Ruth A.W. Carpenter
PRIMERICA
A CITI COMPANY 416 12th Street, Suite 311
P.O. Box 2317
Columbus, GA 31902
Res. 866 598 7968 Bus. 706 596-1138
Fax. (706) 221-2571 Cell 706 575 5662
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An independent representative of Primerica Financial
Services
The Men’s Club of St. Benedict
is open to all male members
of the parish.
Join us the second Tuesday of each month in the
Parish Hall at 7:00PM.
Service Fellowship
706-322-2036
DAVIS & SON’S
Landscaping
Complete Lawn Maintenance
Lula & Marchelle
7108 Kirkwood Drive
Owner-Don Davis Columbus, GA 31904 Phone: 706-569-5936, 706-326-2733
Email: Hattie49@bellsouth.net
River City Rehabilitation & Spine Specialists, PC East Wynnton
Appliance and Moving Services
GARY N. DAWSON, MD
EMG Testing
Non-Surgical Spine Care
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2300 13 Street, Suite A
Columbus, Georgia 31906 376 Harco Drive COLUMBUS, GEORGIA 31906
(706) 682-0800 William A. Renfro, III Owner
Office: (706) 243-7010 Fax: (706) 243-7019
willirenf@aol.com (706) 304-1541 Cell
Free ministry to traveling Catholics: For nationwide Mass Times and locations call: Mass Times 410-676-6000, or internet www.Masstimes.org.
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Please, contact the office about Baptisms, marriages, homebound or hospital visitation and funerals. Note that 6 months notice is needed
Before starting marriage arrangements
St. Benedict the Moor
Catholic Church
Served by the Missionary Society of St. Paul: www.mspfathers.org
Pastor: Fr. Donatus C. Mgbeajuo, MSP
, Rectory: 2939 9th St., Columbus, GA 31906
donachrisneo@yahoo.com Church: 2930 Thomas St., Columbus, GA 31906
Religious Ed. Directors: Office, Hall & Mailing Address: 2935 9th St., Columbus, GA 31906
Brett Murphy-Dawson & Gary Dawson:
706-221-2077 Office Hours: Tuesday-Thursday: 9am-5pm,
E-mail Address stbenedict07@bellsouth.net
Phone: 706- 323-8300 Fax: 706- 324-2641
Office Hours: Tuesday-Thursday: 9am-5pm,
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 9:00am-3:00pm Friday:
February 8, 2009 Phone: 706- 323-8300 Fax: 706- 324-2641
“Praise the Lord who heals the broken hearted.”
Psalm 147
5. Expect less.
Parish Weekly Activities:
Sunday Masses: 8am &11am ANNOUNCEMENTS
Daily Masses: Tues.-Thurs. 7.30am SECOND COLLECTION:
Project 2004
Friday: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
and Adoration: 6pm; Mass: 7pm First Friday:
Benediction
Saturday: 10am MEETINGS: Anniversary Committee
Sunday, February 8th
Youth activities: 10.30am
Holy Days of Obligation: 7.30am & 7pm
Parish Council – Sunday, February 8th On behalf of the entire parish,
Fr. Donatus extends prayers
Confession: 5-6pm on Saturdays and
anytime on request. and deep concerns to our sick
parishioners and their families:
Religious Ed. Classes (Sept.-May)
Sundays, 9.30am-10.30am in the parish hall.
Deadline for submitting ads Ann Perry, Bridget Mgbeajuo,
Emergencies: Please call the Office or the
and patrons for the Clarence Johnson, Eddie Mae
Rectory anytime. Anniversary Souvenir Lewis, Genevelyn Jenkins, Ellen
Calhoun, Sallie Grady, Evelyn and
Bible Study: Wednesdays, 7pm. Program is March 31, Debra Pough, Shirley Madison,
Parish Council Executive Meeting: 3rd 2009.
Sunday of every month.
Susie Cameron, Debra Pierce,
Marchelle Rutherford, Georgetta
Parish Council Meeting: 3rd Tuesday of every
month
and Lillian Leonard, Jocelyn
HAPPINESS…
Chambers, Ruth Doughty, Susan
Office Hours:
Pastor: Tuesday-Friday 9-5pm A 92 year old, petite, well-poised and proud Doughty, Theresa Mytchell, Mable
Secretary: Monday 10-2pm man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight Craig, Nick Robinson, Barbara
Tuesday 1-5pm o‟clock, with his hair fashionably combed and
Wednesday 1-7pm shaved perfectly, even though he is legally
Lawrence, Willie Ford, Patricia
Friday 10-4pm blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife Norah, Alice Austin, Elvia King,
of 70 years recently passed away, making the Allan Dickieson, and Mary
Web Site -
sbtmcol.parishesonline.com move necessary. After many hours of waiting
patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he Johnson.
smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. (Let‟s keep our Sick and Shut-in
As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I list current by calling the office to
provided a visual description of his tiny room,
add or remove names.)
including the eyelet sheets that had been hung
on his window. “I love it,‟ he stated with the
enthusiasm of an eight year old having just
been presented with a new puppy. „Mr. Jones,
you haven‟t seen the room; just wait.‟ „That
doesn‟t have anything to do with it,‟ he replied.
„Happiness is something you decide on ahead
Condolences are extended to Mr. of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn‟t
Edward Dawson and family in the loss of depend on how the furniture is arranged… it‟s
his mother, Mrs. Edna Ruth Dawson. how I arrange my mind. I already decided to
Services were held Saturday at Wynnton love it. „It‟s a decision I make every morning
Hill Baptist Church. May the peace of
when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend
Christ ease your pain of loss and give you
the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have
strength. God’s Gifts for February 1, 2009
with the parts of my body that no longer work, or
get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that
(2008) (2009)
do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes
open, I‟ll focus on the new day and all the happy
memories I‟ve stored away. Just for this time in Offertory: $4378.13 $1590.30
my life. Old age is like a bank account. You
withdraw from it what you‟ve put in. So, my Utilities and Energy: $321.00
advice to you would be to deposit a lot of
happiness in the bank account of memories! Church Repair: $7.00
Thank you for your part in filling my Memory
Bank. I am still depositing. “Remember the five Candle Stand: $270.00
simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred. Project 2004: $505.00
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply. Project 2004 Bal: $127,348.46
4. Give more.
moving)…he went all through way to happiness and eternal life was
Galilee. through the human situation – and not
around it.
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There is a sense of urgency, Jesus did not come to take away our
Today is the 5 Sunday in Ordinary of mission, of energy, of suffering but to show us how to make
Time and for the last three weeks the driven-ness. Jesus is like the it – in union with him – a vehicle to
readings have been looking at the sower of seed who doesn‟t eternal life. He came to bring
man Jesus setting out on his mission stop to look back where the happiness IN our human condition –
to preach the Good News of the seed has fallen but one who and not through exemption from it.
Kingdom. goes on sowing.
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We see a man of great Do we live our Christian life
On the 2 Sunday we saw Jesus simplicity and power. Jesus with a sense of urgency, with
inviting the disciples of John to follow comes to the bed of Simon‟s a sense that the day will come
him to „come and see‟ where he lived. mother-in-law and takes her when it will end and that then
We see their excitement as they by the hand and helps her up it will be too late for all the
return home after spending only a day – her illness now gone. The things we need to
with him and announcing: We have words of Jesus and the deeds accomplish?
found the Messiah! of Jesus are one and the Are we simple and humble
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same thing, equally powerful. about how we deal with others
Then on the 3 Sunday we saw the Simplicity and power! or do we have lots of self
attraction Jesus has for those seeking We see a man of prayer, a interest? Are we simple about
the truth. He calls four men to man who keeps his priorities our good deeds?
become his apostles and they follow straight; his relationship to he Are we people of prayer? Do
without hesitation. Father stays in the first place. we put energy into our
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A man who refuses to let the prayer? Do we make time for
Last week, the 4 Sunday, we saw busy routine dictate the terms prayer, even getting up early,
Jesus teaching in the synagogue and of his life. A man who like Jesus? Do we look for a
all were impressed by the authority of defends the spiritual from the time and a place, every day?
his teaching and astonished at the practical, as well as from the If Christians are serious about
power of his word which could give temptation of popularity. their Christian life they will
orders even to unclean spirits.
Finally, we see a man who is pray.
busy teaching us. Not only Are we constantly praying for
And today we meet him once again in
by what he says but by what exemptions from suffering; for
the Gospel. We see him at work; we
he does. privileges, for favors? Or do
watch him in action. We draw closer
we pray for the strength to
to him, trying to get to know him and
This Gospel shows us one of the remain happy and peaceful in
understand him a little better.
greatest and most significant aspects these sufferings?
of what Jesus came to teach us.
So what do we see about Jesus in
When he goes off to preach Our present life is a special time of
today‟s Gospel?
elsewhere and leaves behind all those grace, at time of favor. Let us set to
who are not yet cured and who are work before it runs out.
We see a strong, energetic, still suffering he shows us that he did
busy Jesus, working hard to not come to take all this away. He
spread the Good News of the could have gone on curing till there DAILY READINGS:
Kingdom. From the was no one left to cure but in moving
synagogue where he cast out on he showed us that he had not
Sunday: Jb 7:1-4, 6-7; 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23;
the evil spirit from a Mk 1:29-39
come to inaugurate a paradise on Monday: Gn 1:1-19; Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12,
possessed man he went earth without illness or suffering. 24, 35; Mk 6:53-56
straight to Simon‟s house and Tuesday: Gn 1:20-2:4a; Ps 8:4-9; Mk 7:1-13
cured his mother-in-law. Nor did he exempt himself from
Wednesday: Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17; Ps 104:1-2,
Then crowds came and after 27-30; Mk 7:14-23
suffering. Thursday: Gn 2:18-25; Ps 128:1-5; Mk 7:24-
sunset he is still working. 30
Long before dawn he got up Jesus came to show us by the Friday: gn 3:1-8; Ps 32:1-2, 5-7; Mk 7:31-37
for prayer: let us go Saturday: Gn 3:9-24; Ps 90:2-6, 12-13; Mk
example of his life and death that the 8:1-10
elsewhere (let us keep
Next Sunday: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46; 1 Cor 10:31-
11:1; Mk 1:40-45