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www.stguerinparish.org MISSION STATEMENT: "To do God's will as a unified, vibrant parish, and to foster an intentional relationship with Jesus through worship, witness, service, discipleship, and community." , ST. CELESTINE CHURCH ST. CYPRIAN CHURCH 3020 North 76th Court, Elmwood Park, Illinois 60707 2601 Clinton, River Grove, Illinois 60171 Phone: 708–453–2555 Fax: 708–452–0560 Phone 708–453–4800 Fax: 708–453–6141 MASSES (LIMIT 200) Saturday 5 PM MASSES (LIMIT 50) Sunday 7:30 AM Sunday 9 AM Limit 50 10:30 AM and live–streamed on Tuesday 8 AM Limit 50 Facebook and stguerinparish.org Wednesday 8 AM ST. CELESTINE SCHOOL Reconciliation Saturdays 4—4:45 PM 3017 North 77th Avenue, Elmwood Park Illinois 60707 stcelestineschool.org 708–453–8234 Please register through the website, stguerinparish.org, for weekend masses. No registration needed for weekday masses or Reconciliation. You must wear a mask, practice social distancing, and follow the direction of the ushers. Office Hours: Phones will be answered from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at St. Cyprian Monday through Friday and from 8:30 AM to 5 PM Monday through Friday at St. Celestine. If no one is available to answer the phone, please leave a message and someone will call you back on the next business day. February 21, 2021 First Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 2 ST. MOTHER THEODORE GUERIN PARISH On weekends, because of the pandemic, all intentions for individual masses are Welcome! If you are new to our churches read at all the Masses at both churches. During the week intentions are listed or just visiting, please introduce yourself. on the days when Mass is offered. We are happy to share in this celebration SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 of the Eucharist. If you do not have a church home, or your church is not home 5 PM ST. CELESTINE 8 AM ST. CYPRIAN to you, we are open to anyone looking SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 +Joseph F. Bradkowski, 23rd for a spiritual home. We invite you to 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE Anniversary become a part of our parish. You may register during the pandemic by calling 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN People of the Parish 708–453–2555. 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE +Austin Kennedy WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 LENTEN SCHEDULE +Louis and +Juliana DaPrato 8 AM ST. CELESTINE Stations of the Cross: 7 PM Fridays and deceased members of +Anna Rone February 26 St. Cyprian DaPrato Family +Richard G. Bradkowski, March 5 at St. Celestine +Rick Sciaccotta, Anniversary Birthday March 12 at St. Cyprian +Michael Maness +Carmen DePillo, Anniversary March 19 at St. Celestine +Mary Rose, 1st Anniversary +Tony Flando, Sr., Birthday March 26 at St. Cyprian +Leona DeStefano, PhD, 1st +Richard Thorby, Birthday Anniversary +Maria Luisa Monterroso Parish Mission with Fr. Stan Ilo +Maria Lis, +Jozef Zagulski, at St. Celestine at 7 PM covering +Anna Slowinska, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 these topics: Our Sacred Walk Anniversaries 5 PM ST. CELESTINE with Jesus, Our Wounds and +Frank Pudlo SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Pains, and There is Healing in the +Frank and +John Kucera 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE Lord: Church as Field Hospital. In +Helen McCormack 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN person and live–streamed. +Anne McCarthy, Birthday 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE Monday, March 8 +Angela Otero, 60th Birthday Turzitti Family Tuesday, March 9 +Craig Bastek +Norb Zyk +Livio Parolin +Frank Pudlo Holy Thursday Service April 1 +Lyndsey Hart +Genevieve Kenning 7 PM at St. Celestine +James Mackey +Antonio, +Nicholas, +Vincenzo +Feliciano Reyes, Sr., 10th Rendina Good Friday Services April 2 Anniversary +Joseph and +Stella Halinski 3 PM at St. Cyprian +Mable M. Guerra–Lalie 7 PM at St. Celestine +Frank and +Michael Hanschke +Maria Luisa Monterroso Easter Vigil Saturday, April 3 7:30 PM at St. Celestine FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK: FATHER PAUL CAO Easter Masses Sunday, April 4 Father Paul is on retreat. His column will return in 7:30 and 10:30 AM at St. Celestine the next bulletin. 9 and 11:30 AM at St. Cyprian February 21, 2021 First Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 3 SEASONAL CHANGES FOR THE LITURGIES OF LENT Today is the First Sunday of Lent. For the solemn time is coming/ When our tears for sins must During this season of preparation flow” (Alleluia dulce carmen, J. M. for Easter, our churches look Neale, trans.). stark and simple—no flowers at the altar, no festive banners or These changes in the liturgy will decorations. And our liturgies feel catch our attention, and make us different, too. The organ is quiet eager for the festive outpouring except to accompany the singing of joy that will return with Easter. of the assembly. The Gloria, our This year, may the stripped–away Sunday song of rejoicing, is not liturgies of Lent remind us to heard except on solemnities, and strip away what is not essential SAINTS AND SPECIAL we will not sing the Alleluia, our in our lives to make space for the OBSERVANCES joyful acclamation of praise, until crucified and risen One, and thus the Easter Vigil. “Alleluia cannot to be ready to sing “Alleluia” once Sunday: First Sunday of Lent always / Be our song while here again when Easter returns. Monday: Washington’s below,” says an eleventh-century Birthday hymn. “Alleluia our transgressions Corinna Laughlin Tuesday: St. Polycarp / Make us for a while forego; / © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Thursday: Purim (Jewish observance) begins REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL at sunset Friday: Abstinence Saturday: St. Gregory of Narek TODAY’S READINGS First Reading I will set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth (Genesis 9:8-15). Psalm Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant (Psalm 25). Lent is the time of year we devote means: it is an appeal we make Second Reading The water of to scrutinizing our lives in the light to God for a clear conscience. the flood prefigured baptism, of our baptism into the death How do we obtain this clear and resurrection of Jesus. Today’s conscience? The words which saves you now (1 Peter readings are a nice shorthand proclaimed by Jesus immediately 3:18-22). catechism of what our baptized following his temptation show us lives mean. As Noah passed the way: “Repent, and believe in Gospel Jesus was tempted by through the waters of the flood the gospel” (Mark 1:15). It might Satan, and the angels ministered to a covenant with God, so did we be a good spiritual exercise to to him (Mark 1:12-15) enter into a covenant, a promised keep these readings before us relationship with God through our throughout the entire season of The English translation of the Psalm baptism. Lent, a means to help us return Responses from the Lectionary for Mass to a life lived by our baptismal © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Peter’s letter gives an explicit promises. Commission on English in the Liturgy explanation of what our baptism © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Corporation. All rights reserved. February 21, 2021 First Sunday of Lent www.stguerinparish.org 4 ON WEEDS, 30,000 FOOT VIEWS, AND WILD BEASTS Back in my corporate days, I was the details in both of these the Spirit. One could argue the often accused of getting lost in evangelists’ accounts. The two former implies Jesus was a willing the weeds. This is corp–speak for tellings are similar, and we all participant; the latter, not so being hung up on details. My boss know how the story goes. “If you much. three bosses are the son of God, command that back put it this these stones become loaves of And one more thing… Only way: “You’re a bread” (Matthew’s account). Jesus Mark––using five of his precious good guy, but answers, “It is written, ‘One does thirty–one words––says this of you’re burdened not live by bread alone’” (Luke’s Jesus after the Christ is driven into by minutia.” account). And Satan’s requests the desert by the Spirit, remaining I argued that that Jesus throw himself down there for forty days, tempted minutia is what from the parapet of the temple, by Satan: “He was among wild gets you in and that Jesus worship Satan are beasts…” No wild beasts in trouble. God is covered by both Gospel writers Matthew. No wild beasts in Luke. in the details, after all. Or is it that as well. Matthew and Luke. Way Got wild beasts? I don’t know the devil is in the details? more words than Mark. about you, but I’ve got a few I’d like to slay this Lenten season. Both, I think. Either way––or both And yet, there are a few words I’ve got a few shortcomings that ways––the opposite of getting lost in Mark’s story that neither I hope to shore up during this in the weeds is giving a 30,000 Matthew nor Luke hit upon. For holy season of prayer, fasting, and foot view of the topic. And if the one thing, in Matthew’s account almsgiving. Of course, I tried to topic is, say, the Temptation of and in Luke’s account, Jesus “…is shore them up this past Advent. Jesus (as it is on this First Sunday led by the Spirit into the desert… And last Lent, for that matter. And of Lent), the Evangelist Mark is all to be tempted by the devil.” Mark the Advent before that… about an above–the–clouds view.