Laudato Si
, which means “Praise be to You,” is taken from the first line of a canticle by St. Francis of Assisi. It is also the title of the second encyclical of Pope Francis and has the subtitle “On Care for Our Common Home.” In this manuscript, the Pope deals with consumerism, irresponsible development, environmental degradation and global warming. Pope Francis states that the goal of the document is to “enter into dialogue with all people about our common home,” and calls on all people of the world to take “swift and unified action.”
Fittingly, Pope Francis’ message for Lent 2019 states, “The root of all evil, as we know is sin, which from its first appearance has disrupted our communion with God, with others and with creation itself…”
In light of the Pope’s encyclical, Laudato Si, and his current Lenten message, the theme of our Parish Lenten Journey for 2019, will be to examine our thoughts, feelings and actions as to how
We Care for God’s People
and how
We Care for God’s Creation
. This Lent will be an opportunity to reflect on how our lives impact other people and creation. The foundational practices of Lent – prayer, fasting and almsgiving can be engaged in new ways to help us
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educe,
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efuse,
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euse,
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ecycle and
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emove attitudes or things that prevent us from caring for people and creation.
For example., during the first week of Lent, you will be invited to
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educe negative thinking or a critical attitude, which will show that you do care for people. You also will be encouraged to
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educe the use of plastic bags and plastic bottles, demonstrating you care for creation. Each week of our Lenten journey will focus on different “R” category, challenging us to examine our relations and lifestyle.
Our overall hope is that during these 40 days of Lent we will find practical steps to live more joyfully and peacefully with one another and live more simply by caring for God’s people and God’s creation.
Giving up sweets or booze might be a lot easier than giving up plastic bottles or containers. But this can also be a beginning to an effective inter-generational formation and conversion. The ultimate goal of Lent is a conversion of heart leading us to walk in the footsteps of Christ by living in harmony with God, others and creation.
May you enjoy the challenge and have a Most Blessed Lent.
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WE CARE FOR GOD'S PEOPLE
WE CARE FOR GOD'S CREATION
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Just as we are all set to reduce our impact on the environment by using technology more efficiently, we were blindsided with some technical difficulties with our website. Rest assured, experts are working on the situation and we expect to be back online soon.
To access current bulletins and homilies, please use MyParish App. The link to download is included below.
Thank you for your patience.
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HOW C
AN
WE CARE
IN A PRACTICAL AND EFFECTIVE WAY THIS LENT?
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See page 4 of our Online Parish Bulletin each week for suggestions. It will be helpful (but not mandatory) to have our Parish Devotional and our Parish Bulletin by e-mail (see below).
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If you did not get a copy of our 2019 Parish Lenten Devotional after Mass last weekend, please pick-up your copy from the Welcome Counter (while supplies last - one per family, please).
This devotional contains daily reflections, action, and prayers that show
We Care for God's People.
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LENT ON OUR WEBSITE ... soon
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All ready to activate is a link on our website with suggestions on how to implement the five R's mentioned in Father Bill's message to show that
We Care for God's Creation.
The
LENT 2019 link will be on our home page, directly under Mass Times.
We will send an e-mail when the website is once again online.
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WEEK ONE:
Help REDUCE our use of paper
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Effective on March 10, 2019, The First Sunday of Lent, we will be reducing the number of bulletins we print. The bulletin will always be available on our website and MyParish app.
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We are also offering a new option:
Have the bulletin delivered to your e-mail inbox each Saturday!
If you would like to receive our bulletin by e-mail each Saturday, please
click here to send an e-mail to HelenN@sftahoe.org. Simply type "e-mail bulletin" in the subject line.
We will have a limited number of printed bulletins available for parishioners who don’t have internet access and for visitors.
Thank you for helping us
CARE FOR CREATION
by reducing paper use.
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You can also use the MyParish App to access the weekly bulletins, daily Mass readings, a Lenten reflection, and Father Bill's homilies. Download for free
here
and specify St. Francis of Assisi, Incline Village as your Parish.
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LENT EVENTS AT ST. FRANCIS
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No Greater Love
is a five-part video series and full-length book that reveals Christ’s amazing love for us. Best-selling author Edward Sri guides us through the last hours of Christ's life in this biblical pilgrimage, filmed on location in the Holy Land.
Walk step-by-step with Jesus from the Garden of Gethsemane to the Mount of Calvary.
Watch the trailer.
Listen to Edward Sri being interviewed by Jeff Cavins
here. Well worth the 30 minutes Q & A between two biblical scholars.
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The videos will be shown twice a week at St. Francis:
Tuesday evening Bible Study - March 12 to April 9 - 6:00 to 7:30 pm
If you will be joining the Tuesday evening Bible Study session,
and you did not already order a study pack, please order
here.
Thursday morning - March 14 to April 11 - 9:30 to 10:30 am
St. Francis of Assisi Parish - directly following Daily Mass
All are invited!
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Join us on March 7th at 6 pm for Movie Night!
We will show
Pope Francis - A Man of His Word, written and directed by three-time Academy Award® nominee
Wim Wenders. This film is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, rather than a biographical documentary about him.
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A rare co-production with the Vatican, the pope’s ideas and his message are central to this documentary, which sets out to present his work of reform and his answers to today’s global questions from death, social justice, immigration, ecology, wealth inequality, materialism, and the role of the family.
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Every Friday through April 12: 5:30 pm in English and 6:30 in Spanish. All are welcome.
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A free email program from
Dynamic Catholic
that will guide you on an incredible journey toward the-best-version-of-yourself. From Ash Wednesday to Easter, you’ll discover ways to transform your life in forty days.
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Experience this holy season with
Father Richard Rohr
(courtesy of Franciscan Media) and receive daily prayers, reflections and Scripture passages beginning on Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The program is also available in Spanish.
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Ascension Presents and
Word on Fire are two Catholic based websites that offer podcasts, books, blogs, newsletters, and more. Subscribe to the podcasts and listen in the car, when walking, or folding laundry.
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Heads up! Right after Easter, we will be sending a brief online survey to ask your opinion on our Lent Liturgy and activities.
We would love to hear how you cared for God's People and God's Creation during Lent, 2019.
In the meantime, if you have comments or suggestions prior to receiving the survey, please
e-mail us now!
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LET'S ALSO HAVE SOME FUN!
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Join us for
St. Patrick's Day Fellowship on Saturday, March 16 (yes, one day early) in the Parish Hall at 6 pm.
Please bring the family (two activity rooms: one for children and one for youth) and
an hors d'oeuvres to share. No host bar. Irish music and
lots of laughs and fun!
Can you help with set-up or clean-up? Please e-mail Jane and Michael Patrick Maloney at
enajmal@aol.com.
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St. Francis Assisi Catholic Church
701 Mount Rose Hwy
Incline Village, NV 89451
(775) 831-0490
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