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August 7th, 2016 6th of Summer PARISH DIRECTORY Bishop Francis Kalabat Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit Fr. Pierre Konja Administrator Fr. Emanuel Rayes Retired in residence Linda Arabo Office Administrator Nancy Beba Pastoral Associate Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Tel: 248-356-0565 Fax: 248-356-5235 E-mail: [email protected] م عندَ هزُ طان ي! الشي دونها منا إلى النوم تخلدو : المغفرةلمصالحة اأن تصبح عادة جديرة بغيب الشمس هو رحمة قبل م الغضب والحنقتخلي عن العهم. تعيشون مص الذينشخاغفرة من ابوا الم اطلشمس على تغرب الا و تخطئو وإذا غضبتم غضبكمسأفس( 4 ، 62 .) تجميلية.حضرات ال دون إزالة المست منود إلى النومخلية عدم ال على أهمً رأة دومات المد مج تشدً جيا مسببة تدريساماتاد المي إلى انسد تجذب القذارة وتؤديت، قد، إذا بقسبهان روا يح وهذا صحشوهات بشعة. وتهابات الت دون منود إلى النومخلقدس من الب الملكتا اة. يحذرناحية اليومي الرو حياتناح في العكس صحيس:ى أهل أفس بولس إلن. فيكتبّ تزيم الصدقم كل واحد منكلم كا عن الكذب، وليتك لذلك امتنعوس على غضبكم. تغرب الشما و تخطئو . وإذا غضبتمنا لبعضضاء، بعضنا كلنا أعن مع قريبهً إبليس مكانا تعطوا .” سأفس( 4 : 62 ، 62 .) (continued on page 2) Stay in touch with your parish on FACEBOOK Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church ONLINE GIVING Mother of God Parish offers online giving a web based electronic contribution application that is safe and secure. you can manage contributions online or continue having your offering envelopes mailed to you. To sign up for online giving please visit our website at www.OurLadyOfChaldeans.Com This website will walk you through the process. Mother of God Church | 25585 Berg Road, Southfield, MI 48033 | FR. PIERRE’S MESSAGE TO THE PARISH Imagine you're the apostles Peter, James, and John. You've been walking with Jesus for years, seeing His miracles, listening to His teachings, getting to know Him on a deeply personal level. Then the transfiguration happens, Jesus ascends a mountain and His glory, which He's been talking about, is finally revealed. Your mind is blown, your faith affirmed, it's completely beyond anything you could have imagined. Then, He returns to His human form. What now? How does your life change? The relationship that you've entered into with Jesus hits an entirely new level. Now, you continue to follow Him, He institutes the Eucharist, dies, and resurrects. We become one with Jesus. Our hearts and lives need to be transfigured, just like Jesus was, and just like the apostles who physically experienced His transfiguration. We need to realize and embrace that we are Jesus to the world. When we are at mass and we approach with "radiant faces" (literally, transfigured faces) we are back at Mount Tabor with Jesus, and everything changes. We cannot be the same. We must be transfigured. Jesus has removed the veil. Jesus has shown us and shared with us His glory. Fr. Pierre Konja

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August 7th, 2016 6th of Summer

PARISH DIRECTORY Bishop Francis Kalabat Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit

Fr. Pierre Konja Administrator

Fr. Emanuel Rayes Retired in residence

Linda Arabo Office Administrator

Nancy Beba Pastoral Associate

Office Hours Monday - Friday

8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tel: 248-356-0565 Fax: 248-356-5235

E-mail:

[email protected]

المصالحة المغفرة: ال تخلدوا إلى النوم من دونها! الشيطان يُهَزم عند

التخلي عن الغضب والحنق قبل مغيب الشمس هو رحمة جديرة بأن تصبح عادة

وإذا غضبتم ال تخطئوا وال تغرب الشمس على “اطلبوا المغفرة من األشخاص الذين تعيشون معهم.

(.62، 4)أفسس ” غضبكم

تشدد مجالت المرأة دوماً على أهمية عدم الخلود إلى النوم من دون إزالة المستحضرات التجميلية.

وهذا صحيح ألن رواسبها، إذا بقيت، قد تجذب القذارة وتؤدي إلى انسداد المسامات مسببة تدريجياً

التهابات وتشوهات بشعة.

العكس صحيح في حياتنا الروحية اليومية. يحذرنا الكتاب المقدس من الخلود إلى النوم من دون

لذلك امتنعوا عن الكذب، وليتكلم كل واحد منكم كالم الصدق “تزيّن. فيكتب بولس إلى أهل أفسس:

مع قريبه ألننا كلنا أعضاء، بعضنا لبعض. وإذا غضبتم ال تخطئوا وال تغرب الشمس على غضبكم.

(.62، 62: 4)أفسس ”. ال تعطوا إبليس مكاناً (continued on page 2)

Stay in touch with your parish on FACEBOOK

Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church

ONLINE GIVING

Mother of God Parish offers online giving a web based electronic contribution application that is safe and secure. you can manage contributions online or continue having your offering envelopes mailed to you. To sign up for online giving please visit our website at

www.OurLadyOfChaldeans.Com This website will walk you through the process.

Mother of God Church | 25585 Berg Road, Southfield, MI 48033 |

FR. PIERRE’S MESSAGE TO THE PARISH

Imagine you're the apostles Peter, James, and John. You've been walking with Jesus for years, seeing His miracles, listening to His teachings, getting to know Him on a deeply personal level. Then the transfiguration happens, Jesus ascends a mountain and His glory, which He's been talking about, is finally revealed. Your mind is blown, your faith affirmed, it's completely beyond anything you could have imagined. Then, He returns to His human form.

What now? How does your life change? The relationship that you've entered into with Jesus hits an entirely new level. Now, you continue to follow Him, He institutes the Eucharist, dies, and resurrects.

We become one with Jesus. Our hearts and lives need to be transfigured, just like Jesus was, and just like the apostles who physically experienced His transfiguration. We need to realize and embrace that we are Jesus to the world. When we are at mass and we approach with "radiant faces" (literally, transfigured faces) we are back at Mount Tabor with Jesus, and everything changes.

We cannot be the same. We must be transfigured. Jesus has removed the veil. Jesus has shown us and shared with us His glory. Fr. Pierre Konja

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THE GOOD NEWS

Congratulations to our dear brother Faris Najor from the Midwest Capuchins

who became a novice and received his habit on July 24th in an Investiture Ceremony at San Lorenzo Novitiate in Santa Ynez CA.

God bless and protect him and all the faithful brothers in Christ!

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األحقاد تجذب رجس المزيد من الغضب واالنزعاج. ورفض المغفرة )أو

رفض طلبها ممن أسأنا إليهم( يسّد مسامات الروح وشرايين القلب. وجمرة

الغضب المشتعلة ستتحول حتماً إلى لهيب غضب متفجر وتتسبب بظهور

تشوهات الخطيئة البشعة.

االعتراف بأعباء االعتداءات اليومية الكبيرة والصغيرة والتحرر –التزيّن

هو أكثر من مجرد نظافة روحية ونفسية جيدة. إنه رحمة، مشاركة –منها

في مصالحة هللا الرحيمة مع البشرية في يسوع المسيح، وذلك بصورة

يومية حتى تتوقف الشمس عن الشروق. وهو أيضاً فعل نضال روحي ألن

الشيطان يُهَزم عند المصالحة

تشدد مقاالت مجالت المرأة عن إزالة المستحضرات التجميلية قبل الخلود

إلى النوم على أهمية تحويل العناية بالبشرة ليالً إلى عادة. فإذا بدأتم مع

الزمن بتنظيف بشرتكم وبفعل ذلك بانتظام على مدى أسبوعين، سيصبح

األمر روتينياً. ولن تهملوه حتى مرة واحدة ألن ممارسة إزالة

بمعنى آخر، أصبحت عادة.المستحضرات التجميلية أصبحت مهمة لكم

يحثنا اقتراح هذا األسبوع حول كيفية ممارسة الرحمة في السنة اليوبيلية

ألّفوا طقساً وجيزاً “على التفكير بالقيام باألمر عينه من خالل التزين:

ال ”. لنهاية اليوم لتطلبوا المغفرة من األشخاص الذين تعيشون معهم

تتخلصوا من الغضب قبل الخلود إلى النوم فقط، بل اعملوا بثباٍت واٍع

إلفراغ أعباء الغضب يومياً قبل إطفاء األنوار.

ال يعني تأليف طقس ليتورجي من خالل ارتداء ثياب ” تأليف طقس”و

مغفرة خاصة وانتقاء األناشيد المالئمة. كال! المهم هو أن تقوموا بأمر له

معنى لكم مراراً وتكراراً حتى يصبح عادة. وسيعتمد طقسكم كثيراً على

هويتكم واألشخاص الذين تعيشون معهم. ولكن إليكم بعض األفكار

لمساعدتكم على االنطالق:

قبل النوم، أمسكوا بيد زوجتكم، وانظروا إلى عيون بعضكم البعض،

”.أنا آسف. أسامحك“وقولوا:

لدى تالوة صلوات ما قبل النوم مع أوالدكم، اذكروا ما شهده النهار من

سوء مزاج وجدل واستياء وتخلصوا منه. ادعوا األوالد إلى فعل ذلك مع

بعضهم البعض ومعكم كأهل.

عندما تكون األمور صعبة، ادعوا أفراد العائلة إلى كتابة مالحظات

لوضعها على مخدات بعضهم البعض. بإمكان الرسالة أن تكون بسيطة

وبإمكان األوالد رسم صور.”. لنجعل الغد أفضل“مثل

إذا كنتم تعيشون بمفردكم، عّدلوا هذه األفكار لتتالءم مع ظروفكم. هذا

يعني أحياناً االتصال باآلخرين أو مراسلتهم في ختام النهار لالطمئنان

عنهم. وهذا غالباً ما يعني التخلص من الغضب القديم الذي يسبب لكم

العزلة والوحدة. وهذا سوف يعني دائماً أن تطلبوا من هللا المساعدة على

التصالح مع نفسكم ومعه قبل مغيب الشمس.

“ بنعمة ورحمة” طابت ليلتكم“قولوا في كل ليلة ”. ال تعطوا إبليس مكاناً

Saint Francis of Assisi Prayer

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.

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LITURGICAL SCHEDULE

Saturday Vigil Mass 4:00 PM English

Sunday Masses 8:30 AM Arabic/عربي

01:11 AM English 11:30 AM Morning Prayer

12:00 PM Chaldean/سورث

7:00 PM English

Weekday Masses 8:00 AM English at ECRC

9:30 AM Morning Prayer

10:00 AM Chaldean/سورث

Wednesday

5:00 PM Adoration 6:00 PM English Mass

Confession

5-6 pm Wednesday 6-7 pm Sunday

(or by appointment)

PARISH SCHEDULE AND WEEKLY INFORMATION

FINANCIAL STATUS

Sunday Goal: $6,000

Sunday Collection (July 31st): $4,627

Over/(Under): ($1,373)

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Monthly Online Donation Goal: $4,000

Monthly Online Collection (July): $900

Over/(Under): ($3,100)

*Sign up for online donation at

www.OurLadyOfChaldeans.Com

BAPTISM: We celebrate Baptism at 2:00 pm on

the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Please call the parish office at least two weeks in advance to see if a date is available.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the parish office to make arrangements for Anointing or to receive the Eucharist.

MARRIAGE: Please schedule at least six months before you plan to be married and before you make arrangements for the reception, please call the parish office to make an appointment with the priest to begin the necessary preparations.

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING CLASSES First and third Wednesday of every even month from 7:30 - 9:30 pm.

MARRIAGE CLASSES First, second and third Thursday of every odd month from 8:00 - 10:00 pm.

The Assumption of Mary mass will be celebrated on Monday August 15th at

6:30 pm

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GOD’S MESSAGE FOR KIDS

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PART ONE THE PROFESSION OF FAITH

SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"

CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD

ARTICLE 2 WE BELIEVE

II. THE LANGUAGE OF FAITH

170 We do not believe in formulas, but in those realities they express, which faith allows us to touch. "The believer's act [of faith] does not terminate in the propositions, but in the realities [which they express]."56All the same, we do approach these realities with the help of formulations of the faith which permit us to express the faith and to hand it on, to celebrate it in community, to assimilate and live on it more and more.

171 The Church, "the pillar and bulwark of the truth", faithfully guards "the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints". She guards the memory of Christ's words; it is she who from generation to generation hands on the apostles' confession of faith.57 As a mother who teaches her children to speak and so to understand and communicate, the Church our Mother teaches us the language of faith in order to introduce us to the understanding and the life of faith.

III. ONLY ONE FAITH

172 Through the centuries, in so many languages, cultures, peoples and nations, the Church has constantly confessed this one faith, received from the one Lord, transmitted by one Baptism, and grounded in the conviction that all people have only one God and Father.58 St. Irenaeus of Lyons, a witness of this faith, declared:

173 "Indeed, the Church, though scattered throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, having received the faith from the apostles and their disciples. . . guards [this preaching and faith] with care, as dwelling in but a single house, and similarly believes as if having but one soul and a single heart, and preaches, teaches and hands on this faith with a unanimous voice, as if possessing only one mouth."59

174 "For though languages differ throughout the world, the content of the Tradition is one and the same. The Churches established in Germany have no other faith or Tradition, nor do those of the Iberians, nor those of the Celts, nor those of the East, of Egypt, of Libya, nor those established at the center of

the world. . ."60 The Church's message "is true and solid, in which one and the same way of salvation appears throughout the whole world."61 175 "We guard with care the faith that we have received from the Church, for without ceasing, under the action of God's Spirit, this deposit of great price, as if in an excellent vessel, is constantly being renewed and causes the very vessel that contains it to be renewed."62

IN BRIEF 176 Faith is a personal adherence of the whole man to God who reveals himself. It involves an assent of the intellect and will to the self-revelation God has made through his deeds and words.

177 "To believe" has thus a twofold reference: to the person, and to the truth: to the truth, by trust in the person who bears witness to it.

178 We must believe in no one but God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

179 Faith is a supernatural gift from God. In order to believe, man needs the interior helps of the Holy Spirit.

180 "Believing" is a human act, conscious and free, corresponding to the dignity of the human person.

181 "Believing" is an ecclesial act. The Church's faith precedes, engenders, supports and nourishes our faith. The Church is the mother of all believers. "No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother" (St. Cyprian, De unit. 6: PL 4, 519).

182 We believe all "that which is contained in the word of God, written or handed down, and which the Church proposes for belief as divinely revealed" (Paul VI, CPG § 20).

183 Faith is necessary for salvation. The Lord himself affirms: "He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned" (Mk 16:16).

184 "Faith is a foretaste of the knowledge that will make us blessed in the life to come" (St. Thomas Aquinas. Comp. theol. 1, 2).

THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

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