|
|
|
|
|
|
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17
7:30am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choir & Organ)
9:30am CIC (St. Frances)
10:00am RCIA (St. Vincent De Paul)
11:30am Mass (Spiritu Contemporary Group)
1:00pm Hallelujah Chorus (Choir Room)
2:00pm 7th & 8th Grade Schola (Choir Room)
3:00pm Hosanna Teen Choir (Choir Room)
4:00pm Lenten Study Group (Kateri)
6:15pm Mass (Instrumental Only)
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18
8:30am Word/Eucharist (Chapel)
5:30pm St. Vincent De Paul (St. Joseph Hall)
7:00pm Little Rock Bible Study (Upper level)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
8:30am Mass
9:15am Chair Aerobics (Jeanne Jugan)
1:00pm Adoration Committee (St. Clare)
1:30pm Script/Comm (Pres. Homes--Roseville)
2:00pm Script/Comm (New Brighton CC)
4:45pm Faith Formation
6:30pm Faith Formation
7:15pm Spiritu jazz group (St. Cecilia)
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
8:30am Word/Eucharist (Chapel)
9:45am School Mass (Church)
10:45am Silvertones Mtg. & Lunch (Jeanne Jugan)
4:45am Faith Formation/Odyssey
6:00pm Sr. High Service Club (Youth Room)
6:30pm Faith Formation/Odyssey
7:00pm Finance Committee (St. Clare)
7:00pm SPAC Mtg. (St. John Neumann)
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Connections&
February 17, 2002--First Sunday of Lent
After being baptized, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights& Matthew 4:1-11
The Fellowship of the Rings
The good wizard of one of the year's most talked about movies provides a bit of wisdom as we start our Lenten journey.
In The Fellowship of the Rings, the first of three planned films based on the classic J.R. Tolkien trilogy The Lord of the Rings, the young hobbit Frodo Baggins finds himself in possession of a ring that once belonged to the Dark Lord. The magic ring, which contains all manner of "cruelty, malice and the will to dominate all life" gives its possessor unspeakable power. The Dark Lord seeks the return of the powerful ring for his own evil plan to enslave the world. The Dark Lord kills and destroys everyone and everything in his path as he searches for the ring.
Frodo is now unexpectedly thrust into a struggle for the very survival of the world. Frodo's friend, the wizard Gandalf, explains that the ring must be destroyed in the fiery pits of the mountains of Mordor, where the ring was originally forged. And so Frodo, Gandalf and a motley band of
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
hobbits, dwarves, elves and human warriors begin the perilous journey to Mordor, relentlessly pursued by the Dark Lord and his minions.
At one point after their long quest, after yet another narrow escape, the discouraged Frodo laments to Gandalf: "I wish the ring had never come to me& I wish none of this had happened."
The kindly old wizard replies: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
CONNECTION: Like Frodo and his companions, like Jesus in his encounter with the devil in the desert, our lives are journeys that constantly call us to decide "what we are to do with the time we are given." Frodo must fight the temptation to possess the ring of evil himself or destroy it in order that good and right may triumph in the world; Jesus must decide between the choices proposed by the tempter--personal profit, comfort and fame--or the hard work God has called him to take on; likewise, every moment of our lives demands that we make hard choices, choices that challenge us to either live the values we believe in the depths of our hearts or forsake those values for things of far less worth and permanence. The season of Lent calls us to embrace God's spirit of truth so that we may make the choices demanded by our complicated and complex world with courage, insight and faith. .u
|
|
|
|
|
