البابا: هل تقومون بفحص ضمير يومي

PARISH DIRECTORY Bishop Francis Kalabat Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit Fr. Pierre Konja Administrator Fr. Emanuel Rayes Retired in residence Fr. Polis Khami Retired in residence Linda Arabo Office Administrator Nancy Beba Pastoral Associate Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Tel: 248-356-0565 Fax: 248-356-5235 E-mail: Ourladyofchaldeans@gmail.com ONLINE GIVING Mother of God Parish offers online giving a web based electronic contribution application that is safe and secure. you can manage contributions online or continue having your offering envelopes mailed to you. To sign up for online giving please visit our website at www.ourladyofchaldeans.com Stay in touch with your parish on FACEBOOK Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church November 20th, 2016 FR. PIERRE S MESSAGE TO THE PARISH البابا: هل تقومون بفحص ضمير يومي 4th of the Church This Sunday is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, which also makes it the last Sunday for the Year of Mercy. Pope Francis felt it important to declare this year a year for mercy to encourage the faithful to turn to God's mercy and give that same mercy to those who've hurt them. Bishop Francis, responding to Pope Francis' call, dedicated the doors of mercy at Mother of God, as it is the Chaldean Cathedral for this diocese. So, as we conclude the liturgical year and Year of Mercy, it's important to reflect on how you've grown this year. You've heard a year's worth of homilies, a year's worth of readings and prayers, and a year of mercy, what has changed in your life? How have you grown closer to Jesus and His church? How has your prayer and faith life developed? (continued on page 2) احتفل البابا فرنسيس هذا الخميس بالقداس الصباحي في كابلة القديسة مارتا بدولة حاضرة الفاتيكان وألقى عظة توقف فيها عند رواية اإلنجيل الذي يحدثنا عن بكاء الرب يسوع على أورشليم وقال البابا إن يسوع بكى على هذه المدينة ألنه تذكر تاريخ شعبه: إن هللا أحب الشعب بال قياس لكن شعبه بادله هذا الحب باألنانية والزنى وعبادة األوثان وعدم الثقة. وتحدث البابا فرنسيس عن حب هللا المجنون تجاه شعبه الفتا إلى أن يسوع تذكر كلمات األنبياء شأن هوشع وإرميا وغيرهما الذين تحدثوا عن محبة هللا إلسرائيل ويقول الرب ألورشليم إنها لم تعرف الزمن الذي عادها فيه هللا. وأكد البابا أن تاريخ إسرائيل المفعم بعدم األمانة وعدم اإلقرار بمحبة هللا الذي يبحث عن اإلنسان ويريده أن يكون سعيدا ول د األلم في قلب يسوع الذي رأى في تلك اللحظة ما ينتظره فبكى. ومضى البابا إلى القول إن هذه المأساة لم تقتصر على تلك الحادثة بل تتكرر يوميا. )التتمة في الصفحة 2( 1 Mother of God Church 25585 Berg Road, Southfield, MI 48033

THE GOOD NEWS (continued from page 1) We need to be cautious that our faith doesn't get stagnant, our faith needs to be alive and on fire! We need to continuously allow the Holy Spirit to transform our hearts to grow deeper in love with God and to allow His love to envelop our lives. What prayers have you added? What have you learned about the faith? How have you embraced your discipleship to preach the Gospel to the world and those around you? Especially in this Year of Mercy, have you gone to confession and allowed God's mercy in your life and have you given mercy to those in your life that you hold anger towards? When we reflect on this past year, don't get discouraged if you weren't perfect, but be open to how and where Jesus is calling you, you specifically, to go deeper in your commitment as His disciple. (التتمة من الصفحة ( 1 وذك ر بأن الليتورجية دعتنا منذ يومين إلى التأمل بثالث لحظات لزيارة هللا: إن هللا يزورنا ليؤنبنا وليدخل في حوار معنا وليدعونا للدخول إلى بيته. وأشار فرنسيس إلى أن هللا يطلب منا أن نبد ل حياتنا ويقول لنا: إني أطرق الباب افتح لي! تماما كما طلب الرب إلى زكا العشار أن ينزل عن الشجرة ويستضيفه في بيته. هذا ثم لفت البابا إلى أن أي شخص منا يمكن أن يقع اليوم في األخطاء نفسها التي ارتكبها شعب إسرائيل لكن الرب يزورنا كل يوم ويطرق بابنا كل يوم. وينبغي أن نتعلم كيف نتعرف على زمن الزيارة هذا. وسأل فرنسيس المؤمنين إذا ما كانوا يقومون بفحص ضمير يوميا مؤكدا أن الرب لم يبك فقط على أورشليم بل بكى علينا جميعا. وطلب البابا من الرب في ختام عظته أن يهب الكل نعمة التعرف على الزمن الذي يزرونا فيه هللا كي نفتح بابنا ليسوع ليمتلئ قلبنا بالمحبة ويخدم الرب بالمحبة! -Fr. Pierre Konja BOOK OF THE WEEK Does purgatory exist? If so, where, and why? What does the Bible say? What does the Church teach? What sense can be made of indulgences? This engaging survey of Scripture, the Church Fathers, Christian history, distinguished writers, and the Catechism, provides answers to these and many other questions. In this examination of the calling and dignity of each person, as well as the context and purpose of our lives here on earth, personal accountability and divine mercy harmoniously combine to make sound common sense. Fr. Donncha Ó haodha is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature living and working in Dublin. He is currently chaplain to Rockbrook Park School, a boys' secondary school. 2

PARISH SCHEDULE AND WEEKLY INFORMATION BAPTISM: We celebrate Baptism at 2:00 pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Please call the parish office at least two weeks in advance to see if a date is available. ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the parish office to make arrangements for Anointing or to receive the Eucharist. MARRIAGE: Please schedule at least six months before you plan to be married and before you make arrangements for the reception, please call the parish office to make an appointment with the priest to begin the necessary preparations. LITURGICAL SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil Mass 4:00 PM English Sunday Masses 8:30 AM عربي/ Arabic 01:11AM English 11:30 AM Morning Prayer 12:00 PM سورث/ Chaldean 7:00 PM English Weekday Masses 8:00 AM English at ECRC 9:30 AM Morning Prayer 10:00 AM سورث/ Chaldean NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING CLASSES First and third Wednesday of every even month from 7:30-9:30 pm. MARRIAGE CLASSES First, second and third Thursday of every odd month from 8:00-10:00 pm. Wednesday 5:00 PM Adoration 6:00 PM English Mass Confession 5-6 pm Wednesday 6-7 pm Sunday (or by appointment) YOU CAN LISTEN TO MOG SUNDAY HOMILIY BY VISITING OUR CHURCH WEBSITE AT: www.ourladyofchaldeans.com FINANCIAL STATUS Sunday Goal: $7,000 Sunday Collection (November 13th): $4,779 Over/(Under): ($2,221) Monthly Online Donation Goal: $4,000 Monthly Online Collection (October): $1,438 Over/(Under): ($2,562) *Sign up for online donation at www.ourladyofchaldeans.com 3

PART ONE THE PROFESSION OF FAITH SECTION TWO THE PROFESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ARTICLE I "I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH" Paragraph 4. The Creator THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH V. GOD CARRIES OUT HIS PLAN: DIVINE PROVIDENCE 613God is the sovereign master of his plan. But to carry it out he also makes use of his creatures' co-operation. This use is not a sign of weakness, but rather a token of almighty God's greatness and goodness. For God grants his creatures not only their existence, but also the dignity of acting on their own, of being causes and principles for each other, and thus of co-operating in the accomplishment of his plan. 613To human beings God even gives the power of freely sharing in his providence by entrusting them with the responsibility of "subduing" the earth and having dominion over it. 168 God thus enables men to be intelligent and free causes in order to complete the work of creation, to perfect its harmony for their own good and that of their neighbors. Though often unconscious collaborators with God's will, they can also enter deliberately into the divine plan by their actions, their prayers and their sufferings. 169 They then fully become "God's fellow workers" and co-workers for his kingdom. 170 613The truth that God is at work in all the actions of his creatures is inseparable from faith in God the Creator. God is the first cause who operates in and through secondary causes: "For God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." 171 Far from diminishing the creature's dignity, this truth enhances it. Drawn from nothingness by God's power, wisdom and goodness, it can do nothing if it is cut off from its origin, for "without a Creator the creature vanishes." 172 Still less can a creature attain its ultimate end without the help of God's grace. 173 Providence and the scandal of evil. 613If God the Father almighty, the Creator of the ordered and good world, cares for all his creatures, why does evil exist? To this question, as pressing as it is unavoidable and as painful as it is mysterious, no quick answer will suffice. Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: the goodness of creation, the drama of sin and the patient love of God who comes to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his Son, his gift of the Spirit, his gathering of the Church, the power of the sacraments and his call to a blessed life to which free creatures are invited to consent in advance, but from which, by a terrible mystery, they can also turn away in advance. There is not a single aspect of the Christian message that is not in part an answer to the question of evil. 601But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create something better. 174 But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world "in a state of journeying" towards its ultimate perfection. In God's plan this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. With physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation has not reached perfection. 175 600Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world. God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil. 176 He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it: For almighty God..., because he is supremely good, would never allow any evil whatsoever to exist in his works if he were not so all-powerful and good as to cause good to emerge from evil itself. 177 602 In time we can discover that God in his almighty providence can bring a good from the consequences of an evil, even a moral evil, caused by his creatures: "It was not you", said Joseph to his brothers, "who sent me here, but God... You meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive." 178 From the greatest moral evil ever committed - the rejection and murder of God's only Son, caused by the sins of all men - God, by his grace that "abounded all the more", 179 brought the greatest of goods: the glorification of Christ and our redemption. But for all that, evil never becomes a good. 4

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Please join the seminarians for a dinner to support the gift of life on Sunday November 27th at 8:00 pm at Mother of God church. Funds will be raised for Help Iraq and the image of God pregnancy center. Mother of God Annual Christmas Concert & Party on December 10th at 6:00 pm. A family night filled with hymns, activities and fellowship. Early bird registration is now open for the 2017 march for life and it ends on Monday, November 21. $225/Person (Bus & Accommodations) from January 26-29, 2017 For registration and more information please go to www.prolifechaldeans.org 6

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