Whose Calls Do You Answer? People Call You Every Day of Which Calls Do You Most Your Life, and You May Not Even Remember? Read the Voice You Do Really Realize It

January 24, 2021 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday of the Word of God

Whose Calls Do You Answer? People call you every day of Which calls do you most your life, and you may not even remember? Read the voice You do really realize it. Sometimes friends balloons. What calls do these well in math. text compliments. A teacher or comments hint at—that is, coach may suggest where you what might they be calling a can succeed. These are calls. person to do or become? You ran the fastest The people at the I wish I could again. Good job. Come I hope you will try retirement home love sing like you do. out for track. it when you visit. out this year.

Text me when Have you you get home. downloaded their Can you come new release? over and help me study?

What book RU reading?

Will you help us organize I can talk to Why do you spend the food drive? You are you about so much time on anything. so good at it. Snapchat?

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A man named Mario Bergoglio When his mother had a left Italy with his parents, second baby, his Grandma Rosa Giovanni and Rosa, and sailed took Jorge and the baby to her for South America and a house for part of every day. new life in 1929. A political She spoke Italian with him; his movement called Fascism was parents usually spoke Spanish. growing in Italy. It led to World Grandma Rosa told Jorge stories War II. The Bergoglio family about Italy and about saints. sought safety and a better life in She told him how she got up in Argentina. the pulpit back in Italy to speak soccer. He became a fan of the Three of Giovanni’s brothers out against the Fascist leader San Lorenzo soccer team for life. already lived in Buenos Mussolini. His mother, Maria, was sick Aires and were working in The Bergoglio family often after she gave birth to her fifth construction. They built a four- listened to opera on the radio, child. Jorge had to learn to story house with a floor for each and Jorge learned to dance cook. His mother measured out brother. When their business the tango at home. The San what went in a recipe and Jorge failed in hard times, they had to Lorenzo club nearby gave Jorge prepared it. His father, Mario, sell their house. Mario worked as a chance to play basketball and made Jorge get a part-time job an accountant. when he was thirteen and had In 1934, Mario married Regina finished elementary school. María. They bought a small Jorge worked every morning house in the heart of the city from seven to one o’clock, where many Italians lived. Mario cleaning at a factory. When he and Regina had their first child was fifteen, Jorge began studying on December 17, 1936. He was chemistry at a college. He went baptized on Christmas Day at the to college and studied from one Basilica of San Carlos Borromeo until eight o’clock. nearby and named Jorge.

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3 SUNDAY GOSPEL 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 1:14–20 Jesus Calls Four Fishermen Narrator 1: After John the Baptist Narrator 1: Immediately, was arrested, Jesus came to Simon Peter and Andrew left Galilee, proclaiming the Gospel, their nets and followed Jesus. the Good News of God. As Jesus went a little farther, Jesus: The time is fulfilled. The he saw James and John, the Kingdom of God is near! Repent sons of Zebedee. They were and believe the Good News. in their boat, mending their nets. Narrator 2: As Jesus walked Jesus: James, John, follow me! “ TTAALLkk along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Narrator 2: They left their father ” Simon Peter and his brother Zebedee in the boat with the 1 What kind of work does Andrew casting a net into the hired men and followed Jesus. Jesus call Simon Peter, sea. Andrew, James, and John to do? Who does this kind of Jesus: Follow me, and I will make Catholic you fishers of men. work today? FAITH WORD 2 How will the lives of Jesus’ friends change because they GOSPEL Derived from a word in the Greek language that means choose to follow him? Good News. The first four books of the New Testament are called Gospels. 3 What do you do each day Each tells the Good News of who Jesus is and what he did for us. to continue Jesus’ work? How do you live the Gospel? and DOCTRINE “ Who Leads in God’s Kingdom? ” 1 Who do you Jesus called twelve special political leader and a powerful know who has a special people—a group of extraordinary, soldier and king. They did not talent for gathering people together, as

GOSPEL ordinary believers—to be his expect someone who would Apostles and to spread the Good preach love, forgiveness, sharing, Jesus did? News. They were called fishers of and peace. 2 List the qualities you men, fishers of people (CCC, 551). Jesus’ actions were intended would want the leader Like these Twelve, we are all called to gather a people together, to of your city or state to to gather people into the Christian build the Kingdom of God here possess. How are these community. on earth. The disciples whom Connecting qualities the same as Jesus knew that his disciples Jesus called during his time and those you might use to would need to carry on his mission those he calls today share these describe Jesus? after his Death and Resurrection. same qualities. In this Sunday’s Gospel, we see the disciples leave their lives

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HANDBOOK WHAT THE CHURCH BELIEVES AND TEACHES In this Sunday’s Gospel, we see that Andrew, Simon Peter, and nets behind and follow James, and John listened to Jesus and followed him, no Jesus immediately. questions asked. Turn to page 10 in What the Church Believes People in Jesus’ time—and and Teaches, to understand how long people had been

3/9/20 9:59 AM for many generations before 4009_Visions_ENG_Cover.indd 2 waiting for Jesus, the Messiah, and why his arrival was so his birth—had been expecting important. Then turn to page 23 to learn how Jesus becomes a messiah who would be a really present to us when we celebrate the Eucharist. 4 The Eucharistic Prayer Joins Our Catholic FAI H the Whole Church Together n the Sacrament of the We proclaim your Death, O Lord, I Eucharist, the whole Church and profess your Resurrection prays in thanksgiving to God until you come again. through Jesus Christ in the unity Or: of the Holy Spirit. The word When we eat this Bread and drink eucharist means “thanksgiving.” this Cup, we proclaim your Death, The word mass comes from the O Lord, until you come again. Latin word missa that means “send.” Our worship together Or: sends us forth to continue Jesus’ Save us, Savior of the world, mission in the world. (You will for by your Cross and Resurrection learn the order of the entire you have set us free. Mass later in this unit.) n the Eucharistic Prayer, the —Roman Missal The Liturgy of the Eucharist I priest reenacts Jesus’ words is the second part of the Mass and actions at the Last Supper uring the Eucharistic Prayer, and follows the Liturgy of the on the night before he died. Dwe thank God for Creation Word. It begins with people Jesus took bread, gave thanks, and all God’s saving works of bringing gifts of bread and broke the bread, and gave it the past. We remember Jesus’ wine, as well as monetary to his disciples. The priest’s actions and words at the Last contributions, to the altar. words explain Jesus’ words and Supper and his gift of himself on The priest accepts these gifts, actions: “Take this, all of you, the Cross. We pray for the whole which represent the work of the and eat of it, for this is my Body, Church, its leaders, the dead and people. which will be given up for you.” the living, all who live and die in The Liturgy of the Eucharist The priest also takes the faith in Jesus’ Resurrection. concludes with people receiving chalice of wine as Jesus did Holy Communion. In between, and says, “Take this, all of you, The Eucharistic Prayer ends the priest prays a Eucharistic and drink from it, for this is with the great Amen, which Prayer. It begins with a dialogue the Chalice of my Blood, the means “surely, indeed, that calls us, the People of God, Blood of the new and eternal or truly.” It is our solemn to join our hearts and voices in covenant, which will be poured agreement. In your own the prayer the priest leads. out for you and for many for the words, what do you think you forgiveness of sins. Do this in are saying yes to as you say Priest: The Lord be with you. memory of me” (Roman Missal). Amen? People: And with your spirit. Then the priest invites the Priest: Lift up your hearts. people to affirm Jesus’ words ______People: We lift them up to the and actions. He declares, “The ______Lord. mystery of faith.” We have three Priest: Let us give thanks to the ways to respond: ______Lord our God. ______People: It is right and just. Then together we sing or say: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. —Roman Missal 5 Living the G SPEL Who Is Jesus? he Sunday Gospels for the 3rd Sunday Tin Ordinary Time through the 1st Sunday of Lent come from the first chapter of Mark’s Gospel. In this chapter, Mark introduces Jesus. From what Jesus says and does, we learn who he is, what his mission is, and how people react to him. Use the questions on these pages to study who Jesus is in Mark 1:1–45. You will need a Bible. Work in pairs.

Jesus’ identity, according What religion did Jesus practice? to Mark’s Gospel: Mark 1:21 Mark 1:1

Mark 1:11

Mark 1:24

Actions Jesus does: What do these actions show about Jesus? Mark 1:22 Mark 1:25–26 Mark 1:31 Mark 1:34 Mark 1:35 Mark 1:41

What was Jesus’ occupation?

Mark 1:14

Mark 1:22

Hills surround the Mark 1:39 Sea of Galilee, a freshwater lake too big to see across in many places. 6 Words that describe Jesus Someone Jesus admires Mark 1:9 Mark 1:11

Mark 1:22

Mark 1:28

Mark 1:35

Mark 1:41

A question I’d like to ask Jesus

People who follow Jesus Mark 1:16–20

Mark 1:30–31 Mark 1:40–45

Seven ways people respond to Jesus Mark 1:20

Mark 1:27 Mark 1:31 Mark 1:33 Mark 1:45

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! L The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word. —Saint Augustine 7 Father Patrick Desbois LEADERS When Father Patrick Desbois met Father Patrick in the YIU works to was a boy growing up in nearby woods and showed build relationships France, his grandfather didn’t him where 1,500 of their between Jews and talk much about the time he Jewish neighbors were Catholics and to find spent in a Nazi prison camp in killed and buried. They the mass gravesites. Rawa-Ruska. But his stories made told story after story about The teams search Father Patrick curious about the what Father Patrick calls records, interview Jewish faith and the Holocaust. the “Holocaust by bullets.” witnesses (who are now in their Father Patrick traveled to In 1941–42, more than 1.5 eighties and nineties), and Rawa-Ruska, a town near the million Jews were shot and killed use Global Positioning System Polish-Ukrainian border, to find by a Nazi military group called (GPS) technology to record the people who would talk about the Einsatzgruppen. The group coordinates of each gravesite. what happened there during was ordered to kill all of the Jews Teams have found more than World War II. One night, a found in villages in Poland and 2,000 graves throughout Eastern group of fifty townspeople the former Soviet Union. Europe and recorded stories Father Patrick says that these from more than 4,000 witnesses. killings often happened “in Father Patrick talks the middle of the towns, in full about the “Holocaust view and with the knowledge by bullets,” and why we of everyone.” Most people who need to study it today. watched the killings, including www.youtube.com young children, never spoke about what they saw. On January 27, International Father Patrick founded Holocaust Remembrance Day Father Patrick received the Legion of Yahad-In Unum in 2004. Yahad honors the memory of the six Honor from former French president is Hebrew for “together.” In million Jewish people killed Nicolas Sarkozy. Unum is Latin for “in one.” by Nazis during World War II. With My Family and Friends U.S. Catholic souls of those who harbor Scan here for ➥ racist or prejudicial thoughts.” parent resources Bishops Speak Out or go to gospelweeklies.com/family Against Racism Print this prayer card. Offer your prayers Pray In 1979, American bishops that we as a society Lord, help us to follow you published a letter about overcome the sin of because you know what will racism, Brothers and Sisters to Us, racism. www.usccb.org make us truly happy. Amen. in which they wrote: “Racism is a sin: a sin that divides the “ ” Think human family.” 1 Why is racism a sin? What would you have to In 2018, the bishops wrote 2 Think of a prejudice you leave behind to follow Jesus? a letter, Open Wide Our Hearts, might have about a person Act which addresses how racism or group. Where do you If Jesus came to your home, denies basic human dignity: think this prejudice came he would be helpful around “But racism still profoundly from? How do we change our the house. Pray for Jesus to affects our culture, and it has negative views about others? no place in the Christian heart. help your family notice one 3 Why is it important that another’s needs and act to fill This evil causes great harm to its victims, and it corrupts the students today learn about those needs. the Holocaust?

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