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.
ADVENT
St Francis Xavier Cathedral will host “Advent Taize and Benediction” Every Wednesday in Advent (Nov 29th, Dec 6th, Dec 13th & Dec 20th, 2023) at 6:00pm nightly.
You are invited to attend.
Retired and Elderly Advent Day of Reflection
The Retired & Elderly Advent Day of Reflection will be held on Friday, December 8th, 2023 between 9:30am – 3:00pm at Emmaus Centre, Fox Hill. The Theme for this event is: “For nothing will be impossible for God.” Luke 1: 37.
Donation: $20:00 per person. Interested persons can contact Mrs. Alfreda Johnson for additional information.
Marriage Preparation Class
An invitation is extended to all Engaged or Courting couples to register for the Spring Marriage Preparation Classes scheduled to start January 3rd, 2024. A small donation of $150.00 per couple is required (which includes text books and workbooks).
Venue: Emmaus Centre, Fox Hill
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm - Duration: 10 weeks
Application forms are available via the Archdiocesan website (archdioceseofnassau.org/familylife)
or The Archdiocesan Office of Family Life @ 322-8919 /328-4310/2 , 322-7744.
We are please to announce the return of RCIA - Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults beginning on Thursday, September 14th, 2023.
Interested persons can register in the Sacred Heart Bookstore after our weekend masses beginning this weekend. Participants in RCIA are known as catechumens. They undergo a process of conversion as they study the Gospel, profess faith in Jesus and the Catholic Church, and receive the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and Holy Eucharist. We welcome you to participate in this journey of faith.
“Sharing in the Mission of the Church”
We are most grateful to those persons who have already donated to the 2023 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, and we thank you for your kindness and support. To our other members who still wish to make a financial contribution, envelopes will be in the Church during the weekend masses, or in the Parish Office Monday to Friday during office hours.
We are most grateful for generosity.
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.
