1290 Grafton St. Worcester, MA 01604

508-757-0789 ladyoflourdes1290@gmail.com

www.ololma.org

Rev. Brian O’Toole Pastor

Cheryl Orrell Admin Asst/Bookkeeper

Rev. Francis J. Roach Mr. William Cotter In Residence Maintenance

Mary Jo Castrrale Jeremiah’s Inn Ministry

Mrs. Judy Verdini Religious Ed

Mission Statement:

"Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, disciples of Jesus Christ in Worcester, MA, reaches out with love into the neighborhoods to welcome, serve, support, and engage the community in Jesus.

In creating a welcoming relationship with Eucharistic and prayerful celebrations, we gather to make a difference by coming closer to God and one another."

MASSES Daily Mon - Sat: 8:00 AM

Saturday 4:30PM, Sunday 7:30 & 9:30AM Holy Days 8:00 AM, Noon, 5:30 PM PENANCE Saturdays 2:30-3:30 PM

Mass Intentions Due to the cancellation of weekday and weekend masses, any mass

intentions in memory of a loved one will be rescheduled to a later date. Please call the rectory in May to set up a new date.

May God keep you safe and healthy.

April 12, 2020 - Easter Sunday Liturgy

SCRIPTURE READINGS

12 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 Mt 28:1-10

13 MON Acts 2:14, 22-33/Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Mt 28:8-15

14 TUE Acts 2:36-41/Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20 and 22 [5b]/Jn 20:11-18

15 WED Acts 3:1-10/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 [3b]/Lk 24:13-35

16 THU Acts 3:11-26/Ps 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9 [2ab]/Lk 24:35-48

17 FRI Acts 4:1-12/Ps 118: 1-2 and 4, 22-24, 25-27a [22]/Jn 21:1-14

18 SAT Acts 4:13-21/Ps 118:1 and 14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21 [21a]/Mk 16:9-15

WEEKLY OFFERING

Sunday Offertory 4/5 $3,122.00 Maintenance 132.00

Easter Flowers 320.00

Catholic Relief Services 40.00

Holy Land/Good Friday 30.00

Easter 80.00

Ascension 10.00

Thank you for your generous support!

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE

Partners in Charity SCAM: Please be aware there is a phone scam soliciting for the Bishops Fund (name has not been used in years). Please know that the diocese and church does not solicit gifts of support for Partners in Charity over the phone; gifts are solicited by mail, online, or through the parish.

Please be aware that there are people who prey on other people in times of stress and anxiety. Please be cautious of phone calls and people

coming to your door. Do not let anyone in you do not know and never give out personal

information over the phone.

Dear Parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish,

I would like to extend to all of you keeping safe in your homes a grace filled Easter. For us, this is a

very odd and scary Easter. Things we may have taken for granted are now brutishly apparent in our

“sheltered” and “in place” lives. In years past, our Easters were filled with traditions that promoted going

out and meeting one another, special clothes for the children, Easter egg hunts, family and friends

gathering at designated homes or restaurants for brunch or dinner. The Lenten fasts and abstinences were

replaced with joyous festivities and the songs at Church were triumphant with „Glorias‟ and „Alleluias‟.

This year muted. Staying connected to one another and engaged calls for every bit of creativity and

technology learning we can muster.

What can be said about this Easter that can give us a lesson from our faith and spiritual lives? What

hope can this Easter provide as we celebrate without the benefit of a gathered community of song and

praise? Remember, that first Easter long time ago was also an Easter in isolation! Remember, there was

no one present to see the moment when Jesus rose from the dead, with the exception of a few blinded

soldiers guarding the tomb. Remember, the only one of his followers who encountered him was a friend,

who didn‟t even recognize him and, ironically for the times we live in, was told „not to cling to him‟.

Remember, the other disciples were barricaded in some room; meeting in fear. Since Judas was no

longer one of the twelve and, we are told that, Thomas was „not in the room when Jesus appeared‟, the

ten now were maintaining Governor Baker‟s mandate for gatherings of ten or less. (At this point, I would

put a smiling emoji to indicate us to take that statement with a bit of wry humor.)

If anything, this Easter is very similar to that first Easter and look where we have come. A celebration

that began in isolation has created its own pandemic. There‟s not a place on this earth that hasn‟t heard

the message, “God so loved the world that he gave his only Beloved Son, that whosoever believes in him

should not perish but have everlasting life (Jn 3:16)”. Yes, our Easter will be different this year, but not

unknown. Stay rooted in your faith and let the resurrected Jesus Christ fill your homes and loved ones.

Stay safe and healthy. I look forward to once again seeing you around the altar at Our Lady of Lourdes.

God bless and, in the words of our Greek brothers and sisters, “Christ is risen, Christ is truly risen!”

Sunday Offertory We thank you so much for your continued Sunday

Offertory support...your donations plus a decrease

in some of our expenses is helping us to stay up to

date with some of our expenses. We have been re-

ceiving via mail, the mail slot at the rectory and

through online donations. We appreciate your con-

tinued donations at mass in the support. Thank

you!

GATHERING HYMN Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

GLORIA Mass of Spirit and Grace

You take away the sins of the world,

receive our prayer, You are seated at the right hand of the

Father, have mercy on us.

For you alone are the Holy One;

You alone are the Lord. You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ,

With the Holy Spirit, In the glory of God, the Father.

Amen

Holy Week Easter Sunday Cycle A

Glory to God in the highest,

and on earth peace to people of good will.

We praise you,

we bless you, we adore you,

we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord, God, Heavenly King,

O God, almighty Father.

Lord, Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son,

Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,

You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us:

LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING ACTS 10: 34a, 37-43

Peter proceeded to speak and said: "You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Gali-lee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness, that eve-ryone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name." The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM

SECOND READING 1COR 5:6b-8

Brothers and sisters: Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough? Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

SEQUENCE Christ Is Arisen

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LITURGY OF THE Eucharist

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS Come To The Water

GENERAL INTERCESSIONS

The Response is: “Hear Our Prayer.”

HOMILY

GOSPEL MT 28:1-10

After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. His appearance was like lightning and his clothing was white as snow. The guards were shaken with fear of him and became like dead men. Then the angel said to the women in reply, "Do not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the dead, and he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you." Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce this to his disciples. And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."

BLESSING OF THE EASTER WATER & RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL PROMISES

Presider: Dear brothers and sisters, through the Paschal Mystery we have been buried with Christ in Baptism, so that we may walk with him in newness of life. And so, now that our Lenten observance is concluded, let us renew the promises of Holy Baptism, by which we once renounced Satan and his works and promised to serve God in the holy Catholic Church. And so I ask you:

-Do you renounce sin, so as to live in the freedom of the children of God?

The Baptized: I do.

-Do you renounce the lure of evil, so that sin may have no mastery over you? The Baptized: I do.

-Do you renounce Satan, the author and prince of sin? The Baptized: I do.

-Do you believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth? The Baptized: I do.

-Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered death and was buried, rose again from the dead and is seated at the right hand of the Father? The Baptized: I do.

-Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting?

The Baptized: I do.

And may almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us new birth by water and the Holy Spirit and bestowed on us forgiveness of our sins, keep us by his grace, in Christ Jesus our Lord, for eternal life.

The Baptized: Amen

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HOLY, HOLY MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God of hosts.

Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE

We proclaim your Death, O Lord,

and profess your Resurrection

until you come again

GREAT AMEN MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE

OUR FATHER

SIGN OF PEACE

LAMB OF GOD MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE

COMMUNION Ye Sons and Daughters

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RECESSIONAL Alleluia!, Alleluia! Let the Holy Anthem Rise

Staying In Touch

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