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The Second Sunday of LentMarch 8, 2020

The Transfiguration Of Christ , Earl Mott

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The Second Sunday of Lent

March 8, 2020

LITURGICAL DIRECTIVES FROM THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON

These directives are effective Saturday, February 29, 2020 until determined otherwise by the Archbishop. The Office of Worship, in consultation with local health authorities and the Archdiocesan Office of Risk Management, continues to encourage the clergy and faithful to observe necessary standard precautions to protect the health of others during this time. The best way to prevent the spread of contagious disease is to practice good hygiene.

In addition to practicing good hygiene, the Archbishop directs the following for the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy and for flu prevention:

• The Holy Water fonts are to be drained and cleaned with a disinfecting soap on a regular basis. Please note that old Holy Water should be disposed of in the sacrarium.

• The distribution of the Precious Blood for the faithful is suspended, save for those who must receive from the cup due to severe cases of celiac disease. The faith of the Church teaches that Christ, whole and entire, is received even under only one species.

• The exchange of the sign of peace is to be offered without any physical contact. If the priest celebrant chooses to extend the invitation for the sign of peace, the faithful, instead of a handshake, may bow to the persons nearby.

DONATIONS FOR FR. MICHAEL’S MARATHON CAUSE:

Donations in the form of checks can be written to Incarnation of Jesus Christ Parish. But above all, your prayers are most needed. Kindly indicate Donation for Fr. Michael’s Marathon cause.

GRAND ANNUAL APPEALOur Grand Annual Appeal is underway and thanks to so many of you for your generosity! As of last week, our Grand Annual contributions totaled $81,251.00

If you did not receive a Grand Annual letter, it means you are not registered in our membership data base. Please call Gina at the Rectory Office. If you would like to contribute to the Grand Annual Collection and did not receive an envelope, you can contribute online through our website:www.incarnationmelrose.org, or use one of the envelopes available at the doors of the church.

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MILESTONES

Please remember family and friends in need of prayer, especially Sarah Fradkin, Bill Connors, Maureen, Irene Lawless, Perry Brown, Betty Howard, Stephen Gaeta, Jim R., Ted Ayotte, Robert Burke, Sandra W., John Anderson, April Crouse, Adele Maciejowski, Colleen Sullivan, Debbie Saschuk, Julia G., Donna Correia, Sandra V., Don Marsden, Georgia Rose Okerholm, Donna Page, Denise, Sr. Mary Shaun, Nicholas Ward, Frank Zizzo, Helen Staunton, Domenic DeLuca, Maia DeLuca, Joseph Connelly, Jeannette Bailey, Anita V., Leona Dewhurst, Jacqueline, Chuck Giorgio, Kathleen O’Neill, Ken Kartes, Thomas M., Michael Lester, Sydni Simpson Garrity, Mary S., Carole R. , William L., Patricia Zibroski, Anthony S.,Janice T., John Maciejowski, Bonnie Strudas, Helen Giorgio, Andrew Reczeck, Frank Stankavish, Susan D., Ed M., Joyce D., Joshua B., and parishioners facing surgery.

Welcome to : Connor Powers, Callie Rose Santarpio, Louis Rotondi, who were baptized here last week!

If there is anyone you wish to add to the prayer list, please contact the rectory. Please note: All names will remain on our Prayer List and will be prayed for unless our office is notified to remove an individual.

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LENT 2020DAILY MASS

MBS 8:00am Monday & TuesdayInc 8:00am Thursday & Friday

CONFESSIONS“The Light is on For You”Tuesday Evenings During Lent6:00pm-7:30pm at MBS

STATIONS OF THE CROSSFriday evenings at 7:00pm alternating each week between parishes-beginning on February 28th at MBS, March 6th at Inc, etc. Prayer will include Stations as well as Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction

RESURRECTION PERFORMANCESunday, March 22 at 4:00pmMost Blessed Sacrament The St. Patrick Family Players will return to us to perform the musical cantata “Resurrection”-the story of Peter’s relationship with Jesus.

HOLY WEEK-TRIDUUMHoly Thursday, April 9th 7:30pmMass of the Lord’s Supper will be celebrated at MBS with combined choir and music ministers from both parishes.

Good Friday- April 10th3:00pm -Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, celebrated at MBS

7:30 Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion celebrated at Inc

3:00pm Stations of the Cross at Inc.

Holy Saturday-Easter Vigil-April 11th, 7:30pm Easter Vigil will be celebrated at Inc with combined ministers from both parishes.

Easter Sunday-April 12thRegular Sunday Schedule

MBS-7:30am, 9:00am. 11:00amInc-8:00am, 10:30am

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March 7 4:30 p.m. Vita Kempisty

March 8 8:00 a.m. Marguerite and Earl Pimental

March 12 8:00 a.m. Juan Guillermo Heredia and Patricia Swim

March 14 :30 p.m. Katherine James

March 15 8:00 a.m. Tove Sigardsson Rosado

10:30 a.m. Pauline and Joseph Youmatz

FINANCIAL REPORTFebruary 24, 2020 – March 1, 2020 Offertory Online $1,765.00 Basket 3,679.00 $5,444.00

Monthly Maintenance Online $274.00 Basket 115.00 $389.00

CATHOLIC APPEALNext weekend, the Catholic Appeal will be launched in all parishes throughout the Archdiocese. In preparation, we invite you to prayerfully consider making a generous gift that will benefit both our parish and the

many ministries that serve the 283 parishes, 110 schools, and 144 communities throughout the Archdiocese. Please take a moment today to look through the Catholic Appeal insert to learn more about the meaningful impact your gift will have. This is our Church, and when you support the Appeal, you support us.To learn more about the Catholic Appeal, or to make your gift online, please visit the new Appeal website at bostoncatholicappeal.org, where you can also view the 2020 Catholic Appeal video.

SECOND WEEK OF LENTMeet Trinh Trinh's family are farmers in Vietnam who have been affected by climate change. What would you do if your source of nutrition was threatened? How can we support those whose livelihoods are vulnerable to weather? Visit crsricebowl.org for

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LENTEN FOOD DRIVEOur Lenten Food Drive will benefit Bread of Life in Malden Throughout Lent, your donations can be brought to Church and left in the bins by the Upham Street and Driveway doors.

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Incarnation Parish Bulletin Suggested donations include: jelly, canned fruit, soup & stew, canned vegetables, baked beans, juice, canned meals ready to eat, mayonnaise (small jars) shelf stable milk, and pasta. Please check expiration dates!

MY BROTHER’S TABLE

Sign up now for March and beyond!This monthly volunteer opportunity is open to all ages.  Singles, pairs, groups, families -- all are welcome.  Meet in the church parking lot to coordinate transportation, or meet us there. Please go to www.tinyurl.com/incarnationMBT  to get more information and to sign up.  This link can also be found at www.incarnationmelrose.org.   Join us and enjoy this uplifting and important event.

DIAPER BANK DROP OFF HERE!The Greater Lynn Postpartum Help Coalition has partnered with My Brother’s Table to open a diaper bank for the Lynn community! This diaper bank is open to anyone in need. The diaper bank is located at: Aspire Developmental Services176 Franklin Street Lynn, MA 01904Diapers can be dropped off here at Incarnation in the bins for our Food Bank collections, which are located by the Upham St. vestibule and the driveway side door.

LENT, WELL SPENTThis Lent, we invite you to join us at Saint Patrick Parish, 71 Central Street in Stoneham, to explore why we Catholics do what we do.  Delve into the Mystery of God’s Love in the Eucharist, the Mass

and the Sacraments.  Bring your open heart, your questions, and your insights.Wednesday Evenings:  March 4, 11, 18 & 25 7:00 pm – 8:30 pmJoin us for 1, 2, 3 or all 4 Wednesday evenings in Lent to reflect on the gifts God offers to each of us in the Sacraments, especially Holy Eucharist, as we prepare to begin the Year of the Eucharist.

PERMANENT DIACONATEThere will be an informational meeting for men & their wives interested in the permanent diaconate to be held at 7:00pm on Tuesday, March 31 at Sacred Heart Church, 571 Boston St. Lynn. The Deacon’s ministry of word, liturgy,and charity may include: Word: proclaiming the Gospel, preaching at Mass, catechesis, evangelization, and sacramental preparationLiturgy: serving at the Eucharistic Table, solemnly baptizing, witnessing marriages, bringing viaticum to the dying, and presiding over funerals and burials

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MEETING CHRIST IN PRAYERMeeting Christ in Prayer is an eight-week guided prayer experience based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Loyola. By prayer, reflection and faith sharing, Meeting Christ in Prayer can bring people to a new level of discipleship and to a renewed sense of Christian mission. The Meeting Christ in Prayer group meets once a week for eight weeks with Sister Anne D’Arcy. Participants pray with suggested scripture texts daily.The next group will meet during Lent:Wednesday evenings 7:00 – 8:15 PM March 4-11-18-25, April 1-8-15-22, 2020Fontbonne Convent444 Centre Street Milton, MA 02186For further information and to register call: 617-433-5065 or email:Anne.D'arcy@csjboston.org.

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER WEEKEND"Rise, and do not be afraid." Let us not be afraid to live out our Sacrament of Marriage to the fullest. Strengthen, renew, and rekindle your marriage by attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend. The next Weekends are Mar 13-15, 2020 in

Duxbury, MA and Apr 18-19, 2020 in BREWSTER, MA. For more information, call Stephen & Michelle O'Leary at 800-710-9963 or visit them at https://wwmema.org/.

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LASALETTE RETREAT CENTERLooking for a Spiritual pick-me-upper ? La Salette Retreat Center in Attleboro, MA has published its complete schedule of 2020 retreat programs and days of recollection. Visit its website at: www.lasaletteretreatcenter.org. Or, send for its catalog of programs at: La Salette Retreat Center, 947 Park Street, Attleboro, MA 02703.

WALKING WITH MARYJoin Cardinal Seán O’Malley for Walking with Mary, a procession through the streets ofBoston with Our Lady, on Saturday, April 18, 11:30am to 3:30pm. Event begins and endsat the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and will include a Marian procession, an address fromCardinal Seán, Adoration, recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, and Benediction. Formore information, visit bostoncatholic.org/walkingwithmary.

MY LIFE, MY HEALTH – A FREE CHRONIC DISEASE SELF-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Is living with a persistent health condition preventing you from really living? Join us for a FREE six-session community workshop designed to give adults with chronic conditions (such as arthritis, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, asthma) and/or their caregivers the knowledge and skills needed to take a more active role in their healthcare.  Learn to manage your condition and continue living a fulfilling life through this evidence-based self-management program. Tuesdays, March 24th – April 28th 12:30p to 3:00p at the Saugus Senior Center, 466 Central Street,

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THE SECOND SUNDAY IN LENTMARCH 8, 2020

Brilliant SufferingLast week we saw Jesus being tempted just like the rest of us. We recognized our humanity. This week we see him transformed into dazzling light. Not so human. What is going on? Is he trying to teach us something?

To try for an answer, I want to describe a possible prayer experience.*

Please imagine yourself sad and discouraged, wishing God would help you. You want the faith that used to be yours … but you do not find it. You go along in your normal patterns. But suppose that all at once you find yourself moved and attracted to God in a way you cannot doubt, a way that is “beyond you but within you.” Afterwards you cannot really doubt that it was from God, even though you don't really understand it.

This would be an important moment, wouldn’t it, a brief transformation of your experience of God, a reshaping of it. Call it a “transfiguration."

Now apply such an understanding of “transfiguration” to Jesus in Sunday’s Gospel. The apostles suddenly behold Jesus with his divinity shining forth (like a “glorified body”). It goes through their usual filters. Their experience of Jesus is being, precisely, transfigured. For a

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Notice, we are talking about the complete union with God “that he is,” not that he “has.” In Jesus, divinity and humanity are at one with each other. Daily onlookers see only the human, but in this case Jesus is showing the apostles his whole self: divinity in its complete oneness with humanity.

Why would Jesus make such a revelation to them?

Again, the answer might be found in the Ignatian prayer we are imagining. In such a prayer God can give us a brief vision of how things really are at their root. Sometimes it would be to keep us from getting discouraged, or to avoid letting our attention drift away. Couldn't this be the case with the transfiguration as well?

Couldn’t Jesus have seen one of his jobs as training the apostles—throughout the entire Gospel and in particular in this scene—as just one stage of the instruction?

Let us assume this to be the case.

Jesus would have taught them about himself, gradually, all through Matthew’s Gospel. He was a superb teacher. Just before Sunday’s passage in Matthew, he had finally told them what a real Messiah is. He said that the “Son of the living God must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be

killed and on the third day be raised” (Mt 16:13-23).

A major revelation, one he had thought they were at last prepared for. If you remember, however, Peter had objected vehemently, when he took Jesus aside “and began to rebuke him, ‘God forbid, Lord!

No such thing shall ever happen to you.’” Jesus went so far as to call Peter “Satan” for resisting the new revelation. Suffering and death are not foreign to Jesus, the Messiah. They are of the essence. Such a hard lesson this is for each of us. Suffering, death and resurrection are at the heart of love!

I suppose the Transfiguration was one way for Jesus to reassure us and them that agony would not negate his

divinity, it would fulfill it. It would be God’s love shining forth.

John Foley, SJ________ * Ignatius Loyola describes such a prayer experience as:… an occasion when God our Lord moves and attracts the will in such a way that a devout person, without doubting or being able to doubt, carries out what was proposed. This is what St. Paul and St. Matthew did when they followed Christ our Lord.From the Spiritual Exercises, #175. [see also, Mt 9:9].

Fr. John Foley, SJ, is a composer and scholar at Saint Louis University.

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Incarnation Parish Bulletin HOW TO FIND USAs a Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Boston, we are committed to excellence in liturgy, service, hospitality, and life-long learning, all centered in Christ. 429 Upham Street, Melrose, MA 02176 Office: Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm1-781-662-8844 Office1-781-662-9340 FAX e-mail: i.rectory@comcast.net website: www.incarnationmelrose.org Follow us on Twitter @IncParish Like us on Facebook!PASTORAL and SUPPORT STAFF Fr. Steve Madden,Pastori.rectory@comcast.netFr. Michael Ssenfuma, Parochial Vicarmdssenfuma@gmail.comFr. André Brouillette, Weekend AssistantDeacon Bob Breendeaconbob2008@gmail.comAnn Lahiff, Director of Faith Formation AnnLahiff7@aol.comShawn Gelzleichter, Director of Music Ministriessgelzleichter@gmail.com Gina Distefano, Business Administratori.rectory@comcast.netBrother David E. Wiggin, C.F.X., Bookkeeper Jim Guiry, Maintenance ManagerDottie Ahlin, Household Assistant

LITURGY Mass Schedule~ Saturday 4:30; Sunday 8:00 am & 10:30amDaily Mass ~Thursday-Friday at 8:00.

SCRIPTURE STUDYEvery Friday morning after Mass we share coffee and conversation about God’s Word for the week. Everyone is welcome in this lively and interesting forum.

RECONCILIATION Saturday, 3:30 - 4:15 pm, or by appointment at any time.

JOINING THE PARISHNo matter what your journey has been, we want to be your companions for the next steps, to share the Gospel together and to help each other along the way.Please introduce yourself to a staff member, or drop in for

coffee on Sunday. You can register as a parishioner online via our website, or stop by the rectory. ADULT INITIATION, RCIAWe are always ready to begin the process by which an adult or older child becomes a Catholic, either by full initiation in baptism, or by reception into full communion. We are also happy to prepare you for adult Confirmation. Contact Deacon Bob Breen.

BAPTISM FOR INFANTSCongratulations! The baptism of infants is celebrated on the first Sunday of the month, or within the Sunday assembly. Fr. Steve is the staff contact person for preparation.

GENERATIONS OF FAITHWe are a community of life-long learners. Our parish program of inter-generational learning and celebration of faith is called Generations of Faith. Contact:Ann Lahiff.

MARRIAGECongratulations! The engaged couple must contact the Rectory at least six months in advance, preferably a year ahead

CARE OF THE SICK To arrange for the Sacrament of the Sick, for Holy Communion for the home-bound, or Viaticum for the Dying, please contact the parish office. We normally send ministers out with communion after the eight o’clock on Sunday, and also schedule regular home visits during the week. It is always possible to anoint the sick during regularly scheduled liturgies. All you have to do is ask!

ORDER of CHRISTIAN FUNERALSWe will work with you to plan your own funeral liturgy or that of a loved one, and are prepared to celebrate the Vigil, also known as the “Wake,” in the Church building for those who choose.

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