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St. Louise de Marillac FORMING A UNITED FRONT FOR JESUS AND HIS CHURCH May 19, 2019 Page 2 St. Louise de Marillac Warren, Michigan ST. LOUISE de MARILLAC 2500 E. Twelve Mile Rd. Warren, MI 48092 (586) 751-3340 Fax: (586) 751-3717 Website: www.saintlouisedm.org Welcome Email: [email protected] Bulletin Editor: [email protected] On this spring day, as new life blossoms and is born around us, we’re PARISH OFFICE HOURS glad you’ve joined us to worship and Monday - Thursday : 10:00 am - 4:00 pm praise the Lord of new life. Closed 1 - 1:30 pm for Prayer Service Stop by our Welcome Table after Closed Friday, Saturday & Sunday Holy Mass for information regarding our MASS SCHEDULE parish. Saturday: 4 pm Sunday: 9:30 am, 11:30 am Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 12 Noon Tuesday: 6:30 pm Holy Days: Consult bulletin ANNOUNCEMENT SACRAMENTS Baptisms - 1st Sunday of the Month at the 11:30 am Holy Mass To all veterans and active military members: Reconciliation - Tuesday 5 pm; Friday 11:30 am; Saturday 3 pm You are cordially invited to attend the special Holy Marriage - 6 months prior notification Masses to be held in your honor on: PASTORAL TEAM Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26 Pastor: Fr. Michael Suhy - Ext. 310 [email protected] At the end of each of these Holy Masses, Father Associate Pastor: Fr. Pathrose (Peter) Panuvel - Ext. 303 will proceed to the Memorial Wall, bless it and invite [email protected] you to gather there for a blessing, prayers and Deacon: Charlie Pace - Ext. 305 thanksgiving for your service. [email protected] So feel free to dust off that uniform and proudly OUR TEAM represent your military division. Director of Operations: Mike Ashby - Ext. 302 [email protected] Hope to see you there! Director of Music: Adam Plomaritas [email protected] Parish Sacristan/Facilities Coordinator: Chuck White - Ext. 308 [email protected] Admin Asst.: Shirley Braschayko - Ext. 307 [email protected] Social Worker: Joseph Manuszak, MSW [email protected] Parish Secretary: Madge Kinsella - Ext. 313 [email protected] FAITH FORMATION TEAM Campus Minister for Spirituality and Faith Formation: Julia Czarnecki - Ext. 312 [email protected] DO YOUR PART AT CHURCH Christian Service Advisor: Marsha Wisniewski [email protected] 1. Go sit in the front row each week. Admin Asst.: Jennifer Briones - Ext. 311 2. Volunteer to do the job most people shun. [email protected] 3. After most people have left a church dinner, remain Youth Minister: Tom Francis behind to help clean up and put things in order. [email protected] 4. Tell the pastor to feel free to call on you when ALPHA Experience Coordinator: Gloria Cameron someone needs help in an emergency. [email protected] rev. 04/21/2019 5. When a campaign is held to raise funds for a church project, be among the first to give time, talent and resources to show your support and MISSION STATEMENT: St. Louise de Marillac Parish is a enthusiasm. Christ-centered Community committed to worship, service and the development of our faith. Through the sacraments we are 6. Occasionally give something or do something empowered to embrace the future, welcome people from anonymously. If it’s spectacular enough, the church diverse backgrounds and follow the example of our patroness, will go “bananas” trying to figure out who did it. St. Louise de Marillac, serving the spiritual and temporal needs of others. Encounter + Grow + Witness www.saintlouisedm.org St. Louise de Marillac Warren, Michigan Page 3 Fr. Michael’s Message + JMJ a word about His mom while He BEHOLD YOUR MOTHER hung on the Cross: “Behold your Last Sunday, we had the great joy of thanking and Mother!” Jesus revealed that He praising our Lord for the wonderful gift of our moms! wants all of us to have a special Hopefully you won’t mind me dedicating this week’s relationship with His mom. We bulletin article to these extraordinary women! ought to respond in the same We know that moms and the gift of spiritual way the apostle John responded, motherhood are very important to our Lord and who took Mary that day into his Creator. We know this for many reasons, but especially home. We should welcome because He speaks about our moms in the first book of Mother Mary into our hearts, the Bible, the last book of the Bible, and at the heart of homes, and families and be the Bible, the Gospel. Let’s take the tool we learned devoted to her and strive to love last week, that two pronged approach to Sacred her in the same way Jesus loves Scripture to see both what the Lord has revealed about her! our moms and how we ought to respond. THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE: REVELATION THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE: GENESIS Our Lord reveals that the sign of His Mother will be Our Lord reveals how we received the one of the great signs that will appear in the heavens extraordinary gift of life from our moms! When our just before He returns to definitively crush the head of moms held us in their arms for the first time, they Satan beneath His feet. The triumph of the Immaculate experienced an amazing love that knows no limits of Heart of Mary is an essential part of God’s plan of time and no conditions. This love of our moms can flow salvation. The Book of Revelation gives us great hope. only from the very love of God for us! We ought to It’s amazing to think that Jesus, even now in Heaven, respond by both thanking and honoring our moms for in His Father’s House is able to take His mom in His the gift of our life and all the love we have received strong and loving embrace! That He is able to give her from them. a tender kiss! Precisely because nothing can separate Our Father also reveals that we can receive both us from the love of Christ, neither life nor death, we hurt and wounds from our mom. Adam and Eve were can be confident that one day we too will see our both wounded by original sin and they pass that wound moms again and enjoy their friendship. Even now, to us. In the same way our parents can pass genetic from Heaven, we can experience the love, warmth and defects and tendencies to us, they can pass spiritual presence of our moms in our lives! Our response to ones as well. Some of us did not experience the love, what our Lord reveals in Revelation is a response of a affirmation, and nourishment that moms ought to give great and confident hope! to their children. Some of us were deeply wounded by Jesus, thank you for your gift of the Spirit of Truth the absence of our moms or by ill treatment or that is with us always. May the Spirit guide our worship behavior. Our Father asks us to respond to this hurt and our lives as we pray for each other this week. and these wounds by relying on Him for the grace to Fr. Michael forgive our moms! THE HEART OF THE BIBLE: THE GOSPEL Our Lord revealed the greatest of loves as He hung on the Cross for our salvation. Our Lord taught us that the greatest of loves is to lay down one’s life for one’s BE A PRAYING PARENT friends. Our moms revealed this greatest of loves Prayer is the saucer into which parental fears are throughout our lives, especially during the first days, poured to cool. Each time a parent weeks, months and years that followed our birth. As we prays, Christ responds, His big reflect upon the millions of sacrifices that our moms message to moms and dads? made for us, a fitting response would be to love them Bring your children to me. back in the same way they loved us: to lay down our --Max Lucado, Fearless lives for our moms with a generous love! For all of us, especially for those of us whose moms weren’t present or weren’t capable of giving us the love and encouragement we needed, Jesus spoke www.saintlouisedm.org Encounter + Grow + Witness Page 4 St. Louise de Marillac Warren, Michigan St. Louise Happenings TEACHING SERIES Join Deacon Charlie as he continues the teaching series on The Biggest Lie in the History of Christianity, by Matthew Kelley, Tuesdays at 7:30 pm in the Church. Looking forward to seeing you there! St. Louise de Marillac is proud to host the renowned SAINT LOUISE DE MARILLAC NEEDS YOU! KYIV Chamber Choir Saturday, May 25 at 7:30 pm Intercessory Prayer This is the one and only stop this wonderful choir will make in Michigan. It is an honor they have chosen 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm our church to lift their beautiful voices high. Monday, May 20 To hear the Choir and for further information: www.platinumconcerts.com Monday, June 2 Tickets are $35 each and are available after weekend Holy Masses at the Welcome Table and at Please join us in front the Parish Office, Monday thru Thursday 10 am to of the Blessed Tabernacle! 4 pm. Get yours now for a wonderful night of music! All are welcome! GOSPEL MEDITATION ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE Do you have enough? Many of us come from a nation of material abundance. We have all the things we could possibly need not only to survive, but to thrive - food, shelter, mental ability, income, access to medical care.