LIGHT & OU H R T R W O O F R The Roman Catholic Community of L O D G S A N I O N L T Y PA B A SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON S C H A L MARCH 14, 2021 – FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 5384 Wilson Mills Road, Highland Heights OH, 44143 440-442-3410 www.SaintPaschal.com OUR MISSION Saint Paschal Baylon is a joyful, welcoming Eucharistic community empowered to grow through worship in faith, love and service, enriching minds and nourishing souls in Christ Jesus. Our Doors Are Open: No matter what your present status in the Catholic Church, no matter what your current family and marital situation, no matter what your personal history, age, background, race, etc., no matter what your own self-image, you are invited, welcomed, accepted, loved and respected here at Saint Paschal Baylon. Join with us! To become a registered parishioner, please visit our website or pick up a form from the parish office or priest or sacristan after Mass in the church vesting sacristy. WORSHIP DEVOTION SERVICE Eucharist Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Communion of the Sick Saturday: 4:30pm Our Community @ Prayer ministry keeps vigil until the Call the parish office to set up a visit. Sunday: The LORD’s Day: 8:30am, 10:30am, & 6:30pm LORD’s return and extends our prayer and praise of the Weekdays: 9:00am church, 11:30am Saint Ann Shrine Mass with the liturgical rite of exposition after the 9:00am Manna Ministry Saturday: 9:00am church Mass until 10:00pm Monday thru Thursday. Visits for prayer Helping parishioners in need, call the in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament praying Saint Peter parish office. Liturgy of the Hours Julian Eymard’s “4 ends” of adoration, forgiveness, thanksgiving Helping Hands Morning Prayer: 8:00am OLBS Chapel in church and petition at other times when there is no exposition, are Evening Prayer: 4:45pm OLBS Chapel in church (M–F only) Food and clothing distribution for welcome, retrieving a special code to the door from our pastor. those in NE Ohio, call the parish office. Rite of Penance Commit to an hour of prayer with your family! OLBS Chapel Respecting All Life Rite 1: Saturday: 3:30pm – 4:15 Individual, in church. Anytime by appointment at the parish office See our website for resources and Rite 2: Communal in Advent & Lent The Rosary guides to support one another in times Monday – Saturday: 8:30am OLBS Chapel of challenge and crisis or contact the Anointing of the Sick Wednesday: 11am Saint Ann Shrine parish office for information. First Sunday of the month after 8:30am MassOLBS Chapel in church. Please ask a priest to anoint at church or we will Novena with Saint Ann come to you. Veneration of the Relic of Saint Ann Tuesday: 11:20am Bulletin Material: Saint Ann Shrine [email protected] Celebration of Other Sacraments and Processes Deadline 12 days before publication date Please contact the parish office for: Becoming Catholic, Baptism, Confirmation, Matrimony, Annulment, Funeral Preparation Preliminary scheduling for your family members and to become a sister, nun, brother, monk, deacon or ordained priest. ST. PASCHAL BAYLON CHURCH HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, OHIO MASS INTENTIONS/STIPENDS VARIA AND CALENDAR NOTES Thank you for your generosity to the Blessed Sacrament HEARING ASSISTANCE: If you need support and a Community for the Mass Intentions and requests for listening device to hear better in our church, please see prayers. We speak aloud all we pray for at Mass, as you the musicians for a special device that you may wear in hear at each Mass. We mention these names with our church. regular intentions. Here is who we will remember this week: LOW-GLUTEN HOSTS OR THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST: If you wish to participate in • Monday, March 15, 2021, Holy Communion with a low-gluten host, or to also LENTEN WEEKDAY receive the Blood of Christ during Mass, with your very (Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b; Jn 4:43-54) own chalice, please come to the sacristy before Mass to + Edita Slepcoviene let the priest or sacristan know and share with you the procedure. • Tuesday, March 16, 2021, LENTEN WEEKDAY SUGGESTIONS? Share them in the Fickel Narthex (Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; Jn 5:1-16) yellow suggestion box (under the prayer intention book), + Anne Blake or by writing our ombudsmen, Tom Kelley, through an email: [email protected] • Wednesday, March 17, 2021, . LENTEN WEEKDAY FROM THE PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE… (Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9, 13c-14, 17-18; Jn 5:17-30) + Michael Amene. Sr. (Anniversary of Death) FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT: Having candidates • Thursday, March 18, 2021, for baptism this year, we LENTEN WEEKDAY use the RCIA (Rite of (Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23; Jn 5:31-47) Christian Initiation for + Chris Rateni (Birthday) Adults) readings for the FOURTH Sunday of Lent • Friday, March 19, 2021, – the person born blind. SAINT JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF The photo to the left of this THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY column comes from Jamie (Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Dixon, one of our Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a) outstanding Preschool + Diane Long teachers when I went to some of the classrooms sprinkling our students with • Saturday, March 20, 2021, ashes. We do this ritual as a reminder of us working on LENTEN WEEKDAY our personal and communal blindness during the season (Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9b-12; Jn 7:40-53) of Lent. What do we fail to see? What could we view Special Intentions better? Is it time for a new set of glasses? + Jean Futey During this season of Lent, I hope you appreciate the • Sunday, March 21, 2021, readings, metaphors, and other opportunities that help FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT us see better. Some of us need an adjustment with our (Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-15; Heb 5:7-9; prescription – and let’s ask God to help us, as the great eye Jn 12:20-33) doctor, to truly see the world as God sees the world and + James Cozzens bring great clarity to our lives. We promised to take this + Giuseppe, + Carmela and time seriously on Ash Wednesday for this holy season. + Antonio Zeolla (Birthdays) Now at the halfway point, it’s good for us to enjoy the + John Westropp Eucharistic glasses and keep our lives in focus with God. FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT MARCH 14, 2021 SPRINKLING ASHES: Our Liturgy Commission • Identify how the parish effectively supports that regularly evaluates our liturgies and gives suggestions growth and look at opportunities to support that for next year. What did you think of us practicing the growth more in the future; ancient ritual and sprinkling of ashes on our heads this year? I would appreciate the feedback! (Email me or call • Provide valuable input to help pastors and parish my ext. 111.) leaders make decisions and plan effectively; YEAR OF SAINT JOSEPH: Pope Francis surprised the • Help pastors and parish leaders have a sense of where world when he called for a “Year of Saint Joseph” from to focus their evangelization efforts. December 8, 2020, until December 8, 2021. Today and The survey can be completed online, on your phone, each day through December 8, we will recite a litany or or, if required, via hard copy too. Each parish will prayer (some written by our parishioners) to honor Saint receive a personalized link to the survey to share with Joseph. Also, through the generous donation of a family, parishioners. Individuals can also go to catholicleaders. we have a candle at Saint Joseph’s statue. Our statues org/clevelanddmi and select their parish. The survey will were made by the infamous Cleveland sculptor Norman be available for all parishioners across the Diocese to Poirier, made from aluminate, and molded directly on participate from February 20-March 22. welded steel reinforcement. (This and other details about our church will be part of a new resource I am working on • Please respond as soon you can. We want to hear for the church building’s 50th anniversary.) Please write from as many people as possible. an intercession in the basket next to the statue. We also appreciate your donations. Each Mass, after our silent • Parish leadership will receive a summary report of meditation post-communion and the announcements, the aggregate data and that no one at our parish will we will stand together to recite a litany or prayer. Saint have access to individual survey responses. More Joseph is the great protector and caregiver. Pope Francis info? Visit the Catholic Leadership Institute website. thought he would be perfect for assisting us during this Our diocese is a pilot project, so let me know what pandemic year. you think! SPRING FLING 12: While we will not have the “in- WHAT IS YOUR ELEVATOR SPEECH? Our new person” games, rides, bands, and food tent, we will marketing campaign needs everyone’s help! We are in still have two of our essential fundraising pieces: the the process of coming up with a new marketing strategy $10,000.00 Raffle and the Sponsor Ad Booklet (which to share the “good news” about SPB. What would you is a paper copy, online and featured in our bulletin and tell someone about SPB if you were in an elevator and weekly Paschal Life email).