Saint Mary Parish 250 Kraft Street, Berea, Ohio 44017-1499 Rectory: 440-243-3877 FAX: 440-891-9417 Website: www.stmaryberea.org Mission Statement St. Mary is a faith community which worships together, follows the teachings of Jesus Christ in our everyday lives, evangelizes others by our lives and actions, gives generously of our time and resources in service to others, shows compassion and love towards one another, provides religious education and works for social justice for all. Parish Pastoral Staff Reverend John P. Singler, Pastor Reverend Mike Feldtz, Parochial Vicar Reverend Robert J. Cole, Retired, In Residence Deacon Tom Cully, Pastoral Associate Mrs. Angela Kovic, Music Director Parish Support Staff Mrs. Barbara Goebl, Spiritual Ministries Mrs. Diana Lipfird, Homebound Coordinator Mr. John Mastandrea, Adult Faith and Education Coordinator Mrs. Johanna Garr, Religious Education Coordinator Mr. Bob Sferra, Sacramental Catechetical Leader Parish Office Staff Mrs. Janel Abraham Mrs. Lorri Masie School Administrative Staff Mr. Andrew Carner, Principal Mrs. Sandi Ziegler, Program Coordinator Mrs. Nancy Kaesgen, Director of Development School Office Staff Parish Mass Schedule Weekday: 9:00am Monday through Friday Weekend: 4:00pm Saturday Vigil 7:30am, 9:30am, & 11:30am Holy Day Consult Bulletin Sacramental Ministries Baptisms: On Sundays After 11:30am Mass Reconciliation: Saturdays 3-3:30pm Seasonal Celebrations Marriage: Contact Parish Office Anointing of the Sick: Contact Parish Office Seasonal Celebration Communion Calls: Contact Parish Office Mrs. Mary Beth Hennessy Mrs. Diana Zjaba Celebrating 166 years of Pastoral Service to the Catholic Community of Berea
March 3, 2019 8 th Sunday in Ordinary Time The words we hear from the Lord on this last Sunday of Ordinary Time are, For every tree is known by its own fruit. So how do you/we want to be known? What does our life/lives bear for others? Great questions as we move into Lent. So, now I get to ask the question: What have you planned for the Season? It is a season of Return to Me as our Lenten bracelets will announce. It is a season With Grace and Gladness as Fr. Tom Connery s Reflection Book suggests. So, what fasting will you take on? And not just the fasting from chocolate or coffee or drink, but the fasting from disrespect of others, the fasting from snide remarks or thoughts of hurt. What fasting will you take on? How about prayer? What additional prayer experiences will you take on? And by that I mean, what NEW prayer forms will you take on? Bible study? Women s Book Club? TMIY? Prime Timers Club? Family Night? Friday Stations of the Cross? Weekday? Holy Hour of Prayer before the Real Presence? What prayer will you take on? And almsgiving - what additional giving and sacrificing will you take on? How about spending an hour reading to our youngsters in PSR or the Day School? How about joining us at the Monthly Nursing Home Masses? Or bringing your neighbor to the Fish Fry or Sunday Mass? Or how about paying it forward for someone following you in the Drive-Thru? What giving will you take on? So Return to Me with all you mind, heart and spirit and know The grace and gladness of this holy Season. Ash Wednesday Masses: 9am, 10:30am, 7:00pm THANKS for your continued generosity in the Sunday Collection Father John
Mass Schedule and Intentions Weekend of March 3 Eigth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00 pm Kay Eiermann Terry Hohman 7:30 am Michael Zajacz Brother - John 9:30 am Theresa Fisher Philip Fisher 11:30 pm Christopher Menter Friend Monday March 4 Weekday Sir 17:20-24 / Mk 10:17-27 (347) 9:00 am Robert & Phyllis Leek Walt & Fay Sliwa Tuesday March 5 Weekday Sir 35:1-12 / Mk 10:28-31 (348) 9:00 am George Kushner Special Intention Wednesday March 6 Ash Wednesday Jl 2:12-18 / 2 Cor 5:20-6:2 / Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 (219) 9:00 am For The People of St. Mary Parish 10:00 am School Mass 1:30 pm Service at Generations Senior Living 7:00 pm Gerald Jerry Lang Special Intention Thursday March 7 Thursday after Ash Wednesday Dt 30:15-20 / Lk 9:22-25 (220) 9:00 am Mary Jane Kelly Special Intention Friday March 8 Friday after Ash Wednesday Is 58:1-9a / Mt 9:14-15 (221) 9:00 am Mariam Abraham Family Saturday March 9 Saturday after Ash Wednesday Is 58:9b-14 / Lk 5:27-32 (222) 4:00 pm Bill Skvarch Whelan Family Sunday March 10 First Sunday of Lent Dt 26:4-10 / Rom 10:8-13 / Lk 4:1-13 (24) 7:30 am For the People of St. Mary Parish 9:30 am Robert Ward Sandy Ward 11:30 pm Deceased Members of Malloy & McDonough Families Family Mass Intentions for 2019 Sunday & Daily Mass times available for the month of March. Contact the Office to schedule or submit your request in writing - please include a phone number in case we need to contact you. Weekend Collection Collection for 2/24/19: $12,360.50 Thank you for ALL you give to St. Mary! 2nd Collection Next Weekend - March 9th & 10th is designated for the Annual Collection for the Black and Indian Missions here in the United States. Pope Francis reminds us in Lumen Fidei - Faith helps us build our societies in such a way that they can journey towards a future of hope. Your support of this collection helps build the Church in our African American and Native American communities from coast to coast. Please remember in prayer all who are ill or homebound, especially the following: Jackie Ayala Maggie Armstrong Donna Baker Mary Anne Bialosky Christine Burrell James Carney Charles William Conroy Candy Corbett Doris Crist Jase Dean Theresa DeAngelo Elisabeth Denk Hilda Denk Owen Dumm Judy Dunbrack Jim Duncan Chuck Duncan Bruce Ferraro Sharon Fisher Brian Follen Joan Foust Betty Glynn Doris Grame Geraldine Grant Bulletin Prayer List Nancy Grau Howard Gross Katie Halley Betty Hardman Elliot Jannis Hanna Kessler Karen Kljun Louise Knapik Kathleen Kolach Colleen Kubek Melanie Kuper Rob Lucas Karen M. Joseph McLaughlin Shem Miller Mike Nichols Leo Oblak Ed Paschke Carol Regal James Rollin Ruth Roth Mary Elizabeth Ryba John Serrao Jim Sperk Guy Sperk Chet Talarczyk Frank Walsh Chet Yanke Homebound Ministry Our Homebound Parishioners are very important to us and we want to make sure their spiritual needs are being met. If you or a friend or family member are homebound and unable to attend Mass, we would like to bring the Eucharist to you in your home. Please call Diana Lipfird, the Homebound Parishioner Coordinator, at 532-9491 or e-mail her at dlipfird@gmail.com. We will set up a time and day for the Extraordinary Minister to visit that best fits your schedule. If you are an Extraordinary Minister and would like to be part of our team of taking Communion to the homebound, please call Diana at 440-532-9491. In Your Charity In your charity, please remember the repose of the souls of Frieda Gerhart, Kevin Dallhausen and Gerald (Jerry) Lang. May they rest in eternal peace. Daylight Savings next weekend: Sunday March 10, 2019
Weekend of March 3rd Saturday - 3:00pm - Church Saturday - 6:00pm - FJG Sunday - 12:30pm - FJG Mtg Rm Monday, March 4th 9:30am - Chapel 7:15pm - Church Tuesday, March 5th 9:30am - Church 11:00am - Chapel 12:30pm - Chapel 7:00pm - FJG Mtg Rm 7:30pm - Church Confessions Polka & Pierogis Party Coffee, Tea & Thee: Divine Mercy Wednesday, March 6th - Ash Wednesday 9:30am - Chapel Thursday, March 7th 9:30am - Chapel 12:00pm - FJG Mtg Rm 7:00pm - Chapel 7:30pm - FJG Mtg Rm Friday, March 8th 4:30pm - FJG 7:15pm - Church Saturday, March 9th 3:00pm - Church Parish Events Sunday, March 10th 12:30pm - FJG Mtg Rm Bible Study Quiet Prayer Men s Group: Mardi Gras Celebration Traditional Choir Pinochle Club Women s Spirituality TMIY - That Man is You Fish Fry Stations of the Cross Confessions Coffee, Tea & Thee: Divine Mercy Anniversary Wishes Bible Study & Faith Sharing Bible Study will meet in the chapel on Tuesday from 11:00am - 12:00noon. As we approach the close of the book of Jeremiah, we are strengthened by the promise of God s everlasting love. Join us for a reminder of how much we are loved and cared for. Quiet Prayer Quiet Prayer will meet on Tuesday in the chapel at 12:15pm. We will spend a full hour listening to the Thomas Keating CD Listening to God. We will finish at 1:15pm. Keating is very helpful in guiding us on our spiritual path. 12 Step Spirituality 12 Step will meet in the chapel on Thursday, Feb. 28th from 2:30pm - 4:00pm. We will finish our current discussion book. On March 7th we will begin a study of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. All 12 steppers are free to join us no matter what your compulsion may be. Family Perspective Jesus warns us not to be hypocrites. We easily and forcefully criticize and condemn others for their faults while willfully remaining blind to our own. Broadcast media gives us daily training in doing this and we readily participate through social media. Make the season of Lent a season to cultivate the virtues of patience and compassion towards others and humble honesty for ourselves. Pray more. Criticize and post less. If you will be having a wedding anniversary in the month of MARCH and would like your names listed in the bulletin, please call the parish office (440) 243-3877 or email jabraham1@stmaryberea.org Mother Teresa Love to Pray Love to pray - feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God s gift of Himself. Ask and seek and your heart will grow big enough to receive Him and keep Him as your own. Excerpted from: Love: A Fruit Always in Season Daily Meditations by Mother Teresa (Ignatius Press 1987) From March 6 - April 14, you re invited to join other Christians for 40 Days for Life. 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. You re also invited to stand and peacefully pray anytime between 7am - 7pm during the 40 day vigil in the public right of way outside Preterm 1200 Shaker Blvd. Cleveland or Planned Parenthood 25350 Rockside Rd., Bedford Heights or Family Planning 54 South State St., Painesville. Plan to join us at the Kickoff Rally at St. Columbkille Church on March 5th at 7:00pm with Bishop Nelson Perez as the Keynote Speaker. Contact John Noall at clevelandpraysforlife@gmail.com or (216) 245-9744 for more information. Websites: www.40dayforlife.com/cleveland
Ministry Schedules 1st Sunday of Lent - March 9th & 10th Mass Lector Cantor Extraordinary Ministers Servers 4:00pm D Canepari M Columbro (H) M Olsen, M E Nichols, A Soltis P Pacer, C Pacer A Soltis 7:30am D Lipfird K Zanotti (H) L Madzy, J Haas, V Follen J Waters M Waters F Sliwa 9:30am J Irvin S Ward (H) Deacon Tom, G Irvin, D Ketvertis M McGinty, C Rose B Satow 11:30am R Davenport J Schwarz (H) D Bajc, J Bajc, L Alton P Harris, Deacon Tom H Fuehrer Music Ministry & Liturgy Notes By Angela Kovic Director of Music and Liturgy MOTETS FOR THE CHURCH Our Traditional Choir s prelude this week is a blast from the past for anyone who is well versed in their Renaissance music history. During this time of Tudor style and the invention of the printing press, English composer Thomas Tallis was writing music as a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal for royalty and church use alike. He mostly wrote pieces called motets, which is a short a capella piece of sacred music that is written in the style of two or more voices of individual melodies. If Ye Love Me is one from his lesser known English anthem collections for the Edwardian monarchy, but it is well known in the choral world and has even been sung for Pope Benedict XVI when he visited the Westminster Abbey in 2010. Because of the polyphonic nature of motets, it may be a little difficult to understand what the text is that we are singing. I have included the lyrics so that you can follow a long and hear the different parts of the choir singing independently! It is not an easy piece to learn and I hope that you can appreciate the hard work the choir has done! If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, that he may bide with you forever; E en the sp rit of truth. John 14:15-17 Choir Rehearsal Schedules: Traditional Choir rehearses on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm. If you are interested in participating in choir, cantoring, or playing an instrument during mass, please call or see Mrs. Angela Kovic after mass up in the loft. The Music Ministry office number is 440.243.3877 ext 27. Prime Timers The next meeting for the Prime Timers will be: Wednesday - March 13, 2019-10:00am Garrity Center Meeting Room Our guest Speaker will be Elder Law Attorney, Sam Butcher. Mr. Butcher will be discussing Estate Planning. Please Remember Our Military In Prayer & With Gratitude SSgt. Jeffrey R. Anzalone USAF, Hurlburt Field, FL Private 1st Class Nicholas Cozzarin US Army, Ft. Hood, TX ; Iraq Sgt. Justin P. Gertsma USMC, Afghanistan SPC Carl Heitz, Army Reserves, Kuwait Major Theresa M. (Ponstingle) Livingston Dobbins Air Force Base Major Leonard J. Livingston, Dobbins Air Force Base TSGT Zachary McLeish, USAF 76 APS Youngstown Ohio Captain Frank P. Mercurio, Jr. Ellsworth AFB, SD Staff Sgt. Stefen Neuwar Ft. Belvoir, VA Sr. Airman Anthony J. Phillipp USAF, Davis Monthan AFB, AZ MA2 Gary L. Stephen US Navy LCDR Thomas A. Stephen US Navy Todd Vlk - Avionics Technician, Special Projects Patrol Squadron 2 Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) Sgt. Sean M. Walters US Army Green Berets * * * * * * * * * * * * * Cpl. Brad D. Squires KIA in Iraq, June 9, 2005 May God bless and keep these brave men and women safely in His care! Note: please keep the office informed of changes to this list, or if you have a picture for the board in the Mother Teresa Vestibule.
For Men: A Mardi Gras Celebration Let s Step Into The Breach Tuesday March 5 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Garrity Meeting Room Calling all men. Before we take on the serious business of Lent, let s indulge in some food, fun and fellowship. While we re at it, Fr. Mike Feldtz will share ideas on how we can work together as men of faith -- for Lent and for our entire lives. Are you being called to step into the breach? RSVP for this fun and informal event by calling the parish office at 440-243-3877 or by e-mailing John Mastandrea at: jmastandrea@stmaryberea.org March 14: March 21: March 28: April 4: April 11: This Lent, study the details of the greatest sacrifice ever offered. The Prayer of the Agony. Are you the Christ? The Trial Before Pilate. Death of the Messiah. The Seven Last Words. Thursday Evenings Starting March 14 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Garrity Center Meeting Room Filmed in the Holy Land, No Greater Love tracks the events that illustrate Christ s amazing love for us. Learn how Old Testament prophecies, biblical symbolism, and historical context shed light on the mystery of Christ's journey from Gethsemane to Calvary. Materials (Book & Workbook) normally priced $25 will be available through a generous parish subsidy at the cost of $10. Please call the parish office at (440) 243-3877 to reserve a copy. Please do not let financial concerns deter attendance, contact the rectory. Video and materials are by Edward Sri. Also: Fr. Mike Schmitz, Jeff Cavins, Jennifer Fulwiler, Curtis Martin, Teresa Tomeo, Fr. Josh Johnson, and Elizabeth Sri. St. Mary Catholic School News Corner Educating the Mind, Nurturing the Soul Mr. Andrew J. Carner, Principal Thank you to all families that completed and returned their Re-Registration packets in on a timely basis. We appreciate your promptness, as it is very important for us to have accurate numbers as we begin to purchase books and classroom supplies for the 2019-2020 school year. If your child will be entering Kindergarten in the Fall and is not currently in the SMS Preschool Program please call the school office, 440.243.4555, to discuss our registration process and be scheduled for our Kindergarten Screening. The office must be in receipt of your registration packet prior to scheduling screening. Students in Mrs. Dober s Kindergarten class recently celebrated the 100 th day of Kindergarten with a variety of activities. Students wrote and read 100 words, did 100 exercises, made a 100 day picture and enjoyed a special 100 th Day snack. It is amazing to see how much the children have grown academically and socially since the beginning of the school year. The SMS DRAMA program is busy with rehearsals for the Spring performance, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jr. There are over 30 very talented students working very hard on this production. Watch the bulletin and your weekly Family e- mail for ticket information as the production date approaches. Important Dates to Remember: 03/04/ 19 - Chess Club / 7:30a.m. Student Council Mtg. / 8:00a.m 03/05/ 19 - Drama practice / 6:30p.m. 03/06/ 19 - Ash Wednesday / All School Mass 10:30a.m. - Lego Club / 3:30p.m. - Band Practice / 3:30p.m. - Drama practice / 6:30p.m. 03/07/ 19 - Eager Artists / 3:30p..m. - Drama practice / 6:30p.m. 03/08/ 19 - Fish Fry Fr. Garrity Center 4:30p.m-7:00p.m. This past Sunday was Championship Sunday for three of our St. Mary Basketball Teams. Each team was competing in the CYO City Championships- ALL THREE WON!! Congratulations to: 6th Grade Boys - 7th Grade Boys 8th Grade Girls