Vidi Dominum March 15, 2020 - 3rd Sunday of Lent Fasting 101 by Sue Thayer Transformation Through Teams of Our Lady a Testimony by Jen Bradley SAINT MARY MAGDALENE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 2654 E. Williams Field Road, Gilbert, AZ 85295 - Phone (480)279-6737 FAX: (480)279-6786 Meet Jesus - Know Jesus - Experience Jesus St. Mary Magdalene is a Roman Catholic Parish that witnesses the love of Jesus Christ through evangelization, catechesis and the celebration of the Sacraments. Parish Office Hours Staff Directory Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am - Noon & 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Athena Mota de Alcantara, Family Life Coordinator Friday: 9:00 am - Noon. [email protected], ext. 217 Claire Halbur, Director of Sacred Music Sunday Masses Times [email protected], ext. 209 Saturday (Vigil) 4:30 pm Clare Shakal, Sacred Music Assistant Sunday 7:30 am 9:30 am [email protected] 11:30 am 4:30 pm* Jackie Sullivan, Administrative Assistant Latin Mass (Novus Ordo) [email protected] *4:30pm, First Sunday of Every Month Jake Stanley, Director of Youth Evangelization [email protected], ext. 211 Daily Mass Schedule John Lowery, Nullity Minister Monday - Saturday 8:00 am [email protected] Communal Prayer (in the Church) Kristi Hillier, Family Catechesis Registrar [email protected], ext. 207 Chanted Lauds (Morning Prayer) Tuesdays at 7:15am Rosary & Divine Mercy, prayed after 8:00am daily Mass Lauren McParlane, Coordinator of Middle School Evangelization [email protected], ext. 214 Perpetual Adoration The Blessed Sacrament is exposed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Lita Martinez, Director of Parish Evangelization except during morning weekday Masses. A key card is required [email protected], ext. 210 for access after parish office hours. Join us in the chapel for: Maria Stoey, Coordinator of High School Evangelization Holy Hour for Life: Thursdays at 5:30pm [email protected], ext. 218 Holy Hour for Priests: 1st Sunday of each month at 3:00pm Mary Molina, Assistant to the Director of Family Catechesis [email protected], ext. 207 Confessions Monday - Friday 8:45 am - 9:15 am Roger Molieri, Coordinator of Sacred Liturgy [email protected], ext. 205 Saturday 8:45 am - 11:15 am Shari Stenborg, Director of Finance Clergy [email protected], ext. 206 Fr. Chris Axline, Pastor: [email protected] Tom Perna, Director of Family Catechesis Fr. Edward Gilbert, Parochial Vicar: [email protected] [email protected], ext. 203 Deacons Craig Hintze, Kevin Knapp, Rick Nevins, Jerry Trisha Engel, Director of Pastoral Care O’Toole, and Larry St. Onge (winter visitor): Call Parish Office [email protected], ext. 201 or 215 From Your Finance Counsel Collections (Includes contributions made via Faith Direct) On the Cover: Photo of a gravestone at Mt. Saint Mary General Fund: $33,283.60 ; Capital Campaign: $10,205.24; Cemetery in Queens, NY. Photo by Lon Woodruff Ash Wed: $5,828.90 Bulletin Submissions: All submissions for events, articles, art, or other Upcoming Special Collections: content must be made by Wednesday, a week-and-a-half prior to any March 15: CDA given Sunday via smarymag.org/bulletin-announcement-request. We reserve the right to edit, include or not include your submission. 2 Questions? Contact [email protected]. Need Help? New to St. Mary Magdalene? What’s Inside We are looking forward to meeting you! Please visit the Parish Office or smarymag.org/about-parishregistration to formally register as a parishioner. 4. Fasting 101 A former Planned Parenthood employee discusses how essential fasting Emergency Anointing of the Sick: is to the life of the Christian and why it is a foundational part of the 40 Use only for emergencies - 480-678-3353 Days for Life campaign. Pastoral Care to the Sick: Our Pastoral Care Ministry vol- 6. Transformation Through Teams of unteers visit and bring Holy Communion to those who are sick, hospitalized or homebound. Please call the parish of- Our Lady fice or email [email protected] to arrange a visit. Parishioner Jen Bradley shares about the impact that joining Teams of Our Lady has had on her marriage and family life. Catholic Counseling: If you are looking for help in the area of mental health, marriage counseling, pornography and 8. Parish Programs / Parish Life Communities other addictions, etc., call the Parish Office for recommen- dations of counselors that can offer guidance and therapy 9. Upcoming Events from a Catholic perspective. Annulments: Contact John Lowery: [email protected] Readings for the Week Monday: 2 Kgs 5:1-15b; Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4; Lk 4:24-30 Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Saint Mary Magdalene Con- Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4-51b, 6, 7bc, 8-9; Mt 18:21- ference Serving the needy of our community. Call 480-209- 35 9483 for assistance. A Donation Box is located in the west Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5:17- wall of the narthex. 19 Thursday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom Letter Requests: When requesting letters of permission for 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a Baptism or Confirmation sponsors or copies of replacement Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-11ab, 14, 17; Mk 12:28-34 Sacrament Certificates, please allow for a FIVE business day Saturday: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4, 18-21ab; Lk 18:9-14 turn around. Requests may be submitted to the Parish Sunday: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-6; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1- Office. 41[1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38] Offering Masses: If you’d like to offer a Special Intention Mass (living) or In Remembrance Mass (deceased), please This Week’s Saints, Special Observances & come by the parish office. There is a stipend ($10). We are Mass Intentions now scheduling Masses for March 2021. Sunday –3rd Sunday of Lent; 7:30 + Melvin Kluthe; 9:30 + Gene Erickson; 11:30 + Claude Hueschen; 4:30 + Grace Roarty Family Record Updates: If you have a change of address, Monday - 8:00 + For the Holy Souls in Purgatory phone, email, addition of children or if you are moving out Tuesday - St. Patrick; 8:00am SI Greg, Jeff, Kaitlyn & Zach of the parish please call the parish office or contact Brown [email protected] to have your records updated. Wednesday - St. Cyril of Jerusalem; 8:00 + For all Priests in Purgatory Thursday - St. Joseph; 8:00 + Easton Barnaby; 6:15pm Pro Populo Friday - 8:00 + Jeremy Privet Adoration Saturday - 8:00 + Inga Lavante; 4:30 + Bob & Betty Cook The following hours are in need of Weekly Adorers: SUNDAY 10:00AM & NOON; MON 2:00AM & 3:00AM; RAY FOR US TUES 3:00PM; WEDS 4:00AM; THURS 12:00AM; FRI 12:00AM P … There are currently other hours with only one scheduled adorer. We extend Our Prayers and Sympathy to the family and friends Ideally, we would have at least 3-4 people committed to pray in of Lucy Bustillo, Henry Garcia, and Larry Wicevic, who have our Adoration Chapel for every hour of the week. Visit recently passed away. May their souls and the souls of all the smm.weadorehim.com to sign up or login. Contact Roger at faithful departed, rest in peace. [email protected] with questions. 3 via pxhere.com and prayer. These Biblical fasts almost Fasting 101 by Sue Thayer always pertained to a total fast from food; allowing only water. But there are Fasting. The word alone is enough to and ordered the people to fast and many other ways to fast. strike fear in the hearts of many. To pray. God relented and did not even consider a long-term fast can feel destroy them as He had threat- Many people today do a 21-day completely overwhelming. Let’s make ened (Jonah 3:10). “Daniel Fast,” modeled after the this a little more manageable by look- prophet Daniel, whose fast limited his ing at what the Bible tells us. • The elderly woman, Anna, spent intake to fruit, vegetables, whole her days at the temple in worship, grains, nuts, and seeds. This healthy God’s Word gives us 92 passages that fasting and praying while she diet avoids processed foods, meat, fat, mention those who fasted...as well as waited to see the Savior. God an- sugars, and, yes...even caffeine. Not the amazing ways God answered. In swered in the most profound way only is fasting good for your body, it is Matthew 6:16, Jesus begins, “When you when she got to see and hold baby exceedingly healthy for your spirit and fast…,” which tells us that, as followers Jesus (Luke 2:37). soul. of Christ, we should be regularly fast- ing, just as we pray, read the Bible, or • Upon losing 40,000 men in battle, We’ve looked at how God blessed gather with other believers. the Israelites cried out to the Lord those who fasted in Biblical times, but and sat weeping and fasting. The what are the benefits today? What God Here are a few more notable examples next day, the Lord gave them vic- did then, He will do now (Acts 10:34). from Scripture: tory over their enemies (Judges He honors our efforts, feeble though 20:26). they may be. When we obediently fast • Queen Esther fasted and prayed and pray, we honor and glorify the Lord, showing our love and devotion for three days before she ap- • And, of course, in preparation for proached the King to plead for the His ministry, Jesus spent 40 days in to Him.