St Jude Catholic Church

399 Barrow Street•pearl MS 39208

Office: 601-939-3181 fax: 601-939-3160

Website www.stjudepearl.org

Hours:

8:30 am -- 3:30 pm

Monday -- Friday

Fr. Lincoln Dall

Pastor

lincoln95@hotmail.com

Deacon Liturgy & Pastoral Care Faith Formation

John McGregor Rhonda Bowden Stacy Wolf

jmcgregor@stjudepearl.org Rbowden@stjudepearl.org ccd@stjudepearl.org

Administrative Assistant Music Director Youth Ministers

Kelly McGregor Pat O’Neil Betsy Walter 601-214-7378

kmcgregor@stjudepearl.org music@stjudepearl.org Mara Villa-Polk 601-421-3849

Mass Schedule

Saturday Vigil

5:30 pm

Sunday

8:30 am & 11:00 am

Spanish Mass

Sunday 1:00pm

Tuesday, Wednesday,

and Thursday

6:00 pm

Adoration of the

Blessed Sacrament

Thursday 5:00 pm

Friday

10:00 am

Holy Days

of Obligation

Check bulletin

for times

Reconciliation

Saturday 4:45 pm

or by appointment

Our prayer chapel

is always open

Second Sunday of Lent February 27, 2018

Reflection for the 2nd Sunday of Lent

We in the modern world take books for granted. I have so many books on my shelves that I have no idea how many I have, but they certainly number in the hundreds. But, for most of human history, books were a rare commodity. In Ancient Israel, the scribes, those who were literate and who copied and interpreted Sacred Scripture, held a very special role in society. Johannes Guttenberg changed the world in the year 1440 with the invention of the printing press. Things changed dramatically when books could be massed produced for the public. Today, with the internet, the ipad, and with e-readers like the Kindle, things are changing once again. The Bibles that were produced by the monks and the scribes before the invention of the printing press were very fancy indeed. They contained elaborate illustrations and what was called illuminated letters. A simple letter takes on a whole new life by the way it is illustrated and illuminated. The opening letter of a Scripture passage was embellished into a very fancy image such as this. Back before the turn of the millennium in the year 2000, St John’s Benedictine Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota commissioned a hand-produced illuminat-ed Bible, the first one to be commissioned by an abbey or monastery since the 15th century with the invention of the printing press. It took about 13 years and a cost of over $8 million dollars to hand-produce this one Bible. I cannot even imagine the work, imagination, and courage that it took to produce this Bible.

I bring up the Illuminated St John’s Bible because illumination is at the heart of today’s Gospel on this Second Sunday of Lent. Jesus’ assent on Mount Tabor with Peter, James, and John is a pinnacle event in his earthly life and ministry, as his divinity is revealed to these three close disciples by means of a miraculous, supernatural light, by means of illumination. It took this blinding light for Peter, James, and John to see and understand who Jesus really was. All of us probably need some sort of illumination in some aspect in our own lives in order for us to perceive how God is truly present in our lives.

As we contemplate the Transfiguration, we must not forget that Jesus and his three be-loved disciples did not remain on the mountain forever. They came down and brought the illumination of this event to the people down below. We also must bring the illumination we receive as disciples of Christ to the world around us. We must bring the insights and growth that we receive on our Lenten journey to our daily lives and to the rest of the year. As we continue our Lenten journey on this Second Sunday of Lent, let us feel the light of the Trans-figuration encouraging us and giving us strength.

Parish Mission Statement

We, the family of St. Jude, Pearl, Mississippi are a vibrant, Eucharistic community with caring members that are empowered by baptism to serve God through the sacraments. We will proclaim the good news and pro-vide spiritual and moral guidance to parishioners and the community by creating a holy and comforting place that encourages active participation, service to each other, and love.

Mass Intentions

Saturday 5:30 pm —Tony Bruno (RIP) Sunday 8:30 am— Julie Snodgrass (RIP) Sunday 11:00 pm— People of St. Jude Sunday 1:00 pm—Spanish Community Tuesday 6:00 pm— Special Intention Wednesday 6:00 pm— Special Intention Thursday 6:00 pm — Special Intention Friday 10:00 am—Special Intention

First Friday Healing Mass Our next First Friday Healing Mass will be March 2nd at 10:00 a.m. in

the church with lunch in the Parish Hall to follow for our 55+ Bunch. If you plan to come for lunch, please call or email Rhonda in the office.

WELCOME TO OUR CHURCH FAMILY We welcome to our Church family: Joel and Jennifer Dillard and children Junia and Thomas Kimberly Stiff and Son Elijah Lowe

Olinsser and Nadya Villafranca And children Ximera and Olinsser We are excited that you have made our family

Classes meet each Sunday promptly at 9:45 am.

Upcoming Events:

February 26– Penance Ser-vice and Spaghetti Supper. St. Jude youth will be cooking and serving spaghetti to parishioners

as a fund raiser for Abbey Fest. We will begin sell-ing tickets for this very soon. If you plan to attend Abbey Fest and you have regular attendance at Sunday school and other youth events, you are eligible to attend Abbey Fest. Please make plans now to help with this fund raiser.

ADULT FAITH FORMATION

Please join us each Sunday, at 9:45 AM for "Symbolon - The Catholic Faith Explained" for our Adult Education program.

This journey of faith, discovery, and friendship with Christ will help make a lasting impression on our lives.

ABSTINENCE FROM MEAT:

Those who at 14 years of age are

to abstain from meat on all the

Fridays of Lent

During the Holy Season of Lent

we will be praying the Stations

of the Cross each Friday follow-

ing the 10 am Mass and at 6:00

p.m. Following the 6:00 pm

Stations of the Cross, the Knights of Colum-

bus will be preparing Catfish Dinners.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26

AT 6:00 PM—LENTEN PEN-

ANCE SERVICE. The service

will begin with scripture, prayer, and an Examination

of Conscience in the church. Several area priests

will then be available for private confession in the

church and in offices and classrooms. Please take

the opportunity to receive this beautiful sacrament.

Congratulations to our Newest Catholic Congratulations to Collette Farrar daughter of Zach and Alecia Farrar, who was baptized on Sunday, Febru-ary 18, 2018.

We welcome her into the our Catholic Church family.

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Weekly Collection: $5,881.00

Online Collection $ 940.00

Children’s Collection

$ 41.25 Spanish Collection

$ 83.00 Prison Ministry

$ 1,523.76 Stewardship Thought

Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. St.

Paul reminds us that God Himself “did not spare His own Son.” Are my gifts to the Lord — of my resources, of my

time, of myself — also sacrificial? See Romans 8:32

Parishioners: Viola Allen, Wendy Bobo, Brody Bokros, Daniel Bondi, Ed and Cathy Dunn, Charles and Mary Ann Goldsmith, Christine Guillotte, Jane Kaiser, Katie Kirby, Joe Loomis, Lucy Lover-tich, Chloe Martin, Mike Meadows, Kathy Moody, Ernie Mur-ray, Charles Myers, Patricia Poole, Nell Ramsdell, T. Ray-mond, Marlene Rhodes, Phyllis Rogers, Mary Sauls, Florence Scanlon, Mike Siller, Scott Statham, Charlie Thames, Sandra Walker, Mary Jo Zummo.

Family and Friends of Parishioners: Michelle Som-mers, (granddaughter of Pat and Barbara McBride), Mary Frasier Hudson (niece of Serie Barnhill ), Louis Collier, Jona-than Boone (friend of Allen Lea), Peter Rippa, (husband of

Mary Rippa) Jim Doud (friend of Mike and Diane Meadows), Lloyd Young (father of Cathy Dunn), Ed Peeples (husband of Karen Peeples), Mary Bess Curry (mother of Mike Curry), Flora and Luis Martin (Daughter and Son-in-law of Mary Rip-pa), Missy Goodman (Daughter of Nick and Maureen Calico), Pearl Turner (mother of Sheilah Resweber), Jeremy McIntyre (son of Brenda and Dorian McIntyre), Flossie Frasier (cousin of Linda Smith), Emily Bennett (daughter-in-law of Carol Denslow), Irene Jones (mother of Gail Dowdle), June Harkins (mother of Beth Bivens), Donna Neese (mother of Nicole Chapman), Karla Fidler (friend of Monique Augustus), Charles Downey (father of April McDonald), Jeannie Marvelli (Aunt of Anthony Marvelli), Paula Moody Moore (cousin of Sandra Walker), Erin Anderson and Barry Watts (friends of Sandra Walker), Tanya Harris (daughter of Phyllis Rogers.),

Martha Young, (mother of Cathy Dunn), Tammy May, (daughter of Carol Bourne), Robert Caskey (Husband of Riza Caskey), Clyde Cox (brother of George Cox), Phyllis Davis and Rosemary West (mother and sister of David Peters), Douglas Montague (nephew of Sandra Walker), Louis Garri-ga (brother of Bill Garriga), Jim Boswell, Bob and Pat Clifford (parents of Christina Bondi), Eula LeBlanc (sister of June Tra-han), Betty Naquin, and all those in nursing homes or home-bound.

The RCIA will not meet on Tuesday, February 27th at 6:30 pm. This week’s topic is “A Love That Lasts.”

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 9:4b-10; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Lk 6:36-38

Tuesday: Is 1:10, 16-20; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 23:1-12

Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14-16;

Mt 20:17-28 Thursday: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 16:19-31

Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46

Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12;

Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 Sunday: Ex 20:1-17 [1-3, 7-8, 12-17]; Ps 19:8-11;

1 Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25 Alternate readings (Year A): Ex 17:3-7;

Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42]

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Second Sunday of Lent; Penitential Rite for Candidates for Full Communion Wednesday: Purim (Jewish observance) begins at sunset Friday: Abstinence; First Friday; World Day of Prayer Saturday: St. Katharine Drexel; First Saturday

PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS Remember in your prayers all those who serve our nation in the Armed Forces. We especially pray for: Christopher and Lamont Arnold, Meghan Bietzel, Jessup Boatner, David Clay, Chris Curry, Zach Far-rar, Brandon King, Christopher Melancon, Dean Mil-

lette, Troy Resurreccion, Emma Reuter, Steven Renslow, Ryan Roy, Trey Strickland, Inissa Zambrano.

Remember in your prayers the Repose of the Soul of Ron Stovall fa-ther of Amanda Loomis who died re-cently. We pray God’s blessing and comfort will be with their family and friends.

Countless lives are touched by every

contribution to the Catholic Service Appeal. St. Jude Parish has raised

$32,495. and our goal is $39,000. We ask that God grant us a renewed

sense of responsibility for the work of

our parish, diocese and the church throughout

the world. For more on information about the Appeal or to donate online please visit

www.jacksondiocese.org

Fatima—The Five First Saturdays Devotions

St. Joseph Catholic Church in Gluckstadt would

like to invite you to become part of the Fatima

message by fulfilling the request of Our Lady of

Fatima to complete the Five First Saturday Devo-

tions.

First Saturday Dates for 2018

April 7-May 5

To complete the Five First Saturdays Devotion

Confession with 8 days of each Saturday Devo-

tion

Receive the Eucharist at each Saturday Devotion

Recite Five Decades of the Rosary at each First

Saturday Devotion

Mediate for “at least” 15 minutes on the fifteen

mysteries at each Saturday Devotion

Saturday Schedule

All Five First Saturday Devotions will be at St.

Joseph Catholic Church in Gluckstadt—127

Church Rd.

8:15 am Church opens and confession begins

9:00 am Mass

9:30 am Rosary

10:00 am Meditation will begin

Liturgical Ministry Train-

ing

Thanks to all that said “yes” to serving as a Li-turgical Minister for 2018! Training has been scheduled for the following ministries:

Altar Linen Ministry—Thursday, March 1st—6:30pm

Save the date!

Vacation Bible School

Around the World in 5 Days!

June 11th – 15th, 9am – Noon

Ages 3 years – rising 6th grade

Volunteer opportunities:

Youth Volunteers – rising 7th – 12th grades

Young adult and adult volunteers of all ages

Stay tuned for more info!

Bishop Chanche Mission Award Medal For Ser-vice And Youth Awards Medal are given annually by Bishop Joseph Kopacz. Named for Mississippi’s first Catholic bishop, recipients of the Medals are lay Cath-olics who have shown exemplary service at the parish and or diocesan level in the areas of evangelization, faith formation and service to the community. The year St. Jude has two recipients for the Awards The Bishop Chanche Mission Award Medal for Service was presented to Ginger Brown and the Youth Award Medal was presented to Mary Rose Wolf. We are so very proud of these two ladies for their example to our Catholic Faith.

Support the St. Jude Young Apostles

Chicken Spaghetti

Supper Date: Monday, February 26

Pick-up Time:

St Jude Catholic Church 399 Barrow Street Pearl, MS 39208

Ticket sales and proceeds will be used to help the St. Jude

Youth get to Abbey Youth Festival 2018 in Covington, LA and

future summer events.

Donations will be greatly appreciated.

Lent – 2018

February 23 and March 2, 9, 16, & 23, Fridays during Lent Stations of the Cross at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel and at 6:00 p.m. in the church Catfish Dinners in the Parish Hall immediately following the 6:00 p.m. Stations; doors will not be open until Stations have concluded; dinner is “eat-in” only

with community; no “to go” plates

February 21 & 28 and March 7, 14, & 21, Wednesdays during Lent – Mass at 6:30 a.m. in the Chap-el followed by Lenten Prayer Breakfast at 7:00 a.m. in the Parish Hall February 25, Sunday – Lenten Rosary in the Rosary Garden at 6:00 p.m. February 26, Monday – Parish Lenten Reconciliation Service at 6:00 p.m. in the Church followed by chicken spaghetti dinner in the Parish Hall sponsored by the Young Apostles to fund their annual trip to Abbey Fest March 3-4, Saturday and Sunday – The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick will be offered after each Mass The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered 4:45 – 5:15 p.m. every Saturday in the Church and by re-quest after the 10:00 a.m. Masses on Friday.

The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.

every Thursday in the Chapel.

Family Friendly Lenten Events at St. Jude

Come and join us!

Stations of the Cross – every Friday at 6pm followed by

a Fish Fry.

Sunday, February 25th, 6pm – Illuminated Lenten Rosary

in the Rosary Garden (or chapel in case of rain).

Monday, February 26th, 6pm – Parish Penance Service

followed by a Chicken Spaghetti Dinner (fundraiser

for our youth group). Buy tickets for dinner this

weekend after Mass.

Lenten Suggestions

Give Up:

Chocolate, desserts, etc.

Eating out

Some sort of “Convenience” i.e. prepared meals, dishwash-

er, paper towels/napkins

Facebook, Social Media

Whining or Complaining

Do:

Add extra time to your prayer time daily

Add additional Daily Masses

Stations of the Cross

Spend time before the Blessed Sacrament in prayer

Random Acts of Kindness

Attend Deacon John’s Retreat “Knowing Jesus, Sharing Je-

sus”

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Knights of Columbus Council 8038 ST JUDE CENTENNIAL

Grand Knight: Danny Nelson Chaplain: Reverend Lincoln Dall

grandknight.stjude8038@gmail.com

Knights of Columbus serve our community, our Church and our fellow man, in an effort to better

society as a whole. Meetings 4th Sunday of each month

Officers Meeting: 4:30 PM Council Meeting: 5:00 PM

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