SAINT ANNE PARISH 20 Boston Road Southborough, MA 01772 Parish Contact Information Office Hours, Monday ~ Thursday 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Friday ~ 9:30 am to noon Telephone 508-485-0141 Fax 508-460-0181 E-mail: [email protected]Web: www.stannesouthborough.org Pastor Fr. Albert Irudayasamy, [email protected]Parish Council George Stagno ~ Chair Finance Committee Rich Flathers ~ Chair Religious Education Director of Religious Education: Monica Shay [email protected]Parish Office Manager Melissa Shields [email protected]Linda Bradstreet (on leave) Bookkeeper Bridgitte Morgan [email protected]Music Ministry Organist & Choir Director: Paul Crivello 508-366-0821 [email protected]Maintenance Matt Bernier [email protected]Amy Buttiglieri ~ Webmaster [email protected]We welcome all visitors to St. Anne Parish. If you would like to join our faith community, please call the Parish Office to register: 508-485-0141 ST. ANNE PARISH MISSION STATEMENT We, the people of St. Anne Parish, Southborough, in the Diocese of Worcester are called through Baptism to become one faith family. We commit ourselves to embody the presence of Christ in Word and Sacrament; by using our ministries to welcome all who are seeking Jesus and to share in the life and work of our Catholic faith. In the spirit and truth of the Holy Trinity, we will use our time, talents and treasure to answer God’s command to love one another as He has loved us, in holy worship, prayer, Catechetical formation for all, evangelization and service to others. Please note that due to COVID-19 concerns all Masses and church- related gatherings within the Diocese of Worcester are suspended until further notice. Please contact the Parish Office for questions about when receiving or scheduling of any of the Sacraments will be resumed. Thank you. Let us all keep each other in our prayers. Parish Contact Information Office Hours, Monday ~ Thursday 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Friday ~ 9:30 am to noon Telephone 508-485-0141 Fax 508-460-0181 E-mail: [email protected]Web: www.stannesouthborough.org MARCH 29, 2020 FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT We often bind ourselves with chains of addiction to gossip, envy, prejudices, hatred, and uncontrollable anger, and bury ourselves in the tombs of despair. Sometimes we are in the tomb of selfishness, filled with negative feelings such as worry, fear, resentment, hatred, and guilt. … let us ask Jesus during this Holy Mass to bring the light and the power of the Holy Spirit into our private lives and liberate us from our tombs. When we receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Jesus will call our name and command, "Come out, Mary”, “Come out, Joe"! This is Good news for all of us: “Lazarus, come out!” This can be the beginning of a new life. “Roll away the stone, unbind him and let him go.” (John 11:1-45)
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SAINT ANNE PARISH 20 Boston Road Southborough, MA 01772
Parish Contact Information
Office Hours, Monday ~ Thursday 9:30 am to 3:30 pm
We welcome all visitors to St. Anne Parish. If you would like to join our faith
community, please call the Parish Office to register:
508-485-0141
ST. ANNE PARISH MISSION STATEMENT
We, the people of St. Anne Parish, Southborough, in the Diocese of Worcester are called through Baptism to become one faith family. We commit ourselves to embody the presence of Christ in Word and Sacrament; by using our ministries to welcome all who are seeking Jesus
and to share in the life and work of our Catholic faith. In the spirit and truth of the Holy Trinity, we will use our time, talents and treasure to answer God’s command to love one
another as He has loved us, in holy worship, prayer, Catechetical formation for all, evangelization and service to others.
Please note that due to COVID-19 concerns all Masses and church-
related gatherings within the Diocese of Worcester are
suspended until further notice.
Please contact the Parish Office for
questions about when receiving or scheduling
of any of the Sacraments will be
resumed. Thank you.
Let us all keep each other in our prayers.
Parish Contact Information Office Hours, Monday ~ Thursday
9:30 am to 3:30 pm Friday ~ 9:30 am to noon Telephone 508-485-0141
All Religious Education classes, meetings, and retreats are suspended until further notice.
The FC Mass scheduled for May 3rd is postponed
indefinitely.
The Confirmation Mass scheduled for March 29th is postponed indefinitely.
The St. Anne Religious Education Program will provide updated information on rescheduling options as soon as
they are available.
Encouragement Coloring Page: https://download.comresources.com/hometouch/springcoloring_20711.pdf - Download and color this page adding a note of encouragement to Father Albert and to our St. Anne family. Send a copy/photo of the completed page to the Parish Office: [email protected]. Selected messages may be placed future bulletins.
WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE
with MASS INTENTIONS (Mar 29 – Apr 5)
Please contact the Parish Office if you wish to reschedule
Mass Intentions.
SATURDAY 28 5:00 pm For Carlene Haughey by Jeanette Castelda
SUNDAY 29 8:30 am For Greg Polanik by the Prayer Shawl Ministry
10:30 am For Philip Wood (9th Anniversary) by Jane Wood
5:30 pm For the Students and Families of St. Anne Parish
MONDAY 30 9:00 am For Victims of the Coronavirus
TUESDAY 31 9:00 am For Margaret Ann Hostage
WEDNESDAY 1 9:00 am For St. Anne parishioners
THURSDAY 2 9:00 am For Souls in Purgatory
FRIDAY 3 9:00 am For Chrisie Leader by Carol VanBerkel
SATURDAY 4 5:00 pm For St. Anne parishioners
SUNDAY 5 8:30 am For Betty and Leonard Jasinski by McGuiness family
10:30 am For Virgina Moro by Millie and Jim Garden
5:30 pm For the Students and Families of St. Anne Parish
Parish Information & Announcements
We need new Parish Council members. Please consider serving. If interested in serving or in nominating another parishioner, please contact the Parish Office.
This year’s Appreciation Dinner is suspended until further notice.
St. Anne Masses: Father Albert will be livestreaming the daily and Sunday Masses!
2. Scroll down to “Live Mass from St. Anne Church” at bottom of the page. See logo on right.
3. Click on the arrow in the middle of the logo at 9:00 a.m. for daily Masses Monday thru Friday.
4. Click on the arrow in the middle of the logo at 10:30 a.m. for Sunday Mass - all weekend Mass Intentions will be included in this Mass.
Worcester and Boston Diocesan Masses: The Sunday Mass will be broadcast LIVE at 10 a.m.
(and repeated at 6 p.m.) with Bishop McManus as the celebrant. Click the Mass link on the
worcesterdiocese.org homepage.
The Daily Mass will be broadcast LIVE at 9 a.m. on Spectrum/Charter Channel 193.
Sunday Mass will be broadcast at 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on CatholicTV on FIOS Channel 296.
LENT ~ 2020
All Masses, Soup and Stations, Eucharist Adoration, and Confession hours are suspended until further notice.
Please continue to observe the guidelines for fasting and abstinence during Lent.
GUIDELINES FOR FAST AND ABSTINENCE
Lenten fast and abstinence regulations for the Diocese of Worcester are as follows: Abstinence from meat is to be
observed by all Catholics fourteen (14) years of age and older on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all the Fridays of Lent. Fasting is to be observed by all Catholics who are eighteen (18) years of age but not yet fifty-nine (59) years of age on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Those who are bound to
fast may take only one full meal. Two smaller meals are permitted if necessary to maintain strength according to one's needs, but eating solid foods between meals is not permitted.
Catholics should not lightly excuse themselves from these prescribed Lenten penitential practices.
Prayer Shawl Ministry: Anyone who is ill or suffering will welcome a blessed, warm, and comforting
prayer shawl. Shawls are located at the parish office during business hours.
The ministry members meet every Monday at 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Conference Room in the Parish Hall.
New members are always welcomed.
Prayer Shawl will not be meeting until further notice.
Annette Buhsmer, Chair
United Parishes of Southborough Food Pantry Thank you so very much for your continuous support of the
Southborough Food Pantry. You make it possible for us to help our clients. Currently we are in need of Chef Boy-ar-dee products, white cake mixes, facial tissues (e.g. Kleenex),
white tuna and cleaning products... As most food items are date sensitive, please be sure that your donation is not out of
date. Donations may be left in the foyer of the parish hall. If you know of anyone who could benefit from the Food Pantry, especially during this time with the Coronavirus, please
encourage them to come. The Food Pantry will remain open with special procedures to ensure the safety of our clients and
volunteers. Please see the precautions in place as outlined on the following page in a letter sent to the Pantry clients.
Pantry hours (located at Pilgrim Church) are NOW Thursdays from 6:30-7:15 p.m. and
Fridays from 9:45-11 a.m. Again, thank you for your continued generosity to
the Southborough Food Pantry.
Pat Draper, St. Anne Parish Coordinator
Ministries & Stewardship
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK:
Sr. Yvette, Faith Stephens, Jan & Charlie Mangana, Danielle Taylor, Jamie Farley, Stephanie McMahon, Rachel Knoll, Brad Arsenault, Paine Family, Lavallee Family, Marilou A. Custodio, Melinda O’Connor, Susan Davis, Scott Broussard, Paul Brodeur, Kenny Cassidy, Colleen Manning, Simone Almeida, Pat Austin, Phil Auzenne, Alexandra Barr, Carolyn Green, (Red) Weir, Zenta Franz, Denise Perrin, Katie Lutz, Judi Shea, Larochelle Family, Barbara Peterson, Gertrude Wallace, Judy Christian, Jeanne Walker, Dianne Higgins, Millie Garden, Dorothy Reid, Yvonne Allain, Dewey Morton, Michael Santella, Carol Dunn, Stephen Brown, Kristine Livingstone, Rita Babino, Carolyn Connors, Jan Peterson, Reno Morra, Trent Vaughn, Arron Anderson, Peter Pino, Amy Richardson, Kathy, Andrea Furtado, Rick Davis, Fran, Carol Cory, Cecile, Keith Whipple, Seminarian Alex Quach, Pat Moran, Sarah, Maryjayne Carey, Fr. Leo, Patricia, Ryan, Shelia, Linda Bradstreet, Keith Whipple, Faith Stephen, Pat, Linda, Paul, Dan Nicole, James, Fr. Thirburse F. Millot, Bill Gittins, Claudia Webster, Katie Kulik, Jackie Di Buono, Elaine Arrison, Rachel Attaway, Matthew, Susan Cioppa, Anne Comcowich, Beth Stephens, Lillian Franco, Mary Hunt, Hans, Elisabel Borreani, Peg Nicosia, and Michele Fuller.
OUR FATHER’S TABLE - THANK YOU
With a little adaptation to normal procedures, St. Anne Church was able to provide a ready-to-go meal of lasagna, meatballs, salad, bread, and cookies to the patrons of OFT this past Thursday. St. Anne parishioners signed
up to donate and drop off meal items before the stay at home advisory. Jennifer G. picked up the items to assemble and bake the lasagnas at home. Joanne and Rich F. bagged cookies and bread and boxed salads and lasagna servings. Regina and Tom M. picked up meals and distributed them to patrons on Thursday. Thank You!
PARISH STEWARDSHIP REPORTS FOR::
March 22 2020
Weekly Offering ……………………….….......$ .00 Capital Fund …………………...…..…...……....$ .00 Fuel ……………..…….....……............................$ .00 Easter Flowers ……………………………..…...$ .00
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONGOING GENEROUS SUPPORT.
Online Giving: St. Anne Parish partners with WeShare for on-line giving. WeShare allows both onetime gifts, as well as
regular, scheduled donations. Please visit our Parish website www.stannesouthborough.org for the link to WeShare.com or call 1-800-950-9952 and use option 1 to answer any questions.
St. Anne’s Website: With our website we have an additional resource for online giving and online CE registration. St. Anne
Parish partners with eCatholic and BluePay for easy on-line giving. Our one-step on-line form allows both one-time gifts, as
well as regular, scheduled donations. Please visit our Parish website www.stannesouthborough.org and select the Quick Link
to the BluePay On-Line Giving page.
Thank you to parishioners who are using Online Giving. Parishioners who use the service seem pleased with how easy it is to set up and manage. If you have not yet signed up for Online Giving, please consider this option. By using Online Giving you
are helping our parish improve our operational efficiency.
The 2020 Partners in Charity Appeal will be ongoing through June and continues to need your support. Our parish goal is $76,000. If it is possible for you, please complete your pledge envelope, indicating your gift or pledge. It is important for all of us who can to participate in order to support our mission as a diocese. Please be as generous as possible. If you have already made a gift to the 2020 appeal we thank you. Your gift will help us in reaching our
parish goal. You can also make your gift online at www.partners-charity.net. Thank you!
Dear Food Pantry Clients, In this changing environment, due to the increased impact of the Corona Virus, we are once again implementing a new procedure effective immediately for your safety as well as the safety of all our volunteers. We will continue this procedure as long as we are able. The new schedule for the Southborough Food Pantry will be: Thursday evenings from 6:30-7:15 p.m. Friday mornings from 9:45-11:00 a.m. Please note: we will not be open on Tuesday evenings. By 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, please provide us by e-mail ([email protected]) a list of your needs, being as specific as possible. Give us a preference for the meat you would like. We will fill it if we have it or when you pick up your order, we will offer you an alterna-tive meat selection. If you do not have access to an e-mail, please call us at 508-485-4847, wait for the Pantry prompt and then leave your name and phone number. We will call you back to get your order. When you come to the Pantry on Thursday evening or Friday morning, please park adjacent to the building. Remain in your car. Pop your trunk or leave your rear passenger side door un-locked. We will bring your order to your car. IMPORTANT: This pick up service is for all clients unless you are sick or personally unable to get to the Pantry. For these clients, we will deliver to your outside door or patio. We thank all of you for your cooperation. We pray that the impact of this virus will quickly come to an end. Sincerely, The Food Pantry Coordinators
The Gospel for Sunday declares that “Jesus loved Martha and Mary her sister and their brother Lazarus,” who lived in Bethany.
This is a golden statement. It tells us so much about Jesus and his personal friendships. But it also emphasizes how very odd it was that, while Lazarus was sick unto death, Jesus camped out a fairly short distance from Bethany and would not go to heal his friend. Messages arrived calling for him. It was an easy journey, but no. His reason? “This illness is not going to end in death,” he says.
What?
The illness of Lazarus did lead directly to his death!
Human love gets its life from God’s love. Even life itself gets its being from God’s love.
After the death had happened, Jesus did go down to Bethany. But by that time Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days! Martha ran out to Jesus and quickly sent back for Mary, who was so grieved she could not leave home. We are told that when they see Jesus each sister cried out, “If you had been here, my brother would not have died!” Mary was crying.
Jesus saw her tears and those of the friends who had gathered, and we behold a touching revelation of Jesus’ love for them. The famous words are unlike any others in the Gospels:
“And Jesus wept.”
Jesus’ tears sharpen their question: “You love us and you loved him; why did you not come and cure him while he was still alive?” I think many of us ask God that question when a loved one dies. Jesus asked it from the cross: “God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Pretend that you yourself are asking that question directly to Jesus right now. Listen to whatever answer comes. Take your time. If what you hear is fruitful, please stay with it.
For my part, I hear Jesus saying approximately the following:
Friend, I know that life, death, and love are hard for you to comprehend. I am revealing to you what they mean in the flesh, but of course even my example can be confusing.
So listen.
Not only life but even sorrow and even death are given by God’s gentle love. All three are like flowers pushing up from the earth. The ground from which they grow is God’s kind love. Human love gets its life from God’s love. Even life itself gets its being from God’s love. Even death gets its life from God’s love.
At this point you and I, startled, interrupt and say, but how can death beget life? Death is the very end of life. What are you talking about?
Jesus replies that there are many beautiful “plants and trees” that come forth from God’s love. Life is one of them, he says. But, look, death is one too, and suffering.
Let me show you, he says.
He calls out in a loud voice, calls unto God-love where Lazarus’ soul is buried. From God’s womb of love, Lazarus’s death wakes unto life. Out of the tomb he walks. Jesus sums it up:
You always think of love as something you can have because you are alive. But the opposite is true. Life is something you can have because you are rooted in love. Death does not erase love, it brings you more deeply back to it, to the place you came from—love’s rich loam.
Pray about it, Jesus says, because that is the reason I delayed going to Bethany.
READING I Ezekiel 37:12-14 A reading from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 12 Thus says the Lord GOD: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel.
13 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and have you rise from them, O my people!
14 I will put my spirit in you that you may live, and I will settle you upon your land; thus you shall know that I am the LORD. I have promised, and I will do it, says the LORD.
R. (7) With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD; LORD, hear my voice! 2 Let your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication. R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
3 If you, O LORD, mark iniquities, LORD, who can stand? 4 But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered. R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
5 I trust in the LORD; my soul trusts in his word. 6 More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the LORD. R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
7 For with the LORD is kindness and with him is plenteous redemption; 8 And he will redeem Israel from all their iniquities. R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.
READING II Romans 8:8-11 A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans Brothers and sisters: 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit dwelling in you. The Word of the Lord.
Gospel – John 11:1-45
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
1 Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill.
3 So the sisters sent word to him saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.”
4 When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glori-fied through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was.
7 Then after this he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11 He said this, and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him.”
12 So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.”
13 But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep.
14 So then Jesus said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died.
15 And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may be-lieve. Let us go to him.”
16 So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go to die with him.”
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away.
19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home.
21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.”
24 Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.”
25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever be-lieves in me, even if he dies, will live,
26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.”
28 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary se-cretly, saying, “The teacher is here and is asking for you.”
29 As soon as she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him.
30 For Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him.
31 So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, presuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he became perturbed and deeply troubled,
34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.”
35 And Jesus wept.
36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.”
37 But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?”
38 So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it.
39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.”
40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me.
42 I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 And when he had said this, He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”
45 Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent
Prayer in Time of Pandemic
O God, Whose only begotten Son bore the
weight of human suffering for our salvation, hear the prayers of your Church
for our sick brothers and sisters and deliver us from this time of trial. Open our
ears and our hearts to the voice of your Son: Be not afraid, for I am with you
always.
Bless all doctors and nurses, researchers and public servants; give us the wisdom to
do what is right and the faith to endure this hour, that we might gather once again to praise your name in the heart of your
Church, delivered from all distress and confident in your Mercy.
