St. Jude Maronite FATHER ELIE ABI CHEDID, PASTOR DEACON JACK MANHIRE, PH.D.

Parish Council President - Amine Harb Women’s League President - Paula Harb Music Director - Sharon Luhrs Office Manager/Secretary - Barbara Fidler Bulletin Editor - Diane Manhire

Parish Council & Finance Committee Members Khalil Abou-Jaoude • Gail Bell • Stanley Chlastawa Myrla Cromer • Telma Domingues • Barbara Fidler • Ann Geagea MASS TIMES Amine Harb • Bill Hinshaw • Sheila Love • Elias Maroun • Dr. Sam Wakim Saturday Vigil - 5:30 pm Sunday: 9:15 am & 11:15 am Daily Mass Tuesday - 6 pm Friday - 12:15 pm

HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION as noted

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT & VENERATION OF ST. CHARBEL’S RELIC Every 22nd of the month 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Mass at 12:15 pm

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday, Wednesday & Friday 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Tuesdays 9:00 am - noon Thursdays & Weekends - Closed

BAPTISM Call the Parish Office for information. MATRIMONY Arrangements with the Pastor must be made at least six months in advance. One of the parties must be registered in the Parish & attending mass for at least 3 months.

MARONITE CHRISTIAN FORMATION (Religious Education) Communion - Saturdays 4 - 5 pm Confirmation - Saturdays 2:30-3:30 pm September 28-29, 2019 To register, call 407-363-7405

RECONCILIATION 5555 Dr. Phillips Blvd. Orlando, FL 32819 Saturdays before the 5:30 pm mass 407-363-7405 phone • 407-363-7793 fax [email protected] COMMUNION FOR THE SICK Please call the Parish Office at 407-363-7405. www.saintjudechurch.org facebook.com/stjudemaronitecatholicchurch FROM THE DEACON’S DESK Q: What is meant by God’s Grace? Mass Intentions A: Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to Sat 9/28 + Special Intentions by St. Jude Parishioners 5:30 p.m. respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of Sun 9/29 + Jerome Kahl SI Health by Helga Kahl + eternal life. 9:15 a.m. Grace is a participation in the life of God. It introduces Sun 9/29 + Special Intentions us into the intimacy of Trinitarian life: by Baptism the 11:15 a.m by Imad & Grace Nasnas + Christian participates in the grace of Christ, the Head of Tues 10/1 + Maureen Honoridez Cabrera Happy Birthday his Body. As an "adopted son" he can henceforth call God 6 p.m. SI by sister Mary Ann Zaccardi "Father," in union with the only Son. He receives the life Fri. 10/4 + Nicholas Zaccardi Happy Birthday SI of the Spirit who breathes charity into him and who forms 12:15 a.m by Adriano Zaccardi the Church. This vocation to eternal life is supernatural. It depends Sat 10/5 + In Thanksgiving for a successful surgery entirely on God's gratuitous initiative, for he alone can 5:30 p.m. by the Family + reveal and give himself. It surpasses the power of human Sun 10/6 + John Honoridez Happy Birthday SI intellect and will, as that of every other creature. 9:15 a.m. by sister Mary Ann Zaccardi + The grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes Sun 10/6 + Sonia Mascarin de Diaz 3 year Anniversary to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our 11:15 a.m RIP by daughters Olga,Martha & Sandra + soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in Baptism. It is in us the source of the work of sanctification. WEEKLY COLLECTION The preparation of man for the reception of grace is already a work of grace. This latter is needed to arouse and for the weekend of September 22-23, 2019 sustain our collaboration in justification through faith, and Sunday Collection/Donations $1.885.00 in sanctification through charity. God brings to completion 2nd Collection 402.00 in us what he has begun, "since he who completes his work by cooperating with our will began by working so that we Memorials 100.00 might will it. Candles/Gifts 431.00 God's free initiative demands man's free response, for Donations 126.90 God has created man in his image by conferring on him, Coffee 129.00 along with freedom, the power to know him and love him. The soul only enters freely into the communion of love. Total Collection $3,073.90 God immediately touches and directly moves the heart # of envelopes used: 55 # of attendees: 313 of man. He has placed in man a longing for truth and 2ND COLLECTION goodness that only he can satisfy. The promises of "eternal This week: Operational Maintenance life" respond, beyond all hope, to this desire. Next week: All Souls Remembrance We usually classify grace into three types. Sanctifying grace is an habitual gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that perfects the soul itself to enable it to live with God, to act by his love. Habitual grace, the permanent Worry is a conversation disposition to live and act in keeping with God's call, is distinguished from actual graces which refer to God's you have with yourself interventions, whether at the beginning of conversion or in the course of the work of sanctification. about things you Actual grace – God gives us the help to conform our lives to his will. There are sacramental graces, gifts proper cannot change. to the different sacraments. There are furthermore special graces, also called charisms after the Greek term used by St. Paul and meaning "favor," "gratuitous gift," "benefit." Prayers is a conversation Whatever their character - sometimes it is extraordinary, such as the gift of or of tongues - charisms are you have with God oriented toward sanctifying grace and are intended for the common good of the Church. They are at the service of about things charity which builds up the Church. He can change. cont'd on p.3

View this bulletin online at www.DiscoverMass.com MEMORIALS CALENDAR OF EVENTS To sponsor a religious gift in memory or honor of your loved one, or for a special intention, please call the parish office nd Memorials & Special Intentions - $50 each/month) zzAdoration/Veneration - 22 of each month CURRENT SPONSORS Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament & ALTAR CANDLES SPONSORS Veneration of the St. Charbel Relic 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ✞ ✞ September & October - Luciano Trevisiol RIP by Nadia z Trevisiol & the Reece Family zParish Council Meeting ✞✞ November - Joseph G. Hanna RIP by Joseph M. Hanna First Tuesday of the month 7:00 p.m. ✞✞ December - John Napolitano 10th Anniversary RIP by Theresa & Robert Downey & Family zzCommunion Class SANCTUARY LAMP SPONSORS Saturdays 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. ✞✞ September - Joseph G. Hanna RIP by Joseph M. Hanna ✞✞ October - Leo & Michael Winterling RIP by Barbara Fidler zzConfirmation Class ✞✞ November - Special Intentions by John & Gloria Smith Saturdays 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. ✞✞ December - Joseph G. Hanna RIP by Joseph M. Hanna ALTAR BREAD & WINE SPONSORS ✞✞ September - Mary Ann Glinowiecki & Sophie Grampp RIP SAVE THE DATE! by Barbara Fidler ✞✞ October - Joseph G. Hanna RIP by Joseph M. Hanna ST JUDE ✞✞ November & December - Hend Chalhoub - 2 year ANNUAL ST. JUDE Anniversary RIP by Salwa Khayrallah & Family CHRISTMAS PARTY CHARCOAL & INCENSE SPONSORS Friday, December 14, 2019 ✞✞ September - Special Intentions by Buck & Clara Hall ✞✞ October - Special Intentions by John & Gloria Smith Volunteers Needed! ✞✞ November & December - Available SPECIAL INTENTIONS More information to follow. ✞✞ September - Available ✞✞ October - John & Glorida Smith 60th Wedding Anniversary by Family cont'd from p.2 ✞ ✞ November - Health of Luciano Benucci (healing) by Nadia Grace is first and foremost the gift of the Spirit who Trevisiol & the Reece family justifies and sanctifies us. Since it belongs to the supernatural ✞✞ December - Luciano Trevisiol RIP by Nadia Trevisiol & order, grace escapes our experience and cannot be known the Reece Family except by faith. We cannot therefore rely on our feelings or our works to conclude that we are justified and saved. However, according to the Lord's words "Thus you will know them by their fruits" - reflection on God's blessings in our life and in the lives of the saints offers us a guarantee that grace is at work in us and spurs us on to an ever greater faith and an attitude of trustful poverty. PARISH ROOF REPLACEMENT PROJECT God Bless You, Deacon Jack As everyone is aware our Parish Roof of 16 years [email protected] needs replacement. This project will be starting shortly and the cost to the parish will be $42,500. In the next few weeks a campaign will be starting to se- cure these funds for this project.

Please prayerfully consider what amount your family will PARISH COUNCIL NEWS be able to donate. A new Pastoral Parish Council for Saint Jude church is being formed. \The council acts as an advisory board. ST. JUDE PRAYER CHAIN Members are required to be active Please send your request to members of the Parish, to have a good moral [email protected] character, to be contributing their tithing to Please let us know your prayer intention the parish, to be supportive of the priest, to and we will send it out to the prayer chain. abide by the Church by-laws, not to have any Pray for the sick of our parish. enmity with any parishioner, and to maintain Many parishioners need our prayers. confidentiality. Parishioners who are interested in serving Whenever two or three of you come together in My on the council please submit your name to name, I am there with you. Matt 18:20 the pastor.

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Philippians 3:17-4:1 Join with others in being imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who thus conduct themselves according to the model you have in us. For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself. Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, beloved. Matthew 24:23-31 If anyone says to you then, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told it to you beforehand. So if they say to you, ‘He is in the desert,’ do not go out there; if they say, ‘He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For just as lightning comes from the east and is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. “Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. NEXT WEEK’S READINGS - Fourth Week after the Holy Cross: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11& Matthew 24:45-51

DAILY READINGS Saints & their Feast Days

Mon. 7:9-17 & Matthew 24:32-44 Tues. Revelation 10:1-11 & Luke 6:20-26 27 St. Vincent de Paul Wed. Revelation 11:1-12 & Luke 5:33-39 29 St. Michael, St. Raphael & Thurs. Revelation 12:1-12 & Luke 21:34-38 Fri. Revelation 13:1,2b-4,6-7, 11-12, 15-18 & John 5:17-23 St. Gabriel and St. Rouhana Sat. Revelation 14:1-8,13 & John 5:24-30 the Cantor, St. Cyriacus the Wanderer 30 St. Gregory, Bishop of Armenia POPE FRANCIS INTENTIONS SEPTEMBER 2019 The Protection of the Oceans St. Vincent de Paul was a priest of the Catholic Church who dedicated himself to serving the poor. He is venerated as a That politicians, scientists and economists saint in the Catholic Church. He was canonized in 1737. work together to protect the world's seas He was renowned for his compassion, and oceans. humility and generosity.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

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9/28-9/29 3rd Sunday after Holy Cross Phil 3:17-4:1 & Mt. 24:23-31 5:30 p.m. Lector: Leo Black (E) Ushers: Kathy Morrell & Dan Vac 9:15 a.m. Lector: Maria Clark (E&S) Ushers: Hank Dressel & Michael Araujo 11:15 a.m. Lector: Nour Zikra (E) & Nader Zikra (A) Tania Kassis - Live in Concert Ushers: Amine Harb & Tony Rouhana October 11, 2019 7:00 p.m. Help us Help Others by attending St. Vincent Trinity Presbyterian Church de Paul Orlando's 4th Annual Friends of the of Seven Springs Poor Gala on Saturday evening, October 12 at 4651 Little Road the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando. Proceeds help people in need across Central Florida. For New Port Richey, FL 34655 more information or to purchase tickets: Please contact Judy Wilhelm at 407.375.6580 or Stephanie Fuoco at 407.491.2991. Tickets $50 Call Paula Harb 407-448-8968 THE ARCHANGELS [email protected] Sts. Michael, Gabriel & Raphael Angels—messengers from God—appear frequently in Scripture, but only Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are named. Michael appears in Daniel’s as “the great prince” who defends Israel against its enemies; in the Book of Revelation, he leads THE KNOT PRAYER God’s armies to final victory over the forces of evil. Devotion to Michael is the oldest angelic devotion, rising in the East in the fourth Dear God, century. The Church in the West began to observe a feast honoring Michael and the angels in the fifth century. Please untie the knots that are in my mind, Gabriel also makes an appearance in Daniel’s visions, announcing my heart, and my life. Michael’s role in God’s plan. His best-known appearance is an encounter with a young Jewish girl named Mary, who consents to Remove the have nots, cannots, and the bear the Messiah. do nots. Raphael’s activity is confined to the Old Testament story of Tobit. There he appears to guide Tobit’s son Tobiah through a series of Erase the will nots, may nots, might nots fantastic adventures which lead to a threefold happy ending: Tobiah’s that may find a home in my heart. marriage to Sarah, the healing of Tobit’s blindness and the restoration of the family fortune. Release me from the could nots, would nots, and should nots that obstruct my life. Feast Day - September 29 And most of all, dear God, I ask that you remove from my mind, my heart, and my life all of the "am nots" that I have allowed to hold me back. Especially the thought that I am not good enough. Amen - Author Unknown

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