April 26, 2020 The Roman Catholic Community St. Edward the Confessor Third Sunday of Easter Pastor: Rev. Patrick J. Butler Deacons: Walter MacKinnon & Rit DiCaprio Parish Secretary: Beverly Breen x221 Associate for Pastoral Care: Mary Ann Sekellick x224 Director of Music: Mary Jo Brue x223 Director of Faith Formaon & Youth Ministry: Eddie Treviño x237 Pre-K - 5th Grade Coordinator: Noreen Hayden x233 6th - 10th Grade Coordinator: Sue Carbone x234 Office Hours: Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Saturday: 4:00 PM (Sacrament of Reconciliaon at 3:00 p.m. or by appointment) Saturday Spanish Mass: 6:30 p.m. Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, & 11:00 AM Weekdays (No Mass on Thursday): 9:00 a.m. 569 Cli on Park Ctr Rd Cli on Park, NY 12065 (518) 371-7372 www.stedwardsny.org ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, CLIFTON PARK PARISH NEWS PARISH NEWS 4PM SATURDAYS – CHANGED TIME FOR LIVE STREAM MASS!!!! We will continue to LIVE STREAM ST. EDWARD’S weekend Mass. We are now celebrating Mass at 4PM on Saturday instead of Sunday. Please go to our parish website and click on the link. (You PLEASE HELP US THANK OUR can also replay the Mass any time!!!) We will also have an Hour of Prayer and Meditation live FIRST RESPONDERS! streamed each Wednesday night at 6:00. We encourage you to view our stream through YouTube and take a few LETTERS: minutes in this hard and stressful time to pray and meditate. In order to thank some of the many people who are working on THE PARISH OFFICES ARE CLOSED, the front lines, we invite you and your children (of all ages!) to BUT WE ARE STILL WORKING!!! All write a letter of thanks to one or more of the following groups: staff are working remotely from home and Medical personnel - doctors, nurses, hospital staff, can be contacted with questions or who are fighting every day to save lives further information. When calling the EMS workers and law enforcement, who put church extensions, voicemail will be themselves and their families at risk whenever they retrieved remotely. Please contact us respond to a call via email: Retail workers, who are keeping us in food, medicine, and toilet paper Fr. Pat Butler: [email protected] Delivery service workers - US Postal Service, UPS, Deacon Rit DiCaprio: [email protected] FedEx, who keep our mail and packages coming Deacon Walt MacKinnon: [email protected] You may drop off letters of thanks into a box in the Faith PARISH OFFICE STAFF: Formation Lobby vestibule any time (where food donations are being deposited) or you may send your letters directly by Business Administrator: emailing Mary Jo Brue at [email protected]. Joe Spreitzer: [email protected] Please do not fold letters or seal envelopes – they will be scanned so that we can distribute them electronically as well Parish Secretary: as in hard copy. Bev Breen: [email protected] MONETARY DONATIONS: You may also wish to donate money to provide meals to Director of Pastoral Care: some of the groups mentioned above. All donations will be Mary Ann Sekellick: used in our local area. [email protected] You may donate electronically by using the link on the main page of our website, “Meal Fund for First Responders”. Director of Music: ALSO, you may write your check payable to St. Edward's Mary Jo Brue: [email protected] Church, with “Meal Fund for First Responders” in the memo line. IT and Music Ministry: The food will be ordered from local restaurants. That way [email protected] we’re supporting local businesses as well! Please send any letters or donations by next week. Maintenance: Thank you!!!!!! Chris Spencer: [email protected] Have you signed up to receive St. FAITH FORMATION STAFF: Edward’s WEEKLY DIGITAL NEWSLETTER? Go to our website Grades K-5 Coordinator: (www.stedwardsny.org) and under the Noreen Hayden: [email protected] Parish Information tab click on “Weekly Bulletin and Newsletter” (you will have to type in your email address to Grades 6-10 (Confirmation) sign up). Sue Carbone: [email protected] ALSO VIEW OUR BULLETIN ONLINE: Please go to our parish website (under the Parish Information tab click on Director of Faith Formation and Youth Ministry: “Weekly Bulletin and Newsletter”) or go to Eddie Trevino: [email protected] www.parishesonline.com and search for “St. Edward the Confessor 12065”. At www.parishesonline.com, you can sign up to have the weekly bulletin emailed to you!!! THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER PARISH NEWS PARISH NEWS LOOK AHEAD TO SUMMER: WE ARE STILL WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!!!! COLLECTING FOOD GROUNDS COMMITTEE FOR FOOD VOLUNTEERS: To all gardeners and handypersons, PANTRY!!!! St. Edward’s wants to thank and those who would like to help!!!! everyone who has been generously filling the boxes located We are looking to add to our list of workers. We will need in the Faith Formation vestibule with donations for the food people to work indoors and outdoors, in the gardens, pantries. There are many people out of work who have no watering plants, painting and repairing this summer. If you idea when they will be able to return but still need to put food would like to join this group, help on cleanup days, or for on their table. The food is being sorted on a daily basis and more information please contact Diane Marco at 518-899- then delivered weekly. The food pantries are especially in 4874 or Chris O’Brien at [email protected]. need of non-perishables right now. We have suggested food Please give us your name, phone number, email and your items below. area of interest. You can drop off items in the Faith Formation Lobby vestibule at any time (the entrance to the Faith Formation COMMUNITY GARDEN: St. Edward’s wing where Mary’s Garden and the Labyrinth are and the community garden plots will be available driveway circle used to be – the first set of doors are again this year. We have a few plots vacant— unlocked). That one extra item you purchase at the grocery are you interested? Please call or text Stan store may be what keeps someone from going to bed hungry Zacharewicz at 518-256-7020 or e-mail at tonight. [email protected]. Here is our list: Kid snacks, granola bars, crackers, canned meat (tuna, beans, chicken), soup, coffee, BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT canned fruit, canned veggies, jelly, toilet paper, tissues GROUP: Due to the uncertainty of when we will be able to schedule the next group ALSO: Jonesville Food Pantry is now sessions for Bereavement closed and referring those in need to the Clifton Park at 5 Support, we are inviting you to contact Kathy Masucci, the CAPTAIN FOOD PANTRY Municipal Plaza. group facilitator for support you may need now or info on Donations of Food and the next support group. Please contact her at 518-577-3297 Hygiene products are being accepted anytime Monday-Friday 9:00AM-5:00PM. or [email protected]. The support group is for anyone who has suffered the loss of Please call 518-371-1185 from the parking a loved one through death. Kathy can provide you with more lot to let them know you've arrived with donations. At this information on the 8-week program and be able to notify you time, we ask that you please hold donations that are not as soon as the sessions are scheduled. Food and Hygiene related. For more a complete list of their food/ hygiene needs and CAPTAINS’ frequent updates go to www.captaincares.org and click on “How you can help”. EASTER REFLECTIONS: Due to the popularity of our Holy Week reflections, we will be continuing them through the Please remember in your prayers: Easter season. We will publish at least one, if not two, over the coming weeks. You can find any new reflections on the Dennis Stoliker, brother of Linda (Paul) DiVietro, who main page of the website. You can also find new, and old, died March 10, 2020. reflections. If you would like to contribute to our Easter Dolores Martin, beloved parishioner and choir series, please reach out to Andrew Sutton at member of St. Edward’s, who died March 25, 2020. [email protected]. Mary Galusky, sister to Bill (Cathy) McGrath, who died April 13, 2020. SPIRITUAL LINKS: Head over to our parish website and check out our list of spiritual links. These include daily devotionals and Mass, FORMED, and many other Catholic The Yellow Container is back! Do you order from resources to help enrich our faith life, not only during this SARATOGA SOD? If so you may return your empty bag to time but throughout every day of our lives. the yellow container in the back of the building. St. Edward’s Church will receive $5 per bag returned for our OUTREACH TODAY’S BIBLE READINGS: For daily readings please go programs. (Please note: we can only accept Saratoga Sod to www.usccb.org, click on “Bible” and “Today’s Readings”. bags.) Visit www.saratogasod.com. APRIL 26, 2020 YOUTH FAITH FORMATION PARISH NEWS 2020-2021 Faith STEWARDSHIP Formation Enrollment If you are among those New Options!!!! fortunate enough to continue to be salaried or receive other regular sources of income during this national emergency, Enrollment for the 2020-2021 Faith please mail or give electronically (Faith Direct) to St. Edward Formation School year begins June the Confessor Church’s ongoing expenses. Information 16th (NOTE: Enrollment is already open describing how to sign up for Faith Direct, our e-giving for our Summer FF Program July 6th – 9th).