St John the Baptist Catholic Church www.stjohntryon.com THE LITURGICAL WEEK MASS INTENTIONS CONFESSION Saturday, February 21 Mondays 7:30 - 8:15am St. Peter Damian *Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:00pm 4:30pm - For St. John Parishioners *Fridays 7:30 - 8:15am Sunday, February 22 Saturdays 3:30 - 4:15pm 1st Sunday of Lent 8:30am - Jim Kenny† 11:00am - Maegan Fox *No Confession Feb. 25 or Feb. 27 12:30pm - Marion Smith† Monday, February 23 St. Polycarp 8:30am - Jose Pinho† DEVOTIONS Tuesday, February 24 8:30am - Priest’s Intention *ADORATION Wednesday, February 25 Wednesday at 5:45pm 5:15pm - Jay Tirre† No Adoration Feb. 25 Thursday, February 26 MORNING PRAYER 8:30am - Edward Arner† After Mass on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, February 27 Thursday & Friday 8:30am - Jay Tirre† Saturday, February 28 DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET 4:30pm - Edwina Brodzinski† After Morning Prayer on Monday Sunday, March 1 2nd Sunday of Lent 8:30am - For St. John Parishioners 11:00am - James Roseberry† 12:30pm - For St. John Parishioners THE SANCTUARY LIGHTS are lit this week in honor of the Seiler Wedding Anniversary PRAYERS FOR OUR SICK & SHUT-INS Please remember the infirmed of our parish, especially those who, by request, have been “Behold the Lamb of God placed on our parish prayer intention list. who takes away Added to our prayer list is Kim Lynch the sin of the world.” ~St. John the Baptist (John 1:29) If you would like to be added to this list, please call the parish office. You may also call for a copy of the prayer list. UT IN OMNIBUS GLORIFICETUR DEUS !FEBRUARY 22, 2015 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT! WWW.STJOHNTRYON.COM SPIRITUAL READING & REFLECTION Dear Parishioners, We had a good beginning to Lent with our Ash have been born again of water and the Holy Spirit and so Wednesday Masses and imposition of Ashes. How edifying belong to Christ and His Holy Body – the Church. We to see you ready to make the commitment to the Lenten focus on that great day before us – Easter – when we will be pilgrimage to your Easter Renewal of Baptismal Promises asked to renew our Baptismal Promises so that we can make and your Easter Communion. It was a good beginning and a fruitful Easter Communion. All the disciplines and we can trust in the Lord’s Grace to assist us in this spiritual penances you are doing (those we do as members of the journey. Church and those we do individually) are meant to lead you Today, Jesus goes into the desert after His Baptism. St. to the freedom to say with conviction “I do” renounce sin John Chrysostom comments on why Jesus went to the desert and Satan and “I do” believe in the Creedal statement of for this first and public encounter with the Devil: “He did the Church. this in order that the baptized should not be troubled if To say those six “I do’s” means to “repent and believe in after Baptism they suffer still greater temptations, as though the Gospel.” We do repent and believe NOW as the “time is such were not to be expected.” We will be tempted each in fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.” our own way as Msgr. Ronald Knox reminds us: “the devil I look forward to seeing you at the Stations of the Cross on is not going to offer you and me all the kingdoms of the Fridays at 5:00pm. Don’t forget the family fish frys each world. He knows his market; (he) offers...just as much as he Friday of Lent. thinks his customer will take...if he sees the chance, he is not slow to point out to you and to me how we could get the Last Sunday I mentioned some spiritual reading books you thing we want if we would be untrue to our better selves, may find helpful in your Lenten journey: and not infrequently if we would be untrue to our Catholic 1. Life of Christ, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen loyalties.” 2. The Introduction to the Devout Life, But Christ sends His angels to be with us and He Himself by St. Francis de Sales stays with us through the Sacraments to give us strength. 3. Jesus of Nazareth – Holy Week, Staying close to Him in the Sacraments of His Church, you by Pope Benedict XVI and I will be victorious over our temptations as the Lord 4. Story of a Soul – The Autobiography of St. was with the false offerings He received in the desert. Our Therese of Lisieux journey of Lent will strengthen us to enjoy the freedom to 5. Roman Pilgrimage / The Station Churches, live in, with and through Christ. by George Weigel "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; 6. My Imitation of Christ, by Thomas `a Kempis repent, and believe in the gospel." These words, the first we (I think I mentioned this.) have recorded of our Lord’s public ministry are the striking call for the Church as we have begun our Lenten journey. We are led into the desert with Christ, in the sense that we Station Churches visited in Rome this week: rid ourselves of the many attachments we have allowed to ✠ creep into our lives. Those attachments are not just the Sunday: St. John Lateran “things” we are giving up during Lent, they are thoughts, Monday: St. Peter in Chains preoccupations, activities, and so forth. Giving up “things” Tuesday: St. Anastasia on the Palatine Hill makes us sensitive to the thoughts, preoccupations, activities, and so forth, which distract us from the Way of Wednesday: St. Mary Major life. We want to be free of anything that would distract us in Thursday: St. Lawrence in Panisperna this time of spiritual combat and growth. This freedom Friday: The Church of the Twelve Aposltles allows us to grow in virtue and then to live virtuous lives. Saturday: St. Peter in the Vatican Conscience formation leads to understanding virtue and living the virtuous life. This leads to the delight for which we are created. Have a good and fruitful Lent. May In the desert, the Lord fought with Satan. We too fight the God bless you and our Lady keep you evil one so that we are free to love God more profoundly. in her tender care. The first and second readings remind us of the Holy Waters With my prayers, Fr. Arnsparger of Baptism. We begin our Lent by remembering that we THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD MAY BE GLORIFIED! PAGE 2 ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH! WWW.STJOHNTRYON.COM PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS For sacramental emergencies, please call 828-859-9574, ext. 6 If you or anyone you know is homebound or hospitalized, even temporarily, please call the office so that we may arrange for them to be visited by one of our Extraordinary Ministers. DAILY MASS READINGS FINANCIAL FACTS This Week Y.T.D. Actual $5,570 $242,490 Budgeted $7,038 $232,269 Variance ($1,468) $ 10,221 (unfavorable) February 22 Sun 1st Sunday of Lent This is the collection report for the Sunday Masses Gn 9:8-15/1 Pt 3:18-22/Mk 1:12-15 of February 14 & 15, 2015 February 23 Mon Lv 19:1-2, 11-18/ Mt 25:31-46 February 24 Tue Is 55:10-11/ Mt 6:7-15) February 25 Wed Jon 3:1-10/Lk 11:29-32 February 26 Thu Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25/Mt 7:7-12 2015 DIOCESAN SUPPORT APPEAL February 27 Fri Your pledge to the Diocesan Support Appeal is shared with the Ez 18:21-28/Mt 5:20-26 educational, multicultural, vocational, housing and social service February 28 Sat ministries of the diocese. Thousands of people depend on your Dt 26:16-19/Mt 5:43-48 generosity. March 1 Sun nd 2 Sunday of Lent CIRCLE OF MARY Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18/Rom 8:31b-34 /Mk 9:2-10 March 7th Rosary at 8:05 Mass at 8:30 A discussion will follow in preparation for Holy Week — Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week. STATIONS OF THE CROSS ——— LIGHTHOUSE CATHOLIC MEDIA FRIDAYS CDS FOR LENT DURING LENT AT 5:00PM Titles include: Jesus the Bridegroom, Meditations on the Stations of the Cross, My Beloved Son, The Four Last Things, The Sacrament of Penance, Glimpses Along the Way of the Cross. The suggested donation is $4 per CD. See display in the Church vestibule UT IN OMNIBUS GLORIFICETUR DEUS !PAGE 3 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT! WWW.STJOHNTRYON.COM PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS G RAZIE G RAZIE G RAZIE …to EVERYONE who helped to make The Taste of Italy spaghetti dinner so successful. This parish event brings together all generations of our parish for a delicious meal and a wonderfully relaxed evening of fellowship filled with lively conversation and laughter. We extend a special thank you to our pastor, Fr. Arnsparger, our youth members and to our dedicated Family Life Adults for your support and hard work. We thank all parishioners who supported this annual event by attending and without whom, it simply would not be! Blessings! THE CATHOLIC FAITH K OF C St. Barnabas Catholic Church in Arden, N.C., presents a four-part COUNCIL #9492 lecture series on the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Four Charlotte ST. JOHN CHURCH diocesan priests are the speakers. 8th Annual Fish Fry The second lecture is: Select Fridays through Lent Monday, March 2nd from 7:00 — 9:00pm.