Saint Florian Under the Care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars 1233 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3615 March 28, 2021 ~ Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord PARISH STAFF WEEKEND MASSES Served by the Discalced Carmelite Friars 383-3565, ext. 2 Saturday (Anticipated) ...................... 4:00 p.m. Email [email protected] Sunday .............................................. 8:00 a.m. Maintenance: Joseph Rivest DAILY MASSES (in the Main Church at this time) Secretary: Jacqueline Wick (Please check Liturgy Schedule inside due to Holy Week.) M, T, Th and F ................................... 5:00 p.m. ST. FLORIAN PARISH OFFICE 1210 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3614 followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben. ......... until 6:45 p.m. Wednesday ....................................... 8:00 a.m. Phone ................................................ 383-3565, ext. 0 followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben. ..... until 9:00 a.m. Fax .................................................... 383-2708 Saturday ............................................ 8:00 a.m. Email ..... [email protected] with Confessions at ....................... 8:30 a.m. Website ............... www.stflorian.org Evening before Holy Day (Anticipated) PARISH OFFICE HOURS ...................................................... 7:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (No 5:00 p.m. Daily Mass on Anticipated Holy Days) (The Parish Office is closed on Fridays & Holidays.) Holy Day .......................................... 8:00 a.m. (No 5:00 p.m. Daily Mass on Holy Days) PASTORAL COUNCIL Chairperson: Kate Klister ................ 350-9217 CONFESSIONS (in the Main Church) Vice Chair: Sue Jens ........................ 328-4042 By appointment this week due to Holy Week. Trustee/Secretary: Russell Miller .... 671-2385 Please call the Parish Office. Trustee/Treasurer: Sandy Kania ...... 672-0364 MUSIC DIRECTORS MARY QUEEN OF SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY Joseph Carpenter - 4:00 p.m. Sat. choir…..430-3425 (our Parish Cluster School) Diane Bersch - 8:00 a.m. Sun. choir……...541-8109 1227 South 116 Street • West Allis, WI 53214 476-0751 CHRISTIAN FORMATION OFFICE Jen Vega, Principal • Email: [email protected] Within St. Rita Parish, 2318 South 61 Street , West Allis, WI 53219 School Website: mqsca.org Email for Registration Information: [email protected] High School/Confirmation Program RCIA-Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults RCIC-Rite of Christian Initiation of Children “Please remember St. Florian Parish in your will.” Contact the DRE - Director of Religious Education, Barbara Krieger..................................... 541-7515, ext. 16 FUNERAL PLANNING Please contact Fr. Elijah as soon as possible to make funeral arrangements. SACRAMENTS Baptism Parish registration and parental instruction required. Please contact the parish office. Marriage Please arrange for a date and instructions at least six months in advance at the parish office. Parish registration is required. Anointing of the Sick and/or Last Rites Please contact Fr. Elijah at the Parish Office. PARISH MEMBERSHIP Each family or single adult 18 years old or older So they brought the colt to Jesus and put their living at home or alone is invited and expected to be cloaks over it. And he sat on it. Many people registered in our parish family at the parish office. spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread Please call the parish office to register. leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. ~ Mark 11:7-8 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord St. Florian Parish - March 28, 2021 March 27, 2021 Readings for the week of March 28, 2021 through Sun: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16/Is 50:4-7/ April 4, 2021 Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 [2a]/Phil 2:6-11/ Mk 14:1—15:47 or 15:1-39 Sat., Mar. 27 - Lenten Weekday Mon: Is 42:1-7/Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14 [1a]/Jn 12:1-11 8:00 a.m. † JoAnne Gannon Tues: Is 49:1-6/Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15 and 17 Anticipated Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord [cf. 15ab]/Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 4:00 p.m. † Josephine & † Joseph Fuys Wed: Is 50:4-9a/Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 33-34 [14c]/ Sun., Mar. 28 - Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Mt 26:14-25 Thurs Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14/ 8:00 a.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian Parish Mon., Mar. 29 - Monday of Holy Week Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18 [cf. 1 Cor 10:16]/ 5:00 p.m. † John Sullivan 1 Cor 11:23-26/Jn 13:1-15 Fri: Is 52:13—53:12/Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25 Tues., Mar. 30 - Tuesday of Holy Week [Lk 23:46]/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/Jn 18:1—19:42 5:00 p.m. † Janet Dent Sat Vigil: Gn 1:1—2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a/Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, Wed., Mar. 31 - Wednesday of Holy Week 13-14, 24, 35 [30] or Ps 33:4-5, 6-7, 12-13, 20-22 [5b]/ 8:00 a.m. Lucy & Mike Gn 22:1-18 or 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18/Ps 16:5, 8, 9-10, Thurs., Apr. 1 - Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday) 11 [1]/Ex 14:15—15:1/Ex 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18 [1b]/ 7:00 p.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian Parish Is 54:5-14/Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 [2a]/Is 55:1-11/ Fri., Apr. 2 - Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [3]/Bar 3:9-15, 32—4:4/Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 [Jn 6:68c]/Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28/Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4 [42:2] 1:00 p.m. Intentions are not accepted for Good or Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 [3] or Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19 Friday as there is no Mass. Sat., Apr. 3 - Easter Vigil (Holy Saturday) [12a]/Rom 6:3-11/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23/Mk 16:1-7 7:30 p.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian Parish Next Sun: Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 [24]/ Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Sun., Apr. 4 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Mk 16:1-7 or Lk 24:13-35 8:00 a.m. † Art Kania, Jr. ETERNAL FLAME CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNER March 27 - April 2, 2021 March 23, 2021 In loving memory of: $25 - Diane Voelkel † John Sullivan GOSPEL MEDITATION — ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE Many struggle with Jesus. Some who preserving and enhancing what God has Where has the true, effective Christian consider themselves faithful hail him in made but replacing it with something voice been through all of the wars and their churches but still struggle to figure we believe is better and more useful. violence, prejudice and unjust con- out what to do with him on our streets. The earth, flowers, and animals are all quests, abuse of human beings and The message is somehow more palata- expendable if they stand in the way of attempted extinctions of nationalities, ble when it echoes pious renderings and the “more” we want to achieve. We the establishments of procedures and sentiments and involves singing hosan- seek to remove as many obstacles and protocols that serve only a few and not nas during worship. It becomes a bit hurdles as possible in search of the the many and all of the injustices and trickier when it gets to the part about easiest, quickest, and most efficient path exploitations that are a part of our changing the way we conduct the busi- we can find. We have created drugs and human history? A few courageous ness of our lives, becoming more sensi- laws that preserve our free choice, even prophets have stood up and out through- tive to the disadvantaged, poor, and though it may mean setting aside God’s out all of the comings and goings of our marginalized, and living as servants of vision and example. Why suffer when human journey with many receiving the our Loving Creator. Ultimately, it is a we can easily be put to rest? Why en- same fate as the Crucified One we hail struggle between wanting to be God dure insult or injury when we can retal- this week. Some still walk among us as ourselves and letting God be God as iate, eliminate or subdue? Why accept shining stars showing us how it really God is. That’s why it’s so easy to be- life when it is acceptable to choose can be. How would Jesus’ journey have come hypocritical. We, like those who otherwise? We want to be God and ended if he lived life as we do? Unless hailed Christ as he arrived in Jerusalem resist accepting the fact that our real we encounter the good with the bad, the and sent Christ to the cross to die, also Creator has already given us the blue- just with the unjust, the grace with the talk out of both sides of our mouths. prints for the life we need to live in the sin, the glory with the cross, the death We entertain what suits us at the time Beatitudes and in the example of his with the life we most certainly risk and walk away from the rest. Passion. We don’t like being stewards rendering God obsolete.