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Tuesday - Friday 9:00 am - 12 noon, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Parish E-mail: Information@StAugustineOH.org

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ST MARY

CATHOLIC CHURCH

207 N Main Street, Coupeville, WA 98239 - (360) 678-6536

MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm St Augustine

Spanish 1st Saturday 7:00 pm St Augustine

Sunday 8:00 am St Augustine

9:30 am St Augustine

11:15 am St Mary

Latin 2nd & 4th Sunday 11:00 am St Augustine

Thu, Fri & 1st Sat 9:00 am St Augustine

Thursday 12:10 pm St Mary

Latin Friday 12:00 pm St Augustine

CONFESSION

Friday 11:30 am St Augustine

Saturday 4:00 pm St Augustine

3rd Sunday 12:15 pm St Mary

ANOINTING OF THE SICK & HOLY COMMUNION

Please call the Parish Office

Pastor Rev. Paul Pluth, JCL

Administration Mary A. Waters

Religious Education Coordinator Mary Rose Anderson

Music Director Kathleen Dodge-DeHaven

Receptionist Peggy McCormick

PARISH MINISTERS

Connect with Father Paul ppluth@staugust ineoh.org www.facebook.com/FatherPaulPluth www.twit ter .com/@FatherPaulP luth

Please visit the St Mary Parish website at staugustineoh.org

February 22, 2015

1st Sunday of Lent

Mark 1:12–15

Jesus was tempted 40 days by Satan. He was among wild beasts,

and the angels ministered to him.

T he Gospel for First Sunday of Lent always tells the story of Jesus’ 40 days of

being tested in the wilderness by Satan. It sets the tone, right at the beginning,

for our personal 40 days journey through Lent. Both Matthew (Lent 2014) and Luke

(Lent 2016) in their versions detail the 3 temptations of Jesus: the temptation of

acquiring material things, the temptation of testing God, the temptation of power.

But Mark, our 2015 Gospel, dispenses with details. In his usual concise style,

Mark summarizes the 40 days of Jesus’ temptation in one sentence: “Jesus was

among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.” (Mark 1:15) We don’t often think of Jesus being in need of

comforting and consolation from the angels, God’s messengers. And what Jesus’ personal temptations were is

left to our imaginations. But there you have it. Jesus—the Son of God become one of us, fully human—struggles

with the wild beasts inside of him, just as you and I do. To get through, Jesus needs the strength that is beyond

him: the strength of God, conveyed through the messengers of God who surround Jesus, just as those

messengers—the angels—surround us, to see us through.

In our Sunday’s First Reading, with the waters of the 40 days Flood

receding, the Lord places a rainbow in the in the sky as the promise to

Noah that the Lord never will destroy humanity again: “When I bring

clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I will recall the

covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings, so that

the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal

beings.” (Genesis 9:15) Paul reminds us in the Second Reading that the

Flood, and the promise, point to our Baptism. The waters of our Baptism

destroyed only our old sinful person, and made us new persons with a life ahead of us to be lived with Jesus. In

our Baptism, the Lord gave us his promise that, when the wild beasts inside of us torment us, he will be there,

ministering to us with his angels so that we, like Jesus, will make it through the time of trial. Father Paul Pluth

Prayer for Peace - In the quiet of the morning, as I wake to start the day, I feel God’s peace

around me and pray for it to stay. I pray for peace within my home, for peace among family and friends.

I pray for peace around the world, from dawn until day’s end. In the silence of the sunrise, I look toward

heaven and know that I must plant the seeds of peace and tend them so they grow.

Parish Stewardship

Weekly Parish Expenses: $2,974 Stewardship: February 15 $1,908

Thank you for all your gifts Please remember St Mary

in your will

Soup Supper

Come and join us Tuesday, February 24th for good soup and fellowship at 6:00 pm after the Stations of the Cross for some Salmon Chowder, Split Pea, Minestrone and more with breads Bring your own bowl, spoon and drink.

Stations of the Cross 5:30 pm on Tuesdays 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 & 3/31

See Mike Hay to sign up to lead the Stations of the Cross

S t a t i o n s o f t h e C r o s s

& S o u p N i g h t s

This Week at St Mary

—Sun 2/22 1st Sunday of Lent

• 10:45 am Rosary

• 11:15 am Mass

• 12:15 pm Confessions will be heard

• 6:30 pm Lutheran Service

—Mon 2/23

• Office is closed on Mondays

—Tue 2/24

• 5:30 pm Stations of the Cross

• 6:00 pm Soup Supper

—Wed-2/25

• 10:30 am-12:00 pm Living the Eucharist

• 7:00 pm-8:30 pm Living the Eucharist

-Thu 2/26

• 10:00 pm Bible Study w/Marianne

• 11:30 am Rosary

• 12:10 pm Mass—RIP Albert Bisig+

RIP David Pluth+

• 1:00 - 2:00 pm Adoration in the church

-Sat 2/28

• 10:00 am-11:30 am Choir rehearsal

-Sun 3/1 - 2nd Sunday of Lent

• 9:15 am RE gr. Pre-K—6th

• 10:45 am Rosary

• 11:15 am Mass

• 12:15 pm Confessions will be heard

• 12:15 pm Coffee & donuts and 1st

Confessions reception

• 6:30 pm Lutheran Service

St. Mary mailing address is

St Mary Catholic Church

A�n: (Name)

PO BOX 1443

Coupeville, WA 98239

To submit names of people who are in need of

prayers , please contact the parish office at 678-6536

to have the names published in the parish bulletin

or to submit names to the prayer chain

“For all who are ill, needing surgery, or are

recovering from surgery.”

We thank all who pray for those whose names

appear on this list.

For all of our deployed military

Tom Bender

Lord, Hear our Prayer

Save this date!

Saturday, March 21st

Lenten Quiet Day

with Dr. Marianne Dorman

The Soup sign-up

sheet is located in

Harrington Hall

2/22/2015

All women of St. Mary: Do you know that when you register with St. Mary Parish that you become a member of “The Women of St. Mary”? The WOSM are very involved with raising funds and donate to several local charities, e.g. Small Miracles, Ryan’s House, Gifts from the Heart food bank. For our parish, we help fund gifts, receptions and other events needed for the Religious Education (RE) department outside of their budget. We provide a funeral reception for our parish families at a time of sorrow, send cards to parishioners that may need a cheery note

Our fund raisers are: A Garage Sale in May, baby shower for the Pregnancy Care Center in June, we provide a brunch for our fathers on Father’s Day also in June, and we have a Holiday Bazaar the first Saturday in December. If you have time available to attend our monthly meetings and wish to get involved with our missions you are invited to join us (few that we are). We are reaching out to you to expand our numbers. We do not pressure anyone. Give us a call if you have questions call 678-6536 We normally meet on the 1st Thursday of each month after the 12:10 pm Mass. The next meeting of the Women of St. Mary will be in Harrington Hall on Thursday, March 5th after the 12:10 pm Mass. Bring your lunch to eat during the meeting. Bring a friend and come join us for some fun and fellowship

~On another note if you have projects that you can work on now for the Bazaar please do so. If your storing space is limited please give us a call (678-65376) and we will see what we can do.

St. Mary

The Catholic Home Missions Collection strengthens the Catholic Church in the United States and its territories, funding a

wide range of pastoral services, including evangelization, religious education, and the maintenance of mission parishes, the training of seminarians

and lay ministers, and ministry with ethnic groups, particularly for Native and African American parishes and communities.

The Catholic Home Missions Collection U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) 3211 Fourth Street NE Washington, DC 20017-1194 202-541-3400 For more information: Catholic Home Missions Info

Local Contact: Multicultural Communities Archdiocese of Seattle 710 9th Avenue • Seattle, WA 98104 206-382-4828 For more information:

Archdiocese Mul�cultural Info

The easiest way to make a donation is to

through online giving. Just visit our par-

ish website

Or donate by clicking link: Donate Now

Or Scan here to

donate now

Catholic Home Missions

Cultural Diversity $1,220.100 14.43%

Total Faith Forma�on $2,493.530 29.5%

Total Life & Dignity of the Human Person

$266.900 3.16%

Total Mission: Diocesan and Parish Assistance

$2,129,020 25.18%

2014 Grants

Total Priestly &

Religious Voca�ons

$2,108,850

24.94%

Total Strengthening

Marriage & Family

Life

$235,600 2.79%

Grand Totals

$8,454.000

A few adventurous cooks are needed to

prepare the Operation Rice Bowl recipes.

These recipes will be served at the

soup recep�on in the parish hall

a�er the March 24th Tuesday

Evening Sta�ons of the Cross,

which will be lead by the R.E.

Grade School classes. Please

volunteer to cook one of the

following dishes, published in the

poster insert included in your

cardboard Rice Bowl this year:

A) Fried Plantains and Beans from Democratic Republic of Congo B) Fattet Laban from Lebanon C) Peanut Stew from West Africa D) Gallo Pinto from Nicaragua E) Ugali with Bean Soup from Tanzania For descrip�ons of these dishes, go to h'p://

www.crsricebowl.org/recipe-archive/. These recipes are also given on the calendar and informa�onal

poster included in the cardboard rice bowl provided during Lent.

NOTE TO PARENTS OF FIRST COMMUNICANTS: Your children are asked to bring bread and serve it.

ABOVE: Fa�et Laban; BELOW: Ugali with Bean Soup

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR RECEPTION AFTER FIRST CONFESSIONS! For next

Sunday’s First Confessions recep�on, we need a couple of fruit , veggie and/or cheese trays to add to

the typical coffee and donut hour a�er the students make their First Confessions. Please call Mary

Rose, 515-451-3749. There will also be a special sheet cake to help celebrate this blessed event.

The Cross of Sorrows

Please join our R.E. kids this Lent and let Jesus carry your sorrows by writing them down and attaching your messages to the wood of the cross in the parish hall.

SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA is being honored all February. This morning the R.E. children were given blessed medals of St. Kateri and they learned to say a Litany of St. Kateri. She is the first ever person native to North America to become a saint. Fifty years after she died in Canada in the 1600s, the first convent for Indian nuns started in Mexico. There the Native sisters prayed daily for her sainthood and it happened in 2012. Meanwhile, Kateri’s gravestone reads: “The fairest flower that ever bloomed among red men.”

Religious Educa�on News

Dr. Tom Curran is the

Director of My Catholic

Faith Ministries, a non-

profit ministry dedicated

to helping Catholics

understand, explore and

live out their faith more

deeply. Host of the local

radio program Sound

Insight, Dr. Curran can be

heard at 8 am every Mon -

Fri, on Sacred Heart Radio,

1050 AM. Dr. Curran is the

author of The Mass: Four

Encounters With Jesus

That Will Change Your Life,

Confession: Five Sentences

That Will Heal Your Life

and Shepherd Me Lord:

Daily Reflections for Your

Lenten Journey. He holds

a Ph.D. in theology from

Catholic University in

Washington, DC. He lives

in Federal Way, WA with

his wife, Kari, and their

nine children.

In this engaging presentation, Dr. Curran will break open the idea of spiritual warfare in a way that is easy to understand, applicable to your daily life, and based on scripture and our Catholic tradition. Come and learn how to identify true spiritual warfare in yourself or a loved one. Come and receive tools that will help you fight the battles that can keep you from growing, finding joy and excelling in life. This event will be eye-opening, powerful and different than any other event on Spiritual Warfare that you may have attended. Don’t miss this opportunity to receiving freedom and victory in the battles that you face. For Jesus wants us all to be “more than a conqueror because of Him Who has loved us (Rm 8:37).

St. Augustine Catholic Church (in the Parish Hall)

185 N Oak Harbor St., Oak Harbor

Thursday, February 26th , 6:30pm

The event is free. All are welcome. A free-will collection will be taken. Childcare is provided.

What to Expect

A highly, engaging presentation full of truth, scripture references, stories and examples that are applicable to your daily life.

An eye-opening understanding of what “Spiritual Warfare” is and how it is at play in your own life

To receive the tools (available to all Christians) that will allow you to stand strong in the midst of hardship and attack

An opportunity to draw near to the Lord with the realization that His power can conquer any foe you may encounter.

Evening Schedule 5:00pm Stations of the Cross 5:30 pm Soup Supper 6:30 pm Presentation by Dr. Tom Curran

For more information, please call the church office at 360-675-2303.