Mass and Confessions Schedule

Weekend Masses: Regular Schedule Saturday 4:00 PM & 5:30 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM ,11:00 AM & 1:30 PM (SP) Confessions: Saturdays at 3:00 –4:00 PM Daily Mass: Monday through Friday At 8:00 AM Call the Office for: Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Communion to the Sick, Anointing and Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

Pastor: Rev. Luis R. Rivera Deacon: Rev. Mr. John T. Kirk Plant Manager: Paul Navara

Office Staff: Sis & Deacon John Kirk Office Hours: 9:00 - 3:00 PM (M-F)

Telephone: (305) 289-0636 Fax: (305) 743-8192 Religious Education Director: Terry Walters

Telephone (305) 393-1407 Music Director: Ray Myslakowski

Altar and Rosary Society: Jeri Mc Carty Gift Shop Manager: Sandy Huffman

Website: www.sanpablomarathon.org E mail: info@sanpablomarathon.org

Emergency Number: 305-587-4383

Please remember San Pablo Parish in your will

San Pablo Catholic Church 550 122nd Street - Ocean, Marathon, FL 33050 Mile Marker 53.5 Telephone: (305) 289-0636

First Sunday of Lent February 22, 2015

THE MEANING OF OUR BAPTISM

Lent is the time of year that we devote to scrutinizing our lives in the light of our baptism into the death and resurrection of Jesus. Today’s readings are a nice shorthand catechism of what our baptized lives mean. As Noah passed through the waters of the flood to a covenant with God, so did we enter into a covenant, a promised relation-ship with God through our baptism. The psalm reminds us that if we truly keep the covenant, the way of life God expects us to follow will not be a burden, but a source of love and truth. Peter’s let-ter gives one explanation of what our baptism means: it is an appeal that we make to God for a clear conscience. How do we obtain this clear con-science? The words that Jesus proclaims immedi-ately following his temptation show us the way: “Repent and believe in the gospel.” It might be a good spiritual exercise to keep these readings be-fore us throughout the entire season of Lent, a means to help us return to a life lived in our bap-tismal promises.

There will be no altar flowers during the six weeks of Lent.

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MASS INTENTIONS Each Mass is offered for the intentions of everyone present. Please join us in praying for: +deceased L living

MONDAY, February 23 (St. Ploycarp, bishop & martyr) 8:00AM +Virginia Jones Matsagas By Marshall Family + Dorothy Daniels By Rita Anderson

TUESDAY, February 24 8:00 AM + Robert Pfeifer By Martin & Maureen Cummins + Jack Savage By Kathy & Joe Ganster WEDNESDAY, February 25 8:00 AM + Robert Pfeifer By Jeri Mc Carty

L Pat Raynal By San Pablo Women’s Club THURSDAY, February 26 8:00 AM + Robert Pfeifer By Martin & Maureen Cummins L Mary Burgess By San Pablo Women’s Club FRIDAY, February 27 8:00 AM + Mary Boguslawski By Don & Steph Palmer & Family NOON Stations of the Cross SATURDAY, February 28 4:00 PM + Arline Wallace by Colleen & John Repetto + Elizabeth Ludwig by Bob & Judy Neary + James & Carol Hughes by Family

5:30 PM + Ann Runyon By Diane Weitz L Edward Zorsky, Sr. By DEW SUNDAY, February 29 8:00 AM L&D of Pinder & Pezzi Families + Marcel Aucremanne by Joe Aucremanne L Marlene Stec Grant by Shirl

11:00 AM + Martha Supp + JoAnne Mc Cauley 1:30 PM Sick of the Parish

COLLECTIONS FEBRUARY 15, 2015

1st- $ 9914 2nd- $2103

2014 1st-$ 8507 2nd- $2125

Thank you to all of our parishioners and visitors for your generous support of San Pablo.

+ REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD

I suspect that the real reason we avoid the desert is because in all that monotony there are no hiding places, no paths to crawl our way behind some kink of hill, no busyness that allows us to duck be-neath the rippling surface of honesty, no phone calls to undo the silence that echoes our real selves. Curious that we should be afraid of the nothing rather than of the something. Yet it is the nothing, in the end, that makes the revelation hap-pen. Such is the unsettling power of any desert, to reveal what we most fear in life, the real self that is perhaps less known and more imposing than anyone else’s self. Deserts do that, and so we avoid them like kids dancing about their homework. Over the years we learn that it’s safer to fritter about on the fringe of Lent than to get lost in its vast and desert emptiness. We’ve grown good at frittering, at tinkering with days stripped of televi-sion or meals that have surrendered their dessert. This frittering goes on simply because when it’s all over and done we are able to go back to the lives we’ve come to enjoy and treasure and nothing has been redone, least of all our real selves. Jesus, however, risked the desert. Never just a tinkerer, he dared to trek about the emptiness for forty days and nights. This week’s first scripture is a piece from Noah’s tale in the bobbing ark. Thus we might wonder which desert was more daunting, forty days and nights of Noah’s deluge or of Jesus’ drought. Yet both found themselves in new and different worlds, neither of which had ever before been mapped. -Rev. Joseph J. Juknialis

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Lv 19:1-2, 11-18; Ps 19:8-10, 15; Mt 25:31-46 Tuesday: Is 55:10-11; Ps 34:4-7, 16-19; Mt 6:7-15 Wednesday: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Lk 11:29-32 Thursday: Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25; Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8; Mt 7:7-12 Friday: Ez 18:21-28; Ps 130:1-8; Mt 5:20-26 Saturday: Dt 26:16-19; Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8; Mt 5:43- 48 Sunday: Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Ps 116:10, 15-19; Rom 8:31b-34; Mk 9:2-10

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Any Parishioner who wants To learn more

About your Faith And is interested in any one of these topics

May attend that particular class. You do not have to be an RCIA candidate to attend.

The Parish Misson begins this weekend February 22, 2015 with mission talks Monday through Thursday at 7:00 PM

Conducted By Rev. Kevin MacDonald C.Ss.R

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SAN PABLO ANNUAL PARISH MISSION FEBRUARY 21ST TO FEBRUARY 26TH

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FATHER KEVIN MAC DONALD WILL SPEAK AT ALL OF THE MASSES

MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MISSION TALKS WILL BE AT 7:00 PM TUESDAY EVENING THERE WILL BE A PENNANCE

SERVICE THURSDAY EVENING THERE WILL A CLOSING MASS **FATHER WILL PREACH AT THE 8 AM MASSES –MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS WILL NOT BE THE SAME TALK AS THE EVENING SESSIONS. PLEASE MAKE THE MISSION PART OF YOUR LENTEN JOURNEY.

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LENTEN OBSERVANCES FOR 2015

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of abstinence and fasting. All Fridays during Lent are days of abstinence from meat.

Stations of the Cross will be prayed every Friday at Noon in the Church.

Please take advantage of our up-coming Parish Mission with Fr. Kevin Mac Donald. The mission includes a Penance Service on Tues-day evening with multiple priests available for confession.

Participation in daily Mass is recommended during Lent as well as reading of Scripture, devotions such as praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet and praying the Lenten Rosary available every evening at 5:15 PM in the Church.

Be solicitous to the sick, the poor, the underprivileged, the impris-oned, the discouraged, and the stranger. These are suggestions for performing good works and alms giving, in particular Operation Rice Bowl and our own St. Vincent de Paul outreach through dona-tions to the Poor Box.

This Lent the Holy Spirit wants to transfigure us into the image of Christ and fill us with the fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self control. (Gal 5: 22)

OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED

THE PARISH FAMILY OF SAN PABLO CHURCH HAS BEEN OFFERING PRAYERS OF HEAL-ING FOR CATHY MCKOY SINCE SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER LAST SPRING. AT HER LAST VISIT CATHY WAS TOLD THAT SHE IS CANCER FREE. OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED. GLORY BE AND THANKS BE TO GOD.

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PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK AND THE HOMEBOUND

Sylvia Puto, Cathy Mc Koy, Joe Supp, Helen Ges-sell, Sara Joseph-Rager, Mary Burgess, Maureen Bragan, Andre Alvarez, Steve Thompson Johan-na Stoneking, Marie Valentine, Elena Pryor, Jim Boback, Michael Lavallato, Morgan Leary, Rich-ard Conn, Monica Haffey, Faith Palguta, Barbara Arena, Simone Hebert, Kristy Messina, Pat Miola, Sally Diller, Annie Marill & Girls, Elisa Martinez, Pat Raynal, Connie Pfeifer, Peter Pittman, Dallas Xavier Jimenez, Jim Hall, Katherine Harmon, Ron Sitta, Jr , Robert Montgomery, Ouellette Family, Ellen Monahan Andary, Nancy Magro and Richard April: May they all be touched by the healing hand of God.

Ongoing Activities

We welcome anyone new to the area and invite you to register at the office. Registration forms are also avail-able in the pamphlet rack in the church. While at San Pablo, please take a walk through our beautiful prayer gardens. The entrance is located be-tween the church and parish hall.

Religious Education Program meets in the Parish Hall. Families with children 1st grade and up meet on Sunday at 12:00 PM. Confirmation class meets at 6:00 PM on Wednesday. Please call Terry Walters at 305-393-1407 or IslandSun@aol.com

The Women’s Club meets on the 2nd Monday of the month in the Parish Hall from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. For more information about activities or meetings, call Joyce Hazuka at 289-8351.

San Pablo’s Hidden Heaven Gift Shop & Bookstore has many beautiful religious items for sale. The shop is located in the parish hall and is open after the Masses on Sunday.

The Rosary Group meets First Saturday in the Ro-sary Garden @12:00 Noon and every morning M-F @ 7:30 am before daily Mass. It’s a wonderful way to start the day.

The Arts & Crafts Ladies meet on Wednesdays from 1:00pm to 4:00pm in the parish hall. Habitat for Humanity of the Middle Keys meets monthly at San Pablo Parish Hall. Volunteers are needed. Call Chris @305-743-9828

AL-ANON @ 305-295-8886 or www.southfloridaal-anon.org if your life has been affected by someone’s drinking.

Alcoholics Anonymous@www.aa.org or 305-743-3262

Electronic Giving @Parish Pay. It’s easy. Please call 1-866-727-4741 or go to www.parishpay.com Please patronize our advertisers who are posted on the back page of the bulletin.

LENTEN FRIDAY NIGHT FISH FRY

All you can eat Fish Fry during the Friday’s of Lent beginning on Friday, February 20th from 5 PM-7PM at St. Peter’s in Big Pine in their parish hall. MM 31.3. Menu includes fried or grilled Mahi, Cole slaw, French Fries, drinks and dessert at $14.00 & (under 10) $5.00. All proceeds from the Fish Fry benefit the Knights of Columbus. Among other things, the Knights provide college scholarships to graduating high school seniors and they are also the major supporters of the Right to Life March in Washington DC.

OPERATION RICE BOWL

Each Lenten Season Catholic Relief Services (CRS) brings Spirituality to life through the Operation Rice Bowl (ORB) program. ORB is a program of educa-tion, prayer, fasting and almsgiving which connects participants with our most vulnerable sisters and brothers throughout the world. You will learn about a new country each week. Contribute and pray for the people you are learning about. At the end of Lent, your daily contributions will be collected. More info at http:/crs.org

SAN PABLO BINGO San Pablo Bingo is played every Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM in the parish hall. The doors open at 5:00 PM and the games begin at 7:00 PM. Soft drinks and sandwiches are available. Join Fran and John for a fun filled night of games and specials including the Cookie Jar and of course the King and Queen of Bingo. All proceeds benefit San Pablo Church. This is per-centage bingo. The more who play the greater the prize.

VOCATION AWARENESS WEEKEND March 20-22, 2015

More and more young men are seeking a profound relationship with Jesus Christ and are considering the possibility that they may be called by God to embrace a vocation to the diocesan priesthood. Vocation Awareness Weekend is a retreat for men ages 17-35 who are seeking more information about the priest-hood and seminary life. It is held at St. John Vianney College Seminary in Miami. If you would like to at-tend please contact Fr. Rivera of call Fr. David Zirilli at 305-762-1137 or vocation@theadom.org.