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St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Parish Roman Catholic Church St. Marguerite Bourgeoys Parish Roman Catholic Church 31st Sunday In Ordinary Time November 3, 2019 The Parish Office Is Open: Mon-Thurs: 8:30 am-3 pm; Fri: 8:30 am-12 noon Mass Schedule 203.775.5117 · stmarguerite.org Public Morning Prayer: 8:20 am 138 Candlewood Lake Road, Brookfield, CT 06804 Monday-Friday: 8:31 am - Chapel Like/Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram! Saturday: 4:31 pm Vigil Mass Pastor: Rev. Shawn William Cutler Sunday: 9:01 am, 11:01 am, 5:01 pm (Low Mass) Latin Low Mass: 1st Sunday of the month at 4:01 pm Deacons: Anthony J. Detje and Joseph P. Cann Daily Eucharistic Adoration in the Chapel Confessions 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Daily in the Chapel Sacristy before 8:20 am prayer; Saturdays 3:30-4:15 pm or by appointment. The Church & Chapel are open daily by 7:30 am. This Week In The Parish: WEEKLY OFFERTORY Mon, Nov 4: 7 pm Bible Study Oct 19/20: $3,578.00 Tues, Nov 5: 9:30 am, Legion of Mary; Online Giving (Oct 21-27): $775.00 10 am, Prayer Shawl Ministry Thank you for your generosity and continued Sun, Nov 10: 9:50 am, Family Formation Class support of the parish! ——————— The Second Offertory for November 9/10 is for Our Garland of Gifts begins in two weekends Church Maintenance. on November 16/17! Help support the Sisters of ——————— Life in their outreach to pregnant women and You Shop. Amazon Gives. Amazon will donate their families as they celebrate the births of 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile their children. Choose a tag from the garland of purchases to St. Marguerite’s by shopping. Enter gifts in the narthex, purchase a new gift, and the following link: https://smile.amazon.com/ return your unwrapped gift to the collection box ch/06-1074254 and donate while shopping! in the narthex by Sunday, December 8. ——————— ——————— Thank you to all who came to the Sodality’s News from Knights of Columbus Council: Sacred Grounds! For more information about - Our Knights of Columbus, Candlewood Lake this women’s service group, please contact Mary Council, will hold a Spaghetti Dinner for Ellen Tiernan at [email protected]. A Seminarians on Saturday, November 16 at flyer about the group’s mission is the narthex. 5:30 pm (immediately following the Vigil Mass) in the Parish Hall. Contributions help fund the Our Bulletin Cover Image is the “Intercession education of two Diocese of Bridgeport of Charles Borromeo supported by the Virgin seminarians. Cost is $20/person and includes Mary” by Johann Michael Rottmayr. Source: salad, bread, spaghetti with meatballs, soda, Wikimedia Commons. coffee/tea and dessert! Kids 10 and under are ——————— free. See the flyer on the bulletin board and on 2020 Calendars are available for purchase in the parish website for information. Please sign the narthex. Cost: $2. up in the Narthex. ——————— - A Mass for deceased Knights will be Intentions for 2020 Masses are now being celebrated on Sunday, November 24 at 11 am. accepted. Contact the Parish Office for dates/ - Christmas Caroling: Sunday, December 22, Masses open for intentions. beginning at 3 pm, all around town. Open to all ——————— singers, male and female, young and old. For The Parish Office will be closed on Monday, info: [email protected]. November 11 in observance of Veteran’s Day. ——————— ——————— Join The Knights Of Columbus, Council Birthright needs you! Their guiding principle is #11913 in Poland: October 12-21, 2020! For “It is the right of every pregnant woman to give information, contact Greg at 203.733.7209 or birth and the right of every child to be born”. [email protected]. Call 1.800.550.4900 to volunteer. MASS INTENTIONS Sat, Nov 9: Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Mon, Nov 4: St. Charles Borromeo 4:30 +Linda Neidhardt by her parents; L/D Members 8:30 +Emilia & Mike Parenti by Maria & George Siliato of St. Marguerite Parish Tues, Nov 5 Sunday, Nov 10: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30 +Claire and Al Geddes 9:00 +Joaquin Carreira by Vida family Wed, Nov 6 11:00 Ints. of Nacinovich family 8:30 +Katherine Dellamarggio by family 5:00 +Rev. Rudy Leveille by Fr. Shawn W. Cutler Thurs, Nov 7 Offering: All Masses-$15; Altar Candles-$20; Sanctuary Candle 8:30 +Patricia Stein by family -$10; Hosts-$15; Sacramental Wine: $10. Intentions for 2020 Fri, Nov 8 Masses are now being accepted. Contact the Parish Office for 8:30 +Michael J. Palica by Barbara Palica available Masses. The Pastor’s Page by Fr. Shawn William Cutler Family Formation question: “Why does Fr. Shawn speak directly into the chalice?” world is nothing but a formless, dark void until God breathes ne of the assignments for the children in our life over the waters and the process of creation is revealed. In Family Formation program asked if they noticed Genesis 2:7, “The Lord God formed man out of the clay of O anything special at Mass on Sundays. Children the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, are always observing! Congratulations to the Felice family: and so man became a living being.” Throughout the Old the abovementioned question concerns the rubrics of the Testament, there are many more instances when God’s Mass. Rubrics are the rules that priests and deacons are breath (who is actually the Holy Spirit) generates life either supposed to follow when Mass is celebrated. We don’t physically or spiritually (as seen in Job, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and “make it up as we go,” as it were. Priests and deacons have the Psalms). to follow certain standards when all the sacraments are However, the high point of the Bible is always the Gospel celebrated, but the Holy Eucharist most especially because it texts because all Sacred Scripture points to Jesus Christ. On is the greatest of the seven sacraments! the night of the Resurrection, He appeared to the frightened As Catholics, we know that the Holy Eucharist, or the disciples in the locked upper room. “Jesus came and stood in Blessed Sacrament, is not bread and wine even though our their midst and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ When He physical senses experience only those two substances. In had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The fact, we know that a change has occurred. That change is disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to called Transubstantiation. We cannot normally experience it them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, with our senses, but because we have faith that God fulfills so I send you.’ And when He had said this, He breathed on His promises, we know with absolute certainty that Holy them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose Communion is the living, glorified, resurrected Body, Blood, sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. retain are retained’” (John 20:19-23). However, how does ordinary bread and wine become the Jesus’ Resurrection re-created the world in the order of Flesh and Blood of Jesus? Two things are necessary for that His grace just as God had created the physical world. Both to happen. First, the Holy Spirit must be called down upon creations involved the Holy Spirit. The Breath of God the the bread and wine. Second, the words of consecration that Father and Jesus, His Son, is the very Person of the Holy Jesus Himself said on the night of the Last Supper (“This is Spirit. Moreover, when the Catholic Church received her My Body…This is My Blood…”) must be said over the visible mission by the Holy Spirit to go into the world elements of bread and wine by a valid priest (either Catholic according to the life of Christ at Pentecost, His action was or Orthodox). accompanied by a “strong, driving wind”—like His breath The calling down of the Holy Spirit is key because it is breathing life into the Church, the Body of Christ, just as He who changes the bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Adam had experienced in Genesis (see Acts 2). Soul, and Divinity of Jesus through the words of the priest. In addition, in the traditional rite of Baptism (always used When the Holy Spirit is called down in the Mass, it is called before 1962 and still used upon request by parents), the the epiclesis. That is why our parish has a dove on the priest greets the infant at the entrance of the church, asks ceiling painted over the altar. It reminds us that the Holy questions about his or her faith, and then breathes on the Spirit will be called down for Transubstantiation to occur. child three times (to symbolize the Trinity) as the infant will The epiclesis occurs at Mass when the priest makes a soon become God’s adopted son or daughter through the circular movement with his hands and then places them pouring of water and the action of the Trinity, including of directly over the bread and wine just before he says the course, the Holy Spirit (who blesses the water for Baptism). words of consecration. That action, accompanied by the Consequently, breathing on the bread and wine as the prayer to God the Father asking Him to send the Holy Spirit words of consecration are pronounced makes perfect sense upon our altar in a special way, reveals to our senses visibly according to the mind of the Church.
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