CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
St. George's in GRENADA, CARIBBEAN
SACRAMENTS &LITURGIES
BECOME PART OF OUR CATHEDRAL FAMILY
"We recognize that the Sacraments have a visible and invisible reality, a reality open to all the human senses but grasped in its God-given depths with the eyes of faith." (USCCB) The Sacraments are divided into: the sacraments of Christian initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Eucharist); the sacraments of healing (Penance and Anointing of the Sick) and the sacraments at the service of communion and mission (Holy Orders and Matrimony). The sacraments touch all the important moments of Christian life. All of the sacraments are ordered to the Holy Eucharist “as to their end" (Saint Thomas Aquinas).
CONFESSION:
Cathedral: Saturdays: 7.00 a.m. - 8.00 a.m.
Confession is also available at other Mass centers upon request and at the Cathedral parish during office times.
HOLY HOUR & ADORATION
(Weekly)
5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. at Cathedral on Fridays
(except 1st Friday’s)
5.30 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. at Tempe on Thursdays
7.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. at Mt. Moritz on Thursdays
MASS TIMES:
CATHEDRAL:
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Monday to Friday - 6.15 a.m., & 12.15 p.m.,
Saturday - 6.00 p.m.
Sunday - 8.00 a.m.
COMMUNITIES OF THE CATHEDRAL
Our Lady Queen of Peace, BELMONT: Saturday - 6.00 p.m.
Saints Joachim & Anne, BRIZAN: Sunday - 6.30 a.m.
Blessed Trinity, FONTENOY: Sunday - 10.00 a.m.
Church of the Uganda Martyrs, HAPPY HILL: Sunday - 8.00 a.m.
Our Lady Queen of the Universe, MT. MORITZ: Sunday - 10.00 a.m.
Our Lady Lily of the Valley, TEMPE: Sunday - 8.00 a.m.
REFLECTION AND READINGS
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INTRODUCTION:
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Welcome!
Of all the images we have of Jesus, one of the loveliest is that of the Good Shepherd. It was Jesus himself who used it. How well do we trust and how closely do we follow the Good Shepherd?
First Reading: From the Acts of the Apostles chapter 4 verses 8 to 12. Peter tells the Jewish leaders that Jesus is the one and only Saviour.
Second Reading: In his love for us, God has made us his children. In the next life we shall see him as he is. This we hear from the letter of St. John chapter 3 verses 1 to 2.
Gospel: According to John chapter 10 verses 11 to 18. Unlike the hireling, Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is ready to give his life for his sheep.
WEEKDAY READINGS / B
(PSALTER WEEK 4)
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22nd Monday - Easter Season
Acts 11: 1-18; John 10: 1-10.
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23rd Tuesday - Easter Season
St. George
Acts 11: 19-26; John 10: 22-30.
24th Wednesday - Easter Season
Acts 12: 24 - 13: 5; John 12: 44-50.
25th Thursday - Easter Season
St. Mark, Evangelist
First Peter 5: 5b-14; Mark 16: 15-20.
26th Friday - EasterSeason
Acts 13: 26-33; John 14: 1-6.
27th Saturday - Easter Season
Acts 13: 44-52; John 14: 7-14.
28th Sunday - 5th Sunday of Easter
First Reading: Acts 9:26-31.
Psalm: Ps 21:26-28, 30-32 r. 26.
Second Reading: 1 John 3:18-24.
Gospel Acclamation: John 15:4-5.
Gospel: John 15:1-8.
LET’S BE CATHOLIC!
It’s not a “service”, it’s “LITURGY”
It’s not a “robe” not a “gown” they are “VESTMENTS”
It’s no longer wine, it’s “The BLOOD OF CHRIST”
It’s no longer bread, it’s “THE BODY OF CHRIST”
It’s not a sermon, it’s a “HOMILY”
It’s not a table, it’s an “ALTAR”
It’s not just a building, it’s a “CHURCH”
It’s not a “song", it's a “HYMN”
It’s not a “poem”, it’s a “PSALM”
It’s not a “cup”, it’s a “CHALICE”
It’s not only a “preacher”, it’s a “PRIEST”
It’s not “Making my sacraments”, it’s “RECEIVING THE SACRAMENTS”
It’s not a “personal relationship”, it’s a “COVENANT RELATIONSHIP”
SUNDAY REFLECTION
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The Liturgy of this Fourth Sunday of Easter pursues the aim of helping us rediscover our identity as disciples of the Risen Lord. In the Acts of the Apostles, Peter openly declares that the healing of the cripple, which he carried out and which all of Jerusalem speaks about, took place in the name of Jesus, because “there is salvation in no one else” (4:12). There in that healed man is each one of us — that man is the shape of ourselves: we are all there within — there are our communities: each of us can be healed of the many forms of spiritual infirmity that we have — ambition, laziness, pride — if we agree, with confidence, to put our very existence into the hands of the Risen Lord. “By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth”, affirms Peter, “this man is standing before you well” (v. 10). But who is the Christ who heals? What does being healed by him consist in? What are we healed of? And by means of what attitudes?
The answer to all these questions can be found in today’s Gospel, where Jesus says: “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (Jn 10:11). This self-introduction by Jesus cannot be reduced to an emotional suggestion, without any concrete effect! Jesus heals through his being a shepherd who lays down his life. Giving his life for us, Jesus says to each one: ‘Your life is worth so much to me, that to save it I give all of myself’. It is precisely this offering of his life that makes him the Good Shepherd par excellence, the One who heals, the One who allows us to live a beautiful and fruitful life.
The second part of the same Gospel passage tells us how Jesus can heal us and make our life joyful and fruitful: “I am the good shepherd”, Jesus says. “I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father” (vv. 14-15). Jesus does not speak of intellectual knowledge, no, but of a personal relationship, of predilection, of mutual tenderness, reflection of the same intimate loving relationship between him and the Father. This is the attitude through which a living relationship with Jesus is realized: allowing ourselves to be known by him. Not closing up within ourselves; but opening ourselves to the Lord, so that he may know us. He is attentive to each one of us; he knows the depths of our heart: he knows our merits and our defects, the projects we have carried out and the hopes that have gone unfulfilled. But he accepts us as we are, even with our sins, so as to heal us, to forgive us; he guides us with love, so that we can cross even impervious paths without losing the way. He accompanies us.
(Pope Francis)
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