14 March 2021 ST. STEPHEN RC CHURCH
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ST. STEPHEN RC CHURCH A Respect Life Parish PARISH OFFICE 2100 Baseline Rd., Grand Island NY 773-7647 Opt#1 ststephenswny.com Fax 773-5792 CLERGY Pastor Business Manager Rev. Raymond G. Corbin Karen Sweet / Ext. 104 [email protected] [email protected] Ext. 102 Admin Asst. Sandra Beyer Parochial Vicar - Fr. Chris Ext. 101 Emminger Ext. 107 Admin Asst. Lori Lenz [email protected] Ext. 114 Deacon Frank Kedzielawa Cemetery Inquiries Ext. 101 773-3364 [email protected] Music Director - Max Mauro Ext# 126 Deacon Tom Sutton [email protected] 329-2292 [email protected] PARISH SCHOOL PK3 – GR 8 TRUSTEES 773-7647 Opt#2 Fax 773-1438 Carl Walbert 773-2518 Richard Sander 773-3929 www.ststephensgi.org FAITH FORMATION Principal - Lynn Ortiz 773-7647 Opt. #3 4th Sunday of Lent Ext 119 Fax 773-2231 [email protected] Coordinator - 14 March 2021 Admin Asst. Ramona Dewitt Rebecca Cambria - Ext 122 Ext 119 [email protected] Admin Asst. Denise Ricotta - Ext.117 MASS SCHEDULE Saturday~ 4:30pm (Organ/ Piano) Sunday~ 7:30am (Organ), 9:00am (Choir) 11:00am (Contemporary Ensemble) DAILY MASS Monday to Friday~8:00am *Holy Days: Check Bulletin or Website PARISH MEMBERSHIP New parishioners can register online or stop at the rectory for more information. WEDDINGS Arrangements must be made with a parish priest no less than six months before the wedding. Pre-marriage preparation is required. MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND Call the rectory to make arrangements for the Sacramentof the Anointing of theSick or to have Holy Communion brought to the home. A Communal Annointing of The Sick is held on the last Friday of each month at the 8:00am Mass. BAPTISMS Please call the parish deacons to arrange a baptism. Parents must be registered parishioners. Baptisms may be scheduled during any weekend Masses or privately. Parents must attend a one-time preparation class which is offered monthly. RECONCILIATION (CONFESSIONS) Saturday: 3:00–4:00 or anytime by appointment. Reconciliation Room is in the daily Mass chapel. Monday, March 15~ Lenten Weekday 8:00am~Norman Graesser (Jeff & Eileen Stone) Tuesday, March 16~ Lenten Weekday 8:00am~Peter McKown (Elaine Gorman) Wednesday, March 17~ Lenten Weekday St. Patrick 8:00am~Janet Sheehan (Family) Maureen Corrao (Family) Thursday, March 18 ~ Lenten Weekday 8:00am~Barabara Becker (Holly Arundell) Friday, March 19~ St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary 8:00am~Agnes & Peter Tomczyk (Hedwig Babich) Catherine Burden (Ted & Jody Slipko) 7:00pm ~ Stations of the Cross Saturday, March 20~ Lenten Weekday 4:30pm~Charles Romanchock (Family) Rita Desemone (Connie & John Vandervoort) St. Patrick Sunday, March 21~ Fifth Sunday of Lent 7:30am~Barbara Becker (7:30 Rosary Group) 9:00am~Ezequiel Ruiz (Michele Tornabene) 11:00am~Robert Depew (Bill & Diane Lapp) Perpetua Poveromo (Respect Life Committee) Sunday: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23/Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 [6ab]/Eph 2:4-10/Jn 3:14-21 or 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10- 13a/Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4m 5, 6 [1]/Eph 5:8-14/Jn 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 Monday: Is 65:17-21/Ps 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b [2a]/Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12/Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 [8]/Jn 5:1-16 Wednesday: Is 49:8-15/Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18 [8a]/Jn 5:17-30 Thursday: Ex 32:7-14/Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23 [4a]/Jn 5:31-47 Friday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16/Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29 [37]/Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22/ Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a Saturday: Jer 11:18-20/Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 [2a]/Jn OF THE CROSS 7:40-53 Next Sunday: Jer 31:31-34/Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15 Every Friday during Lent at 7pm [12a]/Heb 5:7-9/Jn 12:20-33 or Ez 37:12-14/Rom 8:8- Spouse of the 11/Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 [7]/Jn 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45 Blessed Virgin Mary Fourth Sunday of Lent GOSPEL MEDITATION - ENCOURAGING DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE Is there something to Lent that goes beyond our own spiritual house cleaning and spiritu- 4th al refinement? Yes, there is! It has to do with listening and learning so that we can take up the task of the Gospel with greater clarity and fortitude. While the spiritual refocusing of Lent is necessary, the fruit of this Lenten conversion has much more to do with learn- ing how we can be a better Church than it does about our eternal salvation. Salvation is a gift that flows out of God’s unconditional Mercy and cannot be merited. The spiritual maturity we can experience as a result of our Lenten disciplines serves to reduce the anxiety and apprehension we may experience as messengers of good, but very challenging, and unsettling, news. St. Oscar Romero said that, “a church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed, what gospel is that?” When we listen to those descriptive and provocative words, do they resonate with anything in our expe- rience? As messengers of the Gospel, we are called to bring an unsettling message to the world. If our main concern is protect- ing our self-interests, then we are missing something huge! Many really struggle with being rejected, dismissed, or perceived as someone who is speaking out of turn. There is a counter cultural message that must be preached that clearly sides with the poor, marginalized, victimized, oppressed, neglected, disregarded, and lost souls throughout the world. There is a widespread misery among the peoples that is all too often allowed to fester with no one coming forward to offer a change or resolution. The Church can speak to the needed structural changes that will allow people to earn just wages, feed their families and share abundantly and equally in the gifts of God’s good earth. Such a vision is not some optimistic fairy tale, but the vision of the Creator himself. Lent reminds us, as St. Oscar Romero also states, that, “we are workers, not master builder, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.” We are not called to labor simply for the benefit of the here and now but of the “what is to come.” Our myopic vision can be replaced by a more far reaching Lenten vision that is much greater and deeper in scope. As long as we are carrying the right blueprints with us and our thoughts extend beyond ourselves, then even the little things we do and the simplest prayer we utter go a long way. They give witness to our preference for the light of Christ and not the darkness of error and sin Lou Macro † Kevin Beyer Jr. † Pat Fitzgerald, † Susanne McMahon † Megan Johnson † Brett Lombardo † Richard Pyc † Linda, Lisa ,Jacinta & Gianna Morinello † Frank Costanzo † Bethany Dzielski † Olga Demicke † Bill Ortiz † Fr. Dan Fiebelkorn † Eveylen Strobel †Brian Fitzpatrick † Dorothy Jourdain † Bill Appenzeller † Denise N. Baker † Don Bartus † Francis Roman † Maria DelSignore † Luann Moliterno † Mary Pascucci † Pat Paolucci † Nina Leskiw † James Purpora And the Deceased…….Barbara Paloni Respect Life Committee meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7 PM, however, we will be meeting on the 4th Wednesday in February (2/24/21). NEWS Questions? Call Mark or Kathy (773-5726). We welcome new members for our committee! “When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leader of Women’s Rights Movement 14 March 2021 GENERATIONS IN of St. Stephen Parish Meeting - The next prescheduled, monthly meeting (for officers and key members only) is on Sunday, April 11, in the Community Room (Library), following the Materials are still available at the Faith Formation Office 9:00 a.m. Mass. Attendees must wear masks and ob- for those families that are beginning their formation at serve social distancing. home. Please contact us anytime. Cancelling Events - Since the 2021 fundraiser was Confirmation Candidates: All forms and materials from cancelled, we have no choice but to cancel both the two your red Confirmation Packet are due now. Please drop annual awards (May & June) and the annual scholarship off at the Faith Formation building, the collection bas- (June). To maintain a minimal treasury balance, the ket, mail or email [email protected] at your remaining expenses are the Diocesan and the District 10 annual dues and a Catholic Charities donation. earliest convenience. St. Stephen School’s Home School Association is hosting their Annual Series of Lenten Fish Fry Dinners on Friday, Feb.19th! Fish Fry Dinners will be offered every Friday for the seven (7) Fridays of Lent, (through April 2nd). Menu includes your choice of beer-battered or baked haddock, coleslaw; and choice of their famous potato salad or French fries. Creamy macaroni and cheese are also offered! Shrimp & Scallop Dinner, and Captains Combo also available. This is a reduced menu in order to help with the CDC guide lines.