March 22- March 28
Saturday 4:00 p.m. James Ainsworth & Bolivia Higginbotham
Sunday 8:30 a.m. Junius Edwards Sr. & Alexander DeLeon
Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Morris & Shirley Blanchard
Wed. 8:00 a.m. Sam & Bernadette Scalisi
Thursday 8:00 a.m. No Mass
Friday 8:00 a.m. No Mass
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29 March Sat. 4:00 p.m. Lector: Liz Gallier Cup: Liz Gallier & Denise Klages Altar Server: Thad Cook
30 March Sun. 8:30 a.m. Lector: Tony Mireles
Bread: Deacon
Cup: Diana & Kim McCullough
Altar Server: Myah Leger
Money Counters: Rachal Jordan & Rhonda Ducote
​​​​​​​​PENANCE SERVICE -- Thursday April 3rd at Our Lady of Sorrows starting at 6:00 p.m. Our Lady of Victory will have a Penance service on Thursday April 10th at 6:00 p.m.
Stations of the Cross will be 6:00 p.m. every Friday during Lent. Stations in Shadow March 21st.
BEARING FRUIT-In the parable of the fig tree, the owner is not pleased—
the tree has not produced any fruit. Unlike the fig tree, God would be happy
with any fruit we produce. We could be generous to the poor, we could fight
for the unborn child’s right to life, or we could simply teach our
children how to pray. Like the owner of the fig tree, God is patient, but
we only have so much time. Are we bearing fruit? Now is the time.
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PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK: Barry Adams, William Anderson, Gladys Ainsworth, Henderson Arrington, Ajibola Batiste, Michelle Blaisdell, Kade Coleman, Illya Coleman, Lisa Enderle, Donna Foreman, Jack Gilley, Mary Golden, Rosie Guidry, Elizabeth Harris, Barbara Hawkins, Lawson Helms, Gloria Jacobs, Bill Jannise, Harrison Johnson, Georgia Johnson, Mary Kibodeaux, Lexi Jones, Amelia Lee, Magon Loring, Liz Medlin, Amanda Mitchell, Raphael Ochieng, Edgar Onyango, Sherry Paschal, Mike Phelan, Castle Phelps, Darlene Presley, Jim Ryan , Julie Shields, Irby Thibodeaux, Lulabelle White & Delta Wright.
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​​ ​BIRTHDAY BLESSINGS-: Elijah Boian 3/23, Lionel Briggs 3/23, Denise Clement 3/24,
Madison Ebarb 3/22, Samantha Grantham 3/24, Raylie Huff 3/23, and Glen Lachney 3/22.
Happy Birthday! May God Bless You!
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ACM- Appeal for Catholic Missions is underway for 2025! It is only through your prayers and donations that we meet our goal. All that you prayerfully donate goes to fund many important missions in Southeast Texas. Also, any funds over our goal comes back to us tax free. Thank you for all you do to support our Church.
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​​​​​RELIGIOUS EDUCATION-CCD-Classes - The morning class, PreK through 5th grade is 9:30 to 10:45. Night Class, 6th grade through 12th CYO is 6:00 pm to 7:15 p.m. For information call Melody 409-782-4115
​ROSARY PRAYER GROUP- A group of parishioners gather to pray the Rosary every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Church. O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
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FISH FRY KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS- Next Fish Fry is Friday, March 21st, And every Friday during Lent 5 p.m. to sell out. Fried or grilled fish or shrimp, includes hushpuppies, potato casserole and coleslaw. Support our Knights, dine in or carry out.
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​​​​ CHILDRENS MASS- We have a children’s/youth Mass the second Sunday of each month. The children will walk in with Father, sitting together, and participate in the parts of the
Mass. They will be lectors, collections, gift bearers, ect. Please join us , and be part of this
ministry. Do to Palm Sunday there will be no Children's Mass in April.
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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 Sunday p.m. noon at Our Lady of Victory . After the 11:00 Mass 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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Sacraments in Scripture Part 2 – Marriage in the Old and New Testament
As mentioned last week, the true nature of marital love in the Old Testament is most clearly demonstrated by God Himself in His covenant relationship with Israel. Seeing God’s Covenant with Israel in the image of exclusive and faithful married love, the prophets prepared the Chosen People’s conscience for a deepened understanding of the unity and indissolubility of marriage. Since Israel is covenanted to Yahweh, Israel’s worship of idols is considered marital infidelity, thus the Lord refers to Israel as an “adulterous wife”. Through Jeremiah, God describes how Israel broke the covenant made at Sinai, “though I was their husband”. Yet, despite Israel’s unfaithfulness, Yahweh is steadfast in His covenant love and faithfulness. Above all, it is through the prophet Hosea that God illustrates the marital relationship that the covenant creates between Himself and Israel. God tells Hosea to take a harlot named Gomer, for a wife. Gomer’s infidelity to Hosea is a sign of Israel’s marital infidelity to Yahweh. The Lord says to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord” (Hos. 1:2). The Lord then reveals to Hosea that in the future He will make a new covenant with Israel, a covenant that will mark a new and faithful marriage relationship between God and His people. On that day—oracle of the LORD— You shall call me “My husband,” and you shall never again call me “My baal.” … I will make a covenant for them on that day… I will betroth you to me forever: I will betroth you to me with justice and with judgment, with loyalty and with compassion; I will betroth you to me with fidelity, and you shall know the LORD The Lord tells Hosea that He shall woo Israel by taking her out to the wilderness, where He shall “speak tenderly to her” (Hos. 2:16). Just as Yahweh led Israel into the wilderness in the Exodus and made a covenant with her at Sinai, so too, He will once again take Israel out into the wilderness before ratifying the New Covenant. It is not accidental, then, that the New Testament begins with Israel’s going out to the wilderness to hear John the Baptist, who call himself the “friend of the bridegroom”. According to St. John’s Gospel, Jesus performed His first sign, which marked the beginning of His public ministry, while a wedding feast in Cana. The Church attaches great importance to Jesus’ presence at the wedding at Cana. She sees in it the confirmation of the goodness of marriage and the proclamation that thenceforth marriage will be an efficacious sign of Christ’s presence (Catechism, no. 1613). Not only did Jesus perform a miraculous sign at the wedding when He changed the water into wine, His very presence at the feast was a sign of the nature of His mission and of the restoration and elevation of marriage that He was bringing about. In Matthew’s Gospel, when Jesus is questioned by the Pharisees about Moses’ allowance for divorce, He reminds them of God’s original plan for marriage: “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one’? So they are no longer two but one. What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder” (Mt. 19:4-6).
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