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Mission Statement We Worship ~ We Teach ~ We Care Mission Statement We Worship ~ We Teach ~ We Care 5112 Pocono Crest Road Mass Schedule: PO Box O Pocono Pines, PA 18350 Saturday 4:00 pm 570-646-6424 Sunday 8:30 am & 10:30 am May 16, 2021 GOSPEL MEDITATION God remains where love remains. When a 7th Sunday of Easter believer realizes without doubt that God is love, it is a powerful moment. Being able to place our resurrection trust in this fundamental truth allows us to experience God’s presence in all of our experiences: the good and the bad, positive and negative, life enriching and destructive events we encounter. It is no wonder that St. Paul so accurately tells us that it is love that endures all things and lasts. How can God not endure or ever fade away? Because he is God, Jesus also guarded and protected his disciples as the endearing shepherd who always had their best in- terest at heart. If we become too immersed in the world, we Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed lose touch with these deeper realities. We can saying: “As you sent me into the world, so I become so preoccupied with preserving what we have created or think that we need, forgetting that sent them into the world. And I consecrate it is not building our city that really matters, but myself for them, so that they also may be God’s. Jesus clearly did not belong to the world consecrated in truth.” -Jn 17:18-19 and, by virtue of his resurrection, he tries to get us to understand that we do not either. The truth brings us to other worldly, more divine places and takes our eyes off of the concerns that often captivate our fears and storm our senses. St. Maximilian Kolbe Life can easily erode our faith. Think of your life Parish Staff over the last couple of weeks. What challenged your faith and distracted your divine glance? Reverend Sean G. Carpenter Even being overly stimulated with technology and ~ Pastor social media can erode our sense of confidence and cause us to forget who we really are. We need Deacon Tom Amoroso to distance ourselves from the world in order to experience the joy that Christ offers. The Melissa Laverty Pastoral Associate world will never like the word of God. It is Coordinator of Religious Education too challenging and too perplexing. The world ~ [email protected] mistakenly believes that it can survive on its own. It is a mistaken judgment that may cost people a Juli Reese Office Manager ~ [email protected] lot in the end. It is all so very simple: God remains when we love one another. If in all the business of John Marcinkowski, Jr. our lives and all that each day brings, the good and Coordinator of Music ~ [email protected] the bad, we follow the call and path of love, we will walk with God. There is nothing to fear and Visit us on the web @ www.stmaxkolbepoconos.org anxiety finds no home. St. Maximillian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, pray for us PARISH OFFICE HOURS AT ST. MAX MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY Saturday: Mother’s Day Intentions 10 am to 1 pm Sunday: Mother’s Day Intentions For The Parishioners Monday: Mother’s Day Intentions Sanctuary Light Tuesday: Lois Gleason In Memory of by Louise Allen Deacon Frank Gisoldi Wednesday: Father Al Vito by Tom and Lynnette Smith Bread and Wine Thursday: Eugene Gartner & Daughter for Victims of Abortion Denise by Joan Gartner Saturday: Anne Marie Alcamo by Nat Alcamo Sunday 8:30: Deacon Frank Gisoldi 10:30: For The Parishioners Polish Mass 2:00: Henryk Zamojski by The Zamojski Family Katie Scully ~ Eileen Long - Geri Williams Mary DeWaters - Elaine Madere Regina Chmil If you know someone in need of prayers Confessions will be heard and would like to have them added to this list, please call the Parish Office. by appointment. Please call the parish office to schedule an appointment. Readings for the Week Saturday: Acts 18:23-28; Jn 16:23b-28 Sunday: Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; 1 Jn 4:11-16; Jn 17:11b-19 Monday: Acts 19:1-8; Jn 16:29-33 Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27; Jn 17:1-11a A Warm Thank You to those who continue offertory Wednesday: Acts 20:28-38; Jn 17:11b-19 support to our parish during these difficult times. Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11; Jn 17:20-26 Donations for May 9 were $4,030. Friday: Acts 25:13b-21; Jn 21:15-19 Your donations may be placed in the basket when Saturday: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31; Jn 21:20-25 leaving mass; by mailing to the church, or by online Sunday: Acts 2:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; giving. Please contact the parish office if you want Jn 20:19-23 information on how to donate online. St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, pray for us ONLINE SCRIPTURE STUDY The St. Maximilian Kolbe Scripture Seekers discussion group meets live on Zoom every Tuesday morning at 10:30 a.m. New members are Faith Formation Classes always welcome. For more information on how to Updates and Reminders join, contact Melissa in the parish office. We would This year, students in the parish’s Faith Formation love to “see” you. program in grades 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are learning about their faith using the WELCOME TO FLOCKNOTE! online program My Catholic Faith Delivered. This year, the parish is Flocknote is the new communication system the covering all costs for the program. It’s parish is using to communicate not too late to get started if your child hasn’t already with all of its parishioners via done so. For more information or if you need to email or text. In addition to reset your child’s login password, contact Melissa in parish news, you’ll also receive the parish office. weekly communications from Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire Institute/Engage Program. If you are not receiving Flocknote PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAITH FORMATION notifications and would like to, reach out to Melissa STUDENTS WHO CELEBRATED THEIR or Juli in the parish office. SACRAMENT OF FIRST COMMUNION LAST WEEK VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MASS Gunner Gonzalez During any future Masses, our Brendan Keane parish welcomes anyone who Torin Murphy would like to help us during Samantha Van Buskirk daily and weekend Masses with greeting and/or seating Bryan Vinci parishioners, serving as lector, or assisting with Lyssa Weaver technology. Anyone interested may contact Juli or Melissa in the parish office. GOD BLESS OUR FAITH FORMATION STUDENTS WHO WILL CELEBRATE THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION In order to understand and appreciate the Sacrament Prayers are also requested for our eighth grade of Baptism, expectant parents are required to attend students as they continue their formation for this Baptism preparation. Currently, preparation takes Sacrament with their teachers, Dr. Maureen place online. A call to the parish office approximately Rinehimer and Mr. Bruce Reese. Confirmation will be held on Saturday, May 22, and Sunday, May 23. four months before your child is Zoe Bisono Nathaniel Cornejo due will make the scheduling of Patrick Domanski Madelynn Drivon your pre-Baptism session easier Megan Hejnowicz Dylan Horoszewski and give you ample time to Ayden Hull Klaudia Kononczuk prepare for this Sacrament of Gerald Negvesky Michael Peterson Initiation to the life of grace. For more information, contact Melissa in the parish office. Jussette Suardi St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr, pray for us Discover our Academic Excellence! Notre Dame Jr/Sr High School invites you to “SAVE THE DATE” learn more about our outstanding academic programs, enriching co-curricular & AUGUST 10TH extracurricular activities and faith-filled environment. Our administration, faculty and ST MAX ANNUAL staff are dedicated to encouraging each student GOLF OUTING to reach their own academic and spiritual potential. Tuition assistance is available. Call our office to learn how Notre Dame will be the more details coming in early June right choice for your student. 570-421-0466 or visit us online at www.ndhigh.org EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS Why Are We Looking at the Sky? When Jesus was physically with his disciples, he Men of Galilee — why are you looking at the sky? guarded and protected them. One of his greatest It seems like a pretty foolish question for the angels desires was that they share his joy completely. God’s to be asking the disciples. Their best friend just flew love is the source of all things and their sustenance. away in a cloud. I think in that situation, my first As we conduct the normal routines of our lives it is reaction would probably be to stop and stare, too. easy to get caught up in the immediacies of this But let’s not forget, the disciples had a lot of work world and lose focus. We become very self and to do. A world full of souls to evangelize. I’ve worldly dependent, forgetting that God wishes to always been a little amused at the thought of the guard and protect us. The joy the resurrected Christ angels shooing them down from Mount Olivet. Get can offer cannot be found in this world. It takes a to work! The kingdom isn’t going to build itself! bit of faith to realize that God’s will is a constant in In our own faith lives, we often find ourselves our lives and that God desires only the sustenance looking at the sky, don’t we? We’re the faithful, and goodness of both our bodies and our souls.
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