| St. Malachi Parish,
Cleveland, OH |
| Mass Intentions |
| SATURDAY,
February 28 PROCOP
HOUSE |
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Charles Thompson |
| SUNDAY, February 29 |
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9:30 a.m. - |
Ray Rozman |
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11:00 a.m. - |
Deceased Johnson-Bennett Family |
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12:30 pm - |
Rev. Art Kanuchi, S.J. |
| MONDAY,
March 1 |
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7:00 a.m. - |
Saint Malachi Living and Deceased |
| 12:noon - |
Margaret Rose Powers
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| TUESDAY,
March 2
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7:00 a.m. - |
Joseph Bertrand |
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| 12:noon - |
Mildred Hutchinson
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| WEDNESDAY,
March 3 |
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7:00 a.m. - |
Sally Peters
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| 12 noon - |
Gafney-Newkirk Family Dec.
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| THURSDAY,
March 4 |
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7:00 a.m. - |
William Hoeffler |
| 12 noon - |
Allen, Osborne & Smith Families |
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Friday, March 5 |
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7:00 a.m. - |
Rita Wirtz |
| 12 noon - |
Mary Josephine Bangert (Anniv) |
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Saturday, March 6 |
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4:30 p.m. - |
Daryl Kilbane |
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Sunday, March 7 |
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9:30 a.m. - |
Emilio, Peter & Giluditta |
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11:00 a.m. - |
Villa Psenicka |
| 12:30
p.m. - |
Mary Coleman |
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Offertory Report
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Sunday Collection .......................... $3,116.00
Amount Budgeted .......................... $3,180.00
Thank you for your generous support!
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NATIONAL COLLECTION FOR THE BLACK AND INDIAN EVANGELIZATION
Today, the annual collection for the Black and Indian evangelization is taken at all Masses. This national appeal supports evangelization efforts. Pope John Paul II has stressed the Church's mission of evangelizing, bringing the Gospel message to every people. Your support helps sustain our Church's ministry in parishes and schools serving people who are among the poorest, the neediest and most discriminated against in our country. Thank you for your support.
Please Pray for the Deceased:
Mary Velez, Samuel Jones (Malachi House), Renita Jordan, Margaret Wagoner, Mary McCaffrey, Joyce Hollowenko, Fr. Norman Smith
Also for the Sick: Peggy Cooney, Margano Parker, Janice Cavoli, Rosemary Farace, Sr. Elaine Bynack O.S.U., Fr. Robert Dietrich S.J., David Fordjce
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Weekly Activities |
Sunday, February 29
• Back Door Brunch
• 50/50 Drawing after 12:30 Mass
• RCIA Rite of Election, Public Hall, 2:45 PM
Monday, March 1
• RCIA St. Patrick Rectory 7 PM
• Circle of Prayer 7 PM
Tuesday, March 2
• Primary Election Day, 6:30 AM-7:30 PM VOTE!
Wednesday, March 3
• Quiet Hour 3-4 PM
• Walk for Peace 7 PM
• Lenten Reflection Series; “Simplicity”
7-8:30 PM
Thursday, March 4
• Holy Hour 11 AM-12 noon
• Choir 7:30 PM
Friday, March 5
• Weekly Church Cleaning 10 AM
• Holy Name Lenten fish fry 6 PM
• Children's Choir 4:30 pm
Sunday, March 7
• Communal Penance Service 2 PM St. Patrick |
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LENTEN REFLECTION SERIES
This Wednesday, March 3, from 7-8:30 PM, we invite you to reflect on Simplicity with Fr. James O'Donnell at St. Malachi hall. Upcoming topics & speakers: March 10 Spirituality- Sr Elaine Wellinger HM, March 24 Liturgy Fr. Paul Hritz, March 31 Prayer Sr. Chris Schenk CSJ.
FISH FRIES 2004
Join other S.M.A.R.T. (Saint Malachi Adults Raising T. . .) families for Lenten fish fries. We meet at 6 p.m. Bring your own high chair/booster and child beverage. Most fish fries only serve coffee and soda. See you there!
March 5: St. Angela Merici. 20970 Lorain Rd. Fish,
March 12: St. Phillip Neri. 799 East 82nd and St. Clair Ave.
LENTEN CROSSES
We invite you to take a nail cross, which can be found at the church doors. We encourage you to use them with your prayer during this Lenten season. We join our cross to His cross at the Good Friday Liturgy.
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ST. MALACHI CENTER NEEDS:
St. Malachi Center is seeking home furnishings for neighborhood residents in need. Desired items include: washer, dryer, gas stove, refrigerator and beds with mattresses. Please contact Kim at 771-3036.
The Center is looking for volunteers to help with child care on Monday & Wednesday evenings from 6-7:30 PM. All volunteers must be willing to be fingerprinted for background checks, screening and training.
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| First Sunday of Lent |
February
29, 2004 |
2004 LENTEN APPEAL:
SPECIALIZED HOUSING
This year, you are invited to support “Procop House” a new specialized housing effort to help individuals “leave homelessness behind.” By making a Lenten sacrifice and donating the money saved, you can help subsidize a room for someone moving from a shelter to independent living. Envelopes are available at the doors of the church; please make check payable to “St. Malachi Benefit Fund.”
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LENT 2004
Lent, a season of grace, an invitation to change and transformation, a time to reflect on direction of our lives, began last Wednesday.
On Ash Wednesday we Christians received ashes on our foreheads, acknowledging our dependence on the Lord and our failure to live as the beloved of God.
Consider the Butterfly. It begins life as a caterpillar. What are your thoughts about caterpillars? Many consider them ugly, offensive, and useless. But one day, a caterpillar, responding to some primordial impulse, attaches itself to a leaf and spins a cocoon, entombing itself. After a period of time, when all life seems to stop, the cocoon starts to shake violently. At long last an exhausted creature crawls on the branch and hangs there, slowly waving its wings, allowing them to dry, and gaining strength to fly away. This beautiful, colorful creature, a butterfly has emerged having no resemblance to the ugly caterpillar.
Lent is “cocoon” time. The caterpillar in us needs to die so that the butterfly we have been created to be can emerge. Lent is a time for our personal transformation.
Lent is about baptism and conversion. When we were baptized we, or our parents for us, were given a lighted candle and charged to “keep it burning brightly.” At baptism we were clothed in a white garment and challenged to “bring it unstained into the kingdom.” The problem is that we have developed habits that interfere with our Christian calling. This Lent we are challenged to examine our attitudes and actions. What do you need to change so that your light may shine more brightly? What penitential practice would help keep this in mind during Lent?
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MALACHI RUN
The 24th Annual St. Malachi Run will be held Saturday March 13,. Start
times: 2 Mile-9 AM & 5 Mile- 9:35 AM.
Pre-Registration $15, race day $20. Registration forms at church
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SOUP FOR THE SOUL
Thursday, April 1st is our 4th Annual Soup for the Soul Fundraiser to be held at La Centre in Westlake at 6 PM.
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Soup for the Soul is the Center's largest fundraiser, raising over $37,000 last year to support the ministry of St. Malachi Center. Tickets cost just $40. That includes “Soup”, raffles, Silent auctions, and a full night of entertainment.
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ST PATRICK PARTY:
All are welcome to the St. Patrick's Day party on Friday March 12, 7:30-11 PM in the hall sponsored by the CSM Stewardship Taskforce. Tickets are $15; for information contact Pat Burns at (216) 221-6727.
FUTURE CHURCH
On Wednesday March 10 join Bishop Ottenweller for Conversation about Critical Issues Facing the Church.. A panel of laity and priests will engage the Bishop in conversation about Vatican II, the priest shortage, creating a “culture of conversation” in the Church and what we can tell young people about our future. The program is held from 7-9 PM at the Jack Kahl Student Life and Leadership Center, at St Edward High School. Free will offering.
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Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted
by the devil. |
| He ate nothing during those days, and when they
were over he was hungry. The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
-Lk 4:1-3 |
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| Readings
for the Week of February 29, 2004 |
Sunday:
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Dt 26:4-10; Rom 10:8-13; Lk 4:1-13
Lv 19:1-2, 11-18; Mt 25:31-46
Is 55:10-11; Mt 6:7-15
Jon 3:1-10; Lk 11:29-32
Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25; Mt 7:7-12
Ez 18:21-28; Mt 5:20-26
Dt 26:16-19; Mt 5:43-48
Gn 15:5-12, 17-18; Phil 3:17--4:1; Lk 9:28b-36 |
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HELP NEEDED
A meal without cost is served at 6:00 p.m. Mondays to the needy in the parish hall. Sandwiches, doughnuts, & coffee are served daily at the rectory. Volunteers are needed, especially weekdays. Call Sr. Francis at 216-861-5343.
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PROCOP HOUSE SPECIALIZED HOUSING FOR MEN
Procop House, the former convent at St. Procop Parish, on West 41St Street
south of Clark, is a pilot project designed to bring together people of
faith, formerly homeless individuals, neighborhood residents and service
agencies, to provide an affordable housing alternative for 24 men as they
transition from homelessness to responsible reconnection with the
community at large.
To accomplish this goal, this pilot program has been designed to:
• Create a cost-effective, replicable housing
alternative where residents committed to community service can contribute
to the community, inside and outside the residence
• Create housing where residents and others of good
will can witness to their faith by connecting with an established faith
community already engaged in community service.
• Create affordable housing. Residents can afford $6
per day or one hall' the rent. Other groups or individuals are asked to
contribute $200.00 monthly, or any portion thereof.
• To create living opportunities for individuals
committed to working with neighbors, institutions and businesses to
maintain open lines of communications to address personal and community
needs.
The St. Malachi Parish and Community Councils both unanimously chose
"Procop House" as the project for our 2004 Lenten Appeal. We are
inviting all members of the Community of St. Malachi and St. Malachi
Parish individually and/or as a family to choose to make a sacrifice this
Lent of some "extra" food, treat, entertainment or consumption,
to save and donate the money which would have been used for that
"extra" for the Procop House specialized housing initiative.
Envelopes are available at the doors of the church. Please make checks
payable to "St. Malachi Benefit Account." 100% of donations will
go to the Procop House project; St. Malachi church is absorbing the
printing costs.
It costs $2,400 to subsidize one room for a resident for a year. It would
be wonderful if the people of St. Malachi could help at least one person
"leave homelessness behind" through our Lenten sacrifice.
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