March 14, 2024 Thursday Week IV of Lent HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE 2024 PALM SUNDAY 4:00 pm Vigil 7:30 am 9:00 am 11:00 am 4:00 pm PARISH PENANCE SERVICE Tuesday March 26th, 11:00 am & 7:00 pm HOLY THURSDAY Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:00 pm Adoration in chapel until 9:30 pm GOOD FRIDAY Adoration in chapel, 9:00 am – 1:30 pm Stations of the Cross, 12:00 Noon Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 3:00 pm Chapel will remain open until 9:30 pm HOLY SATURDAY Decoration of church, 9:00 am Easter Vigil, 8:00 pm EASTER SUNDAY Mass at 7:30 am • 9:00 am • 11:00 am No 4:00 pm Easter Sunday evening Mass Holy Week Schedule (for the Refrigerator)
THE CATHOLIC PREACHING INSTITUTE This survey is part of the continuing effort we began when we hosted the Listening Session almost two years ago. The process may seem glacial but the reality is that the effort is moving along and moving us to the future. The Catholic Preaching Institute at Saint Charles Seminary invites you to take part in a unique survey about homilies preached at Mass. Please see the bulletin for details on how to participate. This could be the largest-ever study of preaching in the nation. Tell us what you think in a 10-miniutes online survey at https://catholicleaders.online/phillypreaching.
Lenten Devotions Stations of The Cross Stations of the Cross are prayed on Friday evening at 7:00 PM in the Church. Confessions Every Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30 PM I will be celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the chapel. Regularly scheduled confessions are heard each Saturday beginning at 2:30 PM. Solemn Vespers Each Sunday at 3:00 PM we celebrate Solemn Vespers with Exposition and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Women’s Lenten Soup Supper – Tonight!!! Women of the parish, please consider joining us for today at 6:00 PM for our annual Lenten Soup Supper. Fr. Thomas Whittingham, Pastor of St. Laurence, Upper Darby will be our guest speaker. He will direct his remarks and reflection on Divine Mercy and The Eucharist. **Walk-ins are welcome!** Email Michelle@purebread.com if you have any last minute questions.
Third Annual Fish Fry – SAVE THE DATE Plan to attend our Annual Fish Fry on Friday, March 22, 5:00 – 7:00 PM in Walker Hall of the School building. Meal includes: Fried Fish with French Fries, & Cole Slaw or Grilled Cheese, French Fries & Cole Slaw Cost: $15.00 per Fish Meal $10.00 per Grilled Cheese Meal $40.00 per family (Parents and dependent children) Click on the link below to select your preferred seating and meal of choice. Click here to register for the Fish Fry
Loaves and Fishes – Remember one of the main struts that support our Lenten Observance is almsgiving. Why not make your alms edible? Our next pickup is TOMORROW March 15th. We meet from 0930 to 1000 at the PLC. In addition to lunches or casseroles, St. John’s can use bags of fruit, boxes of protein or granola bars, cases of water, and chapstick. Our collection for YoungMoms in Kennett Square continues. Right now YoungMoms is in need of size 6 diapers. Any questions contact joburns66@gmail.com. In addition to the offering items from our Fair Trade Sale on Sunday March 17th, Our Catholic Relief Services Chapter will be providing samples of the meals presented on the Rice Bowl Boxes after the 11:00 Mass.
National Eucharistic Revival As the National Eucharistic Revival (June 2023 - June 2024) moves into the Parish phase of this national effort, I invite you to share a reflection of the Eucharist. As you compose your thoughts, these bullet points below may help to guide you in your reflection.
It can be prose or poetry or another form of expression. About 250 words. Please give a title to your contribution. Submissions may appear in the bulletin and/or our website. Who knows, your words may inspire someone else to reflect on the importance of the Holy Eucharist. Share them with others. Please send submissions to stcorn1@comcast.net. St. Cornelius Literary Society Winner of the 1962 National Book Award and one of Time magazine’s 100 Best English-Language Novels, Walker Percy’s debut The Moviegoer is an American masterpiece and a classic of Southern literature. Insightful, romantic, and humorous, it is the story of a young man’s search for meaning amid a shallow consumerist landscape. Binx Bolling, a young New Orleans stockbroker, fills his days with movies and casual sex. His life offers him nothing worth retaining; what he treasures are scenes from The Third Man or Stagecoach, not the personal experiences he knows other people hold dear. On the cusp of turning thirty, however, something changes: At Mardi Gras, he embarks on a quest for some form of authentic experience. The consequences of Binx’s quest, on both himself and his unstable cousin Kate, prove outrageous, absurd, moving, and indelible. Earth Day of Recollection Daylesford Abbey April 20, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. This day of recollection is entitled A vision of our future earth: Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry. Guided by meditations from mystic scientist and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and “ecologian” Thomas Berry, there will be time to spend in nature to pray, reflect, be in silence and reflect on our hopes for our Common Home. Earth Day of Recollection 2024 The Sacred Name Each Sunday the concluding prayer for the Universal Prayer of the Church, the Prayer of the Faithful ends with an invocation of the Sacred Name: we make this prayer in the Holy Name of Jesus, Lord now and forever. What You Can Do When People Use the Lord’s Name in Vain Left and Right - CatholicVote org |
I commend Father for his willingness to ride a bike. With the arrival of the springlike weather, I’ll be on mine as much as I can. But in a cassock?!? And he looks rather befuddled. No way José!!! Faithfully, Msgr. Diamond |