St. Theresa’s Cathedral P.O. Box HM 1191, Hamilton, HM EX, Bermuda Tel. 441-292-0607 – Fax 441-292-2477 Office Hours: 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Diocesan Website: www.romancatholicbermuda.bm Email: [email protected]

Bishop Wes Śpiewak, CR, Diocese of Hamilton in Bermuda Chancery Office & Holy Calvary Cemetery Office: 232-4414 – [email protected] IN RESIDENCE: Rev. Julio Blazejewski, C.R., Portuguese Episcopal Vicar Visiting: Permanent David Swain St. Vincent de Paul Society Rep: Joanne Judd & Tom Sinclair Parish Catechetical Coordinator: (CCD) Beverly-Dawn Knights - [email protected] St. Theresa’s Gift Shop: 292-0416 – Shop Hours: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays)

Confessions: By appointment only – Social distancing of 3’ if a mask is worn or 6’ if no mask is worn. : By appointment – 5 weeks in advance Weddings: By appointment – 1 year in advance. Lenten Pre-Marriage Course is required for all weddings here or elsewhere Facebook: Our Diocese is on Facebook. Visit our page & “LIKE” us and join our on-line community. DATES TIMES INTENTIONS FOR

Sat. Mar. 06 6:30 pm + Jeffrey Mark Medeiros Francis’ prayer intention for

Sun. Mar. 07 8:30 am St. Theresa’s Parish Family the month of March is for the 10:00 am + Miguel Franco, Kevin Ledo, Jose, Amelia, renewed experience of the + Rogerio & Humberto da Familia Almeida Sacrament of Reconciliation. In + & Bolarinho his video for the prayer intention, 11:30 am Couples for Christ & Family Ministries 6:00 pm created by the Pope’s Worldwide Mon. Mar. 08 7:30 am Prayer Network, the Pope asked 12:30 pm for prayers that the Sacrament of Tues. Mar. 09 7:30 am + Intentions of Aleyna DeSilva Reconciliation would be ex- 12:10 pm perienced “with renewed depth, to Wed. Mar. 10 7:30 am taste the forgiveness and infinite 12:10 pm mercy of God.” Thurs. Mar. 11 7:30 am + Doris & Albert Ramsay , March 3, 2021 MT (CAN) 12:10 pm Fri. Mar. 12 7:30 am Honour With Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary LENTEN MASS SCHEDULE 12:10 pm Weekday Masses during Lent will Sat. Mar. 13 6:30 pm Intentions of Kerry and AJ Judd be held at 7:30am & 12:10pm Sun. Mar. 14 8:30 am + Antonio & Ernestina Rebello Monday through Friday. (Portuguese) 10:00 am 11:30 am + Victor Moniz & Manuel & Arminda Garrafa COME! WALK WITH JESUS...... 6:00 pm St. Theresa’s Parish Family Stations of the Cross are celebrated

THIS WEEK’S & NEXT WEEK’S LECTORS & SONG LEADERS’ SCHEDULE on Fridays at 11:40am before the 6/7 March 6:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. 12:10pm Mass and at 6pm followed Lectors: C. Powell T. Sinclair F. Maxwell J. Amper by a Communion Service here at Song Leaders: G. Medeiros F. Wohlmuth M. Gravito the Cathedral.

13/14 March

K. Johann B.D. Knights T. Amarasinghe H Consolacion Lectors: ST. THERESA’S CHAPEL Song Leaders: G. Medeiros M. Pastor M. Gravito

We are in need of donations for SUNDAY & SPECIAL OFFERINGS WITH ONLINE BANKING & PARISH ENVELOPES Please make direct payments to the Bank of Butterfield Acct #20-006-060-482732-100 and include Roses and 7-Day Candles, which are placed in this Chapel weekly & are “Sunday Offering” or “Special Collection” in the memo field. Also, the parish encourages the use offered for your special intention of Sunday Offering Envelopes to promote the concept of stewardship of treasure. Cheques drawn to St. Theresa’s Cathedral can also be mailed to the above address. or in memory of a loved one.

If you wish to make a donation, Saturday Adoration in the Chapel of St. Theresa’s Cathedral: 9am – Holy Mass in Portuguese kindly contact the Cathedral followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Recitation of the Rosary (Portuguese & English); Administrator at 292-0607 Ext. 2 or

Chaplet of Divine Mercy (Portuguese & English) and Benediction. E-Mail: [email protected]

WEEKLY STEWARDSHIP THOUGHT NEW BIBLE STUDY FOR LENT: “Agape Bible Study” is an in-depth On our Lenten stewardship call to focus on long-term series of multiple Bible studies available in the living prayer, fasting and almsgiving, how much tradition of the . If you would like to join in the time am I giving to God in prayer? study of the Word of God, contact Fr. Joe Morley at 705-236. These Bible studies are FREE OF CHARGE and all material will be provided. SUNDAY OFFERING ENVELOPES FOR 2021: The next session will take place at St. Michael’s Church in Paget To promote and encourage the concept of stewardship of treasure, Parish on March 16th at 3pm. All are welcome! Sunday offering envelopes/booklets for 2021 are available on the communion rail and on the table at the back of the Cathedral. This internationally coordinated 40-day campaign Steward’s Sharing of Treasure aims to help end abortion through prayer, fasting, Date Actual community outreach, and peaceful vigils from Collection: 27th/28th February: $ 3,709.00 February 17 to March 28. Since the first To Date: Week 9 $ 35,079.00 coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign took place in 2007, it has been received in over 1,000 cities and 63 countries. If you are interested in learning more about this worldwide pro-life support ST. THERESA’S CHAPEL movement, visit: www.40daysforlife.com.

BISHOP’S CORNER:

7th – 13th March, 2021 Donation Given for 2 Seven-Day Votive Candles for the Dear Fellow-Catholics,

“Intentions of Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Maiato & Family” Sister Dianna Ortiz, died at the age of sixty-two while in hospice care in Washington D.C., on the 19th of February, 2021 after a recurrence INTRODUCTION: of cancer. Sister Ortiz was born September 2, 1958 and was raised in The first of God’s commandments – that he alone is God and we Grants, New Mexico. She was an Ursuline sister for forty-three shall not have other gods or idols – reaches beyond simply “not years. offering sacrifices to pagan deities.” Rather, it includes avoiding anything that we “rank above” God or that prevents us from Sister Ortiz was teaching indigenous children as a missionary in worshipping him. The importance of this commandment is seen in Guatemala in 1989 when her ministry was torn apart in the midst of the way Jesus reacts against those who have made commerce – the country's brutal civil war. Guatemalan soldiers abducted her selling animals and changing money – their gods, their idols. from a garden, detaining her for thirty hours. She reported being gang raped and tortured repeatedly until she escaped. More than MEMORIAL FLOWERS FOR EASTER: one hundred cigarette burns were found on her body. Returning to Forms are now available at the entrance to the the United States, Sister Ortiz became a human rights advocate and Cathedral and on the communion rail for Easter peacemaker, starting an organization for torture survivors and flower donations in memory of your loved ones. becoming a visible presence of nonviolence at vigils and marches in the nation's capital. In the years following her ordeal in Guatemala, ST. THERESA’S GIFT SHOP – NEW OPENING HOURS: Sister Ortiz challenged U.S. policy makers in the Central American St. Theresa’s Gift Shop will open every Tuesday and Saturday from country. She petitioned the government for files regarding her case 10:00 am to 2:00 pm until further notice. Easter cards are on order. and even conducted a bread-and-water only fast in Lafayette Park The Gift shop has “purse-size” Sunday missals, rosaries, statues, across from the White House in 1996. Following the fast, other religious books, assorted cards, and gifts for sale. Please come and protests and revelations of unauthorized CIA funding of the have a browse around! Thank you for your anticipated patronage! Guatemalan military, which Congress prohibited in 1990, President Bill Clinton ordered the release of documents related to her case. JOSEPH MEETS JOSEPH: A two parts biblical meeting where we can encounter vis a vis the two Josephs of the Bible, Joseph the Friends and colleagues recalled Sister Ortiz, who in her last year and Joseph the husband of Mary, and let them talk to our life. The became deputy director of USA, for having a gentle spirit meetings will be held on the 9th & 16th March, at 7:30pm at St. that guided a steely determination to work for justice and peace for Joseph’s Parish center in Somerset. Fr. Attilio Morelli will accom- three decades. "She was a witness to justice and human rights. So pany us in this event. The event will be a preparation for the Mass much of what she did was pretty quiet," recalled Marie Dennis, for the Feast of St. Joseph on Friday, March 10th at 7:00pm at St. senior adviser to the secretary general of Pax Christi International. Joseph’s Church in Somerset. This year has been dedicated to St. Sister Ortiz received several honorary degrees and awards, including Joseph by and these events are part of the celebrations Pax Christi USA's Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award in 2000, and we have on the Island to make this year 2021 special. the 2003 U.S. Catholic Award for furthering the cause of women in the Church.

“THE NO’s THAT GIVE LIFE”: A journey through the Ten Command- She wrote an award-winning book, "The Blindfold's Eyes: My ments, which was started before the shelter in place this past year, th th Journey from Torture to Truth" in which she recounted her is going to be resumed on a bi-weekly basis on the 4 and 18 harrowing experience in Guatemala and journey toward advocacy March at 7:30pm at St. Anthony’s Church accompanied by Fr. Attilio rooted in faith. “People remember Sister Ortiz for being attentive to Morelli, Pastor of St. Anthony’s and St. Joseph’s Church. We will building "deep, deep" relationships,” said Dennis, who credited the walk through the 10 Words of Life (for that is what they really are) Ursuline for having the courage and capacity to address deepening their meaning with the Holy Scriptures and accompanied injustice on many fronts. by the light of both the Catholic Christian Tradition and the Jewish

Tradition. We will be all up for a surprise, trust me. Fr. Attilio Have a blessed Sunday and a fruitful week! Bishop Wes