♦ ALL Year 3 candidates who will be confirmed Sept. 13th 2015 are reminded to attend 10 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph the Worker Church on Sunday Sept. 6th .

♦ The Church of the Nativity of the BVM, Anse La Raye, celebrates its 250th anniversary with a Jubilee Year that will begin with Mass on Sunday September 6th 2015 at 2:30 p.m. All parishioners are invited to attend.

♦ Fr. Athanase goes on vacation from Monday August 24th until mid September. Please keep him in your prayers.

♦ Registration for Year One First Communion and Confirmation classes is now open. Forms can be obtained from the Parish Office or Catechists.

♦ Bishop Malzaire’s new book “Christ & Caribbean Cultures” is now available for sale at the Parish Office. It costs only $40 so get your copy while stocks last.

♦ In an effort to encourage donations to those in need in our Parish, trolleys have been/are being placed in our Gros Islet churches. Please bring in your non perishable donations to the weekend Masses and place them in the trolley at your church.

WHAT’S HAPPENINGWHAT’S HAPPENING

Daily

6.30 a.m. 10.00 p.m.

PRAYER DURING THE HURRICANE SEASON

O Lord our God and Father, who gives rain and sunshine to your children, we ask You, in this rainy season, to uphold us and provide for our needs. You try our patience and test our faith and reliance on You; forgive our sin of ingratitude. So often have we forgotten to thank You for your goodness and acts of mercy. Teach us to look up to You each day, appreciative of rain and sunshine as You, in your wisdom, through any kind of weather do feed us all. In Your mercy, protect us against hurricanes and tropical storms. Pour out Your blessings upon our nation and our people, and make us grateful for the weather we receive from Your bountiful hand. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Gros Islet, Grande Riviere & M

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Gros Islet, Grande Riviere & M

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Gros Islet, Grande Riviere & M

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Gros Islet, Grande Riviere & M

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MASS TIMES

GROS ISLET

Morning Prayers: 5:45a.m.

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MONDAY: 6:00 a. m./12:30 p.m.

� TUESDAY: 6:00 a.m.

� WEDNESDAY

12:30 & 6:00 p.m. G/Riviere: 6:00 p.m.

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THURSDAY 6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m. Monchy: 6:00 p.m.

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FRIDAY 6:00 a.m./12:30 p.m.

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SATURDAY 6:30 a.m./7:00 p. m.

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SUNDAY GROS ISLET/G.RIVIERE

7:30 A.M.

Gros Islet/Monchy 10:00 a.m.

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HOLIDAY 7:00 a.m.

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Our time to choose.

T he twelve apostles in today's Gospel are asked to make a choice - either to believe and accept the new covenant He

offers in His body and blood, or return to their former ways of life. This choosing is prefigured by the decision Joshua asks the twelve tribes to make in today's First Reading.

Joshua gathers the tribes at Shechem - where God first appeared to their father Abraham promising to make his descendants a great nation - and issues a blunt challenge: either renew their covenant with God or serve the alien gods of the surrounding nations.

We too are being asked today to decide whom we will serve.

For four weeks we have been presented in the liturgy with the mystery of the Eucharist, a daily miracle far greater than those performed by God in bringing the Israelites out of the land of Egypt. He has promised us a new homeland, eternal life, and offered us bread from heaven to strengthen us on our journey. He has told us that unless we eat His flesh and drink His blood we will have no life in us.

It is a hard saying, as many murmur in the Gospel. Yet He has given us the words of eternal life. We must believe, as Peter says , that He is the Holy One of God, who handed Himself over for us, gave His flesh for the life of the world.

As we hear in today's Epistle, Jesus did this that we might be sanctified, made holy, through the water and word of baptism by which we enter into His new covenant. Through the Eucharist, He nourishes and cherishes us, making us His own flesh and blood, as husband and wife become one flesh.

Let us renew our covenant today, approaching the altar with confidence that the Lord will redeem the lives of His servants.

(excerpt: salvationhistory.com)

St. Joseph the W

orker Parish

CONFESSIONS

Every Saturday 9.00 - 10.00a.m

6.00 - 6.45p.m.

&

by appointment

21st SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR B - 23rd AUGUST 2015

First Reading

Jos.24:1-2, 15-18

Second Reading

Eph.5:21-32

Gospel

Jn.6:60-69

Parish Priests: Msgr. Michel Francis, Fr. Athanase Joseph Parish Priests: Msgr. Michel Francis, Fr. Athanase Joseph Parish Priests: Msgr. Michel Francis, Fr. Athanase Joseph Parish Priests: Msgr. Michel Francis, Fr. Athanase Joseph

Deacons: Rev. Girard Glace, Rev. Winston Taylor, Rev. Jeremy JosephDeacons: Rev. Girard Glace, Rev. Winston Taylor, Rev. Jeremy JosephDeacons: Rev. Girard Glace, Rev. Winston Taylor, Rev. Jeremy JosephDeacons: Rev. Girard Glace, Rev. Winston Taylor, Rev. Jeremy Joseph

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PLEASE PRAY FOR

THE SICK

Tracy Mondesir Priscillia Henry Claude Griffith Mary Sidonie

DECEASED

Hazel A. Joseph Madeleine George

Mary Ferlie Mary Anna Finisterre

Rupert Belmar

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MONDAY

Rev.21:9-14 Jn.1:45-51

� TUESDAY

1Thess.2:1-8 Matt.23:23-26

� WEDNESDAY

1Thess.2:9-13 Matt.23:27-32

� THURSDAY 1Thess.3:7-13 Matt.24:42-51

� FRIDAY

1Thess.4:1-8 Matt.25:1-13

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SATURDAY 1Thess.4:9-11 Matt.25:14-30

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WEEKDAY READINGS

St Rose of LimaSt Rose of LimaSt Rose of LimaSt Rose of Lima---- Feast Day August 23Feast Day August 23Feast Day August 23Feast Day August 23

The first canonized saint of the New World, Rose was born to parents of Spanish descent in Lima, Peru, at a time when South America was in its first century of evangelization. She seems

to have taken St. Catherine of Siena as a model in spite of the objections and ridicule of parents and friends.

The saints have so great a love of God, that what seems bizarre to us, and is indeed sometimes imprudent, is simply a logical carrying out of a conviction that anything that might endanger a loving relationship with God must be rooted out. So because her beauty was so often admired, Rose used to rub her face with pepper and lye to produce disfiguring blotches. Later she wore a thick circlet of silver on her head, studded on the inside, like a crown of thorns.

When her parents fell into financial trouble, she worked in the garden all day and sewed at night. Ten years of struggle against her parents began when they tried to make Rose marry. They refused to let her enter a convent, and out of obedience she continued her life of penance and solitude at home as a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic.

During the last few years of her life, Rose set up a room in the house where she cared for homeless children, the elderly and the sick. This was a beginning of social services in Peru.

Though secluded in life and activity, she was brought to the attention of Inquisition interrogators who could only say that she was influenced by grace.

What might have been a merely eccentric life was transfigured from the inside. If we remember the unusual penances, we should also remember the greatest thing about Rose: a love of God so ardent that it withstood ridicule from without, violent temptation and lengthy periods of sickness.

It is easy to dismiss excessive penances of the saints as the expression of a certain culture or temperament. But a woman wearing a crown of thorns may at least prod our consciences. We enjoy the most comfort oriented life in human history. We eat too much, drink too much, use a million gadgets, fill our eyes and ears with everything imaginable.

It seems that when we have become most like slaves, there is the greatest talk of “freedom.” Are we willing to discipline ourselves in such an atmosphere?

(excerpt: americancatholic.org)

MASS INTENTIONS

GROS ISLET CLERGY / RELIGIOUS INTENTIONS

21st SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Sat Aug 22 - 7:00 p.m.

Guid. & Protect:

Christine, Ronald & Derek Glace Thks: St. Jude Hosp & Recon Project

Sun Aug 23 - 7:30 a.m.

MISSA PRO POPULO

10:00 a.m.

Thks: Shanta King

Grande Riviere - 7:30 a.m. Parishioners

Monchy - 10:00 a.m. St. Rose of Lima

Parishioners

WEEKDAY MASS INTENTIONS

Mon Aug 24 - 6:00 a.m. St. Bartholomew, Apostle Rev. Girard Glace

Sr. Mary .L. Muskosa OSB

Thks: Bradley Sadoo & family Chierry Poyotte, Percival McDonald

12:30 p.m. B’day: Caitlin Hackshaw Thks: Shanta King

Tues Aug 25 - 6:00 a.m.

Fr. Konrad Mair Fr. Kenneth Haakyav VC

Fr. Henry Nmor OP

Thks: Shanta King Eglan Flavien & family & staff B’day: Arthusa Semei

Wed Aug 26- 12:30 p.m. Rev. Nathalbert Husbands

Fr. Andrew Rosiac SAC Sr. Stephania Banda OSB

B’day: Elizabeth Prudent Thks: Lawrence Laurent Bernez Pamphile

6:00 p.m. Dc’d: Hilford Deterville

Grande Riviere - 6:00 p.m. Eucharistic Service

Thu Aug 27 - 6:00 a.m.

St. Monica Rev. Gabriel Geoffrey

Fr. Kevin Murray C.Ss.R

Dc'd: Josephine & Joseph Louis Hilaire Alexander, Ermine Volney

12:30 p.m. Thks: Michelle Baptiste, Mandish Singh

Monchy 6:00 p.m. Eucharistic Service

Fri Aug 28 - 6:00 a.m. St. Augustine, Bishop & Doctor

Vocations

B’day: Trevor Bernard Healing: Patricia & Zephyrin Robinson

12:30 p.m. Thks: John Francis & Associates B’day: Faith Deterville

Sat August 29 - 6:30 a.m.

Passion of John the Baptist

All Clergy & Religious Dc’d: Joseph Augustin

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