Saturday, March 02,
2013
3rd Sunday
of LENT – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Mass in English
First Reading
EXODUS 3:1-8, 13-15
1 Moses was looking
after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led it to
the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 The angel of Yahweh
appeared to him in a flame blazing from the middle of a bush. Moses looked;
there was the bush blazing, but the bush was not being burnt up.
3 Moses said, 'I must
go across and see this strange sight, and why the bush is not being burnt up.'
4 When Yahweh saw him
going across to look, God called to him from the middle of the bush. 'Moses,
Moses!' he said. 'Here I am,' he answered.
5 'Come no nearer,' he
said. 'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy
ground.
6 I am the God of your
ancestors,' he said, 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of
Jacob.' At this Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 Yahweh then said, 'I
have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for
help on account of their taskmasters. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings.
8 And I have come down
to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that
country, to a country rich and broad, to a country flowing with milk and honey,
to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites and the Jebusites.
13 Moses then said to
God, 'Look, if I go to the Israelites and say to them, "The God of your
ancestors has sent me to you," and they say to me, "What is his
name?" what am I to tell them?'
14 God said to Moses, 'I
am he who is.' And he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites,
"I am has sent me to you." '
15 God further said to
Moses, 'You are to tell the Israelites, "Yahweh, the God of your
ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent
me to you." This is my name for all time, and thus I am to be invoked for
all generations to come.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 102:1-4, 6-8,
11
1 [Prayer of someone
afflicted, who in misfortune pours out sorrows before Yahweh] Yahweh, hear my
prayer, let my cry for help reach you.
2 Do not turn away your
face from me when I am in trouble; bend down and listen to me, when I call, be
quick to answer me!
3 For my days are
vanishing like smoke, my bones burning like an oven;
4 like grass struck by
blight, my heart is withering, I forget to eat my meals.
6 I am like a desert-owl
in the wastes, a screech-owl among ruins,
7 I keep vigil and moan
like a lone bird on a roof.
8 All day long my
enemies taunt me, those who once praised me now use me as a curse.
11 my days are like a
fading shadow, I am withering up like grass.
Second Reading
1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-6,
10-12
1 I want you to be
quite certain, brothers, that our ancestors all had the cloud over them and all
passed through the sea.
2 In the cloud and in
the sea they were all baptised into Moses;
3 all ate the same
spiritual food
4 and all drank the
same spiritual drink, since they drank from the spiritual rock which followed
them, and that rock was Christ.
5 In spite of this, God
was not pleased with most of them, and their corpses were scattered over the
desert.
6 Now these happenings
were examples, for our benefit, so that we should never set our hearts, as they
did, on evil things;
10 Never complain; some
of them complained, and they were killed by the Destroyer.
11 Now all these things
happened to them by way of example, and they were described in writing to be a
lesson for us, to whom it has fallen to live in the last days of the ages.
12 Everyone, no matter
how firmly he thinks he is standing, must be careful he does not fall.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 13:1-9
1 It was just about
this time that some people arrived and told him about the Galileans whose blood
Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them,
2 'Do you suppose that
these Galileans were worse sinners than any others, that this should have
happened to them?
3 They were not, I tell
you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.
4 Or those eighteen on
whom the tower at Siloam fell, killing them all? Do you suppose that they were
more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem?
5 They were not, I tell
you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.'
6 He told this parable,
'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on
it but found none.
7 He said to his
vinedresser, "For three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on
this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the
ground?"
8 "Sir," the
man replied, "leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and
manure it:
9 it may bear fruit
next year; if not, then you can cut it down." '
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
Holy Father’s Prayer
Intention
General: That respect for
nature will g
ow,
with the awareness that all creation is the work of God entrusted to human responsibility.
Mission: bishops, priests and
deacons may be tireless Proclaimers of the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
St Joseph Plentong
Church News
Parish Feast Day:
The
Feast of St Joseph will be celebrated on Sunday, 17th March 2013. There will be
only one multilingual Mass at 10:00 am.
There
will be a Parish Finance Committee meeting on 3rd March, 2013 at 02:00 pm
follow by the Parish Pastoral Council Meeting at 03:00 pm.
Kindly
take note all those who are involved.
Penitential Service
for South Johor Parishes.
All
Services are at 8:00 pm.
11/3/13 Church of the Immaculate Conception
Skudai Catholic Centre
12/3/13 Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
13/3/13 Church of Christ the King, Kulai
14/3/13 Church of St Joseph, Plentong
Church of St Theresa, Masai
15/3/13 Church of the Holy Family, Ulu Tiram
Church of St Elizabeth, Kota
Tinggi
St
Joseph’s Church Mass Schedule for Palm Sunday and Holy Week 2013
Palm Sunday
|
Maundy
Thursday
|
Good Friday
|
Easter Vigil
|
Easter
Sunday
|
23/3
6.00pm
English
24/3
8.00am
Mandarin
12 noon
BM
|
8.00pm
Multi-lingual
|
7.30pm Way of the Cross
Followed by Service in Multi-lingual
|
9.00pm
Multi-lingual
|
10.00am
Multi-lingual
|
Lenten Retreat by Fr.
Jerry Rosario SJ
Date:
22-24 March, 2013 in English
Venue:
St John Vianney Retreat Centre
Contribution:
RM200.00
Love, Sex &
Sexuality Based on Humanae Vitae
by
Dr. L.L. Chan, President of Billings
Ovulation Method
Saturday,
March 16, 2013 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Venue:
St James Hall, Sacred Heart Cathedral
Vatican Council
Documents II
by
Rev PD Dr. Sherman Kuek SFO
Sunday,
March 24, 2013 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue:
St James Hall, Sacred Heart Cathedral
MARRIAGE PREPARATION
WEEKENDS FOR YEAR 2013
English
– Feona Petrus – 016 -7222642
08-10
March 2013, GSS Melaka
21-23
June 2013, Majodi Centre
20-22
September, GSS Melaka
08-10
November, Majodi Centre
