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St. Theresa's Cathedral 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 Deacon David Swain St. Vincent de Paul Society Parish 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, & Saturdays) Confessions: By appointment only – Social distancing of 3’ if a mask is worn or 6’ if no mask is worn. Baptisms: 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 Catholic Diocese is on Facebook. Visit our page & “LIKE” us and join our on-line community. DATES TIMES INTENTIONS FOR SECOND SUNDAY OF Sat. Apr. 10 6:30 pm St. Theresa’s Parish Family EASTER MASSES Sun. Apr. 11 8:30 am + Mr. & Mrs. Albert Soares, Sr 10:00 am + Please find below the link to register 11:30 am + Victor Moniz & Manuel & Arminda Garrafa for the Second Sunday of Easter 6:00 pm Couples for Christ & Family Ministries masses at MSA’s St. Joseph Courtyard Mon. Apr. 12 7:30 am + William, Mary & Edward Paiva Rodriques – Enter on Elliott Street Side. Click the Tues. Apr. 13 7:30 am Honour with Devotion to the Immaculate link and follow the instructions. Heart of Mary Portuguese Mass Wed. Apr. 14 7:30 am Karla DeSousa th + (Sunday, 11 April 2021, 4:00pm) 12:10 pm Doris & Albert Ramsay + https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10 Thurs. Apr. 15 7:30 am Manuel Bizarro, Jose Oliveira, Maria de + C0D44AFAE2AA7FFC07-santa1 + Lurdes & Maria Encarnacao Martins 12:10 pm th English Masses: (Saturday, 10 April Fri. Apr. 16 7:30 am + Adelino Medeiros and Sunday, 11th April) 12:10 pm https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10 Sat. Apr. 17 6:30 pm Intentions of Kerry & AJ Judd C0D44AFAE2AA7FFC07-10th11th Sun. Apr. 18 8:30 am + Antonio & Ernestina Rebello (Portuguese) 10:00 am + 11:30 am + Croesus Cagulada & Alicio Cagulada WEEKDAY MASSES AT 6:00 pm St. Theresa’s Parish ST. THERESA’S CAHEDRAL THIS WEEK’S & NEXT WEEK’S LECTORS & SONG LEADERS’ SCHEDULE Dear Friends, 10/11 April 6:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. I would like to let you know that I H. Consolacion B.D. Knights F. Maxwell am going to continue to celebrate and Lectors: Song Leaders: live stream the 7:30am weekday mass 17/18 April 6:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 6:00 p.m. from Monday – Friday and the Lectors: J.Judd T. Sinclair V. Turner M. Castillanes 12:10pm mass on Wednesdays, Song Leaders: Thursdays and Fridays at St. Theresa’s Cathedral until it is necessary. SUNDAY & SPECIAL OFFERINGS WITH ONLINE BANKING & PARISH ENVELOPES If you would like to be a part of the Please make direct payments to the Bank of Butterfield Acct #20-006-060-482732-100 and include assisting team at these masses, please “Sunday Offering” or “Special Collection” in the memo field. Also, the parish encourages the use conta ct the Chancery Office at of Sunday Offering Envelopes, which are on the communion rail or on table at entrance of 232-4414. There is only EIGHT SLOTS Cathedral, to promote the concept of stewardship of treasure. Cheques drawn to St. Theresa’s available at every mass. If you would Cathedral can also be mailed to the above address. like to have any petition mentioned during the General Intercessions at any Saturday Adoration in the Chapel of St. Theresa’s Cathedral of these masses, please email: Cancelled until further notice! [email protected] or [email protected] Be well and stay safe! Bishop Wes Śpiewak, C.R. WEEKLY STEWARDSHIP THOUGHT (#WINNING 2021”). The event will take place on Monday, The decision to give has not so much to do 12th April, 2021 at St. Patrick’s Hall at 6:00pm. Free to with calendars and budgets. Rather, the attend; Only 8 slots available. Please RSVP to: decision to give is really a matter of https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44AFAE2AA7FFC0 putting your life with God into 7-iquitsugar. perspective. Steward’s Sharing of Treasure ST. THERESA’S GIFT SHOP – NEW OPENING HOURS: Date Actual St. Theresa’s Gift Shop is open every Tuesday and Saturday Collection: 3rd/4th April, 2021 $ 330.00 from 10:00am to 2:00pm. The Gift shop has “purse-size” To Date: Week 14 $ 51,395.00 Sunday missals, rosaries, statues, religious books, assorted Easter Flower Donation for Memorial Flowers: $ 2,090.00 cards, and many items for sale. Please come and have a Your continued support is very much appreciated! browse around! Thank you for your anticipated patronage! BISHOP’S CORNER ST. THERESA’S CHAPEL Dear Fellow-Catholics, 11th – 17th April, 2021 The Italian Discovery channel is presenting a series on Donation Given for 2 Seven-Day Votive Candles conversations with Pope Francis. The interviews are conducted by Fr. Marco Pozza, chaplain of the maximum “Intentions of Susana Sousa & Family” security prison "Due Palazzi" in Padua, author of many best- INTRODUCTION: selling books and popular religious programs viewed by All three readings show the transformative power of belief in Italians. The producers pledge that the series entitled Jesus’ resurrection. Saint John tells us that we become "Virtues and Vices - Conversations with Pope Francis" is very children of God through this belief. Thomas acknowledges responsive and peaceful, and it touches not so much on the Jesus as Lord and God in the Gospel, and he and the other theoretical problems of the Church's teaching, but issues Apostles go on to create an ideal community by proclaiming close to each of us; the darkness and light of human his resurrection in Jerusalem. existence. The series consists of a total of seven episodes. Each of them THE FEAST OF THE DIVINE MERCY: is devoted to one virtue and the opposite of its vice as Jesus requested through St. Faustina, a Polish depicted in Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in nun who was canonized by Pope John Paul II on Padua. It is the delicate relationship between the seven vices April 30, 2000, that the first Sunday after Easter (anger, despair, instability, jealousy, infidelity, injustice, be officially established in the Church as the stupidity) and the seven virtues (prudence, justice, bravery, Feast of Mercy. This service for the Feast of temperance, faith, hope and love) that is the topic of the Divine Mercy will be held at St. Patrick’s Church on Sunday, dialogue between Pope Francis and Fr. Marco. April 11, at 3:00pm but due to the Covid restrictions, will now only be live streamed. "We have fallen into the culture of the adjective and have forgotten about nouns," says Francis in one of the POPE FRANCIS to Offer Divine Mercy Sunday Mass in Church conversations. “Let's not forget that we are persons, men and with St. Faustina’s Relics: On Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope women, and this is more important than being defined by our Francis will offer Mass in a church containing the relics of virtues and vices. God loves a person as he or she is. God both St. Faustina Kowalska and St. John Paul II. This will be does not love the adjectives that characterize us, but loves the second year that the Pope has chosen to offer Mass in the us,” explains the Pope. church, Santo Spirito in Sassia, which was transformed into a center for Divine Mercy spirituality. Pope Francis’ Divine The episodes contain not only reflections of the Holy Father Mercy Sunday Mass on April 11 will not be open to the public and the comments of Fr. Marco, but also specific stories of but will be broadcast on television and via live stream. people whose lives, like all of us, are suspended between Following Mass, Pope Francis will recite the Regina Coeli virtues and vices. The authors of the series ensure that each prayer from inside the church. Located near St. Peter’s viewer will discover something about themselves in these Basilica, Santo Spirito in Sassia is Rome’s official Divine Mercy meetings. “It is not that humanity is inside the Church, but church. Before the coronavirus epidemic, people gathered the Church lives inside humanity. That is why questions about the world and human condition, which is after all, an each day there at 3 p.m. to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Taken from CNA News inseparable combination of virtues and vices, are the key to understanding our existence,” believes Fr. Marco. INVITIATION FROM BISHOP WES: I Quit Sugar! Bishop Wes invites you to attend the event: “I Quit Sugar”: Enjoy your weekend and have a great week! An In-Person Class with Agathe Holowatinc, a Certified Bishop Wes Integrative Nutrition Health Coach at FUELLED Bermuda Ltd .
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