Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception
Diocese of Saint George's
Grenada, W.I., Caribbean
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 centres 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.
SACRAMENTS & LITURGIES
REFLECTION AND READINGS
2ND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
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INTRODUCTION:
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Welcome! ​
​In today’s liturgy we hear again the lonely voice of John the Baptist exhorting us to prepare a way for the Lord. Let us create a space in our minds and hearts so that the Lord can come to us in this Eucharist.
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First Reading: From the Prophet Isaiah chapter 11 verses 1 to 10. We hear about the coming of the Messiah, and the kind of justice and peace he would bring.
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Second Reading: This talks about the importance of hope, and how we should treat others in the same friendly way Christ has treated us. From St. Paul’s letter to the Romans chapter 15 verses 4 to 9.
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Gospel: According to Matthew chapter 3 verses 1 to 12. We hear once again the voice of John the Baptist, saying to us what he said to his contemporaries: ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand.​
WEEKDAY READINGS / A
(PSALTER WEEK II/ YEAR C)
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08th Monday 2nd Week of Advent - Weekday
Solemnity of The Immaculate Conception
of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Genesis 3: 9-15, 20; Luke 1: 26-38
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​​09th Tuesday 2nd Week of Advent - Weekday​
Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
Isaiah 40: 1-11; Matthew 18: 12-1
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10th Wednesday 2nd Week of Advent - Weekday
Our Lady of Loreto
Isaiah 40: 25-31; Matthew 11: 28-30
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11th Thursday 2nd Week of Advent - Weekday
St. Damasus I, Pope
Isaiah 41: 13-20; Matthew 11: 11-15
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12th Friday 2nd Week of Advent - Weekday
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Zechariah 2: 14-17 or Revelation 11: 19a; 12: 1-6a, 10ab; Luke 1: 26-38 or Luke 1: 39-47
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​​13th Saturday 2nd Week of Advent - Weekend
St. Lucy, Virgin & Martyr
Sirach 48: 1-4, 9-11; Matthew 17: 9a, 10-13
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14th Sunday- 03rd Sunday in Advent - Weekend
First Reading: Isa 61:1-2a, 10-11
Psalm: Ps Luke 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54
Second Reading: 1 Thess 5:16-24
Gospel Acclamation: Is 61:1 (Lk 4:18)
Gospel: John 1:6-8, 19-28
SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT REFLECTION
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Last Sunday we began Advent with the call to be vigilant; today, the Second Sunday of this season of preparation for Christmas, the liturgy indicates to us its proper content: it is a time to recognize the shortcomings in our life, to smooth out the roughness of pride and to make room for Jesus who comes.
The Prophet Isaiah addresses the people, proclaiming the end of the Exile in Babylon and the return to Jerusalem. He prophesies: “A voice cries: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord… Every valley shall be lifted up’” (40:3-4). The valleys to be lifted up represent all the shortcomings of our behaviour before God, all our sins of omission. One shortcoming in our life could be the fact that we do not pray or that we pray little. Advent is thus a favourable time to pray with greater intensity, to reserve to the spiritual life the important place it deserves. Another shortcoming could be a lack of charity for our neighbour, above all toward people most in need of help, not only material, but also spiritual. We are called to be more attentive, closer, to the needs of others. Like John the Baptist, in this way we can open the ways of hope in the desert of the barren hearts of many people.
“Every mountain and hill shall be made low” (cf. v. 4), Isaiah again exhorts. The mountains and hills that must be made low are pride, arrogance, insolence. Where there is pride, where there is insolence, where there is arrogance, the Lord cannot enter because that heart is full of pride, of insolence, of arrogance. For this reason, we must allay this pride. We must take on attitudes of meekness and humility, without reproach, to listen, to speak with meekness and thus to prepare for the coming of our Saviour, He who is meek and humble of heart (cf. Mt 11:29). Then we are asked to eliminate all obstacles that we set against our union with the Lord: “the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed” — says Isaiah — “and all flesh shall see it together” (40:4- 5). These actions, however, must be performed with joy, because they are designed in preparation for the coming of Jesus. At home, when we await the visit of a dear person, we prepare everything with care and gladness. In the same way, we want to prepare ourselves for the coming of the Lord: to await him each day attentively, so as to be filled by his grace when he comes.
The Saviour whom we await is able to transform our life with his grace, with the power of the Holy Spirit, with the power of love. The Holy Spirit, in fact, infuses our hearts with God’s love, the inexhaustible source of purification, of new life and freedom. The Virgin Mary fully lived this reality, allowing herself to be ‘baptized’ by the Holy Spirit who inundated her with his power. May she, who prepared for the coming of Christ with the totality of her existence, help us to follow her example and may she guide our steps to the coming Lord.
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