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MARCH 2, 2018 THE CATHOLIC WEEK PAGE 3 Tue., Feb 27 Leave for the Archdiocese of Mobile Holy Land Pilgrimage Sat., Mar 10 6:30 p.m. St. Michael Catholic High School, Fairhope, Cardinals in the Courtyard Evening Sun. – Wed., Mar 11 – 14 Washington, D.C., Bishops’ Meetings Thu., Mar 15 National Catholic Education Association Meeting in Mobile Fri., Mar 16 6:30 a.m. Forty Days for Life, Mobile 5:30 p.m. St. Joseph Seminary College, Covington, LA, Supper with Mobile Seminarians Sat., Mar 17 10:00 a.m. Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, St. Patrick’s Day Mass Followed by Parade 5:00 p.m. St. Catherine Parish, Mobile, Mass and Confirmation Sun., Mar 18 2:00 p.m. St. Lawrence Parish, Fairhope, Mass and Confirmation Archbishop’s Schedule February 27 - March 18 Howcanwe followJesuswithout reading theBible? FROM THE ARCHBISHOP Most Reverend Thomas J. Rodi A WJTC-Mobile/Pensacola/Ft. Walton/Wiregrass 11 am Sundays PROGRAM SCHEDULE www.catholicinamerica.com Check local listings March 4 ...............................................Teens Living Faith / WBBS March 11 ................... Confirmation / Making Good Decisions March 18 ...................................................................Angels / Mary March 25 .................... World’s Biggest Bible Study / Suffering April 1 ................................................. Religious Liberty / Angels April 8 ...........Christian Funeral / World’s Biggest Bible Study April 15........................................... Mary / Ways to Help Us Pray April 22............Doctor’s Perspective on Life / Life: Civil Right DAILY READINGS MARCH 4 - MARCH 10 Sun., March 4 Ex 20:1-17 PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11 1 Cor 1:22-25 Jn 2:13-25 Mon., March 5 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4 Lk 4:24-30 Tue., March 6 Dn 3:25, 34-43 Ps 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9 Mt 18:21-35 Wed., March 7 Dt 4:1, 5-9 Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20 Mt 5:17-19 Thurs., March 8 Jer 7:23-28 Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 Lk 11:14-23 Fri., March 9 Hos 14:2-10 Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17 Mk 12:28-34 Sat., March 10 Hos 6:1-6 Ps 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab Lk 18:9-14 Sun., March 11 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 Eph 2:4-10 Jn 3:14-21 Mon. March 12 Is 65:17-21 Ps 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b Jn 4:43-54 Tue., March 13 Ez 47:1-9, 12 Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 Jn 5:1-16 Wed., March 14 Is 49:8-15 Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18 Jn 5:17-30 Thurs., March 15 Ex 32:7-14 Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23 Jn 5:31-47 Fri., March 16 Wis 2:1a, 12-22 Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23 Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Sat., March 17 Jer 11:18-20 Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 Jn 7:40-53 MARCH 11 - MARCH 17 Children and Adolescent Protection Program training throughout the archdiocese is offered monthly for personnel and volunteers in the Mobile District and the Baldwin/Escambia and Montgomery Deaneries. Teacher/catechist certification curriculum will be taught at August and September sessions. Baldwin/Escambia Deanery St. Lawrence Parish—7 p.m. ( 2 nd Tuesday of most months) March 13, April 10, May 8, June & July (no training), August 14 Mobile Deanery St. Dominic Parish—7 p.m. ( 4 th Wednesday of most months) March 28, April 25, May 23, June 27, July 25, August 22 Montgomery Deanery Montgomery Catholic High—6:30 p.m. ( 4 th Wednesday of most months) March 28, April 25, May 23, June & July (no training), August 22 PLEASE NOTE THE START TIME HAS CHANGED Dothan Deanery Training sessions are conducted on an “as needed” basis. Contact your pastor in the Dothan area for more information. Each of these parishes will serve as the ongoing training location for its district/deanery. For information or to report suspected abuse contact the Office of Child Protection at 251-434-1559 or email childprotection@mobarch.org The Archdiocesan Child Protection Policy can be found in the “Supplemental Material” section of the Children and Adolescents Protection Program page of the mobarch.org website Education/Training Schedules CHILD PROTECTION OFFICE Saints Perpetua and Felicity March 7 person could not become a competent structural en- gineer without knowing physics and how much weight a pro- posed building or a bridge can handle. A person could not be- come a competent doctor with- out knowing anatomy. A person could not become a competent attorney without knowing the law. A person could not become a competent referee without knowing the rule book of the game. By analogy, a person who wishes to be a Christian needs to know the Bible. This knowl- edge is only to be acquired by regularly reading Sacred Scrip- tures and coming to an under- standing of what God wishes to teach us. One of the great Fathers of the Church, Saint Jerome (342- 420), was the first to translate the Bible from the original He- brew and Greek into Latin, the common language of his time. This enabled people to read the Bible in a language the com- mon people understood. He stated: “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”To know Christ we must know how God prepared His people for His birth, what was prophesized about Him, what He said, what He did, and how the Apostles and the early Church put His teachings into practice. The Second Vatican Council called the people of the Church to read scripture frequently and changed the Liturgy of the Word at Mass to include more readings from the Bible. Pope Francis has exhorted all of us to make the Bible a part of our daily lives. He has asked us to carry a small copy of the Gospels with us and to read a passage every day. Pope Francis asked at one of his talks in St. Peter’s Square: “Do you read a passage of the Gospels every Day? It is important! It is a good thing to have a small book of the Gospel, a little one, and to carry it in our pocket or in our purse and read a little passage in whatever moment presents itself during the day. Let the Gospel be with us always because it is the word of Jesus in order for us to be able to listen to Him.” Perhaps we sometimes may think that it would be great if God would just appear to us and tell us what He wants us to know. However, if God would do that, we could not handle it. We would literally die of fright. As God tells Moses: “No one can see Me and live.” So God comes to us and speaks to us in a way we can handle: the Bible. But because the Bible looks so ordinary — it looks just like any book — we tend to take it for granted. The Bible that it sitting on our book- shelf or on our table is actually God waiting to speak with us. For us to be followers of Christ we need to know Him. As stated above, how could anyone be competent in their field of work without knowing the information needed for the endeavor? How can we be fol- lowers of Jesus without knowing His message? Lent is a time when many give up things. This is a good Lenten practice. But Lent can also be a time to strive to begin a new good habit. Perhaps God is calling us to read the Bible more and to grow in the knowledge and understanding of what He wishes to speak to us.