SATURDAY – of The 1ST Week of Lent – 27-02-2021“Let us build an Ark this Lent that is strong enough to withstand the pressures of the world”ST SWITHUN’s CHURCH IS OPEN FOR PUBLIC CELEBRATIONS:– please keep a proper distance;– sanitize a place which was in contact of your body;– if you will come with children, please do not allow children to walk, run in the church, to avoid many any contact with other people and more places touched which will ne to be sanitize;– keep one direction way and exit the church by the deigned exits;– Please do bear this in mind: the doors must be left open for a good ventilation, so as the temperature drops in the weeks ahead it will be important to wrap-up warm;SACRAMNET OF CONFESSION FROM 9.00am to 9.25am OUR PLAN IS: (also live-streamed):At 6.00am – Lectio Divina (Divine Reading – a way of Christian Morning Meditation) [available: live-streaming by our Facebook Profile]6.30am – The Holy Mass (in Polish): 25th Gregorian Mass for+ Katarzyna Majecka RIP;9.00am – Exposition of The Blessed Sacrament;9.30am – The Holy Rosary prayer followed by Benediction;10.00am – The Holy Mass. Intention: Kit Brownie – special intentions; (homily theme: ‘Mercy in Sodom’)At 3.00pm – ATTENTION!!! – there will be no HOUR of MERCY (except Fridays)6.00pm – VIGIL MASS OF THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT. Mass. Intention: For Barbara Drabik on Her 70th Birthday;at 7.15 PM – 20 minutes with Children about Sunday’s Gospel (through ‘Zoom’ – invitation published on Facebook)PLEASE, pray today especially for our Dear Vincenzo’s Parents, Caroline, Stasiek, Stanislawa, Marysia, Kathleen & Kevin, Jo, Maria, Mary, Joanna’s Parents, Anne, Joey, Charlie, Xander, our First Communion Children, especially this week – Juliet and Her Family, for our Parish, AND For our PARISH ONLINE CATHOLIC SCHOOL😇🙏
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LECTIO DIVINA (live streaming at 6.00am)Saturday, February 27, 2021The meaning of prayer, almsgiving and fastingThe way to spend the time of Lent wellCome, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,and in our souls take up Thy rest;come with Thy grace and heavenly aidto fill the hearts which Thou hast made.O comforter, to Thee we cry,O heavenly gift of God Most High,O fount of life and fire of love,and sweet anointing from above.Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;Thou, finger of God’s hand we own;Thou, promise of the Father,Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue.Kindle our sense from above,and make our hearts o’erflow with love;with patience firm and virtue highthe weakness of our flesh supply.Far from us drive the foe we dread,and grant us Thy peace instead;so shall we not, with Thee for guide,turn from the path of life aside.Oh, may Thy grace on us bestowthe Father and the Son to know;and Thee, through endless times confessed,of both the eternal Spirit blest.Now to the Father and the Son,Who rose from death, be glory given,with Thou, O Holy Comforter,henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.Opening prayerLord God, from you comes the initiative of love. You seek us out and you tell us:“I am your God; you are my people.” You love us in Jesus Christ, your Son.God, may our response of love go far beyond the demands of any law. May we seek you and commune with you in the deepest of our being and may we express our gratitude to you by going to our neighbor with a love that is spontaneous like yours. We ask you this through Christ our Lord.Psalm 1191 Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the Law of the LORD.2 Blessed are they who keep His statutes and seek Him with all their heart.3 They do nothing wrong; they walk in His ways.4 You have laid down precepts to be fully obeyed.5 Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying all Your decrees!6 Then I would not be put to shame when I consider Your commands.7 I will praise You with an upright heart as I learn Your righteous laws.8 I will obey all Your decrees; do not utterly forsake me. RepeatGospel Reading – Matthew 5: 43-48‘You have heard how it was said, You will love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the bad aswell as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike.For if you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax collectors do as much? And if you save your greetings for your brothers, are you doinganything exceptional? Do not even the gentiles do as much? You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.’A moment of prayerful silence so that the Word of God may penetrate and enlighten our life. Reflection…Personal questions• To love the enemies. Am I capable to love my enemies?• Contemplate Jesus, in silence who at the hour of his death, he loved the enemy who killed him.Ave Maris StellaHail, O Star of the ocean,God’s own Mother blest,ever sinless Virgin,gate of heav’nly rest. Taking that sweet Ave,which from Gabriel came,peace confirm within us,changing Eve’s name.Break the sinners’ fetters,make our blindness day,Chase all evils from us,for all blessings pray.Show thyself a Mother,may the Word divineborn for us thine Infanthear our prayers through thine.Virgin all excelling,mildest of the mild,free from guilt preserve usmeek and undefiled.Keep our life all spotless,make our way securetill we find in Jesus,joy for evermore.Praise to God the Father,honor to the Son,in the Holy Spirit,be the glory one. Amen.Concluding PrayerHow blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of Yahweh!Blessed are those who observe his instructions, who seek him with all their hearts (Ps 119: 1-2)
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8/12 Day PreparationDay 8 of 33 – SATURDAY 27th FEBRUARY 2021 1. Read during: Light dispels darknessA Reading from the Book of Genesis:In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face ofthe waters. And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness hecalled Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. (Gen 1:1-5)Pope Benedict XVI’s Easter Vigil homily 2012:What is the creation account saying here? Light makes life possible. It makes encounter possible. It makes communication possible. It makes knowledge, access to reality and to truth, possible. And insofar as it makes knowledge possible, it makes freedom and progress possible. Evil hides. Light, then, is also an expression of the good that both is and creates brightness. It is daylight, which makes it possible for us to act. To say that God created light means that God created the world as a space for knowledge and truth, as a space for encounter and freedom, as a space for good and for love. Matter is fundamentally good, being itself is good. And evil does not come from God-made being, rather, it comes into existence only through denial. It is a “no”. At Easter, on the morning of the first day of the week, God said once again: “Let there be light”. The night on the Mount of Olives, the solar eclipse of Jesus’ passion and death, the night of the grave had all passed. Now it is the first day once again – creation is beginning anew. “Let therebe light”, says God, “and there was light”: Jesus rises from the grave. Life is stronger than death. Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Truth is stronger than lies. The darkness of the previous days is driven away the moment Jesus rises from the grave and himself becomes God’s pure light. But this applies not only to him, not only to the darkness of those days. With the resurrection of Jesus, light itself is created anew. He draws all of us after him into the new light of the resurrection and he conquers all darkness. He is God’s new day, new for all of us.But how is this to come about? How does all this affect us so that instead of remaining word it becomes a reality that draws us in? Through the sacrament of baptism and the profession of faith, the Lord has built a bridge across to us, through which the new day reaches us. The Lord says to the newly-baptized: Fiat lux – let there be light. God’s new day – the day of indestructible life, comes also to us. Christ takes you by the hand. From now on you are held byhim and walk with him into the light, into real life. For this reason the early Church called baptism photismos – illumination.Reflection:Saint Louis de Montfort reminded us that Baptism is an entrance into Mary’s womb. That is the place where we learn a new logic, where we are enlightened as to the real power, providenceand plan of God. It is where we first draw close to Christ, like a twin with Him in the womb and we are formed with Him by the Holy Spirit and we become another Christ. Have I allowedthe logic of God to be fully formed in me? Do I allow a new light from God to rise up in my mind and heart? Do I believe that, “Life is stronger than death, good is stronger than evil, loveis stronger than hate, truth is stronger than lies?” Will I take Christ’s Hand again, as I once did in Baptism, and allow myself to be illumined by the light of His Love? Let us do that especiallyby making a Profession of Faith and recite the Creed.2. Pray During a day:St. Louis De Montfort’s Prayer to MaryHail Mary, beloved Daughter of the Eternal Father!Hail Mary, admirable Mother of the Son! Hail Mary,faithful spouse of the Holy Ghost! Hail Mary, my dearMother, my loving Mistress, my powerful sovereign!Hail my joy, my glory, my heart and my soul! Thouart all mine by mercy, and I am all thine by justice.But I am not yet sufficiently thine. I now give myselfwholly to thee without keeping anything back formyself or others. If thou still seest in me anythingwhich does not belong to thee, I beseech thee totake it and to make thyself the absolute Mistress ofall that is mine. Destroy in me all that may bedispleasing to God, root it up and bring it to nought;place and cultivate in me everything that is pleasingto thee.May the light of thy faith dispel the darkness of mymind; may thy profound humility take the place of mypride; may thy sublime contemplation check thedistractions of my wandering imagination; may thycontinuous sight of God fill my memory with Hispresence; may the burning love of thy heart inflamethe lukewarmness of mine; may thy virtues take theplace of my sins; may thy merits be my onlyadornment in the sight of God and make up for allthat is wanting in me. Finally, dearly beloved Mother,grant, if it be possible, that I may have no other spiritbut thine to know Jesus and His divine will; that Imay have no other soul but thine to praise andglorify the Lord; that I may have no other heart butthine to love God with a love as pure and ardent asthine I do not ask thee for visions, revelations,sensible devotion or spiritual pleasures. It is thyprivilege to see God clearly; it is thy privilege toenjoy heavenly bliss; it is thy privilege to triumphgloriously in Heaven at the right hand of thy Son andto hold absolute sway over angels, men anddemons; it is thy privilege to dispose of all the gifts ofGod, just as thou willest.Such is, O heavenly Mary, the "best part," which theLord has given thee and which shall never be takenaway from thee-and this thought fills my heart withjoy. As for my part here below, I wish for no otherthan that which was thine: to believe sincerelywithout spiritual pleasures; to suffer joyfully withouthuman consolation; to die continually to myselfwithout respite; and to work zealously andunselfishly for thee until death as the humblest of thyservants. The only grace I beg thee to obtain for meis that every day and every moment of my life I maysay: Amen, so be it’s all that thou didst do while onearth; Amen, so be it’s all that thou art now doing inHeaven; Amen, so be it-to all that thou art doing inmy soul, so that thou alone mayest fully glorify Jesusin me for time and eternity. Amen. 3. Prayer – Veni Creator & Ave Maris Stella at 6.00amCome, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,and in our souls take up Thy rest;come with Thy grace and heavenly aidto fill the hearts which Thou hast made.O comforter, to Thee we cry,O heavenly gift of God Most High,O fount of life and fire of love,and sweet anointing from above.Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;Thou, finger of God’s hand we own;Thou, promise of the Father,Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue.Kindle our sense from above,and make our hearts o’erflow with love;with patience firm and virtue highthe weakness of our flesh supply.Far from us drive the foe we dread,and grant us Thy peace instead;so shall we not, with Thee for guide,turn from the path of life aside.Oh, may Thy grace on us bestowthe Father and the Son to know;and Thee, through endless times confessed,of both the eternal Spirit blest.Now to the Father and the Son,Who rose from death, be glory given,with Thou, O Holy Comforter,henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.Ave Maris StellaHail, O Star of the ocean,God’s own Mother blest,ever sinless Virgin,gate of heav’nly rest. Taking that sweet Ave,which from Gabriel came,peace confirm within us,changing Eve’s name.Break the sinners’ fetters,make our blindness day,Chase all evils from us,for all blessings pray.Show thyself a Mother,may the Word divineborn for us thine Infanthear our prayers through thine.Virgin all excelling,mildest of the mild,free from guilt preserve usmeek and undefiled.Keep our life all spotless,make our way securetill we find in Jesus,joy for evermore.Praise to God the Father,honor to the Son,in the Holy Spirit,be the glory one. Amen.3. Magnificat, and Glory Be- during HOUR of MERCY at 3 pmMagnificatMy soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid; for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Because He that is mighty hath done great things to me; and holy is His name. And His mercy is from generation to generations, to them that fear Him. He hath showed might in His arm; He hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.He hath put down the mighty from their seat; and hath exalted the humble. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath received Israel His servant, being mindful of His mercy. As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever. Amen.Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.Examine your conscience, pray, practice renouncement of your own will; mortification, purity of heart. This purity is the indispensable condition for contemplating God in heaven, to see Him on earth and to know Him by the light of faith. The first part of the preparation should be employed in casting off the spirit of the world which is contrary to that of Jesus Christ. The spirit of the world consists essentially in the denial of the supreme dominion of God; a denial which is manifested in practice by sin and disobedience; thus it is principally opposed to the spirit of Christ,which is also that of Mary.
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