Saturday, March 09,
2013
4th Sunday
of LENT – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Mass in English
First Reading
JOSHUA 5:9-12
9 Yahweh then said to
Joshua, 'Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.' Hence, the place
has been called Gilgal ever since.
10 The Israelites
pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day
of the month, at evening, in the plain of Jericho.
11 On the very next day
after the Passover, they ate what the land produced, unleavened bread and
roasted ears of corn.
12 The manna stopped the
day after they had eaten the produce of the land. The Israelites from that year
onwards ate the produce of Canaan and had no more manna.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 33:2-7
2 Give thanks to Yahweh
on the lyre, play for him on the ten-stringed lyre.
3 Sing to him a new
song, make sweet music for your cry of victory.
4 The word of Yahweh is
straightforward, all he does springs from his constancy.
5 He loves uprightness
and justice; the faithful love of Yahweh fills the earth.
6 By the word of Yahweh
the heavens were made, by the breath of his mouth all their array.
7 He collects the
waters of the sea like a dam, he stores away the abyss in his treasure-house.
Second Reading
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-21
17 So for anyone who is
in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is
there to see.
18 It is all God's work;
he reconciled us to himself through Christ and he gave us the ministry of
reconciliation.
19 I mean, God was in
Christ reconciling the world to himself, not holding anyone's faults against
them, but entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
20 So we are ambassadors
for Christ; it is as though God were urging you through us, and in the name of
Christ we appeal to you to be reconciled to God.
21 For our sake he made
the sinless one a victim for sin, so that in him we might become the
uprightness of God.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 15:1-3, 11-32
1 The tax collectors
and sinners, however, were all crowding round to listen to him,
2 and the Pharisees and
scribes complained saying, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.'
3 So he told them this
parable:
11
Then he said, 'There was a man who had two sons.
12 The younger one said
to his father, "Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come
to me." So the father divided the property between them.
13 A few days later,
the younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country
where he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.
14 'When he had spent it
all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the
pinch;
15 so he hired himself
out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs.
16 And he would
willingly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating but no one
would let him have them.
17 Then he came to his
senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they
want and more, and here am I dying of hunger!
18 I will leave this
place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and
against you;
19 I no longer deserve
to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired men."
20 So he left the place
and went back to his father. 'While he was still a long way off, his father saw
him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and
kissed him.
21 Then his son said,
"Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve
to be called your son."
22 But the father said
to his servants, "Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a
ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
23 Bring the calf we
have been fattening, and kill it; we will celebrate by having a feast,
24 because this son of
mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found." And
they began to celebrate.
25 'Now the elder son
was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could
hear music and dancing.
26 Calling one of the
servants he asked what it was all about.
27 The servant told
him, "Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf we had
been fattening because he has got him back safe and sound."
28 He was angry then
and refused to go in, and his father came out and began to urge him to come in;
29 but he retorted to
his father, "All these years I have slaved for you and never once
disobeyed any orders of yours, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me
to celebrate with my friends.
30 But, for this son of
yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property -- he and his loose
women -- you kill the calf we had been fattening."
31 'The father said,
"My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours.
32 But it was only
right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and
has come to life; he was lost and is found." '
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
Holy Father’s Prayer
Intention
General: That respect for
nature will grow, 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 celebrated by Rt. Rev. Bishop Paul Tan. After Mass all are invited to join in the buffet lunch.
Talk on "Islamic Law" in Malaysia
Date: 25 March, 2013 (Monday)
Place: Pastoral Institute, Majodi
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 pm
BEC Reflection: March 13, 2013
Mary Koh 7, Jalan Seroja 35, Johor Jaya Tel: 07-3535786 (English)
Anna Tan 84, Jalan Anggerik 52, Johor Jaya Tel: 016-7498248 (Mandarin)
.
Penitential Service for South Johor Parishes
Talk on "Islamic Law" in Malaysia
Date: 25 March, 2013 (Monday)
Place: Pastoral Institute, Majodi
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 pm
BEC Reflection: March 13, 2013
Mary Koh 7, Jalan Seroja 35, Johor Jaya Tel: 07-3535786 (English)
Anna Tan 84, Jalan Anggerik 52, Johor Jaya Tel: 016-7498248 (Mandarin)
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
23
March, 2013 Saturday @ 6:00 pm - English
24
March, 2013 Sunday @ 8:00 am - Mandarin
24
March, 2013 Sunday @ 12:00 noon – Bahasa Malaysia
Maundy Thursday 28 March, 2013 @ 8:00
pm - Multi-lingual
Good Friday 29 March, 2013 @ 7:30
pm Way of the Cross
follow
by Service in Multi-lingual
Easter
Vigil 9:00 pm - Multi-lingual
Easter Sunday 31 March, 2013 @ 10:00
am - 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, 2013 GSS Melaka
08-10
November, 2013 Majodi Centre
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