First Sunday of Lent MASS SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK PRAY FOR OUR SICK February 21, 2021 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 — The Chair of St. Peter

the The waters shall never again become 8:00 AM (W) – +Helen Barber a flood. Trish Bradshaw — Barb Bryant — George Eilts — Roger Frazier (Genesis 9:15) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23— St. Paul Ineich — Kate Ingersoll — Tom McCarter — Pat McCartney 8:00 AM (P) – +Edwin & Vivian Schulte Dallas Patterson — Dale Stone — Lucy Yerion

St. Mary St. Mark WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 Please contact the Parish Office with names of those in need of our prayers. 8:00 AM (P) — +Don Hayden

Envelopes Used 31 18 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Sunday Contributions 2,189.00 1,679.00 8:00 AM (W) – +Father Pete Donohoe

Online Giving 30.00 195.00 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 — Abstinence The Stations of the Cross are a 14-step Catholic devotion that 8:00 AM (P) – + W. Smith commemorates Christ’s last day on Earth as a man. The 14 devotions, or stations, focus on specific events of His last day, beginning with His condemnation. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 — St. The stations are commonly used as a mini pilgrimage as the individual moves from 8:00 AM (P) – All Parishioners station to station. At each station, the individual recalls and meditates on a specific event from 4:00 PM (W) — NO MASS Christ’s last day. Specific prayers are recited, then the individual moves to the next station until 6:00 PM (P) — Joanne Quinn So find extra time to pray this Lent. Give all 14 are complete. Why not make this part of your devotions this Lenten season. Stations of more of your time and money to people in SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 — Second Sunday of Lent the Cross are prayed every Friday evening during Lent at both ST. MARY and ST. need. Choose to fast, either from food or from MARK Churches. a negative activity or habit. You might feel 8:30 AM (P) – Eric Henderson Family like on the ark sometimes. But the 10:30 AM (W) – +Walter Minch journey is worth it because when you finally BABY BOTTLES FOR LIFE — Once again, we will be collecting spare change in reach the joy of Sunday, you will be baby bottles for our local Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center in Jacksonville. stepping into a fuller understanding and Please take a baby bottle from the Gathering Space and fill it with your spare change or experience of God’s faithfulness and his a generous donation during Lent, in order to help the center continue saving babies and salvation. ending abortion, by educating and helping mothers choose life for their babies. We will collect the bottles at Easter time. Thank you! FRIDAY DEVOTIONS DURING LENT (Begins Friday, February 19) Lord God, I thank you today for the gift of my life, ST. MARY /Pittsfield ST. MARY And for the lives of all my brothers and sisters. Stations of the Cross — 6:00 p.m. I know there is nothing that destroys more life than abortion, (Soup and sandwiches following in Parish Hall). FEBRUARY 27— 6:00 PM — SATURDAY Yet I rejoice that you have conquered death ST. MARK / Winchester Ushers – Volunteers by the Resurrection of Your Son. Adoration — 5:00 p.m. Server – Jim Blakemore I am ready to do my part in ending abortion. — 5:45 p.m. Today I commit myself Benediction FEBRUARY 28 — 8:30 AM — SUNDAY Never to be silent, Stations of the Cross Lector – Mark Welch Never to be passive, Ushers – Jim Lagemann; Paul Petty; Never to be forgetful of the unborn. Javan Petty; Roger Lipcamon I commit myself to be active in the pro - life movement, Servers – Javan Petty; Ben Musgrave And never to stop defending life Until all my brothers and sisters are protected, ST. MARK And our nation once again becomes A nation with liberty and justice GUARDIAN ANGEL PRAYER FEBRUARY 28 — 10:30 AM— SUNDAY Not just for some, but for all, Angel of God my guardian dear, to Lector – Gabe Drake Through Christ our Lord. Amen! whom God’s love commits me here. Ushers – Volunteers Ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen. MARCH 7 — 10:30 AM— SUNDAY CATHOLICISM: Journey Around The World And Deep Into The — Join Lector – us on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 PM in the basement of ST. MARK’S CHURCH for our weekly video series CATHOLICISM. Use this Lent to discover a St. Michael Defend us Ushers – Volunteers the in battle fuller meaning of our faith. We watch then discuss each episode while we share in refreshments and fellowship. Learn about the spiritual, moral, intellectual, and artistic treasures of our global Catholic culture that we share with more than 1 billion people around the world. February 21, 2021 . First Sunday of Lent

SAVE THE DATE: The Altar & Rosary ALTAR SOCIETY NEWS: THIS ST. MARY Society will be hosting our indoor garage SUNDAY February 21st is KATE Drive-By Kate Ingersoll’s 100th Birthday — THIS SUNDAY, after 8:30 AM Mass. sale in the Parish Hall – “Trash & INGERSOLL’S 100th Birthday! We are World Day of Prayer — Friday, March 5, Nazarene Church, Pittsfield. Treasure Market” – on Saturday, April planning a “DRIVE BY BIRTHDAY Movie & Potluck — Monday, March 22, 10:00 AM, Parish Hall. 17th. We will be asking you for donations CELEBRATION” after 8:30 AM Mass. We of items you no longer need. Information will be forming a line coming through the Trash & Treasure Market — Saturday, April 17, 8 AM to 2 PM. will be available closer to the date of our alley next to the Methodist Church and Theology Class — Monday evenings, 7:00 PM, Parish Hall. sale. through our parking lot, so that we may That Man Is You — Wednesday mornings, 6:30 AM, Parish Hall. begin by exiting onto Jackson Street. We Catechism Classes — Wednesday afternoon, 2 to 4 PM, Parish Hall. will be driving to Eastside Nursing Home Food Pantry Collection — first weekend each month at Masses (March 6 & 7). and lining up in the front parking lot there. If weather permits, we would like to get 24- — (March 5 & 6). out and stand in front of her window to sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Please join us ST. MARK in making Kate’s birthday special! Theology Class — Monday evenings, 7:00 PM, @ ST. MARY’S “Great love can change small things into great ones, and it is only love which lends Increasing My Faith — Wednesday evenings, 6:30 PM, Church Basement. value to our actions.” Men’s Bible Study Group — Thursday mornings at 6:45 AM. ~~ St. Faustina Kowalska (Beginning 12-week video series — “Into the Breach”) Bread of Love Delivery — March 22, May 3, June 14. “I will go anywhere and do anything in Please send birthday cards to: order to communicate the love of Jesus to KATE INGERSOLL those who do not know Him or have Eastside Nursing Center forgotten Him.” 1400 East Washington St. ~~ St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Pittsfield, IL 62363

Then God said “I am giving you a PRAY TO sign of my covenant with you and ST. MARY END with all living creatures, for all 226 E. Website: www.stmaryspittsfield.dio.org generations to come. I have placed Pittsfield, IL 62363 Online Giving: www.givecentral.org ABORTION! my rainbow in the clouds.” Office: (217) 285-4321 / Fax: (217) 285-9400 / [email protected] Weekend Mass: Sunday 8:30 AM / Saturday 6:00 PM Daily Mass: Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat. 8:00 AM Genesis 9:12 Sacrament of Reconciliation: after Saturday evening Mass or by appointment.

ST. MARK 108 Pearl Street Online Giving: www.givecentral.org Winchester, IL 62694 Rectory: (217) 742-5224 Weekend Mass: / Sunday 10:30 AM / NO SATURDAY EVENING MASS KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FAMILY CORNER: Daily Mass: Mon., Thurs. 8:00 AM Fully Alive and Building the Domestic Church Sacrament of Reconciliation: after Sunday morning Mass or by appointment.

FEBRUARY — THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Diocese of Springfield in Illinois Rev. Mark A. Schulte, Pastor The foundation of the domestic church is the sacrament of marriage and it is important (217) 698-8500 Deacon Mr. Michael “Kim” Scott to understand the type of love that is necessary in marriage and family life. Have a www.dio.org Pastoral Associate/DRE: Gloria Heinen family reading of Psalm 128: “A prayer of the happy home that follows the Lord” found Bishop Thomas John Paprocki Secretary: Pat Galle on Pages 20-21 of The Family Fully Alive. Books are available in the back of the Diocesan Child Abuse Reporting & Investigation Number Office Hours: Monday—Friday church. 217-321-1155 8:30 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. -- 4:30 p.m.