January 31- February 01
Saturday 4:00 p.m. John Vickrey
Sunday 8:30 a.m. Alexander De Leon
Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Michael Thrash
Wed. 8:00 a.m. Joann Thrash Harvill
Thurs 8:00 a.m. Christina Borgobello
Friday 8:00 a.m. Priest Intentions
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SAINT OF THE DAY
Saturday - Saint Aidan of Ferns
Sunday- Saint Brigid of Ireland
Tuesday Saint Blaise
Wednesday- Saint Joan of Valois
Thursday- Saint Agatha
Friday- Saint Paul Miki
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​​​​​​ PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK: Barry Adams, William Anderson, Gladys Ainsworth,
Ajibola Batiste, Shirley Benson, Susan Caesar, Kade Coleman, Illya Coleman, Lisa
Enderle, Donna Foreman, Beckham Fox, Mary Golden, Rosie Guidry, Elizabeth
Harris, Barbara Hawkins, Lawson Helms, Gloria Jacobs, Bill Jannise, Lexi Jones,
Amelia Lee, Liz Medlin, Amanda Mitchell, Ann Mitchell, Amanda Mitchell, Sherry
Paschal, Gena Poole, Darlene Presley, Carrie Rashall, Ginger Reed, Jim Ryan,
Carolyn & Leroy Slack, Julie Shields, Ronald Thibodeaux, Brenda Ward,
Mary Weitzel, Lulabelle White & Delta Wright.
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​​ BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS-: Nicole Bain 2/3, Zachary Bolser 2/1, Melba Gipson 2/1,
Grace McCullough 2/1, & Carl Richard 1/31. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
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​​GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP- Catholic Charities will sponsor an adult Grief Support Group every Wednesday 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 pm. Located at Catholic Charities 2780 Eastex Freeway. For information call Linda Reising at 409-924-4427​
FISH FRY FRIDAYS- Our Knights of Columbus will resume the Fish fry starting on February
18th, Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent. Dine in or carry out, starting at 5:00 pm.
Both fried and grilled, fish and shrimp available.
LADIES ALTAR SOCIETY- The Ladies Altar Society will meet this Tuesday February 3rd at 6:00pm in the Parish Hall. All ladies are invited, please join us!
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FIRST WEDNESDAY ADULT SOCIAL-Everyone is invited to join us for lunch and games, 11:00 am to1:00 pm, this Wednesday February4th in the Parish Hall. Bring your favorite snack(and game if you want) to spend time together for fun & games. We also share books & puzzles.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! - to all who were able to participate in the warm clothes drive, we were able to deliver many coats, blankets, scarves and hats to those in need before the freezing weather hit.
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FATHER- SON RETREAT- Weekend with St. Joseph-It’s not too late to register for the Christ In You retreat for father (or grandfather) and sons age 10-14 years. It begins at 6:00 pm on Friday and ends at 10:00 am Sunday at Christ Central Camp. Fun and faith centered, it is an all-inclusive weekend away from the hectic world to bond with your son. Information for sign up is on the bulletin boards or call John Lund at 409-748-5948. www.christinyou-cmc.com
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LOCAL LENTEN PILGRIMAGE- Jump start your Lent with a local 5-mile pilgrimage between Shrines of the Blessed Virgin Mary that kicks off at 9 am Saturday, March 7, with the Mystery of Faith embodied in the Holy Traditional Latin Mass. Park early at Queen of Peace Shrine, 800 Ninth Ave, Port Arthur, TX to catch the 7:15 a.m. or 8:15 a.m. shuttle bus (1st come, 1st served) to Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in time for Mass. Dedicated to Reparations to the Holy Face of Jesus. The Most Reverend David Toups, Bishop of Beaumont, will offer the Final Blessing about 3:30 pm at Queen of Peace Shrine. For more info: www.LmsBmt.com 409-724-1456 see bulletin board
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SEMINARIAN PRAYER BOARD- At the back of the Church you will find a prayer-card easel furnished by the Sierra Club encouraging Vocations. All of the cards on the board are Seminarians in our Diocese. We are asked to pick a card and pray for that Seminarians and for the empty pegs to be filled. Bishop Toups wanted 20 pegs in the expectant hope that they may one day be filled.
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​ROSARY PRAYER GROUP- A group of parishioners gather to pray the Rosary every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Church and before Mass on Saturday and Sunday.
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​MINISTRIES- Are you interested in becoming a Lector, Eucharistic Minister, Altar Server, or Evangelization team? Maybe you like to sing, come join the Choir! The best way to grow our faith is by getting involved. We need you!
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​OCIA CLASSES- Are you or someone you know interested in joining the Church or learning more about your Catholic faith? Formerly RCIA, OCIA is the “Order of Christian Initiation for Adults”. If you are interested in joining please call the Church office. Classes are on the first and second Wednesday of each month in the Education Building 409-752-3571.
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WHATS HAPPENING AT OLOS- If you want to be up on the latest things going on at Our lady of Sorrows, you can check out our Facebook www.facebook.com/oloscatholicchurch and on Instagram: ourladyofsorrowscatholicchurch or the website ourladyofsorrowschina.org
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LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE-In the Gospel reading for today, Jesus, after seeing His crowd of followers, sits down and decides to teach them. Something He saw in the people propelled Jesus to take the time to sit down on the side of a mountain and teach what we would come to know as the Sermon on the Mount. In part of this teaching, Jesus leads the people through a series of statements highlighting the blessings of divine happiness. One of these blessings reveals how deeply Jesus cares about and understands the nature of our human hearts. He desires our holiness so that we might share in the Father’s Kingdom with Him. According to Matthew, Jesus says, “Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.” It is an act of humility to consider the cleanliness of our hearts. But like a smudged window, darkened gradually by grime, our hearts can and do become sullied by sin. This shadowing of heart space can happen subtly, almost imperceptibly. And just as it’s hard to see the view through a grime-covered window, it is hard to recognize God at work in our lives when the view from our hearts has become blocked. The light simply struggles to filter in. In today’s first reading, the prophet Zephaniah urges the people to seek God. He speaks of those who see the Lord, a people “humble and lowly,” a remnant chosen by God who “shall do no wrong and speak no lies; nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue”. These, the remnant, are people of a clean heart. This level of humility is challenging, but today Psalm 146 also assures us the Lord is working for the good of the lowly, for our good, and will keep faith forever. We need not be afraid to consider the state of our hearts; the Lord is with us, and in Him we can (and should) take refuge. Paul, too, reminds us in his letter to the people of Corinth that the chosen are called not through any merits of their own, but to fulfill God’s mission. Imagine our hearts as magnificent stained glass adorning a cathedral. The more we allow the light to shine through them, the more God’s glory is illuminated. What if we make the effort to tend to our whole hearts so that as we seek God, we might also see Him. Just as the simple attention to the task of cleaning a window can make it shine and sparkle, so too that type of attention applied to the care of our own hearts will allow God’s light to move through freely. And suddenly the view becomes very clear.
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