at
Deacons: Rev. Girard Glace, Rev. Winston Taylor, Rev. Jeremy Joseph
Gros Islet/Monchy
P.O Box Choc 8192, Castries, Saint Lucia
Tel: (758) 450450-8325 (758) 450450-9390 Cell: (758) 285285-8831
HOLIDAY
Email: st.joseph_church@hotmail.com
st.joseph_church@hotmail.com st.joseph_church@candw.lc
7:00 a.m.: Gros Islet
Website: www.grosisletchurch.org Face book: facebook.com/grosisletparish
ST. MARK THE EVANGELIST
M
ark the Evangelist is the author of the Gospel of
Mark and we know of him mostly through his
authorship of this Gospel. He was the cousin and disciple
of Barnabas, as well as the disciple of Peter and Paul. His
mother’s name was Mary, a well to do widow in Jerusalem who provided
her house as a meeting place for the early Christians.
PLEASE PRAY
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Tracy Mondesir
Theresa Cox
Annie Etienne
Priscillia Henry
Claude Guillaume
Claude Griffith
Mark joined Paul and Barnabas on Paul’s first missionary journey, but
DECEASED
there was a falling out between Mark and Paul and Mark returned home
Emmanuel Philip
before the journey was over. About 10 years later we find him in Rome as
Florence Ambrose
Peter’s secretary and interpreter. Mark translated Peter’s Aramaic
preaching into Greek and Latin. But later on Paul and Mark worked
Bernard Germain
together again in apparent harmony, for Paul calls him very useful in
Mary Brewster
spreading the Gospel (2Tim.4:11) and a source of great consolation (Col. Bernadette Gaspard
4:10) because of his fidelity.
The audience for Mark’s writings was the gentile Christians living in WEEKDAY READINGS
Rome at the time. In a general way, the Gospel of Mark can be seen as a
detailed development of Peter’s discourses in the Acts of the Apostles and
MONDAY
so it is a like a living mirror of Peter’s preaching. Mark is known as the
Acts 6:8-15
“mouthpiece of Peter” since Peter was Mark’s main source for the story of
Jn.6:22-29
Jesus’ life. Peter refers to him as “my son Mark” in his First Letter.
It is quite possible that Peter baptized him and that he actually was an
TUESDAY
eyewitness to some of the events in the life of Jesus. For only in Mark’s
Acts7:51. 8:1
Gospel do we find the account of the young man who followed Jesus after
Jn.6:30-35
His arrest and how the linen cloth about the young man’s body had been
left behind as the authorities tried to seize him. As some Scripture Scholars
WEDNESDAY
phrase it, this little recorded episode is, in a way, a kind of “signature” of
Acts 8:1-8
Mark to his authorship of the second Gospel.
Jn.6:35-40
The first words of Mark’s Gospel very boldly affirm the divinity of Christ:
“The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” This
THURSDAY
statement is key to understanding the whole of Mark’s Gospel. All the
Acts 8:26-40
works, miracles, teaching and words of Jesus recorded by Mark are meant
Jn.6:44-51
to authenticate the fact of Jesus’ Divine Sonship. Mark ends his Gospel as
he began with the statement of the Roman centurion on Calvary: “Truly
FRIDAY
this man was the Son of God!” (Mark 15:39).
Acts 9:1-20
Jn.6:52-59
Eventually Mark founded the Church of Alexandria in Egypt, where he
died as a martyr. His relics are currently venerated in St. Mark’s Basilica
SATURDAY
in Venice. His feast day is celebrated on April 25, and his symbol is the
1Pet 5:5-14
winged lion. He is the patron saint of lawyers and notaries.
Mk.16:15-20
(excerpt: ewtn/fatherdominicmary)
MASS INTENTIONS
GROS ISLET
CLERGY / RELIGIOUS
INTENTIONS
3RD SUNDAY OF EASTER
Thks: Bernitha Clery
Terence Elliot & family
St. Jude Hospital & Recon Project
Sat. Apr 18 - 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Apr 19 - 7:30 a.m.
MISSA PRO POPULO
10:00 a.m.
B’day: Leonie Abenaty, Marylin Hyacinth
Thks: Marabelle Michaud
Wedd Ann: David & Veronica Lubin
G. Riviere - 7:30 a.m.
Parishioners
Monchy - 10:00 a.m.
Parishioners
WEEKDAY MASS INTENTIONS
Mon Apr 20 - 6:00 a.m.
Fr. Lambert St. Rose
Thks: Steffi Ann St Clair & family
Hiram King & family, Perlin Verdant
B’day: Bridget Evans
Thks: Nicholas Scott
12:30 a.m.
Thks: Gabriel & Marcelline Geoffrey
Franklyn & Richard Palton & family
Tues Apr 21 - 6:00 a.m.
All Clergy & Religious
Wed Apr 22 - 12:30 p.m.
Fr. Cecil Goodman
B’day: Leisl Glace, Calvin Parker
Tonia Robinson
Rev. Thomas Alexander
Thu Apr 23 - 6:00 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
Monchy 6:00 p.m.
Fri Apr 24 - 6:00 a.m.
St Mark, Evangelist
12:30 p.m.
Sat Apr 25 - 6.30 a.m.
B’day: Kathleen Ferdinand
Msgr. Theophilus Joseph
Thks: Fr. Stephen Quinlan
Fr. Linus Clovis
Sr. Adinase Mumba
Dc'd: Marie Headley
Jamie Innocent, Marcia Pilgrim
Ann. Priestly Ord:
Fr. Victor Mariasuaia
Eucharistic Service
B’day: Angela Auguste
Rev. Girard Glace
Agatha McDonald
Sr. Mary Muskosa OSB
Fr. Kenneth Haakyav VC
B’day: Justin Charles
Fr. Peter Hill C.Ss.R
Int: Fr. Athanase Joseph
Fr. Henry Nmor
Fr. Konrad Mair
Dc'd: Faith & David Garland
Maria Louis