The Church of St. Leo the Great ST. LEO PARISH MISSION STATEMENT West by Northwest A Stewardship Parish which gathers at 167 Lake Avenue, Hilton, New York 14468 A Cursillo Ultreya Center The mission of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church is to provide a warm and supportive commu- of the Rochester Diocese nity to aid in the salvation of souls, to promote evangelization, and to serve God, our congregation Ultreya meets last and our world. DecemberMarch 3, 2019 23, 2018 Saturday of each month THIS WEEK AT ST. LEO’S ASH WEDNESDAY Mass: Mon. 5:30 PM; Tues.-Thurs. 8:30 AM A DAY OF FAST Communion Service: Fri. 8:30 AM AND ABSTINENCE MONDAY - March 4 MASS TIMES: 5:30 PM Mass 6:00 PM Junior Bell Choir, Room 2 6:25 AM 8:30 AM 7:00 PM 6:00 PM RCIA, Room 5 Abstinence means not eating meat and binds Catholics 14 years 6:15 –7:15 PM Group Reunions and older. 6:30 PM Stewardship Council, Room 4 Fast means limiting oneself to one full meal and two light 7:00 PM Senior Bell Choir, Room 2 meals, and binds Catholics from their 18th birthday to their 7:00 PM Festive Choir, Room 1 59th birthday. TUESDAY - March 5 All Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat for Catho- 8:30 AM Mass - Coffee & Fellowship after lics over 14. Throughout Lent, all Catholics are encourage to WEDNESDAY - March 6 ASH WEDNESDAY performSeptember voluntary 16, acts 2018 of penance. 6:25 AM MASS 8:30 AM MASS A STEWARDSHIP PRAYER FOR LENT 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Lord Jesus, At this time of year, our thoughts are turned to Time changed due to 7 PM Mass the ultimate sacrifice you made for us on the cross. Inspire us to 3:00 PM Sacred Heart Enthronement Meeting, Room 5 make whatever personal sacrifice that will bring us closer to 6:00 PM (this month only) Parish Pastoral Council, Rm. 2 you, and strengthen us in that sacrifice. Pope John Paul II re- 7:00 PM MASS minded us that “simplicity, moderation, and discipline, as well THURSDAY - March 7 as a spirit of sacrifice, must become a part of [our] everyday life, 6:00 PM Sharing Christ lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of FRIDAY – March 8 a few.” May our practice of sacrificial stewardship during the 10:00 AM Women’s Group, PLC Lenten season lead us to the victory of the Resurrection. In your 7:00 PM Stations of the Cross, Church holy name, we pray. Amen. SATURDAY – March 9 7:00 AM Rochester Catholic Women’s Conf., Aquinas ECUMENICAL LENTEN LUNCHES 2:30 PM Confessions Ecumenical Lenten Lunches will begin Wednesday, March 3:30 PM Rosary 13, from 12:00 Noon until 1:00 PM, and will be held in the St. 4:00 PM Mass - Prayer Team after Mass Leo Parish Life Center. Come feed your body with a simple SUNDAY - March 10 soup and sandwich lunch and feed your soul with a study on the DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS Beatitudes. Each week Father Joe Catanise (St. Leo’s RCC), 9:30 AM Mass - Prayer Team after Mass Rev. Kurt Traugott (Parma Greece UCC), Rev. Mark Ball (St. 6:00 PM LifeTeen Mass - Prayer Team after Mass Paul’s Lutheran), or Rev. Jennifer Schaus Green (Hilton UMC) 7:00 PM YM and Confirmation will be sharing from a portion of the Beatitudes and how Jesus calls us to live in our post-Christian culture. JOIN JOSE RIVERA—40 DAYS FOR LIFE From our Youth Minister, Michele Pechie: St. Leo's Parishioners to Stand for Life! The opening day of the 40 Days for Life Spring campaign is this Wednesday, HANDS OF CHRIST AWARDS March 6th. As we have since the beginning of the Rochester 40 Congratulations to Taylor Eccleston, Michael Fronczak, Days for Life Vigil, our St. Leo the Great Parish community will Grace Hall, Max Montes, Abigail Pitcher, Vlad Rosien, be participating on the opening day. Come and join Jose Rivera Mikey Sausa, Jason Sapienza, and Taylor Tydings for receiv- any time during the day between 7:30AM to 5PM in front of ing the “Hands of Christ Award. Planned Parenthood, 114 University Ave. Call Jose at 585-305- All of these young people support our Church ministries and 1224 if you have any questions. are involved in extra-curricular activities. The Spring 40 Days for Life Vigil is from March 6 until April 14. Make this part of your Lenten journey. Sign up for 40 Make a Friend - Be a Friend - Bring a Friend to Christ! Days For Life: go to 40daysforlife.com/rochester and click on "sign up for vigil hours". While it's not necessary to sign up to participate, it does help identify what hours are in need of help. Page Two DAYLIGHT SAVINGS Stewardship: Drive our enemy from us and give us Your gift of TIME BEGINS peace. Ever guiding us, may we be always the stewards of Your love. SUNDAY, MARCH 10 Talent: Thanks to Chuck Mance and Augie Billitier for their help with the Monstrance Cabinet. It looks SET YOUR CLOCKS beautiful in the wall! AHEAD ONE HOUR Treasure for February 23 and 24, 2019 INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER FOR MARCH Parishioner households using envelopes contributed: .....$4,604.00 Evangelization—That Christian communities, especially Electronic Giving: .............................................................. $990.00 those who are persecuted, feel that they are close to Christ Visitors and others contributed: ......................................... $534.25 and have their rights respected. 3 Children using envelopes contributed: ............................... $3.00 Miscellaneous: ................................................................... $477.00 FAMILY FAITH SESSION Needed weekly: .............................................................$10,810.00 The next Family Faith Session will be held on Monday, Received this week: .........................................................$6,775.50 March 18. All are welcome to attend the Monday Mass at Weekly Shortage:........................................................ $<4,034.50> 5:30 PM. After Mass a Soup Supper will be held in the Par- ish Center with Mary Lou Rosien as the speaker. NEW STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL MEMBERS PRAYER CHAIN Congratulations to Igor Rosien, Millie & Charlie Steiger, Carol Do you have a few minutes to spare? Fr. Joe would like Lennon, and Heather Santiago Flecha who were selected for the to get a Prayer Chain at St. Leo’s. A person in need of pray- Stewardship Council. Thanks to Carol Jones, Brenda Herman, Julie ers would call the Prayer Chain Leader and add their prayer Norris, Victoria Yare and Jeff Tydings, the outgoing members who request. That person would call the next person on the chain, served the Stewardship Council so well. who would call the next person and so on. You would say a prayer, any prayer, with each request. The more people on LENTEN SOUP SUPPERS the prayer chain the more prayers can be prayed. If you St. Leo’s Soup Suppers will be held each Monday in Lent be- would like to become involved with the Prayer Chain call ginning March 11 after the 5:30 PM Mass. There will be a light the Parish Office at 392-2710. supper of soup and bread after which a speaker will give a short talk with the evening ending around 7:30 PM. The speakers will be: HILTON EAST DRIVER Note a correction of speakers on 3/25 and 4/1 Dan Schwind will drive on Ash Wednesday, March 6, Deacon Jeff Serbicki, March 11 Paul Byers will drive on Sunday, March 10. Mary Lou Rosien, March 18 Deacon Jim Steiger, March 25 Jorge Salgado, Hispanic Ministry Coordinator, April 1 Our Sanctuary Candle burns in Church as we pray for Deacon Dennis Lohouse, April 8 Our Lady of Mercy. A sign-up sheet will be posted asking for soups and breads and From: The Rosary Society for the number of attendees each week for planning the food. Our Sanctuary Candle burns in the Divine Mercy Chapel for the newest members of the Stewardship CHAPEL MONSTRANCE CABINET Council. Augie Billitier built a beautiful cabinet to house the Mon- strance during Wednesday Adoration. Thanks to donations from the daily Mass attendees the cabinet has been permanently affixed in the wall in the Divine Mercy Chapel with the help of Chuck Mance. IN NEED OF OUR PRAYER Gary Almquist Mary Bourret Diane Camp The Holy Eucharist in the Monstrance must always have people in Michael Camp Sandy Camp Cynthia Crooks attendance whenever it is open for Adoration. People are scheduled Alison Davis Christie Davisson Liam DeRue to pray before the Blessed Sacrament each hour of the day. If one Marcel Defever George Edelman June Edelman has to leave and there is no one to follow, the doors can be closed Sandy Farrell Pamela Godshalk Tom Heinsler until the next person arrives and the doors can be reopened. Walter Horylev Steven Huskey Greg Ingham If you have not been in the Chapel recently, take a moment to Richard Kirchhoff Marty Klotzbach Bernadine Kubitz stop in and see this latest improvement. Thank you again to those Jane Lanio Connie LaVilla Dcn. Bill Lenhart who enhanced our Chapel with their kind donations. Juanita Link Mike Marinetti Janna McGlynn Edward Moats Rosemary Mykins Eric Munson Giang Ngo Nicholas O’Hara Richard Palermo Let us remember in prayer; Ken Rebuck Jeannette Richardson James Robinson Constance Grillo, James Masters, Steve Ross Mary Sauer Mary Scherberger Joanna Ames, Nancy Riffle. Robert Schils Darlene Serbicki Charmain Sercu Tina Sharp Agnes Tedd Lisa Tydings Eternal rest grant unto them Deb Villareale Marilyn Walker Mark Wilhelm and let perpetual light shine upon them. Don Wilkens Gerry Wilkenson Carol Williams David Williams Ray Yeaton Bob Zenosky If you judge people, you have no time to love them.