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725 Deese Street • Monroe, North Carolina 28112

Office: (704) 289-2773 • Fax: (704) 283-7210 E-mail: @ollmonroe.org Parish Website: www.OurLadyMonroe.org Like us on Facebook: Our Lady of Lourdes Monroe

Faith Formation Office: (704) 283-6463

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Father Benjamin will be away this Monday, 22nd, 2021

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There will be no Confessions this Monday, February 22nd, 2021

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RECORD OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR TAX PURPOSES

If you would like a Record of your Contributions to Our Lady of Lourdes for tax purposes, please email Judy at [email protected] so that she can email you the document.

Si desea un registro de sus contribuciones a Nuestra Señora de Lourdes para sus impuestos, envíe un correo electrónico a Judy a [email protected] para que pueda enviarle el documento. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Like us on Facebook: Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Monroe 725 Deese Street, Monroe, NC 28112 Follow us on Twitter @CatholicMonroe

Reverend Father Benjamin A. Roberts, D.Min. - Pastor Parish Registration: If you are new to our parish - Welcome! 704-289-2773 * Emergency 704-776-4977 Please register as soon as possible as registration in a parish is the norm. You must be registered and regularly attending Mass

Reverend Mr. Guillermo Anzola for at least 3 months, demonstrated by the use of envelopes, in Reverend Mr. W. Powers order to enroll in Religious Education programs, begin Reverend Mr. Sidney Huff, retired Reverend Mr. Roland Geoffroy, retired sacramental preparation or to be given a certificate to be a Sandy Sawyer, Assistant for Administration - godparent or sponsor for Baptism or Confirmation.

[email protected] Registración Parroquial: Si es Nuevo a nuestra parroquia - Judy Kerns, Assistant for Finance ¡Bienvenido! Por favor de registrase lo mas pronto posible como Laura Flores, Administrative Assistant - [email protected] la registración en la parroquia es lo normal. Tiene que estar Parish Office 704-289-2773 Fax 704-283-7210 registrado y asistir a Misa regularmente por lo menos tres E-mail address [email protected] meses, demostrado con el uso de los sobres, para poder Address 725 Deese Street, Monroe, NC 28112 inscribirse en los programas de la educación religiosa, empezar la preparación sacramental o para recibir un PARISH OFFICE HOURS certificado para ser padrino del bautismo o la 1:00 - 4:00 pm Monday confirmación 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Tuesday through Friday (Closed for lunch from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm) Regular Mass Participation and Stewardship, regular attendance at Mass and the sharing of one’s time, talent and SUNDAY’S SERMON (Fr. Benjamin’s): treasure identifies a family as a participating member of COPIES - VISIT: http:tolovewiththeheartofchrist.blogspot.com Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. AUDIO - VISIT: http://fatherbhomilies.podbean.com/ Participacion regular a Misa y Mayordomía, la FAITH FORMATION: asistencia regular a Misa y compartiendo el tiempo, talent, y Reverend Mr. Dave Powers, Director - [email protected] Marlene Juarez, Assistant - [email protected] tesoro de uno identifica a una familia como miembro participante de la Iglesia Catolica Nuestra Señora de Lourdes. 704-283-6463 (fax) 704-283-7210 In order to receive the sacraments of First Reconciliation, FAITH FORMATION OFFICE HOURS First Holy Communion or Confirmation here at Our Lady of 9:00 am - 1:30 pm Monday through Thursday Closed Friday Lourdes Catholic Church, ALL sacramental candidates, regardless if they are students in Catholic School, students in FAITH FORMATION CLASSES parish Faith Formation program or are home schooled must

Sunday: Session #1 8:30 am - 9:30 am register annually with the Faith Formation Director and in Tuesday: Session #2 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm accordance with Diocesan guidelines, they must be registered Session #3 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm in our Faith Formation program for at least two years prior to Wednesday: Session #4 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm the reception of these sacraments. Weekly attendance at Session #5 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm Mass is required. WEEKEND MASSES: *First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion are typically received

Saturday Vigil 5:00 p.m. Multilingual (Grotto - weather permitting) by children in the 2nd grade. Confirmation is typically celebrated in (Livestream from Rectory) 8th or 9th grade. Sunday 7:30 a.m. English 10:00 a.m. English (Grotto - weather permitting) Para poder recibir los sacramentos de la Primera 12:00 p.m. Español (Grotto - weather permitting) Reconcilacion, Primera Santisma Comuncion o DAILY MASSES - Grotto (weather permitting): Confirmacion aqui en la Iglesia Catolica de Nuestra Señora de 8:30a.m. Monday, Thursday, Friday Lourdes, todos los candidatos sacramental, sean estudiantes 5:30p.m. Wednesday en una escuela católica, los estudiantes en el programa de CONFESSIONS - Grotto (weather permitting): formación de fe de la parroquia o que reciben educación en el Monday 10:30 am - 12:30 pm hogar deben registrarse anualmente con el Director de Thursday 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm formación de fe y de acuerdo con las reglas diocesanas, deben estar registrados en nuestro programa de formación de fe BAPTISM - Contact Parish Office at least four months in advance. durante al menos dos años antes de recebir de estos BAUTIZO - Comuníquese con la Oficina Parroquial al menos con cuatro meses de anticipación. sacramentos. Se requiere asistencia semanal a la misa. * Los niños en segundo grado tipicamente recibir la Primera MARRIAGES - Contact Parish Office at least six months in advance. Reconciliación y la Primera Comunión. La confirmación MATRIMONIO - Comuníquese con la Oficina Parroquial al menos generalmente se celebra en el octavo o noveno grado. con síes meses de anticipación. 2 Faith Formation Information

Due to considerable financial concerns, we will postpone the registration for New Students for Faith Formation for the 2021-2022 year.

While we cannot determine, as yet, when registration may occur, the following requirements must be met in order for New Students to register: 1. The Family must be registered in the Parish on or before January 21, 2021. 2. The Family must consistently use envelopes for the parish offertory or utilize our online giving option. Consistent use of envelopes is defined as AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH. 3. The consistent use of envelopes or participation in online giving, as defined in requirement #2, for at least the months of February, March, and April 2021 will be used as the basis for registration for the following year. 4. The consistent use of envelopes must continue during the entire time the student is enrolled in our Faith Formation Program. 5. There is NO required amount for the donation. Each family must determine, in accord with the Scriptures and their own conscience and ability, the amount of their contribution to the Church. The use of envelopes demonstrates the presence and commitment of the family to the Parish.

Registration for Current Students will be held in April 2021. Families of current students must meet the following requirements. 1. The Family must consistently use envelopes for the parish offertory or utilize our online giving option. Consistent use of envelopes is defined as AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH. 2. The consistent use of envelopes or participation in online giving, as defined in requirement #1, for the months of January, February, and March 2021 will be used as the basis for registration for the following year. 3. The consistent use of envelopes must continue during the entire time the student is enrolled in our Faith Formation Program. 4. There is NO required amount for the donation. Each family must determine, in accord with the Scriptures and their own conscience and ability, the amount of their contribution to the Church. The use of envelopes demonstrates the presence and commitment of the family to the Parish.

Debido a las preocupaciones financieras considerables, pospondremos la registración de estudiantes nuevos de Formación de Fe para el año de 2021-2022.

Mientras no podemos determinar, todavía, cuando puede ocurrir la registración, los siguientes requisitos se deben cumplir para que los estudiantes nuevos se registren: 1. La familia debe estar registrada en la parroquia desde el 21 de enero o antes. 2. La familia debe estar usando constantemente los sobres de offertorio de la parroquia o utilizando nuestra opción de dar por línea. El uso constante de los sobres se define como AL MENOS DOS VECES AL MES. 3. El uso constante de sobres o la participación en donaciones en línea, como se define en el requisito # 2, durante al menos los meses de febrero, marzo y abril de 2021 se utilizará como base para el registro del año siguiente. 4. El uso constante de sobres debe continuar durante todo el tiempo en que el estudiante esté inscrito en nuestro programa de Formación de Fe. 5. NO hay cantidad requerida para la donación. Cada familia debe determinar, de acuerdo con las Escrituras y su propia conciencia y capacidad, la cantidad de su contribución a la Iglesia. El uso de sobres demuestra la presencia y el compromiso de la familia con la parroquia.

La inscripción para estudiantes actuales se llevará a cabo en abril de 2021. Las familias de los estudiantes actuales deben cumplir con los siguientes requisitos. 1. La familia debe estar usando constantemente los sobres de offertorio de la parroquia o utilizando nuestra opción de dar por línea. El uso constante de los sobres se define como AL MENOS DOS VECES AL MES. 2. El uso constante de sobres o la participación en donaciones en línea, como se define en el requisito # 1, durante al menos los meses de enero, febrero y marzo de 2021 se utilizará como base para el registro del año siguiente. 3. El uso constante de sobres debe continuar durante todo el tiempo en que el estudiante esté inscrito en nuestro programa de Formación de Fe. 4. NO hay cantidad requerida para la donación. Cada familia debe determinar, de acuerdo con las Escrituras y su propia conciencia y capacidad, la cantidad de su contribución a la Iglesia. El uso de sobres demuestra la presencia y el compromiso de la familia con la parroquia.

3 The First Sunday of Lent Offertory Collection Report February 21, 2021 February 07, 2021 Offertory – Budget/Goal $12,051.00 Mass Schedule - Mass Intentions Saturday, 5:00pm 1st Collection $1,514.25 Sunday, 10:00am 1st Collection $1,178.00 Vigil: Saturday, February 20 12:00pm 1st Collection $1,830.00 5:00 pm For the People of the Parish Mail Ins 1st Collection $2,642.11 Sunday, February 21 First Collection Total $7,164.36 7:30 am Intentions Entrusted to the Perpetual Novena for Healing Second Collection/DSA $15.00 10:00 am For the Sick Total First/Second Collection $7,179.00 12:00 pm For the Faithful Departed Maintenance $727.00 Monday, February 22 The Chair of Peter the Apostle ONLINE GIVING Collection Report NO MASS February 1 - February 7, 2021 Tuesday, February 23 Offertory – Budget/Goal $12,051.00 Saint Offertory $1,138.00 8:30 am NO MASS Second Collection/DSA $29.00 Wednesday, February 24 Maintenance $20.00 5:30 pm † Guadalupe Imelda Felipe By the Hidalgo Family Thursday, February 25 8:30 am † Dr Celestino Perez Please pray for the happy repose of By Rudy and Jacky Ganzon Friday, February 26 the soul of 8:30 am † Francis Apossi Stephanie Cripe By Bill and Carol Draper Vigil: Saturday, February 27 May she rest in peace. 5:00 pm For the People of the Parish Sunday, February 28 7:30 am Intentions Entrusted to the Perpetual Novena for Healing 10:00 am For the Faithful Departed 12:00 pm For the Sick PERPETUAL NOVENA FOR HEALING: for all the intentions entrusted to the intercessions of Our Lady of Lourdes for physical healing, St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe for freedom from addictions to drugs, alcohol, and other harmful behaviors, and to St. Dymphna to help those who suffer from depression, mental Please pray for the happy repose of illness, neurological disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. the soul of Neal Hess May he rest in peace.

We are pleased to announce that online contributions are now available. The Online Giving program from OUR SICK: Lonnie Hill, Katy James, Leonard Our Sunday Visitor (our collection envelope provider) is a simple and safe way to give online. Baglia, Gene Allen, Martha Henshaw, Christopher Ayers, Joan Miller, Diana Mifsud, Irene Patrus, Go to: osvhub.com/our-lady-of-lourdescc/funds Steven Logiudice, Hollymarie Britt, If you have any questions, please call or email Sandy Yosief, John and Judy Walsh, Valerie Ybarzabal, Theresa at 704-289-2773 or [email protected] Durbin, June Ross, Lester Stewart, Liliana Zambrano, Mary Thank you for your generous support! Anne Norton, Deacon Reyes, and Don Bristle. OUR ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY: Robert Geoffroy, Matthew Geoffroy, Morgan Ryan, Bradle and Joshua Bradle. To view the weekly bulletin for Our Lady of Lourdes online, visit: ebulletin.jspaluch.com Enter the church zip code - 28112 Prayer Requests Requests made for prayers for the sick or active duty military must be CLICK on "Search" made by the person or immediate family member only. Names of the sick CLICK on “Parish Info" will remain in the bulletin for one month - active duty military for one year, CLICK on "View" or "Download" to view the bulletin unless you notify the Church office that the name should be removed or 4 remain longer. Thank you.

DEACON’S CORNER Send your questions to [email protected] using Mass Schedule: “Deacon’s Corner” in the “subject line” or leave at the parish office to my attention. WEEKEND MASSES Lent Saturday Vigil 5:00pm Multilingual It is that time of year again when the Church asks us to become Grotto - weather permitting introspective and figure out some things about what we must do to become closer to Jesus. We are asked to really take a good look at ourselves to understand what might get in the way of Sunday 7:30am our relationship with Jesus and once we see how we live our English lives – what actions we do that we should not or what inactions that stifle us when we know we should act but do not. Livestream from Rectory

Then once we look at our lives honestly and deeply, what Sunday 10:00am changes can we make to set aside our weakest habits and strengthen those areas of our lives that make us grow closer to English Jesus. Often, we might give up something we love or at least Grotto - weather permitting like to do or eat or drink during lent to give us discipline in hopes that whatever sacrifice we make will strengthen us and Sunday 12:00pm make us better people. Spanish I do not knock giving up things for lent – in fact, that is what I Grotto - weather permitting have done for most of the Lenten periods in my life. When I am done at the end of the 40 days, it is like I say to Jesus, look what I did, and I am looking for a pat on the back or a gold star DAILY MASSES or some sort of recognition for my actions. But have I really Monday, Thursday, Friday grown closer to Jesus because I gave up desserts during 8:30am - English lent? If that is all I do, I submit that I have not grown any closer to Him. Grotto - weather Permitting

To me, one way to grow closer to Jesus is to get to know Him Wednesday in the scriptures. Saint teaches us that ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Jesus. We cannot grow closer to 5:30pm - English someone we do not know. The Old Testament points to Jesus Grotto - weather permitting and the fulfills the Old by teaching us who Jesus is and how His life and death and resurrection impacts ♦ us. CONFESSIONS So, my dear sisters and brothers at Our Lady of Lourdes, I recommend three items for you and me to try this Lenten Monday 10:30am - 12:30pm season: 1. Read the scriptures. Pick out a for example and read a part of it every day for the duration of lent. 2. Figure Thursday 5:30 - 7:00pm out one thing that you would like to change in your life, a habit Grotto - weather permitting you want to break for example or some other exercise of the will, and work on it for lent. 3. Pray more – talk to God every day and take some quiet time to listen to Him too. PRAYER OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION If we do these things or perhaps some other spiritual exercise, My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the most we will grow closer to Jesus and that is the ultimate goal of the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I de- season of lent. Have a blessed lent and let us pray for one an- sire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now re- other. ceive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and Blessings, Deacon Dave unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.

5 First Sunday of Lent Gn 9:8-15

God said to and to his sons with him: “See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you: all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals that were with you and came out of the ark. I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth.” God added: “This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come, of the covenant between me and you and every living creature with you: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I will recall the covenant I have made between me and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all mortal beings.”

1 Pt 3:18-22

Beloved: Christ suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit. In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water. This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.

Mk 1:12-15

The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.

After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”

6 I Domingo de Cuaresma Gn 9, 8-15

En aquellos días, dijo Dios a Noé y a sus hijos: “Ahora establezco una alianza con ustedes y con sus descendientes, con todos los animales que los acompañaron, aves, ganados y fieras, con todos los que salieron del arca, con todo ser viviente sobre la tierra. Ésta es la alianza que establezco con ustedes: No volveré a exterminar la vida con el diluvio, ni habrá otro diluvio que destruya la tierra”.

Y añadió: “Ésta es la señal de la alianza perpetua que yo establezco con ustedes y con todo ser viviente que esté con ustedes. Pondré mi arco iris en el cielo como señal de mi alianza con la tierra, y cuando yo cubra de nubes la tierra, aparecerá el arco iris y me acordaré de mi alianza con ustedes y con todo ser viviente. No volverán las aguas del diluvio a destruir la vida”.

1 Pt 3, 18-22

Hermanos: Cristo murió, una sola vez y para siempre, por los pecados de los hombres; él, el justo, por nosotros, los injustos, para llevarnos a Dios; murió en su cuerpo y resucitó glorificado. En esta ocasión, fue a proclamar su mensaje a los espíritus encarcelados, que habían sido rebeldes en los tiempos de Noé, cuando la paciencia de Dios aguardaba, mientras se construía el arca, en la que unos pocos, ocho personas, se salvaron flotando sobre el agua. Aquella agua era figura del bautismo, que ahora los salva a ustedes y que no consiste en quitar la inmundicia corporal, sino en el compromiso de vivir con una buena conciencia ante Dios, por la resurrección de Cristo Jesús, Señor nuestro, que subió al cielo y está a la derecha de Dios, a quien están sometidos los ángeles, las potestades y las virtudes.

Mc 1, 12-15

En aquel tiempo, el Espíritu impulsó a Jesús a retirarse al desierto, donde permaneció cuarenta días y fue tentado por Satanás. Vivió allí entre animales salvajes, y los ángeles le servían.

Después de que arrestaron a Juan el Bautista, Jesús se fue a Galilea para predicar el Evangelio de Dios y decía: “Se ha cumplido el tiempo y el Reino de Dios ya está cerca. Arrepiéntanse y crean en el Evangelio”.

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