"Enter the Narrow Gate..."
Ste. Marie Parish

Mass attendance is restricted to essential persons only
 
All Masses are live-streamed, 8, 930, 1130, Daily & Saturday 715
at https://www.enterthenarrowgate.org/live-stream

• Don’t view, PARTICIPATE: Arrange furniture, stand, kneel, sit, respond

• Sat 2:30-3:45 pm and Wednesday 5-630 pm
• Monday of Holy Week 11 am-1 pm, 5 pm-7 pm
• Behind screen only and those in church please respect social distancing

• Please respect social distance of at least 6 feet between people

• Please Confess behind the screen only
• Please be brief and concise with your confession especially if the line is long.

 
God Bless, Fr. Moe                                                                                                                                                +>i< Jn.3:30

 Today on the Feast of St Joseph, we launched our first Mass without a congregation.
It made me very conscious of being separated from our parish family—I already miss you. Yet we are bound in prayer and Praise be Jesus Christ, we have the internet.
 
While we do seem to be having some technical difficulties, I am trusting that we’ll work out the bugs so we can be in “virtual contact.”
 
If you are watching Mass on TV or a media device, please don’t just watch.
Participate: gather the family, arrange the furniture, stand sit and kneel, say the responses, pray the prayers, sing the songs, and at the time of Holy Communion, pray the following
Act of Spiritual Communion.
 
Act of Spiritual Communion
 
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things, and desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, 
come at least spiritually into my heart.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.
 
On this feast of St Joseph, I am indeed compelled to contemplate St Joseph, his life and vocation. By the way, today, Fr Rick had an excellent homily at the daily Mass. I encourage you to watch. 
 
St Joseph was not without hardship and toil in his life. See what came upon him... the need to travel by government mandate while his wife was pregnant; homelessness; threat to the life of the infant Jesus; and fleeing to a foreign country as a refugee. Indeed, see what wiles of the enemy tried to destroy him and his family!
Yet in all these trials, St Joseph was faithful and righteous.
 
Through his example, we may be inspired at this time to turn more toward the same Jesus whom Joseph so zealously protected. This could be a great time of renewal for our families and the Church family. I encourage you to gather around the Holy Family, with Joseph as our intercessor, Mary our Mother and Queen who gathers all her children around her Son, The Father from whom all graces flow, The Son who opens his pierced Heart to pour out His mercy, and The Holy Spirit who brings unity and fullness of Life!
 
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that by St Joseph’s intercession your Church may constantly watch over the unfolding of the mysteries of human salvation, whose beginnings you entrusted to his faithful care. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
 
God Bless,
Fr. Moe
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Jn.3:30