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www.stguerinparish.org 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 Tuttiand 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.