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 Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church Generosity, Humility, and Love for the Lord in the Holy Eucharist 504 So. Third Street + De Soto, MO 63020 + 636-337-2212 + www.stroseparish.info  The Second Sunday of Lent FEBRUARY 28, 2021 

 PARISH STAFF Fr. Alex Anderson, Pastor Deacon Ed Boyer, Parish Deacon & PSR Principal Deacon Terry Baldwin, Parish Deacon, RCIA & Adoration Chapel Coordinator Kathey Compton, St. Rose School Principal Corie Boyer, Parish Secretary/Bookkeeper Natalie Woodrum, SRLS School Secretary Abby Huck, PSR Secretary Carol Flesher, Assistant Parish Secretary Mike Merseal, Maintenance Carol Emmett, Parish Music Director  RECTORY EMAIL [email protected]  SCHOOL INFO 523 S. 4th Street, DeSoto, MO 63020 636-337-7855 I www.stroseoflima.org  MASS SCHEDULE Monday thru Friday at 6:15 am I 8:00 am Mon, Wed & Fri during Lent when school is in session I Tues evening: 6:30 pm with Per- petual Help Devotions Sat: 8:00 am & 5:00 pm & Sun: 7 am, 9 am, & 11 am  CONFESSIONS Sat: 8:30 - 9:00 am & 4:00 - 4:45 pm  PERPETUAL ADORATION Perpetual Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in the lower level chapel on the Miller Street side of church  PLEASE CALL THE RECTORY . . .  to register as a member of St. Rose Parish  to have Holy Communion brought to the sick  to arrange for the Anointing of the Sick  to put someone on the sick list  to arrange for a Baptism or Marriage  to become a convert to the Catholic Church  CALVARY CEMETERY INFO - 636-337-2150

"Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven." St. Rose of Lima   Mass Readings for the Week LITURGICAL MINISTERS MARCH 6TH & MARCH 7TH Mon Feb 22 I Peter 5:1-4; Psalm 23:1-6; Matthew 16:13-19 LECTORS Tue Feb 23 Isaiah 55:10-11; Psalm 34:4-7,16-19; 5:00 PM Debbie Crady Matthew 6:7-15 7:00 AM Karen Krodinger Wed Feb 24 Jonah 3:1-10; Psalm 51:3-4,12-13, 9:00 AM Debbie Boyer 18-19; Luke 11:29-32 11:00 AM Larry Sansoucie Thu Feb 25 Esther C:12,14-16,23-25; Psalm 138: 1-3,7-8; Matthew 7:7-12 SERVERS Fri Feb 26 Ezekiel 18:21-28; Psalm 130:1-8; Matthew 5:20-26 5:00 PM Sat Feb 27 Deuteronomy 26:16-19; Psalm 119: 7:00 AM Brody Hercher 1-2,4-5,7-8; Matthew 5:43-48 9:00 AM Clayton Huck & Levi Huck Sun Feb 28 Genesis 22:1-2,9-13,15-18; Psalm 11:00 AM Dakota Cobb & Dameon Cobb 116:10,15-19; Romans 8:31-34; Mark 9:2-10 EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS 5:00 PM Debbie Wilson 7:00 AM Ken Merseal 9:00 AM Pam Winckel MASS INTENTIONS 11:00 AM Deacon Terry Baldwin FOR THE WEEK USHERS MON - March 1 6:15 AM Purgatorial Society 5:00 PM Charles Koch, Mike Merseal, Chair of St. Peter 8:00 AM Jim Thornton & Duck Reando, Josh Reando 7:00 AM Ken Merseal, J. R. Merseal, TUES - March 2 6:15 AM Imelda Popp & Harold Wickerham St. Polycarp 6:30 PM Catherine Luther 9:00 AM Jeff Draves, Robbie Winckel,

WED - March 3 6:15 AM Barbara Lewis Bob Winckel, & Lonnie Reando 8:00 AM Gladys Drummond 11:00 AM Fred Carr, Glenn Jones, Larry Sansoucie Bruce Baisch & John Sampson THUR - March 4 6:15 AM Jim Lester

FRI - March 5 6:15 AM Wilburn Thornton 8:00 AM Rose Hallemann

SAT - March 6 8:00 AM Don Ames & Family WITHOUT PRIESTS 5:00 PM David Blum THERE CAN BE NO MASS!

SUN - March 7 7:00 AM Jean & Ken Weber The Second Sunday 9:00 AM Barbara Lewis of Lent 11:00 AM Parishioners Pray for Vocations to the Priesthood, especially among the young men of our Parish and of our Archdiocese! Please remember Saint Rose of Lima Parish in your will ARE YOU NEW TO THE PARISH ? If you are new to St. Rose, we extend to you a warm and heartfelt welcome. Please call the rectory to register, or fill out the following information and drop it into the mail or the Sunday collection. We’ll be in touch with you right away.

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Address______City______Zip______As we heard from the Gospel of St. Matthew on Ash Wednesday, the 3 traditional components of Lenten penance are 1) prayer, 2) fasting, and 3) almsgiving. Last week we briefly discussed the "prayer" portion, and this week it's "fasting". Next Saturday, Each morning when we eat breakfast we're breaking our fast. All night long we've eaten nothing and now we get to eat once more. Fasting is a personal decision, and we decide to fast for many dif- MARCH 6th ferent reasons. Some people fast because they want to lose weight. [In fact, think of the billions of dollars spent on weight loss in On Saturday, March 6th from 5:00 pm this country! What a luxury!] through 8:00 pm, the CLUB ROOM at Some people fast from certain foods or drinks or activities for any number of reasons. Alcoholics stay away from alcohol, drug the KC HALL will be open with live addicts quit drugs, obese people avoid fast food, etc. While these things may be done for health reasons, faith, self-denial, and prayer music, food, drinks, and a pork steak can be of great help. dinner will be available while the But during the holy season of Lent, we fast so that we can be more like Christ, who Himself fasted. To consciously say 'no' to "JURASSIC PARK" Auction items are on ourselves allows us to more genuinely and more freely to say 'yes' display and bidding is open to Christ. As He knelt in the Garden of Gethsemani, He pleaded with His Father "Let this cup pass away from Me, but not My will but (from 5 - 7 pm) in the main hall. Thine be done." He gave up His will to the Father. So what do we give up? Of course we should give up things that are sinful and harmful. But giving up some of the everyday, ordinary stuff of everyday, ordinary life is also a way to open ourselves to the Lord and His will. Perhaps fasting can give us more time to help others or to pray; more money to help the poor; more self-control to give ourselves more completely to God. St. Rose Lenten Activities And by all of us fasting together during the holy season of Lent, LENTEN WEEKDAY MASSES follow our regular schedule with we draw closer together and give and get support from and to one an added Mass at 8:00 am on Monday mornings. The full another. The Catholic Friday abstinence from meat becomes a schedule is: 6:15 am Mass each morning from Monday through communal prayer of dependence upon God's mercy and for- Friday; 8:00 am Mass each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and giveness. Saturday; 6:30 pm Mass Tuesday evening. So pick something to give up. See how long you can endure. STATIONS of the CROSS will be held in church each Friday at Just think - if each of us gave up one thing each year during Lent 2:15 pm. The school children will attend. and didn't go back to it when Lentn was over, we'd be in pretty good shape by the end of our lives! CONFESSIONS will be held according to our regular schedule Next week: almsgiving. of Saturday mornings from 8:30 am until 9:00 am and Saturday afternoons from 4:00 pm until 4:45 pm. In addition, Confessions will be heard each day during Holy Week: Mon Mar 29/1:00- 1:45 pm; Tue Mar 30/5:30-6:15 pm; Wed Mar 31/8:30 - 9:15 am; in-between the various devotions during Tre Ore (noon - 3:00 pm) on Good Friday, April 2. NOTE: There are no Confes- Then to all, Christ said, “Whoever wishes to be my follower must sions scheduled for Holy Saturday morning or afternoon deny his very self, take up his cross each day, and follow in my HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE will follow our regular pre-COVID steps.” (Luke 9:23) schedule: The Church has always helped us fulfill these words of Jesus by PALM SUNDAY & the distribution of blessed palms on prescribing very definite penance for all Catholics. Accordingly, the Saturday/Sunday, March 27/28 regular Mass times Pope and the American Bishops have outlined obligatory fast and HOLY THURSDAY (April 1) Mass of the Lord's Supper, abstinence as follows: Holy Thursday, April 1 at 6:30 pm; adoration of the Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of abstinence for all Blessed Sacrament until Catholics over the age of 14. On these two days, fast, as well as GOOD FRIDAY (April 2) Tre Ore: noon through 3 pm*; abstinence, is also obligatory for those from the ages of 18-59. Liturgy of the Lord's Passion 6:30 pm Abstinence means refraining from meat. Fast means one full meal HOLY SATURDAY (April 3) Easter Vigil, 6:30 pm a day, with two smaller meals and nothing between meals (liquids are permitted). No Catholic will lightly excuse himself or herself EASTER SUNDAY (April 4) regular Mass schedule - 7:00 from this obligation. am, 9:00 am, 11:00 am All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Here again NOTE: there will be no Baptisms or Professions of Faith at the Catholics will not hold themselves lightly excused, but if there is a Easter Vigil this year; there are no scheduled Confessions or 5 serious health problem, this obligation would not apply. We should pm Mass on Holy Saturday; *Tre Ore's schedule is 12:30 pm strive to make all days of Lent a time of prayer and penance. The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary; 1:30 pm The Passion [Archdiocese of St. Louis] according to St. John; 2:30 pm The Stations of the Cross PARISH COUNCIL The members of the Parish Council met this past Tuesday for their monthly meeting at 7:15 pm at the rectory and discussed the following: 1) St. Rose School Auction: In light of the current pandemic, and DEANERY CONFESSION SCHEDULE very much being aware of the need for the 2021 School Auction to be beginning in Lent and continuing afterward a financial success, it seems best to: 1) skip the 25% donation to the The Parishes in the Festus Deanery have combined School Reserve Fund from the Auction proceeds; 2) after checking efforts to provide the Sacrament of Penance to Catho- with SRL School, skip the 10% summer fix-up project at school; 3) make a grant to the Auction from the School Reserve Fund to make lics every day during the week. This schedule begins in up the difference between the Auction proceeds and an amount to be Lent but will continue even after Lent and Easter are determined at the next Parish council meeting. past. 2) St. Rose's back-to-Mass efforts: with more people receiving the MONDAYS: St. David/Arnold - 5:00 - 6:30 pm vaccine, we discussed the following changes to our pandemic policies TUESDAY: St. John/Imperial - 5:00 - 6:00 pm a) missalettes will be put back into the pews beginning at Holy Week and continuing afterward WEDNESDAY: St. John/Imperial - 5:00 - 6:00 pm b) holy water in fonts beginning at Easter and continuing afterward THURSDAY: St. Joseph/Imperial - 5:30 - 7:00 pm c) continue hymns & readings in the bulletin for the time being SATURDAY: St. Rose/Desoto - 8:30 - 9:00 am d) continue sanitizing church after each weekend Mass *St. Rose also has Confessions each Saturday after- e) continuing all of our other covid efforts Those who want to use the missalettes and those who want to use noon from 4:00 - 4:45 pm. the holy water fonts are welcome to do so without others having to do so. 3) Lent & Easter - Confirmation & First Holy Communion: In these pandemic times, it's hard for anything to be 'normal', but our sched- ules for Lent, Easter, First Holy Communion and Confirmation will be as normal as we can make them. We'll follow our regular schedule for Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday and Good Friday. This year there are . . . . no Baptisms or Professions of Faith or Confirmations scheduled for the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. We'll have our regular Mass sched- THIS WEEK'S QUOTE ule for Easter. We have 14 Second Graders making their First Holy “Have patience with all things, Communion on Sunday, April 11th, the Sunday after Easter. We have but first of all with yourself.” 17 Eighth graders who will make their Confirmation at the Cathedral St. Francis de Sales Basilica on Sunday, April 18th. 4) Blessed Mother Guild: One of our Parishioners approached Fr. Anderson about starting a Parish organization which would be for the At any time, feel free to add to our bulletin list of spiritual development of our Parishioners - individuals and families as those in the military. The whole Parish will keep well - perhaps organizing parish outings to shrines, movie nights in St. them in our prayers. Rose Hall, and other such gatherings. Father is certainly open to such an idea. The pandemic is a difficult time to start such an effort, but by Maj. Lucas Frank; Col. Seth Frank; John W. Long - Fall we may start moving forward with the idea. U.S. Navy; Katie Boyer - Air Force; Tommy Fam- 5) Steubenville: One of our St. Rose School teachers is interested in brough - Air Force; Janetta Zehrbach - Air Force; Craig Zehr- gathering interested high school students to attend the Steubenville bach - Air Force; Airmen Dalton Miller - Air Force; Alex Haver- Retreat in Springfield, MO on the campus of Missouri State University stick; Cpt. Neal Grossheider - Air Force; Cpt. Garrett Huck - this coming July. An information night for prospective attendees Air Force; Hanna Jackson - Navy, Cpt. Dennis Boyer - Navy, (current 8th graders through high school) is scheduled here at St. Lt. Mike Boyer - Navy; James O’Harver - National Guard; Ser- Rose in St. Rose Hall for March 11th. Adult chaperones from St. geant Ashley Johnson - National Guard; Sgt. First Class - Ja- Rose will be provided. cob Coleman; Sgt. Whiteny Brauch; CTTC Jon Cox - Navy; Available Funds Report: According to our current Available Funds Maj. Dan Thebeau - Army; LCPL Cole Franklin’; LCPL Sebas- Report we have $75,968 in the Maintenance Fund; $235,543 in the School Reserve Fund; and $160,202 cash-on-hand. tian Michaels; Noah Boyer - Army; Christian King - Navy; The next Parish Council meeting is scheduled for 7:15 pm on Tues- Ryan Cook - Navy; SSG Kenneth Kleinschrodt - National day March 23rd. Current Parish Council members are Melody Guard; Daniel Schumer - Army; Emily Faulkner - Air Force; Bourisaw, President, Becky Charleville, Ryan Hooper, Lonnie Rean- Connor Biermann - Marine; Dakota McKinney - Army; Cpt. Joe do, Dorothy Schlett, Ken Walton, Marvin Williams, Robbie Winckel Winckel - Army.; Dalton Daugherty - U.S. Marine; Ryan Till- and Robert Winckel. man - National Guard; Colby Davis - Marines; Tyler Daugherty - Army.

This past Saturday, February 20th, our St. Rose Second Graders made ATTENTION: HIGH their First Confession. We all want to SCHOOL STUDENTS congratulate them and offer them our Attention 8th Grade and High School prayers and best wishes. Students: This summer, a group of "Congratulations!" to Kaylee teens from St. Rose of Lima Parish will Bourisaw, Luke Brouk, Gavin Cain, attend the Steubenville Mid-America weekend retreat. The Dylan Coleman, Ruby Daugherty, weekend retreat is held in JULY at Missouri State University in August Duepner, Cohen Duncan, Emma McKalip, Josephine Springfield. An information meeting (for students and parents) Musgrove, Jonathan Nickless, Brody Richardson, will be held in St. Rose Hall at 6:30 pm on Thursday, March Keighton Stearns, Aaron York, and Nathan Ziegler. 11th! Please come for more information! Please Pray for the Sick

+ Dalton Benoist + Rita Boeving + Dianna Boyer + + Scott Boyer + Msgr. Jerome Buchheit + + Cheryl Campagna + Clare Coleman + Adam Culley + If you want to help rescue this year's SRLS ANNUAL + Yvonne Davis + Bill DeClue + Jonie DeClue + AUCTION but aren't into buying baskets or donating in + Nancy DuBuue + Joyce Eisenhauer + Rita Fechner + other ways, use your "ADOPT-AN-ANGEL" envelope + Jerry Flesher + Bekah Houston + Dorothy Koch + which will be included in the March packet of contribution + Ginny McMurry + Connie Merseal + envelopes. All the proceeds from this special once-a- + Brandon O'Harver + Jackson Patterson + Don Patton + year collection benefit the Auction. Your generosity - as + Carol Peterson + Ken Peterson + Melissa Politte + always - will be VERY MUCH appreciated! + Marilyn Redfield + Donna Reynolds + + Keegan Reynolds + Andy Rice + Theresa Rodrigue + + Frankie Ruch + Dennis Sampson + Tim Selsor + + Bev Seyfarth + Barret “Bear” Tiefenauer + + Erin Trombly + Robert Vilmer + Barbara Williams + + Jordan Winckel + Amanda Woodring + Our policy is to remove a name after 6 weeks. Please call the Rectory (337-2212) to add a name to our sick list.

In his retirement, Msgr. Buchheit moved to DeSoto and was of great help to St. Rose Parish in his time here, especially when Fr. Ron was somewhat incapacitated. As you may have noticed, he's been on our prayer list for a while. This past Monday Msgr. Buchheit moved to Mother of Good Counsel Nursing Home and was put on hospice. On December 19th he celebrated his 95th Birthday, and this coming May 3rd he will celebrate the 70th Anniversary of his Ordination to the Holy Priesthood. If you would like to send him a card you can do so at the nursing home at 6825 Natural Bridge Rd, St. Louis, MO 63121.

HOW 'BOUT THIS? THIS WEEK'S "THANK YOU!" This week's Thank You! goes out to all of you who CAN'T BE PART OF THE have responded so far and so generously to this AUCTION THIS YEAR? year's "Jurassic Park" School Auction! The tickets WHY NOT BUY RAFFLE TICKETS? WHATEVER and baskets and donations and items have come rolling in! YOU WOULD HAVE SPENT AT THE AUCTION, There's still time to help and don't forget that special envelope SPEND THAT AMOUNT ON RAFFLE TICKETS! for our most generous Adopt-An-Angel tuition assistance pro- gram. The envelope will be in your March packet or, if you THAT MAKES BOTH YOU & want, you can simply put it in a plain white envelope and drop it THE AUCTION A SUCCESS! into the Sunday collection. All those donations will be put toward the success of this pandemic year's St. Rose of Lima WINNERS DRAWN on SATURDAY, MARCH 6th School Annual Auction! at 7:00 pm at the KC HALL.

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 21, 2021 REGULAR ENVELOPES $8,490.00 TAKE NOTE! ON-LINE GIVING $ 660.00 For a number of reasons St. Rose ADOPT AN ANGEL $ 175.00 School has decided to discontinue BLACK & INDIAN MISSIONS $ 654.00 collecting aluminum cans in the al- EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPE $ 291.00 ley bin. "Thank You!" so much to all those who were so VOTIVE CANDLES $ 79.00

diligent in helping us in the past. Your efforts and gen- TOTAL $9,689.00 erosity are very much appreciated! Thank you” so much for your generosity to St. Rose!” RESPONSORIAL PSALM - Psalm 116:10,15-19 REFRAIN: I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living. 1) I believed, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.” Precious in the eyes of the LORD is the death of his faith- ful ones. REFRAIN: I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living. 2) O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son ENTRANCE HYMN - From the Depths We Cry to Thee of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds. To you will 1) From the depths we cry to Thee, God of sov'reign maj- I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the esty! Hear our prayers and hymns of praise. Bless our name of the LORD. Lent of forty days! REFRAIN: I will walk before the Lord, in the land of 2) Gracious God, our hearts renew. Strengthen us Thy the living. will to do. Wash us, make us pure within. Cleanse us from 3) My vows to the LORD I will pay in the presence of all the stain of sin. his people, In the courts of the house of the LORD, in 3) Lord, accept our Lenten fast, and forgive our sinful your midst, O Jerusalem. past, that we may partake with Thee in the Easter mys- R. I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living. tery.

SECOND READING - Romans 8:31-34 CONFITEOR A reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else do, [striking your breast say] through my fault, through my along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s fault, through my most grievous fault. Therefore I ask chosen ones? It is God who acquits us, who will con- blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and demn? Christ Jesus it is who died - or, rather, was raised you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord - who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed inter- our God. cedes for us. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

FIRST READING - Genesis 22:1-2,9-13,15-18 A reading from the Book of Genesis GOSPEL - Mark 9:2-10 God put Abraham to the test. He called to him, A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark “Abraham!” “Here I am!” he replied. Then God said: “Take Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfig- the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holo- ured before them, and his clothes became dazzling caust on a height that I will point out to you.” When they white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. Then he conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son. But “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three the LORD’s messenger called to him from heaven, tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered. “Do not hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified. Then a lay your hand on the boy,” said the messenger. “Do not cloud came, casting a shadow over them; from the cloud do the least thing to him. I know now how devoted you came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” are to God, since you did not withhold from me your own Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but beloved son.” As Abraham looked about, he spied a ram Jesus alone with them. As they were coming down from caught by its horns in the thicket. So he went and took the the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they ram and offered it up as a holocaust in place of his son. had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had Again the LORD’s messenger called to Abraham from risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to them- heaven and said: “I swear by myself, declares the selves, questioning what rising from the dead meant. LORD, that because you acted as you did in not with- The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. holding from me your beloved son, I will bless you abun- dantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your de- NICENE CREED scendants shall take possession of the gates of their en- I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heav- emies, and in your descendants all the nations of the en and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in earth shall find blessing - all this because you obeyed my one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, command.” born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through Him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation He came the law; And to Elijah, fasting, came the steeds and chari- down from heaven, (bow) and by the Holy Spirit was in- ots of flame. carnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our 3) So Daniel trained his mystic sight, delivered from the sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate, He suffered lion's might; And John, the Bridegroom's friend became death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in the herald of Messiah's name. accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven 4) Then grant that we like them be true, consumed in fast and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will and pray'r with you; our spirits strengthen with your grace, come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and and give us joy to see your face. His kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I PRAYERS BEFORE & AFTER MASS believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I con- The Divine Praises fess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look Blessed be God. Blessed be His Holy Name. Blessed be forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the Jesus Christ, true God and true Man. Blessed be the world to come. Amen. Name of Jesus. Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart. Blessed be His Most Precious Blood. Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be the Ho- OFFERTORY HYMN - Take Up Your Cross ly Spirit, the Paraclete. Blessed be the great Mother of 1) Take up your cross, the Savior said, if you would my God,. Mary most Holy. Blessed be her holy and Immacu- disciple be; deny yourself, the world forsake, and humbly late Conception. Blessed be her glorious Assumption. follow after Me. Blessed be the Name of Mary, Virgin and Mother. 2) Take up your cross, be not ashamed! Let not disgrace Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse. Blessed your spirit fill! For God Himself endured to die upon a be God in His Angels and in His Saints. cross on Calvary's hill. 3) Take up your cross, which gives you strength, which makes your trembling spirit brave; 'Twill guide you to a Anima Christi better home and lead to vict'ry o'er the grave. Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. 4) Take up your cross, and follow Christ, nor think till Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of death to lay it down; for only they who bear the cross may Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O hope to wear the glorious crown. good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Sepa- rated from Thee let me never be. From the malignant en- emy defend me. In the hour of my death call me and bid COMMUNION HYMN - At the Cross me come unto Thee, that with Thy Saints I may be, prais- 1) At the cross her station keeping, stood the mournful ing Thee forever and ever. Amen. Mother weeping, close to Jesus to the last. 2) Through her heart His sorrow sharing, all His bitter anguish bearing, now at length the sword has passed. St. Michael Prayer 3) O how sad and sore distressed was that Mother highly Saint Michael Archangel, defend us in battle, be our pro- blest - of the sole begotten One! tection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; 4) Christ above in torment hangs, she beneath beholds may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O the pangs of her dying, glorious Son. Prince of the heavenly Host, by the power of God, cast 5) Is there one who would not weep, 'whelmed in miser- into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through ies so deep, Christ's dear Mother to behold? the world seeking the destruction of souls. Amen. 6) Can the human heart refrain from partaking in the pain, in that Mother's pain untold? Hail, Holy Queen 7) Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, she beheld her ten- Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, our life, our sweet- der Child, all with bloody scourges rent. ness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished 8) For the sins of His own nation saw Him hang in desola- children of Eve: to thee do we send up our sighs, mourn- tion 'til His spirit forth He sent. ing and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most 9) O thou Mother, font of love, touch my spirit from above, gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and make my heart with thine accord. after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy 10) Make me feel as thou hast felt, make my soul to glow womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! and melt with the love of Christ, my Lord. Amen.

RECESSIONAL HYMN - The Glory of These Forty Days St. Rose of Lima, Pray for us! 1) The glory of these forty days we celebrate with songs of praise; For Christ, by whom all things were made, Him- self has fasted and has prayed. The Daughters of Isabella will not be having their 2) Alone and fasting Moses saw the loving God who gave fish fry's this Lent. Hopefully next year we will all be able to get together & have them once again. Stay healthy & thank you for understanding.