Holy Martyrs Catholic Church 3100 OLD WEYMOUTH RD MEDINA, OH 44256

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord April 21, 2019

Father Stephen Dohner

Pastor

Father Mark Ott

Weekend Associate

Father Robert F. Pfeiffer

Pastor Emeritus

Janet Payton

Pastoral Associate

Diane Bruce

Director of Faith Formation

Christopher Ilg

Director of Music

Sr. Marie Ellen Kuhel

Bereavement Coordinator

Skip McQuate

SPIRIT Coordinator

Michael Cox

Life Teen Coordinator

Parish Staff

Holy Martyrs Catholic Church Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord —April 21, 2019

Mass Schedule & Intentions this Week

Sat 8:30 pm Journey Candidates

EASTER SUNDAY

7:30 am Rhea Lesti

9:30 am Parishioners

11:30 am Joan Menillo

(Mike Menillo)

Mon 8:00 am NO MASS

Tues 6:30 pm Rosary for Peace

7:00 pm Donald Johnson

(Laura Hollamon)

Wed 8:00 am Beatrice Rogers

(Pat O’Sullivan)

Thurs 7:00 pm Kitty Brian

(Lois & Bernie Dick)

Fri 8:00 am Ross Fazio

(Paul and Brenda Darkovich)

Sat 5:30 pm Christopher Danes

(Paula Spolarich)

Sun 7:30 am Albert Hood

(Hood Family)

9:30 am Donna Spears

(Mueller, Boyle, Thomas

Families)

11:30 am Parishioners

This week at Holy Martyrs

Sun 4/21 EASTER SUNDAY

Time Travelers 9:30 AM Room 203

No Life Teen or SPIRIT

Mon 4/22 NO Monday HM Kids

Tue 4/23 Glory Bees - Week 3 9:00 AM Worship Space

Little Rock Scripture Study 1:00 PM Room 103

NO Tuesday HM Kids

HM Discipleship

Committee Meeting 7:30 PM Pfeiffer Hall A

Wed 4/24 Prayer Shawl Group 1:00 PM Room 103

SPIRIT Prayer Group 4:00 PM Chapel

Intercessory Prayer Group 5:30 PM Chapel

Choir Rehearsal 7:15 PM Worship Space

Thurs 4/25 First Holy Communion

Practice 6:00 PM Worship Space

Communications Committee 7:30 PM Room 102

MOA FOOD & DONATION WEEKEND

Sat 4/27 Contemplative Prayer 9:30 AM Kazel Room

First Holy Communion 1:00 PM Worship Space

Sun 4/28 Time Travelers 9:30 AM Room 203

Youth Mass 5:00 PM Worship Space

SPIRIT (7th & 8th Grades) 6:00 PM Pfeiffer Hall

Life Teen 6:00 PM Gathering Area

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Parish News

Daily scripture readings for this week can be obtained

on the USCCB website, where you can sign up to have

readings emailed to you.

You can also download one of these apps on your

phone: Laudate or The New Missal

Church Office hours: Monday - Friday:

9:00 am - 12:30 pm, 1:15 pm - 5:30 pm

330-722-6633

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

CONNECT: Small group experience

Connect with others. Connect with Christ. Connect Christ with all the parts of your life.

The goal of “Connect - Small Groups” is to create insightful, relevant content that can be put to use in your

personal faith journey. If you are a practicing Catholic — or aspire to be — then you are encouraged to join

one of our Small Groups. You’ll have more confidence in your faith so you can feel more comfortable and

more comfortably share that faith with others.

Offerings for the final session of the 2018-2019 Small Groups experience are being prepared. Several

groups will continue with the popular lectio divina of the upcoming Sunday’s Gospel reading. Don’t let the

Latin scare you away from learning to do it yourself. Each of the steps in lectio divina forms a process by

which we encounter God in his sacred word and respond to his grace. Also returning is the Beloved

program for married couples. This study is for every married couple, whether your marriage is great, good,

not so good, old or new or somewhere in between. This is a repeat of the popular Beloved program first

offered in the January session. Part two of the Beloved will be offered in the Fall session.

Two groups invite young children to attend for playtime. One group will continue looking at the lives of

saints and how those saints can encourage us today in the trials we face. The second group will be reading

and reflecting on Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart by Father

Jacques Philippe - What must we do to overcome the moments of fear and distress which beset us and how

can we learn to place all our confidence in God and abandon ourselves into his loving care? Another group

will resume their reflection upon Living the Integrated Christian Life by delving into Catholic social teaching

and a survey of the common prayers we’ve used since we first learned to pray.

“Connect - Small Groups” offer extraordinary opportunities to explore spirituality, and in small communities

within our larger community, offer opportunities to listen to and encourage one another. The atmosphere is

prayerful, respectful and confidential. Please consider joining a Small Group this session. The session will

be under way the week of April 28. Register at the Welcome Center or register online for a Small Group that

will nurture your faith. Paper registrations are available at the Welcome Center in the Gathering area or use

the following QR code with your phone to open the online registration:

There is a promise of marriage between:

II Wedding Announcement:

Robert Gentry and Emily Giesen

Glasses found

If you lost a pair of glasses recently in the parking

lot, please visit the Welcome Center to see if the

pair we found is yours.

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”

― G. K. Chesterton

Parish News

Holy Martyrs Church April 21, 2019

Medina, Ohio

Here’s what’s up for the next two weeks:

Sunday, 4/21

No Life Teen Mass

No Life Night

Sunday, 4/28

Life Teen Mass 5:00 p.m.

Life Night 6:00-7:45 p.m.

SPIRIT

The SPIRIT students will meet on Sunday, April

28. Our conversation will be about strengthening

our relationship with God through Reconciliation.

Looking forward to seeing our SPIRIT students

after a two-week break.

Holy Martyrs SPIRIT is on Facebook and Snapchat

under hmcSPIRIT.

Save the Date

“Fore” the Kids Golf Outing

June 8, 2019

Shale Creek Golf Course

Sign up at hmforethekids.com to play in

or sponsor the event

Sixth Graders: Get a Sneak Peek at SPIRIT!

All current sixth graders, whether enrolled in HMKids

or not, are invited to check out SPIRIT at 6:00 p.m.

on Sunday, April 28. This will give them a chance to

see what SPIRIT is like.

Sixth graders are also welcome and encouraged to

attend the 5:00 p.m. Youth Mass before SPIRIT

that night. Parents are invited to Mass, too.

There will be an orientation in the fall for parents of

incoming seventh graders.

Welcome to our church!

Do you find yourself drawn back to

church at Easter, wondering if there is

more to life?

Are you asking questions about life you

don’t know the answers to?

Are your children asking questions

about faith that you find difficult

to answer?

If so, we may be able to point you in the

right direction. Just send an email to Janet

at jpayton@holymartyrs.net or Diane at

dbruce@holymartyrs.net and we’ll be happy

to start a conversation.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING TIME,

TALENT, TREASURE

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

Grateful Giving Holy Martyrs Parish

March 30 & 31

Weekly Offering $9,912.00

Electronic Donations $6,632.00

Total $16,544.00

Thank you!

Catholic Home Missions Collection

Next week, we will take up the Catholic Home

Missions Appeal. Right now, more than 40 percent

of dioceses in the United States are considered

mission territory because they are unable to fund

essential pastoral work in their communities. Your

support of this appeal eases the struggle of these

dioceses. Please prayerfully consider how you can

support this appeal. Find more information at

www.usccb.org/home-missions.

Parishioners Invited to Pentecost Play

We invite parishioners to attend our fourth

graders’ presentation of the Pentecost play on

April 29 and 30 at 6:45 p.m. each night. Our

fourth graders will set your hearts on fire and

send you out to evangelize. Please join us. It’ll

only cost you your time and your support will

mean a lot to our students.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful

and kindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth

your Spirit and we shall be created, and You shall

renew the face of the earth.

Amen.

A MESSAGE FROM BISHOP PEREZ

Beginning next Sunday, all parishes will be

adopting the posture during the Communion Rite

at Mass that reflects the teaching in the General

Instruction of the Roman Missal (2003).

We are to remain standing after the Lamb of God

and throughout the singing of the Communion

hymn, until the end of the distribution of Holy

Communion.

Once the last person has received Holy

Communion and the Communion hymn ends,

we should sit (or kneel) for a period of

private prayer.

HMKids HQ - 330-952-1466

Holy Martyrs Church April 21, 2019

Medina, Ohio

Putters and Helpers Needed

Children will have a chance to try for a hole in one

while helping students in El Salvador. After Masses on

May 11 and 12, kids can try their hand at putting for

25 cents a ball. A hole in one wins $50!

Proceeds will go toward the “Fore” the Kids Golf

Outing, which raises money for scholarships for

students in El Salvador.

There will be four separate areas for age groups

ranging from toddlers to age 14, and we’re looking for

16 eighth graders per Mass to help with the putting

games after each Mass. Eighth graders will receive an

email with a signup for this event.

First Grade Orientation Dinner

Children who will be in first grade this fall are invited

to an orientation dinner on May 7 at 6 p.m. in the

Gathering Area. This fun evening will introduce

parents to HMKids and preparing for

First Communion. If you haven’t signed up yet,

please call HMKids HQ at the number above.

May Crowning Coming Up

Students in grades 1-6 should be receiving a signup

to be prayer leaders for the May Crowning on May 6.

Second graders will lead the procession to the

Pavilion, weather permitting.

A Note to Our Prayer Partners

With the many distractions in young families’

lives, we ask our Prayer Partners to pray that

First Communicants’ families may keep their

focus on this important spiritual milestone

coming up. Second graders will celebrate Jesus

Day on April 8 and 9. We pray that they will use

the nine-day novena they were given for the days

leading up to their First Communion this month.

We Celebrate

This week, the young people of the parish who are

preparing for Eucharist reflected on Jesus’ presence

with us in the Eucharist. Through our sharing the

one bread and one cup we are made one with Jesus

and one with his Body, the Church. How are we as a

parish living as peacemakers to show that Jesus is

with us?

Throughout the Diocese

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

Help for victims of domestic abuse

Victims of domestic abuse may call the BATTERED

WOMEN’S SHELTER of Summit & Medina Counties’

confidential hotline for help 24 hours a day,

7 days a week.

Medina County Hotline 330-723-3900

Toll Free 877-414-1344

Summit County Hotline 330-374-1111

Toll Free 888-395-4357

For substance abuse resources, go to

www.greaterthanheroin.com.

Spiritual Opportunities

Jesuit Retreat Center (www.jrh-cleveland.org)

Ignatian Currents

6:30 p.m. May 3 to 4:30 p.m. May 4

Marriage Resources

www.helpourmarriage.org

www.foryourmarriage.org

The FEST Is Back August 4

Mark your summer calendar for Sunday, August 4

when The FEST returns for its 19th year. This

Catholic Family FESTival in Wickliffe will include

national Christian artists: Casting Crowns, Tenth

Avenue North, Matt Maher, and Jordan Feliz. The

FEST also has activities for the entire family and

concludes with an outdoor Mass with Bishop Nelson

Perez. For more information, go online to:

www.theFEST.us.

Signups Starting For St. Vincent-St. Mary High

School Summer Camps

Opportunities this summer include camps for:

art, band, drama, study skills, ACT prep,

baseball, football, boys' soccer, girls' soccer,

girls' lacrosse, wrestling, volleyball (co-ed), cheer

(co-ed), tennis (co-ed), gymnastics, boys'

basketball and girls' basketball.

For more information, go to

https://www.stvm.com/summercamps