Bulletin 3-14-2021
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Saint Florian Under the Care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars 1233 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3615 March 14, 2021 ~ The Fourth Sunday of Lent PARISH STAFF WEEKEND MASSES Served by the Discalced Carmelite Friars 383-3565, ext. 2 Saturday (Anticipated) ...................... 4:00 p.m. Email [email protected] Sunday .............................................. 8:00 a.m. Maintenance: Joseph Rivest DAILY MASSES (in the Main Church at this time) Secretary: Jacqueline Wick M, T, Th and F .................................. 5:00 p.m. ST. FLORIAN PARISH OFFICE followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben. ......... until 6:45 p.m. 1210 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3614 Wednesday ....................................... 8:00 a.m. followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben. ..... until 9:00 a.m. Phone ................................................ 383-3565, ext. 0 Saturday ............................................ 8:00 a.m. Fax .................................................... 383-2708 with Confessions at ....................... 8:30 a.m. Email ..... [email protected] Evening before Holy Day (Anticipated) Website ............... www.stflorian.org ...................................................... 7:00 p.m. PARISH OFFICE HOURS (No 5:00 p.m. Daily Mass on Anticipated Holy Days) Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Holy Day .......................................... 8:00 a.m. (The Parish Office is closed on Fridays & Holidays.) (No 5:00 p.m. Daily Mass on Holy Days) (Daily Masses or Holy Day Masses subject to change.) PASTORAL COUNCIL Chairperson: Kate Klister ................ 350-9217 CONFESSIONS (in the Main Church) Vice Chair: Sue Jens ........................ 328-4042 Saturday ............................................ 8:30 a.m. Trustee/Secretary: Russell Miller .... 671-2385 or also by appointment. Please call the Parish Office. Trustee/Treasurer: Sandy Kania ...... 672-0364 MUSIC DIRECTORS MARY QUEEN OF SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY Joseph Carpenter - 4:00 p.m. Sat. choir…..430-3425 (our Parish Cluster School) Diane Bersch - 8:00 a.m. Sun. choir……...541-8109 1227 South 116 Street • West Allis, WI 53214 476-0751 CHRISTIAN FORMATION OFFICE Jen Vega, Principal • Email: [email protected] Within St. Rita Parish, 2318 South 61 Street , West Allis, WI 53219 School Website: mqsca.org Email for Registration Information: [email protected] High School/Confirmation Program RCIA-Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults RCIC-Rite of Christian Initiation of Children “Please remember St. Florian Parish in your will.” Contact the DRE - Director of Religious Education, Barbara Krieger..................................... 541-7515, ext. 16 FUNERAL PLANNING Please contact Fr. Elijah as soon as possible to make funeral arrangements. SACRAMENTS Baptism Parish registration and parental instruction required. Please contact the parish office. Marriage Please arrange for a date and instructions at least six months in advance at the parish office. Parish registration is required. Anointing of the Sick and/or Last Rites Please contact Fr. Elijah at the Parish Office. PARISH MEMBERSHIP For everyone who does wicked things hates the Each family or single adult 18 years old or older light and does not come toward the light, so that living at home or alone is invited and expected to be his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives registered in our parish family at the parish office. the truth comes to the light, so that his works may Please call the parish office to register. be clearly seen as done in God. ~ John 3:20-21 The Fourth Sunday of Lent St. Florian Parish - March 14, 2021 March 13, 2021 Readings for the week of March 14, 2021 through Sun: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23/Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 [6ab]/ March 21, 2021 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 Sat., Mar. 13 - Lenten Weekday 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 8:00 a.m. † JoAnne Gannon Mon: Is 65:17-21/Ps 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b [2a]/ Anticipated Fourth Sunday of Lent Jn 4:43-54 4:00 p.m. † Justin & † Alice Cesar Tues: Ez 47:1-9, 12/Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 [8]/Jn 5:1-16 Sun., Mar. 14 - Fourth Sunday of Lent Wed: Is 49:8-15/Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18 [8a]/ Jn 5:17-30 8:00 a.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian Parish Mon., Mar. 15 - Lenten Weekday Thurs: Ex 32:7-14/Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23 [4a]/Jn 5:31-47 5:00 p.m. In Honor of Jesus’ Agony in the Garden Fri: 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 for Violet Lk 2:41-51a Tues., Mar. 16 - Lenten Weekday Sat: Jer 11:18-20/Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12 [2a]/Jn 7:40-53 5:00 p.m. † Henry & † Lee Cesarec Next Sun: Jer 31:31-34/Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15 [12a]/ Wed., Mar. 17 - Saint Patrick, Bishop Heb 5:7-9/Jn 12:20-33 or Ez 37:12-14/ 8:00 a.m. † Susan Murray Rom 8:8-11/Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 [7]/ Thurs., Mar. 18 - Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop & Doctor Jn 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45 of the Church 5:00 p.m. † Henry & † Lee Cesarec Fri., Mar. 19 - Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary 5:00 p.m. Carmelite Perpetual Mass Union Sat., Mar. 20 - Lenten Weekday 8:00 a.m. † Fr. Timothy McGough, OCD April 1, Holy Thursday Mass at 7:00 p.m. Anticipated Fifth Sunday of Lent April 2, Good Friday Service at 1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian Parish April 3, Holy Saturday Easter Vigil at 7:30 p.m. Sun., Mar. 21 - Fifth Sunday of Lent April 4, Easter Sunday Mass at 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. † Josephine & † Joseph Fuys CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNER ETERNAL FLAME March 13 - March 19, 2021 March 9, 2021 In loving memory of: $25 - Mary Trimmier † Stephen Pedersen GOSPEL MEDITATION — ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE Is there something to Lent that goes of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of structural changes that will allow people beyond our own spiritual house cleaning the society in which it is being pro- to earn just wages, feed their families and spiritual refinement? Yes, there is! claimed, what gospel is that?” When and share abundantly and equally in the It has to do with listening and learning we listen to those descriptive and pro- gifts of God’s good earth. Such a vision so that we can take up the task of the vocative words, do they resonate with is not some optimistic fairy tale, but the Gospel with greater clarity and forti- anything in our experience? As messen- vision of the Creator himself. Lent re- tude. While the spiritual refocusing of gers of the Gospel, we are called to minds us, as St. Oscar Romero also Lent is necessary, the fruit of this bring an unsettling message to the states, that, “we are workers, not master Lenten conversion has much more to do world. If our main concern is protecting builder, ministers, not messiahs. We are with learning how we can be a better our self-interests, then we are missing prophets of a future not our own.” We Church than it does about our eternal something huge! Many really struggle are not called to labor simply for the salvation. Salvation is a gift that flows with being rejected, dismissed, or per- benefit of the here and now but of the out of God’s unconditional Mercy and ceived as someone who is speaking out “what is to come.” Our myopic vision cannot be merited. The spiritual matu- of turn. There is a counter cultural mes- can be replaced by a more far reaching rity we can experience as a result of our sage that must be preached that clearly Lenten vision that is much greater and Lenten disciplines serves to reduce the sides with the poor, marginalized, vic- deeper in scope. As long as we are anxiety and apprehension we may expe- timized, oppressed, neglected, disre- carrying the right blueprints with us and rience as messengers of good, but very garded, and lost souls throughout the our thoughts extend beyond ourselves, challenging, and unsettling, news. world. There is a widespread misery then even the little things we do and the St. Oscar Romero said that, “a church among the peoples that is all too often simplest prayer we utter go a long way. that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel allowed to fester with no one coming They give witness to our preference for that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that forward to offer a change or resolution. the light of Christ and not the darkness doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word The Church can speak to the needed of error and sin. The Fourth Sunday of Lent St. Florian Parish - March 14, 2021 In March, Please Pray For . Catherine Becker Helen Guszkowski Mary Priewe Sat., March 13 Ralph & Marlene Joyce Johnson Elizabeth Reineck 8:00 am Mass w/St. Joseph Novena Daniels Ruth Kressl Lynn Sheng 8:30 am Confessions David Demos Helen Markowski Mary Smith Sat., March 13 - Anticipated 4th Sunday of Lent Gregg & Susan Betty Michalowski Cindy Terrien 3:00 pm Celebration Choir in Fellowship Room Dufek Candy Netterfield Edie Wurcer 4:00 pm Mass w/St. Joseph Novena Fr.