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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2000 ST. JUDE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY PAGE FIVE
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DAY OF ADORATION THIS WEDNESDAY
The first Wednesday of each month is our Parish Community's assigned day of Prayer and Adoration for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life. Each parish is our Archdiocese is given a monthly Day of Prayer for Vocations.
Our Monthly Day of Prayer begins with praying together "Morning Prayer" from the Liturgy of the Hours, then comes Mass. Mass concludes with Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament which continues till Benediction at 7:15 p.m. Our Day of Prayer concludes with the 7:30 p.m. Mass followed our Novena to St. Jude.
Surely each of us can spend a little time praying with Jesus for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life this Wednesday.
Let us pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers into His Harvest; for the Harvest is ready, but the laborers are few.
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"TOGETHER IN MISSION"
If you have not yet made your 2000 Pledge Commitment to our Sister Parish and helping those less fortunate, please prayerfully consider doing so now or whenever your financial picture changes. We cannot ignore the needs of our poorest sisters and brothers. Rather, we need to stand in most heartfelt, and genuine support, with them.
"Together in Mission" truly does help our poorest parish communities, as we heard on "Announcement Sunday" when members of our Sister Parish reported to us at each Mass. Every penny raised goes to help them meet their needs.
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THE COMMUNION PROCESSION &
STANDING AT MASS
Wherever you travel these days, it seems we find different postures being followed by the local Gathered Assemblies at Sunday Mass. However, ever so slowly the rubrics provided in the "Editio Typica" (Official Vatican Latin Edition) of the 1976 Sacramentary are being implemented throughout the world.
All over Italy, including St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Gathered Assemblies are now implementing the rubrics/directives regarding "Standing". People are now standing from the "Pray Brethren" to the "Words of Institution", and from immediately after the "Words of Institution" till the end.
While the rubrics direct that the Gathered Assembly is to stand from the "Orate te, fratres --- Pray Brethren" to the "Epiclesis --- the Calling down of the Holy Spirit", and then kneel for the "Words of Institution", and then stand again from "The Mystery of Faith" Proclamation till all have received Holy Communion, in this country with the permission of the Holy See we will continue for the time being kneeling till the "Our Father". However, from the "Our Father" till all received the Holy Communion, we will stand as the rubrics imposed by His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, direct in the 1976 Sacramentary.
The purpose behind this practice, is to remind the Gathered Assembly that many though we are, we become one body in Christ and one with each other in Christ. As one body, all doing the same thing, we stand together while singing together the Communion Hymn of praise unto the Lord. Only after all have received, do we then sit together to spend some time in quiet meditation and prayer with the Eucharistic Lord within us.
When one is privileged to attend Mass with His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, in his private chapel at the Vatican, one is overcome with the depth of love that radiates from His Holiness as he often spends up to 15 minutes in quiet, meditative prayer with His Eucharistic Lord, before he concludes his Mass. Yet, we find so many rushing from the church the moment they receive Holy Communion, and forgetting about the presence of their Lord within them. Still others push to finish Mass faster, while they too forget about the presence of Christ within them, so they can go about doing things that are wrongly considered "More Important Than Christ within Them."
On the First Sunday of Lent, March 12th, we will begin standing from the "Our Father" till all have received Holy Communion. Those who cannot stand for health reasons, are allowed to sit as the rubrics in the Sacramentary direct.
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FIRST FRIDAY THIS WEEK
This Friday will be First Friday. Masses are at 8:00 a.m. with our Parish School Children, and 12:05 p.m. Confessions will be heard Thursday afternoon and evening as usual.
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LENT BEGINS MARCH 8th
As we make plans for March and April, let us remember that the Great Season of Lent begins on Wednesday, March 8th, for us Latin Catholics. For those Eastern Catholics who attend our parish, remember the Great Season of Lent begins on Monday, March 6th, for you.
Next week's Bulletin will have the full Lenten Regulations.
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SCOUT SUNDAY
MARCH 5TH
Scout Sunday is celebrated on March 5th this year by St. Jude's Scouts and Scouters. This date was selected because it falls between the 90th birthday of the Boy Scouts of America, February 8th, and the 88th birthday of the Girl Scouts of America, March 12th. Altogether, we commemorate 90 years of "Duty to God and Country" by Scouting in the United States of America.
This day also provides an opportunity at the 9:00 a.m. Mass to celebrate the Catholic Scouting religious awards earned this year by our scouts. Wolf Cubs (grade 2) have earned their Light of Christ award, Junior Girl Scouts (grades 5 & 6) have earned their Rosary patch, and Webelos (grades 5 * 6) have earned their Parvuli Dei (Children of God) award.
Congratulations to these scouts, and many thanks to their dedicated leaders! In the words of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting, "Ambition to do the right thing is the only ambition that counts."
Interesting fact: March 12th, 1912 is recognized as the birthday of the Girl Scouts of America since that is when Margaret Daisy Gordon became the first registered Girl Guide of America; the name was later changed to the Girl Scouts of America, and the Daisy's named for our first Girl Scout.
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