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Eucharistic Adoration
Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
LENT
Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting.
We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ's will more faithfully. We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ's death, died to sin and evil, and began new life in Christ.
Many know of the tradition of abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent, but we are also called to practice self-discipline and fast in other ways throughout the season. Contemplate the meaning and origins of the Lenten fasting tradition in this reflection. In addition, the giving of alms is one way to share God's gifts—not only through the distribution of money, but through the sharing of our time and talents. As St. John Chrysostom reminds us: "Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2446).
Will your sacrifices for Lent change something?
OPTIONS FOR LENTEN JOURNEY BELOW:
At home or with Friends
Watching the news and reading the headlines, we may feel helpless seeing the heartbreaking lack of respect for human life. How do we respond when our efforts seem small in the face of the culture of death?
Missionary Discipleship
This doesn't necessarily mean quitting our jobs or moving to foreign countries. For most of us, our mission field is daily life: "Christ teaches us how to evangelize, how to invite people into communion with him, and how to create a culture of witness: namely, through love. A Christian life lived with charity and faith is the most effective form of evangelization."[2]
The first step towards living this life is allowing Jesus to meet and transform us daily. If we respond to his grace, our lives will show we have something beyond what the world offers: we follow a person whose love changes our lives, so we want others to also experience his transforming love.
When we live in union with God, open to his prompting, we're more able to see the opportunities for witness and his guidance in responding to these opportunities. We may fear doing the wrong thing or saying the wrong thing, but we do not need to be afraid. Jesus promised his disciples, "I am with you always, until the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20).
REVIVAL CORNER
THIS Weekend at St. Bernadette
SATURDAY - February 10, 2024
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Faith Formation Retreat, Doherty Hall
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Confessions
4:00 p.m. Mass
SUNDAY - February 11, 2024
8:15 a.m. Confession
9:00 a.m. Mass
11:30 a.m. Confessions
12:00 p.m. Mass
12:00 p.m. Mass
6th Sunday in ordinary Time
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
Be my protector O God, for you are my rock, my stronghold (Cf. Ps31 (30): 3-4)!
We are fast approaching a pinnacle of the liturgical year and the beginning of Lent. Are we ready to allow God to be our Rock and stronghold in all things we do in our lives? This is a question we should ponder during prayer, so we are ready to allow Him to bring us up and support us in our battles in life.
We do not have to fight our battles, sometimes alone, as in the time of Moses and Aaron. Allow the priest to help heal us in the sacrament of penance so that we can be made clean from our sins as we learn in Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46.
Or perhaps reflect on the powerful words from Psalm 32: “I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.” Embracing material things like social media, televisions, alcohol, drugs, and pornography cloud our reality and move us away from the love of Christ. Instead, be glad in the Lord, and open our hearts to the Gospel media he wants us to embrace.
Do everything for the Glory of God, for the good of the many, and not our own benefit (1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1). Is this how we live our life? If so Alleluia, and praise God! If not, we have hope like the beggar that pleaded to be made clean, to be free from sin, to be open completely to Jesus’ love for him. The beggar gave complete trust in God. What happened? The leprosy, the complete suffering immediately left the beggar. The point from the Gospel of Mark 1:40-45 is to once again show our sins to the priest as he serves to hear our genuine sorrow for our sins, to not sin again, and to absolve us of for the genuine sorrow we have for our sins.
This Lent make it a point to truly and genuinely develop an act of contrition, what we will do to be better, and accept and follow Jesus all the time, every hour of the day, and completely embrace His love for us. Allow the priest to truly help us grow in our journey toward God. Those my friends are the blessed people and praise God for all those that follow the path of the Lord!
In Christ,
Deacon Patrick
February 11 | The 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Join our parish families in preparing for this Sunday's Mass!
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High School Catholic Youth Conference
June 21-23, 2024
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COME AND SEE. RESPOND TODAY!
-Eucharistic Adoration and Exposition continued.
-Ash Wednesday Services
-Place your Lenten intention in the basket below the Divine Mercy image.
-Gospel Coloring Page
-Lent Stations of the Cross and Soup Suppers
movie A Place at the Table: African Americans on the Path to Sainthood, directed by David Michael Warren and Stella Maris Films, on Saturday, February 17th... 1pm, Brady Hall at St. Ignatius Parish..these are the stories of the six incredible men and women who are on the path to canonization: Pierre Toussaint, Mother Henriette Delille, Father Augustus Tolton, Mother Mary Lange, Sister Thea Bowman, and Denver’s own Angel of Charity, Julia Greeley.
Hosted by the Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary, all are invited to view this film and partake in fellowship. Admission is free of charge.
Hosted by the Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary, all are invited to view this film and partake in fellowship. Admission is free of charge.
Pope from October 27, 625 - October 12, 638 A.D.
Died: October 12, 638 A.D.
Pronounced: ah-NOR-ee-uss
Give me the scoop on Honorius I.
Breaking the trend of popes taking foreeeever to take office, Honorius I was elected just two days after the death of Boniface V. In his almost 13 years as pope, Honorius was plenty busy. Dwindling Byzantine power in the West meant that the pope had to take charge of upholding the civil infrastructure aside from his religious duties. As a result, Honorius began managing the Roman aqueducts and the city’s water supply, in addition to already overseeing the food supply.
On the Church front, Honorius helped mend a schism between the Roman Church and the diocese in Aquileia, a region in the northeast corner of Italy. He also wrote to Spain’s bishops to stir up their zeal for the faith, contributed much to the continued evangelization of Britain, and helped the Irish Church choose to adopt the Roman celebration of Easter. The delegation from the Emerald Isle told the pope that they came to Rome “as children to their mother.” Honorius I died on October 12, 638.
On the Church front, Honorius helped mend a schism between the Roman Church and the diocese in Aquileia, a region in the northeast corner of Italy. He also wrote to Spain’s bishops to stir up their zeal for the faith, contributed much to the continued evangelization of Britain, and helped the Irish Church choose to adopt the Roman celebration of Easter. The delegation from the Emerald Isle told the pope that they came to Rome “as children to their mother.” Honorius I died on October 12, 638.
What was he known for?
Well...Honorius I is perhaps best known for having been condemned as a heretic by an ecumenical council of the Church, and is yet another pope used as an argument against papal infallibility. There’s more to the story (as always), and thankfully Honorius wasn’t actually a heretic.
A new heresy, called Monothelitism, had bubbled up into the highest levels of the Church, teaching that Christ only had one will – a combination of the Divine and human. Honorius received a letter from the Monothelite Patriarch of Constantinople, Sergius, asking him whether Christ had one “operation” or two. Given the ambiguous language, Honorius decided to condemn both versions of Sergius' phrasing. The problem, however, is that saying Christ had two “operations” could technically be viewed as orthodox, so some saw Honorius’ condemnation of it as heretical.
In reality, Honorius was simply being negligent by not being more specific in his response, thereby allowing the heresy an unfortunate foothold to grow. Furthermore, the condemnation of Honorius as a heretic at the Third Council of Constantinople of 680 was only ever endorsed by Leo II (pope at the time) after a revision of the canons from the council fathers. The revision still condemned Honorius, but did so only for negligence in not preventing the heresy from spreading. Read here for a more lengthy explanation.
A new heresy, called Monothelitism, had bubbled up into the highest levels of the Church, teaching that Christ only had one will – a combination of the Divine and human. Honorius received a letter from the Monothelite Patriarch of Constantinople, Sergius, asking him whether Christ had one “operation” or two. Given the ambiguous language, Honorius decided to condemn both versions of Sergius' phrasing. The problem, however, is that saying Christ had two “operations” could technically be viewed as orthodox, so some saw Honorius’ condemnation of it as heretical.
In reality, Honorius was simply being negligent by not being more specific in his response, thereby allowing the heresy an unfortunate foothold to grow. Furthermore, the condemnation of Honorius as a heretic at the Third Council of Constantinople of 680 was only ever endorsed by Leo II (pope at the time) after a revision of the canons from the council fathers. The revision still condemned Honorius, but did so only for negligence in not preventing the heresy from spreading. Read here for a more lengthy explanation.
Fun Fact...
Despite all the Monothelite hullabaloo, Honorius still died with a sterling reputation and high esteem among those who knew him. The Catholic Encyclopedia acclaims him, saying that “few popes did more for the restoration and beautifying of churches of Rome” than Honorius. He rebuilt and fixed up St. Peter’s Basilica, giving it an ornate entryway and a new roof, as well as restoring the Churches of St. Agnes and St. Pancratius.
What else was going on in the world at the time?
On June 8, 632, a few months shy of Honorius I’s 7th anniversary as pope, the Muslim prophet Muhammad died at Medina at the age of 63.
NEXT....Pope Severinus