Westerly, Rhode Island
St. Clare Church 4 Saint Clare Way, Westerly, RI 02891 401-348-8765 NEW PARISHIONERS Welcome! Please register with the parish by contacting the Parish Office or on our website OF BAPTISM The schedule for the celebration of Baptism is arranged with the Pastor. (Baptisms are not celebrated during Lent.) Please call the Parish Office after the child is born. OF PENANCE Confession is offered on Saturdays from 4 to 4:30 PM or by appointment. OF MATRIMONY Couples planning to marry should contact the Marriage Coordinator at 401-348-8765 at least one year before the wedding. MINISTRY TO THE HOMEBOUND The Eucharist will be brought to the home of any person permanently or temporarily homebound. Please contact the Parish Rectory. PARISH CHOIR The choir, under the direction of Parish Organist & Music Director Bruce Coon, meets for rehearsal on Thursday nights at 6 PM in the choir loft. Monthly Church Cleaning will be Wednesday, March 23, following the 8 AM Mass. All are welcome to help. STAFF Rev. Kenneth J. Suibielski, Pastor Rev. Mr. Stephen Cote, Deacon Rev. Mr. John D. McGregor, Deacon Rev. Mr. Carl LaFleur, Retired Deacon Mrs. Jennifer O Connor, Parish Secretary Ms. Alice Duffy, Campus Manager Mrs. Diana Huff, Parish Accountant Mr. Bruce Coon, Music Director Mrs. Ellie Cote, Marriage Coordinator Ms. Pamela Salimeno, Religious Education Director Religious Education 2016 Class schedules are available on the Calendar and Education tabs of the St. Clare website, stclarewesterly.com. Class for Grades 1-5 Monday, March 21 at 6 PM in the Parish Center Class for Grades 6 & 7 Sunday, April 3, 10, and 24 after the 10 AM Mass in the Parish Center Class for Confirmation Sunday, April 10, after the 10 AM Mass in the lower rectory Thursday, March 24-7 PM Holy Thursday Confirmation candidates must meet at 6:15 PM in the lower rectory. Questions? Please contact Pam Salimeno at 401-952-1239. Stewardship Mee ng Tuesday, March 29, at 6:45 PM in the lower rectory All are welcome. Bereavement Fellowship Breakfast This event is held on the last Friday of every month at 9:30 AM at the Cooked Goose, located on Watch Hill Road, Westerly. No meeting this month as Good Friday is the last Friday of the month. Men and women of all ages who have lost their loved ones are welcome. Golf Committee Meeting Monday, April 18 at 4:30 PM in the Parish Center. This meeting is open to anyone who would like to help with this event. MASS SCHEDULE Weekday Mass: 8 AM Saturday Vigil Mass: 5 PM Sunday Masses: 8 AM & 10 AM Holy Days: 8 AM & 6 PM RECTORY OFFICE HOURS Monday to Friday from 8 AM to 2 PM Rectory and Office Phone 401-348-8765 Fax 401-315-5273 stclareri2@cox.net Website: stclarewesterly.com RELIGIOUS EDUCATION stclarewesterly.com
St. Clare Church, Westerly, RI Polish Easter Supper Sunday, April 10, 2016, at 5 PM in the Parish Center (Doors open at 4 PM) Entertainment by Polka Paul Wine & Beer will be available Your ticket is necessary for admittance. Adults $25 Children 12 and under $5
St. Clare Stewardship Ministry Corner The Stewardship Ministry meetings are held on a monthly basis in the lower rectory at 6:45 PM. The next meeting will be held on March 29. All are welcome. The Prayer Ministry is dedicated to those who request our prayers. To join this ministry or to send a prayer intention, please write in the Book of Intentions near the Baptistry or e-mail mbrockmann@cox.net. The Respect Life Ministry seeks to promote and protect the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. The ministry meets the Third Wednesday of every month at 8:30 AM from April - November in the Parish Center. The next meeting will be April 20, 2016. Rosary is said before the 8 AM Mass on the first Friday of every month, weather permitting. All are welcome. The Hospitality Ministry provides a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere for members of the St. Clare community and visitors, as well as new parishioners, to meet and interact with one another in a positive way. This ministry provides opportunities to promote parish fellowship and, when necessary, to assist the Pastor with special events. Meetings take place the first Thursday of every month at 8:30 AM in the Parish Center. All are welcome. The next meeting will be on April 7, 2016. The Helping Hands Ministry reaches out to those who are needy, elderly, sick or in need of bereavement consolation. This ministry meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 4 PM in the Parish Center. Enter through the door in the rear parking area. Please feel free to come to these meetings; new faces are always welcome. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. The Best is Yet to Come You are invited to a Semi-Formal Dinner and Dance Saturday, April 2 from 6 to 10 PM at the Westerly Armory Building Featuring live music by the SOS Big Band, the legendary standards of Frank Sinatra. Authentic home-style Italian cuisine of Trattoria Longo Meatballs and Martinis Advance tickets $50 Tickets at the door $60 A fundraiser hosted by Immaculate Conception Church to benefit those in need in our community through the services of the St. Vincent DePaul Society and the Westerly Pregnancy Center. To purchase your tickets, please call Immaculate Conception Rectory at 401-596-2130 or the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce at 401-596-7761. PASSION The word passion connotes deep, focused engagement. It also relates to passivity, interestingly. The deeply passionate person in the Gospel narrative from Luke is Jesus. He appears passive, but he is not. He is wholly self-possessed and wholly present for the one day that begins on Thursday evening at his last meal with his apostles and ends with his burial before sunset the next day. Then follows the long Sabbath silence. The narrative of the Passion is read whole and without pause on the Palm Sunday of the Passion. This story, found in each of the Gospels, is unchanging. We are the ones who change. Each year, we bring ourselves with another year s history to hear and heed the story we so badly need. Life has its way with us, and we look again to the Passion narratives to learn to follow. IN MEMORIAM One of the members of the Saint Clare Choir, Richard Sullivan, passed away on March 1. Although a member of St. James Parish in Charlestown, RI, Richard was a devoted and conscientious member of the Saint Clare Choir for the past several years and will be greatly missed. May his soul now rest in eternal peace.
Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Sunday, March 20, 2016 Weekly Mass Intentions Monday, March 21 Monday of Holy Week 8:00 AM +Louis & Elizabeth Heaney by Patricia Andersen Tuesday, March 22 Tuesday of Holy Week 8:00 AM +Louis Capaldi by his family Wednesday, March 23 Wednesday of Holy Week 8:00 AM Daniel Damon DiMaio by the DiMaio family Thursday, March 24 Holy Thursday 8:00 AM No Morning Mass 7:00 PM Evening Mass of The Lord s Supper Friday, March 25 Friday of the Passion of the Lord/Good Friday 8:00 AM No Morning Mass 12:00 PM Way of the Cross 7:00 PM The Lord s Passion and Death, veneration of the cross Saturday, March 26 The Vigil of Easter 8:00 PM Blessing of the Easter candle/great word of God/ Blessing of the Easter water/renewal of Baptismal Promises Liturgy of the Eucharist Sunday, March 27 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord 8:00 AM Celebrant s Intention 10:00 AM Celebrant s Intention Lay Minister Daily Mass Schedule for March 21 through 25 Monday - 3/21/16 Server - Slusarczyk Lector - Gordon Devine-Devine Tuesday - 3/22/16 Server - Slusarczyk Lector - LaFleur Devine-Devine Wednesday - 3/23/16 Server - Gordon Lector - Longolucco Gagnon-Wright Thursday 3/24/16 No Morning Mass Friday - 3/25/16 No Morning Mass Altar Server Schedule Sat. - March 26-5 PM Lay Minister Schedule for March 26 & 27 Saturday March 26 8 PM Mass Lectors - TBD & TBD Tabernacle - Eucharist - Deb Cass Cup 1 - Rick Cass Cup 2 - Marianne McGregor Baptistry - Eucharist - Allan Martone Cup - Christine Martone Sunday March 27 8 AM Mass Lectors - Paul Meyer & Beth Tikoian Tabernacle - Eucharist - Roseann Sisco Cup 1 - Alice Visgilio Cup 2 - Alice Chudecki Baptistry - Eucharist - Mary Capalbo Cup - Bob Sylvestre Sunday March 27 10 AM Mass Lectors - Paul Calitri Tabernacle - Eucharist - Anne Pearce Cup 1 - Rose Slusarczyk Cup 2 - Mark Gordon Baptistry - Eucharist - Camilla Gordon Cup - Carl Slusarczyk Daily Readings Monday: Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1-3, 13-14; Jn 12:1-11 Tuesday: Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-6, 15, 17; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31, 33-34; Mt 26:14-25 Thursday: Chrism Mass: Is 61:1-3ab, 6a, 8b-9; Ps 89:21-22, 25, 27; Rv 1:5-8; Lk 4:16-21Lord s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 Friday: Is 52:13 53:12; Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1 19:42 Saturday: a) Gn 1:1 2:2 [1:1, 26-31a]; Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35; Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Col 3:1 Sun. - March 27-8 AM Sun. - March 27-10 AM Communion to the Sick Private Homes A - Tom Koepke B - Greg Avedisian Nursing Homes WHM - Dorinne Meyer