The Pallottines (Society of Catholic Apostolate) / U.S.A. National Circus 200 N. Orange Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34236 St. Martha Catholic Church Very Rev. Fausto Stampiglia S.A.C., Pastor Rev. R. Patrick Wilson, S.A.C. Rev. Jan Rykala, S.A.C. Rev. Krzysztof “Chris” Frost, S.A.C. Rev. John Cao, C.R.M., Hospital Chaplain Rev. George “Jerry” Hogan, Circus Chaplain Rev. Deacon William Ladroga Rev. Deacon C. Patrick Macaulay Rev. Deacon Robert Gaitens Br. Lawrence Skitzki, C.S.C. Br. William Dygert, C.S.C. Sr. Cathy Bonfield, S.S.N.D. Parish Staff Sara Brinn, Office Manager/Parish Secretary Virginia Bray, Music Director Gina Snode, Business Manager/Bookkeeper Patricia Sileo, Director of Religious Education Teressa McCoy, Administrative Assistant Pamela Paulson, Reception/Data Entry Rose Ann Runnells, Sacristan Tom Patt, Sacristan Janet Cocco, Sacristan Miguel Jimenez, Facilities Manager MÝÝ S «ç½ Saturday: 7:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m.; (Vigil) 4 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. Sunday (Parish Hall): 8 a.m. (Spanish): Noon (Vietnamese) Weekday: 7:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., Noon & 5:30 p.m. Holy Day: (vigil) 4 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.; 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., Noon, & 5:30 p.m. Church doors opens 30 minutes before each Mass and are closed immediately aŌerwards. CÊÄ¥ÝÝ®ÊÄÝ Saturday: 9 a.m. ‐ 10 a.m.; 3 p.m. ‐ 4 p.m. (Reconciliation Room) Sunday ‐ Friday: 11:30 a.m. ‐ Noon (Church Entrance) CÙÊݽ½ C«Ö½ (Located in the Parish Office) Expositon of the Blessed Sacrament is on Tuesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m. ‐ 4 p.m. Sãã®ÊÄÝ Ê¥ ã« CÙÊÝÝ Monday ‐ Friday, 11:15 a.m. (Church) RÊÝÙù Ι MÊÙĮĦ PÙùÙ DòÊã®ÊÄÝ Rosary is prayed daily following the 7:30 a.m. Mass, immediately followed by Morning Prayer. Rosary is again prayed before the Noon Mass. Pٮݫ O¥¥® IÄ¥ÊÙÃã®ÊÄ Telephone 941‐366‐4210 Fax 941‐954‐8434 Website www.stmartha.org YouTube St. Martha Catholic Church Sarasota, FL Facebook St. Martha Roman Catholic Church Hours Monday thru Friday from Noon to 4 p.m. BÖã®Ýà Classes are held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Conference Room. Baptism will take place regularly every Sunday at 5 p.m. or by appointment with your choice of clergyman. AÄÊ®Äã®Ä¦ Ê¥ ã« S®» Saturdays aŌer the 8:30 a.m. Mass HÊçÝ B½ÝݮĦ Contact Sara Brinn at the Parish Office TV Mass Sunday, 9:30 a.m. on CW Network or dioceseofvenice.org /tv‐mass Divine Mercy Sunday April 19, 2020
Very Rev. Fausto Stampiglia S.A.C., Pastor Rev. R. Patrick Wilson, S.A.C. Rev. Jan Rykala, S.A.C. Rev. Krzysztof “Chris” Frost, S.A.C. Rev. John Cao, C.R.M., Hospital Chaplain Rev. George “Jerry” Hogan, Circus Chaplain Rev. Deacon William Ladroga Rev. Deacon C. Patrick Macaulay Rev. Deacon Robert Gaitens Br. Lawrence Skitzki, C.S.C. Br. William Dygert, C.S.C. Sr. Cathy Bonfield, S.S.N.D. Parish Staff Sara Brinn, Office Manager/Parish Secretary Virginia Bray, Music Director Gina Snode, Business Manager/Bookkeeper Patricia Sileo, Director of Religious Education Teressa McCoy, Administrative Assistant Pamela Paulson, Reception/Data Entry Rose Ann Runnells, Sacristan Tom Patt, Sacristan Janet Cocco, Sacristan Miguel Jimenez, Facilities Manager
M S Saturday: 7:30 a.m. & 8:30 a.m.; (Vigil) 4 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.
Church doors opens 30 minutes before each Mass and are closed immediately a erwards.
C Saturday: 9 a.m. ‐ 10 a.m.; 3 p.m. ‐ 4 p.m. (Reconciliation Room) Sunday ‐ Friday: 11:30 a.m. ‐ Noon (Church Entrance) C C (Located in the Parish Office) Expositon of the Blessed Sacrament is on Tuesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m. ‐ 4 p.m. S C Monday ‐ Friday, 11:15 a.m. (Church) R M P D Rosary is prayed daily following the 7:30 a.m. Mass, immediately followed by Morning Prayer. Rosary is again prayed before the Noon Mass.
P O I Telephone 941‐366‐4210 Fax 941‐954‐8434 Website www.stmartha.org YouTube St. Martha Catholic Church Sarasota, FL Facebook St. Martha Roman Catholic Church Hours Monday thru Friday from Noon to 4 p.m.
B Classes are held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Conference Room. Baptism will take place regularly every Sunday at 5 p.m. or by appointment with your choice of clergyman.
A S Saturdays a er the 8:30 a.m. Mass
H B Contact Sara Brinn at the Parish Office
TV Mass Sunday, 9:30 a.m. on CW Network or dioceseofvenice.org /tv‐mass
Divine Mercy Sunday April 19, 2020
From Our Pastor, Fr. Fausto … Last Sunday, we, the St. Martha’s faith family,
celebrated Our Lord Jesus Christ’s triumphant Resurrection from the dead. Although confined at home, our two Easter celebrations (Holy Saturday and Sunday) with a sizable crowd on the web of 1,734 hits showed us clerics your faith and devotion.
The meaning of Jesus’ resurrection is the assurance of LIFE ETERNAL for all of us, the believers! If we pick up our cross daily and follow the good Lord with love, sacrifice and prayer, then we will live with Jesus ETERNALLY IN PARADISE, first with our soul, and after the second coming and final judgment, with our risen and transformed body! Alleluia!
All of us, dear friends, will pick up our bodies from the ashes and dust to which they were reduced, and we will assume our incorruptible and immortal soul and body, and live forever like angels! Let us live in Jesus now, so that we will live forever with Him in Paradise! Right now, we, the Catholic faithful, are proclaiming Jesus’ second coming every day at Mass: “We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.” A billion strong religious people, we Catholics have influenced world history more than any nation or kingdom.
Today’s Gospel has done more to our proof of the Resurrection than any other , and paradoxically, it does it through the lack of faith of Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles, who very crudely said: “I’ll never believe the risen Jesus unless I see the mark of the nails on his hands and put my finger in the nail marks and my fist into His side.” The ancient followers of Christ were not all cynical, like Thomas, but also the ladies who went to the empty tomb with Peter and John, if they had faith in Jesus’ prophecy of the Resurrection, why go to check it out? It is instructive to know that only Mary, the Mother of Jesus, did not go to the tomb. She knew, she believed!
The Congregation for Divine Worship decreed (May 23, 2000) that “Throughout the world, the Second Sunday of Easter will receive the name Divine Mercy Sunday, a perennial invitation to the Chr istian wor ld to face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the difficulties and trials that human kind will experience in the years to come.” Today is Divine Mercy Sunday and St. Martha will livestream a Holy Hour from our Church at 2 p.m. Devotion to the Divine Mercy was promoted by St. Faustina Kowalska, canonized by Pope John Paul II on April 30, 2000. We truly need the mercy of God in these tragic days of the pandemic. May the good Lord shorten our suffering through St. Faustina’s intercession.
The most common prayer of Divine Mercy is the famous Divine Mercy Chaplet. Other novenas are: The Miraculous Medal, St. Jude Thaddeus, St. Vincent Pallotti, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
It is so incredible to me that some Christians still are so much afraid of God’s justice that they miss completely the crazy love of our merciful Jesus.
Our Diocese has traditionally celebrated Yom Hashoah on the third Sunday of Easter, but Bishop Dewane had to cancel this year such celebration,
commemorating the millions of Jews exterminated in the concentration camps in WWII. Please offer your prayers that God helps us build a climate of understanding and love with our ancestors in the faith. One question asked by a pupil in St. Martha School was brought to my attention, “If Jewish people followed Jesus, why do we still have Jews today?”
A sizable minority of Jesus’ co-religionaries followed Him because of His miracles. The Jewish majority, which was divided into several religious, regional and political groups, did not; most notably hostile to Jesus were the Sadducees for political reasons (for fear of provoking a ferocious and
violent backlash by the Romans), and the Pharisees, who could not accept Jesus’ claim of divinity. All these Jewish groups ceased to exist with the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 A.D. Mark, Luke and Matthew wrote their Gospels before or soon after the destruction of the Jewish Nation, preserving the historical flavor of Jesus’ times. A generation later, the final redaction of John’s Gospel was written by an eyewitness, but for a Gentile congregation not steeped in the teaching
of the Prophets of Jewish Scriptures, and just not cognizant nor interested in historical details, but considering only the remnant of old Israel: The Jews. The Jewishness of the first Christians was supplanted and eclipsed by the overwhelming Gentile converts and by the decisions of the Apostles to forgo circumcisions and Old Testament dietary laws. Besides John had by now reflected on Jesus’ teachings and expressed it in anti-ethical terms, like day-night, light-darkness, disciples-Jews.
Anti-Semitism then went from Pagan to the Christian world, and the antithesis Christian-Jews were brought to the most terrible consequences thru humiliation, killing and hatred of the remnant of Israel! The holocaust by the National Socialists (Nazis) in World War II was the culmination of countless years of persecution of our ancestors in the faith: more than half the people martyred in the Nazi extermination camps were Jews. On April 26, let us forge the bond of love and respect with our Jewish sisters and brothers so that the Holocaust will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN and that we, the followers of Jesus the Jew, will always be friends and bound to destroy anti-Semitism.
Wednesday, April 22, is Earth Day. Care of God’s creation is one of the basic principles of Catholic Social Doctrine. Observing Earth Day provides us an opportunity to highlight the importance we all play as proper stewards of God’s earth. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in his Message of the World Day of Peace (2007), wrote: Experience shows that the disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link.
Please don’t forget, every Sunday from Noon to 2 p.m. we will have distribution of Holy Communion at the gate behind the Church by the sacristy.
Smile, God loves you and so does Fr. Fausto with your St. Martha clergy:
Fathers Patrick, Jan, Chris, John, & Jerry Deacons Bill, Patrick & Robert
Operating Shortfall -$77,016.29 Needed to Reach Goal $260,313.69
2020 Catholic Faith Appeal as of 4-08-2020
Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED…
All regular scheduled Masses Religious Education and Youth activities
RCIA and Bible Study classes Parish Ministry meetings and social events
Services at Nursing Homes, Sarasota County Jail, and Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Parish Office is open
Monday through Friday from Noon to 4 p.m. The only gate open is by Church parking lot
Please call the Parish Office at 941-366-4210 before visiting.
We are monitoring the situation and posting updates: Website: www.stmartha.org
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We will all be spending more time at home and on the internet during this epidemic. Criminals may see this as a perfect time for email scams. Keep in mind these 7 ways to help avoid being taken advantage of: 1. Legit companies don’t request your sensitive
information via email 2. Legit companies usually call you by your name 3. Legit companies have domain emails 4. Legit companies know how to spell 5. Legit companies don’t force you to their website 6. Legit companies don’t send unsolicited attachments 7. Legit company links match legitimate URLs What to Do If You Receive a Phishing Attempt: Do not open it. In some cases, the act of opening the
phishing email may cause you to compromise the security of your Personally Identifiable Information
Delete it immediately to prevent yourself from accidentally opening the message in the future.
Do not download any attachments accompanying the message. Attachments may contain malware such as viruses, worms or spyware.
Never click links that appear in the message. Links embedded within phishing messages direct you to fraudulent websites.
Do not reply
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Faith, Family, and Financial Security
Your family is cordially invited to attend a virtual informational seminar sponsored by
your Knights of Columbus council. The seminar teaches “The Three Key Pieces of
Investing”, and how the Knights of Columbus has been helping families incorporate their Faith & Financial Security
for over 138 years.
Date: Wednesday May 13, 2020 Time: 6:30 PM
Location: On Line…Details will follow For reservations contact:
Pero si quieres dejar de beber el problema es nuestro. Alcoholicos Anonimos
941-355-3399 — www.aasrq.org
AN ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
We are committed to continuing the good work of St. Martha during this time of crisis. Our Parish is dependent upon
your weekly financial gifts to carry on its mission of brining the word of God to our community. Please consider using our online giving at
stmartha.weshareonline.org or mailing your offertory donations to
200 N. Orange Avenue, Sarasota, FL 34236.
Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your continued support of St. Martha Parish!
ST. MARTHA SCHOOL BIG CASH RAFFLE Please be advised that the annual Big Cash Raffle has been postponed until April 27th. In the event that we are not back in our school by that time, we will hold a virtual raffle that will be live streamed on our website, stmarthaschool.net At this time we are asking that you keep your raffle tickets at home, if you have not turned them in. We will ask you to return the tickets to our school when our school office personnel return. Information on how and when to begin sending raffle tickets to the school will be released next week.
We appreciate your patience at this time and your continued support for our school!
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Spiritual Adoption Program During this difficult time, please consider spiritually adopting an unborn baby. You can choose a name for your child and pray the simple prayer by Venerable Fulton J. Sheen each day through Christmas: “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much. I beg you to
spare the life of the unborn baby that I have spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion."
Visit https://dioceseofvenice.org/wp-content/uploads/SPIRITUALADOPTIONS-.pdf for monthly fetal
development information and Scriptures. For a prayer card in English, Spanish or Creole, contact
May the infinite mercy of our divine Savior reach all who are suffering from participation
in abortion, and transform them with His healing, hope and peace.
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Prayer Against Coronavirus Lord Jesus Christ, our Divine physician, we
ask you to guard and protect us from Coronavirus COVID-19 and all serious
illness. For all that have died from it, have mercy; for those that are ill now, bring
healing. For those searching for a remedy, enlighten them; for medical caregivers
helping the sick, strengthen and shield them. For those working to contain the spread, grant them success; for the afraid, grant peace. May your precious blood be our
defense and salvation. By your grace, may you turn the evil of disease into moments of consolation and hope. May we always fear the contagion of sin more than any illness.
We abandon ourselves to you infinite. Amen
Do you own appreciated stock?
Did you know that you can avoid paying the capital gains tax associated with the selling of stock by transferring it to St. Martha (if you have held it at least one year)? Each year, St. Martha receives stock transfers ranging from $500 to over $25,000. For some, alleviating capital gains tax associated with selling stock has allowed them to be able to give very generously. Transferring stock to St. Martha is a simple process and usually can be completed over the phone or via email. Please contact Teressa McCoy in the Parish Office at 941-366-4210 or at [email protected] and we can provide you with details and instructions.
Thank you for your support of St. Martha Parish.
Our parishioners are our only source of funds and your contributions keep the lights on, enable parish ministries,
and support our outreach to the poor.
Civilize It: Dignity Beyond the Debate
As Catholics, we have a long tradition of engagement in the political process
as a means of putting our faith into action. We are called to bring the best of ourselves and our faith to the public square - and yet today, many shy away from such involvement because our national and local conversations are filled with vitriol and harsh language. We must bear witness to a better way. You are invited to join the Civilize It! campaign launched by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), to promote civility, model love for neighbor, and build community. Visit https://dioceseofvenice.org/offices/other/2020-election-resources-english-and-spanish to take the pledge, and to read the Election and Political Activities Guide released by the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Our Sympathy is extended to the families of all those who have recently passed. We pray for you and your loved ones,
especially for:
Tom Sheehan Rosemary Stanko Michael Tokars
Kenneth Colglazier Elizabeth Fett Grace Mould
Delores Lillvis Lucille Preston Ben DeAngles
The St. Joseph Parish Food Pantry 704 33rd Ave. W., Bradenton
Open and distributing food Tuesday - Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon
Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Following all social distancing protocols - cars will be directed through the parking lot and trunks will be loaded
by volunteers in protective gloves and masks. Call 941-756-3732 if you have any questions. You do not
need to be a regular client to receive food.
OUTREACH MINISTRIES Altar Servers Dn. Bob Gaitens 941-350-2634
Altar Society Janet Cocco 941-366-4210
Archivist 941-366-4210
Arimathean Ministry Geri Roberts 941-600-8479
Bethesda House Colleen McMenamin 941-366-1886
Catholic Charities Joan Pierse 941-355-4680
Community Pregnancy Clinics 239-262-6381
Casa Santa Marta Paula Jaramillo 941-366-4448
Choir/Cantor Virginia Bray 941-366-4210
Council of Catholic Women Marcia Stokes 334-648-4328
