Saint Parish Millis, Massachusetts

Saint Thomas the Apostle Church Church 82 Exchange Street Rectory 111 Exchange Street Millis, MA 02054 (508) 376-2621 saintthomasparish.org saintthomasapostle@veri- January 24th, 2021

Mass Times Rectory Office Hours Saturday Tuesday-Friday 5:00PM 11:00AM-4:00PM Sunday Church Hours *8:30AM* Monday-Friday *10:30AM (Family Mass)* 8:00AM-8:00PM Saturday Monday-Wednesday 8:00AM-6:30PM *6:30PM* Sunday Thursday-Saturday 8:00AM-2:00PM *9:00AM* Sacraments *Adoration and Confession* For questions regarding First Communion, Marriage, or Annointing of to follow Masses the Sick please call the Rectory Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish Millis, Massachusetts Why is it so difficult to have conver- Announcements sations with those who have different Scripture Study and Lectio Divina – viewpoints than us these days? – Join with us and Fr. Sinisa every Monday We find ourselves in a culture that is becoming from 8:25PM-9:15PM for a short, basic, more and more divided that is growing in easy to understand Scripture study and – meditation! This week’s topic: Christ child demonizing the other side, especially through the in the Temple (LK 2:41-52) media and social media; a culture that is no longer Zoom link found on parish website rational, but impulsive; no longer hompage. Meeting ID: 448-724-5156 open-minded, but reactionary. Why, we may ask? One reason why this evil has been unleashed (as Family – Get your family to the happens in every nation over time) is because we screen and let’s pray together with no longer hold any moral truths to be objective. Fr. Sinisa every Thursday at 7:00PM! Let’s There are many, but one of the main moral truths offer everything to our Lady! For the Zoom link, see above. our society and culture no longer holds is that every human life has dignity, beginning with the Radio Station– For those unable to come unborn. If we cannot see the value of an innocent inside for Mass, please tune into FM 103.1 unborn baby, how can we another with all from the parking lot. Please let their fauls and imperfections? In Massachusetts, someone know if you would like abortion has been expanded to all nine months of Communion brought out to you. pregnancy for mothers as young as 16 years old Red Zone – Please note, Millis is still in without parental consent. With all the technolog- the red zone. ical progress we’ve made, seeing an unborn baby Weekly Parish Offering move through an ultrasound is not enough to de- finitively conclude that an unborn baby has a right Offertory – $ 1,530 to life. Mother Teresa put it best when she said: Online – $ 1,960 “But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace Grand Annual – $ 300 today is abortion, because it is a war against the Maintenence – $ 274 child - a direct killing of the innocent child - Total – $ 4,064 murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how Online Giving can we tell other people not to kill one another?” Please consider signing up for online giving on Peace begins by acknowledging the objective the parish website under Register/Donate! truth that every individual is made in the image and likeness of God from conception until natural death. Once that dignity is recognized, we can then converse with one another through that Truth. Our response today must always be to go to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. An hour spent be- fore our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has more power than any activism we plan. Though action is many times required it, cannot bear fruit without prayer.

Please join us this Friday at St. Thomas Jan- uary 29th, 630pm-8pm, for Eucharistic Ado- ration with Life Music to pray that our culture, society and nation may see that life comes from God and is to be received as a gift from God, who Reading I Reading II Jon 3:1-5, 10 1 Cor 7:29-31 The word of the LORD came to , saying: I tell you, brothers and sisters, the time is running “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, out. and announce to it the message that I will tell From now on, let those having wives act as not you.” having them, So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, those weeping as not weeping, according to the LORD’S bidding. those rejoicing as not rejoicing, Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; those buying as not owning, it took three days to go through it. those using the world as not using it fully. Jonah began his journey through the city, For the world in its present form is passing away. and had gone but a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed,” Gospel when the people of Nineveh believed God; Mk 1:14-20 they proclaimed a fast After John had been arrested, and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth. Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: When God saw by their actions how they turned “This is the time of fulfillment. from their evil way, The kingdom of God is at hand. he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do Repent, and believe in the gospel.” to them; he did not carry it out. As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea; Responsorial Psalm they were fishermen. Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Jesus said to them, R. Teach me your ways, O Lord. “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Then they abandoned their nets and followed him. He walked along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets. Then he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat Mass Intentions along with the hired men and followed him. Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday January 23rd January 24th January 25th January 26th January 27th January 28th January 29th January 30th

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