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Mass Intentions: Week of March 1st
| Day | Time | Intention | Requested By | Living or Deceased |
| Saturday | 5:00 p.m. | Ed Pettitte and John Casey Eugene J. Malone, Jr. | The Casey Family The Malone Family | Deceased Deceased |
| Sunday | 9:00 a.m. | Carolann Burke Roussel | The 7th Grade Religious Education Class | Deceased |
| 11:00 a.m. | Bill Marino Intentions of Annette Volino | The Impastato Family Vickie Moore | Deceased Living | |
| Monday | 8:00 a.m. | Daniel J. Donovan | Frank and Kathleen O’Donovan | Living |
| Tuesday | 8:00 a.m. | Donna Farina Salvestri | Barbara Sansverie | Deceased |
| Wednesday | 8:00 a.m. | Kathleen Ferri | Joan and Matt Coffey | Deceased |
| Thursday | 8:00 a.m. | Ernest Grascia, Sr. | The Sansverie Family | Deceased |
| Friday | 8:00 a.m. | Carol Apicella | Father Tim | Deceased |
| Saturday | 5:00 p.m. | Peter Ferrante Marie Nicol | Bobbi and Stephen Zachensky and Family Janet and Joe Kelly | Deceased Deceased |
| Sunday | 9:00 a.m. | David Skehan | Mary Pat Hughes | Deceased |
| 11:00 a.m. | Florence Gilroy | Janice Gilroy | Deceased |
Week of March 1st
LENTEN REFLECTION
Richard Rohr will be our Lenten Companion this year. Rohr is a well-known Franciscan spiritual theologian. A prolific writer, his Wondrous Encounters: Day by Day Through Lent will appear weekly in our bulletin during the Season of Lent.
SUNDAY
Mt 17:1-9; Mk 9:2-10; Lk 9:28b-36
After this awesome and consoling epiphany, there is clear mention of “a cloud that overshadows” everything. We have what appears to be full light, yet there is still darkness. Knowing, yet not knowing. Getting it, and yet not getting it at all. Isn’t that the very character of all true Mystery and every in-depth encounter.
MONDAY
Dn 9:4b-10; Lk 6:36-38
It appears that humans can only know themselves through the gaze of others. We call it mirroring. Good parents, like God, naturally bless the child through their receptive and affirming faces.
TUESDAY
Is 1:10, 16-20; Mt 23:1-12
Nothing any of us can say today would match Jesus’ anger and judgment on hypocrisy in spiritual leadership and self- serving religious authority.
WEDNESDAY
Jer 18:18-20; Mt 20:17-28
Jesus, against all odds, expectations, and human programming, insists that we make the preemptive and positive move into “drinking the cup” ourselves instead of always asking others to drink it.
THURSDAY
Jer 17:5-10, Lk 16:19-31
We will all receive exactly what our lives say we really want and desire. Love is always torment for the hateful. Final torment is impossible for the loving.
FRIDAY
Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46
I know that any kind of defeat or humiliation is not the American way, but it is surely the biblical way. There the pattern is rather clear, and there is no going up until you go down.
SATURDAY
Mi 7:14-15,18-20; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32
The story that is strangely called ”The Prodigal Son” is much more about “The Prodigious Father” who seems to love to excess! All scholars seem to agree that this story most perfectly represents Jesus’ active and operative image of his personal experience of God.
The Word of God
Reading I: 1 Genesis 15: 5-12, 17-18 God lays Abram’s uncertainties to rest by strengthening His promises with a covenant oath, as He appears amid the offerings as smoke and fire.
Reading II: Philippians 3:17-4:1; or 3:20-4:1Paul appeals to his readers to follow his example, as he models his own life after Christ’s. He further notes that Christ will transform our mortal bodies to be like His own.
The Gospel: Luke 9: 28b-36 The Transfiguration shows Christ revealing His glory to offset the shock of the first Passion prediction. The presence of Moses and Elijah testifies that Jesus will fulfill both the Law and the Old Testament Prophets.
There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. – Ecclesiastes 3:1
A time to Die: for our deceased family, friends, and parishioners, and especially, Msgr. Robert J. McCabe and Msgr. Michael C. Crimmins.
A time to Heal: Pray for those who are ill and suffering, especially Pope Francis, Mario Manfredi, Dr. Ron Volino and those confined to their homes and healthcare institutions.
A time for War: Pray for those in worn-torn countries.
A time for Peace: For those in the military who have died in the service of our country.