Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands 42 Barren Spot- P.O. Box 1160 Kingshill U.S. Virgin Islands 00851 Tel. (340) 778-0484 Fax. (340) 779-3151 Website: www.catholicvi.com/stann/ E-mail: [email protected]The Ascension of the Lord May 16– May 17, 2015 Most Rev. Herbert A. Bevard “TOGETHER BUILDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” ST. ANN’S BOOKSTORE & GIFTS SHOP Tuesdays to Fridays: 9:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m. Sundays: Open after Masses CCN / EWTN Channel 7 9:30 a.m. Sundays Mass (Live) Channel 7 Internet: www.livestream.com/ caribbeancatholicnetwork7 ALTAR FLOWERS Would you like the Altar flowers to be offered in memory of someone or in celebration of a special occasion, Please call the office and schedule a date. A free-will donation is welcome. SANCTUARY DEVOTIONAL LIGHT Would you like to donate the sanctuary candle in memory of someone or in celebration of a special occasion, please call the office and schedule a date. A free-will donation is welcome.
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SANCTUARY DEVOTIONAL LIGHT
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Daily
Readings
This week’s sanctuary candle:
St. Ann Chapel: Donald & Mario Robles
St. Joachim Church: Ruth McFarlane
Shrine of Our Lady: Fevena Jerome
This week’s Altar Flowers:
B’day Celia Nicole Letang
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
EVERY FRIDAY AT 5:30 P.M
THIRD TUESDAY OF THE MONTH 7:00 P.M
Adorémus in ætérnum
Sanctíssimum Sacraméntum
MASS SCHEDULE AND INTENTION
May 16, Saturday
5:00 p.m. In Thanksgiving Halimah Blanc rb mother May 17, Sunday
7:00 a.m. B’day Elizabeth Charles rb family 9:30 a.m. +Cerelia Octave rb Anne Marie St. Ange
May 19, Tuesday 12:15 p.m. In Thanksgiving Rudinsky Fam. rb Theodosia Christopher May 20, Wednesday 6:30 a.m. +Hubert Valmont rb family May 21, Thursday 12:15 p.m. B’day Timothy Samuel rb mother
May 22, Friday 6:30 a.m. B’day Kiahna Leon rb Eunice George May 23, Saturday 8:30 a.m. +Juanita & Carmen rb Religious Ed. Program
Eduardo A. Molina, Comeron Childres, Jainea Louis, Tyquavias & Jemel
Dawson, Enja Gumbs, Luis D. Molina, Rodney Fabio 111, Kareem Pedro,
Rashid A. Richards, Naim Muhammad, George O’Neal Davis 111.
Please call the Office, to add or remove names from this list.
BISHOP’S APPEAL
Many thanks to all who have already contributed
to the Bishop’s Appeal 2015! We need more help
in order to reach our goal. Please give a brochure
to a friend.
Our schools, Catholic Charities and Evangelization
efforts need everyone’s support!
For your convenience you can make a pledge now
and pay it in installments.
“He Who Supplies All our Needs Can Never Be
Outdone in Generosity.”
DIOCESAN PRIEST RETIREMENT FUND
Your gift provides support for priests. Please give to those who
have given a lifetime. Envelopes are located at the exit of the
church. Thank you for your kind generosity. May God bless you a
hundredfold!!!
HALO
Abundant blessings and thanks to our Altar Society
Group “E” that cleaned and prepared the various ar-
eas for church services this past Saturday. Group “A”
is scheduled for cleaning Saturday, May 23 starting
about 6:00 A.M. Please think and pray about giving
just one hour each month to prepare the Lord’s house
for worship.
HOW TO PRAY THE ROSARY
7 things Pope Francis wants you to know about
Jesus' Ascension by Jimmy Akin 05/08/2013
1) Your Holiness, what is a good starting point for under-
standing the Ascension?
[Pope Francis:] Let us start from the moment when Jesus decided
to make his last pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
St Luke notes: “When the days drew near for him to be received up,
he set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Lk 9:51).
While he was “going up” to the Holy City, where his own “exodus”
from this life was to occur, Jesus already saw the destination,
heaven, but he knew well that the way which would lead him to the
glory of the Father passed through the Cross, through obedience to
the divine design of love for mankind.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that: “The lifting up of
Jesus on the cross signifies and announces his lifting up by his As-
cension into heaven” (n. 662).
2) What can we learn from this?
We too should be clear in our Christian life that entering the glory
of God demands daily fidelity to his will, even when it demands
sacrifice and sometimes requires us to change our plans.
The Ascension of Jesus actually happened on the Mount of Olives,
close to the place where he had withdrawn to pray before the Pas-
sion in order to remain in deep union with the Father: Once again
we see that prayer gives us the grace to be faithful to God’s plan.
3) How does Luke's Gospel describe the Ascension?
At the end of his Gospel, St Luke gives a very concise account of
the event of the Ascension.
Jesus led his disciples “out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his
hands he blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted from them,
and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and re-
turned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the tem-
ple blessing God” (Lk 24:50-53).
This is what St Luke says.
I would like to note two elements in the account.
4) What is the first point?
First of all, during the Ascension Jesus made the priestly gesture of
blessing, and the disciples certainly expressed their faith with pros-
tration, they knelt with bowed heads.
This is a first important point: Jesus is the one eternal High Priest
who with his Passion passed through death and the tomb and as-
cended into heaven. He is with God the Father where he intercedes
forever in our favour (cf. Heb 9:24). As St. John says in his First Letter, he is our Advocate: How beauti-
ful it is to hear this! When someone is summoned by the judge or is
involved in legal proceedings, the first thing he does is to seek a
lawyer to defend him.
We have One who always defends us, who defends us from the
snares of devil, who defends us from ourselves and from our sins!
Dear brothers and sisters, we have this Advocate; let us not be afraid
to turn to him to ask forgiveness, to ask for a blessing, to ask for
mercy!
He always pardons us, he is our Advocate: He always defends us!
Don’t forget this!
The Ascension of Jesus into heaven acquaints us with this deeply
consoling reality on our journey: In Christ, true God and true man,
our humanity was taken to God.
Christ opened the path to us. He is like a roped guide climbing a
mountain who, on reaching the summit, pulls us up to him and
leads us to God.
If we entrust our life to him, if we let ourselves be guided by him,
we are certain to be in safe hands, in the hands of our Saviour, of
our Advocate.
5) What is the second point?
A second element: St Luke says that having seen Jesus ascending
into heaven, the Apostles returned to Jerusalem “with great joy.”
This seems to us a little odd. When we are separated from our
relatives, from our friends, because of a definitive departure and,
especially, death, there is usually a natural sadness in us since we
will no longer see their face, no longer hear their voice, or enjoy
their love, their presence.
The Evangelist instead emphasizes the profound joy of the Apos-
tles.
But how could this be?
Precisely because, with the gaze of faith they understand that al-
though he has been removed from their sight, Jesus stays with
them forever, he does not abandon them and in the glory of the
Father supports them, guides them and intercedes for them.
6) How does Luke's other book--the book of Acts--record the
Ascension?
St Luke too recounts the event of the Ascension — at the begin-
ning of the Acts of the Apostles — to emphasize that this event is
like the link of the chain that connects Jesus’ earthly life to the
life of the Church.
Here St Luke also speaks of the cloud that hid Jesus from the
sight of the disciples, who stood gazing at him ascending to God
(cf. Acts 1:9-10).
Then two men in white robes appeared and asked them not to
stand there looking up to heaven but to nourish their lives and
their witness with the certainty that Jesus will come again in the
same way in which they saw him ascending into heaven (cf. Acts
1:10-11).
This is the invitation to base our contemplation on Christ’s lord-
ship, to find in him the strength to spread the Gospel and to wit-
ness to it in everyday life: contemplation and action, ora et la-
bora [Latin, "pray and work"], as St Benedict taught, are both
necessary in our life as Christians.
7) What does the Ascension imply about Jesus' presence with
us?
Dear brothers and sisters, the Ascension does not point to Jesus’
absence, but tells us that he is alive in our midst in a new way.
He is no longer in a specific place in the world as he was before
the Ascension.
He is now in the lordship of God, present in every space and time,
close to each one of us.
In our life we are never alone: We have this Advocate who awaits
us, who defends us.
We are never alone: The Crucified and Risen Lord guides us.
We have with us a multitude of brothers and sisters who, in si-
lence and concealment, in their family life and at work, in their
problems and hardships, in their joys and hopes, live faith daily
and together with us bring the world the lordship of God’s love,
in the Risen Jesus Christ, ascended into Heaven, our own Advo-
cate who pleads for us.
Many thanks.
PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS
SECOND COLLECTION: The second collection this weekend is for the support of the Catholic Communication campaign. The second collection next weekend is to support the Religious Education Program and Bus transportation services. We deeply thank you for your generosity.
Meeting(s):
Stewards of Christ will be meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. in the Marian Hall.
The month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Holy Rosary will be prayed 15 minutes before each mass. We also encourage families to pray the Rosary together.
Bookstore: Confirmation is Sunday, May 31st; First Communion is Sun-day, June 7th. Check us out for Special Rosaries, Wall Crosses, Commun-ion Bibles, Confirmation Prayer books, Picture Frames and special night light crucifixes; Sale—Confirmation & First Communion cards—fifty (.50) cents. Come see, come browse!
As the nation celebrates National Public Works week, let us recognize our public workers in the Virgin Islands, particularly on the island of St. Croix and extend a special welcome to public workers in attendance at our 9:30 a.m. Mass. This year’s theme: Community begins here”, speaks to the essential nature of public works services in support of our everyday quality of life. We appreciate and thank you!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Sunday, May 31, 2015—Confirmation Mass 9:30 a.m. Mass
Sunday, June 7, 2015—First Communion Mass 9:30 a.m. Mass
OUR SICK: Please keep in the charity of your
prayers the sick amongst us. Magdeline James,
Alberta Hendrickson, Lucinda Pemberton, Mary
Denis, Catherine Decembre, Leona Javois, Pricilla
Brown, Doreen Pemberton, Zephrine Thomas,
Elden Serrant, Joseph Jones, Abel Javois, Stanis-
laus Prescott, Marv E. Jon, Julie Dizon, Irene
Prevot, Josephine Prescott, Hyacinthe Bright,
Steve Keith, Catherine Samuel, Larry Cook, Omar
Dubois, Mary Bishop, Bernadette Koupie, Kalla
Joseph, Kalla Genevieve, Maria Hall, Olive Le-
Cointe, Derick James, Walter E. Durand,
Clementina Tuitt, Kay Colon, Bernadette Megahy,
Troy Jones, Maurille Philemon, Ann Marie Marius,
Veronica Fleming, Stephen Williams, Yvonne Mon-
roe, Anna Lindo, Desmond Etienne, Charles Gil-
bert 111, Mervyn Tyrell, Linda White, Kianna
Ireland, Francis Davinci, Peter Joseph John,
Wilberto Bennet, Claudelle Mathurin, Magdalene
Greene, Phillip Joseph, Brenda Plaskett, Olaf
Smith, Catherine Royer, Clytie James, Fr. John
Molyneuz, Eduarda Francis, Gerald Douglas,
Stanley Martin Jr., Hakeem Martin, Evarice Xavier,
Lynette Carrabon, Craig Matthew, Landralyn Nel-
son, Marlon & Stephanie Jordan, Wilhelimina
Cooke, Gerard Hall, Marie Urgent, Stephen Ross,
Conrad Edwin, Arkuright Johnson, Rosemary
Jones, Ishvelle Christopher, Agnes Dominique,
Lisa Obeius, Vera Irwin, Erville Pemberton, John
O’Neal, Charleen Isaac, Veronica Rawlins, Maria
Leon, Ann Marie Octalien, Alexander Jean Marie,
Gina Weissinger, Mayco Santiago, Mabel Richard-
son, Gladys Charriez, Shalmar Bine, Iris Caesar,
Nicholas Miller, Catherine Hughes, Melanie Krig-
ger, Merina Durgadeen, Laura Christopher, Peter
Nestor, Doreen Henry, Ivan A. Redo, Lawrence
Walcott, Alexis Denis. Novena Charles, Varonica
Hughes, Herbert Hoover. Please call the Office,
to add or remove names from this list.
MAKE STEWARDSHIP A WAY OF LIFE
You are invited to answer Jesus’ call to follow
his example of Christian living. Disciples are
stewards. Being a disciple means committing
your heart and mind—your whole life to God.
Being a good steward is part of discipleship.
Being a good steward means being generous
with your time, talent and treasure. Your
giving is the key to the success of the church
plans and programs. To help us meet our
obligations, please pray about TITHING as a
reminder to support your church and becoming
good STEWARDS.
REMEMBER, Tithing becomes easier if we
set aside the Lord’s portion.
The Miracle Prayer
Lord, Jesus, I come before you just as I am,
I am sorry for my sins. I repent of my sins.
Please forgive me. In Your name,
I forgive all others for what they have done against me,
I renounce Satan, the evil spirits and all their works.
I give you my entire self, Lord Jesus, now and forever.
I invite you into my life. Jesus, I accept You as my Lord, God and Savior.
Heal me, change me, strengthen me in body, soul and spirit.
Come Lord Jesus, cover me with your precious blood
and fill me with Your Holy Spirit.
I love you Lord Jesus.
I Praise you Lord Jesus.
I thank you Lord Jesus.
I shall follow you every day of my life. Amen. Mary, my Mother, Queen of Peace, all the Angels and Saints, please help me. Amen
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
On behalf of all the mothers, a heartfelt THANK YOU to the father’s of the Sts. Joachim & Ann Parish for a magnificent job with the Mother’s Day brunch. Job well done!