We are a welcoming Catholic community called together by Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit to live and share the love of God in our parish and in our daily lives. St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church 164 West Market Street ● Akron, OH 44303-2373 www.stvincentchurch.com Where is your sting, O death? Where is your victory, O hell? Christ has risen, and you are overthrown. Christ has risen, and the demons have fallen. Christ has risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ has risen, and life reigns. Christ has risen, and not one dead rests in the grave. For Christ having risen from the dead became the first-fruits of them that slept. To him be glory and majesty to ages of ages. Amen. - Byzantine Pentekostarion EASTER SUNDAY April 12, 2020 CHRIST HAS RISEN
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We are a welcoming Catholic community called together by Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit to live and share the love of God in our parish and in our daily lives.
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church
164 West Market Street ● Akron, OH 44303-2373 www.stvincentchurch.com
Where is your sting, O death? Where is your victory, O hell?
Christ has risen, and you are overthrown.
Christ has risen, and the demons have fallen. Christ has risen, and the angels rejoice.
Christ has risen, and life reigns.
Christ has risen, and not one dead rests in the grave.
For Christ having risen from the dead became the first-fruits of them that slept.
To him be glory and majesty to ages of ages. Amen.
- Byzantine Pentekostarion
EASTER SUNDAY April 12, 2020
CHRIST HAS RISEN
Rev. Norman K. Douglas, Pastor [email protected] Rev. Joseph H. Kraker, Pastor Emeritus Rev. David Halaiko, In Residence Deacon Bob Bender, Pastoral Minister, Ext 251 [email protected] Connie Pacanovsky, Business Manager, Ext 102 [email protected] Peggy Wellemeyer, Office Manager, Ext 100 [email protected] Ellen Dies, Coordinator of Parish Faith Formation, Ext 101 [email protected] Nancy Daley, Music Director, Ext 103 [email protected]
Marimargaret Roberts, Office Staff, Ext 102 [email protected] Josh Lines, Marketing & Communications Coord., Ext. 201 [email protected] Mike Bauman, Director of Maintenance, 330-705-3370 [email protected]
Via E-mail to [email protected] by NOON FRIDAYS 9 days prior to the date of bulle-
tin, unless early bulletin deadlines are otherwise noted in the bulletin.
ALL submissions/fliers MUST BE SUBMITTED IN WORD FORMATTING.
Parish Registration: If you live within the parish boundaries and are 18 years old or older, please register at the parish office. ALL PARISHIONERS: please keep the office updated with any change(s) in your contact information. Baptisms: Please call the rectory to schedule baptisms. Marriages: Couples intending to marry should call the rectory at least SIX MONTHS prior to the marriage. Weddings are scheduled for Saturdays at 2 p.m. Parish School of Religion (PSR) Pre-School - Grade 8: September through May in St. Vincent Grade School - Sundays 9:45 - 10:45 a.m. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (Becoming Catholic): Presentations begin in September. For information, call 330-535-3135
Hospital/Sick/Shut-in Visitation: Please notify the Rectory when a parishioner is hospitalized, shut-in, or ill.
Funerals: Please notify a Priest as soon as possible regarding arrangements, either personally or through the funeral director.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL THE OFFICE.
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For the health and safety of Altar Society Members, and in complying with our government and medical leaders, we must cancel the following:
April 20th Meeting May Breakfast
Our prayers are with you all. If we can help anyone, please let us know.
PARISHIONERS: THANK YOU!
Thank you for generously responding to the Auxiliary’s Bakeless Bake Sale request this year! We anticipate that people’s need for food will increase this year so rest assured that your donations will be wisely used and also very much appreciated.
Update: The Auxiliary suspended weekly packing/delivery and suspended the Easter food giveaway because of health concerns regarding the pandemic. We will resume when personal safety is no longer an issue. We will, however, help monetarily the men’s SVDP Society who offer holiday grocery gift cards to families requesting our help. In the meantime, save up canned and packaged food to help the parish carry on the tradition of providing to our neighbors in need!
God Bless you all! St. Vincent de Paul Auxiliary
Having renewed my commitment to the Lord and filled with joy in his victory over death, how can I bear fruit in the world? How can I come to a deeper and firmer belief? How can I guide others in their faith?
On behalf of Fr. Norm, Fr. Dave, and the parish staff, we wish you
all a most Blessed Easter and Easter season!
The office will be closed Easter Monday, April 13.
It sounds uncomfortable and awkward to say to people this year – "Happy Easter." Maybe we can get a helpful and hopeful insight from our Scripture, especially the New
Testament. Some modern translations will use the word "Happy." In the Beatitudes, translated from the original Greek, the word used throughout is "Blessed are…" Jesus on the day he was crucified would not have spoken of himself as "happy." However, he knew he was deeply blessed. Through all the moments of anguish, sadness, suffering, and feeling of abandonment he trusted he was Blessed. He was prayerfully aware that his Heavenly Father very deeply loved him, and was with him through it all. He trusted in faith that such a horrible death was not his ultimate destination. He deeply believed that he would be raised up by his Heavenly Father and return to his disciples to show us, for all time, that through God's love, death has been overcome. We are called to
believe, even in these devastating times, that as we focus on suffering and death we also focus on the goodness of our Creator God who gave us the capacity to love, even when love is demanding and hurts. Many people right now are offering their lives to provide healing and hope. Understandably when someone dies, there is deep sadness and grief. For those in the healing ministry they may feel they have failed. We need to remember that many saw Jesus’ death as failure. Through eyes of faith and hearts of love believers in every century, who have gone through all kinds of unimaginable sufferings, have dared to believe that as Scripture says, "Nothing can separate us, not even death, from the love of Jesus Christ." And Scripture also says to us that in, with, and through Christ nothing can ever ultimately separate us from one another. May you have a "Blessed Easter." And may you wish others a "Blessed Easter" through phone calls, handwritten letters, and, as backup, emails and texts. And although you may be keeping six feet apart from your loved ones, may you be closer than ever before in heart and soul!
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"I know well that the greater and
more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms
that rage against it."
— St. Faustina
THE EASTER OCTAVE
Sunday, April 12 - Sunday, April 19
Eastertime lasts fifty days: seven weeks of seven days (seven equals Biblical perfection) plus one day: perfection plus! Like an eight-day Jewish wedding, or a child who can’t bear to let go of Christmas, birthdays, and school vacation, the Church celebrates the Easter Octave: “the marriage
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PLEASE PRAY FOR
OUR CONFIRMANDI
The following Confirmandi ask that you continue to pray for them as they make their final preparations for their Confirmation on a date to be determined.
Ruth Adams-Gemmell Annie Bame
Samuel Calhoun Connor Christie Mackenzie Daley Georgia Deitrick Marcel Ferrer
Keagan Gilbride Kimoni Hall
Raymond Jindra Joseph Kitska
Alli Lanham Joseph Lattarulo Sophia Lattarulo
Fiona Ruane Samantha Schafer
Avery Schwerdtfeger Hannah Shelly
Michael Shumaker Bode Stauffer
Arianna Tatangelo, Abigail Zarembka
IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING….
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had questions from parishioners about how much it costs to run the parish each week. With so many aspects of our parish impacting expenses from year to year and week to week, it is easier to answer the underlying question of “How much money do we depend on coming from the Offertory to run the parish each week?”
Simply put, we budgeted to receive $10,000 per week in our Offertory Collection. If we assume that those funds strictly support the church and rectory operations (thereby excluding the school), then your Offertory donations support the celebration of Mass, the work of the Commissions, PSR, salaries & benefits of the rectory staff, utilities & maintenance of the church & rectory, parish insurance, diocesan assessments (which is a percentage of every Offertory donation), and property taxes, among other smaller expenses.
Through March 29, 2020 (for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019), the Offertory receipts were approximately $30,000 under budget. Please note that the budget calls for $20,000 in the Easter collection. Given that we do not yet know when we will be celebrating Mass together again, we expect this deficit to grow. Therefore, we are asking you to prayerfully consider how you might continue to support the parish during this period.
While Mass attendance has been suspended, please consider one of the following methods to continue your Offertory donations:
Sign up for electronic giving. This is accessed from the “Give” button on the lower right side of our Web site Home page (www.StVincentChurch.com).
Please note that the most cost effective way to use this service is to choose to give by bank draft (directly from your checking or savings account). The fees to the parish are much lower this way than if you use a credit card.
Mail your offering to the parish office at 164 W. Market Street, Akron, OH 44303.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Connie Pacanovsky, our parish Business Manager, at (330) 535-3135 ext. 102 or at [email protected].
PRAY FOR THOSE
PREPARING FOR THE
EASTER SACRAMENTS AND
FULL COMMUNION
We ask for your continuing support and prayers for those preparing for the Easter sacraments:
Brendon Sean Boxler and Jennifer Nicole Zgonc
And for those seeking full communion in the Catholic Church:
Caleb John Christopher Benjamin Phillip DeAlexandro
Daniel Hayes Mackenzie Schwarber
Christopher Scott Workman
that they may find in their faith the strength to turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.
The JRC staff would like to extend our care and prayers for you and your parishioners in this time of unprecedented challenges for our community and our world. We are all trying to find our way as we temporarily shift even our most basic daily routines amidst social distancing. We hope that we can bring you some peace and hope to help ease your minds and hearts. All JRC programs and retreats in April have either been postponed or canceled, but we encourage you to look ahead with hope to future retreat and program offerings:
https://www.jesuitretreatcenter.org/calendar. You can also stay informed about any program postponements or cancelations on our website: https://www.jesuitretreatcenter.org/about/news/2020/03/14/postponed-or-canceled-events.
TOP 5 FIRST FRIDAY CLUB OF AKRON
PODCAST LIST FOR
FAITH, HOPE, FAMILY & PERSEVERANCE
DURING DIFFICULT TIMES!
Since the April 3, 2020 First Friday Club of Greater Akron has been CANCELED, we thought it would be nice to highlight some of our podcasts to get us through these times. In these challenging times we thought that you might like to have a small list of our former speakers which you may find inspirational. This list can be found on the home page of our website listed below.
MAY 2019 - Mark and Christie Tripodi
Grieving, from Pain to Purpose: How the pain of grieving can transform our life into a life of purpose
JUNE 2015 - Susan McGurgan, DMin,, Director, Lay Pastoral Ministry Program, Professor of
Homiletics, The Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, OH Fostering Hope When the World Feels Hopeless
APRIL 2015 - Fr. George Smiga, S.T.D., Professor of Sacred Scripture, St. Mary Seminary and Graduate
School of Theology, Wickliffe OH Families of the Bible and Our Own Families: Finding God
in the Irregularities of Life
JANUARY 2014 - The Hon. Linda Tucci Teodosio, Judge for the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division
Keeping Faith Throughout the Trials of Life
JUNE 2018 - Fr. Nathan Castle, OP, Wizard of Oz as a Spiritual Adventure
For additional information, call 330-535-7668 or visit www.firstfridayclubofgreaterakron.org.
FOOD, FELLOWSHIP
and FAITH FOR ADULTS
Join us on Monday, April 20th at 7:00 p.m., as we live stream our Guest speaker Fr. Matthew
Pfeiffer, Pastor, St. Paul Parish, Akron who will present a talk entitled “Beyond the Veil: An
Approach to Praying the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite”.
Log on to view at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0FM4PBnZG--2iVayQrFQ9w
********************************* Jesus told St. Faustina that this Feast of Mercy would be a special day when “all the divine floodgates though which graces flow are opened.” He also said, “I desire the Feast of Mercy to be a refuge and shelter for all souls, especially poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open.” Our dearly beloved St. Pope John Paul II wrote his last and final statement, from his deathbed, on Divine Mercy. In it, he expressed to the world the importance to understand and accept the urgent message of Our Lord’s Divine Mercy.
********************************* Our Lord said to St. Faustina: “Encourage souls to say the Chaplet, which I have given you. Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the time of death….When they say this chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as a just Judge but as the Merciful Savior. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet only once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy. I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy….Through the Chaplet you will obtain everything, if what you ask for is compatible with My will.”
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APRIL 19, 2020 - The Second Sunday of Easter
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church Due to the Coronavirus outbreak and mandates of social distancing, we are unable to gather for our planned Divine Mercy Sunday service. Please pray the Chaplet in your homes at 3 p.m. on Divine Mercy Sunday. Please continue to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet daily and especially during this crisis for the health and safety of us all. We pray for a swift end to the spread of COVID-19.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy 1. Begin with the Sign of the Cross,
1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, and The Apostles Creed
2. Then on the Our Father beads say the following:
Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
3. On the 10 Hail Mary beads say the following:
For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.
Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.
St. Pope John Paul II also instituted a plenary indulgence for Divine Mercy, in which one can make a good confession (within 20 days before or after), receive Holy Communion worthily on Divine Mercy Sunday (or the Vigil celebration), pray for the intentions of the Pope, and recite the chaplet at a Divine Mercy Sunday prayer service.
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy can be said any time, but it is most effective if said during the 3pm hour to recall the hour of Jesus’ death on the cross. Jesus promised, “By this novena I will grant every possible grace to souls.” We ask that you begin to pray this daily. It is also traditionally recited as a novena, starting Good Friday, April 10, during the nine days before the Feast of Mercy, concluding on Saturday, April 18 of this year.
HAPPY EASTER! ENJOY THIS GLORIOUS DAY! Our students continue to work hard on their studies. Congratulations to our March students of the month! We are proud of you!
It is time to register for preschool! Our wonderful preschool requires children to be four years old by September 30, 2020. Our Preschool program is a rigorous academic learning environment which focuses on phonics, science, math, engineering, and technology. Our program prepares students for Kindergarten success! Please contact the school at 330-762-5912.
We appreciate the families that have completed their registration information for the 2020-2021 school year. If you have not already done so, please mail in the education fee. It is past due. Thank you.
Have a safe, healthy, and fun-filled Easter break!
Peace and blessings,
Mrs. Salamon
UPDATE: April 12,
2020
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Keeping Christ in Our Mind, Body, and Heart
April 13 – 17 – Easter Break, No School
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE
Preschool Paul Htoo Kindergarten Emma Gursky 1st Grade Liam Tripp 2nd Grade Keilan Cherry 3rd Grade Dante DiOrio
4th Grade Addison Davis 5th Grade Zoey Meeks 6th Grade Nick Zarembka 7th Grade Supriya O’Neil 8th Grade Annie Bame
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