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We Worship ~ We Teach ~ We Care MISSION STATEMENT We Worship ~ We Teach ~ We Care 5112 Pocono Crest Road Mass Schedule: PO Box O Saturday 4:00 pm Pocono Pines, PA 18350 Sunday 8:00 am & 10:30 am 570-646-6424 Saturday Confessions 3:00 pm March 22, 2020 Please note: We apologize for any confusion 4th Sunday of Lent regarding some of the activities mentioned in this bulletin. They may have been suspended and or re-scheduled. Please call the office if you have any questions. GOSPEL MEDITATION “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” Jesus wants to motivate each one of us to see the truth. After developing a relationship with Jesus, the blind man “sees” as someone very special. The Pharisees, due to the blindness caused by their ignorance, prejudice, and need for self-preservation, still remain blind. Presuppositions, prejudices, assumptions, and our needs can easily blind us to truth. We see what we want or need to see and not what is really there. In When Jesus hears that they had thrown him out, addition, our stubbornness continues to convince us he found him and said, “Do you believe in the that we are right and that our vision is perfect. Only Son of Man?” He answered and said, “Who is he, God can complete the picture. sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, Look around at our world. So much of what is “You have seen him and the one speaking with happening today is due to the reluctance of folks to you is he.” He said, “I do believe, Lord,” allow themselves to be stretched and brought to see and he worshiped him. ~John 9:35-38 what is really there. Many react to what life presents to them more with the lenses of ignorance than lenses of clarity. The Gospel carries great transformative value. With it, God corrects our vision and replaces St. Maximilian Kolbe our limited sight with the fullness of his sight. God Parish Staff opens our eyes so that we can see that it is not about preserving what we have created but of living in the Reverend Sean G. Carpenter immensity and wonder of God’s kingdom. ~ Pastor Through a simple, loving relationship with God, we can break through the tethers of prejudice, eradicate Deacon Frank Gisoldi fear, dispel the darkness of hatred and sin, discover Deacon Tom Amoroso freedom, live in peace, work for justice, be effective stewards of creation, assist the migrant and the Melissa Laverty immigrant, and safeguard our economic systems and Pastoral Associate ~ [email protected] Coordinator of Religious Education policies so that they truly serve all of God’s children. What we see is often an artificial lie. Our truth is Juli Reese much bigger than what our limited sight believes it to Office Manager ~ [email protected] be. Allow God to work in and through you. Do not be John Marcinkowski, Jr. afraid. Be open and be humble enough to know that Coordinator of Music ~ [email protected] you need help. Many human beings are living with severe cataracts that produce sight that is at best Visit us on the web @ www.stmaxkolbepoconos.org blurred. Are you one of them? ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE, PRIEST AND MARTYR, PRAY FOR US Wednesday, March 24th The Annunciation of the Lord The Celebration of the Solemnity March 21st through March 29th of the Annunciation of the Lord commemorates the visit of the Saturday 4:00 pm Kevin Colvin angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary by Marion Colvin to inform her that she was to be Sunday 8:00 am For The Parishioners the mother of our Savior. After giving her consent to God’s 10:30 am Christopher Madere word, Mary conceives Jesus in her by Marybeth and Greg Landry womb and becomes the mother of Christ by the Monday 9:15 am Bernadette Hughes power of the Holy Spirit. God becomes incarnate in by Joan Rineheimer & Frank McDevitt the womb of a woman, and “the Word became flesh” (John 1:14). Tuesday 9:15 am Ken Miller by The Family Wednesday 9:15 am Helena Leonard by Anna Butryn and Family Thursday 9:15 am Patricia E. McFadden Saturday: Hos 6:1-6; Lk 18:9-14 by Knights of Columbus #13752 Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 Friday 9:15 am Communion Service Monday: Is 65:17-21; Jn 4:43-54 Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Jn 5:1-16 Saturday 4:00 pm Anne Marie Alcamo Wednesday: Is 7:10-14; 8:10; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 by Nat Alcamo Thursday: Ex 32:7-14; Jn 5:31-47 Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Sunday 8:00 am For The Parishioners Saturday: Jer 11:18-20; Jn 7:40-53 Sunday: Ez 37:12-14; Rom 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45 10:30 am William H. Binns Jr. by Bill and Eileen Binns 9:15 am mass will still be celebrated when we have a funeral mass that day. Confessions -Saturday 3 pm First Friday Adoration held after 9:15 am Communion Service each month. Sunday Collection 3/08/2020………………. $ 4,202. Capital Collection…………………………... 508. Thank You for Your Generosity ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE, PRIEST AND MARTYR, PRAY FOR US Parish Life DAILY MEDITATION FOR CATHOLICS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FAITH FORMATION If you would like to receive the monthly publication UPDATES AND REMINDERS The Word Among Us, annual subscriptions are Important Reminders: available for $20 per year, beginning in Lent. The Students in grades 6-8 are encouraged Word Among Us includes daily meditations based on to bring a snack or lunch to class the Mass readings and inspirational essays and stories following the 10:30 a.m. Mass. of the saints and other heroes of faith that encourage PLEASE NOTE: THE TIME FOR you to go out and live the Word. To purchase a copy, CLASSES FOR GRADES 6, 7 AND contact Melissa in the parish office. 8 IS NOW 11:30 A.M.-12:45 P.M. Important Dates: THE LIGHT IS ON FOR YOU Please Note: All Faith formation classes are The light is on for you at St. Maximilian temporarily suspended. Patents of students in Kolbe Parish every Monday during Lent, programs have received emails explaining the plan after 9:15 a.m. Mass, as the church is open for the coming weeks. for individual Confessions. We invite you to A Meeting for Parents of First Communion Students experience Christ’s healing love through the will be Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in the parish Sacrament of Reconciliation. hall. The First Communion Retreat will be held Saturday, JOIN US FOR OUR PARISH March 28, at 10 a.m. LENTEN ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES A Meeting for Parents of Confirmation Candidates Every Wednesday During Lent will be Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in the parish hall. Stations of the Cross is held each The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated at Wednesday after 9:15 a.m. Mass and St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish on Monday, April 27, at 7 p.m. 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Our celebrant will be the Most Sunday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. Reverend Joseph Bambera, Bishop of the Diocese Living Stations of the Cross of Scranton. Practice for Confirmation will be This prayerful presentation of the Stations of the Cross Thursday, April 23, at 6 p.m. will be presented by members of all ages of The Sacrament of First Holy Communion will be St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish. celebrated at St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish on Sunday, The final Lenten Take Home Dinner will be May 3, 2020 at the 10:30 a.m. Mass. Friday, March 27, from 4-6:30 p.m. The Last Day of Faith Formation Classes is Sunday, May 3. REMAINING AREA LENTEN PENANCE SERVICES SCRIPTURE STUDY FOR COUPLES Lenten penance services continue through early April Our parish would like to begin a Scripture Study in Monroe County: group for Catholic married couples. If you would be Sunday, March 22, 2 p.m.: Most Holy Trinity, interested in attending this study, contact Melissa in Cresco the parish office at 570-646-6424 or by email at Tuesday, March 24, 7 p.m.: Our Lady of Victory, [email protected]. If enough couples are Tannersville interested, the study will begin this spring. Thursday, March 26, 7 p.m.: St. Luke’s, Stroudsburg LITTLE ROCK SCRIPTURE… meets on Tuesdays Sunday, March 29, 4 p.m.: Our Lady Queen of at 10:15 a.m. in the parish hall. Using both videos and Peace, Brodheadsville written materials, this program is designed to help Tuesday, March 31, 7 p.m.: St. John’s, East bring Catholics to a greater understanding of the Bible. Stroudsburg During Lent, the group is studying Life Eternal. For Monday, April 6, 6 p.m.: St. Matthew’s, East more information, call or stop by the parish office. Stroudsburg ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE, PRIEST AND MARTYR, PRAY FOR US Parish Life Parish Life MEMBERS AND VISITORS There is more power in the pulpit OF ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE when there is more power in the pew. Recently, the Most Reverend Joseph Bambera (Dr. S. Kerr) issued notice regarding the obligation to attend Sunday Mass. The faithful of the Diocese of Scranton are not obligated to attend. Our parish will celebrate mass according to our If one part suffers, schedule for those who wish to attend.
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