SAINTS ROSE and CLEMENT PARISH 111 Long Street, Warwick Rhode Island 02886
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SAINTS ROSE AND CLEMENT PARISH 111 Long Street, Warwick Rhode Island 02886 WEEKEND MASSES MISSION STATEMENT Saturday Vigil - 4:00 pm “At SSRC we strive, through our relationship with Sunday at 8:00 am, 10:30 am and 5:00 pm Jesus Christ and with one another, to welcome all. We WEEKDAY MASSES seek especially to accompany those on the margins of Monday to Friday at 7:00 am society, those who have fallen away, the lonely, and all CONFESSION of those searching for the presence of God. Saturday from 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm or by Appointment As a community of believers we seek to grow in faith through worship, grow in love through works of HOLY DAY MASSES justice and mercy, and grow in hope that God may be 7:00 am, 9:00 am, and 7:00 pm glorified in all.” SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2020 Fourth Sunday of Lent 4:00 PM + Raymond & Dorothy Murphy 4:00 PM + Norma Mastroianni SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2020 Fourth Sunday of Lent 8:00 AM + Parishioners of SS. Rose and Clement 10:30 AM + Patricia A. Cotter 10:30 AM + Julieta Leandro 5:00 PM + Parishioners of SS. Rose and Clement MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2020 St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop 7:00 AM + Joseph DeSilva TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2020 Lenten Weekday 7:00 AM + Parishioners of SS. Rose and Clement WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2020 Annunciation of the Lord 7:00 AM + Martha Emerson (3rd Anniv.) THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2020 Lenten Weekday 7:00 AM + Donna M. Flaherty FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2020 Lenten Weekday 7:00 AM + William Arnold SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2020 Fifth Sunday of Lent March 15, 2020 4:00 PM + Marian C. Lefoley (2nd Anniv.) Online Giving ………………… $ 130.00 4:00 PM + Michael P. Murphy (26th Anniv.) Total $ 130.00 Please remember to continue your contribution to the parish, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2020 if you can do so. Fifth Sunday of Lent You can mail them in, bring to the office or use the online 8:00 AM + The Deceased Members of the Santagata Family giving account. 10:30 AM + Parishioners of SS. Rose and Clement Thank you so much for your generosity! 5:00 PM + Parishioners of SS. Rose and Clement These Intentions will be rescheduled once Mass is resumed. Readings for the week of March 22, 2020 Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a/Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 [1]/Eph 5:8-14/Jn 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 Monday: Is 65:17-21/Ps 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b [2a]/Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12/Ps 46: 2-3, 5-6, 8-9/Jn 5:1-16 Wednesday: Is 7:10-14; 8:10/Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11 [8a and SSRC PARISH GIVING is active. 9a]/Heb 10:4-10/Lk 1:26-38 Thursday: Ex 32:7-14/Ps Visit our website www.ssrcparish.com to set up your online 106:19-20, 21-22, 23 [4a]/Jn 5:31-47 Friday:Wis 2:1a, 12-22/Ps giving account. 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23 [19a]/Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Saturday: Jer 11:18-20/Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 [2a]/Jn 7:40-53 Fourth Sunday of Lent “The Church of God is not a restful garden, but a working vineyard." ~ St. Lucy Filippini Hi everyone! Needless to say, these are very unusual times. When faced with moments such as these, everyone has a Did you know that in our convent we fundamental choice to make: to either let it get the have two Filippini sisters? These are the sisters that host Holy best of us or to rise to the occasion. Hour for Vocations once a month for As Catholics, as sisters and brothers of Jesus Christ, Saints Rose and Clement Parish Saint Lucy Filippini’s feast day is March 25th. we are called to rise to the occasion - to do our very Given the current coronavirus outbreak, we will celebrate this best to fight the good fight, as Saint Paul tells us. It's feast day at a later date. an opportunity for us to use our God-given talents to prevent the Corona virus COVID-19 from spreading. Co-foundress of the Italian institute of the This means that we have to follow all directives and Maestre Pie, the Filippine. Also listed as recommendations given to us by the Center for Lucia, she was born in Tuscany, Italy. Disease Control and the Rhode Island Department of With Rosa Venerini, Lucy started training Health. schoolmistresses at Monte Fiascone. The institute evolved from this work. Lucy was Because of these unusual circumstances, please note canonized in 1930. the following: Lucy Filippini (Italian: Santa Lucia (1) Per Bishop Tobin, the celebration of Mass has Filippini) (13 January 1672 – 25 March 1732) is venerated as a Roman Catholic saint. She been suspended until further notice. founded the Institute of the Maestre Pie, dedicated to the (2) We will not have Stations of the Cross on Fridays. education of young girls. (3) No Confessions (Reconciliation) on Saturdays. (4) All meetings and all activities have been Lucy Filippini was born on 13 January 1672 in Corneto- Tarquinia. She was the fifth and youngest child of Filippo suspended for the time being. Filippini and Maddalena Picchi. She was orphaned at an (5) I highly recommend watching Mass on TV or on early age. At the age of six, she went to live with her the Internet. There are a number of websites with the aristocratic aunt and uncle who encouraged her religious Mass. One excellent site is https:// inclination by entrusting her education to the Benedictine www.watchthemass.com which is produced by the nuns at Santa Lucia. Archdiocese of Boston. Her career began under the patronage of Cardinal (6) I'm currently looking into the possibility of live Marcantonio Barbarigo, who entrusted her with the work streaming from our church. This is not as easy as it of founding schools for young women, especially the sounds, as we do not have the Internet in the church. poor. With Rose Venerini to train school teachers, she co- founded with Marcantonio Barbarigo the Pious Teachers Please continue to pray for all those affected, all (Religious Teachers Filippini), a group dedicated to the those in the medical profession, and for all people. education of girls. The young ladies of Montefiascone As we well know, prayer is very powerful. Praying were taught domestic arts, weaving, embroidering, together as a family is an excellent thing to do. reading, and Christian doctrine. Twelve years later the Cardinal devised a set of rules to guide Lucy and her Please also know of my prayers for all of you. followers in the religious life. Fifty-two schools were Stay well, and God bless! established during Lucy's lifetime. Pope Clement XI, in Father Andrew 1707, called Lucy to Rome to start schools which he placed under his special protection. She died of breast cancer in 1732, aged 60, at Montefiascone. Sunday, March 22, 2020 From the Desk of Mrs. Izzi From Rachael Czepyha As you are all well aware Rhode Island schools have been Ever since I was little whenever something bad closed this week. While students and teachers enrolled happened or I felt hopeless, I would always turn to my at St. Rose of Lima School have not been in the building Faith. I think this is because this is something that my this past week it has not been approached as a vacation Grandmother taught me. Whenever someone had a week. All have participated in an on-line learning program problem or needed a pray to be said they would call through a variety of websites and special programs that my grandmother and that prayer would be put into her St. Rose subscribes to. daily prayers that she said. As I grew up whenever I or someone I knew needed a prayer the first thing I We are fortunate that all pupils enrolled in Grades 5-8 would do would be to call my Grandmother. My Faith at St. Rose are provided with a chromebook allowing has always given me hope and peace. them to easily participate in on-line learning from home. All teachers have been in communication with families I hope that during this time of uncertainty that you all daily through their classroom webpages and other can find some peace by leaning on our Heavenly electronic means. Attendance has been recorded Father for guidance and love. One of my favorite through instructor’s ability to check students daily poems is Footprints. If you don’t know it, it’s a poem progress on programs such as IXL (we offer IXL for that speaks of a man walking the beach and he see math and other subject areas). Assignments have also two sets of footprints. One is his and one is the Lords. been submitted to teachers electronically which serves The man can see images of his life and during the as another method for attendance to be tracked. difficult times there is only one set of footprints. The man questions the Lord as to why he would leave him During the closure the building remains inaccessible to during the difficult times and the Lord tells him he did students and families. Out of an abundance of caution not leave him during that time he carried him.