Announcements
THE MEN'S GROUP
The Men’s Group program is a treatment program for adult males who abuse their partners. Weekly therapy sessions are conducted by professional therapists. Clients are empowered with life-changing skills that will help them to live a productive and violence-free life.
The Office of Family Life wishes to encourage all men who may be experiencing a challenge to kindly contact our Office for further information.
Telephone contacts: 322-8919 or 328-4310/2
Church Ministries
WELCOME
We take this opportunity to extend a warm welcome to all those who will be visiting us. We are pleased that you have come to worship with us. The doors and hearts of our parish family of FAITH are always open, and we invite you to contact us at any time.
Friday, April 26th at St. Anselm Parish |7:30pm – 10:00pm
Please contact your Parish Office or Parish Youth Ministry/CCD Team for further information and/or waiver forms.
The 2024 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal has begun. We are hoping that through your generosity, kindness and support we can achieve our goal. We can appreciate that many of you are still experiencing some financial hardships due to our economy here in the Bahamas, but be assured that we are most appreciative of your donations, no matter how small.
For those of you wishing to make a contribution, envelopes can be collected from the Parish Office during the week. Alternately, funds can be remitted online and for those instructions kindly contact the Parish Office. Please be sure to include your name and the name of your Parish for record-keeping purposes.
As a team, we can make a difference.
“Continuing Together in Faith and Participation”
MARRIAGE PREPARATION COURSE
The next Marriage Preparation Course is scheduled for April 10th to June 11th, 2024. Couples planning to marry in the near future are encouraged to sign up for the course as registration is now ongoing. The fee is $150.00 per couple and includes all materials. Sessions are held at Emmaus Centre, Fox Hill between 7:00pm and 9:00pm. For further information please contact the Office of family Life @ 322-2711 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
In both human and divine relationships, there can be no romance without a reverent listening to the other. When we make room in our lives for silence, the heaven and earth within us find each other. Then the Word of God is able to put down deep roots. These listening roots sense our desire for bonding with the Holy One.
Pope Francis meditated on the calming of the storm from the Gospel of Mark during the prayer service over which he presided on the steps of St Peter's Basilica on Friday evening. Here is the full text.
“When evening had come” (Mk 4:35). The Gospel passage we have just heard begins like this. For weeks now it has been evening. Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken over our lives, filling everything with a deafening silence and a distressing void, that stops everything as it passes by; we feel it in the air, we notice in people’s gestures, their glances give them away. We find ourselves afraid and lost. Like the disciples in the Gospel we were caught off guard by an unexpected, turbulent storm. We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other. On this boat… are all of us. Just like those disciples, who spoke anxiously with one voice, saying “We are perishing” (v. 38), so we too have realized that we cannot go on thinking of ourselves, but only together can we do this.
