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MISSION STATEMENT: "To do God's will as a unified, vibrant parish, and to foster an intentional relationship with Jesus through worship, witness, service, discipleship, and community."
, ST. CELESTINE CHURCH ST. CYPRIAN CHURCH 3020 North 76th Court, Elmwood Park, Illinois 60707 2601 Clinton, River Grove, Illinois 60171 Phone: 708–453–2555 Fax: 708–452–0560 Phone 708–453–4800 Fax: 708–453–6141 MASSES (LIMIT 200) Saturday 5 PM MASSES (LIMIT 50) Sunday 7:30 AM Sunday 9 AM Limit 50 10:30 AM and live–streamed on Tuesday 8 AM Limit 50 Facebook and stguerinparish.org Wednesday 8 AM ST. CELESTINE SCHOOL Reconciliation Saturdays 4—4:45 PM 3017 North 77th Avenue, Elmwood Park Illinois 60707 stcelestineschool.org 708–453–8234 Please register through the website, stguerinparish.org, for weekend masses. No registration needed for weekday masses or Reconciliation. You must wear a mask, practice social distancing, and follow the direction of the ushers.
Office Hours:Phones will be answered from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at St. Cyprian Monday through Friday and from 8:30 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday at St. Celestine. If no one is available to answer the phone, please leave a message and someone will call you back on the next business day. February 28, 2021 Secons Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 2
On weekends, because of the pandemic, all intentions for individual masses are read at all the Masses at both churches. During the week intentions are listed on the days when Mass is offered. ST. MOTHER THEODORE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 +Vincent Masi 5 PM ST. CELESTINE +John Puchiarz GUERIN PARISH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 +Edward Brand Welcome! If you are new to our 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE +Joan Psak churches or just visiting, please 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN +Frank Bradkowski, Birthday introduce yourself. We are happy 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE to share in this celebration of the +Maria Luisa Monterroso SATURDAY, MARCH 6 Eucharist. If you do not have a Turzitti Family 5 PM ST. CELESTINE church home, or your church is +Norb Zyk SUNDAY, MARCH 7 not home to you, we are open +Frank Pudlo 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE to anyone looking for a spiritual +Genevieve Kenning 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN home. We invite you to become +Antonio, +Nicholas, +Vincenzo 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE a part of our parish. You may Rendina +Norb Zyk register during the pandemic by +Fred and +Michael Henschke +Anna Rone calling 708–453–2555. +Joseph and +Stella Halinski +Frank Pudlo +Mable M. Guerra–Lalie +Emily Gallagher +Gildo and +Sally Rossicone, +Ignazio Gatto, Birthday birthday +Joseph P. Bosco, 2nd Anniversary +Pietro Teodoro TUESDAY, MARCH 2 +Robert Masciola, Birthday 8 AM ST. CYPRIAN +Deacon Juan Ponce de Leon +Maria Luisa Monterroso +Ted Halinski All offices in the parish and in +George Stuckwell the school are closed until the WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3 +Mary Manton Larson Archdiocese gives us permission to 8 AM ST. CELESTINE reopen. +Maria Luisa Monterroso +Tiffany Bachar Phones will be answered from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at St. Cyprian (708–453–4800) Monday A big thank you to our Ministry of through Friday and from 8:30 AM Care Coordinator, Lois DeFelice, who to 5 PM Monday through Friday researched Pope Francis’ encyclical at St. Celestine (708–453–2555). Fratelli Tutti and picked out an appropriate quote for every day in If no one is available to answer Lent. Please follow us on Facebook the phone, please leave a (St. Mother Theodore Guerin Parish) message and someone will call and Instagram (StGuerinParish) for a you back on the next business day. daily Lenten reflection. February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 3
FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK: FATHER PAUL CAO
Annual raffle church to receive ashes to mark You should have the beginning of the Lenten received your St. Season; the 40 days that precede Joseph Raffle tickets in the mail Holy Week and Easter. Lent is the by now. Please let us know if time for us to return to the love you haven’t received them. This of God. This is the time to give in is the only fundraiser for our to the Lord and give up something parish because of the pandemic that can help us to be closer to so we really need your help. God. We should give up sinful actions and attitudes. We increased the Grand Prize to $5,000, the second prize to I invite you to spend some time $2,000 and have three 3rd place during this Lenten Season to prizes of $1,000. We are giving be with God, to recall all the away $10,000 for our St. Joseph wonderful things God has done Raffle. The ticket prices are $20 for you this year, and to thank each or 6 for $100. We lowered God for these gifts. Lent is also Walk with Jesus, Our Wounds the price this year to give you an opportunity to reflect on the and Pains, and There is Healing more chances to win. I really ways in which you have not been in the Lord: Church as Field encourage every family, if you grateful to God. Hospital.” See more information can, to purchase a book or at on page 7. least one ticket and sell some to This is also a good opportunity for your friends and coworkers. If all you to come to the Sacrament of I encourage each one of you to 2,600 families of our parish buy Reconciliation to seek God’s love set aside those nights to attend at least one ticket, we will raise and mercy. We hear confessions or watch live on our parish $52,000! at St. Celestine church every Facebook page, St. Mother Saturday from 4 to 4:45 PM. Come Guerin Parish, in order to I would like to thank those of reflect on the Passion of the Lord deepen your spiritual life during you who have already purchased at the Stations of the Cross every this Lenten Season. the tickets. We will be drawing Friday during Lent at 7 PM (please the winning tickets on Easter check page 7 for the worship site, May God bless you always and Sunday, April 4 after the 10:30 we alternate each week). may the Lenten Season help us AM Mass. You can bring your to be closer to the Lord! tickets in with your payment Parish Lenten Mission The to the Pastoral Center at St. Lenten Mission this year for In prayer, Celestine or the Rectory at St. our parish and St. William is on Fr. Paul Cyprian and drop them in the Monday and Tuesday, March 8 mailbox or bring them to church, and 9 at 7 PM at St. Celestine STEWARDSHIP or even mail them to us. Thank Church. You are welcome to January collections you for your help with this attend; no sign up is needed. fundraiser. Good luck!! We are grateful to have Fr. Stan Envelopes $30,488.00 Ilo, our resident priest, to be the E–Giving $ 6,406.02 Lenten Season On Ash speaker. The topics for the parish ______Wednesday we gathered in Lenten Mission are “Our Sacred $36,894.02 Thank you for your generosity! February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 4 THE OPENING PRAYER At the conclusion of the treasures of our tradition. follows the same pattern. It Introductory Rites of the Mass, The Opening Prayer can be begins with an invocation to the presider says or chants the divided into four main parts: God. A petition follows, usually words “Let us pray,” followed by 1) the invitation, or “Let us pray”; very general. We ask for health, the Opening Prayer. This prayer is 2) the silence that follows, during strength, wisdom, grace, also called a “collect” because it which each member of the forgiveness, faith, awareness. gathers or “collects” the prayers of assembly lifts up before God his or the entire assembly into one. her own prayers; Every collect concludes by offering 3) the collect itself, spoken or the prayer to God through Jesus The Roman collects that we pray sung by the priest; Christ. With the Amen of the in our liturgy—noted for the 4) and finally the Amen, by which assembly, the Introductory Rites brevity, clarity, and conciseness of the assembly says, “yes,” “may it of the Mass come to an end. the Latin originals—date from a be so,” making the prayer their variety of periods. Some are quite own. Corinna Laughlin new; others reach back more than © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. a thousand years. They are truly The collect itself almost always SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday: Second Sunday of Lent, Rite of Sending and Rite of Election for RCIA Catechumens Wednesday: St. Katharine Drexel Thursday: St. Casimir Friday: First Friday; World Day of Prayer; Abstinence Saturday: First Saturday
HISTORY OF SALVATION The first reading today continues with the dazzling Gospel, the “history of salvation” narrative until we remember that the that we hear throughout Lent this Transfiguration was placed as the year. Today’s story was among the Gospel for this Sunday precisely best–loved in the Jewish tradition to remind us of the glory that (surely Joseph told the story to awaits those who live faithfully young Jesus as he formed him in and obediently to the will of God. the ways of their faith); the early In the life of Jesus, it is a preview fathers of the Church were very of the glory of his resurrection; for fond of it as a means of explaining us it is a glimpse of the destiny of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. those who continue, as we heard in last week’s Gospel, to repent The overall tone of the first and believe in the Good News. reading, psalm, and second reading seems a little incongruous © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 5 ON THE ROSARY, TRANSFORMANCE, AND LA TRANSFIGURACIÓN I think I mentioned sometime Dominican Republic, and Spain. will trump Jesus’s own death, and back that I began praying a daily I wanted to speak with my the deaths of his followers (as in, rosary after I retired. I had heard colleagues there in their language. Peter, James, John and the rest, many say that such a practice can I did, but barely. Now I know and you and me…). As Peter says be transformational, so I joined more vocab, but when someone in all three evangelists’ accounts, in. Now, if it is transformational, actually says something to me in Lord, “it is good that we are here.” I’m not there yet. At the same Spanish, forget it… Still, I figured Qué maravilloso! time, I enjoy the exercise, and it would be helpful to learn plan to keep at it. The early AM is something I knew well in English, Sometimes as I hit the road in the my time. Sans the recent ice and in Spanish. Enter the knots. early morning with the knots, I snow, at least. But for when I am forget which set of mysteries is out there, my wife made me a red I favor certain mysteries over coming at me until I say that first embroidery floss bracelet with ten others, as dictated by los días de “Glory Be,” and then launch into knots: my rosary. la semana. Tuesdays and Fridays the given five for the given day are my least favorite, because (my memory isn’t what it used to Sometimes I even pray it in los Misterios Dolorosos are be). And there’s just a bit more Spanish. I’ve been trying to learn traditionally prayed on these days, step in my step on Thursdays the language for forty years. and it’s hard to contemplate our when I recall that the Luminous Solo dos años in la escuela. Lord’s passion and death. I like Mysteries are on tap. I sometimes Not enough. I got interested in Wednesdays and Sundays for los even break into a smile when I get learning more when work sent Misterios Gloriosos. I like Mondays to the fourth one, recalling Peter’s me to Mexico, Puerto Rico, the and Saturdays for los Misterios words, and repeating them in my Gozosos. But I like own context, putting one step in Thursdays most front of the other, alone, often in for los Misterios darkness. Luminosos. Y mi misterio favorito Some people say that de todos? El praying a daily rosary can be Cuarto Misterio transformational. Maybe. For Luminoso: La sure, though, there’s a prayer at Transfiguración. the end of the beads beseeching God “…that while meditating on The Church these mysteries of the most holy gives us the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Transfiguration we may imitate what they contain every Second and obtain what they promise….” Sunday of Lent. Today we get Nobody wants to imitate los Mark’s version. Misterios Dolorosos, but Jesus Other years we says that to follow him, we must get Matthew’s or pick up our cross just the same. Luke’s. But every With the horrible, though, comes year, we get Jesus the amazing! “…imitate what taking Peter, James they contain/obtain what they and John up that promise.” Transformational? La mountain, where Transfiguración. Maybe there’s a he is transfigured connection. before them, thus revealing his divine glory…the ©2021 by John B. Reynolds divine glory that ([email protected]) February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 6
FROM MRS KLICH:
Please check out the Virtual Tour of St. Celestine School on the website stcelestineschool.org. This is a great way to learn about the teachers and get a sense of the wonderful things St. Celestine School has to offer. During the Prayer of the Faithful Please share the tour with friends and families who may be considering at Mass, we hear that this Mass schools for next year. Private tours are available and the registration is being offered for the repose form is available online. Let them know St. Celestine School is a of the soul of someone who has wonderful community! died, or for someone requesting prayers for a particular intention. If you would like a Current school families, please register now for the 2021—2022 school Mass offered, please call either year on the school website. View pictures from this year’s Catholic office to schedule a Mass for Schools Week on the website, stcelestineschool.org and on Facebook. your particular intention. The usual donation is $10. New Mass cards are available as well. CAN YOU VOLUNTEER? We need volunteers to assist with various aspects of keeping our churches open. If you are high school age or older and are healthy with no underlying health conditions, please consider assisting with funerals, baptisms, weddings, reconciliation, and daily or Sunday Masses.
Funerals are held Monday through Saturday at both churches, usually at 10 AM and 11:30 AM. Weddings are held on Saturday afternoons in both churches. Baptisms take place on Saturdays and Sundays at both churches, usually in the early afternoon. Reconciliation takes place on Saturdays from 4 to 4:45 PM at St. Celestine. There is an 8 AM Tuesday All volunteers must understand that even with Mass at St. Cyprian and 8 AM Wednesday Mass at St. precautions, we cannot guarantee that you will not Celestine. be exposed to Covid–19. All volunteers must attend a training. We are limited to 200 people at St. Celestine and 50 at St. Cyprian to allow for social distancing. Please submit the website Online Form to indicate your willingness and ability to volunteer, and the days Volunteers are needed to greet, check off attendees, of the week and times of the day that are best for sanitize hands, manage the flow of congregants, you. This is a massive undertaking and many hands direct people to seating, usher, clean, and sanitize the make light work. Find the sign up on the website. worship space. You must wear a mask at all times and practice social distancing. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP! February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 7
LENTEN and EASTER SCHEDULE Friday March 5 3 PM St. Celestine Holy Hour 7 PM St. Celestine Stations of the Cross Monday March 8 7 PM St. Celestine Parish Mission with Fr. Stan Ilo Tuesday March 9 7 PM St. Celestine Parish Mission with Fr. Stan Ilo Friday March 12 7 PM St. Cyprian Stations of the Cross Friday March 19 7 PM St. Celestine Stations of the Cross Friday March 26 7 PM St. Cyprian Stations of the Cross Thursday April 1 7 PM St. Celestine Holy Thursday Friday April 2 3 PM St. Cyprian Good Friday Service 7 PM St. Celestine Good Friday Service Saturday April 3 7:30 PM St. Celestine Easter Vigil Sunday April 4 7:30 AM St. Celestine Easter Mass 9 AM St. Cyprian Easter Mass 10:30 AM St. Celestine Easter Mass 11:30 AM St. Cyprian Easter Mass
PARISH MISSION MARCH 8 AND 9 WITH FATHER STAN CHU ILO Join St. Mother Guerin and St. William for a Parish Mission on Monday, March 8 and Tuesday, March 9 at 7 PM with Fr. Stan Ilo at St. Celestine Church, 3020 North 76th Court, Elmwood Park covering these topics: “Our Sacred Walk with Jesus,” “Our Wounds and Pains,” and “There is Healing in the Lord: Church as Field Hospital.” This will be in person and live–streamed on the stguerinparish.org website or Facebook page. Father Stan, originally from Nigeria, feels his studying in Africa, North America, and Europe has given him a deep appreciation of the intercultural dimensions of learning in a changing world and a grateful respect for the beauty and differences in cultures and religious traditions.
His educational background includes an MA in theology; an MA in educational leadership; an ecclesiastical licentiate in sacred theology and a PhD in theology from the University of St Michael’s College at the University of Toronto (with a concentration in African Christian history’s cross-cultural currents); and a second PhD from the University of South Africa in the sociology of education, specializing in equity and multicultural education in faith–based schooling. February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 8 ST. MOTHER GUERIN PARISH ST. JOSEPH RAFFLE GRAND PRIZE $5,000 Please keep those serving in the military in your SECOND PRIZE $2,000 prayers. Thank you for your service to our country. Col. Stephen Acosta Marines 3 THIRD PRIZES $1,000 Staff Sgt. Lawrence G. Campbell Air Force Senior Airman Cory McCambridge Air Force DRAWING EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 2021 Chief Erin McGuire Navy Lt. Col. Peter Anderson Army Tickets are $20 each or 6 for $100. Sgt. Kenneth G. DiCristifano Army Spec Michael Migliorisi Army Maj. Deborah J. Crowley, M.D. Army All registered parishioners Pvt. John Cerrone Marines should have received tickets in Maj. David Nevers Marines the mail. If you need additonal PFC Paul J. Lagoda Marines PFC Sophia M. Garcia Marines tickets, call the Pastoral Center Lt. Robert Reynolds Army at 708–453–2555. Please PFC Richard A. Paduch Army make checks payable to SMTG Staff Sgt. Alberto Boy Marines Sgt. Rodolfo DeLao Army Parish. You can return the Staff Sgt. Natalie Borrini Air Force ticket stubs and payment to Cpl. Brian Macaluso Marines the collection baskets in the Lnc. Cpl. Meghan Jennings Marines back of either church, mail Lnc. Cpl. Michael Casanave Marines Pvt. Nicolas Casanave Marines them to St. Joseph Raffle, ABEAN Melanie Hodges Navy SMTG Parish, 3020 N. 76th Ct., Elmwood Park IL PFC Vincent Negron Marines 60707, or drop them in a mailbox at the Rectory or Pvt. Matthew Meyer Army Master Sgt. Scott A. Cross Air Force Pastoral Center before noon on Saturday, April 3, Private Niko Rodriguez Army 2021. Dario Rodriguez Air Force CH 1LT Jacque Beltran Navy A1C Brian Moran Air Force A1C Elyssa Moran Air Force TAX LETTERS AVAILABLE Ensign Devon Zych Coast Guard FN Matilda Davis Coast Guard Lnc. Cpl. Andrew D. Nordlie Marines Do you need a TAX LETTER for your donations Ensign FaithAnne Bieschke Navy to the parish? Please call 708–453–2555 if you Luis N. Burciaga Army would like one. PFC Rudy De La O Marines Jose Flores, Jr. Air Force Carmelo Flores Air Force Sean P. Mellett Marines ONLINE GIVING
Our parish is using Give Central as a contribution tool to help parishioners contribute online to our Sunday Offertory and special collections. This tool will allow you the option of donating through your checking, savings, or credit card account and the funds will be Information for the bulletin is due at 9 AM on directly transferred to the parish each month or as the Thursday the week before the bulletin comes you specify. out except for special holiday deadlines. Please send in Word or as an editable PDF to khagerty@ If you are already giving online you will see that the stguerinparish.org. Will use as space allows. gifts go to St. Mother Theodore Guerin parish. You can sign up for online giving by going to our website, Bulletin Deadline stguerinparish.org, and clicking on the Give Central March 14 March 4 at 9 AM icon on the right on the home page. March 21 March 11 at 9 AM March 28 March 18 at 9 AM Thank you for supporting the parish. April 4 March 18 at 9 AM April 11 April 2 at 9 AM February 28, 2021 Second Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 9
Names are kept on the list for four weeks. If you wish to add or remove a name, please call the parish office. Thank you! Paciano Acosta Dan Kocal Marie and Steve Bobbie Kocal Auerbach Denise Licciardi Michael Balaja Karen Lins Grace Baldessara Tom Mayer Karen Biagini Mary Mellett Gerri Bohm Sharon Meyer Victor Cabello Ignacio Montes Caitlyn George Moretti Chuck Cibula Dan Murphy Ginny Ciszek Tom Murphy Deacon Dennis Colgan Carolyn Nanni Frances Copps Domenic Nanni Christina Corbett Barbara Narducci Debra DeKelver Bernice Nesbitt Jackie DeLarco Sr. Noel Michael DeLuca Bill Noesen Danny DiMaso Phylllis Pappas Elene Dimperio Manny Perez Dillon Dolecki Adrienne Pudlo Jack Donnelly Kirk Pusenilli Eleanor Jim Raemisch Heidy Egan Darlene Rinker Brittany Foley Caroline Russo Christopher Freel Betty Salemi Patsy Galecki Amy Schreiner Kathy Gallery Morgan Schlanger Tammy Garcia Rita Schmidt Helen Garza Joseph Serwa Phyllis Gossy Thomas Tully Nina Grigolo Andrew Valko David Holder Lillian Wardzala Judy Iovinelli Dorothy Witek Robert Jaster and for all our sick Bob Jurasz and homebound Donna Kiska parishioners Ken Kiska
Liturgical ministers are not being used and all events are cancelled during the pandemic. Donna Giuseffi and Mary Kopec
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ST. CYPRIAN CHURCH 2601 Clinton, River Grove, Illinois 60171 708–453–4800
Mass Schedules: See cover. Registration required.
Office Hours: Temporarily closed.
Communion Service: Temporarily canceled.
Holy Hour: First Friday of each month at 3 PM in St. Ce- lestine church, in person and live–streamed on Facebook and website. Please check our website, No registration needed. www.stguerinparish.org, for the most Fatima Devotion: Temporarily canceled. accurate information on the schedule for sacraments during the pandemic. Adoration: Temporarily combined into First Friday Holy Hour.
Baptisms: Contact Ruthanne Swiatkowski to schedule; [email protected] or call 708–453–2555 x 17.
Reconciliation: Saturdays 4—4:45 PM at St. Celestine. No registration needed.
Weddings: Engaged couples are encouraged to call a year in advance of a preferred date. The couple must talk to Deacon Mike DeLarco before a wedding date can be reserved. Participation in marriage preparation is essential.
PRIESTS Ray Brownlee, Maintenance 708–453–4800 Rev. Paul Cao, Pastor [email protected] [email protected] 708–453–2555 x29 Eric Mueller and Rev. Brendan Guilfoil, Associate Pastor Bob Vessini, Maintenance 708–453–2555 x25 [email protected] 708–453–2555 x30 Rev. Eugene Gratkowski, Pastor Emeritus of St. Cyprian MUSIC MINISTRY Bishop Jeffrey Grob, Rev. Fil Ngwila, Rev. Stan Ilo, Craig Kamptner, Director of Music Ministry Rev. Kenneth Ekekwe, Resident Priests [email protected] 708–453–2555 x16 Rev. Ron Navoy, Weekend Associate at St. Cyprian Call Craig with questions about music for the parish.
DEACONS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Michael DeLarco 708–453–2555 x31 Ruthanne Swiatkowski, Director of Lifelong Faith Call Deacon Mike to schedule a wedding. Formation Miguel Negron [email protected] [email protected] 708–453–2555 x17 Ronald Pilarski [email protected] Mary Murphy, Coordinator of Religious Education for Dennis Colgan, retired Special Needs for children and adults [email protected] 708–453–2555 ST. CELESTINE SCHOOL Sheila Klich, Principal 708–453–8234 x23 MINISTRIES [email protected] Lois DeFelice, Ministry of Care 708–453–2555 Norma Pulido, Secretary 708–453–8234 x11 [email protected] Donna DelMedico, Finance Secretary 708–453–8234 x24 Greg Fidanzia, Guerin William Youth Group PARISH SUPPORT STAFF [email protected] 708–453–2555 x13 Laurie DePillo, Business Manager 708–453–2555 x15 [email protected] Kim Hagerty, Director of Evangelization 708–453–2555x12 Mary Krewer, Administrative Assistant [email protected] [email protected] 708–453–4800 Bulletin Editor Deadline is 9 AM on the Thursday 10 Marge Dellinger, Receptionist 708–453–4800 days before the date you would like the information to [email protected] appear. Irma Rivera, Receptionist 708–453–2555 x10 Lynn Schmidt, Receptionist 708–453–2555 x10 [email protected]