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MARCH 21-22, 2020 FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ST. MARY OF THE LAKE 99 EAST TIOGA STREET 1872 DALTON ROAD P.O. BOX 186 P.O. BOX 1 TUNKHANNOCK, PA 18657 LAKE WINOLA, PA 18625 (570) 836-3275 (570) 836-4268 (Fax) (570) 378 - 2181 (570) 836-8946 (Kitchen/CCD) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] MASS SCHEDULE MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5:00PM Saturday: 4:00PM Sunday: 7:30, 9:00 & 11:00AM Sunday: 9:00AM Pastoral Council: Diane Stone, Chair Pastoral Council: Bernie Garvey, Chair Finance Council: Chris DeMarco, Chair Finance Council: Don Ames, Chair Rev. Patrick L. Albert, Pastor Parish Office: Fr. Nallin Hall, Tunkhannock Deacon Raymond A. Pieretti, Pastoral Associate Business Manager: Dick Schwoebel (570)677-7634 Rev. Dennis Bajkowski (Ret.) Secretary: Mary Lou Chackan Office hours: 9:00AM – 2:00PM WELCOME: We warmly welcome all to join us in worship of our SHUT-INS: If someone you know is unable to attend Mass but God. If you are new to our parish community, please be sure to tell would like to receive Communion or receive a copy of our weekly Fr. Pat that you will be joining our parish community. Contact the bulletin, please contact the parish office. parish office if you have any questions. Visitor envelopes are available at all entrances. BAPTISMAL PREPARATION PROGRAM: All parents must attend a Baptismal Preparation meeting before this sacrament will MARRIAGE: Christian marriage is a sacred and serious be celebrated. Contact Father Pat at the parish office (570-836- commitment. Couples contemplating marriage should notify a parish 3275) to schedule an appointment to discuss your child’s baptism. priest at least nine months before the date on which they intend to marry. This should be done before any other arrangements are made HOSPITAL VISITS: Visits are made on a regular basis. PLEASE so that a couple may be suitably served by the parish and diocese. NOTE: The new privacy laws limit the amount of information that All couples are required to take part in a Pre-Cana program or we receive from the hospitals or nursing/convalescent homes. It is Engaged Encounter Weekend. Sunday Weddings are not necessary that family or friends notify us of these admittances. permitted. HANDICAPPED SEATING AREA: Please note that the front RCIA: The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults is a community pew nearest to the side door is reserved to accommodate those who journey that leads to transformation of mind and spirit. Guided by have need due to disability. Please be kind enough to leave this pew the gospel and the examples of parish members, newcomers can available for that purpose. find their place in the RCIA community of believers and discover their own relationship with Christ. The program runs from September PARKING LOT: [St. Mary’s] Please keep the emergency lane in through Pentecost with reception of the Sacraments at the Easter front of the church clear at all times. It is essential that vehicles are able to get in and out of the parking lot in case of an emergency. Vigil. Information is available at the parish office. Please adhere to the parking spaces as delineated. Please be RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Knowing the Catholic faith and considerate of your fellow parishioners when you are backing up or tradition is essential if faith and tradition are to continue to be turning to park or to exit the parking lot. There is ample parking on nourishing facets of our lives. Religious formation is valuable for both the upper level and supplemental parking on the side of the church. youth and adults. Classes are conducted from September to May following the 9:00AM Mass on Sunday. Information on religious PARISH MISSION STATEMENT education programs for youth of all ages and educational “TO KNOW, LOVE AND SERVE THE LORD opportunities for adults are available at the parish office. AND ONE ANOTHER BULLETIN: If you have information that you would like to place IN IMITATION OF MARY” in the bulletin (community news, society/social news, etc.), please Approved by both Parish Pastoral Councils have it at the parish office no later than Tuesday morning. January 2007 SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Forty-five minutes www.nativitystmary.org before Saturday evening Mass or by appointment. @nativitystmary FROM THE PASTOR’S TYPEWRITER: SAINT MARY OF THE LAKE LENTEN MISSION: Due to present circumstances beyond our control and out of In life, there are many tests of our an abundance of caution, the Lenten Mission for this faith, challenges that strengthen year has been cancelled. A mission may be planned our character. Sometimes the for a later date this year. We will notify you if and challenges are minor and when this is scheduled. sometimes they are not. We grow through these experience in our faith and are A WELCOMING COMMUNITY: You enter oftentimes a better person for having had the this church … not as stranger, but as a opportunity. Every life challenge or experience has guest of God. He is your heavenly Father. built in it the opportunity to leave us with a positive Come, then, with joy in your heart and thanks on your message, a learning experience that becomes part lips into His presence, offering Him your love and of our fabric. The current health emergency in our service. Be grateful to the strong and loyal ones who, nation – as well as in our world – is unique in that we in the name of Jesus Christ, built this place of worship, have not experienced this particular ailment before and to all who have beautified it and hallowed it with and as yet are not afforded the opportunity to their prayers and praise. receive an inoculation. The consolation comes from PIEROGI SALE: Until further notice, we the fact that "we are not alone" in this situation; we will not be selling pierogies in Fr. Nallin share this experience with the entire world. And so Hall on Fridays. Pierogies are we take this opportunity to "rise to the occasion", to available at the Parish Office commit ourselves to fellowship with each other, to be Monday-Friday from 9:00AM to 2:00PM. Price is the determined to follow all requests by our government same as last year - $7.00 per dozen. to defeat this unwanted foe. ATTENTION PIEROGI BRIGADE: And so I invite all our parishioners to pray, to listen, to We will discontinue pierogi- act and to conduct ourselves in a manner befitting making until further notice. At the Christian dignity that is exemplified in the love of some point, we will gather to our Lord. Remember the angel’s words in the tomb, make pierogis for the Fair. "do not be terrified". Let us look to Christ for strength Watch the bulletin for more and wisdom as we travel this road together. information. Remember our Lord’s words, "what is needed there is trust." SACRIFICIAL OFFERING: March 14-15, 2020 Please know that you are in my prayers as I think I am Nativity BVM Church: in yours. Weekly Collection Goal* ............................. $ 4,800.00 Actual Offertory** ......................................... $ 2,549.00 Sincerely Difference: ...................................................... $( 2,251.00) Fr. Pat St. Mary of the Lake Church: Weekly Collection Goal* ............................. $ 2,000.00 Actual Offertory** ......................................... $ 1,284.00 CAPUCHIN SISTERS SUPPORT FUND: If you would like to Difference: ...................................................... $( 716.00) assist with this need, please put your donation in an *Weekly Collection Goal represents the amount envelope marked “Capuchin Sisters” and mail it to needed weekly if we are going to make our 2019- the Parish Office. 2020 Parish Collections goal (envelopes and loose). It NEW ALTAR SERVERS NEEDED: Both of our parishes are does NOT include Fundraising, Religious Education in need of Altar Servers. We ask you to encourage Income or any other income. your children to consider joining this ministry to serve **Actual Offertory represents the total amount at the altar of the Lord. received in the weekly collection (not including Deacon Ray will conduct practice for new altar Christmas, Easter or special collections). servers at a date & time to be announced. The generosity of our people is truly appreciated. We may not always reach our budgeted goals, but we “THE LIGHT IS ON FOR YOU”: This are grateful to those who make a sacrifice on a special program of reconciliation is weekly basis to sustain our parish ministries. currently postponed until further notice. EASTER EGG HUNT: Unfortunately, St. Individual confessions are available by appointment. Mary's annual Community Easter Egg Contact the Parish Office (570-836-3275). Hunt scheduled to take place at 2:00PM th on Saturday, April 4 at the Overfield Township Municipal Park on Fairview LOCAL CATHOLIC RADIO STATION Road, has been cancelled. JMJ RADIO 750AM or 98.9FM March 16, 2020 for your parishes during these difficult days in order to sustain the ministries and outreach services for Dear Brothers and Sisters, parishioners and those most in need. Effective immediately, and until further notice, I have Despite the suspension of public Masses, a private suspended the celebration of Masses open to the Mass will be celebrated daily in the Cathedral of Saint public and all public gatherings in all diocesan Peter in Scranton, and made available on CTV: parishes, worship sites, college campuses, chapels Catholic Television of the Diocese of Scranton. On and health care facilities in the eleven counties of the weekdays, the Mass will be broadcast at 12:10 p.m., Diocese of Scranton. 3:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. On weekends, the Saturday Churches of the Diocese will remain open daily for Vigil Mass will be broadcast at 4:00 p.m.