5376 State Street Saginaw, MI 48603 989-799-2460 www.stasaginaw.org March 15, 2020 Eucharistic Liturgies Saturday 4:00 PM Sunday 8:30 & 11:00 AM Tuesday - Thursday 8:30 AM First Friday 8:30 AM In the event of a funeral on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or First Friday, morning Mass will be cancelled. Sacrament of Reconciliation 2nd & 4th Saturday 9:00-10:00 AM or by appointment Parish Staff Fr. Richard Bokinskie Pastor [email protected] Sr. Ann deGuise, OSF Pastoral Associate [email protected] Dawn Drago Parish Secretary [email protected] Pat Messing Bookkeeper [email protected] Deborah Kraklow Director of Liturgy and Music [email protected] Karen Bartels RCIA Director Baptism & Funeral Coordinator Welcome to our Parish: If you are a visitor to St. Thomas Aquinas, we want you to know how welcome you are. If you wish to become a member of our parish, please call the parish office. Parishioner Info: If you are moving, changing phone numbers or need to update family status, kindly notify the parish office. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.): Anyone seeking information about the Catholic Faith should contact the parish office for more information. Sessions meet from September through Spring. Baptisms: Held on the first weekend of the month after the required Baptism Preparation Class. Parents are required to be practicing Catholics and attending Mass regularly. Call the parish office to register. Marriage: Individuals must be registered in the parish at least six months before scheduling a wedding. A wedding date can only be set after meeting with the parish priest. Care of the Sick / Pastoral Visits: Please notify the parish office when seriously ill at home, in the hospital or a nursing/assisted facility. Also, If you or a loved one has had a hospital stay and are recovering at a rehab facility or moving into an assisted living facility and wish a pastoral visit. Third Sunday of Lent Page 2 March 15, 2020 Monday, March 16 Please pray for all who have been commended to our 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab; Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4; Lk 4:24-30 prayer that they will respond to God’s healing will, especially: Tuesday, March 17 Saint Patrick, Bishop Jill; Jean B.; David B.; Jerry; Daphne; Rebecca Custodio; Dn 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9; Mt 18:21-35 Ursula Slaggert; Adam P.; Becky T.; Frankie; Glady; 8:30 AM Mass Martin; E.J.; Amy; Kelly; Eric; B.W.; G.B.; Janice T.; Alex 1:00 PM Christian Service Committee / POMR Hilburn; Jerry B.; Joan B.; Darlene; Fred; Todd J.; Phyllis 7:00 PM RCIA Adult Meeting / CB Epting; Rich & family; Lupe & Juanita Hernandez; Fred K.; 7:00-9:00 PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Jack D.; Barbara Meyer; Mary Louise; Joyce; Helen Wednesday, March 18 Reynolds; Kathy; Amy L.; David C.; Floyd; Toby; Larry; Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Harold; Wendy G.; Pat; Jim; Anne L.; Taylor G.; Jan Hoyer; Dt 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5:17-19 Dolores; and those who are homebound and in 8:30 AM Mass with assisted/nursing facilities. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 10:00 AM Bible Study & Sharing / POMR We are happy to list names of those who request prayers for one month. The list will be purged on April 3. Please remember to 2:00 PM Benediction contact the office 799-2460 ext. 1 when a loved one’s name no Thursday, March 19 longer needs inclusion on the prayer list. Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29; St. Thomas now has a wonderful Prayer Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24 or Lk 2:41-51a Line. If you or your loved one is in need of 8:30 AM Mass with NCCE Community immediate prayer, please call the Parish 6:30 PM Choir Rehearsal / CH Office. Your name will be added to the Friday, March 20 prayer line and will be on for one week. If Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17; you wish to remain on the Prayer Line, please contact the Mk 12:28-34 Parish Office once again. 7:00 PM Stations of the Cross Saturday, March 21 Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab; Lk 18:9-14 4:00 PM Mass Sunday, March 22 Fourth Sunday of Lent PARISH STEWARDSHIP 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 or Jn 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 When Jesus asked the Samaritan woman for a drink of water, He 8:30 AM Mass opened the door for a life- changing relationship with Him. 9:30 AM RCIA Youth Meeting / CB Scripture says her testimony drew many others to Him as well. We, too, must be ready to respond whenever and wherever the 9:45 AM First Eucharist /Confirmation Class / SCH Lord speaks to us and be prepared for it to change out lives! 11:00 AM Mass w/ RCIA 2nd Scrutiny 11:00 AM Liturgy of the Word for Children March 8, 2020 Week Day Mass in the Church on Tuesday, Wednesday, Envelopes: $ 11,626.00 Thursday and First Friday 8:30 AM. The Rosary is prayed at 8:00 Loose: $ 1,232.00 AM. In the event of a funeral, morning Mass will be cancelled on Electronic (ACH): $ 523.00 Tuesday, Wednesday and First Friday. Children’s: $ 27.35 FA meets on Tuesday & Thursday at 6:30 PM and Saturday at Total: $ 13,408.35 10:00 AM in the Parish Office Meeting Room. Lunches for the needy are packed on Monday, Wednesday and Money Counters for March 16, 2020:……………..Team #6 Thursday at 9:00 AM in the Church lower level. Please remember St. Thomas Aquinas in your estate planning. Week of March 21/22, 2020 4:00 PM 8:30 AM 11:00 AM Coordinator Sr. Ann Jim Carpp Nancy Brasseur Reader Dave Payne Jim Carpp Bob Brasseur Reader Kelly Garant ** Bobbie Beyerlein Tony Champagne Petitions Kelly Garant Dave Beyerlein Tony Champagne HITE ORTHODONTICS Altar Server Cam Kaul Derek Bauer Macy Hausbeck Altar Server Colin Kaul Frank Gorzela Charlie Hausbeck To view the full ad see the back of the Altar Server Parker Kingsbury Owen Tunney bulletin. Be sure to patronize all of our Sacristan Maryann Czolgosz Jackie R. & Bev A. JoAnn Heath businesses as their generosity allows us Altar Linens Ann Watters to provide the bulletin to you at no cost to Liturgy of the Word Catechist Sue Smith the Parish. St. Thomas Aquinas Church Page 3 Saginaw, Michigan This week, we have the first of three Communal Father Rick’s Reflections . Penance services in preparation for Easter. Today Today, and for the next three Sundays, (Sunday), we gather at St John Vianney Church at 2:30 our gospel readings shift from Matthew to pm. The next one will be on Sunday, March 29 @ 2:30 John for the Scrutinies for our elect and pm at the Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption. The last candidates. Today, we listen to the story one is Thursday, April 2 @ 7:00 pm here at St Thomas of Jesus meeting the woman at the well. Aquinas Parish. We have one more session of individual We are at the Samaritan town of Sychar rite of penance on Saturday, March 28 from 9:00 am – (Shechem), noteworthy because of its 10:00 am. Just to let people know that there will only be association with the patriarch Jacob. The Old Testament one priest that morning because of the Men’s never mentions the well of Jacob. Samaritans were not Conference being held at Holy Spirit Parish that day. considered by Judeans to be truly Jewish as they This coming Thursday, March 19, is our next worshipped not at the temple in Jerusalem (Judea) but at Theology on Tap. St John Vianney Parish is hosting us Shechem (“on this mountain.”) Jesus tells the woman with Bishop Gruss as our presenter that evening. We that there will come a time “when true worshipers will start at 7:00 pm with pizza and beverages. There is no worship the Father in Spirit and truth.” No longer will it cost but a free-will offering will be taken up to cover the matter whether one is at a particular place for worship. expenses that night. Plan on joining us. The woman recognizes Jesus as a prophet and Jesus Our Stations this week on Friday night at 7:00 pm himself eventually reveals to her that he is the Messiah, will feature the fifth-grade class from Nouvel Elementary the Christ. Even so, she does not initially refer to him school for Children’s Stations of the Cross. Join us for with that title herself. Instead, she goes back to her this wonderful Lenten devotion. townspeople claiming that she met someone who could It almost seems like spring is close at hand. The be the Christ. Because of her word, many of the other day, I noticed geese flying north, looking for a townspeople believed in him. After Jesus stayed with place to land. The temperatures certainly are feeling like them for some time, many more came to believe in hear, spring.