St. Anthony of Padua Parish Pastoral Staff Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil: 4:30pm, 6:00pm Pastor: Fr. Dale W. Staysniak Parochial Vicar: Fr. Peter T. Kovacina Sunday: 8:00am,10:00am, Deacon: Rev. Mr. Gerard Blanda 12:00pm DRE/Pastoral Minister: Mr. Randy Harris, M.R.E Pastoral Minister: Sr. Roberta Goebel, OSU - Principal: Mr. Patrick Klimkewicz Monday Friday: 7:00am, 8:00am Parish Secretary: Mrs. Joyce Fanous - Music Minister: Mrs. Nancy Tabar Holy Days: Vigil 5:30pm 7:00am, 9:00am 5:30pm, 7:00pm Parish Directory Parish Address: 6750 State Road Confession Schedule Parma, Ohio 44134 - Parish Office: (440) 842-2666 Saturday: 3:00pm 4:00pm Religious Education: (440) 845-4470 or by appointment Parish Office Hours: Mon - Thurs 9:00am-7:00pm Friday 9:00am-4:00pm Stay Connected Parish Website: stanthonypaduaparma.org parmastanthony School Directory @parmastanthony School Office: (440) 845-3444 School Website: stanthonyofpaduaschool.org Parmastanthony ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH PARMA, OH Wedding Banns MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12 BANNS III Autumn Kraiger & Kyle Cox 7:00AM Jerry Reinhardt 8:00AM Donna Krejsa TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 7:00AM Linda Rostel 8:00AM Thomas E. English WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, Ash Wednesday. 7:00AM For People of the Parish (living & deceased) 9:00AM For People of the Parish (living & deceased) Joseph Kundrat 5:30PM For People of the Parish (living & deceased) 7:00PM For People of the Parish (living & deceased) THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 7:00AM Angela Iannelli 8:00AM Ray Pfeil Contributions for Weekend February 3/4, 2018: 2018: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 7:00AM Monsignor Giuseppe Romanin Total Offering: $15,520.25 8:00AM Helena Danczak Sunday Collection: $12,014.00 1:00PM Stations of the Cross Faith Direct: $3,506.25 1:30-5PM Eucharistic Devotions 7:00PM Stations of the Cross. Poor Box: $82.00 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 1:00PM Kraiger / Cox Wedding 4:30PM Steve & Ann Duraney 6:00PM For People of the Parish (living & deceased) SUNDAY THOUGHT Mark 1:40-45 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, First Sunday of Lent. 8:00AM Severino Romanin In today’s Gospel we are told that Jesus stretched out 10:00AM Clarence & Eleanor Ryant His hand and touched the man who was suffering from 12:00PM Vickie Smotzer Leprosy. In this one gesture Jesus welcomes all 5:00PM Evening Prayer - Eucharistic Devotions “outsiders” for all time. Such a gesture of welcome to the lowly and broken hearted must also characterize : Ed & Helen Bartkiewicz, John Baraona, Irene Please Pray For each of us who are called Christians. As the Body of Bednar, Maxine Cerny, Joe & Marcia Demko, Gary DiRosa, Ray Dmytriw, Margaret Double, Norbert Erker, Rita Fecek, Greg Findura, Anne Christ in the world we are mandated by Jesus to Kilbane-Friedl, Sandra & Logan Friedl, Frances Funtek, Sam Gappa, welcome the stranger, the outsider and downtrodden. Josephine Gaul, Robert Gielski, John Gladden, Frank Gumina, Rose Marie We need to touch them with compassion and Hewitt, Ron Hicks, Celeste Hurley, Marian Jarabek, Colleen Jarvis, Millie understanding, with love and hospitality. Compassion is Jasany, Janet Johnson, Pat Jones, Lou Ann Keith, Betty Kilbane, Donald not pity. When we pity someone, it often implies that Kotarsky, Cynthia Kufleitner, Karen Kulju, Andrea Lagzdins, Dorothy Laquatra, April & John J. Lieske, Corinne Lipinski, Elizabeth Madar, we are looking down on them. This places us in a Thomas Madej, Edward & Josephine Maskulka, Lenore Masterson, superior position. Pity is saying something like this: “I Claudia & Russell Mazanec, Peyton McCarthy, Rosemarie Medvin, John felt sorry for you because you are so different from Metzger, Dorothy Nagy, Jane Najlepszy, Mary Niec, Rose Nosse, Dora me.” On the other hand, the basic feeling that is found Oney, Joe Okleson, Agnes Padar, Timothy Petro, Carrie Piechowski, within compassion is not pity, but togetherness and a Deanna Pisano, Nicholas J. Precario, Mary Jane, Nick, & John Precario, Jan Ravas, Christopher Reeves, Leigh-Ann Revay, Frances Rymut, Mary Sabo, sense of solidarity with every human being. In the heart Lorraine Schmidt, Robert & Teresa Setele, Margaret Sheridan, Helen Smith, of God who is known as Love, we are all one. The Joan Smyke, Doug Stos, Sylvia Stibley, Diane Straub, Michael Szpendyk, closer we come to understanding this, the more that Phyllis Tomaselli, Alice Tucker, Loretta Vacca, Annie Vorndran, Beverly compassion will grow in our hearts. Von Alt, Margaret and Mary Williamson, Cathy Yappel, Andrew Yaronczyk, Christopher Yurko, Amanda Zmecek. 1 SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 11, 2018 CELEBRATING THE SAINTS Wednesday of this week, February Saint Felix of Nicosia, Lay Brother (1715-1787) 14, 2018, begins the Season of Lent. Ash Wednesday is a Felix was Philip James Amoroso, the son of a mandatory day of fasting for all shoemaker from Nicosia, Sicily. After his father’s Catholics between the ages of 18 death, Philip entered the trade as a shoemaker’s and 60 years old. It is also a day apprentice. His mother encouraged his attraction to the on which those who have reached Capuchin friars who made their home nearby. At the age of 14 abstain from eating meat. Catholics are twenty, Philip applied to join them, but was refused. required to practice abstinence from meat as long as Over the course of the next seven years, he made a their health permits them to do so. More detailed yearly application to the Capuchins, but each time was information and further information about Lent will be rejected. The eighth time, he approached the visiting found in the “Lenten Reminder 2018” inserted in provincial, told his story, and was accepted at last. today’s bulletin. After his novitiate and profession, Brother The Mass Schedule for Ash Wednesday is as Felix, as he was now called, was sent back to his follows: hometown, an unusual move at that time; men in Wednesday, February 14, 2018 religion were typically stationed far from the 7:00 a.m. , 9:00 a.m. temptations of childhood friends and sweethearts. 5:30 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Felix, his superiors knew, was worthy of absolute There is never a vigil Mass for Ash Wednesday. trust. Ashes are distributed following the homily of the Felix became the quaestor, the brother who Mass. begged for alms in the city streets. He went everywhere and met everyone. He taught the children their catechism, consoled prisoners, and prayed over the sick, many of whom experienced healings. SEMINARIANS OF THE Although he had never learned his letters, Felix knew WEEK scripture by heart. He hung on the words of the This week, we pray for Kevin preachers and found daily solace in prayer before the Fox, Michael Garvin, and tabernacle. He also bilocated in the same way as Dominic Gideon. another Capuchin friar of modern times, Padre Pio. For 33 years he lived under a Guardian who considered it his role to sanctify Felix by subjecting him to relentless severity and fantastic humiliations, LADIES GUILD all of which Felix heroically endured. Finally, in May Leisurely nature walks, fireside story telling, scenic 1787 he was overtaken by a sudden, raging fever winter views abound at our beautiful West Creek while working in the garden. Brother Felix told the Reservation. Come and join us the evening of doctor, who prescribed medicines for him that proved February 13, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Hospitality useless. Because this was his final illness. He died Room and a Metro Park speaker will acquaint us with later that month, on May 31, now his feast day, at two all the wonderful facets of this charming spot just in the morning. So dedicated was he to his vow of around the bend! obedience that he requested permission to die from the Guardian of the community. Brother Felix was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on 12 February 1888. He was canonized on 23 CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY CORNER October 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI. “Almsgiving proceeds from a merciful heart and is more useful for the one who practices it than for the one who receives it; for the man who makes a practice of almsgiving draws out a WEEKLY WORK OF MERCY spiritual profit from his acts, while those who Pray for the safety of our firefighters, especially receive his alms receive only a temporal those who serve Parma. benefit.” — St. Thomas Aquinas 2 ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH PARMA, OHIO NIGHT AT THE RACES: EUCHARISTIC DEVOTIONS Please join us for a fun night on Our parish’s annual observance of Saturday, February 17, for our annual Eucharistic Devotions will be Athletic Association Night at the Races celebrated Sunday and Monday, fundraiser to benefit our grade school February 18 and 19, 2018. The athletic programs. Tickets are only $25 with a catered Blessed Sacrament will be exposed dinner by Antonio’s. Beer and pop are also at the conclusion of the Sunday included. Gym doors open at 5:30pm, dinner at Noon Mass, February 18th and remain exposed until 6:00pm, and races begin at 7:30pm. In addition, you 5:00 p.m. when Evening Prayer and Benediction will can be a horse owner for $20, and reserved tables of be celebrated. Adoration will begin again Monday 10 or more get a free horse. We are also looking for morning, February 19th following the 8:00 a.m. Mass business sponsors to purchase ads in the and remain exposed all day until a Closing Evening program. Tickets are still available after Masses this Prayer will be conducted at 7:00 p.m. This time of weekend and must be purchased prior to the event. No adoration is a grace-filled time for all of us at St. tickets will be sold at the door.