Rectory: 104 S. Aberdeen Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087 | P: 610-688-4584 | F: 610-688-7951 | www.sksparish.org School: 116 S. Aberdeen Ave., Wayne, PA 19087 | P: 610-688-5451 | Convent: 235 Windermere Ave., Wayne, PA 19087 | P: 610-688-0655 April 12, 2020 Rev. Msgr. Hans A. L. Brouwers Pastor Rev. Msgr. John J. Jagodzinski Pastor Emeritus Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Carroll Priest in Residence Father Scott Reilly, LC Weekend Assistant 484-422-8117 Stephanie Twohig Youth Minister Colleen Maguire Coordinator for Parish Life and Ministry: 610-688-4584 Frank Tosti, School Principal 610-688-5451 S. Mary Elizabeth Karalis, SSJ Director of Religious Education 610-688-7890 MaryAnn Crowe Parish Nurse: 610-688-9479 Dr. Ted Latham Liturgical Music Director 610-688-9489 Angela Kusterbeck Business Manager Barbara Lombardi Parish Secretary PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL Rev. Msgr. Hans Brouwers, Sr. Mary Elizabeth Karalis, SSJ, Colleen Maguire, Frank Tosti, JoAnne Alexander, Sarah Bradley, Dan Hayes, Ed Kubala, Nick Lee, Robert McAlaine, Jessica Waltman, Jeff Walkenhorst PARISH FINANCIAL COUNCIL Rev. Msgr. Hans Brouwers, John Church, Carolyn Evans, Frank Tosti SERVED BY EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD
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213 Rectory: 104 S. Aberdeen Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087 | P: 610-688-4584 | F: 610-688-7951 | www.sksparish.org
School: 116 S. Aberdeen Ave., Wayne, PA 19087 | P: 610-688-5451 | Convent: 235 Windermere Ave., Wayne, PA 19087 | P: 610-688-0655
April 12, 2020
Rev. Msgr. Hans A. L. Brouwers Pastor
Rev. Msgr. John J. Jagodzinski Pastor Emeritus
Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Carroll Priest in Residence
Father Scott Reilly, LC Weekend Assistant 484-422-8117
Stephanie Twohig Youth Minister
Colleen Maguire Coordinator for Parish Life and Ministry: 610-688-4584
Frank Tosti, School Principal 610-688-5451
S. Mary Elizabeth Karalis, SSJ Director of Religious Education 610-688-7890
MaryAnn Crowe Parish Nurse: 610-688-9479
Dr. Ted Latham Liturgical Music Director 610-688-9489
Angela Kusterbeck Business Manager
Barbara Lombardi Parish Secretary
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL Rev. Msgr. Hans Brouwers, Sr. Mary Elizabeth Karalis, SSJ, Colleen Maguire, Frank Tosti, JoAnne Alexander, Sarah Bradley, Dan Hayes, Ed Kubala, Nick Lee, Robert McAlaine, Jessica Waltman, Jeff Walkenhorst
PARISH FINANCIAL COUNCIL Rev. Msgr. Hans Brouwers, John Church, Carolyn Evans, Frank Tosti
SERVED BY
EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD
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MASS AND PRAYER INTENTIONS
Please Note: all Masses are private until further notice.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2020 For the people of St. Katharine’s James and Marjorie White George Edel
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020 Special Intention Jane O’Neill
Eucharistic Adoration will begin after the 8:00 am Mass with Ben-ediction starting at 4:30 pm.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2020 Rick and Ellie Melli (Living) Patricia Tamaney
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020 Linda Myrletus Mary Lois Mitchell
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2020 Special Intention William Tague
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 2020 Libby Bruno Neil Alexander
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 2020 Gail Bushey Elizabeth Houghton
SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2020 For the people of St. Katharine’s Carole Rose James and Marjorie White
Readings: Acts 2:42-47; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31
Requests for Prayers
Sick Prayer List:
If you wish to have your name or the name of a loved one added to this prayer list, please call or email us. New
names will appear in bold. Other than critical or terminal condi-tions, the names will remain on this list for 30 days. Please help us keep our prayer list current by letting us know when the status of a person on the sick list changes. Due to HIPAA laws, parish staff does not know if a parishioner is hospitalized or placed in a nursing home unless someone informs them. Please contact the parish office if you would like a hospital visit.
Mario Andan Robert Bruno Charles Callaghan Ryan Carlton Charles Carr Jackie Chedeville Patrick Graham Jean Hencher Helen Hobson
Ginny Jackson Libby Judge Corrine Kerrigan Tony Lopez Daniel Maguire Timothy Mahoney Rocco Martino John McCabe
Although our parish facilities are closed (except our church, which remains open daily from 6:00am until 4:30pm for private prayer), our parish is still active. Our parish staff continues to work from home, providing the usual adminis-trative assistance and paying all of our bills. Our school is operational as students continue to learn at home. So, we are grateful to our parish-ioners who are already supporting our parish through Parish Giving and we ask those who aren’t doing so to sign up now. Parish Giving is a leading provider of secure, user-friendly online giving systems that specializes in religious or-ganizations. Like dozens of parishes in our Archdiocese that also use it, we are using Par-ish Giving with great satisfaction since it pro-vides us with reliable year-round income. To sign up, simply go to our parish website (www.stkatharineofsiena.org) and click on the “Give to SKS” blue box; it’s easy to do and especially important for the vitality of our parish during these times when we can’t pass the Sun-day collection basket.
Clothing Collection
Our monthly clothing collection is suspended until further notice. The store has been closed since March 16th and will remain closed until the order is lifted. We will let you know when the collec-tions will resume. In the meantime please do not drop off any items.
Due to Covid 19 we are accepting only Casseroles For Mercy Hospice
At this time, we are accepting only frozen cas-seroles for Mercy Hospice. If you would like, and you find yourself with ingredients to make a dinner, please consider making a casserole to help feed the women and children at the Mercy Hospice shelter. Pan recipes can be found at the Aberdeen Avenue door of the church. Thank you for helping us continue to support the women and children of Mercy Hospice. For more information, please contact Jane Dwyer at 610-306-9171, Jane Dooner at 610-505-1436, Susan Wiener at 60-331-3847 or Vic-ki Warner at 610-937-1648.
Alleluia! Our Lord is risen and offers us new life! We certainly need to hear that message this year as we find ourselves surrounded by suffering and death. The Paschal mystery proclaims that Jesus, truly man - the son of Mary - really died on the cross and then overcame death as he rose on Easter. The resur-rection of the body, the central mystery of Easter, is an essential Christian doctrine. As the apostle Paul declares so clearly: “[I]f the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished” (1 Cor. 15:13–18). Because, as Paul tells us, the Christian life is meaningless without this essential belief, it has been infallibly defined by the Church from its earliest days. It is included in the three professions of faith: the Apostles’ Creed, the Athanasian Creed and the Nicene Creed. We recite the Ni-cene Creed at Mass every Sunday and profess that Jesus “was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day.” It is this miracle – life overcoming death – that we celebrate with such great joy today and throughout the Easter season! This encouraging Good News lifts our spirits in the midst of so much bad news as we continue to face the ravages of the coronavirus.
It so important for us to reflect on our Lord’s Resurrection because it didn’t affect only Jesus of Nazareth. It is the foundation of our eternal hope, as well. We continue in the Nicene Creed to profess that the risen Lord “will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.” We, who work throughout our lives here on earth to bring about God’s kingdom in our midst here and now, long to be part of God’s kingdom that “will have no end.” And so, we continue in the Nicene Creed to proclaim that we “look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.” Acknowl-edging that we all will die - whether it is from the coronavirus, cancer, a car accident, old age or any other cause - this remarkable teaching brings us hope as we look forward to “the world to come” with its unimag-inable joy in God’s presence!
Allow me to quote the Catechism of the Catholic Church which provides this poetic presentation of our belief in the resurrection of the dead:
“‘We believe in the true resurrection of this flesh that we now possess’ (Council of Lyons II). We sow a corruptible body in the tomb, but he raises up an incorruptible body, a ‘spiritual body’ (cf. 1 Cor 15:42–44)” (CCC 1017).
Using the image of a plant that is sown, the Catechism affirms that we will receive an incorruptible body after death. This means that each of us, individually, will be given eternal life. This is our ultimate goal and one that fills all of us – faithful to God and the way his son, Jesus, has shown us – with inextinguisha-ble joy!
As we struggle with the news of increasing numbers of people who are sick and dying from the corona-virus – some even in our midst – we are even more open to hear this message of everlasting life. Death doesn’t have the final say for us. Our God is a God of the living and, through his son, our Lord, Jesus Christ, he leads us to eternal life with him. Let us contemplate the new life that the risen Lord promises us during these days of Easter! Our Lord has been raised from the dead and, aware that we are raised to new life with him, “Alleluia” is our cry!
