WEEKEND

MASSES

Saturday Vigil: 4 & 6 pm

Sunday: 7:30, 9, 10:30 am,

12 :15 pm

DAILY MASSES

Mon. Wed. & Fri.: 8 & 11 am

Tues. & Thurs.: 8 am & 7 pm

Saturday: 8 am

CONFESSIONS

Wednesday: 7-7:30 pm

Saturday: 2:45-3:45 pm

and after the 6 pm Mass

7575 Bellflower Rd. Mentor, Ohio

44060-3948

Phone 440.255.0600

Fax 440.255.6482

Website www.sjvmentor.org

May 24, 2020

The Ascension of the Lord

Baptisms: Every Sunday at 1:15 pm, except the first Sunday of the month. Arrangements must be made in advance by calling the Parish Office. Parent Baptism Preparation Class is required for your first child.

Marriages: Arrangements should be made at least six months prior to the marriage. Please call one of the Parish priests to begin the arrangements.

Holy Orders & Vowed Religious Life: Anyone interested in ordained or vowed religious life is invited to talk to one of the parish priests or pastoral staff members.

Ministry to the Sick: Anointing of the Sick is available upon request. The parish staff members regularly bring Eucharist to the sick upon request. Please notify the Parish Office in case of hospitalization.

Eucharistic Adoration: Would you consider an hour a week with the Lord? If you would like to spend an hour in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, call the Parish Office for the combination to the door.

Interested in Joining the Parish: Please call the Parish Office at 255.0600.

Parish Office Hours: Mon. - Thurs. 8:30 am - 7:30 pm, Friday 8:30 - 4:00, Sat. 9 am - 12:00 pm, & closed on Sunday.

Social Hall 440.255.8043

All Saints School of St. John Vianney

(Grades Pre-School through Gr. 8)

28702 Euclid Ave. Wickliffe 44092

Phone 440.943.1395

WELCOME TO ST. JOHN VIANNEY PARISH We are a vibrant Catholic Community on a Christ-centered journey.

Led by the Holy Spirit and nurtured by the Eucharist, we proclaim and live the gospel message of love of God and love of neighbor.

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MASS INTENTIONS Monday, May 25 St. Bede the Venerable, St. Gregory & St. Mary

Magdalene de Pazzi

9:00 TJ Nancy Parnell by Ed & Claudia Emlaw

Tuesday, May 26 St. Philip Neri

8:00 MD Cheryl Gabriel by Family,

Bob Wolff by Family

Wednesday, May 27 St. Augustine of Canterbury

8:00 PM Poor Souls in Purgatory by Lubar Family,

Michael Iafelice by Jeep Iacobucci

Thursday, May 28

8:00 TJ Linda Ringenbach by Al Blatnik,

Roy Barry by Carole Roberts

Friday, May 29

8:00 MD Mary Kasunic by Paul & Michelle Peterson,

Ronald Cascio by Family

Saturday, May 30

4:00 TJ Rita Cabot by 8 o’clock Mass People

Citraro & Murphy Families by Family

Judy & George Pike 50th Anniversary

Patricia Maroli by John Girbino

Sunday, May 31

7:30 MD John & Mary Offak by Family

Dorothy & Charles Cimas by Barbara Vincent

10:30 PM Burke Family by Family

WORSHIP & PRAYER

STEWARDSHIP May 17, 2020

Adult Giving: $ 9,662.00

On Line Giving: $ 6,673.50_

$ 16,335.50

Thank you for your

generous support!

PRAYERS FOR OUR BELOVED DECEASED: Mary Abbott Nancy Gabor

“Eternal rest grant unto them,

O Lord, and let the perpetual light

shine upon them.”

Rev. Thomas W. Johns • Pastor (TJ) Rev. Peter Morris • Parochial Vicar (PM) Rev. Martin Dober • Parochial Vicar (MD)

Rev. John Sullivan • Retired (JS) Jackie & Bill Pevec, Connor

Press, Bill Giffin, Jordan Ng,

Marytherese Stevenson, Theresa

Janicki, Dr. Jim Sampliner, Jean

McPherson, Judy Wagoner, C.G.,

Tom Skrout, Jonathan Sedor,

Patty Kelly, Joe Gabriel, Tom

Juhasz, RJ & Helene Franko,

Erle Dieter, Joseph Kudyba,

Jason Triozzi, Brian Madia,

Diana Nowak, Joshua Archacki,

Bill Hess, Greg Robb, Nikki

Detzel, Judy Sustar, Maryann

Walsh, Marilyn Checkman,

Howard Charvanka, Nora

Rodriguez, Robert Furlong, Jeff

Pizem, Nicole Wagoner, Ron

Cueni, Betsy Vargo-Downs,

Donald Ness, Mary Ellen Ness,

Susan Daly, Dee Dee Wilbraham,

David Sedmak, Deb Svercek,

Pete Von Uht, Charlene Croson,

Regis Novitskey, James Corr,

Brian Stevens, James Wilkinson

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Sunday: Ascension: Acts 1:1-11/Eph 1:17-23/Mt 28:16-20

Monday: Acts 19:1-8/Jn 16:29-33

Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27/Jn 17:1-11a

Wednesday: Acts 20:28-38/Jn 17:11b-19

Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11/Jn 17:20-26

Friday: Acts 25:13b-21/Jn 21:15-19

Saturday: Pentecost Vigil: Acts 2:1-11/1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13/ John 17:1-11a

WEDDING BANNS

II Nicholas Walker & Elizabeth Aiello

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PARISH NEWS

ST VINCENT DE PAUL: Food Bank: 440.255.7266 Financial Assistance: 440.255.3424 Furniture Bank: 440.255.3051

MEMORIAL DAY MASS WILL TAKE

PLACE IN THE PARKING LOT

OUTSIDE THE MAIN DOORS OF THE

CHURCH (WEATHER PERMITTING)

ON MONDAY, MAY 25 AT 9:00 am.

Parishioners are encouraged to park

their cars at a distance from the church to allow room for people to

place the chairs provided or the ones they bring from home in the

parking spaces closer to the church. People can spread out in that

area and keep social distancing. The priest or communion ministers

will bring holy communion to you at your seats or to your area. You

are encouraged to wear your face mask or face covering to Mass. We

do so out of concern for one another. Please maintain social distance

as you gather for Mass, as you celebrate Mass, and as you head

home. If the weather is poor, Mass will be in the church and blue

painter’s tape marks where to sit for Mass or stand for communion

procession. Again, please maintain social distance and wear your

face mask. Thanks and have a great holiday weekend.

THE PARISH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED THAT DAY.

SOME GENERAL THOUGHTS ON RETURNING TO PARISH LIFE:

We will resume weekday Masses at 8:00 AM on Monday through

Friday. The 8:00 Mass will be live-streamed daily for those who wish

to participate from home. We will not have a Mass at 11:00 AM or 7:00

PM until we have a better sense of how things are operating with the

return process. We will have three weekend liturgies: 4:00 on

Saturday, and 7:30 and 10:30 on Sunday. This schedule allows us the

needed time to sanitize the church as is required. If we need to add

another Mass, we will do so. The plan is to take this one month at a

time and see how things are going. The Saturday 4:00 Mass will be

live-streamed each week for those who choose to stay home.

The holy water font will remain empty and the song books/missals

have been put into storage. You are free to bring your own missal to

Mass but be sure to take it home with you. A number of parishioners

have made face masks and they are available to those who need them.

Please take them home with you and bring them back to use again the

next weekend. They may be washed with other clothing at home. For

the time being we will not need altar servers and there will not be

congregational singing to avoid the natural tendency to take off a face

mask to sing. Singing has been shown to enhance the transmission

of the virus. If you receive communion on the tongue, you are asked

to consider receiving it in the hand for the time-being so that the

minister does not run the risk of spreading germs from one person to

the next. Hand sanitizer is available at the entrance of the church as

well as at communion stations. Let us all be patient with one another

as we work our way through this process.

POOR AND NEEDY

SVDP Food Pantry continues

to serve with curbside pick-up.

If you know someone in need,

please have them call

440.255.0600 to schedule an

appointment.

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PASTOR’S PAGE

Dear Parishioners,

On Monday, May 25, Memorial Day, it is my

plan to celebrate Mass outdoors at 9:00 AM. The altar

will be set up in front of the gathering space of the

church, not by the Shrine where Mass is usually

celebrated on a holiday. I’ll have some plastic chairs

available but also feel free to bring some lawn chairs

from your own home. Set up an area in the parking lot

where you can park your car and sit, keeping social

distance. If the weather is poor, Mass will be

celebrated inside the church where it will also be

celebrated at 8:00 AM on Tuesday, Wednesday,

Thursday and Friday. Those days are what the

Diocese has called the “soft opening” for public

Masses.

Our maintenance men have been preparing the

church for your return and we are eager to welcome

you back for weekend liturgies on May 30 & 31. We

are using blue painter’s tape to mark pews which are to

be left open to maintain social distance between one

family and another family or between one individual

and another. We are using that same tape on the floor

to mark the required distance between people in the

communion procession. The ushers will be available to

assist with seating and processions, including entering

and exiting the church.

The plan is to have one set of doors propped

open for entrance, and one set of doors propped open

for exiting. That way there is no need to touch the door

handles. There will be hand sanitizer available at the

entrance and a gloved usher will be there to assist you.

A gloved usher will also be there to hand you a bulletin

to take home on your way out. There will also be a

collection basket in which you

can drop off your envelope for

the support of the parish. The

Diocese has asked that all

people wear a face mask or

covering of some sort in the

church out of concern for your

neighbor in attendance with you

at Mass. If there is any place

where charity should be the

primary concern, it would be in a

church in the presence of Jesus

who came to serve rather than

to be served and who held up

humility as a fundamental virtue

of his followers. Sue Fani has worked with some

parishioners to make masks available to those who do

not have one. Ushers will make one available to you.

The Diocese has said that church occupancy

will be limited to 50% of normal capacity. Our official

capacity in the church is 1200, counting standing room

and extra space for chairs on the two sides. We are

roping off the section where the organ and piano are

and are limiting that area to musicians. I would say

that a reasonable number to allow into the church

proper for Mass would be about 400 people. If more

than 400 people come to the Mass, standing room is

available in the gathering space as well as outside the

church where the speakers will be left on to hear the

Mass. The priest or one of the communion ministers

can bring holy communion to you in the gathering

space or outside. You are welcome to bring lawn

chairs and sit outside if you prefer. At this point we are

planning to have three weekend Masses: 4:00 on

Saturday, and 7:30 and 10:30 on Sunday. This allows

us the needed time to sanitize the church between

Masses. If we need an additional Mass, I will add one.

The Bishops of Ohio have said that you are still

dispensed from the obligation to attend Mass and we

will continue to live-stream the 4:00 Mass on Saturday

if you prefer to participate in Mass at your home.

Those who are sick or symptomatic, those who are

infirmed or vulnerable should stay home and it is OK to

do so. There will not be congregational singing for the

time-being and we will not provide missals or hymnals.

You may bring your own but be sure to take it home

with you. Be patient, be kind, & God bless. FTJ