St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church 1000 Goodyear Blvd. Picayune, MS 39466 • Rev. Bernard J . Papania, Jr. Pastor • Rev. Marcin S. Wiktor Parochial Vicar • Deacon Brian Klause • Deacon Doug McNair Mass Times: Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 9:00 a.m. Sunday: 10:40 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Misa en Español Spanish Mass in Parish Hall 5:00 p.m. Youth Mass Weekday Masses: 8:10 a.m. on Mon., Thurs., Fri., and 6:30 pm Masses on Mon., Tues., and Thurs. evenings. Wednesday: 12:10 p.m. Divine Mercy Chaplet: After weekday Masses Mass Intentions Contact the St. Charles Borromeo Church Office February 20th – February 26th Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Saturday February 4:00 pm Gerald Deleson + 1000 Fifth Avenue, Picayune, MS 39466 20th Robin Bradley EJ Favre + 601-798-4779 (office) Bob Heim + 601-798-4749 (fax) Sunday February 9:00 am People of St Charles Email: [email protected] 21st Borromeo Visit us at www.scborromeo.org St. Charles Borromeo Staff: Sunday February 10:40 am Joy Pell + 21st April Zogaib - Parish Secretary Jill Bordelon - Director of Religious Education Sunday February 11:30 am 21st 601-798-4779 email: [email protected] If you would like to submit an item for the bulletin Sunday February 5:00 pm Terry Golden 21st or Church announcements, please email it to Monday February 8:10 am Terry Golden [email protected] 22nd Would You Like To Volunteer Monday February 6:30 pm Kathleen Golden + 22nd Some Of Your Free Time? Tuesday February 8:10 am School Mass Or Join A Ministry? 23rd We encourage you to do so! Tuesday February 6:30 pm Fr. Cyprian’s Please call the office, at 601-798-4779 23rd Intentions This Is Your Parish! Wednesday February 12:10 pm Merrily Venterella + 24th Baptisms Baptism classes are held quarterly (January, April, Thursday February 8:10 am Tracey Head July, & October) on the 3rd Monday of the month. 25th All paperwork must be received at the office Thursday February 6:30 pm Penny Alphonso + no later than two weeks prior to the scheduled baptism. 25th Confessions Friday February 8:10 am Terry Golden Confessions are 30 minutes before Mass on weekends 26th and by appointment. Funerals A Warm Welcome to all new parishioners. Arrangements may be made by calling the office. Pre-funeral arrangements may also be made. If you would like to register with the parish, please come by the office Monday through Friday, from 9:00 Weddings am to 4:00 pm to register your family. Weddings are to be scheduled 6 months prior to the ceremony. Mass Book is open for your Any information you need regarding any of the sacraments or events listed above, may be Mass Intentions obtained by calling the office. $10.00 Mass stipend, $40.00 Flowers on the Altar Communion Calls Please notify the church office of the names of $9.00 For the Sanctuary Candle those who desire to receive Holy Communion at home or in the hospital. The Sanctuary Light Burns Anointing Of The Sick In Honor of Communal Anointing periodically or Miss Trice D’Antoni anytime upon request. First Sunday of Lent February 21, 2021 Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; teach me your paths. — Psalm 25:4 Week of February 13th & 14th Regular Collection $4,932.10 TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — I will set my bow in the clouds to serve Online Regular Collection 1,776.00 as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth Building Maintenance Collection 762.00 (Genesis 9:8-15). Online Building Maintenance Collection 305.00 Psalm — Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to Total $7,775.10 those who keep your covenant (Psalm 25). Second Reading — The water of the flood prefigured baptism, which saves you now (1 Peter 3:18-22). Thank You For Your Generosity! Gospel — Jesus was tempted by Satan, and the angels ministered to him (Mark 1:12-15) The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, Did You Know… 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. that you can send your READINGS FOR THE WEEK contribution through our website? Monday: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-3a, 4-6; Mt 16:13-19 Tired of forgetting to bring your envelopes Tuesday: Is 55:10-11; Ps 34:4-7, 16-19; Mt 6:7-15 to Mass? Prefer to send your tithe fund by Wednesday: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; bank draft? Just click on the “Online Giving” Lk 11:29-32 button on the bottom right side of the Thursday: Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25; Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8; website homepage. Mt 7:7-12 Left click the following links Friday: Ez 18:21-28; Ps 130:1-8; Mt 5:20-26 http://www.scborromeo.org/ OR Saturday: Dt 26:16-19; Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8; Mt 5:43-48 Sunday: Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Ps 116:10, 15-19; Rom 8:31b-34; Mk 9:2-10 Holy Land Gifts, represented by the Rashmawi family who are volunteer members from the Roman Catholic Church in Bethlehem, will be visiting our Parish the weekend of February 20/21 and sell their olive wood gifts. They will speak to us about the dire Christian situation in the Holy Land. Their religious crafts are made in home workshops by Catholic families who make their day to day living by selling them to pilgrims and tourists that visit the holy sites and shrines. With the hostilities worsening in the Holy Land and a lack of Christian pilgrims, the traditional workshops of Olivewood have sustained severe damage. Therefore, unemployment there is at an all-time high, around 90%. The Christian community relies on services offered to pilgrims as a main source of income for the community. Olive wood items and carvings are the only tangible products they can produce and export. The Catholics of the Holy Land graciously ask your support through prayers and the purchase of these special religious art pieces. Proceeds of the sales generate much needed employment opportunities and monetary funds for 600 Catholic Families in Bethlehem. This lent season, think of your family, friends, and yourself and be as generous as God is to you. FIRST READING SECOND READING A reading from the first Letter of St. Peter A reading from the Book of Genesis 1 Peter 3: 18-22 Genesis 9: 8-15 Beloved: Christ suffered for sins once, the God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “See, righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you and with every living might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he creature that was with you: all the birds, and the was brought to life in the Spirit. In it he also went to various tame and wild animals that were with you preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been and came out of the ark. I will establish my covenant disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of with you, that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few not be another flood to devastate the earth.” persons, eight in all, were saved through water. God added: “This is the sign that I am giving for all This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is ages to come, of the covenant between me and not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to you and every living creature with you: I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection between me and the earth. When I bring clouds of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, I the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and will recall the covenant I have made between me powers subject to him. and you and all living beings, so that the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all The word of the Lord. mortal beings.” Thanks be to God. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. GOSPEL OF THE MASS RESPONSORIAL PSALM 25 A reading from the holy Gospel R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to According to Mark those who keep your covenant. Mark 1: 12-15 Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; teach me The Spirit drove Jesus out into the your paths, Guide me in your truth and teach me, desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, for you are God my savior. tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant. the angels ministered to him. After John had been Remember that your compassion, O LORD, and arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the your love are from of old. In your kindness gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The remember me, because of your goodness, O LORD. kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in R.