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November 20th, 2016 4th of the Church
PARISH DIRECTORY Bishop Francis Kalabat Bishop of the Diocese of
St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit
Fr. Pierre Konja Administrator
Fr. Emanuel Rayes Retired in residence
Fr. Polis Khami Retired in residence
Linda Arabo Office Administrator
Nancy Beba Pastoral Associate
Office Hours Monday - Friday
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tel: 248-356-0565 Fax: 248-356-5235
E-mail:
[email protected]
البابا: هل تقومون بفحص ضمير يومي؟
احتفل البابا فرنسيس هذا الخميس بالقداس
الصباحي في كابلة القديسة مارتا بدولة
حاضرة الفاتيكان، وألقى عظة توقف فيها عند
رواية اإلنجيل الذي يحدثنا عن بكاء الرب
يسوع على أورشليم، وقال البابا إن يسوع بكى
على هذه المدينة ألنه تذكر تاريخ شعبه: إن هللا
أحب الشعب بال قياس لكن شعبه بادله هذا
الحب باألنانية والزنى وعبادة األوثان وعدم
الثقة. وتحدث البابا فرنسيس عن حب هللا
تجاه شعبه، الفتا إلى أن يسوع ” المجنون“
تذكر كلمات األنبياء، شأن هوشع وإرميا
وغيرهما، الذين تحدثوا عن محبة هللا إلسرائيل، ويقول الرب ألورشليم
إنها لم تعرف الزمن الذي
عادها فيه هللا.
وأكد البابا أن تاريخ إسرائيل المفعم بعدم األمانة وعدم اإلقرار
بمحبة هللا الذي يبحث عن اإلنسان
ويريده أن يكون سعيدا، ولّد األلم في قلب يسوع الذي رأى في تلك
اللحظة ما ينتظره فبكى. ومضى
البابا إلى القول إن هذه المأساة لم تقتصر على تلك الحادثة بل
تتكرر يوميا.
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FR. PIERRE’S MESSAGE TO THE PARISH
This Sunday is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, which
also makes it the
last Sunday for the Year of Mercy. Pope Francis felt it
important to declare
this year a year for mercy to encourage the faithful to turn to
God's mercy
and give that same mercy to those who've hurt them. Bishop
Francis, re-
sponding to Pope Francis' call, dedicated the doors of mercy at
Mother of
God, as it is the Chaldean Cathedral for this diocese.
So, as we conclude the liturgical year and Year of Mercy, it's
important to
reflect on how you've grown this year. You've heard a year's
worth of homi-
lies, a year's worth of readings and prayers, and a year of
mercy, what has
changed in your life? How have you grown closer to Jesus and His
church?
How has your prayer and faith life developed? (continued on page
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We need to be cautious that our faith doesn't get stagnant, our
faith needs to be alive and on fire! We need to contin-uously allow
the Holy Spirit to transform our hearts to grow deeper in love with
God and to allow His love to envelop our lives. What prayers have
you added? What have you learned about the faith? How have you
embraced your disciple-ship to preach the Gospel to the world and
those around you? Especially in this Year of Mercy, have you gone
to confession and allowed God's mercy in your life and have you
given mercy to those in your life that you hold anger towards? When
we reflect on this past year, don't get discouraged if you weren't
perfect, but be open to how and where Jesus is calling you, you
specifically, to go deeper in your com-mitment as His disciple.
-Fr. Pierre Konja
THE GOOD NEWS
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وذّكر بأن الليتورجية دعتنا منذ يومين إلى التأمل بثالث لحظات
لزيارة
هللا: إن هللا يزورنا ليؤنبنا وليدخل في حوار معنا، وليدعونا
للدخول إلى
بيته. وأشار فرنسيس إلى أن هللا يطلب منا أن نبّدل حياتنا، ويقول
لنا: إني
أطرق الباب، افتح لي! تماما كما طلب الرب إلى زكا العشار أن
ينزل
عن الشجرة ويستضيفه في بيته.
هذا ثم لفت البابا إلى أن أي شخص منا يمكن أن يقع اليوم في
األخطاء
نفسها التي ارتكبها شعب إسرائيل، لكن الرب يزورنا كل يوم ويطرق
بابنا كل يوم.
وينبغي أن نتعلم كيف نتعرف على زمن الزيارة هذا. وسأل فرنسيس
المؤمنين إذا ما كانوا يقومون بفحص ضمير يوميا، مؤكدا أن الرب
لم
يبك فقط على أورشليم بل بكى علينا جميعا. وطلب البابا من الرب
في
ختام عظته أن يهب الكل نعمة التعرف على الزمن الذي يزرونا فيه
هللا
كي نفتح بابنا ليسوع ليمتلئ قلبنا بالمحبة ويخدم الرب بالمحبة!
BOOK OF THE WEEK Does purgatory exist? If so, where, and why?
What does the Bible say? What does the Church teach? What sense can
be made of indulgences? This engaging survey of
Scripture, the Church Fathers, Christian history, distinguished
writers, and the Catechism, provides answers to these and many
other questions. In this
examination of the calling and dignity of each person, as well
as the context and purpose of our lives here on
earth, personal accountability and divine mercy harmoniously
combine to make sound common sense.
Fr. Donncha Ó hAodha is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature
living and working in Dublin. He is currently chaplain to Rockbrook
Park School, a boys' secondary
school.
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LITURGICAL SCHEDULE
Saturday Vigil Mass 4:00 PM English
Sunday Masses 8:30 AM Arabic/عربي
01:11 AM English 11:30 AM Morning Prayer
12:00 PM Chaldean/سورث 7:00 PM English
Weekday Masses 8:00 AM English at ECRC
9:30 AM Morning Prayer
10:00 AM Chaldean/سورث
Wednesday
5:00 PM Adoration 6:00 PM English Mass
Confession
5-6 pm Wednesday 6-7 pm Sunday
(or by appointment)
PARISH SCHEDULE AND WEEKLY INFORMATION
FINANCIAL STATUS
Sunday Goal: $7,000
Sunday Collection (November 13th): $4,779
Over/(Under): ($2,221)
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Monthly Online Donation Goal: $4,000
Monthly Online Collection (October): $1,438
Over/(Under): ($2,562)
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BAPTISM: We celebrate Baptism at 2:00 pm on the 1st and 3rd
Sunday of the month. Please call the parish office at least two
weeks in advance to see if a date is available.
ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the parish office to make
arrangements for Anointing or to receive the Eucharist.
MARRIAGE: Please schedule at least six months before you plan to
be married and before you make arrangements for the reception,
please call the parish office to make an appointment with the
priest to begin the necessary preparations.
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING CLASSES First and third Wednesday of
every even month from 7:30 - 9:30 pm.
MARRIAGE CLASSES First, second and third Thursday of every odd
month from 8:00 - 10:00 pm.
YOU CAN LISTEN TO MOG SUNDAY HOMILIY BY
VISITING OUR CHURCH WEBSITE AT:
www.ourladyofchaldeans.com
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PART ONE THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION TWO THE PROFESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
ARTICLE I "I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF
HEAVEN AND EARTH"
Paragraph 4. The Creator
V. GOD CARRIES OUT HIS PLAN: DIVINE PROVIDENCE 613God is the
sovereign master of his plan. But to carry it out he also makes use
of his creatures' co-operation. This use is not a sign of weakness,
but rather a token of almighty God's greatness and goodness. For
God grants his creatures not only their existence, but also the
dignity of acting on their own, of being causes and principles for
each other, and thus of co-operating in the accomplishment of his
plan.
613To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in
his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of
"subduing" the earth and having dominion over it.168 God thus
enables men to be intelligent and free causes in order to complete
the work of creation, to perfect its harmony for their own good and
that of their neighbors. Though often unconscious collaborators
with God's will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine
plan by their actions, their prayers and their sufferings.169 They
then fully become "God's fellow workers" and co-workers for his
kingdom.170
613The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his
creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator. God is the
first cause who operates in and through secondary causes: "For God
is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good
pleasure."171 Far from diminishing the creature's dignity, this
truth enhances it. Drawn from nothingness by God's power, wisdom
and goodness, it can do nothing if it is cut off from its origin,
for "without a Creator the creature vanishes."172 Still less can a
creature attain its ultimate end without the help of God's
grace.173
Providence and the scandal of evil.
613If God the Father almighty, the Creator of the ordered and
good world, cares for all his creatures, why does evil exist? To
this question, as pressing as it is unavoidable and as painful as
it is mysterious, no quick answer will suffice. Only Christian
faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: the
goodness of
creation, the drama of sin and the patient love of God who comes
to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his
Son, his gift of the Spirit, his gathering of the Church, the power
of the sacraments and his call to a blessed life to which free
creatures are invited to consent in advance, but from which, by a
terrible mystery, they can also turn away in advance. There is not
a single aspect of the Christian message that is not in part an
answer to the question of evil.
601But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil
could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create
something better.174 But with infinite wisdom and goodness God
freely willed to create a world "in a state of journeying" towards
its ultimate perfection. In God's plan this process of becoming
involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of
others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less
perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. With
physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation
has not reached perfection.175
600Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to
journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and
preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have
sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than
physical evil, entered the world. God is in no way, directly or
indirectly, the cause of moral evil.176 He permits it, however,
because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously,
knows how to derive good from it: For almighty God. . ., because he
is supremely good, would never allow any evil whatsoever to exist
in his works if he were not so all-powerful and good as to cause
good to emerge from evil itself.177
602 In time we can discover that God in his almighty providence
can bring a good from the consequences of an evil, even a moral
evil, caused by his creatures: "It was not you", said Joseph to his
brothers, "who sent me here, but God. . . You meant evil against
me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people
should be kept alive."178 From the greatest moral evil ever
committed - the rejection and murder of God's only Son, caused by
the sins of all men - God, by his grace that "abounded all the
more",179 brought the greatest of goods: the glorification of
Christ and our redemption. But for all that, evil never becomes a
good.
THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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THE KID’S BULLETIN
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Please join the seminarians for a dinner to support the gift of
life on Sunday November 27th at 8:00 pm at Mother of God church.
Funds will be raised for Help Iraq and the image of
God pregnancy center.
Mother of God Annual Christmas Concert & Party on December
10th at 6:00 pm. A family night filled with
hymns, activities and fellowship.
Early bird registration is now open for the 2017 march
for life and it ends on Monday, November 21.
$225/Person (Bus & Accommodations)
from January 26 - 29, 2017
For registration and more information please go to
www.prolifechaldeans.org
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