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Wednesday, January 26th: grades 1-6 have religious education classes beginning at 6:15 PM and ending at 7:30 PM; grade 8 has class beginning at 6:00 PM and ending at 7:30 PM; High School Youth Ministry will meet beginning at 7:00 PM and ending at 8:30 PM.
Next week Wednesday, February 2 grade 7 will not have religious education class.
Also, next Wednesday there will be a wild game feed in the parish center. Parents, please use caution when dropping off and picking up your children for religious education class.
I will make you fishers of Men
First Reading: Isaiah 8:23—9:3 (We have seen a Great Light); Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 (Let there be no Divisions); Gospel: Matthew 4:12-23 (Come follow Me)
Adults: Do I understand that Christ who has called me expects me to call others? How have I recently shared my faith?
Children: I know that Jesus loves me. Do I understand that I respond to his love by the way I love others?
The Church Unity Octave, a forerunner of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, was developed by Father Paul Wattson, SA, at Graymoor in Garrison, New York, and was first observed at Graymoor from January 18-25, 1908. Today, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity invites the whole Christian community throughout the world to pray in communion with the prayer of Jesus “that they all may be one” (John 17:21).
In 1966, the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and the Vatican Secretariat (now Council) for Promoting Christian Unity began collaborating as a common international text for worldwide usage. Since 1968 these international texts, which are based on themes proposed by ecumenical groups around the world, have been developed, adapted and published for use in the United States by the Graymoor Ecumenical and Interreligious Institute.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2011 Chosen Theme is: One in the Apostles’ Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking of Bread and Prayer (cf. Acts 2:42)
The theme for the annual celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2011 has been announced by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches. The theme for the 2011 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is One in the Apostles’ Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking of Bread and Prayer. It comes from Acts Chapter 2 versus 42. For 2011, the churches in Jerusalem were the initial consultants to the Joint Working Group for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The Christians of Jerusalem call upon their brothers and sisters to make this week of prayer an occasion of renewed commitment to work for genuine ecumenism grounded in the experience of the early Church.
January 9, 2011 (This is my Beloved Son)
First Reading: Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 (Behold my Servant); Second Reading: Acts 10:34-38 (Anointed with the Spirit); Gospel: Matthew 3:13-17 (The Spirit came upon Him)
Adults: In what ways has the Holy Spirit helped me bring peace and justice into the world?
Children: What can I do this week to bring peace into my family?
General: Young people and Social Communications Media
That young people may learn to use modern means of social communication for their personal growth and to better prepare themselves to serve society.
Mission: Christian Unity
That every believer in Christ may be conscious that unity among all Christians is a condition for more effective proclamation of the Gospel.
