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February 28, 2021—2Nd Sunday of Lent February 28, 2021—2nd Sunday of Lent As disciples of Jesus, we look for God present in all things, that we might LOVE him and SERVE him in all things. SAINT THOMAS MORE CHURCH & SCHOOL 636 W Ponce de Leon Ave Decatur, Georgia 30030-2951 www.stmgaparish.org PARISH OFFICE Phone: 404-378-4588 Fax: 404-378-0506 Email: [email protected] Mon. - Fri. 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Closed for Lunch 12-12:30 PM SCHOOL 404-373-8456 MASS, CONFESSION & STATIONS OF THE CROSS EMERGENCY NUMBER Weekend Masses during Lent will be held as usual. 678-337-8910 Weekday Masses during Lent: SCHEDULE OF MASSES Mon. - Fri. at 12:15pm and 5:30pm SATURDAY 5:30 PM (Vigil) Confessions during Lent: SUNDAY Saturdays from 4pm-5pm 9:00 AM, 10:15 AM Wednesdays from 7pm-8pm—Family Room (Outdoor, weather permitting, in the gym in the Stations of the Cross: event of bad weather), Begin after the 5:30pm mass on Fridays. A livestream will also be 11:30 AM, & 5:30 PM MON—FRI available at stmgaparish.org/livestreams/ 12:15 PM LENTEN EVENING OF REFLECTION RECONCILIATION Sunday, March 7 at 7:00pm—ZOOM Saturday 4:00 to 5:00 PM Spend an evening with the Lord as we reflect on the themes of the or by appointment Lenten season. There will be optional sharing at the end. Sign up NURSERY AVAILABLE at stmgaparish.org/adultfaith. DURING Due to COVID-19, the nursery will be closed until OUR LENTEN CALL TO LOVE further notice. In his most recent encyclical, Pope Francis reminds us that “Our call to love [is] one that transcends all prejudices, all historical and cultural barriers, all petty interests” (Fratelli Tutti 83). Throughout Lent, let us pray for converted hearts, committed to care for both Report suspected abuse by our fellow human beings and our common home. The Social Justice Church employees and volunteers to the committee has selected a prayer to be read each Sunday during Archdiocesan 24-hour Abuse Lent at the end of the general intercessions. We invite you to Reporting Hotline: continue praying with it throughout the week. Continued on page 7. 1-888-437-0764 PRAYER REQUESTS STAFF Fr. Mark Horak, S.J., Pastor [email protected] At the weekday Masses this coming week, the presider will Fr. Tim Stephens, S.J., Parochial Vicar remember the following persons in his personal, private prayer [email protected] along with all the living and dead. We encourage parishioners to say the names of deceased loved ones aloud during the Carol Palmer, Business Manager “General Intercessions” if invited to do so by the presider. [email protected] Andy Otto, Adult Faith Formation Mon., March 1 Harold Mulherin † [email protected] Tues., March 2 Kay Lisicia † Thurs., March 4 Sissy Perry † Sarah Otto, Pastor's Liaison to the STM Social Justice Fri., March 5 Andrew French † Committee, [email protected] Pray for those who have died: Stewart Voegtlin, Youth Faith Formation Charlotte Collins, parishioner and staff member, [email protected] condolences can be sent to St Thomas More Church, 636 Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur, GA 30030 Joe Messina, Director of Worship [email protected] Jim Davis, parishioner and husband of Karyl Davis Condolences can be sent to Karyl Davis c/o St Thomas Todd Hines, Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds More Church, 636 Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur, GA 30030 [email protected] Mitu Assefa and Darija Pichanick, Administrative Pray for those who are sick: Assistants, [email protected] Corky Pagoria Danny Rockecharlie Shelly Stafford, Communications [email protected] Pray for those who received their First Eucharist: Gabe Lora, Jack Bufe, Chandler Merck and Ronin Krall Brian McMichael, Director of Parish Athletics [email protected] If you would like to have an intention mentioned in an intercession at Mass, please contact the parish office at Carl and Fran McColman, RCIA Coordinators 404-378-4588. We will not accept any gift in return for [email protected] praying for someone by name during the intercessions at Mass. In order to add a name to these lists, you must be Shaun Bland, Principal, STM School either the person seeking prayers, an immediate relative of [email protected] the one to be remembered, or have the express permission of the one to be remembered. STM PARISH COUNCIL MEMBERS The STM Parish Council is a group of active parishioners who advise Fr. Mark regarding significant parish matters pertaining to parish identity, mission, and ministries. Present members are: Cass Catroppa, Paul Blackstone , Juliette Johnson, Chris Marquardt, Mesrak Nadew, Steve Siler, Sujad Quinn, Terresa Ford, and Elizabeth Small. Parishioners who wish to communicate directly with Council members can do so at: [email protected]. UPCOMING ACTIVITIES Wed., March 3 Fratelli Tutti Study—7:30pm to 9:00pm—Zoom Thurs., March 4 Signs of Life Lenten Series—7:30pm to 8:30 pm—Zoom Sat., March 6 Tai Chi—7:30am to 10:30am—Mulhern Hall Sun., March 7 Red Cross Blood Drive—8:00am to 1:00pm—Mulhern Hall RCIA First Scrutiny—9:00am to 10:00am—Church Lenten Evening of Reflection—7:00pm to 8:30pm—Zoom FROM THE PASTOR Below is an article that appeared in the February 17 issue of So what is to be done? This Lent presents us with an the Catholic periodical, Commonweal. Parishioners may opportunity to examine the desert that we have been find it helpful as we navigate through this unusual Lent. living in for the past year. If Church leaders and institutions wish to lead us in our Lenten spiritual Perpetual Lent: The pandemic is already a period of journey, it is imperative that they unequivocally mourning. acknowledge the seriousness of the times and the By Claudia Avila Cosnahan horrors the pandemic has wrought. They need to provide opportunities for people to unpack the Every Lenten season is ushered in with the reading traumas of lost livelihood, lost loved ones, racism, and from the prophet Joel 2: 12–13, return to me with your xenophobia. They need to raise up their voices and whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; recommit to a pastoral, merciful, and spiritual rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the engagement with the body politic, lest the Church lose Lord, your God. How does one enter a time of fasting, itself in political divisions. To not do this would be a weeping, and rending of hearts when you feel like disservice to those in need of healing and justice; a you’ve already been in one for so long—when COVID- disservice to those in need of conversion, because they 19, racism, xenophobia, political drama, ecclesial have hardened their hearts and refused to accept the division, and the Capitol insurrection have kept us in a truth of our social ailments; and a disservice to state of mourning and weeping for the past year? The everyone in between. Our Lenten promises, practices, pandemic closed many parishes during the Lenten and ministries should orient us toward these aims. season of 2020, and even though the liturgical seasons have come and gone, I find myself—and I’d wager that I always keep the end in mind when I begin my Lenten many are with me—in a state of perpetual Lent. journey: the grace of Easter. Although I may currently find myself in an emotional state of perpetual Lent, As I’m bombarded with reminders on social media that there have been glimpses of the resurrection, moments Lent is upon us, I’ve observed a spiritual disconnect. of joy and hope. In a way, an unexpected grace of this The way that our Catholic institutions are inviting us to past year has been a heightened awareness that life is enter this season makes it sound like it’s liturgical in fact a season of Lent with glimmers of divine business as usual. Posts on how to prepare for Lent incarnation, death, and resurrection. When Lent invites read like pro-forma templates, statements that in us to enter the desert—to return to God with our whole choosing not to address the problems of the day can’t heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning—it is help but fail to inspire. I see Mass and service times actually an invitation to recognize that we are already posted for Ash Wednesday with small caveats about there, because there is suffering and injustice some- continued parish restrictions; since I live in Los Angeles, where. one of the cities hit hardest by the pandemic, I know that I will not be receiving ashes this year. Yet I’m not as As I said in a homily a couple weeks ago, let us move disappointed about it as I might have been a year ago. through this Lenten season thinking creatively how we In this moment, these social-media posts can leave us might pray, give alms, and fast. I bet we can come up with feeling unseen and unheard by the very Church that is Lenten practices that provide a positive benefit to persons entrusted to walk with its people. Our personal and who are struggling during this pandemic, practices that collective concerns require attention, acknowledgement, assure them that they are not alone, that Jesus is with them and accompaniment. It is not Lent as usual. in our love and care. Church leaders cannot blithely ask hard-hit Fr. Mark communities to consider fasting and almsgiving as unemployment rates rise and families struggle to meet expenses and put food on the table. How can we speak of mourning and weeping as a liturgical spiritual shift when the more than 485,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19 have left behind so many who already mourn and weep—not only loved ones, but also health -care professionals who serve the dying in their final moments? We have been mourning, we have been weeping.
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