St. Margaret Mary Church Liturgical Ministries
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Eucharistic Ministry
Sunday Masses

The Church was born of the paschal mystery. For this very reason the Eucharist, which is in an outstanding way the sacrament of the paschal mystery, stands at the centre of the Church's life. This is already clear from the earliest images of the Church found in the Acts of the Apostles: “They devoted themselves to the Apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers” (2:42). 

 

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The “breaking of the bread” refers to the Eucharist. Two thousand years later, we continue to relive that primordial image of the Church. At every celebration of the Eucharist, we are spiritually brought back to the paschal Triduum: to the events of the evening of Holy Thursday, to the Last Supper and to what followed it. 

The institution of the Eucharist sacramentally anticipated the events which were about to take place, beginning with the agony in Gethsemane. 

Once again we see Jesus as he leaves the Upper Room, descends with his disciples to the Kidron valley and goes to the Garden of Olives. Even today that Garden shelters some very ancient olive trees. 

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Perhaps they witnessed what happened beneath their shade that evening, when Christ in prayer was filled with anguish “and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down upon the ground” (cf. Lk22:44). The blood which shortly before he had given to the Church as the drink of salvation in the sacrament of the Eucharist, began to be shed; its outpouring would then be completed on Golgotha to become the means of our redemption: “Christ... as high priest of the good things to come..., entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption” (Heb 9:11- 12).

ENCYCLICAL LETTER
ECCLESIA DE EUCHARISTIA
OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE JOHN PAUL II
TO THE BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS, MEN AND WOMEN IN THE CONSECRATED LIFE AND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL ON THE EUCHARIST IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE CHURCH
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How to become a Eucharist Minister:

Any Saint Margaret parishioner interested in volunteering to help as Eucharistic Minister to the Mass please contact 
Pablo Diaz 
+1 310 534 4906
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Current Schedules

September 13, 2015 Though December 13, 2015 

December 19, 2015 Though March 6, 2016 
March 12, 2016 Through May 29, 2016
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Catholic Parish/School, 25511 Eshelman Avenue Lomita, CA 90717, +1 310 326 3364