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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time | February 11, 2024

NEWS & UPDATES

40 Days for Life Spring Campaign Begins


The spring campaign of 40 Days for Life, forty days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion begins on Ash Wednesday. Please consider joining others from St. Luke and neighboring parishes to stand and peacefully pray in the public right-of-way outside Planned Parenthood, El Monte at 4786 N. Peck Road (corner of Peck and Lower Azusa) during the 40-day vigil. Hours are 7:00 am-7:00 pm daily, Wednesday, Feb. 14, through Sunday, March 24. 



On Sunday, Feb. 11, after all Masses, we will have tables with information about 40 Days for Life and how you can sign-up to participate. We will also have information about the support provided to pregnant women by our local Pregnancy Help Center of San Gabriel Valley as an important alternative to abortion. 

Saving God’s Children from Sex Trafficking



The Mary Queen of Heaven Missionary sisters will give a presentation about Human Trafficking on Thursday, Feb. 15, 6:30- 8:00 pm in Room 404 of the Parish Hall. We invite all St. Luke parishioners, families and friends to come and hear about this critical topic. 


The sisters will present information about Human Trafficking, about the sisters’ efforts to rescue young girls trapped in poverty and save them from sex trafficking, and about their newly opened MQHM Regina Coeli Home of Love USA, right here in the San Gabriel Valley. 


The sisters will have religious items available for purchase, and refreshments will be provided. For questions or more information, please e-mail Wendy McGrail, Life, Justice and Peace Ministry, at wendybmcgrail@gmail.com. 

St. Vincent de Paul Pantry Weekend Coming Up


Our St. Luke St. Vincent de Paul conference is most appreciative of you for helping us keep our pantry shelves well stocked and our pantry recipients well fed! Our next Pantry Weekend is next weekend, Feb. 17 and 18.

 

This month, we especially need peanut butter, jelly, Hamburger Helper, and boxes of cereal. Currently, we do NOT need the following items: canned soup, canned fruit and canned vegetables, and canned beans. Shopping carts will be at the church exists after all the Masses next weekend. Thank you for your support!



The St. Luke Food Pantry continues to provide food, by appointment, to anyone who needs food. If you know of anyone in the parish or the community in need of food, please have them call (626) 684-2914.

Bunco Party


All parishioners are invited to a fun afternoon of Bunco on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 11:30 am-3:00 pm in the Parish Hall. Cost: $8 per person. Cash prizes to be awarded for games! Door prizes will also be available! A variety of homemade desserts will be served. Never played Bunco before? We’ll teach you how to play in just a few minutes - it’s easy!


An RSVP is appreciated so we know how many guests to plan for. Please call Ann Baziak at (626) 448-8991 (Can leave a message). Sponsored by the St. Luke Family Ministry.

PARISH STEWARDSHIP

Your Gifts Support Our Parish


Our thanks to the many generous individuals and families of our parish! 


These gifts benefit the parish in so many ways, including helping to meet everyday expenses for liturgy, faith formation, and operations. For your convenience, gifts may be made several ways:


Envelope Users: Offertory envelopes can be placed in collection baskets during weekend Masses, mailed to the Parish Office, or dropped in the office mailbox.


Online Donations: Click here to give electronically one-time or make a recurring gift.


May God Bless You and Your Family for Your Continued Generosity!

This Weekend is Commitment Sunday for Together in Mission 


“Be Imitators of Christ” is the theme of the 2024 archdiocesan annual appeal, Together in Mission. St. Luke has been asked to raise $55,723 and Archbishop Gomez is inviting every Catholic to make their annual commitment to this year’s campaign. 


We look forward to the continued generosity of our parishioners. Funds in excess of the parish goal are returned to the parish. Look for special envelopes in the pews. 


Your gifts to Together in Mission ensure that every Catholic living in the Archdiocese has a parish to celebrate their faith and access to a Catholic school education. 


Please prayerfully consider your pledge with the information that was mailed to your home, a pledge envelope found within the pews, or online at www.ourmissionla.org/give. If you write a check, please make it payable to Together in Mission. Thank you for your generosity!

LIFE, JUSTICE & PEACE SPOTLIGHT

Radiate Love: Celebrating Marriage and Family


National Marriage Week is Feb. 7-14 and World Marriage Day is Sunday, Feb. 11. Both observances are an opportunity to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family.


What is the Catholic perspective on marriage? In the Catholic Church, marriage between two baptized persons is one of the 7 sacraments instituted by Christ. Marriage is a gift bestowed by God, the Creator, from the creation of the human race and includes the wondrous gift of co-creating human life. Thus, marriage is the foundation of the family.


This is a description of sacramental marriage from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: "In a sacramental marriage, God’s love becomes present to the spouses in their total union and also flows through them to their family and community.” The USCCB theme for National Marriage Week 2024 is Love Beyond Words.”


"For Your Marriage" (https://www.foryourmarriage.org) is a website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage, which highlights the meaning and value of married life for the Church and for society. The website helps couples at all stages of life to understand and live God’s plan for happy, holy marriages by providing educational and spiritual resources. Two resources are listed here:


· The core value of Worldwide Marriage Encounter, www.wwme.org, is the belief that marriage is a sacrament we live every day. "Even when a marriage is going smoothly, there are always opportunities to make it work better. The Marriage Encounter experience is a skill-building enrichment where together, you can learn to be the best, most loving and thriving couple you can be."


· Retrouvaille, https://helpourmarriage.org/, is a Christian marriage program and is Catholic in origin. The ultimate goal of Retrouvaille is solely to help save marriages. Tens of thousands of marriages have been restored with the simple concept of couples helping couples with the spiritual guidance from caring clergy members. "We believe that every marriage, a union of one man and one woman, deserves the opportunity to survive, be healed and thrive as a covenant of life and love. Retrouvaille is the place where we, as hurting couples, found hope…” 


The California Catholic Conference of Bishops is dedicating the 2024-2025 pastoral year to deepen our appreciation of the Sacrament of Marriage as modeled on the irrevocable covenantal love of God for his people expressed in the Eucharist. 


The California Catholic Conference is calling on the Catholic Church in California, through their initiative “Radiate Love,” https://cacatholic.org/radiatelove/, to illuminate and proclaim the goodness of marriage and family and to demonstrate to the world, by word and witness, why the Vocation of marriage is unique and beautiful. 


Beginning on World Marriage Day, Feb. 11, 2024, the Bishops invite all Catholic communities in California to participate in the Radiate Love initiative, for couples to invest in their relationships and let that love radiate out to their family and to the world. They will make resources available to parish communities throughout the year. 


As part of this initiative, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is hosting a World Marriage Day Celebration at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Sunday, Feb. 11, at their 10:00 am and 12:30 pm Masses. 


Prayer for Married Couples



Almighty and eternal God,

You blessed the union of married couples

so that they might reflect the union of Christ with his Church:

look with kindness on them.

Renew their marriage covenant,

increase your love in them,

and strengthen their bond of peace

so that, with their children,

they may always rejoice in the gift of your blessing.


We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.


~St. Luke Life, Justice and Peace Ministry

Saints and Observances

Week of February 11, 2024


Sunday

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time


Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Valentine’s Day


Saturday

The Seven Holy Founders

of the Servite Order 


Next Sunday

First Sunday of Lent




Daily Readings




I turn to you, Lord,

in time of trouble, and you fill me with the

joy of salvation.


-Psalm 32




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Parish Mission Statement


St. Luke the Evangelist Parish is a Roman Catholic Community

dedicated to carrying out the Gospel message of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 


Our mission is to - welcome, evangelize and educate;

provide spiritual nourishment; promote Christian values;

foster peace and justice; encourage service to others.



Pastoral Office

5605 Cloverly Ave., Temple City, CA 91780


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