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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
706-323-83—or fax 706-324-2641.
Please call the parish secr Please call the parish secret
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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:
706-464-5490 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,
Friday: 9:00am-3:00pm
Phone: 706- 323-8300 Fax: 706- 324-2641
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
November 8, 2009
“Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in
more than all the other contributors to the
treasury.” Mark 12:43
Parish Weekly Activities:
Game Night
Sunday Masses: 8am &11am
Friday, November 13th, 7pm
Daily Masses: Tues.-Thurs. 7:30am
(Bring snacks or drinks to share.)
Friday: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
On behalf of the entire parish,
and Adoration: 6pm; Fr. Donatus extends prayers
Mass: 7pm First Friday: Benediction
and deep concerns to our
Saturday: 10am
sick parishioners and their
St. Benedict’s Appreciation
Youth activities: 10:30am families: Ann Perry, Bridget
Luncheon
Holy Days of Obligation: 7:30am & 7pm Mgbeajuo, Clarence Johnson,
CELEBRATING ALL
Confession: 5-6pm on Saturday and anytime
Eddie Mae Lewis, Genevelyn
VOLUNTEERS
on request Jenkins, Ellen Calhoun, Sallie
November 15, 2009
Religious Ed. Classes (Sept.-May)
12:30 pm Grady, Evelyn and Debra
Sundays, 9:30am-10:30am in the parish hall
Pough, Shirley Madison,
Emergencies: Please call the Office or the Susie Cameron, Debra Pierce,
Rectory anytime
Georgetta and Lillian
Bible Study: Wednesday, 7pm
Leonard, Jocelyn Chambers,
Parish Council Executive Meeting: SAVE THE DATE Mable Craig, Willie Ford,
2nd Sunday of every month
The 5th Annual Alice Austin, Antoiya
Parish Council Meeting: 3rd Sunday of every DEIMEL LEGACY BALL
month Williams, Lula Bellamy, and
Honoring Bishop J. Kevin Boland Evert Austin.
Office Hours: Saturday, January 30, 2010 (Let’s keep our Sick and Shut-in list current by
Pastor: Tuesday-Friday 9-5pm
Columbus Trade and Convention Center calling the office to add or remove names.)
Secretary: Monday 10-2pm
Tuesday 1-5pm
Wednesday 1-7pm
Friday 10-4pm
Web Site -
sbtmcol.parishesonline.com
Attention College Students!
Newman Society, a Catholic
MASS INTENTIONS: college student organization, will
Souls in Purgatory – Tuesday, Wednesday hold its first planning meeting on God’s Gifts for November 1, 2009
November 10-11th Tuesday, November 10 from 8:00
(2008) (2009)
Serenia Shines – Thursday, November 12th to 9:30pm in the Youth Room at
CSU. Come to meet other Offertory: $5934.21 $2459.42
Cleveland Shines – Friday, November 13th
Catholic students and grow in your
All Saints: $321.00
Ozella Hood – Saturday, November 14th faith. Contact Dylan at
bollinger_dylan@colstate.edu Church Repair: $55.00
Utilities & Energy: $107.00
Poor Box: $0.00
ANNOUNCEMEnts
The November Ultreya for the Votive Candles: $1.00
SECOND COLLECTION: Project 2004 Columbus, Ft. Benning and
Project 2004: $250.00
Phenix City Cursillo will be held
on November 8 at 1:30pm in the Project 2004 Bal: $64,056.72
parish hall of St. Patrick’s
Church.
Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa This is the position of those on the advantage of it. In the final analysis,
is very fond of this joke: "When the way to the kingdom of God. The in the kingdom of God, between the
missionaries came to Africa, we had needs of flesh-and-blood children, victimizer and the victimized, it is
the land and they had the Bible. Then women, and men come before the always the victimized who gets the
they said, 'Let us pray ...,' and asked need to maintain the sacrificial better deal, as Desmond Tutu rightly
us to close our eyes. By the time the regimen of the Temple. remarked.
prayer was over, they now had the
land and we had the Bible." And he Traditionally we have read the In the male-dominated society of New
usually ends the joke by adding, "And Widow's Mite story as a story about Testament Palestine, the widow would
I think we got the better deal." In this boundless generosity and self- symbolize all who have no voice, no
joke we have a substantiation of Karl sacrifice. But we should first read it in means and no power. Who would such
Marx's criticism of the Christianity of the context in which Mark wrote it, as people be today? Do we as individuals
his day as the "opiate of the people," - a tragic evidence of the religious and as a church reach out to such
that which puts people to sleep while exploitation for which Jesus people to help them improve their lot.
the ground under their feet is taken condemned the Temple religious Or do we only tell them to pray harder
away from them. In today's gospel establishment. Before reading the and everything would be all right,
Jesus warns his followers against story as a model to encourage knowing quite well that it takes more
religious leaders who propagate this generosity to organized religion we than prayer to revive their fortunes? Is
kind of anesthetic religiosity. "Beware need to read it first as a condemnation Christianity a powerless gospel that
of the scribes, who ... devour of the use of religion to exploit opiates the people and maintains the
widows' houses and for the sake of simple, suffering and powerless status quo or is it the good news that
appearance say long prayers. They humanity. Jesus is teaching in the liberates and transforms personal and
will receive the greater Temple. He has just condemned the social life? We know the answer in
condemnation" (Mark 12:38-40). In unscrupulous scribes who devour theory. Let us show it in practice.
the second half of the gospel reading, widows' property under the pretext of
the story of the Widow's Mite, we see religious fervor. Then he looks up and
a tragic example of the product of this sees this widow putting "everything
kind of religiosity. Jesus commends she had, her whole living" into the
the victim but condemns the treasury and he points to her and says,
victimizer. "See what I mean?" The scribes never
literally robbed widows' houses. But
Last week we read about the scribe by their teaching they exploited
who asked Jesus about the first of the widows by persuading them in their
DAILY READINGS:
commandments. In the end Jesus gave privation to give up even the very
Sunday: 1 Kgs 17:10-16; Heb 9:24-
him his word of encouragement and little they had.
commendation: "You are not far 28; Mk 12:38-44 or 12:41-44
from the kingdom of God" (Mark It's like what happened at the World's Monday: Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; Ps 46:2-
12:34). Soon after that, in today's Fair in San Francisco in 1939. One of 3, 5-6, 8-9; 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17; Jn
reading, Jesus warns his followers the attractions was a pile of money 2:13-22
against the scribes who were going to said to total $1,000,000. For 25 cents, Tuesday: Wis 2:23-3:0; Ps 34:2-3,
receive a great condemnation. What is visitors were allowed to touch the 16-19; Lk 17:7-10
the crucial difference between the money. Poor people spent their last Wednesday: Wis 6:1-11; Ps 82:3-4,
Good Scribe who was commended quarter to have a momentary brush 6-7; Lk 17:11-19
last week and the generality of scribes with affluence. But did that make Thursday: Wis 7:22b-8:1; Ps
who are condemned this week. The them any richer? No, only 25 cents 119:89-91, 130, 135, 175; Lk 17:20-25
Good Scribe earned Jesus' approval poorer! False ideas nourishing false Friday: Wis 13:1-9; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 26-
when he agreed with Jesus that hopes can rob the poor even of the 37
practical love of God and neighbor "is little they have. Saturday: Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9; Ps
much more important than all 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43; Lk 18:1-8
whole burnt offerings and Jesus commends the exploited widow. Next Sunday: Dn 12:1-3; Heb 10:11-
sacrifices" (Mark 12:33). In other Why? Does Jesus approve of the 14, 18; Mk 13:24-32
words, the generality of the scribes process that has reduced her to the
believed in "Temple before people" state of indigence? No. Jesus praises
but the Good Scribe, by listening to her for her sincere and total trust in Scripture Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4
Jesus, was able to arrive at the Gospel God, not for the sorry fact that the
position of "people before Temple." religious establishment was taking