ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH

207 N Main Street, Coupeville, WA 98239 - (360) 678-6536 Mailing Address: PO Box 1443, Coupeville, WA 98239

Rev. Paul Pluth, JCL, Pastor

Parish Office

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 am - 12 noon, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Parish E-mail Information@StAugustineOH.org Visit us on the web at www.StAugustineOH.org

Saturday Vigil

Filipino Music

5:00 pm

2nd Saturday St Augustine

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 11:15 am St Augustine

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

Thursday 12:10 pm St Mary

MASS SCHEDULE

ANOINTING OF THE SICK & HOLY COMMUNION Please call the Parish Office

Pastor Rev. Paul Pluth, JCL

Administration Mary A. Waters

Religious Education Mary Rose Anderson

Music Director Kathleen Dodge-DeHaven

Receptionist Peggy McCormick

PARISH MINISTERS

CONFESSION

Friday 8:30 am St Augustine

Saturday 4:00 pm St Augustine

3rd Sunday 12:15 pm St Mary

Stations of the Cross in Lent If you would like to be one of the leaders of the Stations of the Cross during Lent, you will find the sign-up sheet in Harrington Hall.

Lenten Rice Bowls Rice Bowls will be available for you to pick up on Sunday, February 26th.

Lent is just around the corner! Please bring in last year’s blessed palms to burn for ashes, as we prepare for Ash Wednesday, March 1.

Boxes are located in the south vestibule entrance of the church, and in Harrington Hall.

Announcements, Events & Informa on

Please bring in new items of clothing, blankets, diapers, formula, bo les, any baby needs and place them in the box located in Harrington Hall. All gi s are greatly appreciated.

End of Year Tax Statements

were emailed to parishioners with email and

mailed to those without email on

January 11, 2017.

Prayers

Please pray for all of our families &

friends.

Sam Santamaria, Song and his family, Abbey Lee, Charlie Toth, Carole Hart, Colleen

Patmore, Dee Gore, Josh Poole

Also for our family members who are in college or in the military, at home and deployed

Capt. Thomas Allan Bender - USAF, PFC Zachary McCormick - Army NG

Please call the office at 678-6536 to add or delete

someone’s name. Permission is required from the individual prior to

adding their name to the prayer list.

February is Black History Month

Remember these Black Saints

Saint Josephine Bakhita was born in Sudan. As a young girl, she was kidnapped by Arabs, sold into slavery, and ended up in Italy, where she received baptism and gained her freedom, joining an order of nuns. For the next 50 years, she practiced such Christian virtue that people loved her very much. She worked miraculous cures and was known as a friend to the poor and weak. She died in 1947, and was canonized in 2000. Her feast day is February 8.

Saint Martin de Porres took vows as a Dominican brother in Lima, Peru in 1603. He established an orphanage and children‘s hospital for the poor children of the slums. He set up a shelter for stray cats and dogs and nursed them back to health. Martin lived in self-imposed austerity, never ate meat, fasted continuously, and spent much time in prayer and meditation with a great devotion to the Holy Eucharist. His feast day is November 3.

Saint Augustine is the patron of brewers because of his conversion from a former life of loose living, which included parties, entertainment, and worldly ambitions. His complete turnaround and conversion has been an inspiration to many who struggle with a particular vice or habit they long to break. As he wrote in his autobiography Confessions, “You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.” Born in Algeria, he died there in 430, in the city of Hippo where he was bishop. His feast day is August 28

Rachel’s Corner Hope and Healing A er Abor on

“We are in the process of being changed and we have not arrived yet. There is continual change as we allow God to be our one and only source. You don’t have to be mad at yourself that you are not what you ought to be yet. The more guilt and condemnation you drag around with yourself the less likely you are to keep changing. -Testimonial from Retreat

Have you been dragging your self-condemnation and guilt from the past? Are you ready to emerge from that prison and be set free? Come on a Rachel’s Vineyard™ Retreat.

March 10-12, 2017

Call Valerie: 1-800-822-HOPE (4673) You are loved with an everlas ng Love!

Project Rachel is a program of Catholic Community Services.

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 19 February 2017

Whoever keeps the word of Christ, the love of God is truly perfected in him.

Parish Stewardship Weekly Parish Expense: $3,055

February 12: $1,924 Please remember St Mary in your will.

Sun 2/19

9:30 am RE Pre-K—6th 10:45 am Rosary 11:15 am Mass - RIP +Don Comeau 12:15 pm Confessions will be heard 12:15 pm K of C Right to Life Breakfast 6:30 pm Lutheran Service

Mon 2/20

1:30 pm Bereavement Support Group

Tue 2/21

Office is closed

Wed 2/22

9:30 am Choir Prac ce 6:15 pm Young Peoples RE gr 7-11

Thu 2/23

11:30 am Rosary 12:10 pm Mass 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Adora on 1:00 pm Bible Study

Sun 2/26

9:30 am RE Pre-K—6th 10:45 am Rosary 11:15 am Mass - RIP +Sally Foley 12:15 pm Coffee & donuts 6:30 pm Lutheran Service

This Week at St. Mary

NEWLY FORMED PARISH YOUTH CHOIR Calling all youth ages 12 - 18 from St Mary and St Augustine! Do you like to sing, or do you play an instrument? Join us for the newly organized Parish Youth Choir, practicing most Wednesday nights during the school year, from 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm at St Augustine in the church. Sign up at any of our rehearsals and share your excitement and gifts with your church!

Emergency Response Forms The Emergency Response Forms are inserted in today’s bulle n for all parishioners to complete if you want the Parish Office to be aware of your emergency contacts. The Forms will be collected a er Sunday Mass through TODAY, February 19th. You may place them in the drop box located in Harrington Hall, drop them off at the parish office during business hours, or mail them to:

St. Mary Church PO BOX 1443

Coupeville, WA 98239

Privacy will be respected.

Lenten Soup Night

Tuesdays at 6:00 pm during Lent. Give some thought to what kind of

soup you would like to make. A sign up sheet is available in

Harrington Hall.

SUP-

FASTING & ABSTINENCE

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, are Fast Days. Catholics 18 to 58 years old are bound to the spiritual obligation to fast on these two days. On a Fast Day, one full meal is allowed. Two smaller meals, or snacks, may be taken but are not to equal a full meal. Ash Wednesday, and every Friday of Lent including Good Friday, are Days of Abstinence. Catholics 14 years and older are not to

eat meat and poultry on these Days of Abstinence. Vegetarians, Vegans, and others who customarily do not eat meat and poultry, should choose another sacrificial practice on Days of Abstinence. Pregnant and nursing women, and those in ill health, or for other reasons, e.g. diabetes, are not bound by the obligations of abstinence and fasting. They are urged to substitute another form of self-denial suitable to their condition.

“Christ Died for Our Salvation on Friday”

For this reason, Friday itself remains a special day of penitential observance throughout the year, not only during Lent. Friday should be to each week what Lent is to the entire year. It would bring great glory to God and good to souls if Fridays found our people doing volunteer work in hospitals, visiting the sick, serving the needs of the aged and the lonely, instructing the young in the Faith, participating as Christians in community affairs, and meeting our obligations to our families, our friends, our neighbors, and our community, including our parishes, with a special zeal born of the desire to add the merit of penance to the other virtues exercised in good works born of living faith. “Penance & Abstinence”, 1983, US Bishops

YOUR REFRIGERATOR DOOR GUIDE TO LENT p l e a s e p o s t i n y o u r h o m e f o r l e n t

The Season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 1. During the 40 Days of Lent, while individuals at St Augustine and St Mary and around the world enter their final preparations for their Baptism at the Easter Vigil on Easter Eve, baptized Christians prepare themselves for their Renewal of Baptismal Promises at the Easter Masses. We prepare for our renewal by making use of the Three Disciplines of Lent: Repentance, Fasting from Food and Destructive Actions, and Almsgiving (Works of Charity). This insert describes ways to practice the Three Disciplines of Lent.

R e p e n t a n c e : T r y C o n f e s s i o n i n L e n t !

ST AUGUSTINE

Fridays, 8 am & 11:30 am

Saturdays, 4 pm

Wednesday of Holy Week 5 pm to 7 pm

April 12

ST MARY

Sundays, 12:15 pm March 5 - April 2

F a s t i n g F r o m F o o d & D e s t r u c t i v e A c t i o n s

Feelings of Unworthiness Bitterness Destructive Speech Negativity

People Pleasing Guilt Ungratefulness Your Comfort Zone

Worry Envy Comparison and much more…

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

St Augustine

What To Give Up for Lent ?

The Stations of the Cross are prayed at St

Augustine on Thursdays in Lent at 5 pm, and

at St Mary on Tuesdays in Lent at 5:30 pm.

The Stations at St Augustine are led by the

youth of the parish. The Stations at St Mary

are led by a variety of parishioners.

Indulgence: Individuals who participate in the

Stations of the Cross, go to Confession, receive

Holy Communion, and pray for the intentions

of the Pope - all within a few days time -

receive a Plenary Indulgence, the complete

remission of all time earned in Purgatory.

This indulgence may also be applied to a

deceased loved one.

At both churches, the Stations are followed by

Lenten Soup Suppers benefiting CRS Rice Bowl. Please bring your own bowl and spoon.

Stations also are prayed on Fridays in Lent at

St Augustine after the 9 am Mass, and at St

Mary at 4:30 pm before the Lenten Fish Bake.

We adore you,

O Christ, and we

praise you.

R i c e B o w l : F o r L e n t , F o r L i f e

The Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl is a

Lenten faith-in-action program, that feeds the

hungry through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The

Rice Bowl is a great way for individuals and

families to come together during Lent. Rice Bowl

Lenten Calendars and Bowls are available at

church.

Visit the Rice Bowl website at crsricbowl.org to

find Family Activities, Resources, and Recipes in

English and Spanish. Download the free Rice Bowl

Mobile App for your phone or tablet. 25% of

Rice Bowl donations return to local ministries that

include our Works of Mercy (Agape, Food Pantry,

Outreach). #4Lent4Life

P r a y e r & A l m s g i v i n g

S t a t i o n s o f t h e C ro s s & S o u p S u p p e r s

H o l y We e k & E a s t e r “What Are We Doing in Holy Week?” Thurs, April 6, 6 pm St Augustine, Tues April 11, 6:15 pm St Mary during Soup Supper - Father Paul Pluth gives a brief introduction to the worship and purpose of the holiest week of the year.

Holy Thursday, April 13 Mass of the Lord’s Supper

2 pm St Mary 6 pm St Augustine

Good Friday, April 14 2 pm Lord’s Passion, St Mary 3 pm Stations, St Augustine 6 pm Lord’s Passion, St Aug

The Vigil of Easter Saturday, April 15 8 pm St Augustine

Easter Sunday, April 16 8 am St Augustine

9:30 am St Augustine 11:15 am St Mary