Church of the Assumption March 3, 2019

Mission Statement: We are an inclusive, welcoming, compassionate community united by a faith that is alive and growing. As sisters and brothers bapzed in Christ, our mission is to be Christ for one another, our community, and the world, by teaching as Jesus did, loving as Jesus loved, serving as Jesus served, and by seeing in every face, the face of our Lord Jesus.

DEAR F RIENDS I attended School Number 36 at the intersections of Carter, St. skill and strategy makes life difficult. Whom can one trust? There , and Bernard Streets, when dinosaurs still roamed the city were three rather vile professions in Jesus’ world: Along with of Rochester (OK, it was the 1960’s). On Friday mornings, one prostitutes and innkeepers (who took money to provide of the young from the staff of St. Andrew’s Church hospitality, which was viewed very unseemly to the ancients), would arrive at #36 School around 11:30 and walk all the actors rounded out the big three because they literally wore Catholic public-school kids down Carter Street, making a right masks on stage. They were the original hypocrites because they turn on Durnan Street before arriving at St. Andrew’s School were not presenting themselves, but rather hiding behind the around noon, while the more than 800 Catholic School kids mask of another character. would be home for their lunch hour. This was the very heart of This week we’re nearing the end of Jesus’ famous Sermon in “release time” for Religious Education for the Public School Luke’s Gospel and we find Jesus (in a wonderfully Lenten kids. Can you imagine that we did such things like that way back preparatory mode) inviting us to avoid being hypocrites. W e when? shouldn’t “act” as if we are superior to that person whom we are Anyway, when I was in Second Grade, (the year we prepared for so quick to judge, criticize, and condemn. Sr. Winifred was First Penance and First Holy Communion), our class was taught correct. When we point out someone else’s faults (which we think by Sr. Winifred, RSM. By that time, Sr. Winifred had been are soooo obvious), we fail to notice our own internal need for teaching Second Grade for almost 50 year s…and now she had to conversion and a true change of heart. I know that I’m very teach the public-school kids during her Friday lunch hour ! I adept at pointing out your splinters! Oh yes, I can see, with razor remember, oh so vividly 55 years later, that when she was sharp vision, all the tiny areas in your life that definitely need explaining today’s Gospel reading (so appropriate as we improvement. And all the while I’m so blind to that log that’s approach the Sacrament of Penance), she held out her index lodged in my own eye! I could blame it on spiritual glaucoma finger and proclaimed: “When you point your finger to criticize (where I lack the ability to see things on the periphery of my own somebody else, three fingers come back and point at YOU!” behavior), or spiritual macular degeneration (where I can no That scene made an indelible impression on my young mind. longer see things even dead center in my life). Or, I could just Because you know what? Sister was right. admit that my own need for conversion and a change of heart It’s exactly what Jesus said in our Gospel reading today: “Why do must precede my willingness to point out your faults, which I you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive should do only out of love and compassion and never out of the wooden beam in your own?” Jesus goes on to call people spite, revenge or self-righteousness. Yes, actors can (and should) who do this hypocrites, which, in Jesus’ day meant “interpreter,” wear masks (did you watch the Oscar’s last Sunday?), but you “expounder,” “orator,” even “stage actor.” In this latter case, the and I should not be hypocrites . Lord, help me to see what I need Greek word took on the added meaning of “deceiver” and to change in my life first, before I even begin to help others “pretender.” In the ancient theater this is an award-winning skill. change as well! In reality—even in Jesus’ ancient Mediterranean culture—this

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Sunday, March 3 —Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, March 3 Mass in Ancipaon of Sunday —Saturday at 4:00 pm: 11:00 am -12:00 pm: Kindergarten —Rm. 3 Irene Cudzilo —Susan Bland 12:30 -1:30 pm: Bapsms Charles & Antoinee Sardisco —Bob & Laurie Wilson 7:00 -9:00 pm: Lenten Retreat with Fr. Brendan Moss —Church Edward & Vivian Strojny —Strojny family (Confirmaon Students expected to aend) — Robert Alexander Jr. ( 13th Anniv.) Wife & family Monday, March 4 — 8:30 am: Jan Bouley Hank Maher 9:00 -11:00 am: Lenten Retreat w/Fr. Moss at St. John of Rochester — Stanley Gawlik Marge Geen 10:00 -11:00 am: Centering Prayer —Rm. 2 — Georgiana Weirs Bonnie & Jim Fowler 4:00 -5:15 pm: VNS Bereavement —Rm. 2 — 11:00 am: Thomas Caglia (47th Anniv.) Collier family 5:00 -6:00 pm: Diversity Ministry Mtg. —Rm. 1 — - Audrey Wurtenberg Anne Pat Nuzback 7:00 -8:30 pm: Lenten Mission w/Fr. Moss —Church — Gina Dapolito (83rd Birthday) Ted, Julie & Ma Terrell 7:00 -9:00 pm: Model Airplane Club —Rms. 5 & 6 6:00 pm: For vocaons Tuesday, March 5 — Monday, March 4 St. of Leonissa 9:00 -11:00 am: Lenten Retreat w/Fr. Moss at St. John of Rochester

6:45 am: For all the people of the parish 10:30 am: Mass —Fairport Bapst Home — 11:15 am: Mary Dates Nancy Stephany 12:30 -1:30 pm: Alzheimer's Assoc. Support Grp. —Rm. 1 Tuesday, March 5 —St. Agatha 12:30 pm: Communion Service —Jefferson Ave. Apts. 6:45 am: Jan Bouley —Laura Fawce 6:30 -8:30 pm: Stephen Ministry Training —Resurrecon 10:30 am: Mass at the Fairport Bapst home 7:00 -8:30 pm: Lenten Mission w/Fr. Moss —Church

11:15 am: For those who have le the Church Wednesday, March 6 (NO School of Religion: Ash Wednesday) Wednesday, March 6 —Ash Wednesday 9:30 -11:00 am: Faith Sharing Group —Living Rm. Ashes will be distributed at all Masses today 4:00 -6:00 pm: CYO Pracce —Great Hall 6:45 am: For priests 5:45 -6:30 pm: Youth Choir Rehearsal —Music Office 11:15 am: For all parishioners 6:00 pm: Ash Wednesday Mass at Resurrecon 7:00 pm: For all parishioners 7:00 pm: Ash Wednesday Mass at Assumpon Thursday, March 7 —St. Colee Thursday, March 7 6:45 am: For the Holy Souls of Purgatory —Gallagher family 8:00 am -noon: Deanery Catechecal Leader Meeng —Living Rm. 11:15 am: Christopher Morrison —Gerri & Suzee 4:00 -9:15 pm: CYO —Great Hall - — Friday, March 8 —St. Josephine Bakhita 6:30 8:00 pm: First Penance Role Play Church - — 6:45 am: For vocaons 7:00 9:00 pm: Knights of Columbus Council Mtg. Rms. 5 & 6 - — 11:15 am: Memorial Scroll 7:30 8:30 pm: Prayer Group Chapel

Saturday, March 9 —St. Emiliani Friday, March 8 - — Mass in Ancipaon of Sunday —4:00 pm: 4:00 9:15 pm: CYO Great Hall - — Carl Pellegrino —Marian, his wife 6:00 8:00 pm: M.A.P.S. Chapel Dennis J. Byrne —Carolyn Grassi Saturday, March 9 Teresa Baker —Bey Lundy 7:45 -8:15 am: Rosary —Chapel Jan Laklly -Skuse & deceased family —Ron Skuse & family 9:00 am: Funeral Mass for Paul Menaguale - — Sunday, March 10 —First Sunday of Lent 11:00 am 12:30 pm: First Penance Role Play Church - — 8:30 am: Laura Lynch —Family 5:15 9:15 pm: CYO Great Hall - — Stanly Gawlik —Hank Maher 5:00 7:30 pm: Ultreya (Cursillo) Living Rm. Mary Sanllo —Elizabeth (niece) Sunday, March 10 11:00 am: Tuan Nguyen —Skip & Cathy Curre & family 9:00 -11:00 am: Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignaus —Rm. 1 Isabelle Balbierer —Bonnie & Jim Fowler 11:00 am -noon: Kindergarten Faith Formaon —Rm. 3 Vincent Pallifrone —Karen & Jenny Valerio & Bianca Selever 12:30 -2:30 pm: Confirmaon Level 2 Pilot Program —Rms. 5 & 6 6:00 pm: For young people seeking truth & meaning 3:30 -5:00 pm: Book Study —Rm. 2 6:00 -9:00 pm: Pot Luck Dinner —Great Hall Our Sunday Offertory Gi s February 23 -24 — Aendance: 1,045 Envelopes ...... $10,707 Electronic Funds Transfer ...... $2,125 Readings for the Week of March 3 Loose ...... $1,188 Sun: Sir 27:4 -7/Ps 92:2 -3, 13 -14, 15 -16/1 Cor 15:54 -58/Lk 6:39 -45 Children ...... $0 Mon: Sir 17:20 -24/Ps 32:1 -2, 5, 6, 7 [11a]/Mk 10:17 -27 Total ...... $14,020 Tues: Sir 35:1 -12/Ps 50:5 -6, 7 -8, 14 and 23 [23b]/Mk 10:28 -31 Weekly Budgeted Sun. Coll. (2018 -19 budget): ...... $23,947 Wed: Jl 2:12 -18/Ps 51:3 -4, 5 -6ab, 12 -13, 14 and 17 [cf. 3a]/2 Cor 5:20 -6:2/ Difference from budget this week: ...... ($9,927) Mt 6:1 -6, 16 -18 Fiscal -Yr. -to -Date Actual Sunday Collecons: ...... $755,379 Thurs: Dt 30:15 -20/Ps 1:1 -2, 3, 4 and 6 [40:5a]/Lk 9:22 -25 Fiscal -Yr. -to -Date Budgeted Sunday Collecons: ...... $838,145 Fri: Is 58:1 -9a/Ps 51:3 -4, 5 -6ab, 18 -19 [19b]/Mt 9:14 -15 Total Fiscal -Year -to -Date Diff. from budget: ...... ($82,766) Sat: Is 58:9b -14/Ps 86:1 -2, 3 -4, 5 -6 [11ab]/Lk 5:27 -32 Next Sun: Dt 26:4 -10/Ps 91:1 -2, 10 -11, 12 -13, 14 -15/Rom 10:8 -13/ Thank you for your generous giving! Lk 4:1 -13 www.COTA.church Faith Formaon Page 3

Today the Church throughout the SCHOOL OF R ELIGION world prays together: Sirach 27:4-7 and Operation Rice Bowl —This week your student will receive a Luke 6: 39-45 both teach us that the way a coin collection box and a handout about our Lenten Sharing person talks reveals their moral compass, Project. Please read the handout and participate as much as interior life, character, conscience, attitudes, your family is able. Also, check out the website and intentions. No matter what we hear on TV we, as people www.CRSricebowl.org/families for some great resources on of faith, must insist on respectful speech. So, we turn off the Lent. All of the money collected will go to Catholic Relief TV and only use speech that we wish to hear in our families, Services (CRS)’s Operation Rice Bowl. communities, nation and world; we start with ourselves. 1 Corinthians 15: 54-58 —How firm, steadfast and devoted First Penance and First Communion Families: Our First to God’s work are you? Penance Role Play is coming up on either Thursday, March 7th at 6:30pm or Saturday, March 9th at 11:00am. All First Penance/First Communion candidates should attend with a In the pamphlet racks in our foyer: parent. Please call 388 -5423 if you have questions. Pick up Sunday by Sunday for insights on the Scriptures proclaimed this weekend and next weekend. Four-page SCHEDULE R EMINDERS : Catholic Updates on the Lenten Season are also available in  Ash Wednesday is this week (March 6). We will not have the pamphlet rack by the foyer entrance. School of Religion class on Ash Wednesday. Please attend one of the Masses at 6:45 am, 11:15am or 7:00 pm at Bringing Communion to the Assumption (or 8:30 am or 6:00 pm at Resurrection.) Homebound —Do you often bring  On Tuesday, March 12, we will celebrate First Penance Communion to family, or friends? Are you with many of our students, please note that there are no using a small, white cloth pyx to carry the Religion Classes that day. host? Because we would like everyone to switch to using metal pyxes, we now have some that can be signed out for short-term use. Or, if you Lent begins this Wednesday. Ashes will be distributed at bring Communion to others often, you can purchase one for Assumption’s 6:45 am, 11:15 am, and 7:00 pm Masses, and at a suggested donation of $5. If you currently have one of our Resurrection’s Masses at 8:30 am and 6:00 pm. metal or cloth pyxes, please return it to the sacristy and sign out or purchase a metal one. See Janie Marini before or after Lenten Disciplines of Fasting & Abstinence : all the weekend Masses to purchase a pyx. Contact her at Catholics in good health, ages 18 to 59, are required to fast [email protected] or 388-5432 with any questions. and to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting consists of eating only one full meal, with the possibility of two smaller snacks that do not add up to a full CHRISTIAN I NITIATION meal. Catholics ages 14 and older are to abstain from meat on If you are interested in learning more about all Fridays in Lent. RCIA and the process of joining the Catholic faith, please contact Sheryl Zabel at Friday Evening Stations of the Cross [email protected] or 388 -0040 x1330. At 7:00 pm each Friday during Lent, we will pray the Stations of the Cross, led by a different group or ministry each week. This Friday, March 8, CYO will lead us. We invite everyone to Mass and Potluck Supper next Sunday join us for this ancient and moving devotion. The Liturgy Committee is sponsoring a potluck supper after the 6:00 pm Mass on Sunday, March 10. Bring a crockpot of Day of Penance and Mercy is March 13. Confessions soup or chili to share and drop it off in the Great Hall before will be heard at both our parishes and those throughout the Mass. Salad, bread, fruit, and beverages will be provided. diocese. (Times to be determined soon.) Come meet new friends and celebrate a Sunday liturgy with Carrying the Cross on Good Friday: the new Contemporary Ensemble! All are welcome! Sign up All who have lost a loved one are invited to participate in the sheets are in the foyer. If you have questions, please contact Janie Marini at [email protected] or 585-388-5432. opening procession for the 3:00 pm liturgy on Good Friday. Participants will either help carry the cross or carry candles. We pray for the repose of the souls of Please contact Janie Marini at [email protected] if you Eamon McCormack , would like to help. Paul S. Menaguale , and Robert J. Schalberg

Refer to upcoming bulletins for informa tion about these and other Lenten May they and all the recently departed prayer and activities at Assumption. rest in peace. Page 4 Our Parish Community (585) 388 -0040

Please join us in praying for these requests for family and friends, and all our parishioners in need of prayer.

Sunday, March 3: After the 6:00 pm Mass, join us for Bob A. Joe Gorski Susan Nicolais Deborah Adamo Jane Gunzelman Fran Nicolucci the Parish Mission. Fr. Brendan Moss is our speaker and Ruth Albano Erik Hancock Lorraine Nothnagle he has a great message for youth and their families. Anna Robert Hanley Joan O'Donnell Barbara Barros Jack Harrison Jack Ostroski Sunday, March 10: Join us at the parish potluck in the James Boyle Paul Heise Brian P. Great Hall. Drop off your favorite dish -to -pass before Peter Calviera Stephen Hogenes Dcn. John Pattison Mass. Cameron Nathaniel Jackson Pelletier Family Jim Cannan Amy Jones Fay Phillips Sunday March 17: Trivia night has been moved to this Kathy Cannan Linda K. Mary Polino Pat Carroll Peter K. Joanne Popeck night, after the 6pm Mass, in the Youth Room. Play the Irene Case Kelly Norm Reak game and win up to $25. Roger Case Pat Kicera Albert Reggi

Sunday, March 24: Youth Ministry Dodge Ball in the Shirley Cialini Yvonne & John Kier Alice Reinhardt Robin Curatalo Kris Koenig Jack Reinhardt Great Hall, after the 6pm Mass. Kathleen Curre Dick Kuhne Chuck Rischenole - Pat D. Annie Langlois Ryan Sunday, March 31: Faith share Sunday, after the 6pm Lisa Daly Ginny Lawler Sammy mass, in the Youth Room. Come share your testimony Mary Dovan Peg Linder Oliver Sanford about the power of Jesus Christ. Nicole Drost Livak John Sargent Margaret Ellis Stephen Mack Kathy Siefert Attention Year 2 Confirmation Families: Mary Emilio Maher Sophia - High School Spring Retreat is April 5 -7, at Camp Stella Maris. Kim Escoffery Voltz Laurie Marra John Stio Gary Firlit Lena Marra Telso Family This serves as Assumption's Confirmation Retreat. Paperwork April Fischer Cathy McWilliams Joey Vail for Spring retreat is located on a table in the foyer. Michael & Emily Flynn Melissa Kathy Vaughan Mary Foxwell John Mielcarek Brian W Aliece Franklin Duncan "Monty" Betty W. Find & follow us on Facebook & Janet French Montgomery Riley Waeghe Instagram at COTALifeTeen. George Fustor Dick Moore Rebecca Wolford Marie G. Helen Moore Gordon Wright Sign up to receive our Youth Group Flocknotes and texts - Jaana Gallagher Darlene Naccarella Zoe at: https://cota.church/youth ministry Teresa Gamvillis Robert Neilon Youth Ministry Coordinator Ted Bianculli 388 -5422 or [email protected] Prayers for those in the military, first -responders, and others who serve us in harm’s way: 1Lt Ciminelli, US Army Sgt. Matthew Hotelling , Marines SN Alec L. Fisher, US Navy S. Sgt. Aaron J. Hull, How is That Working for You? PO2, Tyler G. Nuzback, US Navy 1st SFAB, Army Are you struggling with problems that are Major Eric Harrison, US Army Sgt. Christopher Larson, US Army Lt. Brendan Hartigan, Durham Specialist Evan , US Army affecting the way you feel and live, yet you County, N.C. Sheriffs Dept. S.Sgt Geoff Stanton, US Army hesitate to ask for help? How is that working for you? People are generally much more open Editor’s note: To add a name to our parish prayer list, please email to giving care than to receiving it. As a result, [email protected] or any member of the parish staff. To respect countless people, although they really could benefit from a others’ privacy, be sure to have permission from the individual or immediate family before making your request. Include your contact Christian friend, tough it out on their own. They remain the information. Names stay on the list for 1 month, unless you ask us to strong silent type, or wear a smile holding back a flood of leave them on longer. tears. Stephen Ministers have been trained to walk alongside those of us who are suffering, to listen without judgment, and to KNIGHTS OF C OLUMBUS C OUNCIL 7085 meets provide encouragement and support, always in total confidentiality. Countless parishioners have benefited greatly at 7:00 pm on the first Thursday of each month. with the help of a Stephen Minister meeting with them once If you are interested in learning more about a week. Contact us at 388-0040 x1340. what it means to be a Knight and how to become a member, please contact Grand Prayer Shawl & Baptism Blanket Knight Chip Scoppa, at [email protected]. Ministry: If you or a loved one is ill and Save the date: Annual Knights’ Corned Beef & would like a Blessed Shawl or Lap Blanket, Cabbage Dinner at the VFW on March 16, from 5:00 - please leave a message for Joyce Fishberg 7:00 pm. Irish dancers at 6:00 pm! at 388 -5441. Page 5 (585) 388 -0040

Deacon Speakin’: ProLife News Would you like to learn to save a life? The Good Samaritan A week ago, a man from Queens, NY stabbed his pregnant Ministry will host CPR/AED girlfriend in the stomach because he wanted the baby he Training at Assumption on fathered to be killed. Both mother and baby died. He was Saturday, March 30 from 9:00 am immediately charged with two crimes, but the charge for killing to 3:00 pm. You will learn CPR, the baby was subsequently dropped, because NY State’s new AED, Child CPR and first aid. Registration is $25/person abortion law provides no penalties for the killing of unborn with Assumption picking up the rest of the cost. If you take children. But, the state does have a penalty (prison or fine) for the class, you will be asked to help out at the Mass you attend killing a domestic animal. on the weekends. More than that—You will be able to help ProLife Tour: anyone you see in need of assistance. You could save a life! CompassCare is a Christ -centered organization dedicated to For more information or to sign up, please contact Cathy erasing the need for abortion by transforming women’s fear Warner at [email protected] or 585-402-3733. into confidence. Find out more about the work of this organization by visiting www.compasscarecommunity.com - Signs & Symptoms of Heart Attacks in Men & Better yet, sign up for a tour as a great way to get an in depth Women: This talk, sponsored by our Health look at what CompassCare does to reach and serve women at Ministry and presented by Perinton Ambulance, risk for abortion. had to be rescheduled due to recent bad weather. For more ProLife news and opportunities, check out the COTA All are welcome to join at the new date & time: website. Tuesday, March 12 at 1:00 pm in the parish living room. ~ Ron We hope to see you there! www.COTA.church Page 6

Upcoming Adult Fai4 Opp/tunities CAN YOU LEND A HAND ? at 4e Church of 4e Resurrection Check out these COTA volunteer opportunities: Assumption parishioners are invited to join our sister parish for - the events and opportunities brought to you by the The Bereavement Ministry is in need of Sacristan Resurrection Adult Enrichment Team this Lent. For more Servers for our Funeral Masses. If you are available to information, or to register, contact Cathy Reitz at volunteer in this ministry, please call Julie at the Parish office - [email protected] or 223 -5500 x1337 or visit at 388 0040 x1301. Training will be provided, and the

www.resurrectionfairport.org/adult -faith rewards are Eternal!

Calling all bakers! Our Bereavement Ministry is in need of Your God is Too Boring (by Jon Leonetti), a Lenten bakers to provide baked goods for Funeral receptions. If you

Book Study at Resurrection are interested, please call Julie at the Parish office at 388 - Wednesdays, March 13 through April 3. 0040 x1301. Blessings! Eternal Rewards! Choose 10:30 am -noon or 7:30 –9:00 pm Video Tech Ministry needs new volunteers. As many of Father George Presents: you know, we record and live stream all our Masses over the Dying to Self…So You Can Truly Live! internet for parishioners who are home bound or otherwise 7:00 –9:00 pm on Tuesday, March 19 not able to attend Mass. This is made possible by the efforts Fr. George Heyman will enlighten us on this valuable life of our Video Tech Ministry team. Each year we lose a few giving perspective! He will captivate you with his insight, people due to moves, college, etc. so we need to get some humor and knowledge! All are welcome. new volunteers to join the team. We provide training and schedule people about once a month at the Mass time you choose. We welcome individuals 12 years old and up, as well The Eucharist: Food For The Journey! as husband/wife, parent/child or sibling teams. If you are A Progressive Dinner Retreat interested in joining this ministry, contact Adam Jablonski 5:30 –9:30 pm on Saturday, March 30 (585 -749 -4991 or [email protected]) or Hugh Franklin Life is a journey, so it would be foolish to travel alone when (585 -377 -5247 or [email protected]). you can walk with Jesus. He comes to us in the Eucharist and he is the bread of life we need for strength, companionship and love on our journey! So, as Jesus gathered at the table Save the date: The weekend of March 16 & 17, shop for with so many, let’s gather together for a Progressive Dinner baked goods and soup & rice mixes to support Healthy Sisters

Lenten Retreat celebrating the Eucharist! (a local program that helps women in recovery gain work experience to enter the workforce) along with other Social Justice Outreach Ministry programs. Encounter Lent: Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl Lent is a 40-day journey of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. All members of our faith community are encouraged to join our School of Religion families in a life-changing Lenten journey Stewardship Team Spotlights: of encounter with CRS Rice Bowl. We will have the opportunity to be inspired by the stories of people and CATHOLIC M INISTRIES A PPEAL (CMA) communities from around the world. CRS Rice Bowl invites us to walk together with Jesus on this journey, to reach out Our Parish goal: $224,388 beyond ourselves and to encounter the needs As of February 27: of all. Pick up your CRS Rice Bowl from the Pledged: 162,722 (68.8%) Donors: 561 of 27 98 parish families foyer today. Visit crsricebowl.org for more. 20% of our families have We cannot reach our CMA goal pledged a without your gift. Won’t you please Follow our parish on social media donation make your pledge today? for the latest information and inspiration. Help us use social media If you’ve lost your envelope, pick one up near the baptismal to spread the Good News! font. Drop your donation in the collection basket or the box in the baptistry, bring it to the parish office, or donate online Follow our parishes on Facebook & Instagram: at www.dor.org/cma. Thank you!

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In the Words of Francis: January & February Baptisms “The time has come when religions should With great joy, we welcome the newest more actively exert themselves, with courage members of our Christian community: and audacity, and without pretense, to help the human family deepen the capacity for Jane Esther Arnold reconciliation, the vision of hope and the

Connor Andrew Sundberg concrete paths of peace.”

Giuliana Lena Giordano ~in Abu Dhabi, February 4, 2019 Rory Curran

To schedule and begin preparation for baptism, please call the parish office (388 -0040). Other questions regarding the S O C I A L J USTICE O UT RE ACH baptism of infants or young children should be directed Visit our website at www.cota.church/social -justice. to Donna DeJoode. Potluck & Social Justice Speaker: Join us for a potluck from 6:30 -8:30 pm on Monday, March 25 when Rev. Wanda Care for God’s Creation: Did you know that Wilson will address issues of today. Rev. Wanda is a member Americans throw away 25% of the food we buy? If of Rochester Alliance of Communities Transforming Society we make a conscious effort to eat leftovers, not (RocACTS). She is on the Police Accountability Board, she only will we save money, we will reduce some pastors Open Arms Community Fellowship, and is a Sacred production costs, including energy and water consumption. Conversations on Race facilitator. That curriculum was created by Interfaith Clergy of Ferguson, Missouri after an unarmed black youth was killed by police and left in roadway Our Church of the Assumption Mercy Fund for several hours. All are welcome to join us in the parish meets the needs of many in our community thanks to your living room to share a meal and learn more. generosity. Please label your financial contribution “ Mercy Farmworkers are not treated equally in our labor Fund” and bring/mail it to the parish office, or put it in the laws . Our bishop asks us to sign the petition you will collection. Cleaning & personal care products can b e left in see on the table in our church foyer. Those who plant, the clear bins in the foyer. prune, pick and pack our food need disability For ALL OTHER DONATIONS : insurance! • Call Rosemary (388 -0318) or Veronica (388 -1351) to Fundraiser for RAIHN (Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality determine whether your items can go directly to the Network): March 4 at 7:00 pm. The theme is Grace Through requester or if delivery assistance is required . Music at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 23 Westminster Rd. The • Do not drop items off at the parish until specific program will include a rich variety of classical and jazz

arrangements have been made. favorites. Suggested donation is $20. • All items must pass current safety codes. RocACTS (Rochester Alliance of Communities GENERAL N EEDS : towels, curtains, lamps, silverware, small Transforming Society): Church of the Assumption is a appliances, mattress pads, pots & pans, blankets, washcloths member of this faith -based organization working to right the INDIVIDUAL R EQUESTS : Annette —clothes washer, 2 end tables; wrongs of poverty and racism. Visit https://sites.google.com/ Elsie — microwave cart; L’Tanya —laptop computer, bagless site/rochesteracts/task -forces for details about when and vacuum; Damon —twin -size bed, nightstand, chest of where the following taskforces meet: drawers, end table; Emily —small kitchen table and chairs, TV Poverty Jobs Task Force works towards changing legislation trays, vacuum, small microwave, couch; Bernard —queen -size so that more safe affordable housing is made available. bed; Lisa —king -size bed frame, 2 nightstands

PLEASE N OTE : Your kind donatio n is designated for a specific Education Task Force the IRS person in need, not Assumption parish, and therefore Criminal Justice Task Force is working to end solitary will not consider it tax deductible. confinement and more. Thank you for helping us help one another! We are ALL invited to hear leaders of national organizations: Rev. Welch from Gamaliel and Bishop Royster from Faith MERCY F UND C LEANING & P ERSONAL C ARE N EEDS from 9:15 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday, April 27 as the first step in the process of discernment with fellow parishioners Please leave the following items in the clear bin in our foyer labeled "Mercy Fund." and religious leaders to determine which organization can be For more information, call Carol at 223 - 6796. most helpful to RocACTS mission. For more information, call Current needs include: toilet tissue, laundry detergent, Deni Mack 388 -5428. dish detergent, and cleaning sprays. Thank you! Page 8 (585) 388 -0040

Pastoral Formation Class in Spanish —Our own Deacon Marcelo will be teaching a two-day course called Instituto Parish Staff Directory Parish Office: 388 -0040 / [email protected] Pastoral Hispano , Saturdays, March 16 and 30, from 1:30 to 5:00 pm at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, 120 French Road. These classes will be taught in Spanish, but our instructor is bilingual. This is a required course in the Pastoral Ministry Certificate Program but is open to all who would like to learn more about our Catholic faith. No registration fees. For more information, ask Deacon Marcelo, or contact him at [email protected] or 410-1161. The course is free, but registration is required, either online at http://bit.ly/IPH-Spr-19 or by contacting St. Bernards at 585-271- 3657.

Mary’s Place Refugee Outreach needs our support. Come to their Gala on April 4 at the Diplomat party house. Mark your calendar and save the date. Watch the bulletin for more information.

40 Days for Life Spring 2019 Rochester Campaign Do you think you can do more to end the scourge of abortion? One of the most proven, effective means to decrease abortion is 40 Days for Life. Since its inception, over 15,200 babies have been saved from abortion! Take part in the Rochester Spring 40 Days for Life Rochester Campaign from March 6 through April 14. Through prayer and fasting embrace human life and promote the end of abortion. Volunteer to pray with your friends, in a peaceful vigil, outside of Planned Parenthood at 114 University Avenue. Women’s Breakfast —Magnificat Rochester invites all Visit www.40daysforlife.com/Rochester for info and to sign women to a breakfast on Saturday, March 23 at the up for prayer vigil times. For more information, contact Rick Diplomat Banquet Center, 1 Diplomat Way in Gates. Paoletti at (585) 489-9555 or Seating begins at 8:30 am. The program runs from 9:30 am [email protected]. until noon. Confessions will be heard at 8:00 am and again at the end of the program. Our speaker is Aimee O’Connell, founder of the Mission of Thorlak, an online apostolate inspired by its namesake “to understand, recognize, address and prevent spiritual starvation, letting Lenten Day of Reflection at Notre Dame Retreat people with autism lead us on our way.” House (5151 Foster Rd., Canandaigua) on March 5 from 9:00 Registration is required. No tickets will be sold at the door. am to 3:00 pm. This one day retreat includes morning coffee, Early reservations are $20; after March 16, $22; and lunch, and the opportunity for Reconciliation and Mass. This students are $12. To register, mail check to: Magnificat year’s them is “Our Lenten Journey” with presentations from Rochester, PO Box 24787, Rochester NY, 14624; include Fr. Frank Jones, C.Ss.R. and Nancy Lynch (ND Retreat Team your name, address, phone number and email address. You Member). The fee is a $25 fee. To register, call 585-394-5700 can also register via PayPal ($21) on our website: or email [email protected]. www.MagnificatRochester.org. For more information, call Diane Hayes at 585-943-4759, or send an email to: Visit Salt & Light at https://saltandlighttv.org/witness for [email protected] video interviews on many topics of faith. The current series of conversations with professors and graduate theological students begins with Fr. Scott Lewis, SJ and Dr. Katherine Help us “rebrand” our Instagram account to Lochnan, discussing God and the human condition. encompass both our parishes — Assumption & Resurrection. W e need a new user name that will Questions, suggestions, feedback about the bulletin represent our whole community. It must be 30 characters or or the parish website? Email your comments to our less and can include can include letters, numbers, periods & Communications Coordinator at [email protected]. underscores. Send your suggestions to [email protected]! PagePa ge 9 (585)(5 85 ) 383888-004000 40

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