Saint Joseph's Monastery Parish

3801 Old Frederick Rd. at Monastery Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21229

We are a welcoming parish. Whatever your present status in the Catholic Church, whatever your current family or marital situation, whatever your past or present religious affiliation, whatever your personal history, age, background, race or color, sexual orientation, whatever your self-esteem, you are invited ,welcomed, accepted, loved and respected by the Catholic Community of St. Joseph’s Monastery Parish.

PASTOR Father Michael Murphy

CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST Saturday Vigil 4:00 p.m. Sunday Masses 8:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. (Family Liturgy) Daily Mass 8:00 a.m. Monday-Thursday Rectory Chapel at 251 S. Morley St. Holy Days of Obligation announced before Feast

SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK If you or a family member is ill or anticipating sur- gery, please contact the Pastor to be anointed. Also the anointing of the sick is celebrated the last Saturday of each month after the 4:00 PM Mass . SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 3:00 - 3:45 PM Or by appointment

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PASTORAL STAFF Rev. Michael A. Murphy, x216 ...... Pastor Mrs. Gail Fischer,x226 [email protected] Religious Education Mr. Frank McGloin,[email protected] Associate Ms. Rebecca Obniski,x235 [email protected] Director of Music

PARISH STAFF Mr. Al McGill x219 [email protected] Facilities Manager Ms. Lisa Jacobs x214 [email protected] Parish Secretary

OFFICE HOURS Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Friday 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM 251 S. Morley Street Phone-410 -566-0877 Fax-410 -233-4974 E-mail: [email protected]

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (ages 3-12) (9:30 a.m..- 10:40 a.m.) Sunday School ……………………………...9:30 a.m.. - 10:40 a.m. RCIA ……………………………………….. 9:35 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Mrs. Barbara Dawson: 443-844-1068 [email protected] Mrs.Mary Homans 410-299-6187 [email protected]

We wish to welcome everyone to become an SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE active member of the St. Joseph's Monastery Parish Family! Pastor to be notified 6 months in advance of plan date.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Hello! I would like to become a member of St. Joseph's Monastery Parish. Please send me a Arrangements are made with the Pastor registration form as soon as possible. For announcements from the Arch- Name: ______diocese of Baltimore concerning Address: ______the coronavirus and for official poli- ______cies, resources, a novena prayer ______to the Blessed Virgin Mary, news

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Please cut out and drop in the Collection box or visit www.archbalt.org/coronavirus mail to: St. Joseph's Monastery Parish Rectory 251 South Morley Street Baltimore, MD 21229 PARISH UPDATE/CATHOLIC REVIEW If you have had changes to your name, marital status, address or phone number over the past few years, please call or fill out an updat- ed registration form. Also, if you would like to receive the Catholic Re- view, please call the Rectory Office. WELCOME TO SAINT JOSEPH’S MONASTERY PARISH

Welcome to all who are visiting us on today, we hope that this is the first of many visits. If you do not have a church home we would love to have you join our parish family. Please know that you are most welcome here! If you have questions about our parish feel free to speak to one of the greeters at each of the doors.

March 22nd, 2020 4th Sunday of Lent

“Do you believe in the Son of Man?” Jesus wants to motivate each one of us to see the truth. After UPCOMING EVENT developing a relationship with Jesus, the blind March 20,27 April 3: Stations of the Cross 7:00 PM man “sees” as someone very special. The Phari- March 29,30,31 ,April 1: Parish Mission at 7:00 PM sees, due to the blindness caused by their igno- April 5: Palm Sunday 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Father rance, prejudice, and need for self-preservation, Mike will be recreating Jesus' triumphal entry into Je- still remain blind. Presuppositions, prejudices, as- rusalem before the 11:00 AM Mass. There will also be sumptions, and our needs can easily blind us to Hospitality after the 11:00 AM Mass truth. We see what we want or need to see and April 9: Holy Thursday No 8:00 AM Mass . Mass at not what is really there. In addition, our stubborn- 7:00 PM in the Church ness continues to convince us that we are right April 10: Parish Office Closed April 10: Good Friday Service at 3:00 PM in the and that our vision is perfect. Only God can com- Church The Passion Play will be held at 7:30 PM plete the picture. April 13: Parish Office Closed Look around at our world. So much of what is happening today is due to the reluctance of folks WEEKLY READINGS AND OBSERVANCES to allow themselves to be stretched and brought Readings for the week of March 22, 2020 to see what is really there. Many react to what life Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a/Ps 23:1-3a, 3b- presents to them more with the lenses of igno- 4, 5, 6 [1]/Eph 5:8-14/Jn 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, rance than lenses of clarity. The Gospel carries 34-38 great transformative value. With it, God corrects Monday: Is 65:17-21/Ps 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a our vision and replaces our limited sight with the and 13b [2a]/Jn 4:43-54 fullness of his sight. God opens our eyes so that Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12/Ps 46: 2-3, 5-6, 8-9/Jn we can see that it is not about preserving what we 5:1-16 have created but of living in the immensity and Wednesday: Is 7:10-14; 8:10/Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, wonder of God’s kingdom. 10, 11 [8a and 9a]/Heb 10:4-10/Lk 1:26-38 Through a simple, loving relationship with God, Thursday: Ex 32:7-14/Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23 we can break through the tethers of prejudice, [4a]/Jn 5:31-47 eradicate fear, dispel the darkness of hatred and Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22/Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 sin, discover freedom, live in peace, work for jus- and 23 [19a]/Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 tice, be effective stewards of creation, assist the Saturday: Jer 11:18-20/Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 migrant and the immigrant, and safeguard our [2a]/Jn 7:40-53 economic systems and policies so that they truly Next Sunday: Ez 37:12-14/Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7 serve all of God’s children. What we see is often -8 [7]/Rom 8:8-11/Jn 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, an artificial lie. Our truth is much bigger than what 33b-45 our limited sight believes it to be. Allow God to Observances for the week of March 22, 2020 work in and through you. Do not be afraid. Be Sunday: 4th Sunday of Lent open and be humble enough to know that you Monday: St. Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop need help. Many human beings are living with se- Wednesday: The Annunciation of the Lord vere cataracts that produce sight that is at best Next Sunday: 5th Sunday of Lent blurred. Are you one of them? WELCOME TO SAINT JOSEPH’S MONASTERY PARISH

BULLETIN MASSES FOR March 21–29,2020

Saturday, March 21,2020 4:00 p.m. In Loving Memory of Carol Houseman (D) Again Lent's austerity is interrupted as we sol- Sunday, March 22,2020 emnly keep a feast in honor of the Annunciation. The Annunciation is a mystery that belongs to the 8:30 a.m. For the People of the Parish temporal rather than to the sanctoral cycle in the 11:00 a.m. In Loving Memory of Church's calendar. For the feast commemorates Eddie Byers (D) on the 4th the most sublime moment in the history of time, Anniversary of his Passing the moment when the Second Divine Person of Monday, March 23,2020 the most Holy Trinity assumed human nature in 8:00 a.m. No Intentions the womb of the Virgin Mary. Thus it is a feast of Tuesday, March 24,2020 our Lord, even as it is of Mary, although the litur- gy centers wholly around the Mother of God. — 8:00 a.m.No Intentions The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch Wednesday, March 25,2020 8:00 a.m. No Intentions This feast is very important in the defense of the Thursday, March 26,2020 life of unborn children. Even with small children, 8:00 a.m. No Intentions this is a good day to begin teaching about the high value God places on human life. He loved us Saturday, March 28,2020 so much that he became one of us, took on our 4:00 p.m. Lena Crocetti (D) human nature and became an innocent, com- Sunday, March 29,2020 pletely dependent infant. This is a Solemnity, so 8:30 a.m. For the People of the Parish when this feast falls during the Lenten season, 11:00 a.m. In Loving Memory our Lenten penance obligations are lifted. We of Kaden (D) should celebrate by some special food or dinner. This feast day forecasts the blessed event of Christmas, and illustrates how the liturgical year Bulletin Masses is an endless circle of days. To celebrate this cir- Please call the Rectory office to have your loved ones cle or cycle, serve a cake, coffee rings, or wreath- and friends remembered or honored in a Bulletin Mass. It is a great way to remember and honor your shaped cookies, or foods shaped in ring molds for special dates and occasions. this feast day. A perfect symbolic food would be an angel food cake for the archangel Gabriel, ST PAUL OF THE CROSS PRAYER GARDEN baked in a tube pan for the endless circle, deco- Our St. Paul of the Cross Prayer Garden is blooming rated with the frosting highlighted with blue for with love. Please visit before or after Mass to see the Mary. A traditional food for this day is waffles. beautiful tribute to our family and friends. The bricks "Lady Day" or Annunciation, is the only feast of are a great way to remember important people and Mary that Sweden still celebrates since the Lu- times in our lives. You may continue to purchase bricks at https://www.thatsmybrick.com/sjmpmd or theran faith became the state religion in 1593. In you may also fill out one of the forms and mail it in or most of Europe, waffles are a traditional feast day come into the Rectory and someone will be glad to food, but on the feast of the Annunciation in Swe- help you design a brick. . Thank you for your support den this is THE "Waffle Day" (Vaffeldagen), and for preserving our rich history at St. Joseph’s where waffles are served either for breakfast, Monastery. They make great gifts for birthdays, wed- lunch or dinner, with lingonberries or cloudber- dings, anniversaries, baptisms and remembering our ries. loved ones. Thank you for your support. WELCOME TO SAINT JOSEPH’S MONASTERY PARISH

EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo’s Story The 6 Characteristics of an Everyday Stewardship for Lent – Gracious Together with Rose of Lima, Turibius is the first Vacations can be great times for refueling the body known saint of the New World, serving the Lord in and renewing bonds within a family and between Peru, South America, for 26 years. friends. No matter how good the vacation was, it is Born in Spain and educated for the law, he became almost always good to get home when it is over. so brilliant a scholar that he was made professor of Sleeping in our own bed, taking a shower in our own law at the University of Salamanca and eventually bathroom, and resting on our own couch are some of became chief judge of the Inquisition at Granada. the aspects of home we can miss while on the road. That’s why encountering truly gracious and hospitable He succeeded too well. But he was not sharp people while we are away is so important. These peo- enough a lawyer to prevent a surprising sequence ple are not family, but they sure can provide for us a of events. glimpse of home. They can be waiters at a restaurant, When the archdiocese of Lima in Peru required a desk hosts at a hotel, or even Uber drivers. They en- new leader, Turibius was chosen to fill the post: He rich our lives if for only a moment, yet that moment was the one person with the strength of character can make all the difference. and holiness of spirit to heal the scandals that had When disciples of Jesus Christ act in a gracious man- infected that area. ner to all those they meet, they provide a glimpse of He cited all the canons that forbade giving laymen home. This home is not in a house in a particular loca- ecclesiastical dignities, but he was overruled. Turi- tion, but it is a home prepared for all of us for eternity. bius was ordained priest and bishop and sent to No matter how comfortable we may be in our earthly Peru, where he found colonialism at its worst. The homes, it truly Spanish conquerors were guilty of every sort of op- pales in comparison to eternity with God. In that heav- pression of the native population. Abuses among enly home, there is no darkness, only light. There are the clergy were flagrant, and he devoted his ener- no tears, only joy. There is no hate, only love. gies and suffering to this area first. We are ambassadors for heaven by how we offer our- He began the long and arduous visitation of an im- selves to others. Our stewardship of hospitality allows mense archdiocese, studying the language, staying others to see a glimpse of what God promises to us. two or three days in each place, often with neither Unless we truly step up and act in a gracious manner, bed nor food. Turibius confessed every morning to will those we encounter ever know the Truth? I hate it his chaplain, and celebrated Mass with intense fer- when I am on the road and fail to meet people full of vor. Among those to whom he gave the Sacrament joy and welcome. At least I can look forward to coming home. What do those along the way look forward to in of Confirmation was the future Saint Rose of Lima, the next life that you can’t show them a glimpse of in and possibly the future Saint Martin de Porres. Af- this one? — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ter 1590, he had the help of another great mission- ary, Francis Solanus, now also a saint. Though very poor his people were sensitive, dread- ing to accept public charity from others. Turibius solved the problem by helping them anonymously.

RADIO MASS & LOCAL CATHOLIC RADIO PROGRAM Listen to the Radio Mass of Baltimore on Sundays live at 9:00 am and 6:00pm WCBM 680 AM. Following each airing of the Radio Mass is a locally-produced Catholic radio program, Catholic Baltimore, which fea- tures interviews and information relevant for Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. For more infor- mation, visit www.archbalt.org. EASTER FLOWERS Please send in your Easter Flower Remembranc- es as soon as possible. If you do not receive en- velopes, Easter envelopes are available in the Church. Every year a new list is created. Please print the names clearly and fill in the from section. Thank you ! WELCOME TO SAINT JOSEPH’S MONASTERY PARISH LIVE THE LITURGY Seeing is much more than just a function of our eyes. We can look at something with clear vision Kevin R. (Cancer) . Tyler R. (Mental Health). Dodie but not really see it. Often what we think we see (Breast Cancer) Rochelle (Breast Cancer) .Mike F. is colored by our presuppositions, prejudices, as- ( Cancer), Mike F, Jr. (Good Health), Shannon O. sumptions, and needs. We judge things by ap- (Mental Health), Margaret O. (Mental Health) Jerry R. pearance, but God looks into the heart. God’s (Good Health) Abby Marie Cafiero ( Brain Tumor) Jim sight has a much wider range and far greater P. (Good Health) Teresa F. (Cancer) Bert F. (Good depth. Receiving things or people just based on Health) Lynn R. (Cancer) Pamela S. (Good Health) appearance can lead us to erroneous and hurtful Mary S. (Good Health) Gene S. (Special Intention) judgments. We think we are seeing clearly, but Martin F. (Mental Health) Carol M. (Good Health) we are not. Allowing God to restore our sight so Margie K. (Good Health) Andy M. ( Special Intention) that we can truly see is a worthy goal for our Len- Matt Gregory (Healing) Joe Johnson (Cancer) Beth ten journey. Look within and look without. What Johnson (Special Intention) Steve T. (Good Health) do you see? Allow God to complete the picture for Kyle T. (Good Health) Mike Tomek (Good Health) you. Ask Him to give you the insight to look into Bob Hargadon (Cancer) Please pray for the repose of someone’s heart. Don’t draw hasty conclusions or the soul of Jon DeCrette and keep the DeCrette fami- presume you know the truth. Be open and humble ly in your prayers. Marco J. DeCastro ,Ana DeCastro, enough so that you can receive the sight that only Elisa DeCastro (Special Intention) Chuck McNerny God can give. (Cancer), Avon (Good Health) Kathleen & Jim (Special Intention) Diane B. & Family (Good Health) When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, Bob G. (Good Health) Rocky Davis & Family (Good he found him and said, "Do you believe in the Health) Dareen M. (Good Health) Son of Man?" He answered and said, “Who is he, PRAYER LIST : Please remember those who are sick, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, in a nursing or convalescent home, the homebound and “You have seen him and the one speaking with their families and caregivers by including them in our Parish you is he.” He said, “I do believe, Lord,” and he Prayer Chain. Please call Frank McGloin 410-566-0877 ex. worshiped him. - Jn 9:35-38 215 to add them to our list. If anyone needs visitation, please call the Rectory 410-566-0877 with the names of anyone in the hospital, nursing home or assisted living facil- ity or who is homebound. PRAYER FROM POPE FRANCIS Thank you for your continued support. Your generosity en- Mary, you shine continuously on our journey as sures that we are able to continue with the expenses of the a sign of salvation and hope. We entrust our- church. Online giving is always available. You may sign up and give as often as you like. If you would like more infor- selves to you, Health of the Sick. mation, please call the rectory or go online At the foot of the Cross you participated in Jesus’ at :www.osvonlinegiving.com/1708 Give, Serve and pain, Pray while you’re away. Online giving helps to sustain our with steadfast faith. You, Salvation of the Roman parish. Our Sunday Visitor also allows you to set up pay- People, know what we need. We are certain that ments with your smart device . Download Our Sunday Visi- you will provide, so that, tor from the App Store or Google Play as you did at Cana of Galilee, joy and feasting March 13,2020 might return after this moment of trial. Help us, Mother of Divine Love, Mass Attendance : 61 to conform ourselves to the Father’s will Envelopes $ 526.00 and to do what Jesus tells us: He who took our Loose $ 210.00 sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to Online Giving $ 860.00 bring us, through the Cross, to the joy of the Res- 2nd Collection/Energy $ 687.00 urrection. 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