St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church and School 307 Gower St. Greenville, SC 29611 Phone: (864) 233-7717 www.newstanthony.com [email protected]Welcoming all people to worship God in the genius of African American Catholic Spirituality Fr. Patrick Tuttle, OFM Fr. David Phan, OFM Fr. Jim Nero, OFM Deacons Deacon Winston Wright, retired Deacon James Williams Deacon Steve Olson Deacon Dexter Gourdin Deacon Phil Allen Parish Office Mary Corner School Office Sonya Ferguson Directors of Religious Education Deacon James Williams Debra Drennon Communications Susan Cinquemani Volunteer Coordinator James Boyd Sexton Thomas Baldwin Food Pantry Stephanie Rosso Phillip Griffin Recreation Event Manager Ruby King March 25, 2018 Palm Sunday Sunday 8, 10, 12 Noon and 6:30PM Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Noon Wednesday at 6PM, No Mass on Fridays Confessions and Adoration 11-12 Saturdays, or confession by appointment Holy Days no vigil, Noon and 7PM* *Holy Day Mass times subject to change if it is a Wednesday
The Story of the Annunciation of the Lord The feast of the Annunciation, now recognized as a solemnity, was first celebrated in the fourth or fifth century. Its central focus is the Incarnation: God has
become one of us. From all eternity God had decided that the Second Person of the Blessed
Trinity should become human. Now, as Luke 1:26-38 tells us, the decision is being realized. The God-Man embraces all humanity, indeed all creation, to bring
it to God in one great act of love. Because human beings have rejected God, Jesus will accept a life of
suffering and an agonizing death: “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s
friends” (John 15:13). Mary has an important role to play in God’s plan.
From all eternity, God destined her to be the mother of Jesus and closely related to him in the creation and redemption of the world. We could say that
God’s decrees of creation and redemption are joined in the decree of Incarnation. Because Mary is God’s instrument in the Incarnation, she has a role to play with Jesus in creation and redemption. It is a God-given role. It is God’s grace from beginning to end.
Mary becomes the eminent figure she is only by God’s grace. She is the empty space where God could
act. Everything she is she owes to the Trinity. Mary is the virgin-mother who fulfills Isaiah 7:14 in a
way that Isaiah could not have imagined. She is united with her son in carrying out the will of God
(Psalm 40:8-9; Hebrews 10:7-9; Luke 1:38). Together with Jesus, the privileged and graced Mary
is the link between heaven and earth. She is the human being who best, after Jesus, exemplifies the possibilities of human existence. She received into her lowliness the infinite love of God. She shows
how an ordinary human being can reflect God in the ordinary circumstances of life. She exemplifies what
the Church and every member of the Church is meant to become. She is the ultimate product of the
creative and redemptive power of God. She manifests what the Incarnation is meant to
accomplish for all of us.
HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
Palm Sunday, March 25th 8am, 10am, Noon, 6:30pm Masses
Holy Thursday, March 29th 7pm
Lord’s Supper and Washing of the Feet No Noon Mass
Good Friday, March 30th 3pm and 7pm
Remembering the Death of Jesus Easter Vigil, March 31st
8:30pm Mass We Welcome Adults Converting to Catholicism
No Noon Mass Easter Sunday, April 1st
8am, 10am, and Noon Masses (no 6:30pm Mass)
EASTER WREATHS The Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxiliary is sponsoring an Easter Wreath fundraiser. The
Wreaths are $20.00 each and the proceeds help to fund our charitable donations. Some of which
include: St. Anthony Food Pantry, gifts for the First Communicants, toiletry items for the Pink
Mailbox Ministry, blankets for the homeless, Sickle Cell Foundation, United Negro College Fund,
Veteran's Administration and St. Anthony School. The Wreaths are in the CCD office which is located next to the ladies bathroom and will be available for
sale TODAY, Sunday, March 25th following each Mass.
Thank you for your support. Please contact Grand Lady Maryann Boyd for further
information: 619-517-2191
SAINT ANTHONY UNIVERSITY Tues., March 27th: Deacon 101
Deacon Phil Allen 6:30pm in the Social Hall
Tues., April 3rd: The Opioid Crisis Dr. Lauren Demosthemes & Rich Jones
6:30pm in the Social Hall Thurs., April 5th: Heaven, Hell & Purgatory
Dear St. Anthony Family, We wish to thank you for your many prayers, visits, calls, cards, messages and gifts during our recent surgery and hospital stay in Houston. They did much to make us feel close even though we were far away. It was with great joy and pride that we would share them and our St. Anthony stories with visitors and staff. Much love in Christ, Deacon Steve & Susan Olson
SUNDAY SOUNDBITE Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
Holy Week begins today. For me it’s always a time filled with rich memories and dramatic stories.
Hello, I’m Father Greg Friedman with the Sunday Soundbite for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion.
During this week the dramatic story of Jesus’ death and resurrection is linked with the human stories of
those preparing for Baptism in our parishes. At today’s liturgy we’ll listen to the proclamation of the Passion and Death of Jesus from the Gospel of
Mark. Mark gives us a portrait of one who is truly a “Suffering Servant”–first described in the Hebrew
Scriptures by Isaiah–whose Servant poems we hear throughout the week, beginning today.
In Mark’s Gospel, the Lord spends himself in service to others. The cross he embraces is a
powerful sign of his self-giving. But the story is not only the story of Jesus, as
Scripture scholar Eugene LaVerdiere reminds us. It’s also a story about the testing of Jesus’ disciples. Earlier in the Gospel, Jesus asked two of them if they
could drink from the cup he would drink, and endure the baptism he would receive. In the Passion
account Judas, Peter, and finally the rest of the Twelve, fail the test and abandon Jesus.
The Lent just past has invited us to renew our baptismal commitment. The liturgy a week from
today will celebrate our rebirth to new life through the Lord’s passion, death, and resurrection. Let us resolve to enter the story with him today. How will
we meet the test?
STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION Here is a Stewardship story from a Mom of a young
and growing family in our Parish: "We give on-line because our income fluctuates and
we want our tithe to be first in our budget. I need the grace of tithing. Sometimes by month-end we
may be down to $20 in our checking account. I just put it in the plate. I tell God,
'This came from you; we return it to you. We are totally dependent on you. You know our needs.
We know you will provide.' And He does!" Amen.
12TH ANNUAL GHS
COMMUNITY HEALTH SUMMIT (Formerly Minority Health Summit)
Sat., April 7 • 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. TD Convention Center
Keynote Speakers: The Three Doctors • Impactful education on diabetes, mental health and behavioral health • Presentation for youth on careers in health care • On-site health screenings and risk assessments for ALL attendees • Physician panel discussion with Q&A • Cultural nutrition speaker • Survivor stories and testimonials • Meet and greet/book signing with keynote speakers (books will be available for purchase) The Summit and lunch are FREE for adults and youth ages 10 and up. Registration is required.
Parking is free! Registration is easy! Visit ghs.org/summit or call (864) 832-0260.
WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE
ENCOUNTER WEEKEND “Morning after morning he opens my ear
that I may hear;” As we celebrate Palm Sunday, let us keep our ears open to the love from our
spouses and God by participating in a Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME)
weekend. The next weekends are: Jul 20-22, 2018 in Fort Mill, SC and Aug 3-5, 2018 in Chapel Hill, NC.
Early sign up is recommended. For more information visit our website at:
https://SCMarriageMatters.org or contact us at applications@ scmarriagematters.org
Join Life Teen on Sundays for Life Night! (after the 6 pm Mass) St. Mary Magdalene 2252 Woodruff Road.
EDGE Middle School Youth Ministry Meets Fridays at 7 pm.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Awanita Retreat Friday, April 13 - Sunday, April 15 For: Middle School Students Cost: $125 - Registration Deadline: March 18, 2018 Please visit our website for more information and registration forms. Smmcc.org/lifeteen Youth Office Contact: 864-288-4884 x206, [email protected] or [email protected] For questions regarding any of our Youth Ministry Programs, please contact: Joe Maggio, Youth Minister, at 288-4884 x206, via email at [email protected] or visit us at www.smmcc.org. St. Mary Magdalene 2252 Woodruff Road. Please visit our website for more information and registration forms. Smmcc.org/lifeteen
FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS Greenville's local nonprofit organization,
Fostering Great Ideas (FGI), focuses on supporting children and
youth in foster care. With this focus in mind, FGI is recruiting volunteer tutors willing to commit
to a year service for one child, at the foster home, weekly. FGI would like each tutor to
have teaching/tutoring experience or a strong knowledge base in a particular subject. If interested,
ST. ANTHONY’S RELICS VISITS THE DIOCESE OF CHARLESTON His Excellency, Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone, has
given his blessing for the relics to tour in the Diocese of Charleston from April 6 to April 15. The
tour will begin in Bluffton and will end in Lexington. One relic is a fragment of St. Anthony’s floating rib
while the second relic is skin of his cheek. Sister Lucy, one of the three seers of Fatima, venerated the relics in 1995 in her convent in Coimbra, Portugal on
the 800th anniversary of the saint’s birth. “By inviting us to venerate the mortal remains of the martyrs and saints, the Church does not forget that, in the end, these are indeed just human bones, but
they are bones that belonged to individuals touched by the living power of God. The relics of the saints are traces of that invisible but real presence which
sheds light upon the shadows of the world and reveals the Kingdom of Heaven in our midst.” —
Pope Benedict Emeritus Visiting the Upstate on Tuesday, April 10
Our Lady of the Rosary 3710 Augusta Rd., Greenville, SC Veneration from noon to 4 p.m.
St. Anthony of Padua Parish and Our Lady of La Vang (Joint Service)
307 Gower St., Greenville, SC Veneration from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saint Anthony of Padua is known to millions of Catholics for ‘lost items’. Saint Anthony’s reputation as a finder of lost things dates to an incident in the
saint’s life. As the legend goes, a novice who had grown tired of religious life decided to leave the Franciscan community. But before leaving, the
novice took Saint Anthony’s psalter. The book was very important to Anthony, especially since it was before the printing press had been invented. The
psalter had notes and comments he made in teaching his students in the Franciscan order.
Anthony prayed that the psalter would be found and returned to him. Anthony’s prayers were answered. The novice returned the psalter and returned to the
order. We invite you to come and ask for Saint Anthony’s interces-sion for more than the loss of material things, but also for loss of faith, family
harmony, health, hope, mercy and peace of mind, just to name a few.
PLEASE PRAY FOR Martha Cotel, Mary Curran, Paige Kilton, Trish Crew,
Lillie Davis, Jonathan Turner, Christy Dias, Sherri Rogers, Stuart MacNaughton, Frances D. Peck, Jean Boggs, Megan Counihan, Joe Mausser, Barbara Prinzing, Vernon Prinzing, Lori McGinley, Donna Nickels,
Charlene Palmer, Eric Kuhn, Charles & Alice Rigler, Richard Palmer, Kathy Barnett, Jennifer Dogan,
Margaret Dreher, Matthew Bryson, Garrett Esser, Sabrina Walker, James Johnson, Franka Clarke,
Alec Kubica, Ken Holloway, Gregory Kuhn, Tom James, Tara Cleary, Joanne Dean, Hazel Hill, Julius Pinson Jr.,
Sharon Patton, Betty Braun, Dave & Mary Turner, Clarice Hanly, Phyllis Oliver, Nancy Turrill, Willie Davis,
Vicki Evinger, Nancy Lemmons, Chester Williams, Mike Lotto, Melvin Armstrong, Dee Dee Dzikowicz,
Sammy Huguet, the Maddox Family, James West Wright, Erin O' Brien, Mike Hudson, Diane Manzi,
Joetta Bowling, James McCauley, Sr., Franca Dike, Frank Henderson, Billy Mays, Carolyn Lenhardt,
Laurie Rappl, Evelyn Butler, Steve Miller, Linda Mausser, Malik McCauley, Margaret Morris, Deacon Steve Olson,
Wilbert Morgan, Anthony Davis, Lori Cortese, Diane Collins, and Deacon Winston Wright.
OUR SICK AND SHUT-INS: Martha Richardson, Ray & Darlene Sawitski,
Julia Starks, Clenty Fair, Eileen Downey, Alfred Richardson, Bessie Williams, Julia Dandeneau,
and Nicole Campbell Little.
READINGS FOR PALM SUNDAY March 25, Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16; Is 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1-15:47 March 26, Monday Is 42:1-7; Jn 12:1-11 March 27, Tuesday Is 49:1-6; Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 March 28, Wednesday Is 50:4-9a; Mt 26:14-25 March 29, Holy Thursday – Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 March 30, Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion Is 52:13-53:12; Heb 4:14-16, 5:7-9; Jn 18:1-19:42 March 31, Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter Gn 1:1-2:2; Gn 22:1-18; Ex 14:15-15:1; Is 54:5-14; Is 55:1-11; Bar 3:9-15, 32c-4:4; Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28; Rom 6:3-11; Mk 16:1-7 April 1, The Resurrection of the Lord, Easter Sunday Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8; Jn 20:1-9 or Mk 16:1-7 or Lk 24:13-35
THIS WEEK March 25, 2018, Palm Sunday
8am, 10am, 12noon, and 6:30pm Masses
Monday Mass at 12noon
RCIA, 7pm in the Social Hall
Tuesday Mass 12 noon in the Church
Living Waters Bible Study, 6:30pm, in the Gallivan Center
Wednesday
Mass at 6pm in the Church NO CCD 6:30-7:30pm
Holy Thursday
No 12noon Mass in the Church Lord’s Supper & Washing of the Feet, 7pm
Good Friday Remembering the Death of Jesus, 3pm & 7pm
Saturday Welcome Adults Converting to Catholicism,
8:30pm Mass
Easter Sunday 8am, 10am, and 12noon Masses (no 6:30pm)
LAST WEEK’S COLLECTIONS Collection for Sunday, 3/11/18: $26,117.46
Poor Box $200.00
NEW PARISHIONERS Please welcome Baird and Katie Hull
and son, Thomas.
BAPTISM CLASSES The Baptism classes are held on the third
Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the robe room. For questions concerning Baptism, please
Parish Contacts Ministries Parish Office: Altar Services (Swiffer Team): Mary Corner 233-7717 The Secular Franciscans 233-7717 [email protected] Elijah Cup Vocations Ministry Parish email: Bonnie Carfolite [email protected][email protected] Parish website: www.newstanthony.com Garden Group Stewardship: Suzanne Newton 292-1914 Joseph Galloway: [email protected] Handicap Transportation Ministry Parish Clergy Chuck Milteer 350-9684 Father Patrick Tuttle, OFM: Hospice Ministry [email protected] Susan Olson 228-9220 Fr. David Phan, OFM: Housing Ministry [email protected] Allan Oliver Fr. Jim Nero, OFM: [email protected][email protected] Just Faith Deacons: [email protected] Ken Christy 370-2943 Deacon Winston Wright (retired) Knights of Peter Claver Deacon James Williams Paul Latimore 299-0847 Deacon Steve Olson Knights of Peter Claver Ladies Auxillary Deacon Dexter Gourdin MaryAnn Boyd 619-517-2191 Deacon Phil Allen Knights of Columbus Volunteer Coordinator: Richard Cortese 268-0007 James Boyd Meal Ministry [email protected] Dana Lacher 354-0049 Communications: [email protected]
Food Pantry: Gwen Whitner 297-0123 Stephanie Rosso 469-4688 Propel High School Ministry [email protected] Pat Dillard Parish & School Nurse [email protected] Jenny Weidenbenner 625-0496 Respect for Life Ministry St. Anthony School Laura Maganini 449-9926 School website: ServantHearts www.stanthonygreenvillesc.org [email protected] School Office: St. Ann’s Guild Ministry Sonya Ferguson 271-0167 Ann Douglas 458-7175 Recreation Event Manager: [email protected] Ruby King 509-1984 Women’s Council [email protected] Debra Drennon 483-2919 Religious Education Director of Religious Education: Music Ministry CCD grades K-12: 10 o’clock Choir: Deacon James Williams: [email protected] Ruby King 430-6124 Assistance Director: Children’s Choir: Debra Drennon Larry McCullough 205-3655 [email protected] Gospel Choir: RCIA Adult Initiation: Jannie Jones 467-0574 Deacon Steve Olson 449-4284 Music Ministry: Deacon Phil Allen 706-2999 Stan Greggs 386-9875 Living Waters Bible Study: Nicky & Lillie Jones 277-8126 Adult Faith Formation: [email protected] T.J. Cofield
