OUR LADY MT. CARMEL MARCH 5, 2017 · FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Readings for the Week of March 5, 2017

Sunday: Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7/Ps 51:3-6, 12-13, 17/Rom

5:12-19 or 5:12, 17-19/Mt 4:1-11

Monday: Lv 19:1-2, 11-18/Ps 19:8-10, 15/Mt 25:31-46

Tuesday: Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs

Is 55:10-11/Ps 34:4-7, 16-19/Mt 6:7-15

Wednesday: St. John of God, Religious

Jon 3:1-10/Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19/Lk 11:29-

32

Thursday: St. Frances of Rome, Religious

Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25/Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8/Mt

7:7-12

Friday: Day of Abstinence

Ez 18:21-28/Ps 130:1-8/Mt 5:20-26

Saturday: Dt 26:16-19/Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8/Mt 5:43-48

Next Sunday: Gn 12:1-4a/Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22/2 Tm 1:8b-

10/Mt 17:1-9

Next Sunday: 2nd Sunday of Lent;

Daylight Saving Time begins

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Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish · Kenosha, WI

PARISH SUPPORT Figures for the weekend of February 26,

2017, not available at time of publication.

Welcome him into eternal life…

Father Campbell, Father McDermott, and the Parish com-

munity of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel wish to extend our

deepest sympathy to the family of Paolino Scozzaro.

O, Lord, comfort them in their time of sorrow and grief.

Eternal rest grant unto him, and let perpetual light shine

upon him.

May he rest in the peace of Christ.

This Week in our Parish

Sat. Mar. 4 FIRST SATURDAY

Padre Pio Prayer Group 8:30 am

Latin Mass Choir Practice 9:30 am

Sun. Mar. 5 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

Religious Education Classes

K-6 11:00—11:50am

7 thru 11 Mt. Carmel 6:30pm—8:00pm

Mon. Mar. 6

Tues. Mar. 7 Eucharistic Adoration 12:00 to 5:30 pm

Choir Practice 6:45 pm

Weds. Mar. 8 Men’s Bible Study-Fr. Campbell 6:00 am

Thurs. Mar. 9

Fri. Mar. 10 STATIONS OF THE CROSS 5:30 pm

Sat. Mar. 11 Latin Mass Choir Practice 9:30 am

Sun. Mar. 12 Religious Education Classes

K-6 11:00—11:55am

7 thru 11 Mt. Carmel 6:30pm—8:00pm

Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent

at 5:30 pm except Good Friday .

Religious Education

A reminder that we have a 3-year program for high school students who

want to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. Any adults not con-

firmed, please contact Fr. Campbell.

Preschool News

Fr. Campbell's Wed. 6am Men's Bible Study Next session on Wed. Mar. 8, Mount Carmel School. Enter through

door facing west/Columbus Park. Bring a Bible—we read/discuss the

upcoming Sunday readings. Be a man—get up early & come to the class!

Strong coffee is served!

Scholarships Available! The Mt Carmel Ladies Society and

Holy Name Society are offering scholarships. Qualifications to

apply for a scholarship are the individual must be a high school

graduating senior who attends Mass at Mt Carmel every Sunday

(or Saturday evening), is going onto higher education (can be a

two or four year school) and at least one parent has been a regis-

tered parish member at Mt Carmel for two years. Scholarship

applications are available by emailing an application request to

parishoffice@olmckenosha.org or can be picked up at the church

office Monday through Thursday from 10am until 1pm.

Completed applications are due on Sunday, April 16. They can

be dropped off at the church office during normal business hours

or emailed to parishoffice@olmckenosha.org by April 16.

Scholarships will be presented to the recipients at the 10am Mass

on Sunday, May 21. Please contact the church office during nor-

mal business hours with questions.

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS

MARCH 12, 2017

SPRING FORWARD

Festival Meeting 70TH ANNIVERSARY MT. CARMEL FESTIVAL

2017 Festival dates are July 14-15-16 Saturday, March 18th at 9:30AM we will have a Festival meet-

ing. The Booth Captains or a representative of each booth is

asked to attend. Any and all are welcome to attend. The meeting

will be in the school conference room. Please enter the West

Doors facing Columbus Park. Any questions email me at:

tar1603@hotmail.com, or call me at 262-595-0525. Thank you.

Tom Rizzo Festival Chairman

STATIONS OF THE CROSS DURING LENT - Fridays 5:30 pm at Mt. Carmel

- Wednesdays after 5:45 pm Mass at St. Therese

March 5, 2017 · First Sunday of Lent

Have a Happy Lent! by Sr. Mary Joseph, A.M.I.

Can anyone really have a happy Lent? Should anyone have a happy Lent?

Isn’t Lent a somber time of prayer, fasting, mortification and reflection on the sufferings of Our Lord? Yes, certainly,

Lent is all of that and more. It is that part of the liturgical year which calls us into the desert with Jesus. There we are to pray

and fast with Him. We are to lament our sins and the sins of the world which brought Him to his bitter Passion and Death on

the cross. Lent is a time for us to look more closely at ourselves in the light of the Gospel message, to take stock of our lives

to see how we measure up to Christ’s standards as He gave them to us in the Beatitudes.

Year after year, down through the centuries, the Catholic Church has solemnly ushered in the season of Lent and has

called her children to a period of prayer and penance as a preparation for the glorious feast of Easter. And those who entered

into this season with serious intent and persevered faithfully in the penitential spirit and practice of Lent found themselves

inundated with a spirit of joy and exultation on Easter morning such as the world could never give.

True happiness can be ours especially during the Lenten season because Jesus is always the source of that happiness and

we are never closer to Him than when we willingly practice mortification and self-denial out of love for Him. Suffering of

any kind, when accepted for love of God, brings us the greatest peace, contentment and true happiness this side of heaven. It

purifies us, atones for sins, helps us to die to self-love, earns us great merit and an increase of sanctifying grace! You have to

be happy about that!

The saints were masters of the art of mortification and self-denial. They sincerely valued suffering as their greatest

treasure and God’s most precious gift to them. They were the happiest people on earth. Through their prayers and penance,

good works and example, they brought countless souls to heaven.

That is why Our Lady of Fatima called us to prayer and sacrifice for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of souls.

Our Lady told the children that so many souls go to hell because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. And

she showed those three little children a vision of hell which they could never forget. This spurred them on to make heroic

sacrifices for souls.

Our Hesitation We who have never had a vision of hell find it difficult to live a life of sustained penance and reparation

even though we believe that many souls are falling into hell like leaves from the trees on an autumn day. We see sin in the

world around us, unlike anything before in the history of mankind. Unprecedented evil surrounds us and increases. We have

every reason to do penance, yet we hesitate and draw back at the prospect.

The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak and we do have a common enemy who plays upon this weakness and cleverly

tries to dissuade us from carrying out our good resolutions in this regard. We have often tried and failed because we do not

love God and neighbor enough. And yet, it is prayer and penance that will make this love grow by leaps and bounds.

At Fatima, Our Lady told the children that the most important sacrifice God asks of us is the difficulty we experience in

keeping the Commandments and in the faithful performance of the duties of our state in life. If we carefully review the Ten

Commandments we may be surprised to find we are offending God in ways we had not considered.

We are living in a world that has become very materialistic, humanistic and atheistic. We are bombarded on every side

by an anti-God, anti-religious culture. This atmosphere has been especially fostered by the media. (What a great idea it

would be to turn off the television for Lent!) Too many Catholics have let themselves be brainwashed and follow sheep-like

the norms of a godless and criminal society. Society is murdering, abusing and corrupting the innocent!

We must also take careful stock of the duties of our state in life. We all have certain inescapable duties which God ex-

pects us to fulfill. These duties usually demand sacrifices from us. God asks us to fulfill these duties faithfully and to offer

this sacrifice to Him for the love we bear Him, in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary

and for the conversion of sinners and the salvation of souls. We should also offer other sacrifices that present themselves to

us for the same intentions.

Take a Deep Breath. Let us then take a deep breath and ask Jesus and Mary to give us a true spirit of sacrifice and the

willingness to make reparation for our sins and the sins of others. Let us resolve to enter into the spirit of Lent right now, to

pray the Rosary every day and other prayers such as the Diving Mercy chaplet, to go to Mass and Holy Communion as often

as possible, to plan and carry out a program of sacrifices which are truly within our capability. If we do this,, we can surely

look forward to a truly happy Lent and a glorious Easter morning.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish · Kenosha

March 4 and 5, 2017

1st Sunday of Lent 4:00 Dummer Family (family) Domenick D. Ventura (sister Frances) 7:00 Florence & Charles Chiappetta (family) 10:00 Living & Deceased Members—Carol, Mike, & Rose Cairo & Cristiano Families (family) 12:00 OLMC Parishioners Monday, Mar. 6 7:15 Leonard Kotowski, Sr (Ed Kobicki)

Tuesday, Mar. 7 5:45 Valentine Zapencki (family) Wednesday, Mar. 8 7:15 Priest’s Intention Thursday, Mar. 9 7:15 Living & Deceased Members—Gust & Lotocha Families (Rich & Arlene Gust) Friday, Mar. 10 7:15 Priest’s Intention Saturday, Mar. 11 8:30 Priest’s Intention 4:00 Ray Kintis (wife Marji) Next Sunday, Mar. 12 7:00 Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parishioners 10:00 Juan Pablo Lopez (Lopez family) 12:00 Anthony Porcaro (Patricia Leonhardt)

MASS SERVERS

March 11 and 12, 2015

Altar Servers

4:00 Andrew & Christopher Doan 10:00 James Bender, Robbie George, Tom Gleeson, Alejandro, Andreas, & Angelo Gonzalez, Dominic Manna, Derek Miranda 12:00 Nicholas & Ben Freeze Ministers of the Word (Lectors) 4:00 Joyce Gyurina 7:00 Wes Ricchio 10:00 Laurie Walsh Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist 4:00 Andy Mastronardi 10:00 Mike Walsh

THE MAN OF THE SHROUD EXHIBIT This exhibit will be held at St. Lucy’s Catholic

Church, 3101 Drexel Ave., Racine (enter from the

large parking lot off of Mason St.). Dates and times:

March 4 & 5 12 noon to 8:00 pm

March 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 9:00 am to 8:00 pm

The exhibit includes 92 panels, a photographic replica

of the Holy Shroud, a life-size corpus according to the

Gospel descriptions, and a 45 minute video.

Stress in Your Marriage? – There is less than a week left to sign up for Retrouvaille. Retrouvaille is a program

for married couples who feel bored, frustrated or angry in

their marriages. Some experience coldness and simply

shut down. Others experience conflict and arguments in

their relationship. Most don’t know how to change the

situation or even communicate with their spouse about it.

This program has helped tens of thousands of couples

experiencing marital difficulty at all levels including dis-

illusionment and deep misery. For confidential informa-

tion about or to register for the program beginning March

3-5, 2017, with a weekend in Benet Lake, call (414) 502-

7685 or email: lakeshore@retrouvaille.org or visit the

website at http://www.HelpOurMarriage.com

KENOSHA CATHOLIC WOMEN’S CLUB March Lenten Mass and-Luncheon of Catholic Woman’s Club of

Kenosha will be: Monday, March 13th. at Holy Rosary Church /

Hall. Mass will be celebrated at 11:00, lunch to follow at 12:00

pm in the DeSimone Hall of Holy Rosary Church. Catered by

Chef David Perez, we will enjoy a Hearty Homemade Meat Loaf

Lunch with all the fixings. Desert, beverage, tax and gratuity for

$15.00 per person. Call: 262-764-3058 /262-551-5492 for your

reservations before TUESDAY MARCH 7TH 5PM.

If the reservation is not attended, the charge will be placed on the

person who called. Program, TBA, a short business meeting w/

social to follow will complete the Occasion. WE are a club of

Women of Catholic Faith, please feel free to come to our Mass-

Luncheon, enjoy the companionship with women of your faith.

This is open to all Catholic women of Kenosha and Kenosha

County. This is also the Mass Intention for our deceased members

of the club, who passed from March 2016 until present.

The Pope’s Prayer Intention for March 2017 Support For Persecuted Christians That persecuted Christians

may be supported by the prayers and material help of the whole

Church.

ST. THERESE CHURCH FISH FRY

Fish Dinner March

3rd thru April 7th Hours: 4:30 to 7:00pm,

every Friday during Lent.

Fish Fry $10, Macaroni &

Cheese $5. MENU: Baked

or Fried Cod Fish, Maca-

roni & Cheese, Choice of Potato or Vegetable,

Cole Slaw, Roll and Butter and a variety of Des-

serts. Coffee, Milk and Adult Beverages available.

Steubenville On The Lake 2017 July 21-23 Join teens from all over the U.S. at Carthage College to

share their faith, stories, and love of Jesus as this year’s

Steubenville Youth Conference. This three day event offers

an exciting speakers, musicians and presenters. The confer-

ence will challenge you to stand firm in faith, and gain an

entirely new perspective on what it means to be a young

Catholic. Primary housing will be in the dormitories at Car-

thage. Students in grades 9-12 are encouraged to register

early as openings are limited and will be on first come first

serve basis. Volunteers needed. For more information con-

tact Maria Martinez at carmenzires@gmail.com.