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Saint Margaret Mary Parish 845 H Igh S Treet , P.O SAINT MARGARET MARY PARISH 845 H IGH S TREET , P.O. B OX 386 WESTWOOD , MA 02090 OFFICE 781-326-1071 F AX 781-329-1879 www.saintmmparish.org SIXTH S UNDAY IN O RDINARY T IME F EBRUARY 17, 2019 A3_J`J: ! Rev. Robert Cullen R Ext. 103 ! PJ7 J` 7J37`-7: ! Rev. W. Chris Palladino J.C.L ! D7-` E_7J: ! Rev. Mr. Joseph E. Holderried ! DJ7- A FJG F_J` ! F CGJY37` YG: Karlene Duffy R Ext. 101 ! R7YJBJ E3-J` ! A3_J`JJ*7 AJ`: ! Denise Ra ery R Ext. 102 ! DJ7- A _J-/YJB1: ! Mark Nemeskal R Ext. 111 ! PY AJ` ! Brian Cullen R E xt. 107 ! PJG A3_J`JJ*7 AJ`: ! Gina Semensi R Ext. 100 ! OAAJ-7 H: ! M`31 R FJ31 ! 9:30 AM R 5:00 PM ! __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ! ! M S-G73Y7: ! ! Saturday: 4:30 PM Sunday: 10:00 AM & 6:00 PM ! Weekdays: 9:00 AM Monday R Friday ! C`A7J`: ! Saturday 3:45 R 4:15 PM ! ! BJ_: Second Sunday of the month at 12:00 PM. Contact the office. ! PY C7 A G7 SJ-W: Contact the office for a visit to the homebound/sick. ! ! 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Dear Friends in Christ, ! I’ve always had a bit of a rebellious side. Something in my nature has always made me feel like if everyone did something one way, I wanted to find another way to do it. Or to root for the underdog. Growing up in New York, my whole family are Yankee fans, so as a young kid, Polycarp was probably born in the mid Rlate first century, most likely in I decided I’d be a Mets fan. As a teenager, I remember Smyrna (in modern Turkey). According to credible Irenaeus, Tertullian that I once wanted to die my hair blue, just for shock and Jerome, Polycarp was a disciple of the apostle John. Jerome also value, I guess. (No, I never did!) Years ago it was shocking claims that John ordained Polycarp as bishop of Smyrna. In the account to see someone with different colored hair, or mulple of Polycarp’s martyrdom wrien by the church of Smyrna, Polycarp piercings or taoos, and yet today, we barely blink our states that he had served Christ for 86 years, indicang that he was eyes. What was once counter cultural is now the norm. either raised in a Chrisan family or converted as a very young man. He Someme a er I returned to the Church in my late 20s, it met with the martyr Ignaus of Anoch on his journey to Rome around occurred to me just how different that was from the 110 AD and corresponded with him through many leers. Polycarp also route my peers had taken. Being a Catholic in New wrote a leer to the Philippians, which is significant for its extensive England not that long ago was the norm. Being a Catholic references and quotaons from the scriptures that later came to compose the New Testament. He was likely a person of some here and now is counter cultural. ! importance in the Church in Asia Minor, as Irenaeus claims that We’re in good company though! The Prophet Jeremiah, Polycarp met with Anicetus, the Bishop of Rome (around 150 or 160 who we hear from in the first reading knew this all too AD), in order to discuss differences between the churches of Asia and well. Chosen by God to remind the Israelites of the Rome, parcularly the date of the celebraon of Easter. The Asian Covenant to them while they parcipated in idolatry of churches at that me followed the custom of celebrang Easter on the false gods did not win Jeremiah many friends. Instead, it 14th of Nissan (the first day of Passover), regardless of what day of the led to imprisonment, torture, exile and likely his death. week it fell on; the Roman church followed the pracce of celebrang Jeremiah trusted in the promise God made to him: Easter on the first Sunday a er the beginning of Passover. While the “Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is two bishops quickly came to accord on many of the quesons under in the Lord.” Saint Paul, all the Apostles and twenty discussion, they decided that each would connue to follow their own centuries worth of martyrs faced the same lot for their customs regarding the date of Easter, without breaking off communion with the other. Shortly a er his trip to Rome, Polycarp was executed, witness in spreading the Good News of the Risen Christ. along with several other members of the church of Smyrna. The elderly They, of course, did so in imitaon of the Lord Jesus bishop inially fled the city to a country estate in order to escape whose life was a fulfillment of all of the prophets. Jesus capture; however, a er receiving a vision, which he interpreted as might be the ulmate example of living counter predicng his martyrdom, he waited there to be arrested. A er having culturally. Throughout the Gospels we hear His family been granted an hour to pray by those who came to seize him, Polycarp members queson if He’s gone crazy. Some of the first was brought to the stadium to be burned at the stake. However, the disciples walk away a er hearing Jesus call Himself the fire refused to harm him and he was eventually stabbed to death. His Bread of Life. Ulmately, the leading religious authories martyrdom is significant because it is one of the earliest extant and is of the day carried out their plan to kill Jesus, who me the first to use the term “martyr” to refer to someone who has died for and again called them out for their hypocrisy. ! professing the Chrisan faith (as opposed to simply meaning “witness”). ! The Beatudes, which makes up today’s Gospel reading, Polycarp served Christ faithfully through a very long life, shepherding don’t make sense to today’s world. How could someone the church of Smyrna, resolving disputes within the larger Chrisan be blessed if they ’r e poor, hungry or hated? Famous community, and eventually giving his life for refusing to renounce his author G.K Chesterton once said “Jesus promised His faith. His witness is parcularly important in demonstrang how the disciples three things T that they would be completely Church grew in the years following the death of the apostles, fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.” Yes, maintaining and preserving the teaching of those who knew Jesus the Lord Jesus commands us to take up our Cross daily personally. The account of Polycarp’s martyrdom emphasizes a number and face the hardships and persecuons that come from of parallels between his death and the passion narraves from the living counter culturally as His followers, but we do so in Gospels.
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