St. Jude Parish April 5, 2020

St. Mary’s, Dorrance Liturgy Schedule

Monday, 4/6 Joseph J. Jacobs—George Jacobs, Jr.

Tuesday, 4/7 Joseph Pawlowski, Sr.—Joe & Gerry Pawlowski

Wednesday, 4/8 No Mass

Thursday, 4/9 Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Friday, 4/10 Good Friday Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion

Saturday, 4/11 Holy Saturday Easter Vigil

Sunday, 4/12 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Robert Ambrose In Honor of Jaxon Jones, Happy Birthday

St. Jude Parish Liturgy Schedule

Monday, 4/6 Tom Basar—Joe & Toni Furcon

Tuesday, 4/7 Sylvia Dugan—Bill & Irene Dugan

Wednesday, 4/8 Agnes Gregory—Gasper Family Maggie Wojcicki—St. Jude Faculty & Staff

Thursday, 4/9 Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Friday, 4/10 Good Friday Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion

Saturday, 4/11 Holy Saturday Easter Vigil

Sunday, 4/12 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Alan Carroll & Bee Herie—Family Henry & Joan Nork—The Family Parents & Grandparents—Boguslawa Poltorak

St. Jude & St. Mary’s scheduled Mass intentions above

will be said by one of our own priests at their private Mass.

The Churches of St. Jude & St. Mary are closed until further notice.

Many parishioners have asked how they can support the Church financially during this time as many expenses are fixed. We provide the following options:

Mail in your weekly envelope Online Giving

You can sign up for Online Giving on our web-site: www.stjc.org or please call Tracie at the Parish Office for guidance, 570-474-6315, ext. 223.

Thank you in advance for your generosity!

Despite the suspension of public Masses, a private Mass will be celebrated daily in the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Scranton, and made available on CTV: Catholic Televi-sion of the Diocese of Scranton: On weekdays, Mass will be broadcast at 12:10 PM,

3:30 PM and 7:00 PM On weekends, the Saturday Vigil Mass will be

broadcast at 4:00 PM and rebroadcast on Sunday morning at 10:00 AM.

The Masses will also be streamed on the Diocese of Scranton’s website (www.dioceseofscranton.org), made available on the Diocese’s social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram) and will be accessi-ble on the Diocese of Scranton’s YouTube channel. Additional resources to help to deepen your faith during Lent : Word on Fire: wordonfire.org US Conference of Catholic Bishops: usccb.org You can also watch the Sunday Mass on

EWTN, offered at 8 AM and 12 Noon this Sunday.

The Adoration Chapel is closed at this time, however, there is a ten minute video of Adoration and Simple Benediction

for people to pray, on our parish website www.stjc.org.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY!

ALL parish public Masses, gatherings, and activities are cancelled.

To learn more about Bishop Bambera’s decision, go to www.dioceseofscranton.org.

To listen to Fr. Joe’s Homily and other prayer resource links,

please log on to our website, www.stjc.org.

Dear Parishioners,

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is a beautiful way to pray and a signifi-

cant part of our parish history. Many parishioners from St. Jude and St. Mary spend time before the Blessed Sacrament in our Adoration Chapel. I wanted to give everyone an opportunity, through the gift of technology, to spend time with the Blessed Sacrament by clicking on a 10 minute video posted on our websites. It provides everyone the experience of Adoration and Simple Benediction while staying at home. Remember, we are still united as a parish. Jesus invites you into His Presence. Be Still and know that Jesus is always with us.

God Bless, Fr. Joe

HOLY WEEK ON THE WEBSITE

Holy Week will be different this year but still Holy Week!

You are invited to pray with us throughout the week on our website and Facebook pages. The Palm Sunday Liturgy will be available 4PM

on Saturday and throughout the weekend. Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper will be

available beginning at 5PM on Holy Thursday. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion will be

available beginning at Noon on Good Friday. This gives you ample opportunity to experience the Sacred Triduum when you are able on those days.

We will provide a video for the Easter basket blessing at 10AM on Holy Saturday Morning for you to pray at your convenience.

Bishop Bambera invites us to join him for the Holy Saturday Vigil from the Cathedral.

Easter Sunday Mass will be available beginning 8AM.

This is a great opportunity to enter into the Paschal Mystery.

Jesus Christ is Risen! Indeed He is!

Eucharistic Adoration

“God loved us before we were born and God will love us after we die. In Scripture God tells us “I will love you with an everlasting love.” Whether we be-lieve it or not we belong to God from eternity to eter-nity. Life is just an opportunity for us, during our few short years to say “I love you too God!”

~ Henri JM Nouwen

We are in the final days of Lent when Jesus proved God’s love for us by suffering and dying for us.

The Adoration Chapel is closed at this time, however, there is a ten minute video of Adoration and Simple Benediction

for people to pray on our parish website, www.stjc.org.

This week, the Sanctuary Lamp is lit in memory of Tom Basar by Family

College Care Packages

St Jude Youth Group is still planning to send care packages to our parish’s college students. (They really could use them this year!)

If you have or know of a college student who could use a little treat during finals week,

email Tricia, tscanlan@stjc.org or call the Parish Office with their school name,

school address AND home address. Please give as much detail to where you think they will be for finals. We will keep checking to follow which schools are online and which are starting back on campus.

Please send the information by April 14.

We are at the doorsteps of Holy Week where we stand with Jesus. The sacred scriptures reveal how Jesus has humbled himself and let go of everything, emptying himself for us. How have we joined him during this time of tension and disquiet? Have our prayers, much altered daily life, penitential practices and almsgiving moved us to humble ourselves before the Lord? Have we been able to let go of our daily preoccupations to make the ways of Christ Jesus our first priority? As disciples of the Lord and stewards of His gift of faith, it is time to evaluate our lives under his cross.

Gifts for God Parish Sacrificial Giving Summary

March 22, 2020

Weekly Envelopes: $ 3,831 Online Giving: $ 3,659 Total Contributions: $7,490

Thank you for your generous gifts!

Thank you to all who have helped support our parish through these troubled times.

Your support is greatly appreciated.

We also thank all those who committed to our “We Are Changing Lives” program.

Please don’t forget to update your Online Giving account.

Not an Online Giving user yet? Now is a great time to sign up!

Questions? Check out our website at www.stjc.org or

call Tracie Machalick 570-474-6315, ext. 223.

Fiscal Year Financial Report

Week ending March 22, 2020

Weekly Profit: $ 151.50 Fiscal YTD: $18,356.63

At this time we would like to thank all of our faithful gift card users.

We appreciate your support with this very important program. All gift card sales have been suspended due to the office clo-sure and for everyone’s safety.

Please pray for our church,

country, families, friends and neighbors!

Word of Life ~ “Like us, Christ entered the world through the womb of a woman. He willingly experienced the fullness of human suffering. He breathed his last on the Cross at Calvary in order that He might save us. Therefore, ‘God is the foundation of hope: not any god, but the God who has a human face and who has loved us to the end’(Citing Pope Benedict XVI, Spe salvi 31).”

Lenten Reflections and Prayers by Teresa Keogh, Advisor for Stewardship,

Archdiocese of Southwark, England 1. We hold in our hearts the sorrow of those

who have lost loved ones to the Coronavirus. May those who have died now rest in the presence of the Lord who suffered with them.

2. We pray for those who are feeling ill at this time and those who are caring for them. May the Lord show them his healing love and give them peace.

3. We pray for those who are using their skills in caring for those who are ill and frail. May the Lord strengthen them and give them confidence that they are doing his work in the healing of bodies, souls and spirits.

4. We place ourselves with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. We will watch and pray, knowing that he is with us in our uncertainty and fear. May we hear in our hearts the words from the Prophet Isaiah: ‘Do not fear, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you’.

5. We pray for those whose working lives will change as a result of the Coronavirus crisis. We pray that those who lose their jobs will find work which will fulfill their hopes and enable them to live with dignity. We pray for fairness and justice in the workplace.

6. We pray for those who lead us in government at this time. We pray for wisdom and discern-ment that they will do their utmost to serve their people faithfully and without self-interest.

7. We pray too for the scientists and the medical experts who are leading the response to the present crisis. May they share their knowledge and expertise with humility and integrity.

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

First Reading: Matthew 21:1-11 Second Reading: Isaiah 50:4-7 Gospel: Philippians 2:6-11

His Word Today by Rev. William J. Reilly “The Lord God has given me a well trained tongue, that I may know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them….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.” May the Word of God stir us to begin this Holy Week with a deep desire to grow closer to the Lord. The events we recall are not to be seen as a story of how great was Jesus’ love for us then, but to seek and find Him and dis-cover His unending love for us today. The saving work of Jesus is taking place right now. As I begin this week, I look for His saving grace in my life, my home, our world. We enter into this saving work as He entered the holy city. We unite ourselves to Him, as we sit at the last supper, weep in Gethsemane, walk to Calvary, and await the good news of the resurrection. Holy Week does not just happen; it calls me to live the drama of the paschal mystery with Him.

Walking Alongside Jesus with Courage and Hope

On Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, we are at the entrance to Holy Week. We’ve made a Lenten journey and now stand with Jesus before the gates of Jerusalem. We know that once we enter through those gates we shall be swept up in events that we cannot control and that will bring us to the very edge of what we can bear, as we walk with Jesus to Calvary and the tomb. Our Lenten journey with COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has become an unusual one indeed. We have walked into the valley of the surreal. The new pandemic has left most members of our society feeling afraid, anxious, isolated and alone. In an increasingly tension-filled society, the Corona-virus could rapidly mutate into an epidemic of despair. But Christian stewards are strengthened by their faith, courage and hope as they have for centuries in times of pandemic. It is precisely at times like these that their stew-ardship of faith and love of neighbor make the Gospel of Jesus Christ real and not just a mere sentiment. More than ever, their lives of faith give them the courage to live with an open heart even at the center of seemingly unbearable tension. Holy Week teaches us that God is able to transform everything about us, especially our fears and anxieties, our unfaithfulness and sinfulness. But to be open to that transformation in our lives requires some radical changes in our hearts, so much so that we might be stunned and frightened at the thought. It requires the will to endure some dying to self. Let us start with our stewardship of prayer: Prayer is the great mediating force that gives us hope. Jesus instructed his disciples to pray always and not lose heart. Let us make a commitment to prayer as we have never done before, with great trust that our prayer has real power. Stewardship of health: Let us embrace a new health regimen that includes obsessively maintaining a scrupulous hygienic routine so that we may take better care of ourselves and avoid infecting others. Stewardship of our neighbor: Let us follow Jesus’ injunction to love our neighbor as our-selves. Let us remember to check in on our neighbors and older family members and help where we may. And let us ultimately be ready and willing to sacrifice for others without counting the cost to ourselves. The gates to the city of Jerusalem are open. Jesus does not steer us away from the gates and send us back into the silence of the desert. He keeps us close to him as we stand at the entrance. He bids us peace and assures us that he will always be with us if we will only listen. With the help of God’s grace, let us embrace stewardship more fully and find the strength to enter into the great city with Jesus, to walk with him to his cross and his resurrection with courage and hope.

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