All women are invited on Saturday, August 8, 2020, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM to a time of being with each other and supporting each other in reflection and prayer. We may be wearing masks and social distancing and/or Zoom. Please watch your email for prayer material and more information. If you don’t receive the emails of invitation regularly and want to participate, please email jackierose@aol.com. Please join us and bring a friend!
“God our Father, we give you thanks and praise for fathers young and old.
We pray for young fathers, newly embracing their vocation; may they find courage and perseverance to balance work, family and faith in joy and sacrifice.
We pray for our own fathers around the world whose children are lost or suffering; may they know that the God of compassion walks with them in their sorrow.
We pray for men who are not fathers but still mentor and guide us with fatherly love and advise.
We remember fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers who are no longer with us but who live forever in our memory and nourish us with their love. Amen”
—Prayer source Lordcalls.com
The Forming Intentional Disciples/Fruitful Discipleship sessions are moving forward with a stay-at-home meeting via Zoom. Join us on Saturday, June 6, 2020, 10AM to Noon.
We are reviewing Chapters 1-5 in Fruitful Discipleship. Participants, please watch your email for updates and material. If you’ve not participated in these sessions yet and would like to or if you have questions, please email jackierose@aol.com by Friday, June 5, at Noon.
Our Blessed Lord declared that he was to be lifted up, as the serpent had been lifted up. As the brass serpent had the appearance of a serpent and yet lacked its venom, so too, when he would be lifted up upon the bars of the cross, he would have the appearance of a sinner and yet be without sin. As all who looked upon the brass serpent had been healed of the bite of the serpent, so all who looked upon him with love and faith would be healed of the bite of the serpent of evil.
It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then he would have been a great teacher and a great example, but not a Redeemer. It was important for him to fulfill the purpose of the coming, to redeem man from sin while in the likeness of human flesh. Teachers change men by their lives; our Blessed Lord would change men by his death. The poison of hate, sensuality, and envy which is in the hearts of men could not be healed simply by wise exhortations and social reforms. The wage of sin is death, and therefore it was to be by death that sin would be atoned for. As in the ancient sacrifices the fire symbolically burned up the imputed sin along with the victim, so on the cross the world’s sin would be put away in Christ’s sufferings, for he would be upright as a priest and prostrate as a victim. The two greatest banners that were ever unfurled were the uplifted serpent and the uplifted Savior. And yet there was an infinite difference between them. The theater of one was the desert, and the audience was a few thousand Israelites; the theater of the other was the universe and the audience, the whole of mankind. From the one came a bodily healing, soon to be followed again by death; from the other flowed soul-healing, unto life everlasting.
From Venerable Fulton J. Sheen (+1979)
“God is the father who watches and waits for his children, runs out to meet them, embraces them, pleads with them, and begs and urges them to come home. It might sound strange, but God wants to find us as much, if not more, than we want to find God.” -Henry Nouwen.
In this year of change for us, St. Malachi Parishioners, the quote from Henry Nouwen sounds refreshing. As parishioners, we may want to take some time to renew and deepen our personal relationship with God together. If so, please join us reading and reflecting on the book Forming Intentional Disciples, The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus by Sherry A. Weddell. Besides reading and reflecting, we will be learning new forms of personal prayer during our sessions. The series starts, Sunday, October 13, 2019, 10:15AM in Malachi Center, reflecting about chapter three of the book. If you need a book or are interested and want more information, please contact Janet Benoit, Jackie Krejcik, Jan Leitch or Therese Mullen.
Please join us for the third session of this exciting and informative speaker series. Rev. Joe Fortuna, Pastor of Our Lady of the Lake Parish and adjunct faculty at St Mary’s Seminary in Cleveland, will be the presenter. The topic of his presentation will be “To Think the Church Anew: Stop Holding On To Me”. Tuesday , October 15, 2019 from 7-8:30PM. Blessed Trinity Church. 14040 Puritas Ave., Cleveland.
In today’s Gospel, we hear of the ten men afflicted with leprosy, & the one who glorifies God for being healed. It is a dramatic scene of gratitude. But in order for the miracle to happen in the first place, these men had to start walking in faith before their diseased conditions change one tiny bit. Good stewards of their faith realize that they cannot wait until their problems are over to start walking in faith. They praise God even in the darkest of nights, and in the worst of circumstances. Do we walk in faith, offering the Lord our gratitude even when we are in difficult circumstances
On Monday, September 30, 2019, our Jewish neighbors will celebrate Rosh Hashanah, also referred to as the Day of Remembrance. Rosh Hashanah is about returning to God through repentance. The holiday is used to remind us that submission to God is the way to demonstrate a repentant attitude to the Lord.
Join us on Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 7:30PM in the LSC Conference Room of the DJ Lombardo Student Center at John Carroll University for a lecture entitled “A Credible Faith: Catholic Identity in the Midst of Scandal,” presented by Richard R. Gaillardetz, Ph.D. Dr. Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor in Catholic Systematic Theology and Chair of the Theology Department at Boston College. The lecture is sponsored by the Institute of Catholic Studies, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and the Breen Chair in Catholic Theology.
Free and open to the public. For more information, contact 216.397.4700.
Rejoice and Be Glad!
Join us Wednesday November, 21, 2018 at 7:00 PM in the church for reflection and prayer about what we are grateful for, personally and as community. There will be readings and sharing to help us identify our gifts and offer God our gratitude. Bring a friend.
