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Fifth Sunday ofSt. Lent Thomas AquinasMarch 22, 2015 Roman Catholic Church Fifth Sunday of Lent March 22, 2015 Pastoral Team Parish Information Office Hours Mass Schedule Monday through Friday: 9:00am - 3:00pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30am & 12:15pm Phone: (704) 549-1607 Fax: (704) 549-1614 Wednesday: 12:15pm & 7:00pm (Latin) Website: http://www.stacharlotte.com Saturday: 8:30am (1st SaturdaY/Latin), 10:00am & 5:30pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am & 5:00pm Religious Education Office Hours Monday through Thursday: 9:30am - 4:30pm Eucharistic Adoration Phone: (704) 549-0199 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9:00am to Noon Priests Wednesday: 12:45pm to 6:45pm First Friday: 12:45pm-8:00pm Rev. Patrick Winslow, Pastor Sunday: 8:30am to 9:15am Rev. Jason Christian, Parochial Vicar Rev. Matthew Kauth, in Residence Reconciliation Deacons Wednesdays, 6:00-7:00pm; Saturdays, 4:00-5:00pm; or bY appointment. Rev. Mr. James Witulski Rev. Mr. Joseph Diaz Baptism Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena Baptisms are held on SaturdaY mornings & SundaY Sr. Ana Celestial, O.P. afternoons. The Preparation Class is held one Sunday each Sr. Edeva Jover, O.P. month at 12:45pm. To make arrangements, contact the Parish Office at least three months in advance of your Parish Staff desired Baptismal date. Katie Herzing ......................................................... Office Manager Valerie Gebhardt ................................... Administrative Assistant Marriage Gina Schafer ............................................... Finance Administrator Registered parishioners are required bY Diocesan Policy to Thomas F. Savoy ................ Dir. of Sacred Music & Liturgical Events contact one of the priests or deacons six months prior to the Andi Walsh ........................................................... Volunteer Director date of marriage. Couples married at our parish should Jose Melgar ......................................................................... Facilities contact Father Christian ([email protected] or Marie Aymar .........................................................Parish Secretary 704-549-1607, x208) to begin the marriage preparation Sr. Ana Celestial, O.P ................................... Religious Education process. Connie Nesbit ............................................... Director of Preschool Sacrament of Anointing / Visiting Sick Sr. Edeva Jover, O.P ............................................... Youth Minister If anYone needs a visit from a Priest, please call the Office. Please do not wait until an emergency to call for a Priest. 1400 Suther Road, Charlotte, NC 28213 St. ThomasWelcome Aquinas to Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Charlotte,Church NC Prayer Shawl Holy Saturday The members of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Prayer Shawl Blessing of Easter BasKets Ministry knit and crochet beautiful and colorful prayer On Holy Saturday, April 4th at 12 Noon in shawls suitable for both men, women, and children. The St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Deacon James members of this ministry gather twice a month throughout Witulski will be blessing Easter food. This the year to knit, crochet, and pray for the people who will Eastern and Central European tradition is also called The Blessing of the Easter receive the shawls in times of need. Since January of 2009 Baskets, (or Swieconka in the Polish over 1100 prayer shawls have been created throughout the language) and will last about 30 minutes. ministry. Each shall is photographed, recorded in a special This tradition is becoming increasinglY book with the names of both the creator and the receiver. popular among all Catholics. The Blessings will be in both the English and Polish languages. The shawls provide comfort and prayers for those who The traditional foods, such as sausage, eggs, bread, and butter in receive them including such things as a death in the family, the shape of a lamb, are brought to the Church, neatly arranged an upcoming surgery, a terminal illness, the birth of a child, in a basket. However, everY person of everY nationalitY is or other life-changing events. invited to use their imagination and include their own national foods. Anyone in need of a prayer shawl can call the parish office, Children can even bring their own baskets with their own treats, email MarY Isabelle at [email protected], or speak with one including chocolate and Easter candy. Please contact Deacon James Witulski with anY questions at (704) 960.3704. of our members. We offer prayer shawls to anyone in need from our parish, the surrounding community, or friends Sacred Triduum Schedule and family members of parishioners. We have given many shawls to Hospice and local nursing homes. PALM (PASSION) SUNDAY, March 29th, 2015 We distribute blessed Palms marking Jesus' entrance into If you love to knit or crochet and would like to become a Jerusalem and commemorate His Passion at all weekend Masses. member of the Prayer Shawl Ministry, please join us on the SaturdaY, March 28th at 5:30pm second and fourth Wednesday of each month in Aquinas SundaY, March 29th at 7:30, 9:30* & 11:30am* and 5:00pm Hall from 2:30 to 4pm. We also do other projects such as lap *Solemn Procession robes for veterans, baby blankets, sweaters, booties, and Chrism Mass mittens for babies for the Respect Life Ministry and the TuesdaY, March 31st: DailY Mass onlY at 8:30am, no adoration MarY Garden Showers Ministry. In the past we have The Chrism Mass is celebrated bY the Bishop at St. Patrick's provided scarves for Room in the Inn and rosary pouches Cathedral at 10am. for the First Communicants. If you know a group or HOLY THURSDAY, ApriL 2nd ministry that we could help, please let us know. 9:00am - Morning PraYer (Church) 7:00pm - Mass of the Lord's Supper (Church) ImmediatelY followed bY Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 12:00am (Gym) GOOD FRIDAY, ApriL 3rd 9:00am - Morning PraYer (Church) Noon to 3pm Lenten Penitential Supper (Aquinas Hall) 3:00pm - Solemn Liturgy of the Passion and Death of Jesus (Church) 5:00pm to 7:30pm - Lenten Penitential Supper (Aquinas Hall) 7:30pm Stations of the Cross (Church) followed bY Tenebrae HOLY SATURDAY, ApriL 4th 9:00am - Morning PraYer (Church) 12:00 noon - Blessing of Easter Food/Baskets (Bring items to be blessed to the Church) 8:00pm to 11:00pm - EASTER VIGIL* *Sacraments of Initiation received bY catechumens and candidates of our R.C.I.A. MinistrY EASTER SUNDAY, ApriL 5th MASS in the Church at: 7:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am MASS in the GYM at: 9:45am and 11:45am Triduum ScheduLe: stacharlotte.com/LENT www.stacharlotte.com Fifth Sunday of Lent March 22, 2015 Priest Retirement Collections Stations of the Cross Fridays The dedicated priests who served us in the Each Friday in Lent, please join us for the past now deserve to live out their Goal: Stations of the Cross in the Church at retirement years in dignitY. Our parish is $33,877.96 6:00pm for Spanish and at 7:00pm for striving to collect $33,877.96 to reach our English. 2015 goal for the priests retirement and On FridaY, March 27th, the Middle and benefits plans. To help achieve this goal, we will have a 2nd High School Youth Groups will present a Collection this weekend. We ask that you be as generous as beautiful representation of the Living possible to support this Diocesan Effort. Stations of the Cross at 7:30pm in the Church. Join us for the annual tradition Divine Mercy Sunday where our Youth depict the Road to Divine Mercy Sunday is now the title of the Second SundaY of CalvarY with Live Action dramatizations. the Easter season. It was named by Pope John Paul II at the A beautiful experience for the entire canonization of St. Maria Faustina on April 30, 2000, and then family. officiallY decreed bY the Vatican. Divine MercY SundaY will be celebrated on April 27th. The Lord told St. Faustina that this Readings for the Week feast would be a refuge and a shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. He promised to pour out a whole ocean of Monday Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 [41c-62]; graces upon those who approach the Feast of His MercY. The Ps 23:1-6; Jn 8:1-11 Lord said his mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or Tuesday Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3,16-21; Jn 18:21-30 angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternitY. Why do Wednesday Is 7:10-14; 8:10; Ps 40:7-11; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 we need Divine Mercy Sunday? The simple answer is our sins. Thursday Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9; Jn 8:51-59 Sin is the problem; Divine MercY is the answer. Each one of us, Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 as a sinner, sorelY needs the grace of the Risen Christ to wash Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10,11-13; Jn 11:45-56 awaY the miserY of our sins. These graces are available to Sunday Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16 (procession); Is 50:4-7; everYone, worldwide. No one is to be excluded; we are all Ps 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; sinners. Join us in celebrating Divine Mercy SundaY at 3:00 pm Mk 14:1-15:47 [15:1-39] on SundaY, April 12th. Lenten Schedule Stations of the Cross: Fridays Spanish Stations of the Cross, 6:00pm, Church* Saints and Special Observances English Stations of the Cross, 7:30pm (Church) Sunday: Fifth SundaY of Lent; Third ScrutinY *March 27th: Spanish Stations, 6:00pm, Grounds Monday: St. Turibius of Mogrovejo Lenten Friday RefLections The Seven Sorrows of MarY, FridaYs at 7:00pm (Church) Wednesday: The Annunciation of the Lord Living Stations of the Cross Friday: Abstinence FridaY: March 27th at 7:30pm (Church) Presented bY Middle & High School Youth Groups Lenten Dinner Todays Readings FridaYs, 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Aquinas Hall) First Reading I will make a new covenant; I will write mY law Parish Lenten Penance Service upon their hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-34) or Ezekiel 37:12-14.