5th Sunday Ordinary Time (Year C) February 10th, 2019 412 3rd Avenue North P.O. Box 471 Glasgow, Montana 59230 YOUTH MINISTRY www.straphaelparish.net Friends of Jesus Bulletin Children & Youth February 2019 Luke & Jacob Seekins, Toni Williams & Maria Anderson decorating Baptism shells after last months Youth Mass and Breakfast. This month is all about love, which I believe starts at home. We have to learn how to live and is the foundation of our faith because without our love eachother to go out and love others the way he love for God and Gods love for us where would loved us. we be? This months devotion is the Holy Family “If you want to change the world, go home and which is the best representation of love we have. love your family” ~ Mother Teresa Every class and every student I talk to about love said they loved their family. Our family teaches us God Bless, about life. The Holy Family perfectly shows us how to live and be a better family, so we can go out and Jewel Etherington love the world the way Jesus loved us. But it first Director of Faith Formation & Youth Ministy Ask Father Jose “How do we know what Jesus looked like?” They wanted to know “What happened to Veronica’s veil that had Jesus’ image on it?” Kim’s 3rd,4th&5th Grade Answer: There is no reference to the veil of Veronica in the gospels. The apocryphal book of ‘Acts of Pilate’ identi- fies Veronica as the woman with hemorrhage who was healed by touching Jesus in Luke 8:43-48. According to tra- dition, Veronica met Jesus along the way to Calvary and she wiped the blood and sweat off Jesus’ face with her veil and Jesus’ image was imprinted on the cloth. Veronica later travelled to Rome to present the veil to Roman emperor Tiberius. It was believed that the veil was able to quench thirst, cure blindness and even raise the dead. Actual recording of the veil began in 1199 by two pilgrims visiting Rome, Gerald de Barre and Gervase of Tilbury. Pope Innocent III publicly displayed the veil in 1207. Many artists reproduced the image of the veil during this peri- od. The original veil kind of disappeared in the 17th century. What we have today is copies of the veil that survived. It is believed that the original veil never left St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. There are at least six images resembling the original veil. I was lucky to see the one kept in Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria in 2007. Jewish tradition prohibited creation of images or portraits of humans, animals, anything on earth or heaven [Exodus 20:4]. So we don’t have any image of Jesus until 300 AD. When Christianity began to spread across the Non-Jewish world [Rome, Greece], images of Jesus began to be created according to the artists’ imagination. A mural painting of Jesus with long hair and beard was discovered in the Catacomb of Commodilla, in Rome, a late 4th century origin. Youth Group Calendar News & Events Feb 13th - RE/Youth Group Feb 20th - RE/Youth Group Feb 27th - RE/Youth Group Kids Mar 3rd - Mardi Gras I love my brother, my dog, my mom and my dad. God Shows Carnival us he loves us by loving us. We show others we love them by Mar 6th - Ash Wednesday caring about them. Mass @ 6pm Gwen Turner - Kindergarten Mar 10th - Youth Mass Love to me is having a crush on a girl! I love Molly my Dog. *We need lots of volunteers God shows me his love by answering my prayers. I show love by kissing and hugging my family. for the Carnival please contact Jewel or Joyce Daniel White - Seiler - 2nd Grade Morehouse to help out. Love is when someone brings you presents. I love to draw and do school work with markers. God shows me love by giving us gifts from God. I show love by giving people presents and hugs. Ella Etherington - Preschool Teacher Teen There are so many explanations What love means to me is a and examples of Gods amazing love way of showing that you care for us. However for me nothing is as powerful as the crucifixion of Our about something so much Lord. The suffering and pain that that you are willing to help or Christ willingly endured for us is un- show compassion. I love my imaginable, but God loved each and family, friends, and especially every one of us so completely that He God. When I feel down God shows his love to me sent us His saving grace. Christ came in my heart and that lifts me up. God also shows to here to gather us, to teach us, to love us. When the time came, He not only laid down His his love for me in the roughest times. He will help life but he picked up our sins. Jesus carried that weight to guide my way through tough times when I see defeat death and bring us home. Jesus left us all the tools his “signs”. For example I may be going through we would need to make our way to His kingdom. He gave a rough day and then I notice a little thing that us His body that we might join our hearts with His in the makes me laugh. We can show love to others by Holy Eucharist. Could there be any greater love than this? giving them a hug, helping them out when in need, So when I look upon my crucified Lord, I look past the pain and sadness that He endured for me, and there in and just saying, “I love you!” His broken body I see the greatest love I have ever known. James Seekins - 6th Grade Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13 Erin Hankins - High School Teacher Family 1. After Jesus was baptized God Said “this is my son, whom I ______? A. Love B. Adore C. Cherish D. Care for 2. What is the Month of February dedicated to A. Love B. The Holy Family C. Mary D. Joesph 3. St. Blaise is the Patron Saint of? A. Fire B. Love Our family spoke about love and decided love means C. Throats comfort. Some things we love are homeschooling and D. Storms our blankies! Those two things are comforting. God shows his love to us every day by blessing us. He fills us up with the Holy Spirit. It’s a comforting feeling that 4. St. Valentine was a? makes us warm inside. We can show our love to others A. Carpetner by being kind and sharing. We pray this will then bring B. Teacher others comfort as well and lead them towards Jesus. C. Priest D. Poet -The Stringers Submit the answers to your teacher for a special prize! .