HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH 1416 George Street Rosenberg, Texas Church (281) School (281)

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1 HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH 1416 George Street Rosenberg, Texas Church (281) School (281) Father William D. Bartniski, Pastor Brick Hodge, Deacon Charlie Buhay, Deacon Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston 1700 San Jacinto Street Houston, Texas (713) Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, Archbishop The Most Rev. Joseph A. Fiorenza, Archbishop Emeritus The Most Rev. Vincent M. Rizzotto, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus The Most Rev. George A. Sheltz, Auxiliary Bishop We are now at the fifth Sunday in our Lenten preparation. The focus of the readings turns our attention from the rules we read about during the third week to a new covenant, a new relationship between God and all of us. Jeremiah tells us of God s intention to enter our very hearts, the center of our life. The psalm asks for a clean heart so that we are ready to receive the joy of salvation. Hebrews tells us that Jesus too prayed, was made perfect, and became the source of eternal salvation. In John, Jesus explains the contradiction that this new relationship involves: death becomes life. God gives everything to us, including forgiveness. God holds back nothing from us, giving us even the beloved Son, Jesus. WRITTEN IN STONE The rules written on the stone tablets given to Moses are easy to remember, if not so easy to follow. Today we learn that the rules are no longer outside ourselves but that God has written them on our hearts. God says, I will be their God and they shall be my people. We are now bound in a relationship with God and are not just following God s rules. The model for the relationship is Jesus. Jesus, Son though He was, was made perfect through His suffering and became the source of salvation for all of us, who are far less than perfect. Jesus describes this relationship as a grain of wheat, whole unto itself, that falls into the embrace of the earth and is broken in order to produce the life-sustaining wheat. WRITTEN IN FLESH When the rules are written on our hearts, we must look within to measure ourselves, to discover what God expects of us. like a deep friendship, a marriage, or parent and child, requires a whole-hearted commitment, a willingness to put the lives of others before our own. We share with Jesus such a relationship, a deep longing for God so that our lives have a meaning beyond their measure. Each of our lives is more than a series of experiences, events, accomplishments. Each of our expects more of us than rules. This relationship gives us more than rules. This relationship asks for our life and in return gives us eternal life and salvation. 03/18/18 SCHEDULE OF SACRAMENTS, PRAYER AND DEVOTIONS SACRAMENT OF PENANCE: Saturday:11:00 a.m. - Noon Penance Service: Advent & Lent SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Second Sunday of each month at 12:15 p.m. by appointment SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: One year in advance, instructions required. CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST: Sunday: 5:30 p.m. (Sat.) 7:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Holy Days 6:30 p.m. (Vigil) 6:00 a.m. & 8:15 a.m. Weekdays: 8:00 a.m. (Marian Hall) Thursday 8:15 a.m. (in the Church) ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Communal Celebrations at all Sunday Masses on the 3rd Sunday of January, May and September ROSARY: Before Sunday & Weekday Masses LENTEN DEVOTIONS: Friday: 8:15 a.m. (Children) 11:00 a.m. (Seniors) 7:00 p.m. (Parish)

2 Dear Parish Family, One of the earliest pictures of Jesus I can remember portrayed Him at prayer in the garden of Gethsemane. I still see His hands, clasped tight. They spoke to me of an inner struggle long before I knew about His words, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this cup away from me, but not what I will but what you will (Mark 14:36). More than any other scene in the Gospels, this one brought home what it meant to say Jesus was truly man. Today s Gospel has been called John s version of the agony in the garden. The word agony (agonia in Greek) means struggle, and we can hear the struggle in Jesus awareness that the hour He has spoken of before in John s Gospel, beginning at Cana, has finally arrived. It is the hour of His being lifted up - the hour of both His glory and His crucifixion. It is why He came into the world, and yet we hear Him say, I am troubled. We hear Him wrestling with Himself, asking for release from the hour, but then recognizing that it holds the purpose for which I came. Hebrews affirms this when it says He offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one able to save Him from death, and He was heard because suffering and become the source of eternal salvation for all who listen to Him and follow in His steps. James A. Wallace, C.Ss.R. Copyright 2014, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. Love, Peace & Prayers, Monday, Mar. 19 8:00 a.m.: No Mass Tuesday, Mar. 20 8:00 a.m.: Jerry Suchma Wednesday, Mar. 21 8:00 a.m.: Shirley Nidever Thursday, Mar. 22 8:15 a.m.: Pete & Brian Walleck Friday, Mar. 23 8:00 a.m.: Veronica Horelica Saturday, Mar. 24 8:00 a.m.: No Mass 5:30 p.m.: The Sick in the Parish Sunday, Mar. 25 7:00 a.m.: Families of Holy Rosary Parish 9:00 a.m.: Rose Cervenka 11:00 a.m.: Raymond Macha, Sr. SANCTUARY LAMPS The sanctuary lamps will burn this week for Edward & Rose Cervenka by Leroy & Marilyn Stavinoha and in Thanksgiving to St. Jude. PASTORAL COUNCIL NOMINATIONS Nominations for three new members to serve on the Holy Rosary Pastoral Council for the Council is a wonderful opportunity to share Holy Rosary Church into the coming years. A ballot box and nomination forms will be in the serving. Parishioners may nominate themselves or another parishioner with his or her prior approval. Contact any of the current members below with questions or call Ed LaVigne at Ed Lavigne ellavigne@comcast.net Diane Gibula trepuah4@msn.com Jennifer Hines Father Bill Bartniski

3 Our Theater Arts Department will perform the children s play Aesop s Fables 10:00 a.m. March 20 & 21. RSVP to Monday 6:00 p.m.: Rosary for Peace - MH 7:00 p.m.: Bible Study - MK Tuesday 10:00a.m.:Sr.Citizen Confessions 10:30 a.m:altar Society - MH 6:30 p.m.: Cub Scouts - Cafe. 7:00 p.m.: Confession Circuit-CH Wednesday 9:30 a.m.: Bible Study - MK 7:00 p.m.: RCIA - MK Thursday 8:15 a.m.: Mass - CH 6:30 p.m.: Baptism Class - MH Friday Stations of the Cross 8:15 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. Confessions 5:30 p.m.: Mass St. Vincent de Paul Black Bag Collection CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COLLECTION Thank you for your generous support of The Catholic Relief Services Collection and for helping Jesus in Disguise. Your contributions will make a difference for the poor and marginalized around the world. If you missed the collection, it s not too late to give! Just visit by March 19 if interested in bringing your children. All are invited to Mary s Way of the Cross presented by our 4 th grade class on March 23 at 8:15 am. The Stations are from Mary s perspective and are very moving. We see through the Blessed Mother s eyes what her son Jesus was going through on the way to Calvary. about all HRCS can do for your children, please call the school office at or Pam McCarthy at pmccarthy@holyrosary-school.org. Grounded in our Catholic faith & focused on academic TUITION ASSISTANCE OPPORTUNITY A family seeking a Catholic Education for their child should not be deterred by the cost. Please help make a Catholic education accessible to all no matter their financial state. Holy Rosary Catholic School is seeking donors to help fund our Tuition Assistance program. Any donation amount is greatly appreciated. Your gift is a gift of confidence in all that a Catholic education provides. Thank you for your support! PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL Vacant Hour Needing Attendance: 3:00 a.m. Thursdays (2 months) 12 Midnight Fridays Please call Marv Kuhn STATIONS OF THE CROSS FRIDAYS during LENT 8:15 am. Children 11:00 a.m. Seniors 7:00 p.m. Parish LENTEN CONFESSION CIRCUIT Services begin at 7:00 PM Sunday, March 18 St. Wenceslaus, Beasley St. John, Hungerford Tuesday, March 20 HOLY ROSARY Wednesday, March 21 New Taiton Thursday, March 22 Holy Family, Wharton Sr. Citizen Confessions 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 20 at Holy Rosary EARLY BULLETIN ARTICLE DEADLINE Articles are due by 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 21 for the April 8, 2018 bulletin LENTEN PROJECT: 40 CANS Our parish is undertaking a Lenten project to help the hungry during this Lenten season. All parishioners who are able are asked to contribute one canned good per day during Lent (40 cans). Cans will be collected in the church vestibule and donated to Catholic Charities.

4 CCE NEWS is held on Wednesday evenings. For details see Pre-K 3 through 5 th grade CCE begins in the gym Parents are welcome to come to the opening at 5:30 p.m. Please line up in cars by the walkway from the gym to pick up your children. 6 th grade through 12 th grade begins in the gym at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays. Please line up in cars by the Junior High walkway to pick up your children at 8:30 p.m. FAMILY REFLECTION: Whoever serves me must Adult: What do I do to serve Jesus every day? Teen: How do I follow Jesus? Child: What does the Father will honor whoever serves me mean? Steubenville South June Alexandria, La. A weekend event with presenters that share the teen culture. The talks, music, workshops, and activities are centered around the Sacraments which facilitate the experience of the love of the Father, a personal relationship with Jesus and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Hilton Americas Hotel, Houston, Texas An opportunity for youth in the Archdiocese to gather together in prayer and fellowship. This conference hosts over 2,000 young Catholics from around the Archdiocese and provides great music, excellent speakers from across the nation, and one of the greatest qualities a All teens entering 9 th grade and leaving 12 th grade are welcome to attend all events. Please sign up with Tina or Leann in the CCE office. Call ex. 106 or 141. BIBLES AND CATECHISMS PREPARATION FOR SACRAMENTS First Communion is a two year process that typically begins in the 1 st grade and ends at the end of the 2 nd grade with a First Communion Mass. Children should attend Mass every Sunday to participate in the sacramental life of the church. In addition, there are Sacramental Sundays to help the children learn about reconciliation and the Eucharist. Also, children are asked to miss no more than one CCE class a school year in order to be prepared for the sacrament. Out of Sequence First Communion is a two year process for baptized children that have begun preparation for First Communion after 1 st grade. There are additional sessions after the end of regular CCE to prepare an Out of Sequence child to receive First Communion. Confirmation preparation requires two years of preparation, but teens can take up to four years, if needed. This preparation usually begins in the 9 th grade. Preparation includes weekly attendance at Sunday Mass, attendance at two confirmation retreats, all with Confirmation, and weekly CCE attendance. Students who attend Catholic high schools are to attend the first scheduled CCE class of each month as well as all the other components listed above. The youth are asked to miss no more than one CCE class per school year. Sponsors and/or the candidate s parents are asked to attend some classes and an Evening of Reflection to help the youth grow closer to Christ. GENERAL CHURCH CLEANING Saturday, March 24 8:00 a.m. I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:33

5 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dn 3:52-56; Jn 8:31-42 Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9; Jn 8:51-59 Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16; (procession) Is 50:4-7; Ps 22: 8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1-15:47 [15:1-39] REPENTANCE God has promised pardon to one who repents, but has not promised repentance to one who sins. St. Anselm Stations of the Cross Mar. 24 & 25 - Weekend Servers Saturday, 5:30 p.m.: Ashley & Morgan Moore, N.Trevino Sunday, 7:00 a.m: Jeremy & John Rebeles 9:00 a.m.: Richard & Joshua DeLeon, R. Damstra Weekend of March 24 & 25 F. Michulka, L. Moreno, J. Respondek, T. Macha D. Gurecky, B. Rohan Mission Statement We, the Catholic community of Holy Rosary, Rosenberg, under the patronage of Mary, Queen of the Holy Rosary, are bonded together by a common belief in Jesus Christ and our commitment to His teachings. We, as a community of believers, are called to proclaim the Gospel, to be witness and sign of God s Kingdom on earth and to work for our salvation. Mindful of our Patroness, Mary, and her example as parent, teacher and intercessor, we are committed to accomplish this mission through service, education, prayer and celebration of the Eucharist. HOLY ROSARY PARISH STAFF Gordie Allen Annette Swallers Anne Chilek Karen Matthews Michael Riha Tina Hollopeter Leann Jerkins Linda Bradford Cheryl Wehring Maria Munguia PARISH SOCIETIES SOCIETY NAME & PRESIDENT Parish Business Administrator Parish Secretary Parish Bookkeeper Parish Census/Contribution Clerk Music Director/Organist Director of Religious Education CCE Coordinator School Principal School Administrative Assistant School Receptionist/Secretary MEETINGS Altar and Rosary Society 3rd Tuesday of Month Janey Schumacher, School Board... 3rd Thursday of Month Dan Hoelscher, Catholic Daughters... 1st Tuesday of Month Georgia Boettcher, Catholic Youth Organization... 1st Sunday of Month Justin Redding, (CCE) Religious Education Tina Hollopeter, , x106 or x. 141 KCs 3rd Degree... 4th Tuesday of Month Robert Contreras, KCs 4th Degree... 1st Tuesday of Month Rick Hail, KJT... Quarterly Michael Tydlacka, KJZT... Quarterly Martha Macha, Parent-Teachers Club... 3rd Thursday of Month Claudia Vega, Pastoral Council... 4th Thursday of Month Ed LaVigne, St. Vincent de Paul... 2nd & 4th Sundays Tom Wheeler, , ext 144 Young At Heart Club... 2nd Tuesday of Month Shirley Myers,

6 PRAY FOR OUR HEROES IN THE MILITARY INSTRUMENTS OF GOD S MERCY 2018 Diocesan Services Fund Sergeant David Hammonds, Marines; Anthony Villarreal, Joe Pirem & David U.S. Air Force; Staff Sgt. Adam Renee Hernandez, U.S. Air Force; Sgt. Michael Almendarez, U.S. Army; Staff Sgt. Shaun P. Houlihan, U.S. Air Force. If you have a family member or friend you would like to include, please call the church office. TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Over the next two weeks, as we hear of the interior the scene of a night of suffering, failure, and loss. In Hebrew, the word means olive press, and it was an olive grove, although only a few trees remain. Olives can t be eaten off the trees, they need to be cured - knocked from the trees at harvest time, scooped into a stone basin, and cracked open by a heavy millstone. The crushing stone weight was itself called a gethsemane, and once it was lowered onto the olives, oil from the fruit and the inner stone would drip into a groove and low into jars. The night before his death, Jesus experienced such anguish that scripture says His own blood perspired from Him, an image no one who understands olive oil production could miss. and the site of the Church of All Nations, also known as the Basilica of the Agony. It was built in 1924, funded by Catholics in twelve different countries. An open-air altar on the grounds is used by Anglicans on Holy Thursday every year. Nearby is the Russian Church of golden domes a distinctive landmark. There is also another tiny Catholic Church, called Dominus Flevit, or The Cry of the Lord, built in a teardrop shape in the mid-1950s. For centuries, the Franciscan order has had the care of the shrines of the Holy Land, and our Good Friday collection helps sustain these precious sites. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. ALTAR SOCIETY MEETING & LUNCHEON 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 20 Marian Hall All ladies of the parish are invited BE AWARE We need to be aware that happiness can sometimes sneak in through the door we didn t know we had left open. Anonymous SAVED BY GOD S LOVE a new covenant, not in the blood of oxen and other animals, but in the blood of the Son, Jesus Christ. This new covenant, foreseen from afar by Jeremiah and the prophets, was not to be engraved on stone, or written on paper, but carved on our hearts, so that we might know God intimately. Not by keeping many laws are we to be saved, but by the love of God, living and real in our hearts through the sacrifice of Christ. Our Eucharist is the pledge of that indwelling of Christ, and of our response of praise and thanksgiving to God for the mercy, love, and kindness shown to us in forgiving our sins and cleansing our hearts of everything evil. God issues this invitation to intimacy by offering us the chance to have our sufferings transformed into the perfect love of the Savior, who first loved us. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

7 DISCOVER THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED 6:30pm-9:30pm Apr. 12, May 10 A monthly discernment gathering at St. Mary s Seminary for single young adult men ages 18 & older. Join priests and seminarians for fellowship, prayer, music, dinner and talks about the discernment for priesthood & religious life. See WOMEN SEEKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED 6:00pm-9:00pm Apr. 12, May 10 A monthly discernment gathering for single women ages 18 & older who are discerning a vocation to religious life. Meet in different convents around the Archdiocese for supper, a brief presentation & time for sharing & prayer. See Joan Stavinoha Leonard Grigar Pat Trahan Ralph Zwahr James Ainsworth, Jr. Guadalupe Jaramillo Dorothy Cernoch Please remember our deceased and their families in your prayers. SUBSTITUTES NEEDED FOR PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL daytime, nighttime, weekday or weekend. INSIGHT RETREAT FOR YOUNG WOMEN 8:30am-5pm Saturday, March 24 An opportunity for high school girls to visit a convent, interact with Sisters from several congregations who serve in our about religious life Lain Rd., Spring. Free Register at Call Marv Kuhn TURKEY & DRESSING DINNER - DAMON Sunday, March 18 in the Parish Hall at Sts. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church 3715 Railroad Street, Damon. 10:30am-1:30pm. Pastries, Raffle, Crafts. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS LENTEN FISH FRIES The Knights of Columbus will have their last Fish Fry of the Lenten season at the Rosenberg KC Hall 5pm- Friday, March 23. Delicious Fried Fresh Cat ish, french fries, hushpuppies, coleslaw & brown beans will be served. Delicious Desserts will be sold by the CYO. Please join us! Mark your calendar. Last 2018 Lenten Fish Fry: March 23 PRAY FOR VOCATIONS Will you make a special effort to ask the Lord for more vocations to the priesthood & religious life? Pray for the priests, living and deceased, who have ministered to you throughout your life Keep our parish priests in prayer Encourage your children, grandchildren, or other young people to consider a vocation as a priest or religious brother or sister Pray a rosary for more young people in our Archdiocese to respond to God s call

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