Holy Martyrs Catholic Church 3100 OLD WEYMOUTH RD MEDINA, OH 44256

March 18, 2018

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Father Stephen Dohner

Pastor

Father Mark Ott

Weekend Associate

Father Robert F. Pfeiffer

Pastor Emeritus

Janet Payton

Pastoral Associate

Nancy Fiamingo

Pastoral Associate

Diane Bruce

Director of Faith Formation

Christopher Ilg

Director of Music

Libbie Radecky

Church Office

Adam Nestor

Youth Minister

Paula Phillips

Bookkeeper

Jane Levesque

Communications

Parish Staff

Holy Martyrs Catholic Church Fifth Sunday of Lent- March 18, 2018

Mass Schedule & Intentions this Week

Sat 5:30 pm Steve Belovich

(Joanne Belovich)

Sun 7:30 am Parishioners

9:30 am Richard Knotek, Sr.

(Mike & Laura Hollamon)

11:30 am Dorothy McNamara

Mon 8:00 am Healing for John Renshaw

Tues 6:30 pm Rosary for Peace

7:00 pm John Hoffman

(Yakelis Family)

Wed 8:00 am All Souls

Thurs 7:00 pm World Peace

Fri 8:00 am Homebound

Sat 5:30 pm John Volk

(Brian & Irene Vickers)

Sun 7:30 am David Hepp & Dan Klubnik

(Klubnik Familly)

9:30 am Parishioners

11:30 am Rich Hudak

(Jack & Pat Holland)

This week at Holy Martyrs

Sun 3/18 MOA Food & Donation Weekend

Time Travelers 9:00 AM Room 203

Home School Parent & Child Mtg.

10:30 AM Room 200

Prayer Shawl Blessing 12:30 PM G.A.

Life Teen Mass, Life Night 5:00 PM Worship Space

Mon 3/19 Latina Meals Project 4:15 PM Offsite

HMKids Monday Class 6:00 PM

Tue 3/20 Glory Bees - week 3 9:00 AM Worship Space

Little Rock Scripture Study 1:00 PM Room 103

HMKids Tuesday Class 6:00 PM

SPIRIT 6:00 PM Martyrs Hall

Wed 3/21 Intercessory Prayer Group 5:30 PM Chapel

Women’s Spirituality Board 7:00 PM Room 102

Journey: Inquiry 7:00 PM Lounge

Choir Rehearsal 7:15 PM Worship Space

Thur 3/22 Communications Committee 7:30 PM Room 102

Fri 3/23 Stations of the Cross 7:00 PM Worship Space

Sat 3/24 Centering Prayer 9:30 AM Kazel Room

Sun 3/25 Palm Sunday

Time Travelers 9:00 AM Room 203

There is a promise of marriage between:

II Wedding Announcement:

Alexander Olivo & Hanan Kabalan

Parish News

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Daily scripture readings for this week can be obtained

on the USCCB website, where you can sign up to have

readings emailed to you.

You can also download one of these apps on your

phone: Laudate or The New Missal

Church Office hours: Monday - Friday:

9:00 am - 12:15 pm, 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm

330-722-6633

Christian Movie Coming March 23

Movie theaters will begin showing the movie

Paul, Apostle of Christ on March 23, which is

Palm Sunday weekend.

According to the film’s site: “Two men struggle

against a determined emperor and the frailties

of the human spirit in order to live out the

Gospel of Jesus Christ and spread their message

to the world.”

Romero Expected to Be Named a Saint This Fall

Oscar Romero, for whom our chapel is named, is

expected to be canonized in October. Pope

Francis recently advanced the causes of several

people on the path to sainthood, including

Romero, who was shot while celebrating Mass in

El Salvador in 1980. Our parish takes its name

from those who were martyred in El Salvador.

FORGIVEN: Our Lenten SG Series Theme Our final Lenten Small Group gatherings will take place this week. All are encouraged to attend Holy Week services next week to prepare our hearts for the Triduum and Easter. Small Groups will resume the week of April 8 with a 4-week Spring Series. Those who joined “JUST FOR LENT” are invited and encouraged to continue with the Spring Series, which will end the week of April 29. Then, we are “off” until Fall, when Small Groups will resume.

“Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ.”

Ephesians 4:32

Parish News

Holy Martyrs Church March 18, 2018

Medina, Ohio

Come join us, Sunday Nights!

LifeTeen Mass 5:00 p.m.

LifeNight until 7:30 p.m.

Mar 18 - Spring Luau Party!

Mar 25 - No LT Mass/Life Night

April 1 - No LT Mass/Life Night

April 8 - LT Returns!

Journeying Through Lent

The following are traditional Lenten disciplines:

Fasting & Abstinence: Catholics of age 14 and

older abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, Good

Friday and all the Fridays of Lent. In addition, on Ash

Wednesday and Good Fridays, Catholics from age 18-

59 fast, limiting themselves to one full meal and two

smaller meals each day.

Prayer: Catholics are encouraged to pray more

during Lent, especially with Scripture. Lent is also an

ideal time to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation

in preparation for the celebration of Christ’s Passion,

Death and Resurrection.

Almsgiving: Moved by the sacrifice of Christ, many

Christians combine almsgiving with fasting, giving to

the poor the money they saved by eating, drinking or

buying less as they rely more upon God’s

abundant grace.

Lent is a special time

in our liturgical year

and we would like to encourage all

parishioners to enter into this sacred time

with a sense of prayerfulness. To keep

this time as sacred, all parish committees

and groups might want to consider

minimizing business meetings as much as

possible to keep the focus and energy on

our Lenten opportunities.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING TIME,

TALENT, TREASURE

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Grateful Giving Holy Martyrs Parish

Feb. 24 & 25

Weekly Offering $10,699.75

Number of Envelopes 315

Electronic Donations $3,400.00

Number of Envelopes 39

Weekly Total $14,099.75

Month of February ACH (105) $11,802.00

Thank you!

Annual “Fore” the Kids Golf Outing

Saturday, June 9, noon, Shale Creek Golf Club

Parishioners are invited to take part in the annual

golf outing by golfing in the 18-hole scramble,

attending the dinner, sponsoring a hole or

donating items for a raffle.

With your help, the Holy Martyrs El Salvador

Mission Group is sponsoring 14 students pursuing

higher education. One year of tuition costs $1,000

per student, and each student is screened by Fr.

Paul Schindler of Inmaculada Concepción, our

sister parish.

The goal of our efforts is to build communities and

reduce poverty in El Salvador through education.

For more information and to register or donate, go

to hmforethekids.com or contact David Chambers

at mchambers@gmail.com. Donations may also be

made off-line.

If you would like to donate golf balls, please drop

them off at the church’s main office.

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 www.usccb.org/

nationalcollections, and click on the “How to Give”

link on the left.

This weekend is Holy Martyrs Ministry of Assistance

food and donation weekend. Please watch for food sale

items that can be donated to those in need. Though

food collection weekends are the third weekend of

each month, food donations are accepted at any time.

Certain staples are always needed, like pasta and

spaghetti sauce, cereal, tuna, peanut butter, soups and

canned vegetables. Checks made out to Holy Martyrs

with Ministry of Assistance (MOA) on the memo line are

always welcome and very much appreciated.

Thank you for helping those in need.

HMKids Office - 330-952-1466

Holy Martyrs Church March 18, 2018

Medina, Ohio

There’s Still Time to Make the Most of Lent

It’s the fifth Sunday of Lent. If you haven’t done anything for Lent yet,

it’s not too late. Jesus is always waiting to hear from you. Spend some

quiet time with Him. A good place to start is to invite the Holy Spirit

into your life.

Come Holy Spirit, Fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in us the

fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and we shall be created, and

You shall renew the face of the earth. Amen.

Latina Project Provides Warm, Welcoming Environment

The Latina Project, an outreach by the women of Holy Martyrs and our sister parish, La Sagrada Familia,

provides a meal once a month during a support meeting for women who are survivors of domestic violence.

At the February meal, Holy Martyrs parishioners arrived, set up and had a few minutes to relax and continue

to get to know each other before the women came in for supper. They were able to greet the women and

carry soup and drinks for the children. The atmosphere was warm, secure and welcoming. One woman

noted that many of the children were older than expected, “but they were all engaged with us or playing

card games or doing homework.”

You can help by providing part of a light meal, spending time with the women or babysitting during their

meeting. The next meeting is March 19. An invitation to help was emailed to parishioners. Food needs to be

dropped off at Holy Martyrs Sunday through 3 p.m. Monday before each meeting. Please contact Diane Bruce

at dbruce@holymartyrs.net if you would like to help.

Rice Bowl Collection, Stations This Week

Students should bring their rice bowls to class on

March 19 and 20, the last classes before Easter.

We’ll have a special prayer service for presenting

the rice bowls prior to the sixth graders’ Living

Stations of the Cross, which have been moved to

those same nights.

The Importance of Palms

HMKids students in grades 1, 2 and 3 learned this

year how palms are burned to make ashes for Ash

Wednesday. Time Travelers are learning about the

role palms played in Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

Time Travelers will process to their session with

palms on Palm Sunday (March 25) at the start of

the Liturgy of the Word at the 9:30 a.m. Mass.

Learning to Offer Mass Intentions

HMKids students are learning about offering a Mass for

an intention, most often someone who has died. Have

you ever wondered why we do this?

When the priest recalls Jesus’ sacrifice during Mass, he is

offering that sacrifice to give special graces for the

deceased person named in the intention.

Pope Leo XIII explained it this way: "The grace of mutual

love among the living, strengthened and increased by the

sacrament of the Eucharist, flows, especially by virtue of

the Sacrifice [of the Mass], to all who belong to the

communion of saints. For the communion of saints is

simply ... the mutual sharing of help, atonement, prayers

and benefits among the faithful, those already in the

heavenly fatherland, those consigned to the purifying

fire, and those still making their pilgrim way

here on earth.”

Throughout the Diocese

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Help for victims of domestic abuse

Victims of domestic abuse may call the BATTERED

WOMEN’S SHELTER of Summit & Medina Counties’

confidential hotline for help 24 hours a day,

7 days a week.

Medina County Hotline 330-723-3900

Toll Free 877-414-1344

Summit County Hotline 330-374-1111

Toll Free 888-395-4357

For substance abuse resources, go to

www.greaterthanheroin.com.

Spiritual Opportunities

Jesuit Retreat House (www.jrh-cleveland.org)

Morning Prayer for Women, March 26, 9:30-11:00 a.m.

River’s Edge (www.riversedgecleveland.com)

A Sacred Meditation, April 7, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Loyola Retreat House (www.loyolaretreathouse.com)

Pre-Cana Day, April 22, 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Marriage Resources

www.helpourmarriage.org

www.foryourmarriage.org

Retrouvaille Weekend – April 13-15, 2018 - A

Lifeline for Troubled Marriages

The Retrouvaille program may help if you are

thinking about separation or divorce.

RETROUVAILLE (rediscovery), which is supported

by the Catholic diocese of Cleveland, but open

to couples of all faiths, consists of a weekend

experience for couples and six

follow-up sessions.

A registration fee of $150 is required to confirm

your reservation. For more information about

the program, or to register, please call Marce or

Liz Gliha at 440.357.6580 or 1.800.470.2230,

or go online to www.helpourmarriage.org.