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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.