Holy January 10, 2021 Redeemer
Catholic Church
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bulletin@hrsken.org Holy Redeemer School 3019423701 Holy Redeemer Rectory 3019422333 Fax 3019424981 Fax 3019421041 Mrs. Thomas Corrigan, Principal 3016797112 Rev. Mark F. Hughes, Pastor Mrs. Hilary Shaw, Admin. Assistant 3019423701 and Admissions Coordinator Rev. Ebuka Mbanude, Parochial Vicar Mrs. Lorrie Ricca, Admin. Assistant 3019423701 [email protected] School Nurse 3016797111 Rev. Mark Tucker, Priest in Residence After Care 3016797110 Holy Redeemer PreK 3019422567 Deacon Stephen Mitchell Debbie Monahan, Administrator Mrs. Blanca Douki, Finance Officer Mrs. Jen Kestel, Office Manager CCD Program j.kestel@hrsken.org Kindergarten through 8th grade, call the Religious Education Office for more information at Mrs. Marylou McDonald, DRE m.mcdonald@hrsken.org m.mcdonald@hrsken.org Mr. Bert Conger, Parish Facilities Manager Mr. Joseph M. Ryan, Director of Music and Liturgy Mr. Paul Ostrye, Finance Council Chair j.ryan@hrsken.org or 3019228215 Baptisms Mrs. Catherine Tolnay M RCIA For Baptism information contact Fr, Ebuka Mbanude at 3019422333 or email him [email protected] to arrange dates and times for preparation and the Sunday Masses ceremony Saturday: 5:30 PM Sunday: 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 AM Marriages Consult one of the parish priests at least six months in advance, call 3019422333. Weekday Masses MondayFriday: 6:45 AM & 9:00 AM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday: 8:30 AM Monday M Friday 5:00PMN8:30 PM Exposition at 5:00 PM Holy Day of Obligation Masses Reposition at 8:30PM 6:45 AM, 9:00 AM and 7:30 PM Rosary Unless stated otherwise in the bulletin 6:25 AM and 8:40 AM Monday MFriday Confessions Nursing Home or Homebound? Please contact the Saturday 4:15 M 5:15 PM or by appointment rectory for information regarding Parish services. Hȿȼɉ RȵȴȵȵȽȵɂ CȸɅɂȳȸ KȵȾɃȹȾȷɄȿȾ, MD
The Baptism of the Lord January 10, 2021 Requested by SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 Fr. E 8:30 AM Shirley Kirchner M&R Brisbane Fr. T 5:30 PM Tullia Baker EasbySmith BAPTISM OF THE LORD SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 Fr. H 7:30 AM Mary Louise Salem Kirvan Fr. E 9:30 AM Allan Cassidy Slater Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Fr. E/M 11:30 AM Parishioners Pastor Baptism of Our Lord. This brings to an end the season of Christmas. The Church recalls Our MONDAY, JANUARY 11 Lord's second manifestation or epiphany which Fr. E 6:45 AM Mike Moffatt Adams occurred on the occasion of His baptism in the Fr. T 9:00 AM Int. of Sheena Gary M. Priest Jordan. Jesus descended into the River to sanc- TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 tify its waters and to give them the power to be- Fr. H 6:45 AM Anne Kilcullen Adams get sons of God. The event takes on the im- Fr. T 9:00 AM Mary Kestel Ostrye portance of a second creation in which the entire Trinity intervenes. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 Fr. E 6:45AM Jeremiah Collins Carlin In the Eastern Church this feast is called The- Fr. H 9:00 AM A. Victor Khayat, M.D.Waters ophany because at the baptism of Christ in the River Jordan God appeared in three persons. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14 The baptism of John was a sort of sacramental Fr. H 6:45 PM Anne Kilcullen Carlin preparatory for the Baptism of Christ. It moved Fr. T 9:00 PM Margaretha Price Smith men to sentiments of repentance and induced FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 them to confess their sins. Christ did not need Fr. H 6:45AM Dr. Charles Broring McDonald the baptism of John. Although He appeared in Fr. E 9:00 AM Caroline Gaiser O’Boyle the "substance of our flesh" and was recognized "outwardly like unto ourselves", He was abso- SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 lutely sinless and impeccable. He conferred up- Fr. H 8:30 AM Betty Price Conger on the water the power of the true Baptism which Fr. E/M5:30 PM Tillie Baker Sexton would remove all the sins of the world: "Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him Who takes away SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME the sin of the world". SUNDAY, JANUARY 17 Fr. E/M 7:30 AM Mary Kestel L&S Kennedy Many of the incidents which accompanied Fr. H 9:30 AM Parishioners Pastor Christ's baptism are symbolical of what hap- Fr. H11:30 AM John Edward Silk Jr. Silk pened at our Baptism. At Christ's baptism the H = Fr. Hughes Fr. T= Fr. Tucker ; Fr. E= Fr. Ebuka; Holy Spirit descended upon Him; at our Baptism M = Deacon Mitchell. the Trinity took its abode in our soul. At His bap- tism Christ was proclaimed the "Beloved Son" of Clergy schedules subject to change the Father; at our Baptism we become the adopted sons of God. At Christ's baptism the heavens were opened; at our Baptism heaven NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS was opened to us. At His baptism Jesus prayed;
SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME after our Baptism we must pray to avoid actual 1 Sam 3:3b 10, 19 sin. 1 Cor 6:13c15a 1720 N Excerpted from Msgr. Rudolph G. Bandas Jn. 1:3542 (65) https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/ BAPTISM OF THE LORD JANUARY 10, 2021
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Our Lady ofBethesda Retreat Mobile: (240) 3504678 or [email protected] Center, A Virtual Place to Encounter Christ! HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH KENSINGTON, MD Saint of the Week Life in the colony was physically very difficult. When Marguerite arrived, she found that children were not likely to survive to an age suitable for attending school. Nevertheless, she began to work with the nurse in charge of Montreal’s hospital, and eventually established her first school in a stable in 1658. She traveled back to France that year, and returned to Montreal with three more teachers and an assis- tant. Because of their association with the original French Congregation of NotreDame, these women On Jan. 12, Roman Catholics remember Saint Marguerite were called the the “Daughters of the Congregation.” Bourgeoys, who not only founded a religious congrega- tion, but was also instrumental in establishing the Canadi- They would eventually become a religious order in an city of Montreal. their own right: the Congregation of NotreDame de Montreal, whose sisters sacrificed comfort and secu- Marguerite Bourgeoys was born on Good Friday of 1620 rity to teach religion and other subjects to the children during a period of both colonial expansion and religious of the territory then known as “New France.” They strife for Europe. She was the seventh of thirteen children would live in poverty and travel wherever they were born into the middleclass household of Abraham Bour- needed, offering education and performing the works geoys, a candlemaker, and Guillemette Gamier, in the of mercy. northeastern province of Champagne in France. The founding of the order involved two further trips to By her own account, Marguerite had been “very light France in 1670 and 1680. During the first, Margue- hearted and wellliked by the other girls” while growing rite's project received approval under civil law from up. Her turn toward God's calling began in 1640, not long King Louis XIV. The church hierarchy, however, after her mother's death. On Oct. 7 of that year, during a showed reluctance toward a women's order with no procession honoring Our Lady of the Rosary, Marguerite cloistered nuns. Their rule of life would not receive had a mystical experience involving a statue of the Virgin final approval until 1698, though the Bishop of Que- Mary at NotreDame Abbey. bec had authorized their work in 1676. “We passed again in front of the portal of NotreDame, where there was a stone image above the door,” Margue- Meanwhile, Marguerite and her companions persisted in rite later recounted. “When I looked up and saw it I their mission of teaching and charity. This work proved thought it was very beautiful, and at the same time I found so integral to life in Quebec, that Marguerite became known as the “Mother of the Colony.” myself so touched and so changed that I no longer knew myself, and on my return to the house everybody noticed Though the teaching sisters often lived in huts and suf- the change.” fered other hardships, the order grew. They did not ded- icate themselves solely to teaching children, but also set In later life, Marguerite would live out a profound imitation up schools where they taught new immigrants how to of the Virgin Mary M who was, as she noted, “not clois- survive in their surroundings. As the order expanded, tered,” but “everywhere preserved an internal solitude” Marguerite passed leadership on to one of the sisters. and “never refused to be where charity or necessity re- During the last two years of her life, the foundress M quired help.” During the 17th century, it was unusual for known by then as Sister Marguerite of the Blessed Sac- consecrated women to have an active apostolate outside rament M retired to pray in solitude. On the last day of the cloister as Marguerite would go on to do. 1699, after a young member of the community became sick, Sister Marguerite prayed to God to suffer in her From 1640 to 1652, she belonged to the noncloistered place. The young woman recovered, while the aged “external” branch of the Congregation of NotreDame at foundress suffered for twelve days and died Jan. 12, Troyes, consisting of women trained as teachers in asso- 1700. ciation with the order. She also sought admission to sev- Blessed Pope John Paul II canonized St. Marguerite eral religious orders, including the Carmelites, but was Bourgeoys in 1982, as the first woman saint of the Cath- rejected. Being turned down, the teacher from Troyes olic Church in Canada. was free to volunteer for a 1653 voyage to the Canadian colony of Quebec. Continued top right https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/stmargueritebourgeoys114 Six Generations of Personalized Service. MR. T’S JANITORIAL SERVICE • Crematorium on premises COMPANY, INC. • Expert pre-arrangement planning CONTRACT CLEANING SPECIALISTS 7500 ADELPHI RD., HYATTSVILLE, MD 301-919-4100 William A. Pumphrey Sixth Generation Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Inc. Rockville, Inc. 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