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Trinity Sunday Saint Rafka Maronite Church Is a Catholic Mission of the Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn Saint Rafka Catholics of the East in the Upstate! May 30, 2021 Volume 20, Number 31 1 Trinity Sunday Saint Rafka Maronite Church is a Catholic Mission of the Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn. The Antiochene Syriac Maronite Church is one of over twenty Eastern and Oriental Catholic Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome. Led by His Beatitude, Bechara Boutros Rai, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East in Bkerke, Lebanon, the Syro-Maronite Church has parishes and missions on six continents. Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, NY, Most Rev. Gregory John Mansour, Bishop 109 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, 718.237.9913. [email protected] Saint Rafka Maronite Catholic Church Father Bartholomew Leon Administrator 1215 S. Highway 14 Greer, SC 864.469.9119 [email protected] [email protected] Joseph Chebeir Financial Secretary 864.469.9119 [email protected] Choir Organist Maronite Religious Education Scott Herr, Director Charles VanNorden Alex Roman-Gabriel 2 DIVINE LITURGIES To initiate the marriage preparation process or if The Divine Liturgy is celebrated on you have questions for weddings taking place at Saturday, 4 PM Saint Rafka. Contact the Church Office. Sunday, 11 AM, 7 PM Wednesday, 7 PM, Thursday and Friday, 5:30 PM PARISH REGISTRATION Other liturgies as scheduled. Registration forms and welcome packets are available in the church office and the vestibule. MASS INTENTIONS Membership is a condition for the reception of the Mass intentions are a good way to remember and sacraments of baptism/confirmation, first pray for your loved ones, alive or deceased. reconciliation, first Eucharist, and Crowning If you would like to request an intention please (marriage). Registration is also required before the remember to submit your intentions for Liturgy parish can issue a sponsorship certificate for those ASAP by calling the parish office at 864.469.9119 asked to be sacramental sponsors. You must be a or by email at [email protected]. Please registered, contributing member for at least three remember that it is rare to be able to have your months before a certificate is provided. intention the following Sunday! Masses are now generally booked up about three months in COFFEE SOCIALS advance. If you would like to sponsor a Coffee Social In Memory Of or In Honor Of someone, please call BAPTISM & CHRISMATION or email the Church Office to let us know. Baptism in the Maronite Rite is always accompanied by Chrismation (Confirmation). Both Sacraments are WICKETT HALL AND ASHY PAVILION given by a priest, and always in the same ceremony. Wickett Hall and Ashy Pavilion can be used by our Preparation to receive the Sacraments of Baptism registered and supporting parishioners for family and Chrismation is required. We encourage this to events, reunions, etc. Others may request happen before the birth of your child. Please permission to rent the Hall or Pavilion. Please contact the Church Office for more details. contact the Church Office. RECONCILIATION (CONFESSION) MARONITE RESOURCES Reconciliation is available to all at Saint Rafka. The Daily readings for the Divine Liturgy. Cry Room near the entrance to the Church is where Daily morning prayer and evening prayer of the we normally hear confessions. The Cry Room has Divine Office here. only face to face confession. Times •Wednesdays: 6:30 – 6:50 PM MARONITE SISTERS •Saturday: 3:15 PM – 3:50 PM A video on the Maronite Servants on YouTube. •Sunday: 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM •Of course, by appointment. TRAVELING AND NEED TO GO TO MASS? Where to go to Mass when traveling? Look here! ANOINTING OF THE SICK MassTimes.org The Anointing of the Sick is routinely offered during The Catholic Directory the Divine Liturgy on Wednesday evening and during pastoral visits by the priest to homebound and ill parishioners. Let me know if you will be in the hospital or have other special needs. Contact the Church Office. THE MYSTERY OF CROWNING (MARRIAGE) Couples must contact the pastor at least six months prior to the desired date of the wedding. 409 Mills Ave STE 201 Greenville, SC 29605 3 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION – First Holy Communion Preparation Is your child ready for the reception of First Penance and Holy Communion? Parishioner Alex Roman- Gabriel, a professional educator, has volunteered to teach in our religious education program. Other children, post Holy Communion, are also welcome to these classes. Contact Alex at 803.646.4680. Classes are held on Saturday mornings at 9:00 AM during the school year by Google Meet. YOUTH MINISTRY Teenagers are invited to join our Maronite Youth Organization, aka MYO. Contact Lisa Advent [email protected] for more information. PRAYERS AND SQUARES A prayer ministry that involves making prayer quilts and prayer squares for those facing medical, spiritual, emotional difficulties, or anyone in the Parish that is active duty military. Come out and learn. Tuesdays 9:30 - Ramsho and Blessing With the Relics of the 12 Noon, Saad Cottage. Maronite Saints Ramsho (Evening Prayer), prayers and blessing ARABIC/ESL CLASSES with the relics of Saints Rafka, Sharbel, Want to learn English or Arabic? Join Mona Nimtuallah and the Blessed Massabki Ayoub Ashi along with Alex Roman-Gabriel and Brothers. Every Tuesday at 6:30 PM. Please the class on Friday evenings at 6 PM in Francis join us in intercessory prayer. House. All invited! Shrine of the Persecuted Christians in the PARISH DIRECTORY United States. Video here. Saint Rafka Parish Directory Online. First time to the site? Register here. Call Joe for help first. Already registered? Click here. IN DEFENSE OF CHRISTIANS IDF Individuals banning together help and make know the plight of the Christians in the Middle East and their suffering. SAINT RAFKA FOOD PANTRY Established earlier this year, the Saint Rafka Food Pantry is for those who need immediate food assistance. Need food? Call the church office or come by, 10 AM - 2 PM. You can also email Marie Kidd who is coordinating this project. All gifts of food are anonymous. Donations of food are accepted either at the Church Office or the back of the church. 4 Scripture Readings Further Meditation Romans 11:25-36 So that you may not claim to be wiser than you I Maccabees 1: 10-15; 41-43; 50 are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand There sprang from these a sinful offshoot, this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Antiochus Epiphanes, son of King Antiochus, once Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has a hostage at Rome. He became king in the one come in. And so all Israel will be saved; as it is hundred and thirty-seventh year* of the kingdom of written, ‘Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he the Greeks. In those days there appeared in Israel will banish ungodliness from Jacob.’ ‘And this is transgressors of the law who seduced many, my covenant with them, when I take away their saying: “Let us go and make a covenant with the sins.’ As regards the gospel they are enemies of Gentiles all around us; since we separated from God for your sake; but as regards election they are them, many evils have come upon us.” The beloved, for the sake of their ancestors; for the proposal was agreeable; some from among the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Just as people promptly went to the king, and he you were once disobedient to God but have now authorized them to introduce the ordinances of the received mercy because of their disobedience, so Gentiles. Thereupon they built a gymnasium in they have now been disobedient in order that, by Jerusalem according to the Gentile custom. They the mercy shown to you, they too may now disguised their circumcision and abandoned the receive mercy. For God has imprisoned all in holy covenant; they allied themselves with the disobedience so that he may be merciful to all. O Gentiles and sold themselves to wrongdoing. Then the depth of the riches and wisdom and the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his should be one people, and abandon their judgements and how inscrutable his ways! ‘For particular customs. All the Gentiles conformed to who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has the command of the king, and many Israelites been his counsellor?’ ‘Or who has given a gift to delighted in his religion; they sacrificed to idols him, to receive a gift in return?’ For from him and and profaned the sabbath. Whoever refused to act through him and to him are all things. To him be according to the command of the king was to be the glory forever. Amen. put to death. Matthew 28:16-20 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’ 5 Other Sponsors WCKI 1300 AM www.catholicradioinsc.com Saint Rafka Council #15519 2nd Monday of the Month, 7 PM, Wickett Hall 6 Liturgical Readings Romans 11:25-36 Matthew 28:16-20 English Heather Sijon Arabic Ramiz Askar Mass Intentions May 22 - 23 Holy Trinity Sunday 4 PM +Beverly Ann Nally, 40 Day Memorial Shawn Nally and Family 11 AM Tom and Este Rudski Marie Kidd 7 PM +Fred Adams Anonymous Wednesday, 7 PM Hayden Vaverek Anonymous Thursday, 5:30 PM Gloria Kasrscthner Anonymous Friday, 5:30 PM Gary & Dottie Towery Anonymous May 29 - 30 3rd Pentecost 4 PM +Christine Fowler Tom & Helen Zeimetz 11 AM Slusz Family Marie Kidd 7 PM Intentions of the Parishioners Wednesday, 7 PM Joseph Chebeir and Family Anonymous Thursday, 5:30 PM Bill Leon and Family Anonymous Friday, 5:30 PM +Eloise Shower Tom & Helen Zeimetz First ThursdayMaronite Pasta Religious Supper Education (MRE) Saint Rafka’s Ladies Guild Do you have children ready to prepare for First Communion? Have your children finished their Sacraments The Ladies Guild of Saint RafkaThursday, Church of InitiationJune but 3, want 2021 to continue learning? Children’s host their Scripture Sharing group.
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