Saint Ann Roman Catholic Church “To Grow in Grace Through Jesus Christ”

CLERGY

Rev. John J. Newns, Pastor

Rev. Joseph A. Heim, M.M.,

In Residence

Rev. Kail Ellis, O.S.A.,

Weekend Assistant

Deacon Daniel T. Giblin,

Permanent Deacon

Deacon Mark Szewczak,

Permanent Deacon

Parish Office: 610-933-3732, FAX 610-935-7958, 502 S. Main Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460

Parish Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM & Saturday, 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Parish Website & Email Address: www.churchofsaintann.org, stannphx@comcast.net

SACRAMENTS

BAPTISM - Please make arrangements in advance by calling Madelyn O’Hara at 484-302-5705.

MATRIMONY - Please call the Parish Office a minimum of six months in advance.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK - Please call the Parish Office.

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday Evening Vigil: 5:00 PM,

Sacred Heart Church

Sunday: 7:30, 9:30,11:30 AM, 6:00 PM,

St. Ann Chapel &

9:30 AM Spanish Mass, St. Ann Church

WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE

Monday to Thursday, 8:00 AM, St. Ann Church

CONFESSION SCHEDULE

Saturday: 3:45-4:30 PM, Sacred Heart Church,

Tuesdays after Mass in St. Ann Church &

by appointment

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

Wednesday: 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM, St. Ann Church

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Welcome to St. Ann!

We’re so glad that you’re here. We strive to make all feel at home here and to build community.

Please let us know if we can assist you in any way.

Pastor

In Residence

Permanent Deacons

Business Manager

Holy Family School

Ministries & Comms

Music Director

Parish Receptionists

PREP (Religious Ed.)

Spiritual Ministry

Rev. John J. Newns

Rev. Joseph A. Heim, M.M.

Deacon Daniel Giblin

Deacon Mark Szewczak

Mrs. Lisa Burghardt

Mr. Thomas Dever (principal)

Mrs. Madelyn O’Hara

Mr. Thomas Denny

Mrs. Debra Carr

Mrs. Chris Giblin

Mrs. Julie Prichett

Sr. Marie Rose Gibson, R.S.M.

610-933-3732

610-933-1733

610-952-3765

484-985-1889

610-933-3732

610-933-7562

484-302-5705

610-933-3732

610-933-3732

610-933-3732

610-755-1077

610-416-5431

fathernewns@gmail.com

jheim@maryknoll.org

deacongiblin@gmail.com

Dcn.Mark.S@gmail.com

burghardtlisa@comcast.net

tdever@myholyfamilyschool.org

stannadulted@gmail.com

tgdenny@verizon.net

debcarr502@gmail.com

chrisgiblin55@gmail.com

youthstann@comcast.net

Parish Clergy & Staff

New Parishioners: We are pleased to welcome new members to our Parish Community. Please call the Parish Office for Parish

Registration dates or to make an appointment.

Bulletin Submissions: Please send all news, photos, and events at least ten days prior to the issue date. Bulletin information

should be emailed to stannadulted@gmail.com.

We love having you as part of our flock!

Let’s keep in touch! Get important Parish & Ministry updates via email & text. There are two ways to connect. Visit our church at: flocknote.com/StAnnPhx or Text Stannphx to 84576 from your phone to subscribe to updates.

WEEK OF MARCH 26

St. Peter’s Church -121 Church Street

Monday: Lunch Noon-1PM, Dinner 5-6PM

& Pantry 6-7PM, Tuesday-Friday, Lunch Noon-1PM,

Saturday (March 17) Breakfast 8:30-10:30 AM

HOPE VOLUNTEERS drive people in need to appointments

or on essential errands, Monday - Friday, 7:00

AM - 4:00 PM. Schedule a ride 4 days in

advance. If you call on a Friday the ride will

not be scheduled until Tuesday or

Wednesday.

March 16-31: Mary Ann Fennell at 610-933-1058

April 1-30: Joan Lyon at 610-933-4751

Necesita un “RIDE” - Nuestro Ministerio HOPE tiene voluntaries

disponibles para llevarlo a citas esenciales de lunes a liernes, de 7

AM a 4 PM. Para coordinar esta actividad por favor llame a Rosa

Padilla al 484-302-6056 con 4 días de anticipación. Si llama un

viernes el viaje no será programado hasta el martes o miércoles.

Today: Mark 11:1-10; Isaiah 50:4-7;

Philippians 2:6-11; Mark 1-15:47(Gather #1031)

Monday: Isaiah 42:1-7; John -1112:1

Tuesday: Isaiah –649:1; John 13:21-33,36-38

Wednesday: Isaiah 50:4-9a; Matthew 26:14-25

Thursday: Exodus 12:1-8,11-14; 1Cor 11:23-26; John 13:1-15

Friday: Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Hebrews 4:14-16;5:7-9; John 18:1-19:42

Volunteer Opportunity

Volunteers are needed to water the

Easter flowers in St. Ann Chapel,

St. Ann Church &

Sacred Heart Church.

Choose one, two or all three worship sites.

A green thumb is not required.

Please contact Madelyn O’Hara at

stannadulted@gmail.com or 484-302-5705 if interested.

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From the Pastor’s Desk...

Each year on the Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

(Jan. 4) we pray:

O Lord, we ask that you look graciously

upon our gifts placed on your altar

in celebration of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton,

and grant that by the power at work in this sacrifice,

that we may be more deeply inserted into

the Mystery of your Son,

who lives and reigns forever and ever.

And what is this Mystery? Well, since it’s a mystery it

cannot be fully or definitively expressed in words, ideas,

mathematics or computer algorithms. This is why we

human beings go to symbolic modes of communication

(poetry, metaphor, visual arts, music, song, dance and

ritual) in our feeble but essential efforts to be open to and

receive the Mystery that we will be celebrating in a most

solemn and reverent manner this week during the Paschal

Triduum: The Paschal Mystery.

For decades I have been drawn to this

image by Helen Siegl who titled this

print “Alleluia”; however, I have come

to refer to this print both as “The Most

True Thing” in that I think the most true

thing we can know is that at every

nanosecond God in Christ is working to

put to death in us all that is not of Christ

and raise up in us all that is of Christ: “Christ come to full

stature” (Ephesians 4:13). This is the vertical dimension of

the Mystery that is brought to light with the word “Easter”:

the sun rises in the East and the Son rises on Easter.

PASCHAL PROCESS – This Saturday night, shortly before

our three catechumens are

baptized, we will hear

proclaimed, “Are you

unaware that we who

have been baptized in

Christ Jesus were

baptized into his

death? We were

indeed baptized with

him into death, so that,

just as Christ was

raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too

might live in newness of life” (Romans 6:3-4).

THE PASCHAL PROCESS – is a second name I give to

Helen Siegl’s print. Terms for this week’s Paschal Three

Days that derive from the Hebrew word for Passover

(Pesach)---such as Pascha, (Latin), Pascua (Spanish), Pasqua

(Italian), Pâques (French)---connect us with the horizontal

aspect of the Mystery as we hear echoes of our ancestors

passing out of Egypt, passing through the Red Sea, passing

through the desert, passing into a Covenant with God,

passing through the Jordan River and passing into the

Promised Land. St. Paul instructs us that “we are always

carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life

of Jesus may also be manifested in our body. For we who live

are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus,

so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal

flesh.” (2 Corinthians 4:10-11)

PRAY, FAST, LEARN, GIVE

We encounter Jesus this week in

Jerusalem, a community he knew

well. We prayerfully enter our own

communities too, encountering

those who are hungry and thirsty, those who need our help.

How does our Lenten journey motivate us to serve those we

meet in our daily lives? Visit crsricebowl.org for more. At

the end of Lent, we ask you to convert your Rice Bowl

donations into one check and place that check into the

collection basket on Holy Thursday or on Easter Sunday.

LENTEN RENEWAL

This Lent some long-delayed

repair work is being done in the

sanctuaries of both St. Ann Church

and Sacred Heart Church. When

these repairs are completed each

sanctuary will need to be repainted. The cost of all this work

is $17,855. If you would like to contribute to this effort

please make checks available to St. Ann Church and write

SANCTUARY REPAIRS in the memo line. Thank you.

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Calendar for the Week

Sunday, March 25 Children’s Liturgy, 9:30 AM (602)

Sunday School, 9:30 AM (HFS Pre-School Room)

Spanish RICA, 11:00 AM (Parish Office)

Monday, March 26

Rosary, 7:30 AM (Church)

8:00 AM Mass (Church)

Liturgical Ministers/Captains Mtg, 7PM (Chapel)

Legion of Mary, 7:30 PM (Church Hall Rm #2)

Tuesday, March 27

Rosary, 7:30 AM (Church)

8:00 AM Mass (Church)

8:35 AM Confessions (Church)

Youth Choir Practice, 5:45 PM (Chapel)

Confessions, 6:30 PM (Church)

Adult Choir Practice, 7:00 PM (Chapel)

Bible Reflection, 7:00 PM (Church Hall)

RCIA, 7:30 PM (Parish Office)

Spanish Bible Study, 7:30 PM (Church Hall Rm. #1)

Wednesday, March 28

Rosary, 7:30 AM (Church)

8:00 AM Mass (Church)

Eucharistic Adoration, 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM (Church)

Charismatic Prayer Group, 7:00 PM (Church Hall)

Thursday, March 29 Holy Thursday

Parish Office Closed

Altar Server Practice, 4:00 PM (Chapel)

Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 PM (Chapel)

Friday, March 30 Good Friday

Parish Office Closed

Altar Server Practice, 4:00 PM (Chapel)

Vietnamese Services, 7:00 PM (Church)

The Passion of the Lord, 7:30 PM (Chapel)

Divine Mercy Novena, 9:00 PM (Chapel)

Saturday, March 31 Holy Saturday

Parish Office Closed

RCIA Rehearsal, 11:00 AM (Chapel)

RCIA Minor Ceremonies, 12:00 PM (Chapel)

Blessing of Food Baskets, 1PM (Sacred Heart Church)

Easter Vigil, 8:00 PM (Chapel)

Sunday, April 1 Easter Sunday

7:30 AM Mass (Chapel)

9:30 AM Mass (Chapel)

9:30 AM Spanish Mass (Sacred Heart Church)

Sunday School, 9:30 AM (Pre-School)

9:40 AM Mass (Church)

11:30 AM Mass (Chapel)

11:40 AM Mass (Church)

Vietnamese Mass, 2:00 PM (Church)

Sunday

Donations

3/18/2018

Budget:

Offering:

Envelopes

Loose

Online Giving

Mail

Total

Overage

38th Sunday in

Fiscal Year

$15,900

$11,141

$1,333

$2,031

$2,227

$16,732

$832

Year to Date

7/1/17 - 3/18/18

$600,246

$424,447

$40,233

$76,167

$73,323

$614,170

$13,924

FORMED is loaded with religious material for people of all ages.

Log onto www.FORMED.org and enter our

Parish Code: W2HQ93

Counting Our Blessings!

Did you know our kindergarten program is

staffed by certified and degreed teachers all

day? Our afternoon program is run by the

same certified teachers who teach our students

in the morning. In addition, our kindergarten

students are taught by the same specialists our

older students see in art, music, STEAM, library, physical

education, and technology! Our students experience all this in a

faith-filled environment. Registration is now open for the 2018-

19 school year. For more information or to schedule a personal

tour, email us at advancement@myholyfamilyschool.org or

call 610-933-7562.

Welcome our New Parishioners

The Grinarml Family

Peter Kratz

The McKenna Family

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Alicia Andrews

Gene Bernat

Chad Berish

Beth Booth

Carolyn Boring

Ashley Rose Bukay

Ed Cain

Eleanor Calvecchio

John Calvecchio

Leroy Campbell

Dave Cocci

Angeline Costello

John Daly

Al DeMola

Isabella DeSimone

Michael DiArcangelo

Lida Dickinson

Lucille Dickson

Dan Fennell

Daniel Flores

Ryan Gerhold

Joe Gibson

Gordon Gladden

Jennifer Golaszewski

Christine Greger

Jim Havrilla

Jean Hoffman

Angela Hogan

Ann Hovanec

Michael Hudak

Jeanette Jelus

Ann Johnson

Maren Kaniewski

Irene King

Larry Kirk

Jack Klenk

Patrick Koch

Irene Layden

Denise Long

Ray Long

Claire Maestrale

Steve & Joanne Mardi

Marie Marosek

Thomas Mastrangelo

Heather McCann

John McKenzie

Michele Mellon

Ron Motzer

Tom Moyer

Karen Nesspor

Jacob Nichols

Georgene O’Donnell

Marcelo Opiela

Steve Pannella

Cindy Patton

Joan Pendergast

Glen Philips

Abigail Pilcicki

Dianne Ponzio

Ann Racey

Christine Radoiss

Katherine Raggazino

Jerry Ratchford

John Riegel

Kris Roberts

Kathryn Rocky

Tom Sarnak

Al Scott

Ken Shackleton

Keith Sheridan

Patrick Sheridan

Eustachia Shtohryn

Margaret Sim

James Smith

Renee Smith

Jennifer Spencer

Evelyn Spitz

Christine Springer

Bob Stancavage

Mark Stevenson

Sherri Stover

Julie Szewczak

Ethel Thomas

Glenn Thomas

Don Troncelliti

Helen Twargoski

Doris Valerio

Jeff Vance

Joe Vargo

Mary Way

Paul Weaver

Charles Wertz

Ann Wolff

Talan Wolstenholme

Please pray for the sick, disabled, homebound members of our Parish Family.

In The Denial of Saint Peter, the sinner whom Carravaggio highlights, is Peter himself. The artist relates the narrative, which is found in all four Gospels, when after being questioned, Peter denies Jesus three times before the cock crows. Peter points to himself, as if to say, “Who? Me?” While Caravaggio succinctly captures the narrative, he more significantly captures the brokenness of Peter. One does not sense an argumentative Peter, but rather a humiliated one. Peter, who was filled with passion and zeal, stumbled when that passion meant persecution and possible death. Peter’s weakness proves that human frailty can only be overcome by uniting one’s self to the Passion of Christ. (Fr. John Gribowich, a student of art history with a specialty in Caravaggio, www.magnificat.com)

The Denial of Saint Peter (1610), Caravaggio (Michelangelo

Merisi, 1571-1610, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.

Married Couples - Join us for Date Night! Saturday, April 7th

6:30-8:30 PM - St. Ann Church Hall - Pot Luck Dinner

Come enjoy a special time with your spouse & fellowship with other couples.

Questions/RSVP: Monica & Dave Ryan - 484-924-8187, monica.paddock@gmail.com

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Around the Archdiocese

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MASS Are you celebrating a special anniversary this year? The

annual Archdiocesan Wedding Anniversary Mass will

take place on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at the Cathedral

Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul at the 5:15 pm Vigil

Mass with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap.

Presiding. This mass is to pray for and with all married

couples who are newlyweds, or who have been married

25 years or more, or 50 years or more. Friends and fam-

ily are welcome and encouraged to attend.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED To register visit: www.phillycatholiclife.org

March 25, 2018

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

On Good Friday, March 30, 2018, we celebrate the mystery of the

Lord’s Passion, contemplating the sacrifice by which Jesus

redeemed the human race from sin and death.

It also has been our longstanding tradition as Catholics to offer

alms in support of the Catholic Community in the Holy Land. As

directed by our Holy Father, Pope Francis, funds generated by

this collection support programs and services in the Holy Land.

Support is needed to maintain the sacred places, to provide

educational and pastoral programs as well as outreach programs

for the poor through established charitable institutions.

On behalf of those Christians and others in so much need, I seek

your most generous and sacrificial support of the Good Friday

Collection for the Holy Land on March 30, 2018. I know that

God our Father will reward your generosity beyond all measure.

Gratefully and with best wishes in Jesus Christ,

+Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

Archbishop of Philadelphia

Saturday, April 21st:

The Cassock Classic 2018

The Cassock Classic is a frisbee

tournament put on by

St. Charles Seminary for young

adult groups throughout the

Archdiocese. CYACC will be

sending at least one team (will

add teams as needed). Players of all skill levels are

welcome!!! Please join CYACC and other young

adult groups throughout the area for a day of outdoor

fun, fellowship, and prayer.

Timing: 9:00am - 6:00pm Price: $15/person (covers your team t-shirt and lunch)

Email Alison at a.joy_ce@yahoo.com to sign

up by April 4th.

http://heedthecall.org/event/cassockclassic/

Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 9:30am-2pm

Event: Mothers of Children with Disabilities Retreat A retreat for mothers and grandmothers who are raising children

with disabilities and also those who have adult children with

disabilities. There will be time to pray, reflect, and chat with

other mothers.

Location: Malvern Retreat House

Speakers: Sr. Suzanne Mayer, IHM, retreat director; Fr. Jim

Olson, Mass celebrant

To register, visit www.opdarchphilly.com

More information: View the flyer; Please contact Malvern

Retreat House at 610-644-0400

Friday, June 8, 2018 at 6:00pm to Saturday, June 9 at

6:00pm

Event: Be A Man: A 24-hour Men's Retreat with Father

Larry Richards Father Larry Richards has been a priest since 1989 for the

Diocese of Erie, PA. He is the author of “Be a Man! Becoming

the Man God Created You to Be”, a #1 best seller for Ignatius

Press, having sold over 100,000 copies. Be sure to register early

as we expect an early full-house.

Location: Malvern Retreat House, Main Retreat House

Cost: $160.00 per person – single occupancy

To register: Call 610-644-0400

PJPHS - Are you thinking of the cool breezes of

summer? Have you had enough snow? Come

experience “Panthers in the Sand”-Savor the Flavor-

on Saturday, April 14, 2018 from 7PM to 11PM at

PJP. Join us for our annual restaurant faire, auction

and basket raffle! Tickets are on sale now! For more

information, please visit our website at

www.pjphs.org.

“GIVING HOPE TO ALL” – is

the theme of the 2018 Catholic

Charities Appeal. This annual

appeal is our main corporate effort

as the Body of Christ in the five

counties of the Archdiocese to

serve hundreds of thousands of our

neighbors in need of material and social assistance.

For more visit http://www.catholiccharitiesappeal.org