Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Parish The Member Churches of Sacred Heart ~ Kent St. Bernard ~ Sharon St Bridget ~ Cornwall Bridge Monsignor Vittorio Guerrera ~ Pastor Parish Trustees Mr. Jerry Tobin Mrs. Stephanie Plunkett MASS SCHEDULE Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and First Friday 9 AM SACRED HEART ~ KENT SATURDAY VIGIL 4 PM SAINT BRIDGET CHURCH 7 River Road ~ Cornwall Bridge SUNDAY 8 AM SAINT BERNARD CHURCH 52 New Street ~ Sharon SUNDAY 10 AM SACRED HEART CHURCH 17 Bridge Street ~ Kent HOLY DAY MASS SCHEDULE CONSULT THE BULLETIN SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Before Mass or by appointment. PARISH OFFICE Mrs. Sandy Papsin ~ Parish Secretary Monday, Thursday & Friday 9 - 4:30 860-927-3003 Mailing Address: PO BOX 186 Kent, CT 06757 WEBSITE: saintkaterict.org EMAIL: [email protected] RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COORDINATORS Martha Lane & Kathleen Lindenmayer BAPTISM & MARRIAGE Registered parishioners are asked to make arrangements by calling the Parish office ALL THREE PARISH WORSHIP SITES A FAMILY PERSPECTIVE… Today’s gospel says Jesus chased the merchants out of the temple, it doesn’t say He was angry. Jesus teaches us to act from conviction and not from anger. SATURDAY MARCH 6th He didn’t condemn the merchants, only their business SUNDAY MARCH 7th practice. Attack the behavior and not the person. THE THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 4 PM ~ CORNWALL BRIDGE Jane Bly ~ Month’s Mind Mass PRAY THE ROSARY The Rosary prayed to Mary is a powerful prayer as Mary 8 AM ~ SHARON intercedes for each of us. Her Son never denies His moth- Edward Kirby ~ Month’s Mind Mass er. This week, following Tuesday Morning Mass, the ro- 10 AM ~ KENT sary will be prayed at Sacred Heart. The intention this Irena Grochowska week is for the protection of the unborn and the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. Spend Requested by Barbara and Andre’ Zganiacz just twenty minutes praying the rosary. Your prayers will always be MONDAY MARCH 8th ~ 9 AM ~ KENT heard. Saint John of God John J. O’Connell III ~ Requested by his wife TUESDAY MARCH 9th ~ 9 AM ~ KENT Saint Frances of Rome John J. O’Connell IV ~ Mass of Healing The practice of offering Mass for particular intentions is an an- cient one, dating back to the early Church. Inscriptions discov- Requested by his mother ered on tombs in Roman catacombs of the second century give WEDNESDAY MARCH 10th ~ 9 AM ~ KENT evidence for this practice. When a priest celebrates Mass, he Saint Dominic Savio offers each celebration of the Eucharist for a particular person, or intention (living or deceased). By so doing, special graces Paige and Jim Devaney from the Eucharistic Sacrifice of Our Lord are applied upon that Requested by Jacque Petersen person or intention. Mass offerings are $20 for a Sunday Mass SATURDAY MARCH 13th and $15 for a weekday Mass. SUNDAY MARCH 14th THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Parish Donation Statements are 4PM ~ CORNWALL BRIDGE now available to those who have Raffaela Nunziante ~ 20th Anniversary subscribed to our weekly donation Requested by Family envelopes or used our On-line giv- 8 AM ~ SHARON ing program during 2020. Lou Romeo ~ Requested by the Hannon Family Please write “PLEASE SEND STATEMENT” on the back 10 AM ~ KENT of your offertory envelope, or give Sandy a call at the par- ish office if you would like to receive a statement of your Gloria DeVito donations for tax purposes. We are grateful for your support CARE MORE THAN OTHERS THINK NECESSARY. of Saint Kateri Parish. TRUST MORE THAN OTHERS THINK WISE. ON LINE GIVING allows you to SERVE MORE THAN make contributions without writing OTHERS THINK PRACTICAL. checks or worrying about cash dona- tions. This site: stkateriparishkent.weshareonline.org allows you to set up automatic contributions and to change the The Sanctuary Lamp signifies the Eucharis- timing and/or amount of your gift at any time. tic presence of the Lord Jesus in the Tabernacle and Please call the parish office if you need assistance. burns for seven days. You may have the Sanctuary Thank you! Lamp memorialized for a sick person, a deceased family member or friend, or as a special intention. The weekly donation for this is $25. Sanctuary "God never tires of forgiving us; Lamps can be memorialized in each of the three we are the ones who tire churches of St. Kateri Tekakwitha. If you would like of seeking his mercy." ~ Pope Francis to reserve a week in any of our churches, please contact Sandy at the parish office. SACRIFICIAL GIVING FOR THE MASS ON TELEVISION 2nd SUNDAY OF LENT ORTV-10 AM on WCCT-TV (WB20) WCTX-TV(MyTV9) also at 10 AM It can also be seen ENVELOPES: $ 2,107.00. Saturday and Sunday at 5 AM on WCCT-TV. ON LINE GIVING: $ 775.00 EWTN-12 Midnight, 8 AM, Noon, and 7 PM. Catholic TV– 9:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 7 PM, and 11:30 PM Thank you for your generosity and steadfast commitment to our Parish. May God bless you and your families. During the season of Lent, the Church FIRST READING urges all the Faithful to reflect a spirit of penance in Ex 20: 1-17 their daily lives through performing acts of fast and abstinence. In those days, God delivered all these FASTING requires that only one full meal be taken per day. Two other smaller meals may be commandments: “I, the LORD, am your God, taken during the day to maintain physical strength, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, but these two meals together should not equal a full meal in quantity. that place of slavery. You shall not have oth- Fasting obliges all those who have reached the age of 18 and er gods besides me. You shall not carve continues to oblige until age 59. Those not specifically obliged to fast are idols for yourselves in the shape of anything encouraged to join in the discipline of fasting to the extent that they are able. in the sky above or on the earth below or in ABSTINENCE prohibits individuals from eating meat on a particular day. the waters beneath the earth; you shall not bow down before them or Abstinence obliges all those who have reached the age of 14 and worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting continues to oblige throughout their entire lives. Those not specifically punishment for their fathers’ wickedness on the children of those who obliged to abstain from eating meat are encouraged to join in this discipline to the extent that they are able. hate me, down to the third and fourth generation; but bestowing mercy ASH WEDNESDAY and GOOD FRIDAY are days down to the thousandth generation on the children of those who love of fast and abstinence. ALL FRIDAYS in Lent are days of abstinence. me and keep my commandments. “You shall not take the name of the The Lenten regulations also include almsgiving and acts of LORD, your God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished the penance. one who takes his name in vain. “Remember to keep holy the sabbath day. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the LORD has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. “Honor your father and your moth- er, that you may have a long life in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you. You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM Lord, you have the words of everlasting life. SECOND READING 1Cor 1:22-25 Brothers and sisters: Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolish- ness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. GOSPEL Jn 2:13-25 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, 2021 ARCHBISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL sheep, and doves, as well as the money changers seated This weekend marks the start of the 2021 Archbishop’s Annual there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of Appeal in our parish. If you did not receive the 2021 Archbishop’s Annual the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the Appeal request mailing, please pick up a packet at the rear of Church as you leave today. As Catholics in the Archdiocese of Hartford we have a coins of the money changers and overturned their tables, profound impact on our local communities not only in the spiritual realm, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of but intimately connected to it, the realm of social services and many chari- here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” ties and outreach services performed by, or with help from, our Church.