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1290 Grafton St. Worcester, MA 01604
508-757-0789 [email protected]
www.ololma.org
Rev. Brian O’Toole Pastor
Cheryl Orrell Admin Asst/Bookkeeper
Rev. Francis J. Roach Mr. William Cotter In Residence Maintenance
Mary Jo Castrrale Jeremiah’s Inn Ministry
Roland Gauthier Mrs. Judy Verdini Organist Religious Ed
Mission Statement:
"Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, disciples of Jesus Christ in Worcester, MA, reaches out with love into the neighborhoods to welcome, serve, support, and engage the community in Jesus.
In creating a welcoming relationship with Eucharistic and prayerful celebrations, we gather to make a difference by coming closer to God and one another."
MASSES Daily Mon - Sat: 8:00 AM
Saturday 4:30PM, Sunday 7:30 & 9:30AM Holy Days 8:00 AM, Noon, 5:30 PM PENANCE Saturdays 2:30-3:30 PM
Mass Intentions and Calendar March 15, 2020 3rd Sunday of Lent
SCRIPTURE READINGS
15 SUN Ex 17:3-7/Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9/Rom 5:1-2, 5-8/Jn 4:5-42 or 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42 16 MON 2 Kgs 5:1-15b/Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4 [cf. Ps 42:3]/ Lk 4:24-30 17 TUE Dn 3:25, 34-43/Ps 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9 [6a]/ Mt 18:21-35 18 WED Dt 4:1, 5-9/Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20 [12a]/Mt 5:17-19 19 THU 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16/Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29/ Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22/Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a 20 FRI Hos 14:2-10/Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17 [cf. 11 and 9a]/Mk 12:28-34 21 SAT Hos 6:1-6/Ps 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab [cf. Hos 6:6]/ Lk 18:9-14
Sat, Mar 14
8:00 am
4:30 pm Yvette Brodeur anniv remembrance req by the family
Sun, Mar 15
7:30 am Keith Michael Patterson 10th anniv req by the family
9:30 am Feola Family, Antoinetta Rossetti, Rosalbe Puca req by
the D’Andrea Family
10:30 am opens -Sharing Our Bounty in Church Hall
Mon, Mar 16
8:00 am Susie Anusauskas req by the family
3:00 pm Prayer Group
Thu, Mar 19
6:00 pm Finance Meeting
Fri, Mar 20
7:00 pm NA Meeting in Church Hall
Sat, Mar 21
8:00 am
4:30 pm Bob Racicot Jr & Sr req by the family
Sun, Mar 22
7:30 am
9:30 am Jonas Jaseliunas Month’s Mind req by the family
10:30 am opens -Sharing Our Bounty in Church Hall
Old Palms
If you have any palms at home, there is a basket at the front entrance of the church for
you to leave them in.
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.”
(John 4:13) Jesus reminds us that material things,
even something as basic as water, can never satisfy us for long.
When we build our lives around material possessions, we always want more.
True Joy and Peace only comes when we follow Jesus; when we become more “God-centered”
and less “self-centered.”
WEEKLY OFFERING
Sunday Offertory 3/7-3/8 $3,016.00
Maintenance 347.00
Catholic Home Missions 7.00
Church in Latin America 45.00
Catholic Relief Services 15.00
Easter Flowers 40.00
Catholic Free Press 39.00
Thank you for your generous support!
STEWARDSHIP OF TIME
STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE
3rd Week of Lent Did You Know: To Do:
March 16 -Each wireless landline phone uses -Disconnect wireless landlines in rooms that
about 3W continuously when plugged in. no longer need them.
March 17 -Estimates indicate that over 665,000 -Watch and discuss this video with your family
people from Pacific islands could be or friends. https://youtube/9P7jXveokDY
displaced by 2050 because of rising sea
March 18 -Paper makes up 1/3 of the solid waste -Use a phone or laptop the next time you need
in the U.S to make a "To Do" list. Paperless is even
better than recycling paper.
March 19 -"The heavens declare the glory of God; -As a family, discuss what you can do to care
the skies proclaim the work of his hands." for the Earth. We are halfway through Lent –
(Psalm 19:1) what changes have you made?
March 20 -Food purchased but not eaten, generally -Find a solution for your school. Ideas
ends up in landfills. Many schools have a available here - https://www.usda.gov/oce/
problem with food waste. About 1/3 food foodwaste /resources/K12_schools.html
is wasted.
March 21 -1,500,000 million barrels of oil are used -Drink tap water from a refillable water bottle.
each year in America just to produce plastic It's often safer because it has to meet stricter
water bottles! More fuel is burned to ship regulations than the bottling industry.
Environmental Stewardship
Kitchen Dedication in Memory of Fr. Robert Kelley…. Our kitchen has been under renovation and will soon be completed.
Our hospitality ministry is planning a brunch on Sunday, May 17th from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm for the dedication. Tickets will be $20 per person and $10 for children under 10 yrs. All proceeds from this brunch will be donated towards
the mechanical lift. Tickets are available at the rectory, or after 9:30 mass every Sunday in the Religious Ed office. Deadline to purchase tickets is May 10th.
The brunch menu will include scrambled eggs, deviled eggs, ham, bacon, pancakes, turkey, roasted poatatoes, stuffing, squash, fruit salad, tossed salad, assorted pastries, cof-fee, juice, soda and water.
Come join us and build community, as we dedicate our new kitchen which will enable us to utilize and rent the kitchen with the ultimate goal of bringing people together in the
memory of Fr. Kelley.
Partners in Charity This weekend is In Pew Commitment Weekend for the 2020 Partners In Charity Appeal. This weekend all members of Our Lady of Lourdes are called upon to support the work of our Lord Jesus made possible through the annual appeal. Our parish goal is $47,500. Please complete your pledge envelope, indicating your pledge today. If you have already made a gift to the 2020 appeal, we thank you. Your gift will help us reach our parish goal.
I confess to almighty God
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault,
through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary
ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
PENITENTIAL RITE CONFITEOR
third Sunday of Lent Cycle A
GATHERING HYMN I Heard The Voice Of Jesus
LITURGY OF THE WORD FIRST READING EX 17:3-7
In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?" So Moses cried out to the LORD, "What shall I do with this people? a little more and they will stone me!" The LORD answered Moses, "Go over there in front of the people, along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink." This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel. The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD in our midst or not?"
RESPONSORIAL PSALM PSALM 95
SECOND READING ROM 5:1-2, 5-8
Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.
And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though per-haps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
GOSPEL JN 4:5-42
Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Sa-maritan woman, for a drink?" —For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.—Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, 'Give me a drink, ' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?" Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead;
he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;
from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
Amen.
APOSTLES CREED (Stand)
Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband and come back." The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus answered her, "You are right in saying, 'I do not have a husband.' For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true." The woman said to him, "Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem." Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth." The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ; when he comes, he will tell us every-thing." Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one speaking with you."
At that moment his disciples returned, and were amazed that he was talking with a woman, but still no one said, "What are you looking for?" or "Why are you talking with her?" The woman left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people, "Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Christ?" They went out of the town and came to him. Meanwhile, the
disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." So the disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought him something to eat?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, 'In four months the harvest will be here'? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest. The reaper is already receiving payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. For here the saying is verified that 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work."
Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I have done." When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. Many more began to believe in him because of his word, and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world."
HOMILY
HOLY, HOLY MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE
Save us, Savior of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection, you have set us free, you have set us free.
GREAT AMEN MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE
OUR FATHER
SIGN OF PEACE
LAMB OF GOD MASS OF SPIRIT AND GRACE
LITURGY OF THE Eucharist
PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS As The Deer
GENERAL INTERCESSIONS Prayer For The Earth
All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with
your tenderness all that exists. Pour out upon us the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill
us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one. O God of the poor, help us to rescue the
abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the
world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction. Touch the hearts of those who
look only for gain at the expense of the poor and the earth. Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be
filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey
towards your infinite light. We thank you for being with us each day. Encourage us, we pray, in our struggle for
justice, love and peace.
Staying In Touch
Are you not sure you are a registered member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish? Has something changed in
your household? If so, help us keep our records up to date. Please take some time and fill out this form
and put it on the table as you leave the church.
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RECESSIONAL Christ Be Beside Me
COMMUNION Come To Me And Drink
