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THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY of SAINT MARTHA March 14, 2021 Fourth Sunday of Lent THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF SAINT MARTHA March 14, 2021 Fourth Sunday of Lent MASS SCHEDULE CLERGY & PASTORAL STAFF Sunday Mass: Pastor: Rev. David Swantek Saturday Vigil 4:30 pm Sunday 7:30 am Assisting Retired Priests: Rev. Dominic Fuccile 10:00 am Rev. Tony Lionelli 12:00 noon Rev. Msgr. Bill Stober Deacon: John E. Barrett Daily Mass: Fran Groff Tuesday thru Friday 9:00 am Staff: SACRAMENTS Director of Religious Education: Georgina Kotz Anointing of the Sick: Please call the parish office to Religious Education Secretary: Barbara Rowe make arrangements. If anointing is for Covid, please let Coordinator of Youth Ministry: Bob Morris Fr. Dave know. He will anoint the person, but there is a Director of Liturgical Music: Jessica Kortenhaus different protocol for that sick call. Business Manager/Accountant: Nancy Dormanski Baptisms: Please call the parish office to make Marriage Minister: Marie Mastronardi arrangements. 732-295-3630. Parents’ Parish Secretary: Paddy Morris Preparation Session are on line during the pandemic. Parish Receptionists: Fran Olson Confessions: Saturday, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, by Mary Siringo appointment, or on Friday from 9:30 – 10:00 am (during adoration). OFFICE HOURS Marriages: Please call the parish office to make Monday thru Friday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm arrangements one year in advance. Please confirm with the parish before setting your date at your Contact Us venue. 3800 Herbertsville Road DEVOTIONS Point Pleasant, NJ 08742 Novenas: In church novenas suspended at this Phone: 732-295-3630 time. Fax: 732-295-9315 Rosary: Tuesday-Friday, 8:40 am [email protected] Personal Private Prayer: Monday-Friday 2-4pm www.saintmartha.net We welcome all who seek to grow in faith and love just as St. Martha welcomed Jesus into her home. If you’d like to join our parish, please call 732-295-3630. 1 St. Martha Church March 14, 2021 4th Sunday of Lent Gospel Readings 1st Collection: Weekly Sun: John 9:1-41 2nd Collection: Easter Flowers Mon: John 4:43-54 Tues: John 5:1-16 MASS INTENTIONS Wed: John 5:17-30 Thurs: John 5:31-47 Saturday, March 13, 2021 Fri: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24A 4:30 pm Pete & Rose Krage Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Sunday, March 14, 2021 Blessed Virgin Mary 7:30 am Maria & Simon Mirkovic Sat: John 7:40-53 10:00 am People of the Parish 12:00 pm Kenneth “Kenny” Sosnowski Our Dearly Departed Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Please remember in your prayers the deceased 9:00 am Robert Ciszewski members of our parish, especially for Vincent Cupo, Sean Gaine, Joan Beyer , John (Jack) Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Paterno, Alice Luchino and Michael Lang. 9:00 am The Maculaitis Family Thursday, March 18, 2021 2021 Lenten & Holy Week Liturgies 9:00 am The Skupski Family Passion (Palm) Sunday – March 28, 2021 Friday, March 19, 2021 Regular Mass Schedule 9:00 am Mary Patten Holy Thursday – April 1, 2021 Saturday, March 20, 2021 Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 7:00 pm, followed by 4:30 pm Rose Adelizzi adoration until 9:00 pm Sunday, March 21, 2021 Good Friday – April 2, 2021 7:30 am James Gillespie Stations of the Cross 12:00 noon 10:00 am Rory Fallon Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion – 3:00 pm 12:00 pm People of the Parish Holy Saturday – April 3, 2021 Memorial Gifts – March 13th – March 19 Easter Vigil – 8:00 pm Flowers to the Holy Family: Easter Sunday – April 4, 2021 7:30 am, 10:00 am and 12:00 noon Tabernacle Candle: Robert Donnelly Stations of the Cross – Every Friday during lent at Solemnity of St. Joseph, 7:00 pm in the church or online, on our website at Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass will be www.saintmartha.net celebrated at 6:00 pm on Friday, March 19th. Confessions: Friday from 9:30 – 10:00 am (during Stations of the Cross will follow the Mass. adoration) and Saturday 3:00 – 4:00 pm. Easter Meals – See page 6 for more details. 2 St. Martha Church Religious Education Information Adult Faith Formation opportunity: Join us on Georgina Kotz Google Meet to discuss “The Case for Jesus.” This 732-295-3630 Ext 35 study is nine sessions with video and discussion. [email protected] We will meet on Wednesdays at 6pm beginning on March 17th. Please email “Being Christian is not the result of an ethical [email protected] to sign up and to receive choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an the link for the meetings. Workbooks are available event, a person, which gives life a new horizon from our office for $10.00 if you wish to purchase and a decisive direction.” – Pope Benedict XVI one. Children’s Faith Formation Youth Ministry Children are continuing to learn about the Mass. Bob Morris Younger levels are making sure they know the Email: [email protected] responses, prayers and postures of the Instagram: saintmarthayoungchurch community. Older levels are learning more details about the Mass, the parts of the Mass and the We are about halfway through Lent already! items used in our Catholic liturgy. Level 2 has For the rest of Lent, here are some suggestions of been discussing making sacrifices and will be some ways your families can participate in Lent together: making “sacrifice beads” like Saint Therese had when she was young. Families continue to learn As we “spring ahead” this weekend, it is light until about our Liturgical year by watching the 7:00ish. Take advantage by taking an evening calendar and changing the ribbon on their family walk together at the beach, in your crosses to match the Liturgical color of the day. neighborhood, or any place you enjoy. Observe Formed – for personal and family faith formation: and point out some of the wonders of God’s More programs, movies and studies have been creation; or share something from the day where you saw or felt God at work. added to Formed. Our parish subscription is still active so be sure to take advantage of this Start a family prayer journal. Place a notebook in valuable, free resource provided for you by Saint a place in your house that everyone frequently Martha’s. Go to formed.org/signup and create passes. Each day or as thoughts come, each an account. Watch an episode from the series family member writes something that they’d like “The Search” and let us know what you think. everyone to pray for. Everyone take a couple What strikes you from the episode? Send minutes each day to read and pray the responses to [email protected] We would love intentions. to hear from you! As a family, choose a charity you would like to Our Lent Calendar suggestions for this week: donate to. Each family member chooses not to Discuss the Sunday Gospel with your family; have buy something they normally would, such as a a family board game night; have bread and cup of coffee or treat, and donate the money they would have spent on that item. soup for dinner one day and pray for those who are hungry; thank your parents and say an extra Pray the rosary or Divine Mercy Chaplet together prayer for them, celebrate the feast of Saint as a family at least once a week. Joseph on March 19; weather permitting, take a walk and look for signs of spring. 3 St. Martha Church Music Ministry return to sacramental life at this time. Our need Jessica Kortenhaus for God is ever present and there is a longing in [email protected] our souls for God to fill, as evidenced by the number of people throughout the world who join “But to each one of us grace was given according to us in prayer each weekend in our online Mass the measure of Christ’s gift.”—Ephesians 4:7 community. This week marks the year anniversary of the Our communion hymn, “Jesus Walked This pandemic shutdowns that have come to shape Lonesome Valley” touches on the idea that Jesus our daily lives. This “new normal” has been also went through many times of trial. During anything, but normal and it has been difficult to those times of trial, Jesus sought to be ever closer stay the course. We’ve gone through different to God. It is many times our trials that shape the stages of grief of what used to be, what was course of our lives. We can choose to be like my supposed to be, and of what the future will look grandmother who continues to draw closer to the like in a post-pandemic world, all in addition to Lord and still look for the blessings each day, or the grieving of so many lives lost in the last year. dwell on the negative. Let us continue to There have also been some hidden blessings of persevere this Lent. Let us lift one another up in more family dinners, and truly appreciating the prayer, and use this time of trial to draw ever time we are able to spend with our family and closer to the Lord. friends. At times the isolation that many have felt during this time has seemed unbearable. Perhaps Sharing Our Treasure this was most felt by the most vulnerable of our Weekend of March 6th – 7th population—those in our communities living in our eldercare and long-term care facilities. But, as my Collection In Pew $ 8,425.46 grandmother would always say, “but by the Collection In Office 7,594.00 grace of God, go I”…we have all persevered Charitable /In Memory of 1,200.00 with the help of God’s grace during this time.
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