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SMKCP Voice Sunday, February 27, 2022 St Mary’s Knanaya Catholic Parish 46  Conklin Ave, Haverstraw, NY -1092 Pastor : Rev. Dr. Bipy Tharayil ������ 773-943-229 ✉ [email protected] Rectory ☎ 845-786-261 Trustees : Joseph Keezhangattu ✆ 845‐671‐6677 Jose Chamakala ✆ 845‐270‐3001 Alex Kidarathil ✆ 845-664-4336 Church Secretary: Siby Manalel ✆ 845‐825‐7883 Liturgy Coordinator: Sanju Kollaeratu ✆ 914-336-1779 DRE : Sabu Mekkatil ✆ 845-300-3508 Holy Mass Timings : Sunday 11.00 am (Live via Youtube), Tuesday 7.00 pm, Saturday 5.00 pm Vigil Mass (Westchester mission), Daily Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3.00 pm and Wednesday Rosary at 9.00 pm on our teleconference line. Our teleconference number is 16467699900, conference ID 10927#. Gospel Message Luke 4:1-13 The Temptation of Jesus 1. Though the church instructs us to observe the Great Lent with fasting, abstinence, prayer, and charity, they should come also as our free will decisions. Let fasting and abstinence help us overcome sensual desires. Our Lenten prayers and humble service would help us win our avaricious ambitions. Charity will give us joy than the temporary happiness and consequent troubles from greed and self- glory. As Jesus taught, let us be mindful that rituals without the spirit behind them are vain 2. Observance of the Great Fast is a period of spiritual renewal and should lead us to be fruitful. John the Baptist preached, “Whoever has two tunics should share with the person who has none. And whoever has food should do likewise” (Lk 3:11). Following his practical suggestions for repentance to the public, to the tax collectors (Lk 3:13), and the soldiers (Lk 3:14), let our Lenten observance help us renew our lives for more acts of charity 3. God would allow test on us in this world to verify our delity to Him and to empower us spiritually. When we succeed, it might come one by one as happened with Jesus three times. Disasters came one after another in Job’s life. We still need to resist the repeated temptations without fail, seeking the grace of God. Once we withstand the test, God will bless us abundantly as he did for Job and Jesus 4. The Biblical meaning of temptation is “a trial in which man has a free choice of being faithful or unfaithful to God”. Satan encouraged Jesus to deviate from his Father’s plan by misusing his authority. Jesus used the Holy Scripture to resist all such temptations. When we face temptations, we should look for a solution in the Bible Fr. Bipy Tharayi Pasto St. Marys Knanaya Catholic Churc Weekly Bulletin 1 h r l . .if . . 
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SMKCP Voice Sunday, February 27, 2022 Season of Epiphany Exodus 24:12-18 Hebrews 2:10-18 Luke 4:1-13 Bible verses Romans 12:1 “I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacri ce, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.” Hebrews 11:1 “Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.” Psalms 24.1 “The earth is the LORD’s and all it holds, the world and those who dwell in it.” Weekly Church collections Rockland Rockland Westchester Westchester Feb/19 Feb/20 Feb/13 Feb/12 $100 $320 Regular Offering $164 $137 $120 Church Dues $420 Special Contribution $85 $200 $20 Vincent De Paul Pledge $450 $1870 $90 Total $600 $3100 $500 $3779 $3307 $230 Announcements 1 1. Feb. 27 Sunday Pethruth 2. Feb 28 Monday Ash Monday ceremony at 7.00 pm 3. Koodaarayogams Saturdays & Sundays 4. Fridays 7.00 pm Mass & Way of the Cross I. March 4 St Stephan II. March 11 St Jud III. March 18 St Alphonsa IV. March 25 St Antony V. April 1 St Thomas VI. April 8 All the Ministrie VII. April 15 Good Friday Appointed peoples 5. April 8th ,9th &10th Lenten Retrea 6. June 24,25&26 Youth Meet at Pallotine Centre, Monroe, NY Weekly Bulletin t s e . a if

SMKCP Voice Sunday, February 27, 2022 Saint Katharine Drexel Saint Katharine Drexel’s Story If your father is an international banker and you ride in a private railroad car, you are not likely to be drawn into a life of voluntary poverty. But if your mother opens your home to the poor three days each week and your father spends half an hour each evening in prayer, it is not impossible that you will devote your life to the poor and give away millions of dollars. Katharine Drexel did that Born in Philadelphia in 1858, she had an excellent education and traveled widely. As a rich girl, Katharine also had a grand debut into society. But when she nursed her stepmother through a three-year terminal illness, she saw that all the Drexel money could not buy safety from pain or death, and her life took a profound turn Katharine had always been interested in the plight of the Indians, having been appalled by what she read in Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor. While on a European tour, she met Pope Leo XIII and asked him to send more missionaries to Wyoming for her friend Bishop James O’Connor. The pope replied, “Why don’t you become a missionary?” His answer shocked her into considering new possibilities. Back home, Katharine visited the Dakotas, met the Sioux leader Red Cloud and began her systematic aid to Indian missions Katharine Drexel could easily have married. But after much discussion with Bishop O’Connor, she wrote in 1889, “The feast of Saint Joseph brought me the grace to give the remainder of my life to the Indians and the Colored.” Newspaper headlines screamed “Gives Up Seven Million! After three and a half years of training, Mother Drexel and her rst band of nuns—Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored—opened a boarding school in Santa Fe. A string of foundations followed. By 1942, she had a system of black Catholic schools in 13 states, plus 40 mission centers and 23 rural schools. Segregationists harassed her work, even burning a school in Pennsylvania. In all, she established 50 missions for Indians in 16 states Two saints met when Mother Drexel was advised by Mother Cabrini about the “politics” of getting her order’s Rule approved in Rome. Her crowning achievement was the founding of Xavier University in New Orleans, the rst Catholic university in the United States for African Americans At 77, Mother Drexel su ered a heart attack and was forced to retire. Apparently her life was over. But now came almost 20 years of quiet, intense prayer from a small room overlooking the sanctuary. Small notebooks and slips of paper record her various prayers, ceaseless aspirations, and meditations. She died at 96 and was canonized in 2000 Re ection Saints have always said the same thing: Pray, be humble, accept the cross, love and forgive. But it is good to hear these things in the American idiom from one who, for instance, had her ears pierced as a teenager, who resolved to have “no cake, no preserves,” who wore a watch, was interviewed by the press, traveled by train, and could concern herself with the proper size of pipe for a new mission. These are obvious reminders that holiness can be lived in today’s culture as well as in that of Jerusalem or Rome https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-katharine-drexel Weekly Bulletin 2 . lf .ff .if .if ” . . .