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Fourth Sunday of Lent March 22, 2020

13623 Rockside Road Garfield Heights, Ohio 44125

Parish Office: (216) 662-8685

fax: (216) 662-1245 website: saintmonicachurch.net

St. Benedict: (216) 662-9380 Early Learning Center

(216) 475-3633

OCFCU (216) 663-6800

MASSES: 7 days a week Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 9:00 a.m.

and 10:45 a.m. Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m.

PARISH OFFICE HOURS

Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday 8:00 a.m.‒7:00 p.m.

Wednesday & Friday 8:00 a.m.‒4:00 p.m.

(Closed 12:30-1:30 p.m. for lunch)

Saturday 9:00 a.m.‒12:00 p.m.

PARISH CLERGY

Rev. Thomas A. Haren, Pastor Rev. Theodore Marszal,

Senior Parochial Vicar Rev. Jerome Lukachinsky, Retired, in Residence

Rev. Thomas G. Montavon, Retired, in Residence

Stan Drozell, Deacon

PASTORAL STAFF

Sister Helene Skrzyniarz SSJ-TOSF,

Parish Catechetical Leader [email protected]

Bob Soeder, Director of Liturgy and Music

Stan Jakosh, Business Mgr

Mrs. Sue Shepka, Office Mgr

Kathy Piggford, Pastoral Council Chairman

Kathy Wendling, Finance Council Chairman

BAPTISM: Please make arrangements in advance. Baptisms are performed on Sundays, immediately following the 10:45 a.m. Mass. Pre-Baptismal instruction is required for parents. Please call the Parish Office for time of next scheduled class.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA): Adults and school-age children seeking full membership in the Catholic Church through the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist can make an appt. to continue their conversion process by calling the Parish Office.

RECONCILIATION: Opportunities to celebrate God’s forgiveness in one’s life are available on Saturday afternoons from 3:15‒3:45 p.m. Individual appointments with a Priest can be arranged.

MATRIMONY: The Diocese of Cleveland requires a 6-month preparation period for marriage. Call the Parish Office to set your wedding date and plan your celebration.

CONFIRMATION: Any adult or high school student needing Confirmation, please call the Parish Office to schedule preparation.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Celebrated upon request. Call the Parish Office to make arrangements with one of our Priests.

NEW PARISHIONERS: Please call the Parish Office to register.

ST. BENEDICT CATHOLIC SCHOOL: Provides Catholic education for students K‒8. School hrs.: 8:00 a.m.‒2:30 p.m. Before & After Care available. Mrs. Lisa Oriti, School Principal

EUCHARIST FOR THE HOMEBOUND: Parish Team and Staff Members visit the homebound on a monthly basis. If you or someone you know is homebound and would like to receive communion, call the Parish Office.

Bulletin Announcements due to

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by NOON on Monday

St. Monica St. Monica Catholic Church

MARCH 22, 2020

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LITURGY SCHEDULE Monday –Friday Weekday Masses will be said privately by the Priests to fulfill these spiritual obligations

Sunday, March 22 FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT

9:00 People of the Parish 10:45 Daniel J. Stanowick

Monday, March 23 Lenten Weekday

8:00 Harry Klosowski

Tuesday, March 24 Lenten Weekday

8:00 Living & Deceased of Lois Styfurak Family

Wednesday, March 25 Solemnity of The Annunciation of The Lord

8:00 Msgr. John Cymbor & Deceased Family members

Thursday, March 26 Lenten Weekday

8:00 Stanley Bykiewicz

Friday, March 27 Lenten Weekday

8:00 Michael J. King

Saturday, March 28 Lenten Weekday 4:00 People of the Parish

Sunday, March 29 FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

9:00 Frank, Jenny and Venus Leone 10:45 Richard Lenczewski

**************************** Our Weekend Mass Schedule will be LIVESTREAMED at https://saintmonicachurch.net –follow the link: Weekend Mass Live Stream Please be assured the Priests of St. Monica will cele-brate all Masses to fulfill these spiritual obligations.

Religion Question of the Week What is the Pentateuch?

Did You Know….. When St. Monica Church was first built in 1964, the Tabernacle was on the main altar?

One Liner “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. It is also what it takes to sit down and listen”.

Answer to the Religion Question of the Week

located on page 6 of this bulletin

Please keep in your prayers the following members of our Parish Community:

Bill Paluscsak, Joe Leone, Louis Neptune, Veronica Reil, Sarah Burket, Stanley Faiken, Joanne Reddinger, Chris Korow, Judy Watter, Geri Gryzbowski, Thom and Chris

Machar, Aaron Benjamin, Richard Dolnicek. The names will remain in the bulletin for two weeks. Please call the parish office if your name or a loved one’s name needs to be added to the list. If you have a special intention you would like remembered in prayer, please call Lillian Neptune (216) 662-5464.

COFFEE-DONUTS-FELLOWSHIP

The remaining socials have been CANCELED. Be

safe! See you in September.

Our sincere sympathy and prayers are extended to the family and friends of those who were recently buried: Nancy Shaffer; Marie Christian; Kathleen Pucci; Ann Marszal (Fr. Ted Marszal’s moth-er); Patricia Pelka; Glenn Budzinski. May they, and all our faith-ful departed, rest in peace.

Catholic Relief Services Collection This week, is scheduled for The Catholic Relief Service Collection. This collection helps six Catholic agencies to provide struggling communities with relief and support and to work for peace and reconciliation among our marginalized brothers and sisters here and around the world. Please prayerfully consid-er how you can support the collection. Learn more about the collection at www.usccb.org/catholic-relief.

STRUDLE SALE POSTPONED!

The Catholic War Veterans Auxiliary Post

#1812 HAS POSTPONED THEIR STRUDEL

SALE UNTIL A LATER DATE.

RECYCLE BINS - ST. MONICA PARISH GROUNDS Please be aware that we will no longer be dealing with Royal Oak Recycling for paper and cardboard recycling. PLEASE DISCONTINUE BRINGING YOUR PAPER AND CARDBOARD TO THE BINS, WHICH SHOULD BE REMOVED SHORTLY. If we are able to go with another company to continue our recycling pro-gram, we will let you know as soon as possible. Thank you for your participation and support for this pro-gram in the past.

The Garfield Heights Ward 7

BLOCK WATCH MEETING Following the advice of our Governor, the Garfield Heights Ward 7 Block Watch meetings will be cancelled until further notice. We hope to see everyone again in the near future. For more in-formation, please contact Gail at 216-662-9213 or Coun-cilman Tom Vaughn at 216-663-8837

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Pastoral Scene

Dear Parishioners, We are in unusual times. There are many uncertainties we must face. It might look a little frightening. But there might be another way of looking at our reaction to the coronavirus epidemic. One way we can treat these times is to see it as a way to do penance, and offer up our sufferings to God. This could be a special time to take care of our neighbors, and those suffering in our communities. This could be a time of extraordinary generosity to those who need our help. This could a time to grow in our personal prayer life. Fi-nally, this is a time that we need to put our trust in God, who can get us through any crisis. Please know that all of you are important. We will keep you in our prayers. God bless you, Fr. Haren and the Parish Staff

AM 1260 The Rock EXTRA

Pray With Us! In addition to the Holy Mass, AM1260 The Rock offers numer-ous opportunities for prayer throughout the day.

Holy Rosary: 5:30 AM and 9:30 PM Divine Mercy Chaplet: 5 AM Monday through Friday; 3 PM Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Stations of the Cross for Priests: Fridays during Lent at 3 PM Devotion to the Holy Face: Tuesdays during Lent at 3 PM

Spiritual Communion Prayer My dear Lord and Savior. Though I am, but a sinful servant, I approach you with confidence. I am truly sorry for having of-fended you by my sins, because you are infinitely good. I have a great desire to receive You in Holy Communion, and since I can not now be united to you in the Blessed Sacrament, I beseech You most earnestly to come to me at least spiritually and to refresh my soul with the sweetness of your grace. Come my Lord, my God and my all. Come to me and let me never again be separated from you by sin. I wish to become like You. Teach me your blessed ways. Help me with your grace to practice meekness; humility; purity; charity and all the virtues of your sacred heart. Oh, my Jesus! I consecrate to you my heart with all its affections, my soul with all its powers and my body with all its senses. In union with you I will live and labor and suffer to do the heav-enly Father’s will. I will ever by mindful of the presence of my God and strive to be perfect. Bless me in life and in death, that I may praise You forever in heaven. Amen. AM 1260 The Rock’s mission is to provide quality Catholic pro-gramming that is faithful to the teachings of the Church and presented in such a way that inspires conversion of heart and a deepening of faith while building up the local body of Christ. WE PRAY FOR YOU! During this time of uncertainty, we invite you to continue sending us your prayer intentions either by calling us at 216-227-1260, or via email at [email protected]

AM 1260 The Rock EXTRA

Where You Hear Rock Solid Truth AM 1260 The Rock Offers Additional Weekend Masses for the Faithful AM 1260 The Rock will be offering our listeners additional opportunities to join in the Sunday liturgy. Beginning this weekend, you will be able to join us for the Sunday Liturgy at the following times: The Diocese of Cleveland Mass for the Homebound will be broadcast at its regular time 10:30 AM Sunday AND at 4 PM Saturday. The Mass from EWTN will be broadcast at 8 AM Sunday AND again at 5 PM Sunday. And, don’t forget that weekday Masses are aired each weekday at 10 AM. Please visit our website at am1260therock.com for our full schedule. While we may be separated physically, we can be united in prayer for our world, for our Church, and for all those affect-ed.

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St. Benedict Catholic School

Spotlight

EIGHTH GRADE

For the past several months our 8th grade students have been working on an interdisciplinary project known as Catapult. Our students worked on this project in several different classrooms, and were tasked with coming up with a business plan. In Social Studies, they learned about the economics of supply and demand, as well as the economics of production cost, In ELA they learned about the essentials of proper business communication, including a business letter, business emails, and even had a presentation on business communication from a local expert. Finally, after learning all about the ins and outs of the business world, students were able to actually create a product in the STREAM Lab. We had an in-house Saint Benedict competition with our students pitching their ideas to several local business leaders, to prepare or stu-dents for the regional competition. On Saturday March 7th Saint Benedict students Chloe Brown, Gabrielle Hemphill, and Jasmine Smoot competed in the Alpha Jump competition at Saint Ignatius High School.. Our team presented their business idea, Pretty Puckers cosmetic line, to a group of local business peo-ple in a mock Shark Tank style competition. Our stu-dents took 3rd place out of 14 local Dioceasn school pre-sent. We are incredibly proud of their efforts!

SCHOOL IS CLOSED ALL PARISH EVENTS / ACTIVITIES

LISTED HERE ARE CANCELED

MONDAY, March 23 8:00 a.m. School Events (cmr) 3:15 p.m. CWVA (c) 4:00 p.m. Athletic Practice (g) 5:00 p.m. Walking Group (J) 6:45 p.m. Respect for Life Mtg.(F) 7:00 p.m. Festival of Praise w/Confessions (+)

TUESDAY, March 24 8:00 a.m. School Events (cmr) 2:50 p.m. Cooking Club (c) 4:00 p.m. Athletic Practice (g) 6:30 p.m. Health Awareness : DRUMMING CIRCLE (C) 6:30 p.m. Yoga (J)

WEDNESDAY, March 25 8:00 a.m. School Events (cmr) 12:00 p.m. Tai Chi (J) 3:00 p.m. Fish Fry Prep (c) 4:00 p.m. Athletic Practice (g) 5:00 p.m. Walking Group (J) 7:00 p.m. G.A. (AR)

THURSDAY, March 26 8:00 a.m. School Events (cmr) 3:00 p.m. Fish Fry Prep (c) 4:00 p.m. Athletic Practice (g) 6:30 p.m. Diocesan HN (J) 7:00 p.m. Ward 7 Block Watch Mtg. (AR)

FRIDAY, March 27 8:00 a.m. School Events (cmr) 3:00 p.m. Lenten Presentations (+) 3:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross (+) 4:00 p.m. Fish Fry © 4:00 p.m. Athletic Practice (g)

SATURDAY, March 28 7:30 a.m. Men of the Vine (ocu1&2) 12:00 p.m. Maggie’s Place (J) 2:00 p.m. Baptist Bible Study (F)

SUNDAY, March 29 See Liturgy Schedule 9:00 a.m. Coffee-Donuts-Fellowship (c) 8:00 p.m. A.A. (AR)

PARISH ACTIVITIES

Answer To This Week’s Religion Question This is the name given to the first five books in the Old Testament.

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Due to the corona virus in Ohio, the Cleveland Retrouvaille organization has to cancel the upcoming retrouvaille week-end for couples with troubled marriages that is scheduled for March 27-29, 2020. At this time, it is unknown when it can be rescheduled, or when the next weekend will be ran.

CANCELED

Cleveland Retrouvaille Weekend

March 27 - 29, 2020

This is a Lifeline for Troubled Marriages

Has your marriage become unloving or uncaring – your

relationship cold, distant – thinking about a separation or

divorce? Are you already separated/divorced but both of

you want to try again? Then the Retrouvaille program

may help.

RETROUVAILLE, which means rediscovery, is support-

ed by the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, but it is open to

couples of all faiths. This program consists of a weekend

experience for couples and six follow up sessions. A reg-

istration fee of $150 is required to confirm your reserva-

tion. For more information concerning the program, or to

register, please call Marce or Liz Gliha at 440.357.6580

or 1.800.470.2230, or go online to

www.helpourmarriage.org.

Annual Candlelight Vigil April 5, 2020 at 3:00pm

Due to the Coronavirus, our annual candle vigil set to held on April 5th has been postponed. Details on a reschedule date will be announced as soon as possible.

CANCELED

Golubski Deliberato Funeral Home will host its Annual

Vigil Light Ceremony in the Garfield Heights Civic Cen-

ter on Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 3:00pm. Residents within

the community who have experienced a loss in their lives

are encouraged to attend this free Vigil Light Ceremony.

We open this invitation to not only those families we

have served, but to every family who has experienced a

difficult time

The afternoon service will include a guest speaker. Since

seating is limited, we ask that you call Golubski Delibera-

to Funeral Home at (216) 883-3900 for reservations or

questions. You may also call to reserve a Vigil Light

even though you are unable to attend.

Knights of Columbus—Garfield Hts. Council #4130

10806 Granger Rd., Garfield Hts., OH. 44125

BECAUSE OF THE VIRUS, WE HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL THIS MONTH'S DINNER. WE WILL

KEEP EVERYONE UPDATED FOR ANY OTHER CHANGES.

AT THIS TIME - ONLY THIS MONTH.

MARCH 25—4 to 7 p.m. (RESERVATIONS REQUIRED)

Call: 216-662-2277 Option #2 BY SUNDAY March 22 - 8:00 p.m.

STUFFED CABBAGE DINNER By Maple Heights Catering

Dinner consists of: 3 Stuffed Cabbages, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Garden Salad, Roll & butter

Cost Adults - $10 ..... Children Under 12 - $8

ALL DINNERS INCLUDE COFFEE TEA, WATER, AND

NON‐CARBONATED BEVERAGES

Stewardship Offertory Collections

Regular Offertory………………………………….. $ 4,012.00 St. Monica Fund…………………………….…….. $ 480.00

For: March 22, 2020

To help build an endowment fund, please

consider St. Monica Church in your will.

EASTER FLOWER ENVELOPES You are encour-aged to remember your deceased loved ones by using the Easter Flower envelope in your latest envelope packet. We ask that you please CLEARLY PRINT the names on the envelope. Turn your envelope in to the Parish Office or drop it in the collection basket as soon as possible but no later than Palm Sunday, April 5th, so the names will appear on the bulletin boards in the Rockside Road vestibule on Easter.

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