Readings: next Sunday, 29th January 2017 – 4th Sunday - Ordinary “A” ZEPHANIAH 2:3; 3:12-13 1 CORINTHIANS 1:26-31 MATTHEW 5:1-12

Tuesday, 24th January: 17.00: MASS St Francis de Sales

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: CHRIST THE KING SCC —————————————————————————————————

Wednesday, 25th January.: 18.00: MASS Conversion of St Paul, Feast

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST PAUL SCC —————————————————————————————————

Thursday, 26th January: 17.00: MASS Saints Timothy & Titus

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST ANTHONY SCC —————————————————————————————————

Friday, 27th January: 17.00: MASS

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST AUGUSTINE SCC —————————————————————————————————

Saturday, 28th January: 08.30: MASS

MEMORIAL MASS: the Late Daniel Chileshe - first anniversary of death,

followed by Unveiling of the tomb St Thomas Aquinas

16:30: ADORATION/BENEDICTION: YOUTH —————————————————————————————————

SUNDAY, 29nd Jan.: Duty: YOUTH 4th Sunday - Ordinary Time

(OFFERTORY: ALL MEN [C.C.M.])

ENGLISH: READERS: MRS CATHERINE MPUNDU, MR HUMPHREY LUMBWE (MS C. MPHANDE).

CHOIR: YOUTH CHOIR

NYANJA: READERS: MRS STELLA CHIBWE, MRS CATHERINE MPUNDU (MRS T. TEMBO).

CHOIR: ST KIZITO SCC —————————————————————————————————

Tuesday, 31st January: 17.00: MASS St John Bosco

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: THE YOUTH —————————————————————————————————

Wednesday, 1st February.:

16.00 - ADORATION & BENEDICTION (FOR FAMI-

LIES) - THIRD ORDER; 17.00: MASS

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST FRANCIS SCC

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Thursday, 2nd February:

16.00 - ADORATION & BENEDICTION (FOR VOCA-

TIONS) - NAZARETH; 17.00: MASS The Presentation of the Lord

& Blessing of the Candles

(PARISHIONERS TO BRING THE CANDLES)

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST KIZITO SCC —————————————————————————————————

Friday, 3rd February: 16.00 - ADORATION & BENEDICTION (PLEA TO SACRED HEART OF JE-

SUS) - C.W.L.; 17.00: MASS St Blaise: Blessing against

the Sickness of throat

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST JOSEPH SCC —————————————————————————————————

Saturday, 4th February: 08.30: MASS

(OFFERTORY: ALL WOMEN [C.C.W.])

14.00: ST PAUL SCC - SECTION MASS

16:30: ADORATION/BENEDICTION: ST KIZITO SCC —————————————————————————————————

SUNDAY, 5th Feb.: Duty: ST KIZITO SCC 5th Sunday - Ordinary Time

(OFFERTORY: CATHOLIC ACTION, NAZARETH)

ENGLISH: READERS: MS COLETTE MPHANDE, MRS BERNADETTE MULENGA (MS S. KASONGO).

CHOIR: ST FRANCIS SCC

NYANJA: READERS: GEN HARRISON PHIRI, MRS BELITA CHIPETA (MRS E. MBEWE).

CHOIR: ST KIZITO SCC —————————————————————————————————

Tuesday, 7th February: 17.00: MASS READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST LUCIA SCC

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Wednesday, 8th February.: 17.00: MASS St Bakhita

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST BAKHITA SCC —————————————————————————————————

Thursday, 9th February: 17.00: MASS

READING/PETITIONS/SINGING: ST MARTIN SCC —————————————————————————————————

Sunday Masses: 07:30 (in English) 09:30 (in Nyanja)

(Confession - before each Mass) Children’s Mass: 15:00 (3rd Sunday of Month)

Weekday Masses: Tuesday - Friday: 17:00hrs

Saturday: Mass: 08:30 (+ catechism classes)

Adoration/Benediction: 16:30-17:30(confession)

CHRIST THE REDEEMER MAKENI PARISH

P.O. Box 38117, Lusaka

Parish Website: www.makeniparish.com

Email: newsletter.makeni@gmail.com

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Readings: 3rd Sunday - Ordinary Time “A” ISAIAH 8:23—9.3: In Galilee of the nations the people has seen a great light RESPONSORIAL PSALM 26: THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY HELP 1 CORINTHIANS 1:10-13.17: Make up the differences between you instead of disagreeing among yourselves MATTHEW 4:12-23: He went and settled in Capernaum: in this way the prophecyof Isaiah was to be fulfilled

HOLY CHILDHOOD MEETINGS - EVERY SUNDAY AT 14:00HRS

We should love God alone

Whoever is in love with himself is unable to love God. The man who loves God is the one who abandons his self-love for the sake of the immeasurable blessings of divine love. Such a man never seeks his own glory but only the glo-ry of God. If a person loves himself he seeks his own glory, but the man who loves God loves the glory of his Creator.

Anyone alive to the love of God can be recog-nised from the way he constantly strives to glori-fy him by fulfilling all his commandments and by delighting in his own submission. It is fitting that God should receive glory, because of his great majesty; but it is fitting for us as human beings to submit ourselves to God and thereby become his friends. Then we too will rejoice in his glory as Saint John the Baptist did, and we shall nev-er stop repeating: His fame must increase, but mine must diminish.

I knew someone who was sad that he could not love God as he would have wanted, but who nevertheless loved God so much that his soul was always in the grip of desire for God, for God’s glory to manifest itself in him, for himself to be as nothing in comparison. Such a person cannot be touched by verbal praise or con-vinced of his being, since his overwhelming hu-mility means that he simply does not think about his own dignity or status. He celebrates the litur-gy as, according to the law, priests should; but

his love of God blinds him to all awareness of his own dignity. He buries any glory that might come his way in the depth of his love of God, so that he never sees himself as anything more than a useless servant: he is estranged, as it were, from a sense of his own dignity by his de-sire for lowliness. This is the sort of thing we ought to do, to flee from any honour or glory that is offered us, for the sake of the immense riches of our love of God who has so loved us.

Anyone who loves God in the depths of his heart has already been loved by God. In fact, the measure of a man’s love for God depends upon how deeply aware he is of God’s love for him. When this awareness is keen it makes whoever possesses it long to be enlightened by the divine light, and this longing is so intense that it seems to penetrate his very bones. He loses all consciousness of himself and is entire-ly transformed by the love of God.

Such a man lives in this life and at the same time does not live in it, for although he still in-habits his body, he is constantly leaving it in spirit because of the love that draws him toward God. Once the love of God has released him from self-love, the flame of divine love never ceases to burn in his heart and he remains unit-ed to God by an irresistible longing. As St Paul says: If we are taken out of ourselves it is for the love of God; if we are brought back to our senses it is for your sake.

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today’s Reflection / Inspiration

Pastoral Office Tuesday - Friday: 9.00-12.00 / 14.00-17.00 Saturday: 9.00-12.00 &/ 14.00-17.00

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SR. MARIA (CHUY) serves in the Pastoral Office: tel. number: (+26) 0 978 316 375

MR MARTIN SEMENTI serves in the Pastoral Office: tel. number: (+26) 0 978 013 259

Parish Priests’ Office Tuesday - Friday: 14.00-16.00 Saturday: 09.30-12.00

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For other arrangements call the Priests Parish House/Office: (+26) 0 211 273 048 Parish Priest: (+26) 0 976 447 000 Assistant Priest: (+26) 0 977 570 595

Church Council Executive Office (Room No. 14) Saturday: 10.00-12.30 & 14.00-16.00 Sunday: 10.00-12.30

Home Based Care Office - Monday - Friday: 8.00-15.00 SR. AQUILINA PARAFFIN serves in the HBC: tel. number: (+26) 0 976 445 182

SCC Meetings @ 14.00

Christ the King SCC: Ms Shambase Chinyonga St Anthony SCC: Mr/Mrs Ben Shoko St Augustine SCC: Ms Gloria Chanda St Bakhita SCC: Mr/Mrs Raphael Banda St Francis SCC: Mr/Mrs Martin Ntwanga St Joseph SCC: Mrs Catherine Makasa St Kizito SCC: Mrs Jane Mbaluku St Lucia SCC: Mr/Mrs Astaliko Phiri St Martin SCC: Mrs Simundi St Mary SCC: Mrs Chileshe St Michael SCC: ………………………..

St Monica SCC: Mr/Mrs Patrick Chileshe St Paul SCC: Mrs Jennifer Aked St Teresa SCC: Mr/Mrs Thomas Bwalya

St Joanna SCC: MACSON College (Thur. 17.30)

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During today’s SCC Meeting the Letter from the Pastoral Office of the Archdio-cese of Lusaka, dated 1st December 2016: ‘PROPOSED ACTIVITIES TO BE DONE CELE-

BRATE THE “YEAR OF THE FAMILY”’, must be discussed, and the feedback brought to the Parish Office by Friday, 27th January.

YOUTH COUNCIL CORNER

Youth on Duty. Sunday, 29th Janu-ary, both Masses. All the Youth within SCCs including those in Groups/Movements to clean the Church Surrounding and be ready participate in the Sunday Liturgy (+ Adoration on Saturday).

Parish Youth Leadership Workshop. Sunday, 29th January, after English Mass (Parish Hall). Youth SCCs/Groups SIX [6] Executive Members to attend together with the Patrons & Ma-trons.

ADL Seminar for Parish Youth Coordinators. Saturday, 4th February. (………)

Youth Parish Full Council Meeting. Sunday, 5th February, after English Mass (Parish Hall). Three TOP Leaders from each Youth SCC/Group to attend - bring the written report from 2016.

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL

Funeral Committee - Parish level Elections. Sunday, 29th Jan-uary, After English Mass (St Joseph Hall).

Nazareth Group - Recollec-tion Day - Parish level. Thurs-day, 26th January, 08.00—17.00 (St Joseph Hall).

St Bakhita SCC - Workshop on 2017 theme. Saturday, 28th Janu-ary, 08.00—15.00 (Mr/Mrs D. Mulubwa Home)

Catechetical - Workshop on 2017 theme. Sunday, 29th January, After English Mass (St Joseph Hall). All Cate-chists/Catechisers to attend.

Love makes time to pass, but time is certain to make love pass. UNKNOWN

2017 BEGINS ON A GOOD NOTE FOR ST ANNA LAY

ORGANISATION

St Anna Lay Group at the parish opened the New Year on a good note after recruiting five (5) novices who received head-gears (Vitambala) on Monday January 2, 2017 during the 09.00hrs Mass. The five trainees were com-missioned by the Parish Priest; Fr Christopher Mróz who presided over the Mass.

Mrs Annie Mwape, the Chairperson of the Group, on Sunday January 8, 2017 after Eng-lish Mass, said the new members had to go through the procedure of wearing vitambala before being finally recognized as members of the group. Mrs Mwape said upon successful completion of the instructions, and other re-quirements, the five women would be bloused to become full time members of the group (NB. Blousing takes place on the occasion of St An-na Feast - July 26 each year). She said it was

not automatic that the novices would be accept-ed and bloused as members because there were rules and regulations which she said the recruits should be conversant with. She urged the newly recruited members to be committed and conversant with the teachings of the group which would make them to be accepted and bloused. Mrs Mwape said whoever joins St Anna Organisation should prove their worthi-ness during the time of their probation; other-

wise they won’t qualify to be members. And on the same Sunday, an impeccable

source told this reporter that some of the new members vowed to sweet-talk their husbands to join ST JOACHIM LAY GROUP FOR MEN at the parish. St Joachim was the husband of St Anna (together being the Grandparents of Jesus), hence the need for all husbands whose wives are in St Anna Lay group to join St Joachim Lay group. At present, St Joachim Lay group has only one member, Mr Mathews Mudungani of St Joseph SCC who has been lonely working tirelessly to recruit more members at the parish, but to no avail. Fr Christopher Mróz has time and again seen by this reporter pleading with some men at the parish to join it, but this has not changed the situation as most men were only giving the priest prom-

issory notes. The newly recruited members are as follows: MRS CECILIA BWALYA ZULU (St Augustine SCC) MRS EVARISIA MWANZA MUKONKA (St Augustine SCC) MRS TAURAI SIAME SITENGE (St Augustine SCC) MRS STELLA CHIBWE (St Bakhita SCC) MRS ESTHER MBEWE BANDA (St Mary SCC).

CONGRATULATIONS LADIES! AND WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST IN ST ANNA LAY GROUP!

By Ndaba Chipeta - Parish Newsletter Reporter

21 BENEFITS OF MAKING THE SIGN OF THE CROSS

The Sign of the Cross is a simple gesture yet a profound expression of faith for both Catho-lic and Orthodox Christians. As Catholics, it’s some-thing we do when we enter a church, before meals, and every time we pray. But what exactly are we doing when we make the Sign of the Cross? Here are 21 benefits of making the Sign of the Cross:

1. Pray. We begin and end our prayers with the Sign of the Cross, perhaps not realizing that the sign is itself a prayer. If prayer, at its core, is “an uprising of the mind to God,” as St John Dama-

scene put it, then the Sign of the Cross assuredly qualifies. “No empty gesture, the sign of the cross is a potent prayer that engages the Holy Spirit as the divine advocate and agent of our successful Christian living,” writes Bert Ghezzi.

To be Continued…

Senior Members placing Vitambala on the Candidates to St Anna Organisation

(Picture by Mr Aston Kasonde, Parish Lay Council Chairperson; 2 January 2017)