Announcements

Sunday, January 29th – 4th Sunday after Epiphany - St Francis de Sales BCD

Monday, January 30th –St Martina VM

Tuesday, January 31st –St John Bosco C

Wednesday, February 1st – St Ignatius BM, St Brigid of Ireland V

Thursday, February 2nd – Purification BVM

Friday, February 3rd – St Andrew Corsini BC

Saturday, February 4th – St Agnes VM

Sunday, February 5th – Septuagesima Sunday - St Agatha VM, Martyrs of Japan

We welcome anyone who maybe be visiting Our Lady of the Snow Catholic Church. Please feel free to ask any questions and join us after Mass for our usual socializing. You are welcome to browse through any of our literature. Extra head coverings and Missals are at the back of the church. Remember, Holy Communion may only be received by Catholics who observe the Traditional teachings of the Catholic Church, are in the state of sanctifying grace, and have completed a three hour fast.

Please observe the rules of modesty as posted at the back of the church, out of respect for Our Lord and His Church.

Please follow the dress code for our church – Women and girls please wear dresses/skirts and head coverings; and men please wear dress slacks to Mass. Please be sure all clothing is modest and meet Catholic standards.

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Gospel for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

Archbishop Goodier on the reading of the Holy Gospels, and the Gospel for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany: "It is important for us to bear always in mind that we learn our Lord as He was, and therefore as He is, wholly from the Gospels. Other lives of Him, other writings, books of meditation and the like, may help us to interpret Him; they may give us the fruit of the discoveries of others; but in the end even the most inspired and the most living of these must be referred back to the Gospels; if their picture differs from that given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, then, however beautiful and fascinating and elevating it may be, it is not Jesus Christ, but some fine fancy of an artist's imagination. One can never lay aside the constant reading of the Gospels; the constant following of Him through their pages Who alone and in them alone, is set before us infallibly as the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The Evangelists knew Him better than we, and they did not venture to describe Him. They were content to let Him walk through their narrative, preaching the Kingdom, healing the sick, having compassion on the multitude, or retiring into the mountain to pray. But one thing is not possible; it is not possible to grow in the knowledge, and love, and imitation of Jesus Christ without at the same time growing in the perfection of every virtue and becoming more a saint every day. (A More Excellent Way, Archbishop Goodier, S.J.)

Jesus Calms the Sea"A rough cushion was found for Jesus' head, and almost immediately He was fast asleep. Jesus, the Son of God, was asleep, like any child, rocked in the cradle of the bark of Simon.

"For a time all went well... presently the waters began to rise; first an ominous splash of spray flew across the deck, then a wave curved over the edge and a stream of water ran down to the stern. Wave followed wave. Soon the boat was utterly beyond control; neither sail nor rudder could be governed. It was filling fast, a little more and it must go down, even if it did not capsize. The men began to lose courage; presently they lost their nerve; in a few minutes they were as helpless little children. And yet through it all He was lying there, fast asleep. As they clung to the sides and the thwarts they looked at Him where He lay. They loved Him, that none could deny; still there began to creep over them the feeling that if He were awake, if He knew the trouble around them, all would cease. There came a little resentment; while they were in such danger, while they were doing for Him all they could, and that at His own bidding, He was apparently indifferent, unconscious of it all. They could endure it no longer; they were at the last extreme. They crept along the deck and began to cry 'Master, does it not concern Thee that we perish? Lord, save us, we perish!'

"Instantly the sleeping Jesus opened His eyes. Through the noise of the storm which drowned every sound, He nevertheless heard their appeal; what the clamor of the elements had failed to do, their cry succeeded in doing, and He awoke. He made no delay; He made no show; He acted as though it were an affair of every day. He stood up; He stretched out His arm to the wind. 'Peace, be still,' He said; no more.

"One day His apostles would read the meaning of this miracle and would know that so long as He was with them in the boat, not till the end of time would any storm, would the gates of hell itself, be able to prevail against them."

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee!

Closing hymn

O heart of Mary pure and fair, there is no stain in thee,
In Adam's fall thou hast no share, from sin’s control thou'rt free.

Chorus:  O Heart of Mary, pure and fair, no beauty can with thine compare;
From every stain of sin thou'rt free; Oh, make us pure in heart like thee.

Sweet heart, within thy depths so chaste, we'll dwell and ne'er depart.
Till thou our souls hast deeply placed in Jesus' Sacred Heart.

And when from thy lov'd heart we'll go to that of thy dear Son, 
O shall we leave thee then? Ah, no: His Heart and thine are One!