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March 15, 2020
3rd Sunday of Lent St. Rita Church
1008 Maple Drive Webster, New York
Phone (585) 671-1100 Fax (585) 671-5446
Website: www.saintritawebster.org
Email: [email protected]
PARISH OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 4:30pm Friday 9:00am - Noon
For our recorded Mass Schedule please call the parish office at 671-1100 ext. 25
Dear Parishioners, This Lent we are doing a fundraiser for Operation Rice Bowl. We would appreciate if you would participate. We will raise money by collecting coins in this box, which are available in the greeting area. Your Money will go towards solutions for refugees that struggle with poverty, hunger, and lack of clean water. When you are done collecting, please bring them to church with you on Palm Sunday. Sincerely, The Year 2 Monday Confirmation Candidates
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Join us on Fridays at 7:00pm in Church
Spend some time with Jesus this Lent by praying the Stations of the Cross.
March 20, & 27 and April 3
If you would like to pray on your own using our self-guided resources, the Church will be open Tuesdays from 1:00-6:00pm.
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Tuesdays during Lent from 1:00-6:00pm.
Come and spend some quiet time with the Lord.
6:00-6:45pm SOUP & BREAD SUPPER in Room 1
6:45-7:30pm LENTEN PRESENTATION in Church
TUESDAY, MARCH 17
Presenter: FR. TIM NIVEN Topic: “If You Only Knew: The Woman at the Well and our Journey of Faith”
TUESDAY, MARCH 24
TAIZE PRAYER Join us for this beautiful evening of quiet prayer and meditative music in our candlelit church.
TUESDAY, MARCH 31
Presenter: DEACON JIM FIEN Topic: “Finding Real Joy through our Faith”
All are welcome! Bring a Friend!
Souper Tuesdays
MASS INTENTIONS
Among the intentions for those who gather for the
Eucharist this week will be:
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2020 8:15AM AMBROSE J. RYAN - Wife & Family TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2020 8:15AM JOHN PINKNEY - Leo & Joan Maring WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 2020 NO 8:15am MASS THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020 8:15AM FILIPPO MILICI - Maria & Giuseppe Mistretta FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2020 8:15AM FOR A SPECIAL INTENTION SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2020 5:00PM CATHERINE STANTON - Carol & Larry Clar SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2020 7:30AM TIM WEAVER - Pat & Sharron Trimaldi
9:00AM FOR THE PEOPLE OF ST. RITA PARISH 10:30AM PASQUALE VIOLA - Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Arena
Our Tabernacle Light will burn from March 16 - 22
In Loving Memory of Joe Cianciotto
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ST. RITA SCHOOL
Where Faith and Knowledge Meet!
Here’s What’s Happening:
+ Could you hear the screams of delight on Sunday? This year’s Mother-Son event was snow tubing at Greystone Golf course. Even though temperatures were in the mid 50s, moms still enjoyed some individual time with their boys on the hills at Greystone. You can't beat a beautiful day filled with sun, laughter, and precious memories.
+ We all know how hard it is to get ready in the morning. Making breakfast and lunches, showering, getting our children ready and fed, and getting everyone out the door. It’s no easy task. In order to help alleviate some of the morning stress for our PreK parents, PAC provided parents with a Grab-n-Go breakfast on Wednesday and Thursday. It’s thoughtful activities such as this that make St. Rita School so special.
+ On Friday, students enjoyed a day off while our campus water and filtration piping system was improved. This did not stop the Fish Fry from being a huge success. Students, parents, parishioners, and friends of the school all came out to enjoy a delicious meal and wonderful fellowship. Join us the next three weeks for one of the best fish dinners in the Rochester area, and of course, some of the finest people around.
COMPANIONS IN GRIEF
SUPPORT GROUP
Thursday, March 19
at 7:00pm in Room 1
All who have experienced the loss of a friend or loved one
through death are invited to attend. All are welcome!
EASTER CANDY SALE
6 oz Chocolate Bunnies $5.00
6 oz Mint Melt-Aways $5.00
Our St. Rita Society is holding their annual Easter candy sale after all Masses for the next few weeks and also at the Parish Office. Proceeds are used for Parish and Society Outreach Projects.
St. Rita School
Blue & Gold Celebration
Saturday, March 28 6:00 -10:00pm
at Artisan Works (565 Blossom Rd. Suite L)
Cocktails (cash bar), Dinner Stations, Silent & Live Auction, Raffles, Casual Dress
Tickets are $50 / person and available by calling the school at 671-3132 or online at stritawebster.org/school via credit card.
(Click the ONLINE GIVING tab)
Tickets will also be available after Masses this weekend.
All proceeds benefit St. Rita School
Congratulation to Mrs. Carla Lemik and Mr. Gary Staszak who will be inducted into
the St. Rita School Hall of Fame at this event.
The Global Child Thrive Act (HR 4864) Is a bi-partisan act that would mandate adding early childhood development interventions to existing U.S. foreign aid programs. This would help children who are at risk of not being able to reach their full potential due to lack of resources and unstable environments. Look for opportunities soon right here at St. Rita’s to help get this act passed!
15 Sun Third Sunday of Lent Ex 17:3-7 Ps 95:1-2,6-9 Rom 5:1-2,5-8 Jn 4:5-42 16 Mon 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab Ps 42:2-3 43:3-4 Lk 4:24-30 17 Tue St. Patrick Dn 3:25,34-43 Ps 25:4-9 Mt 18:21-35 18 Wed St. Cyril of Jerusalem Dt 4:1,5-9 Ps 147:12-13, 15-16,19-20 Mt 5:17-19 19 Thu St. Joseph 2 Sm 7:4-5a,12-14a,16 Ps 89:2-5, 27,29 20 Fri Hos 14:2-10 Ps 81:6-11,14,17 Mk 12:28-34 21 Sat Hos 6:1-6 Ps 51:3-4,18-21 Lk 18:9-14
22 Sun Fourth Sunday of Lent 1 Sm 16:1b,6-7,10-13a Ps 23:1-6 Eph 5:8-14 Jn 9:1-41
Bible Readings for the Week
SUNDAY BREAKFAST NEWS! All are welcome each Sunday morning after the 7:30am and 9:00am Masses in the Parish Center for a hot, delicious meal served with a smile!
We offer a “Special” each Sunday in addition to our traditional menu with items such as eggs (any way you like ‘em), bacon, sausage, pancakes, etc. So sit back and let our Breakfast Club volunteers serve you on Sunday mornings from September through May!
UPCOMING SPECIALS:
March 15 - Team 3’s Special is: EGGS BENEDICT served with a bottomless cup of coffee.
March 22 - Team 4’s Special is: EGG BAKE served with your warm buttered toast and a bottomless cup of coffee.
Our ministry runs on donations only which are greatly appreciated!
PLANS FOR THIS WEEK
SUNDAY 3/15 8:30-10:30am Breakfast in the Parish Center After all Masses Blood Pressure Screening - Rm 1 9:00am Mass Enrollment Mass for First Eucharist 11:45am-1:45pm Confirmation Year 2 Session - Barn MONDAY 3/16 10:00-11:30am Bible Study - Rm 1 4:30-5:45pm A & B Faith Formation - Living Stations 6:15-7:30pm A & B Faith Formation - Living Stations 6:15pm Confirmation Year 2 Session - Barn TUESDAY 3/17 After 8:15am Mass Pray the Rosary - Church 1:00-6:00pm Eucharistic Adoration - Church 6:00-6:45pm SOUP SUPPER - Rm 1 6:45-7:30pm LENTEN PRESENTATION - Church 8:30-10:00pm Women’s Basketball - Gym WEDNESDAY 3/18 7:00-8:30pm Bible Study - Rm 1 THURSDAY 3/19 9:00-10:00am WEROC- Rm 3 7:00-8:30pm Bible Study - Rm 3 7:00pm Companions in Grief Group - Rm 1 9:00-10:30pm Men’s Basketball - Gym FRIDAY 3/20 5:00-7:00pm FISH DINNER - Gym 7:00pm STATIONS OF THE CROSS - Church SATURDAY 3/21 8:15-8:45am Pray the Rosary - Church 3:30-4:30pm Reconciliation Available in Church 6:00pm St. Joseph Table - Gym
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PARISH SUPPORT
For last Weekend of March 7 & 8
Total Budget Variance $ 12,277 $ 14,321 - $ 2,044
Year to Date Year to Date Budget Variance $ 498,141 $ 512,286 - $ 14,145
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!
We all grow spiritually when we share.
Next weekend March 21/22 we will have a Special Second Collection for Catholic Relief Services.
CRS provides assistance to organizations around the world to help poor and vulnerable people overcome emergencies, earn a living through agriculture and access affordable health care.
DID YOU KNOW?
If you attend a different church for weekend Mass, you can place your St. Rita Church Offering Envelope in that church’s collection basket and it will be sent back to us. We do this in turn for other parishes whose parishioners are here visiting our church.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
ST. RITA
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
Monday thru Friday, July 6 – 10
9:00am to Noon
Our VBS registration is now open at www.saintritawebster.org/vacationbibleschool/
Are you ready for an adventure this summer? Meet new friends, play fun games and songs, and let Jesus set your heart on fire with love
at Camp Jesus!
See the online flyer listing the Vacation Bible School summer dates for all the Webster Churches.
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FRIDAY - LENTEN FISH DINNERS
Fridays through April 3
5:00-7:00pm in the Parish Center
Fried or Baked Haddock are available as well as Cheese Pizza and Macaroni and Cheese for those who do not care for fish! Adult Fish dinners include fish, seasoned potato wedges, coleslaw and a roll for $12. Seniors are $11 and Children’s portions are $6.00. Soft Drinks, Milk, Coffee and Tea are $1. Desserts are available to purchase. Dine in or Take Out is available.
Easter Egg Hunt
Sunday, March 29 1:00pm in the Parish Center
Prepare for Easter at this free family event.
Children ages 1-11 are invited to participate in activity stations while waiting to hunt
for eggs as a family.
Please go to our website www.saintritawebster.org and sign up now! All are welcome - bring a friend!
ST. JOSEPH TABLE
Saturday, March 21
after the 5:00pm Mass in the Parish Center
We invite you to join us as we celebrate St. Joseph. The Table is meant to offer a taste of God’s
goodness and to honor St. Joseph. The tradition of the St. Joseph’s Day Table began in Sicily in 1324 in thanksgiving for favors received from God through the intercession of St. Joseph.
Today we offer the Table as a way to express our thankfulness for the blessings that God has bestowed on us, our parish, and for the great example of St. Joseph who cared so compassionately for his family – Mary and Jesus. We invite you and your family to join us for this delicious celebration of our blessings!
Our St. Joseph Table will be blessed by Father Tim following the 5:00pm Mass.
If you are able to bring a meatless dish or dessert, please call Felice Armignacco at 671-5177. Donations of food may be delivered on Saturday, March 21 after 12:00 Noon to the kitchen in the parish center.
Here are some suggestions:
Meatless Dishes: Vegetable Lasagna Stuffed mushrooms Celery or Cardone fritters Macaroni and Cheese Eggplant or Zucchini fried Greens & Beans Artichoke French or Casserole Spinach Casserole Vegetarian pizza Meatless frittata Pasta with vegetables e.g. broccoli, bread crumbs Pasta with honey toasted bread crumbs Baked Ziti with meatless sauce Pasta with white or red clam sauce
Desserts: Cookies (any kind), Cream puffs, Cannoli, Sfingi, Honey Balls, Pizzelles, Fruit
If you are able to help in any way with set up, clean up or serving please contact Elaine King at 671-4930.
“Sleep in Sunday”
YOUTH MASS
Sunday, March 22
at 7:00pm at St. Rita Church
Sleep in on Sunday, March 22 and then join Fr. Tim and all your friends for a special Youth Mass designed just for YOU at 7:00pm at St. Rita followed by Pizza, Games, Conversation and Fellowship together.
CARE FOR GOD’S HOUSE: Week of March 15 - Mary Ann Beikirch LINENS: Week of March 22 - Linda Erck
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Liturgical Ministers scheduled for next week: March 21 & 22
5:00 PM 7:30 AM
9:00 AM
10:30 AM
Sacristan Linda Lattuca Tom Nespeca John Thomas JoAnn Zaccardo
Leader Jerry Lupien Carol VanAtta Linda Daley Sheila Korol
Lector 1 Princess Fame Kathy Reinhardt Joanne Facci Sofia Bosco
Lector 2 Larry Infantino Don Guentner Jim Daley Bernadette Rall
Altar
Servers
Makenna Curry Nora Curry
Teaghan Curry
Patrick Childs Francesca Kohrt
Brianna Yonker
Agostino Bosco
Dylan Brown
Eucharistic Ministers
Cassie Curry Kathy Foster Linda Lattuca
Josh Formella
Tom Nespeca
Kathy Reinhardt
Laura Formella
Jeannine Thomas
John Thomas
Sofia Bosco
Bernadette Rall JoAnn Zaccardo
PARISH STAFF 585-671-1100
Fr. Timothy Niven, Pastor
[email protected] ext. 16
Deacon Rick Rall,
[email protected] 585-545-8467
Deacon James Fien,
[email protected] 585-233-0334
Mary Ellen Wagner, School Principal
[email protected] 585-671-3132
Julie Cohn, Pastoral Minster
[email protected] ext. 13
Anne Thomas, Faith Formation Coordinator
[email protected] ext. 20
Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, Youth Minister
[email protected] ext. 14
Joan Sullivan, Multi-Parish Finance Director
[email protected] ext. 21
Karen Geer, Parish Administrative Assistant
[email protected] ext. 11
Lisa Hendershot, Parish Bookkeeper
[email protected] ext. 12
June Frosino, Music Director
[email protected] ext. 17
Giulio Bosco, Parish Pastoral Council Chair
[email protected] 585-671-9268
Campus Security, After Hours Emergency Only 585-363-8835
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
In re Diocese of Rochester
Case No. 19-20905
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, On September 12, 2019, the Diocese of Rochester ("Diocese") filed for protec-tion under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code (the "Bankruptcy Code").
The Bankruptcy Court has established August 13, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. (prevailing Eastern time) as the deadline to file proofs of claim against the Diocese (the "bar date").
If you have a claim against the Diocese, including, with-out limitation, a claim related to sexual abuse commit-ted by any person connected with the Diocese, you must file a claim on or before the Bar Date.
Please visit https://case.stretto.com/rochesterdiocese or call (855) 347-3773 for more information on how to file your proof of claim.
IF YOU DO NOT TIMELY FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM, YOU MAY FORFEIT YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE ON ANY PLAN OF REORGANIZATION AND TO SHARE IN ANY DISTRIBUTIONS MADE TO CREDITORS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEBT-OR'S CHAPTER 11 CASE.
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The Third Sunday of Lent
In the hope that you will enter more fully into the Mass!
“I Am He, The One Who Is Speaking With You”
I n this Sunday's readings, we hear of the stark contrast between water that quenches physical thirst and the "living water" that quenches our thirst for the fullness of life with God for all eternity.
In our first reading (Exodus 17:3-7), we hear how the Israelites grumbled in the desert about their thirst for water and how God responded to their lack of trust with mercy.
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?”
In our Epistle reading (Romans 5:1-2, 5-8), St. Paul reminds us that this grace that God has given us through the passion and death of his Son is truly unmerited and given purely out of the love God has for us, even while we were still sinners.
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 perhaps 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.
In our Gospel reading (John 4:5-42) we hear the story of the Samaritan woman who encountered Jesus at Jacob's Well. In their conversation about water and thirst, the woman is led into a deeper understanding of who Jesus is and the true nature of the "living water" of which he speaks. Her increasing understanding and faith led her to lead others to Jesus - a mission we Christians are called to as well.
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 Samaritan 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 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 everything.” Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.” Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him. 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 b 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.”
I n some ways, we may be like the Samaritan woman and the Israelites in the desert, with our minds fixed on our physical needs while Jesus is leading us to thirst for our spiritual needs, the fullness of life in him. Would it be that we were as quick to recognize Jesus as the Samaritan woman.
Read and reflect on the full readings of today’s Mass at: www.usccb.org/bible/readings/031520.cfm
