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Epiphany of Our Lord Church - Mar. 27, 2016 Easter Sunday Epiphany of Our Lord Church EASTER SUNDAY March 27, 2016
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - Mar. 27, 2016 Easter Sunday
Epiphany of Our Lord Church
EASTER SUNDAY March 27, 2016
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - Mar. 27, 2016 Easter Sunday
Our Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for April Universal: That small farmers may receive a just reward for their precious labor. Evangelization: That Christians in Africa may give witness to love and faith in Jesus Christ amid political-religious conflicts.
Voter Registration
Christians have a duty to be politically active, to register and vote, and to speak up about issues that affect the common good. We have the opportunity to
vote for a pro-life president who could defund Planned Parenthood and could appoint multiple pro-life Supreme Court judges. Last day to register to vote before the primary election is Monday, Mar. 28. Registration materials and absentee ballots are available in the church vestibule or online at https://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/Pages/SurePortalHome.aspx.
Annual Run for Life Save the date! A Baby’s Breath’s annual Run for Life will take place on Saturday, Apr. 16, at Norristown Farm Park. Participants can chose to run the 5k or, walk or wheel the 1 mile loop. Pre-register by Thursday, Mar. 31, at www.ababysbreath.org.
Retreat for Caregivers The Marianist Family Retreat Center in Cape May Point, NJ, is hosting a retreat for caregivers of medically fragile or special needs family members and to those adult children now caring for their aging parents next weekend, Apr. 1-3. Cost: $135/person, double occu-pancy. Visit www.capemaymarianists.org to register.
Religious Education
Registration for the Religious Education Program (REP) 2016 – 2017 for grades 1 through 7 is open. Information, online registration form and costs can be found at http://epiphanyofourlord.com/rep/documents/. The Religious Education Program (REP) invites you to volunteer in our ministry as a teacher (catechist) or aide for the year on Mondays from 6:30-8:30 p.m., from Sep-tember to May. Instructional materials are pro-vided. Youth are welcomed and encouraged to volun-teer as aides; service hours as acts of charity are pro-vided. Your help is greatly needed and appreciated. For more information, call Stephanie Quigley, Coordi-nator of Religious Education, at (215) 367-5853 or email [email protected].
Easter Reflection “Josef Pieper once remarked that the human capacity for festivity arises from the ability to affirm all creation as good-from the ability to embrace, in one resounding ‘yes,’ the length and breath, the heights and depths of our experience in this world. We can hear this yes in Mozart’s music-the play of light and shadow in the later piano concerti; the poignant song of an oboe rising above a steady pulse in a divertimento for winds. We can hear it in the delighted squeals of a child as its face is licked by the moist tongue and hot breath of a new puppy. We can hear it in the contented, prayerful whis-pers of an elderly woman-full of love, grace and years-as she prepares to meet death with quiet courage and dig-nity. Saying yes to all of life, letting all of it in-that is festiv-ity’s sustaining source. But there’s the rub. Few of us can say yes to anything for very long. We live, after all, in an intensely mobile culture of fast food, faster cars, dispos-able diapers and planned obsolescence. Our greatest goal (as Andy Warhol once quipped) is to be famous for fifteen minutes. At parties, we do not carry on conversa-tions, we posture-repeating to one another snippets of dialogue from movies, beer commercials, sitcoms, or interviews with sports’ celebrities. Small wonder that many in our society feel so isolated and lonely, so unable to connect, so incapable of forming relationships that last. Small wonder, too, that as a people we find our-selves increasingly bored, angry and violent-enraged and terrified by the awful emptiness that seems to stretch in every direction around us. Given such cultural conditions, the Christian celebra-tion of the ‘blessed Pentecost’ will strike many as mad indeed. Fifty days of ‘dwelling in’ the paschal mystery! Fifty days of surrendering in joyful faith and love as the Spirit of God takes possession of our lives! Fifty days of mystagogy, of walking with the neophytes ever more deeply into the baptismal mysteries of death and resur-rection. Good heaven! What an order! One reason why such a prolonged celebration strikes us as difficult-if not downright absurd-is that we tend to link feasts and holidays with mindless hoopla. ‘Party time,’ for many, is an invitation to obliterate conscious-ness, to get wasted, to veg out, to forget. But, a season of Christian festival is precisely the opposite. It is a time of intensified consciousness, finely tuned awareness, awakened memory. The great fifty days of Pentecost are not an unwelcome, unrealistic, obligation to ‘party on,’ even if we don’t feel like it, but an invitation to explore more deeply ‘the weather of the heart,’ to awaken our memory of God’s presence and power in our lives, to look more closely at all the rich and varied textures of creation. In short, Pentecost is a season for learning how to say yes in a culture that wants to keep on saying no.”
Taken from “The Blessed Pentecost,” Nathan Mitchell, in Assembly, Vol. 20:1. © Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, Notre Dame, IN.
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - Mar. 27, 2016 Easter Sunday
Divine Mercy Weekend Retreat Join Msgr. John Esseff, a former spiritual director for Blessed Mother Teresa, along with Rev. Ronan Murphy and Fr. Steven DeLacy next weekend, Apr. 1-3, at the Malvern Retreat House. Register at malvernretreat.com.
Vegas At Variety Have fun while supporting children with disabilities on Saturday, Apr. 2, 7-11 p.m. in the Empress Room at St. Helena’s Church, Blue Bell. Cost: $35 in advance, $45 at the door and includes food, beverage and $25 worth of chips. To get tickets, visit https://support.varietyphila.org/vegas_at_variety_2016. Contact Mary Fuller with any questions at (610) 584-4366 ext. 130.
Spiritual Baby Shower The Respect Life Committee’s an-nual Spiritual Baby Shower will be Apr. 2-3 and Apr. 9-10. We will collect gifts the weekend of Apr. 16-17. Bas-kets containing colorful Easter eggs, with gift ideas inside, will be at all doors
as well as in the vestibule. Please do not wrap gifts. All fi-nancial gifts should be placed and checks payable should be made out to Respect Life Epiphany of Our Lord.
Divine Mercy Holy Hour Next Sunday, Apr. 3, at 3 p.m. at St. Eleanor Church, Collegeville, at which you can obtain the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy indulgence. For further information, contact Gerry Daly at (610) 454-7984.
Monthly Support Groups for Moms and Dads The Guardians a group for fathers will meet next on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 7-8 p.m. To register, email Deacon Langsdorf at [email protected]. The Mom Café for mothers will meet next on Tues-day, Apr. 5, 9:30-11 a.m. To register, email Angela McClellan at [email protected]. Both groups meet at Corpus Christi in the Religious Ed. room located inside the church to the far right.
Spirituality Day Spirituality Under the Dome has scheduled its 10th an-nual Spirituality Day at Immaculata University on Satur-day, Apr. 9, from 9 a.m.—12 p.m. The keynote pre-senter is Rev. James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrim-age. Visit www.immaculata.edu/spirituality or call Sister Mary Henrich, I.H.M. at (484) 323-3434.
Straight Talk about Annulments Learn about the annulment process on Tuesday, Apr. 19, 7-8:30 p.m. at Corpus Christi, Lansdale. To register, email [email protected].
Retrouvaille Marriage Program Are you frustrated, hurt or angry with your spouse? Are you constantly fighting or do you simply shut down? Have you thought about separation or divorce? Retrou-vaille may be the lifeline that you need! Retrouvaille is a way to rediscover and rekindle the loving relationship in your marriage. The next program will be held on the weekend of Apr. 15-17 at the Family Life Center in Malvern, followed by the weekend of Aug. 12-14. For more information or to register, visit www.helpourmarriage.com.
Knights of Columbus Vacation Raffle The KoC Vacation Raffle drawing will take place Sat-urday, Apr. 23, at the 25th Anniversary Celebration. Tickets are only $10 each or three for $25. To secure tickets, contact Ed O’Hanlon at (610) 613-3364 or Frank McCreesh at (610) 322-7119.
Jubilee Year of Mercy Pilgrimage During this Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, Pope Fran-cis concedes a plenary indulgence, with the customary conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic commun-ion, and prayer in keeping with his prayer intentions) to all members of the faithful. Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. on Satur-day, Apr. 23, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Buses will leave from St. Maria Goretti Parking Lot, Hatfield. Archbishop Chaput will conclude the day with Mass. Cost: $60/adult & $10/child. Bring a lunch and money for dinner at Union Station. To register, visit www.stmariagoretti.net.
Youth Group Pilgrimage Save the date for a pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa on Sunday, Apr. 24, 12-6 p.m. The trip will include Mass, confession, a chance to walk through the Jubilee Year of Mercy Holy Door, out-door scavenger hunt, dinner and more. Bus service will be provided. Parents welcome. More information will be made available closer to the date of the trip.
Catholic Clinical Consultants Catholic Clinical Consultants (CCC) is the behavioral health company of Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. CCC provides individual, cou-ple and family counseling in welcoming and supportive envi-ronments with offices in Philadelphia, Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery (East Norriton) counties. Offices offer both day and evening hours. And, CCC accepts most major health insurances, including Medicare. CCC also provides homebound behavioral health care to the elderly, offering counseling and support. Call CCC toll free at (855) 518-2223, and a professional, Catholic therapist will assist you.
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - Mar. 27, 2016 Easter Sunday
Knights of Columbus Council #10605 25th Anniversary
HELP US CELEBRATE OUR 25TH ANNIVESARY25TH ANNIVESARY25TH ANNIVESARY
SATURDAY, APR. 23
Plymouth County Club Grand Ballroom
Doors open at 6 p.m., Buffet at 7 p.m. Music & Dancing 8-11 p.m.
Featuring
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$40/person $75/couple $280/table of eight $350/table of ten
EVENT OPEN TO ALL
For information and tickets contact: Frank McCreesh (610) 322-7119 Steve Charnitski (215) 317-8412
Eric Trefz (856) 465-2366 Ed O’Hanlon (610) 613-3364
Please make checks payable to Knights of Columbus Council # 10605
Prayer for Victory at the Supreme Court Priests for Life is leading a prayer campaign, urging all believers to pray for victory and a reversal of the Health & Human Services (HHS) mandate forcing us to partici-pate in the spread of abortion. Over the next few months the U.S. Supreme Court will be reviewing the Priests for Life case along with five others (including the Little Sisters of the Poor) and a decision is expected by the end of June. Please pray the following prayer for victory. Addi-t iona l prayers are ava i l ab le a t ht tp : / /www.priestsforlife.org/prayercampaign/.
Lord God,
You are the Author of Life and Freedom. In your Spirit, we have the freedom of the children of God, and in your name, we promote the freedom of all to seek, embrace,
and live the truth of your Word.
In that freedom, Lord, we your people stand with Life and for Life. We reject whatever destroys life, and we refuse to
cooperate in what is evil.
At this moment, therefore, when our government has decided to force us to cooperate in evil, we pray for the grace to be faithful to you and to oppose the unjust laws and mandates
that have been imposed upon us and our institutions.
We pray for the conversion of those in civil authority who fail to appreciate the demands of conscience. We pray
for the complete reversal of all policies that permit the destruction of life or coerce the cooperation of your
people in practices that are wrong.
In particular we pray that the cases which challenge the HHS mandate and are now before the Supreme Court
may be decided rightly, and thereby protect the religious freedom of all.
Father, may Your Kingdom come, and let your people rejoice
in the victory of life and freedom.
We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - Mar. 27, 2016 Easter Sunday
Stewardship is a way of life. Tithing is God’s Plan for Giving.
Due to the holiday printing deadline, this information is not available.
Thank you for your continued support!
The Respect Life Rose is in Loving Memory of
Mary Mack
The roses will remain for the week on the Altar in front of The Blessed Mother
Patricia Baralt Miriam Beaumont* Walter Bohn Bartholomew Cahan Maureen Cahan Stacy Callahan, 8yrs old Joseph DeLuca III Barbara Diehl Aubrey Fells Esperanza Galshack* Christopher Greuters, 7yrs old
Janet O’Connor* Michael Parrillo Mary Pizzico* Margaret Reinehr Jill Ramos Gloria Scandale* Katty Tucker Daniel White*
*Parishioner
Steven Hedricks Mark Hines* Barbara Jean Kathy Kane* John P. Kelly* Carol Lawrence Helen Miller* Mary Mirabile* Mike McCullough Jack Muir* Sybil Nahrgang*
Please Pray For The Sick
From the Pastor: “The fifty days from the Sunday of the Resurrection to Pentecost Sunday are celebrated in joy and exultation as one feast day, indeed as one ‘great Sunday’ (St. Athana-sius, Epistula festalis: PG 26, 1366). These are the days above all others in which the Alleluia is sung” (Universal Norms, 22).
MASS INTENTIONS
Monday, Mar. 28 8:30 a.m. – Ernest Neve, 6th Anniversary
Tuesday, Mar. 29 8:30 a.m. – Lillian Macrina
Wednesday, Mar. 30 8:30 a.m. – Robert Griffith
Thursday, Mar. 31 8:30 a.m. – Ineze Crisconi
Friday, Apr. 1 8:30 a.m. – William Keenan
Saturday, Apr. 2 8:30 a.m. – Robert A. Glascott
Pregnancy Hotline Pregnant and need help? Call the hotline at 610-626-4006, 24/7, for assistance with pro-life options, suppor-tive counseling and other resources.
2015 Contribution Statement Email [email protected] or call the Parish Office at (610) 828-8634 if you are interested in receiving a statement.
Electronic Giving Did you know that you can have your donations to the parish automatically deducted each week? Our E-giving program allows parishioners to select the dates and amounts they wish to give ahead of time. Simply fill out the form, available at http://epiphanyofourlord.com/wp-content /up loads /2016 /03 /2016-CHURCH-CONTRIB.pdf, and return to the parish office. For addi-tional information, contact the parish office.
Retreat House Gift Certificates Malvern Retreat House has given our parish four gift certificates valued at $250 each. These certificates can be used to pay for any of the various programs that Malvern Retreat House has to offer. Two of the gift certificates are for men and two are for women. If you have a sincere spiritual desire to make a retreat at Malvern, or know someone else who does, contact the parish office to re-ceive the certificates, which will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
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Epiphany of Our Lord Church www.epiphanyofourlord.com
[email protected] Tel (610) 828-8634 Fax (610) 828-1802 3050 Walton Rd, Plymouth Meeting, PA
For website or bulletin questions: [email protected]
Pastoral Staff Rev. Joseph J. Quindlen, Pastor
Rev. James J. Kelly, In Residence (Retired)
Permanent Deacons Emil J. Wernert,
Michael Pascarella, Jr. Kenneth P. Clancy (Retired)
Joel M. Ziff, (Retired)
Parish Staff Business Manager, Paul Harvitz
part-time Director of Music, Constance M. Steuer
Administrative Assistants* *JoAnn O’Connor
*Cecilia T. Dadario, part-time
Information Technology Coordinator, Nicole Zimmerman, part-time
Maintenance Supervisor Anthony R. Mashaintonio
Church Sacristan, John F. Phipps, part-time
Religious Education www.epiphanyofourlord.com
(215) 367-5853 [email protected]
Stephanie Quigley, Coordinator, part-time
Carla Manno, Adm. Assistant, part-time
Youth Ministry www.epiphanyofourlord.com/youth
(215) 367-5854 [email protected]
Gail Toto, Coordinator, part-time
Holy Rosary Regional Catholic School
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3040 Walton Road, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Lisa S. Hoban: Principal [email protected]
Beth Sheldon: Adm. Assistant [email protected]
Perpetual Adoration Chapel In order to keep our Perpetual Adoration Chapel open 24/7, we need your help. Please ask a family member or friend to consider spending time with our Eucharistic Lord Jesus. You can come to HIM, to praise and adore HIM or to pour out one’s heart to HIM, to ask for inspiration, to be consoled and comforted, to ask for favors and guidance, and to give thanks. Please call Elaine Thorpe at (610) 828-6925 if you can commit to any of the following Open Hours:
SUNDAY: 5-6AM, 12-1 PM,1-2PM, 3-4PM, 8-9PM MONDAY: 5-6AM, 11AM-12PM, 4-5PM TUESDAY: 5-6 AM, 11AM-12PM 2-3PM, 4-5PM, 9-10PM WEDNESDAY: 4-5PM, 5-6 PM
THURSDAY: 6-7PM, 7-8PM, 10-11PM FRIDAY: 5-6 PM, 3-4PM, 6-7PM, 7-8PM, 9-10PM, 10-11PM SATURDAY: 11AM-12PM, 12-1PM, 1-2PM, 3-4PM, 7-8PM, 9-10PM NOTE: We are asking the men of the parish to cover the early morning times. Please do not leave any religious articles in the chapel, i.e., books, magazines, metals, prayer cards, rosaries, etc.
Mass on the fifth Sunday of the month. Both first-time parents must attend a Pre-Jordan class, which is held the first Wednesday of every month.
Pre-Registration for the class is required by contacting the parish office. Sponsors not from Epiphany are required to submit a Certificate of Eligibility from their parish two weeks prior to the Baptism.
Marriage Notify the priest of your intention to marry at least six months before the date of the wedding to assure sufficient preparation and to arrange for Pre-Cana sessions.
Miraculous Medal—Perpetual Novena After 8:30 a.m. Mass every Saturday.
Healing Mass 1st Saturday of the month at 8:30 a.m.
Parish Office Requests To register in the parish, arrange for a baptism, or request a Certificate of Eligibility for sponsorship at Baptism or Confirmation, contact the parish office at [email protected] during office hours.
Also, please advise our office staff of any change of address, telephone number or family status.
Anointing of the Sick First Saturday of the month during 8:30 a.m. Mass or by special request.
Please notify the rectory as soon as possible when any parishioner becomes seriously ill or is admitted to the hospital.
Baptism Baptisms are celebrated after the 11:30 a.m. Mass every Sunday, with the option of Baptism during the 11:30 a.m.
Mass Schedule Saturday 5 p.m. Vigil (fulfills the Sunday Obligation)
Sunday 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., & 11:30 a.m.
Daily 8:30 a.m. Monday to Saturday
Holydays 7 p.m. Vigil, 8:30 a.m., 12:05 & 7 p.m.
Confessions Saturday 3:30-4:30 p.m. & by appointment
Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. After 4:30 p.m. by appointment only Closed for lunch: 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday By appointment only
Sunday By appointment only
A mail slot is located in the parish office front door.
Holy Communion for the Sick and Homebound
If you or a member of your family is ill and unable to attend Sunday Mass, our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion are available to bring Communion to the sick and homebound. Call the Parish Office at (610) 828-8634 and provide the office staff with the name, address and phone number of the sick or homebound parishioner.
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