ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH

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Effective immediately and in keeping with current guidelines issued by the mayor of Lincoln, please make sure to bring and wear a mask when you come to Mass. For weekend Masses, if you do not have a mask of your own to bring with you, please see an usher.

When you are seated and are certain that you are spaced 6 feet from people of a separate household, you may remove your mask. Anytime you stand and when you come forward for Communion, please be sure to replace the mask.

As a reminder, the proper way to wear a mask is to have it covering both nose and mouth.

Thank you for helping in the effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 and protect the most vulnerable among us.

A Meditation for the Presentation of the Blessed MotherFrom a sermon by St. Augustine

"Stretching out his hand over his disciples, the Lord Christ declared: Here are my mother and my brothers; anyone who does the will of my Father who sent me is my brother and my sister and my mother. I would urge you to ponder these words. Did the Virgin Mary, who believed by faith and conceived by faith, who was the chosen one from whom our Savior was born among men, who was created by Christ before Christ was created in her - did she not do the will of the Father? Indeed the blessed Mary certainly did the Father’s will, and so it was for her a greater thing to have been Christ’s disciple than to have been his mother, and she was more blessed in her discipleship than in her motherhood. Hers was the happiness of first bearing in her womb him whom she would obey as her master."

Read more of this sermon here: https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/presentation-virgin-mary-st-augustine-office-readings/

Excerpts from the English translation of The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1974, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.