8th Sunday in Ordinary Time

FEBRUARY 25, 2001

 

MASS INTENTIONS

 

Sat. Feb. 24 @ 4p.m

Theresa Rodriques

Sun. Feb. 25 8 a.m.

Mary E. Regan

9:30 a.m. John Medeiros

11 a.m. Lionel Robitaille

Daily Mass is celebrated in the chapel at 9 a.m.

Mon. Feb. 26 Julia and Julio Oliveira

Tues. Feb. 27 Antonio Coelho and parents

Thursday, March 1 Jacinto Tavares and Dionisia Costa.

Friday, March 2 Daniel Perry

Saturday, March 3 @ 4p.m.

Emile Houbre

Sunday, March 4 8 a.m.

Sophie Ontrey

9:30 a.m. Ernest Vardo, Sr.

VOCATIONS : EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS A special display of Pictures of Fr. Tom Washburn's First Mass and Ordination to the Priesthood will be shown in the gathering area o the church during-the month of February

Wednesday, February 28 Ash Wednesday

Masses: 9 a .m. 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The sacrificial offering cards are available today for those who want to use them during Lent.

Easter Flower envelopes are available

 

Thanks to Deacon Larry St. Onge, St. James Parish now has a new home web page on the internet http://members.nbci.com/saintjames_nb

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Invites parishioners to donate certain food items each week during the weeks of Lent so that adequate bags of food can be given to the poor families of our parish. The poor will be a part of our Lenten Journey to our renewal of our baptismal promises at Easter.

*Sunday, March 4 First Sunday in Lent

spaghetti sauce and canned vegetables

*Sunday, March 11 Second Sunday in Lent canned meat and fish (seam and tuna fish etc.) and jam / jelly

*Sunday, March 18 Third Sunday of Lent Canned spaghetti and pasta (macaroni, spaghetti, shells etc.

*Sunday, March 25 Fourth Sunday in Len Canned tomatoes/ sauce and canned soups/beef stew.

*Sunday, April 1 Fifth Sunday in Lent Baked beans and peanut butter

*Sunday, April 8 Palm Sunday Canned fruit and macaroni and cheese dinner.

The parish Liturgical Committee invites parishioners to write on a small piece of paper the area of their lives that they would like to convert or a fault that they would like to diminish during Lent. They are asked to place these papers in a basket when they come forward to receive ashes next Wednesday. These papers will be kept near the cross during Lent. They will then be burned at the Easter Vigil.

 

DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

LENTEN REGULATIONS

 

Law of Fast

A. All adults (18 and older) are bound by the law of fast up to the beginning of their 60th year.

B. On days of fast, those bound by the law are limited to a single full meal. This meal is meatless. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to one's needs; however, together these two meals should not equal another full meal.

C. There are two prescribed days of fast: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

2. Law of Abstinence

A. Those who are 14 years of age and older are obliged to observe the law of abstinence.

B. On days of abstinence, those bound by the law abstain from meat .

C. On-all Fridays of Lent, abstinence is prescribed. This, of course, includes Good Friday. Abstinence is also prescribed on Ash Wednesday.

3. Lenten Discipline

The Code of Canon Law very aptly summarizes the ecclesiastical discipline in Canon 1249: "All members of the Christian faithful in their own way are bound to do penance in virtue of divine law; in order that all may be joined in a common observance of penance, penitential days are prescribed in which the Christian faithful in a special way pray, exercise works of piety and charity, and deny themselves by fulfilling their responsibilities more faithfully and especially by observing fast and abstinence..."