St. Mary’s Church—Ware, MA
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St. Mary’s Church—Ware, MA ©2011 Liturgical Publications Inc
Transcript of St. Mary’s Church—Ware, MA
St. Mary’s Church—Ware, MA ©2011 Liturgical Publications Inc
ST. MARY’S CHURCH WARE
CRS Rice Bowl
I would like to invite each of you to participate in the CRS Rice Bowl during Lent. CRS Rice Bowl is Catholic Relief Services’ Lenten faith-in-action program. It offers opportunities for your family to engage daily with the spiritual pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting, and alms-giving. And it’s an opportunity for us as a parish to come togeth-er as a community and reflect on what it means to live out our Gospel call to go out and encounter those most in need. During the next 40 days, we will encounter the stories of peo-ple in Guatemala, Uganda, Gaza, and other places around the world where CRS is at work. We’ll be invited to eat simple, meatless meals each Friday from these countries. And, through the stories, we’ll learn about the principles of Catholic social teaching –and ways we can put them into action during Lent and beyond. We will reflect on how an encounter with the resurrection can be transformative. We will see how our prayers, fasting, and alms-giving can give hope to those worldwide who are most in need, especially those forced to flee their homes to find safety or better opportunities. We encourage everyone to take this journey with our parish community and to connect the prayer and reflections of each of our families to our global community of faith. I hope you will take home a CRS Rice Bowl located at the back of the Church. ____________________________________________________
St. Mary’s 8:00am Mass Choir Lent/Easter 2019 Rehearsal Schedule
Sunday, March 3rd at 12:30pm Sunday, March 10th at 12:30pm Sunday, March 17th at 12:30pm Sunday, March 24th at 12:30pm Sunday, March 31st at 12:30pm Sunday, April 7th at 12:30pm Sunday April 14th at 12:30pm New members are always welcome! Please see Terry Aubin after the 8:00am Mass for more information. ____________________________________________________
Spiritual Life Committee –Upcoming Events
Friday, March 15th –Lenten Supper at 5:00pm in the Church hall; Stations of the Cross at 6:30pm Sunday, March 17th –Book discussion at 2:00pm in the Church hall on The Truth about Saint Joseph Sunday, March 24th –Lenten Penance Service at 2:00pm Friday, April 5th –Lenten Supper at 5:00pm in the Church hall; Stations of the Cross at 6:30pm Sunday, April 7th –2:00pm in the Church hall: Presentation of St. Teresa of Calcutta by author Susan Conroy. A moving first-hand account of Mother Teresa and her work. Susan Conroy spent a summer serving in one of Mother Teresa’s orphanages and in the home for the dying. It was an experience that changed her life forever. Sunday, May 19th –Book discussion at 2:00pm in the Church hall on The Little Book of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Sunday, June 9th –Movie at 2:00pm in the Church hall on Ocean of Mer-cy. This is a wonderful documentary interweaving the lives of St. Faustina, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and St. John Paul II.
All Saints Saint Patrick’s Day Breakfast: Wear your green!
March 17th from 7:30am –9:30am Tickets will be on sale after each Mass at All Saints the weekends of March 2nd & 3rd and March 9th & 10th. You can also call the rectory at 967-4963 for tickets. Tickets must be picked up and purchased by March 8th. Price for tickets: Adults $5.00, Children un 10 $4.00.
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Lenten Bible Study
You are welcome to attend a Bible Study on Sundays at 1:00pm at All Saints Church March 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, and April 7th. No Greater Love: A Biblical Walk Through Christ’s Passion. Most of all, Catholics who take this study will encounter God’s love to the fullest. Pope Benedict XVI invites us to think of the Passion, not just as suffering, but also as the passion of a lover. For in the Cross, we see God fully revealed as “a lover with all the passion of a true love.” Jesus doesn’t want our applause. He wants our hearts. Are you ready to draw closer to Jesus in His passion than you ever have before?
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Black and Indian Mission Collection
Recognizing a need to call the faithful to support missionary work among African American and Native American Catholics, the U.S. Catholic bishop established the Commission for the Catholic Missions in 1884 to administer a national collection –the first of its kind in the United States –to support missionary work. Ever since the first Collection in 1887, the Commission has administered the yearly, national Black and Indian Mission Collection. The generosity of the good People of God allows the Commission to give helpful grants to dioceses across the country to operate schools, parishes, and other missionary services that build the Body of Christ in Native American, Alaska Native, and Black Catholic communities. Please help with this mission in next weekend’s 2nd collection. Thank you.
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St. Mary’s Parish Rosary Program
Please see Diane Trzpit regarding this program. There are tear-away calendars for each parishioner. You will tally the number of rosaries you prayed each day. After your calendar is full, just drop the results in the wooden box at the foyer of the Church. Monthly, the grand totals will be published in the parish bulletin to remind and encourage everyone to pray the rosary.
The Blessed Virgin Mary thanks you for your support!
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Crisis of abuse in the Catholic Church
Listening & Dialogue Sessions
Listening sessions are scheduled for: March 18th at St. Mary’s Church in Westfield from 7-8:30pm; and Sunday, March 24th at
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Northampton from 6-7:30pm. Day of Prayer For Healing And Reconciliation
As part of a diocesan-wide effort to address the abuse crisis through prayer and action, on the first Monday of Lent, March 11th, Springfield Bishop Mitchell Rozanski has asked that all Catholic Churches remain open throughout the day for a “Day of Prayer for Healing and Reconciliation.”
Prayer Services
On Sunday, April 7th at 2:00pm, there will be two diocesan Prayer Services for Healing, in response to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The prayer services will be held simultane-ously at St. Michael’s Cathedral, 254 State Street, in Springfield and at St. Joseph Church, 414 North Street, in Pittsfield. All are invited and encouraged to attend.
EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Dear friends in Christ, Ash Wednesday this year falls on March 6th. In my time here in the Diocese of Springfield, many priests have shared with me experiences of people returning to the prac-tice of their Faith through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. I thank you for being ministers of reconciliation and healing, par-ticularly for those who have felt hurt by the Church in any way. The Lenten Season is a great reminder to us of our calling to reconcile and start anew in our relationship with God and our brothers and sisters. I pray for that time of grace for all of us ministering in the diocese of Springfield and am grateful for the efforts of scheduling Penance Services that inspire our people to make use of this sacrament. During Lent, Catholics, who are between the ages of 18 and 59, undertake at a minimum two days of fasting: Ash Wednes-day and Good Friday. To fast means to take just one full meal with two smaller meals and no eating between meals. Addition-ally, every Catholic 14 years and older is to make Ash Wednes-day and the Fridays of Lent meatless days –days on which no meat of any kind is eaten, days of abstinence. Ash Wednesday is a time for acts of penance and alms-giving, helping those who are less fortunate than ourselves. A visible sign of our Lenten practices comes on Ash Wednesday when the ashes mark a sign of the cross on our forehead to re-mind us that our frail human nature needs the saving power of Christ. The imposition of ashes, fasting, and abstinence from meat are outward signs of the work we seek to do during Lent: to make our interior dispositions more of what Christ would have us be. Each of us is asked, as well, to undertake particular pray-ers, actions, alms giving, mortifications, and self-sacrifice to help us grow in our understanding of all God has done for us. A special undertaking can be the Rice Bowl program –a sacrifice by each of us for those who never have a full meal. May this Lent be for each of us a time of growth in our rela-tionship with Christ and with others and may it be a time that we find ourselves more fully in concert with all that God calls us to be. With every best wish, Most Reverend Mitchell T. Rozanski, Bishop of Springfield
Lenten Regulations
1. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of abstinence from meat as well as days of fast, when only one full meal is allowed. On days of fast two other meatless meals may be taken ac-cording to one’s needs, but together they should not equal another full meal.
2. The other Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. 3. The obligation to abstain from meat begins at fourteen (14)
years of age. 4. The obligation to fast begins at eighteen (18) years of age
and ends at fifty-nine (59) years of age. 5. Although the faithful may
excuse themselves for a just cause form these laws of fast and abstinence, there is an obligation to substitute anoth-er penance and no Catholic should lightly excuse himself/herself from this obligation in the Lenten season.
St. Mary’s Weekly Offertory Envelopes
We are in the process of updating our data entry system for our weekly envelopes. There are approximately 60 parishioners that have envelope numbers over 4 digits long. We are needing to assign these 60 parishioners with shorter envelope numbers. On the next mailing of our weekly envelopes for the April/May 2019 date, these parishioners will notice that they have a new envelope number. For those of you who received a new number, please be reassured that any weekly donations that you submit-ted from January to March in 2019 will to transferred over to your new number. Thank you for your understanding in this matter and if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call the rectory.
___________________________________________________ All Saints and St. Mary’s Parishes
Faith Formation Program Schedule 2018-2019
Grades 1-6: Classes will meet on the first floor of St. Mary’s School on Sundays from 10:30am –12 Noon, twice monthly. Grades 7-10: Please check your email for a final note about special and important dates.
March 2019
Mar. 3rd –Classes grades 1-6 Mar. 10th –No classes Mar. 17th –Classes grades 1-6 Mar. 24th –No classes Mar. 31st – Easter Bunny Breakfast at St. Mary’s Church hall followed by an Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the Ware Knights of Columbus.
April 2019
Apr. 7th –Classes for grades 1-6 & Family Stations of the Cross and Family Confessions at St. Mary’s
Apr. 21st –No classes; Easter Sunday Apr. 28th –Last Day of classes for all grades; Divine Mercy Celebra-
tion @ St. Mary’s Church, 3pm (No classes) All grades 1-10 are asked to come and pray the Chaplet of Divine Mer-cy at 3pm)
Faith Formation Important Dates to Remember Grade 2
First Penance: April 7, 2019 at St. Mary’s Church First Communion Rehearsal: Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 11:00am along with confessions for all First Communion students at All Saints Church. First Communion will take place at 11:30am on Sunday, May 5, 2019 at All Saints Church. Grade 10
Chrism Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Springfield: Monday, April 16, 2019 at 7:00pm Confirmation Rehearsal: Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 6:00pm at St. Mary’s Church Confirmation Mass: Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 11:10am at St. Mary’s Church
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Our Response to God’s Love Weekend of February 16/17
Parish Support $ 3,387.00 Cemetery Support $ 52.00
Youth Ministry $ 50.00
For our monthly Diocesan assessment, our weekly collection needs to be $6,035.50 per week. Please prayerfully consider increasing your weekly offering to meet this goal. Thank you all very much!
MARCH 3, 2019
Saturday March 2nd: Weekday
8:00am +Fr. George Greenway
3:00-4:00pm Confessions
4:30pm +Frank, Sophie, & Helen Trela –Requested by Janet
Kopec
Sunday March 3rd: Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time
8:00am +Ed & Patty Wilga –Requested by Family
9:30am +John Orszulak –Requested by Rudy, Patty, & Family
Monday March 4th: Weekday; St. Casimir
8:00am +Nancy Piontkowski –Requested by Godson, Richard
Palys & Sister Eleanor Palys & Family
Tuesday March 5th: Weekday
8:00am +Boleslaw & Julia Czaja –Requested by Rose Marie
Wednesday March 6th: Ash Wednesday
8:00am +Fr. John L. Sullivan
12:10pm +Fr. Eugene Plasse
6:00pm Confessions
6:30pm Deceased members of the Podkowka, Drega, &
Zapalowicz Families –Requested by Ted & Sophie
Thursday March 7th: Thursday after Ash Wednesday; Saints
Perpetua and Felicity Martyrs
8:00am +Raymond B. Dulak Sr. –Requested by The Koziol
Family of Cebula Funeral Home 8:30am-5:00pm Eucharistic Adoration 5:00pm Confessions Friday March 8th: Friday after Ash Wednesday; Saint John of
God, Religious
8:00am Living and Deceased Parishioners
6:30pm Stations of the Cross
Saturday March 9th: Saturday after Ash Wednesday; Saint
Frances of Rome, Religious
8:00am +Joseph Kabaniuk –Requested by Malgozata Kubaska
3:00-4:00pm Confessions
4:30pm +Henry & Walter Was –Requested by Walter & Family
Sunday March 10th: First Sunday Of Lent
8:00am +Fr. John L. Sullivan
9:30am +Jose Anacleto –Requested by Joe & Eleanor Barrett
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Please visit our Parish website: www.stmarysware.org. If you would like to submit information to our bul-letin, please submit to [email protected]. Please submit items two weeks before you would like them to appear in the bulletin. Thank you very much for your cooperation and understanding.
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday: 8am & Vigil 4:30pm Sunday: 8am and 9:30am Weekday: 8am(M, T, Thurs., & Fri.) 6:30 PM (Wed.)
Eucharistic Adoration: Thurs. 8:30am-5:00pm The Holy Rosary is prayed Mon. – Sat. before Mass at 7:40am
Confessions: Wed. 6pm, Thurs. 5pm, Sat. 3-4pm., and 1/2 hour before every Mass.
MARCH 3, 2019
Upcoming Events Mar. 3rd: 8am Mass choir rehearsal at 12:30pm
Mar.10th: 8am Mass choir rehearsal at 12:30pm Mar. 15th: Spiritual Life Committee to host Lenten Supper at
5:00pm in the Church hall; Stations of the Cross at 6:30pm
Mar. 17th: Spiritual Life Committee meeting in the Church hall
at 2:00pm for a book discussion on the book: The truth about St.
Joseph.
Mar. 17th: 8am Mass choir rehearsal at 12:30pm
Mar. 24th: Lenten Penance Service at 2:00pm
April 5th: Spiritual Life Committee to host Lenten Supper at
5:00pm in the Church hall; Stations of the Cross at 6:30pm.
April 7th: Spiritual Life Committee to host Presentation of St.
Teresa of Calcutta by author Susan Conroy at 2:00pm in the
Church hall.
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Save the date for our Events!
All Saints Church –17 North Street –Ware
March 17, 2019: Breakfast (Saint Patrick) 7:30 –9:30am
St. Mary’s Church –60 South Street –Ware
March 31, 2019: Breakfast w/Easter Bunny followed by an Easter
Egg Hunt sponsored by the Ware Knights of Columbus.
April 13, 2019: Polish Food Sale
May 11, 2019: Prime Rib Dinner
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St. Anthony Pray for us! Each Wednesday from March 13, 2019
through June 5, 2019 we will honor St. Anthony of Padua at the
weekly evening 6:30pm Mass. We will have a petition basket for
everyone to provide their petitions to St. Anthony of Padua.
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Please come and join us in Church every Friday at 3:00pm to
pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet!
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13th of the Month Prayer Group. All are invited to join us each month
on the 13th at 12 noon for bi-lingual (English/Polish) prayer of the Holy
Rosary and singing to our Holy Mother Mary. Please come and join us.
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St. Mary’s Rectory (413) 967-5913 Rev. Father Jeffrey Ballou, Pastor 60 South Street, Ware, MA 01082 [email protected] Office Hours Mon-Thu: 8 am-noon Deacon Gilbert ‘Gibby’ St. George-Sorel
CCD & Confirmation Gr. 1-10 Ms. Roberta Lojko: [email protected]
Youth Ministry (Grades 7-12): Leader: Mrs. Jacques: [email protected] (Grades 3-6): Leaders: Mrs. Maribeth Royer & Mrs. Beatrice Larson: [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stmarysyouthministry2015
RCIA (413) 967-5913 Rev. Fr. Jeffrey Ballou & Deacon Gilbert ‘Gibby’ St.George –Sorel
Visitation to the Sick (413) 967-5207 Mrs. Diane Stelmokas
Organist Mrs. Louise Christ (413) 323-8892
Sacrament of Baptism: Please call the Rectory to arrange.
Sacrament of Matrimony: Please call the Rectory at least one year in advance to arrange.
Sacrament of the Sick Please call the Rectory to arrange.
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