SAINT PHILIP THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH 1897 W Main St | Lewisville, TX | 75067 | 972.436.9581 | stphilipcc.org WELCOME! If you’re new to our parish, stop by the Welcome Table in the Narthex. MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil, 4 PM Sunday, 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 5:30 PM Monday, 12:15 PM Tuesday & Friday, 9 AM Wednesday, 6:30 PM Thursday, 6:30 AM 1st Saturday, 9 AM CONFESSIONS Wednesdays, 5-6:15 PM Saturdays, 3-3:45 PM Private by appointment OFFICE HOURS Monday-Thursday, 9 AM-5 PM Closed for lunch 12 Noon-1:30 PM Friday, 9 AM-1 PM Lent begins on A Receptionist is available in the Church narthex during weekend Masses Ash Wednesday BECOME CATHOLIC February 26 Contact Matt Gill at 972-219-1686 or [email protected] to set an appointment. Join us 7-9 PM on Tuesday nights. For more details, Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time visit stphilipcc.org/becomecatholic 7th SundayFebruary in Ordinary 23, Time2020 — February 23, 2020 1 SACRAMENTS & PRAYER ST PHILIP THE APOSTLE CHURCH Address Office Hours SACRAMENTS 1897 West Main Street Monday-Thursday, 9 AM-5 PM BAPTISM Lewisville, TX 75067 Closed for lunch 12 Noon-1:30 PM Baptism is celebrated at a communal Friday, 9 AM-1 PM service on the 1st Saturday of the Phone A Receptionist is available in the Church narthex during weekend Masses month or, by request, during Sunday Main: 972-436-9581 Mass. Contact Gwen Kramer at 972- Emergency Line: 972-709-2364 219-7448 or [email protected] Bulletin Deadlines Fax: 972-436-5302 Submit by 12 Noon, 9 days in advance Next Baptism Prep Seminar: of publication date to Sarah Fritcher at Tuesday, March 10, at 7 PM Main Email [email protected] [email protected] 1ST EUCHARIST & PENANCE Contact Kim Carr at 972-219-1511 or [email protected]. CLERGY & PASTORAL HELP Pastor CONFIRMATION To request a priest High School: Victoria Hamaty at 972- Fr. Raymond McDaniel 219-1754 or [email protected] 972-436-9581, [email protected] in an emergency: Adults: Matt Gill at 972-219-1686 or Call 972-709-2364 Parochial Vicar [email protected] Msgr. Francis Boakye Tawiah 972-436-9581, [email protected] MARRIAGE Contact Matt Gill at least 9-12 Pastoral Associate months in advance at 972-219-1686 Dcn. Jim Rodgers……214-222-6704……[email protected] or [email protected] Weekend Ministry Fr. Allan Hawkins……817-277-4041……[email protected] ANOINTING OF THE SICK Dcn. Ramiro Rodriguez……972-436-9581……[email protected] Available at any Mass; notify the Dcn. Joe Standridge……972-436-9581……[email protected] receptionist on arrival. On First Fri- days, special Anointing service during 9 AM Mass. Contact the Office for Funerals Annulments Anointing at other times. Mike McArdle Jackie Jones 214-415-0427 972-219-7280, [email protected] [email protected] ROSARY PLEASE PRAY FOR Tuesdays at 3 pm in the Chapel The Rosary is also prayed 30 minutes Our brothers and sisters who are ill or distressed, especially . prior to all Masses Sean David King, Bertha Peña, LaTrina McDuffy, Miranda Gomillia, Chellette Avery, Tasha Battie, Ryan McLain, Louis Potier, Glenda Rachwal, Ryker Goode, Charles Aldridge, Sarah Berry, Caleb Kelly, Michael Merlene, A’Miracle Walton, Jennifer Segreto ROSARY FOR LIFE 1st Saturdays, 8:30 am Mary Garden Our brothers and sisters with long-term or on-going health conditions, especially . Gary Heintzman, Bernie Austin, Jo Rudolph, Jerry Press, Marie Neely Newton, Cathy McArdle, Joe Magni, Ron Gourlie, Libby Martinez, Diana Canizales, Patricia Dunlap, Larry & Jan Ellis, Mick EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Palmesano, Patrick Brown, Angie El Gamrani, Donna Austin, John Kushner, Loretta Cotter, Ronald Heist, Quinn Oteo, Jane Luman, LaShonda Battista-Eniayewu, Kate Loughborough, Joe Cavallo, Don Tuesdays, 6-9 pm Chapel Parks, Jackie Merry, Pat Sikich, Kathleen Alberry, Andrea Barron (daughter of W.J. Mildfelt), John-Paul Wednesdays, 7-8 pm Church Kalapati, Kaci Epley (daughter of Chuck & Peggy), Mike Carlson (husband of Carol), Pat Friedrichs, Carole Flynt Thursdays, 7-11:30 am Chapel Our brothers and sisters who have been born into eternal life . 6-9 pm Chapel Dan Hoffman, Diana Bradley, Marguerite Smith, Ethel Reed (mother of Kathy Markert), Sylvia Michnya, Dorothy Jermyn (mother of Lawrence Jermyn), Bernadette Gadzella, Rogelio Cano-Rangel ADORATION FOR LIFE Our fellow parishioners who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith . Last Sunday of the Month, Walter Stueck, 2/22/2018; Tracy Tomlin, 2/24/2007; Mary Keeley, 2/26/2005; Sean Mahoney, 12:45-5 pm in the Chapel 2/26/2006; Germaine Menelas, 2/26/2008; Flip Wayrynen, 2/26/2008; Theodore Papaila, 2/26/2015; Carol Kantak, 2/27/2004; Frank Malicke, 3/1/2009 Vocations . Br. Elijah, Michael Marincel, all our diocesan seminarians, diaconal candidate Pat Quinn, and for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. 2 St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Feast of the Chair of Growing in Grace Saint Peter the Apostle 4 pm, The People of St. Philip Presentation of the Lord SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 7:30 am, +Mary Keeley 9:30 am, +Edmund Moy Prayer for the Week: 11:30 am, +Kimberly Millan Dabboussi The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing I shall want. 5:30 pm, +Dick Williamson “I decided to consult the Chair of Peter, where that faith is found exalt- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24 12:15 pm, +Marlena Bimmerle ed by the lips of an Apostle; I now come to ask for nourishment for my soul there, where once I received the garment of Christ. I follow no TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 leader save Christ, so I enter into communion with your beatitude, that 9 am, +Dan Hoffman is, with the Chair of Peter, for this I know is the rock upon which the WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 church is built.” – St. Jerome, 420 A.D. Ash Wednesday Day of Fasting and Abstinence from Meat Chair of St. Peter 6:30 am, The People of St. Philip The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter is celebrated on February 22, traditional- 12:15 pm, +Ron Patenaude ly known as the day that St. Peter bore witness to the Divinity of Christ by 4:30 pm, +Daniel Broadway 7 pm, +Charlotte Nannemann the Sea of Tiberias, and was appointed by Christ to be the Rock (Cephas) of His Church. In other words, the day Christ appointed Peter as the first THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Pope. The authority St. Peter and his successors received from Christ is 6:30 am, +David Castaneda symbolized by a chair or “cathedra.” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 "‘Cathedra’ literally means the established seat of the Bishop, placed in the 9 am, Matthew & Margaret June Berry mother church of a diocese which for this reason is known as a ‘cathedral’; it is the symbol of the Bishop's authority and in particular, of his SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 ‘magisterium,’ that is, the evangelical teaching which, as a successor of the 4 pm, +Eileen McKieman Apostles, he is called to safeguard and to transmit to the Christian Commu- SUNDAY, MARCH 1 nity... First Sunday of Lent 7:30 am, The People of St. Philip So what was the ‘Chair’ of St Peter? Chosen by Christ as the ‘rock’ on 9:30 am, +Clyde Gibbons which to build the Church (cf. Mt 16: 18), he began his ministry in Jerusa- 11:30 am, +Melvin Hunter lem, after the Ascension of the Lord and Pentecost. The Church's first ‘seat’ 5:30 pm, +Elizabeth Ann Chittenden was the Upper Room, and it is likely that a special place was reserved for Simon Peter in that room where Mary, Mother of Jesus, also prayed with the disciples. Subsequently, the See of Peter was Antioch, a city located on the Oronte River in Syria, today Turkey, which at the time was the third metropolis of NURSERY SERVICES the Roman Empire after Rome and Alexandria in Egypt. Peter was the first Nursery Service available for Bishop of that city, which was evangelized by Barnabas and Paul... children through age 5 (not yet in school) during all weekend From there, Providence led Peter to Rome…, where he ended his race at the and Holy Day Masses. Contact service of the Gospel with martyrdom… The See of Rome, after St Peter's Sue Tominey at 972-219-7626 travels, thus came to be recognized as the See of the Successor of Peter, or [email protected]. and its Bishop's "cathedra" represented the mission entrusted to him by Christ to tend his entire flock... Celebrating the Chair of Peter, therefore, as we are doing today, means at- tributing a strong spiritual significance to it and recognizing it as a privi- leged sign of the love of God, the eternal Good Shepherd, who wanted to gather his whole Church and lead her on the path of Salvation.” - Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, February 22, 2006 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time — February 23, 2020 3 WEEKLY CALENDAR February 23 – March 1, 2020 Sunday, February 23 Monday, February 24 Tuesday, February 25 Wednesday, February 26 Mardi Gras Coffee & Donuts Men’s SCOF Morning Prayer ASH WEDNESDAY 8:30-11:30 AM CLC 6:30 AM Room 1 8:30 AM Church Day of Fasting and Abstinence Adoration for Life Cancer Prayer Group Mass from Meat 12:45-5 PM Chapel 9 AM Chapel 9 AM Church Chin Community Mass Rosary Masses with Distribution 1 PM CLC 12:15 PM Church 3 PM Chapel of Ashes Teen Leadership Training Men’s Cold Beverage Night Fat Tuesday Supper 6:30 AM Church 3:30 PM Room 7/9 6 PM Offsite 5:30 PM CLC 12:15 PM Church HS Confirmation Class Women’s Club Meeting Eucharistic Adoration 4:30 PM Church 7 PM CLC 7 PM CLC 6-9 PM Chapel 7 PM Church Young Adults & College Life: Evening Prayer Sundays in Parker Square 6:15 PM Chapel *There are no scheduled 7 PM Enzo’s Pizza Co-Ed SCOF Confessions on Ash Wednesday 7 PM Room 7/9 This Weekend Pro Life