Dear Family,

“War”, “Murder”, “Starvation” — those are powerful words. When we hear them, we immediately feel emotions like fear or sorrow or anger. That’s because we know something about the awful reality behind those words. We know the human suffering that war, murder, and starvation causes.

But what about the words “Human Trafficking”? When you hear those words, do any strong emotions rise up inside of you? Fear? Sorrow? Anger? Probably not. That’s because most of us know little about human trafficking and what that means to so many people who are victims of this terrible thing that is going on right here in our own community, in our state, in our country.

Once a person of faith understands what those two words describe, she/he is filled with anger and feels a need to put a stop to it.

I hope that after seeing the video on human trafficking this weekend you will have a greater awareness of this injustice and will join me in the months ahead in doing something concrete for people who are forced to work and forced into prostitution.

Please read the statement by our bishops on human trafficking that is in your bulletins today. Then in the days ahead, let us unite as a parish community and make our voices heard throughout the land.

Peace and All Goodness
Fr. roger
Pastor

Available for Loan

BOOKS
THE SLAVE NEXT DOOR – K BALES
NOT FOR SALE – DVID BATSTONE
A CRIME SO MONSTROUS – B SKINNER
VIDEOS
LIVES FOR SALE
STOLEN CHILDHOOD – NIGHTLINE
SEX TRAFFICKING IN AMERICA – PRIMETIME
FIELDS OF MUDAN
ONE BORDER – ONE BODY
DYING TO LIVE
INVISIBLE CHAINS

Web sites

http://Browardcoalition.org/humantrafficking

http://Flcathconf.org

http://Browardprevention.org

http://Kristihouse.org

http://Stophumantrafficking,org

HHS then human trafficking google
Dcf state of fl initiatives human trafficking – google

http://Acf.hhs.gov/trafficking

http://Catholiccharitiesusa.org

http://Sharehope.org

http://Humantraficking.org

Flastateuniversity – google

http://Stopenslavement.org

http://Frc.org

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On Ash Wednesday, it is customary to attend a service and have a cross of ashes traced on the forehead.  The ashes are the burned remains of the palms blessed on Passion Sunday last year. While the cross is traced on the forehead, the formula, “Remember you are dust and will return to dust” is recited. An alternate formula is “Turn from sin and live the gospel.”

Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence.

Ashes, a traditional symbol of penance, will be distributed at St. Maurice on Wednesday at regular Masses. The Masses on Wednesday will be at  7:00 AM,  8:30AM, and at 7:PM.

The Promise of EASTER

Dear Family,

The first thing to recognize about the Triduum is that it is “The Three Days”. It is a unified observance that extends over three days, and it forms its own unique and central part of the liturgical year. For many people today, these three days are still as part of Lent; for others, they stand as three separate and somewhat independent days celebrating different events in the life of Christ. But Lent ends on Thursday afternoon, and the Triduum is best seen as one integral observance that includes a variety of liturgical moments.

The Triduum is more than its liturgies, too. Keeping these three days, means exactly that – three full days live as one central moment in the life of every Christian and of the Christian community as a whole.

The liturgy of the Triduum begins with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper and concludes with the last Mass on Easter Sunday. Between these two gatherings for prayer and worship, the Christian church is called to enter into a period of prayer, fasting and vigiling, which reaches a climax at the Easter Vigil. The principal liturgies even suggest the unity of the Triduum by the way they end and begin. On Thursday, there is no dismissal or conclusion; on Friday we gather and leave with no introductory or concluding rites; and at the Vigil we gather around the fire and begin without the usual introductory rites. We begin on Thursday and don’t conclude until after the Vigil, with Easter Sunday as a kind of extension of the celebration of the Vigil.

Understanding the Triduum as one three-day-long liturgy can help us find the right approach to each of the various ritual moments within it. The Evening Mass on Holy Thursday is a liturgy of entrance into the Triduum, not primarily a celebration of the institution of the Eucharist or of the ordained priesthood. Good Friday’s main liturgy commemorates the death of the Lord, but as a part of the whole paschal mystery (note that we call it “Good Friday”), which is celebrated in its fullness at the Easter Vigil, when our newest members enter into the death and resurrection of the Lord through the waters of baptism. Easter Sunday is a day of reveling in the mystery we celebrate at the Vigil, a day for the glow of the feast to be enjoyed and savored.

These days are the hinge of the year, the central moment around which all else revolves. The Triduum gives meaning to Lent, which precedes it, and to the Fifty Days of Easter that follow. As the Lent-Easter cycle is the core of the year, so the Triduum is the core of Lent-Easter. These days are central because they draw us into the heart of our identity as church. The paschal mystery of Jesus’ death and resurrection is the core of our faith and our participation in that mystery through the celebration of baptism defines what it meant to be Christian and what it means for the community to be church.

Peace and All Goodness,

Father Roger

St. Maurice Choir List 2009 – 2010
Kevin Couglin, Director

Altos: Allie Burton, Carol Huggins, Diane Chance, Helen Ankenbrandt, Heidi Scott, Michele Bemis, Paula McCoy, Sheryl Dillon-Jones, Terry Brunetto

Sopranos: Angela Le Blanc , Karolina Weclawska, Cindy Shean,Joan Cordell, Joan Richardson, Mary Lou Ritter, Meredith Shuster, Rita Leddy, Sr, Marie Helen Ankenbrandt, Suzanne Chamberlain

Tenors: Bob Stein, Shirley Bulman, Theresa Katenda, Claire Barabe, Steve Zuncic

Bases:Jim McStravik, Renald Grand-Pierre, Hank Hess

Three things you might not know about your choir

THING ONE: When our parish began we were known as St. Maurice Schola. The Catholic
encyclopedia defines schola as a place for teaching Ecclesiastical chant. We
did our job well. As the congregation took to heart their role of praising God
in song, we moved on to our current name, St. Maurice Choir.

THING TWO: Many of us do not read music. But we do carry little tape recorders. Maybe you
have seen some of our bumper stickers that read” Caution Driver Singing”….that’s
us practicing.

THING THREE: Kevin Couglin is so talented that he can make us sound like the Mormon Tabernacle
Choir. He is celebrating ten years with us, here’s to the next ten.

by  Paul Turner

Ever discover you just can’t eat? Maybe you have an exam coming up. Or you’ve had a death in the family. Maybe you’re about to give a speech. Or it’s only days before your wedding.

Emotional events in our lives can cause a physical reaction – tensing up the stomach, making it hard to even think about food. We naturally fast as a means of preparing.

Imagine the Church, the body of Christ, as one giant organism getting ready for the big event of the year, Easter. The emotional promise of that day is causing a physical reaction in us. It’s hard to think about food when we’re drawing so close to the celebration of the death and resurrection of the Lord.

Our most common form of liturgical fasting is the hour we spend before receiving communion, abstaining from food and drink. Most of us don’t think about it anymore, but it used to be a three hour fast, and prior to that,  a fast from midnight. This had the advantage of making communion the first food of the day, a real “break-fast.”

The canon and local laws regarding fasting during Lent are well publicized each year. We abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays of Lent, and we fast (eating only one full meal) on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

But the liturgy presumes that fasting, or some form of self-sacrifice, accompanies the Lenten season. On Ash Wednesday, the opening prayer asks God to “make this day holy by our self-denial.”  The prayer of blessing over the ashes  asks to “keep us faithful to the discipline of Lent.” Before the blessing of the palms of Passion Sunday the presider will remind us that “for five weeks of Lent we have been preparing, by works of charity and self-sacrifice, for the celebration of our Lord’s paschal mystery.”

Holy Saturday, not just Good Friday, implies the presence of a fast. The Church abstains from communion; it may be given only to the dying. And those preparing for Baptism “should refrain from their usual activities, spend their time in prayer and reflection, and, as far as they can, observe a  fast (RICA185).” We all may find that extending the fast from Good Friday through Saturday helps us celebrate Easter.

Fasting heightens our anticipation of Easter and gives us solidarity with the world’s hungry. A fast at home will give new life to the prayers we hear and the songs we sing this Lent.

WEEKDAY EUCHARIST
Monday – Friday: 7:00 & 8:30 a.m.
Saturday: 8:30 a.m.

RITE OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday: 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO SET UP 
BOOTHS FOR COUNTRY FAIR! Come to St. Maurice on Saturday mornings at 9:00.

Great lunch provided and great people to work with!  See the album, they’re having fun!

Bring your hands and hearts! Help  feed the Hungry.

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Updates to Website

– The Hispanic Catholic Charismatic Conference was  held here at St. Maurice  August  29 and 30. It was a very successful and well attended event. View pictures here

– Work has started for our Country Fair – view pictures of the first work day (August 30 ) for the set up of Country Fair booths.

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