Holy Name of Jesus Church

Pastoral Assistant for Liturgy & Music: Rev. Albert Pinciaro, Pastor Sue Scanlon Rev. Msgr. J. James Cuneo, J.C.D., Choir Director/Cantor: Nina DeMasi Pastoral Associate Emeritus Parish Secretary, Faith Formation Facilitator: Rev. Churchill Penn, In Residence Maryjean daSilva Deacon Dan O’Connor Finance Board Chair: Anne Wargo Parish Trustees: Carol Bogue & Greg Moreau MASSES: MARRIAGE Saturday Vigil: 4:30 p.m. We celebrate Christian love and family with the Sacrament NEW SUNDAY SCHEDULE: 8:15 A.M. & 10:45 A.M. of Matrimony. Couples should contact the office one year in Daily: Monday - Friday - 7:30 a.m. advance.

Marian Devotions follow Monday morning Mass. ANOINTING OF THE SICK Adoration following Wednesday morning Mass Anyone who is ill and in need of prayers, comfort and/or NEW PARISHIONERS strength should call the office to arrange to receive this beautiful Sacrament. Please call, visit the office or register online.

SACRAMENTAL EVENTS: BAPTISM HOSPITALIZATION We celebrate new Christian life with Holy Baptism. Families If you or a loved one is hospitalized or homebound, please are requested to contact the office before the arrival of your notify us to receive care. We are not notified due to new child for instructions and registration. HIPAA law.

RECONCILIATION BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS Saturdays from 3:00-3:45p.m. and weekdays by request. Please submit to: [email protected] 5TH SUNDAY OF LENT MARCH 29, 2020 WHAT’S HAPPENING THI S W E E K Mon 3/30 Tues 3/31 Wed April 1 Thur 4/2 Fri 4/3 Sat 4/4 Sun 4/5 7:30 am Mass 7:30 am Mass 7:30 am Mass 7:30 am Mass 7:30 am Mass 4:30 pm Mass 8:15 am Mass +Antonio +Sylvain Family +Sr. Teresa +Tien Nguyen +Ted Bielen +Helen & Frank Mucciacciaro & r/b Catherine Urda r/b Maria Vu r/b wife, Rose Novobiliski Family Ciacci r/b Cathy & Sons r/b the Family Thi To r/b Maria Tringhese

Mucciacciaro 10:45 am Mass +Julia Bucci

(anniversary) r/b The Family Reflection for The Fifth Jesus’ weeping at Lazarus’ tomb give us a glimpse into how God Weekend in Lent views our eventual suffering and death. His reasons for not In A few days ago, I spoke sparing us these things are a mystery. Jesus has suffered more to Gary, my neighbor and than we ever will ever know in order to pay the full cost of our friend of some 20 years. eternal resurrection. We were both in the Even with all the concerns for keeping our distance in this time grocery store in Newtown of COVID-19, yesterday I called my friend and left a message trying to find the last box asking if I could be of any help. Later in the day when walking of pasta. our dogs, we stopped by and put a card in their mailbox. We I asked him how his wife expressed our hopes and prayers with a renewed offer to help. Jennifer was doing as I knew that she was fighting a very Today, a little while ago. the phone rang. We heard the news challenging battle against cancer. that my neighbor and friend’s wife had died early this morning. He looked tired and sad. He told me that “the morphine that Jennifer was a “Faith filled” lady, a very, very nice person. We she is taking is causing her to be confused”. were told that her three grown daughters had made it home to Hearing that I knew that her condition was not good, I then be with her. She had shared that “that she loved her family, asked him how he was doing…He looked at me and said… that she knew she was loved, and that she was looking forward ”I wish it could be me instead of her!” to being in the arms of Jesus”. What a wonderfully sad and heroic statement…a husband with I think we all know that death and dying is just wrong. When we real heartfelt pain for the love of his wife! I was greatly moved! lose someone, we love…it hurts! We cry. In this week’s Gospel reading we hear the shortest verse in the It just confirms for me that we were not created to die…we are Bible “Jesus wept.” taught that death came into the world as a result of man’s free But for all its concise simplicity, that verse is packed with will to choose a path away from God a path that leads to a life of unfathomable complexity. Jesus wept! pain, suffering and death. It seems natural enough given that Jesus had just spoken to Every Easter Vigil the Exultet is sung..illuminated by the Pascal Lazarus’ grieving sisters, Martha and Mary. Maybe most of us candle, the symbol of Christ’s light coming into the world. would have wept too. Except that Jesus had come to Bethany to There is one part of the prayer challenges me every year raise Lazarus from the dead. He knew that in a few short This is the night, minutes all this weeping would turn to astonished joy, and then when Christ broke the prison-bars of death tearful laughter, and then worship of God. and rose victorious from the underworld. He had come to Bethany to bring these mourners the best news Our birth would have been no gain, they could have imagined. had we not been redeemed. So one would think that Jesus would be a confident, joyful calm O wonder of your humble care for us! in that sea of sorrow. O love, O charity beyond all telling, But he was “greatly troubled” and he wept. Why? to ransom a slave you gave away your Son! The answer is indeed complex. In addition to Jesus being God… O truly necessary sin of Adam, Jesus was a man, a human being with our same feelings and destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! concerns. He got hungry, he got tired, he felt pain and grief. O happy fault Jesus really understood and understands our human condition… that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer not in a god-like way but in a very human way! The Fourth Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass reminds us that Jesus was "a man ”I wish it could be me instead of her!” Gary’s expression of like us in all things but sin". sacrificial loving, a willingness to die for Jennifer, helps me Jesus in his divine nature enjoyed the “Wisdom of the Father”. better understand the reason Jesus was willing to die for me, His capacity for intimate participation in our humanity was much and why he cried. greater, since his mind and soul were not clouded by the Jesus wept because he Loves… God loves us with an infinite attractions of sin. Jesus was able to grasp both the joys and the love… God is Love…so Jesus can be sad…just like me! tragedy of our human condition in a way that only great saints Deacon Dan O’Connor have understood. THE SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THIS WEEKEND - THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in First Reading Ez 37:12-14 death, but is for the glory of God, A reading from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Thus says the Lord God: Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. O my people, I will open your graves So when he heard that he was ill, and have you rise from them, he remained for two days in the place where he and bring you back to the land of Israel. was. Then after this he said to his disciples, Then you shall know that I am the Lord, “Let us go back to Judea.” when I open your graves and have you rise from them, When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus O my people! had already been in the tomb for four days. I will put my spirit in you that you may live, When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, and I will settle you upon your land; she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. thus you shall know that I am the Lord. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, I have promised, and I will do it, says the Lord. my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, Responsorial Psalm130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. R. v.7 God will give you.” Jesus said to her, (R.) With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of “Your brother will rise.” Martha said, redemption. “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; day.” Jesus told her, Lord, hear my voice! “I am the resurrection and the life; Let your ears be attentive whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, to my voice in supplication. R and everyone who lives and believes in me will If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, never die. Do you believe this?” Lord, who can stand? She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe But with you is forgiveness, that you are the Christ, the Son of God, that you may be revered. R the one who is coming into the world.” I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in his word. He became perturbed and deeply troubled, and More than sentinels wait for the dawn, said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to let Israel wait for the Lord. R him, “Sir, come and see.” And Jesus wept. For with the Lord is kindness So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” and with him is plenteous redemption; But some of them said, “Could not the one who And he will redeem Israel opened the eyes of the blind man have done from all their iniquities. R something so that this man would not have died?” So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. Second Reading Rom 8:8-11 It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the Brothers and sisters: dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. there will be a stench; he has been dead for But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. that if you believe you will see the glory of Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not God?” So they took away the stone. belong to him. But if Christ is in you, And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank although the body is dead because of sin, you for hearing me. I know that you always hear the spirit is alive because of righteousness. me; but because of the crowd here I have said If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the this, that they may believe that you sent me.” dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ And when he had said this, he cried out in a loud from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came also, through his Spirit dwelling in you. out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his Gospel Jn 11:1-45 face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to A reading from the holy Gospel according to John them, “Untie him and let him go.” Now many of the The sisters of Lazarus sent word to Jesus, saying, Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus had done began to believe in him.

HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY FAITH FORMATION CURRENT NORMS FOR OUR PARISH-HOLY NAME OF JESUS

Faith Formation Families: Please check your The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass email for updates and class work. If you do ɬAll public celebrations of the Mass are currently suspended, not see an email from by order of Bishop Caggiano [email protected] look in your spam folder. ɬAll Mass intentions currently scheduled are being offered at daily private Masses. 1ST HOLY COMMUNION CLASSES AND ALL FAITH FORMATION CLASSES are cur- ɬBy mandate, all priests must refrain from inviting anyone to the Masses they celebrate in private rently on hold until the pandemic has been lessened. 1st ɬMasses celebrated at homes or outdoors are not permitted Holy Communion Families, please check your emails and mailboxes for updates and information! Please contact Parishioners not attending Mass or not receiving Holy the Faith Formation Facilitator, Maryjean daSilva, email dre- Communion should instead make an “Act of Spiritual [email protected] or 203-375-5815 if you have questions. Communion.” The Act can be a simple prayer: “My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive Find these words: breath, Ezekiel, home, Lazarus, Martha, You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You Mary, promise, sea, sick, Spirit, stone, tomb sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.”

Links to Masses Online Sunday Mass celebrated by Bishop Caggiano or Monsignor Thomas Powers, Vicar General, will be streaming at www.bridgeportdiocese.org Daily Mass - Word on Fire with Bishop Robert Barron: www.wordonfire.org EWTN - Global Catholic Television Network Holy Name of Jesus youtube channel https:// www.youtube.com/channel/UCe5H6V55RWWD6-bqdRfGtCg or our website: HNOJchurch.org.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the church, Tuesday - Sunday from 8 am - 2 pm All Parishioners are welcome to spend quite time in private prayer adoring the Blessed Sacrament

All Parish Ministries are Temporarily Suspended and The Parish Office is Closed Most of your staff is working on site or from home. If you need anything from any member of the staff please call first. We are not able to open the doors for walk-ins. The Parish can be contacted by phone: (203) 375-5815 The Parish Office email is [email protected] Refer to the Parish website and bulletin for all staff and clergy email addresses Communication We will continue to send Parish wide notices by way of our email blast. Please refer to the Parish website regularly for all Parish information and updates

Please see the website for updates from Bishop Caggiano as well as plenary indulgences from our Holy Father, Pope Francis. Now that our public Masses have been WHY USE ONLINE GIVING? cancelled for an undetermined period of time, we appeal to you to support our • Safety. In times parish by continuing to share your gift of when there are Sunday offertory. These funds are concerns about critical for the continued operation of exposure to disease our parish at this unprecedented moment in time. Our parish or spreading of a does so much more than offer Sunday Mass. It is here in the virus, Online Giving is a convenient option to continue to happiest moments in your life – wedding, baptisms, first support your church and its mission. Whether you are communions – and is a source of comfort during some of the attending weekly mass at the parish or worshipping at home, most challenging, during times of sorrow like the death of a your vital support can still happen regardless of where you are. loved one. There are prayer groups, men’s and women's  Forget your envelope? Use Online Giving to keep up on groups, social activities, and on-going religious education. All offertory. Go to www.hnojchurch.org and click on the Online of this depends on you! Please continue, at a minimum, with Giving link, it’s quick and easy. Your support throughout the your current level of support. One easy way to do so is year helps sustain our church. through our parish’s online giving provider; OSV. Please see • Make giving easier. Visit your church website on your mobile the column to the right to sign up for online giving. You can device, click the Online Giving link, and begin giving. Your also mail or drop off your envelope to the parish office at 2 support throughout the year helps sustain our church. Mary Avenue. We will be most appreciative and relieved to • Manage gifts. Another easy way to manage your church know that we can depend on receiving your continued giving is with Online Giving. You can manage your giving or give offertory support each Sunday. Thank you for your support. a one-time giving right from your phone. Visit our church website and click the STRATFORD CHURCHES HOURS OF OPERATION Online Giving link and register with our During this unique period of the COVID-19 crisis, the Catholic church. Your support churches in the Stratford area will be open at different times during the year helps for individual prayer. sustain our church. If Our Lady of Peace Monday-Friday 8 am-6 pm you don’t use and Sunday from 3 pm -4 pm electronic banking, Our Lady of Grace 7 Days from 10 am- 2pm etc, and you’d prefer, St. Mark 7 Days from 8 am - 6 pm please mail or drop off St. James 7 days from 8 am - 6 pm your envelope in the Holy Name of Jesus Tuesday-Sunday 8 am- 2 pm door slot. Thank you for your continued FOOD COLLECTION support! If you have food donations for the Easter Food Collection or for the weekly S.O.M.E. boxes, please drop them off at church. PRAYER CORNER Especially during these very trying and uncertain times, shelters Please pray for the following people: Albert Amedy, and food pantries are desperate for donations. We will be Katie Bohlke, Msgr. Cuneo, Mario DeFazio, Jim Ellison, making deliveries to the local charities. Sterling House has Danny Fraas, Brian Gregory, Steve Grossman, Sheila requested these much needed items: low-sodium canned Hughes, Mark Kascak, Daniel Krekoska, Ann Lumas, John Marinko, Denise Martin, Don Palazzo, goods such a vegetables and soups, oatmeal, cereal, ravioli, Pat Petrovich, Patricia Secchiaroli, Rosemarie Skurja, macaroni and cheese, and soap and other personal hygiene Kevin Tringhese, Debra Verrinda , Members of the products. Donations can be made 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at Quilters that are ill, all affected by the Coronavirus. Sterling House, 2283 Main St. The food pantry is open to clients 1 to 6 p.m. Mondays and 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. MASSES THIS WEEKEND Thank you in advance for all the help you can give. 4:30 PM +ANTOINETTE B. AMORE 8:15 AM +STEFAN SCERBA MILITARY PRAYERS 10:45 AM +FLORENCE RADER We pray that the Lord may preserve the members of our Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Air Force and National Guard from all harm… especially: MARCH CANDLES SANCTUARY CANDLE for the 4th Week of March is for BLESS- C.J. DelVaglio INGS AND HEALTH FOR THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS. PFC Conor Quinn Angelina Duverna CHAPEL SANCTUARY CANDLE for the 4th Week of March is for Vincent Recine Christopher Guzman the Holy Father’s Intention THAT THE CHURCH IN CHINA MAY CPL Charles Ricco, Jr. CPT Freddie Hendrickson PERSERVERE IN ITS FAITHFULNESS TO THE GOSPEL AND GROW IN UNITY. PO Joshua M. Hicks Jonathan Ruiz OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CANDLE for the 4th Week of Michael Janeda Tyler Sharnick March is in LOVING MEMORY OF ALL WHO HAVE PERISHED FROM THE CORO- Edy Jean Simon CPO Andrew Soto NAVIRUS. Brian P. McGrath Kevin Stupak ST. JOSEPH CANDLE for the Month of March is in loving memory of JOE SFC Robert Muschett LCPL Jack H. Whitney & MARION GRESKO