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Sacrament of Baptism Parents are to notify a parish office soon after they know they are expecting. A pre-baptismal program is required.

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.) Adults seeking full initiation, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, or those wishing to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church are asked to contact a parish office for more information.

Sacrament of Reconciliation Available at both worship sites on Saturday 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.

Sacrament of Matrimony Arrangements must be made at least six months, preferably a year, in advance of the desired date. A marriage preparation program is required.

Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick This Sacrament is available for individuals upon request and communal celebrations are periodically scheduled.

Ministry to the Sick Please call a parish office concerning the needs of the sick, hospitalized or shut-ins. Those unable to attend Mass may have Communion brought to them.

Prayer Network For prayer support in time of need, call Ann Parsons at 244-0477 or Gerri Foos at 944-4888 or gfprayer@gmail.com

Available at both parishes: Available at OLQP

Handicap Access Hearing Loop Access Upon Request Interpreter for the hearing impaired. Low Gluten Hosts

Third Sunday of Easter

April 26, 2020

A Catholic Community... Our Lady Queen of Peace

& St. Thomas More

Mass Times Monday - Thursday: 7:00 a.m. Saturday 4:30 p.m., Sunday 9:15, 11:45 a.m. Holy Days of Obligation: as printed in bulletin

Our Lady Queen of Peace 601 Edgewood Ave. Rochester, NY 14618 585-244-3010 - email: rourlady@dor.org

St. Thomas More 2617 East Avenue - Rochester, NY 14610

585-381-4200 - email: stm@dor.org Office Hours

OLQP - Monday - Thursday 8:00-1:00

STM - Monday-Thursday 8:00-1:00

Both offices closed on Friday www.olqpstm.com

Mass Times Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m.

Saturday 4:30 p.m., Sunday 8:00, 10:30 a.m. Holy Days of Obligation: as printed in bulletin

Living in the Spirit

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Mission Statement The parishes of Our Lady Queen of Peace and St. Thomas More are Roman Catholic Communities that worship and live in faith.

Nourished by the Sacraments, Scripture, and a diversity of individual gifts, we understand that our mission comes from Jesus Christ who calls us to teach, to preach, to serve those in need, and to be a presence of Christ in the world.

Prayers Requested:

Please pray for the individuals who have requested our prayers: Patrick Brennan, Amy Campbell, Mary Jean & Carmine Castellano, Christine Barry Comito,

Mary Ann Fischer, Louise Foxenburgh, Mary Helen Hiller, Ginger Ierardi, Steven Kistner, Barbara Labroi, Kathleen Lowe, Lourdes May, Cecile McDonald, Ed Meagher, Janice Milliman, Dolly Nolan, Quinn Oliphant, Bob O’Neill, Phillip Pinto, Marion Robinson, Penny Rose, Angelina Snyder, Tom & Kathleen Sullivan, Barb Tindale, and Phillippa Wilson.

We graciously welcome all new parishioners and visitors to our community. To register please fill out a “request card” available at church entrances. Please drop it in the collection basket or at the office. A member of our pastoral

staff will contact you to complete your registration.

Mass Schedule According to Bishop Matano’s direction, Fr. Hart will be celebrating one private Mass each day.

Currently scheduled Mass intentions not offered will be rescheduled at a later date. The following Mass intentions will be offered this week: Monday, April 27

Acts 6:8-15 Ps 119:23-24,26-27,29-30 Jn 6:22-29

People of the Parish

Tuesday, April 28 St. Peter Chanel, priest, martyr; St. Louis

Grignion de Montfort, priest

Acts 7:51--8:1a Ps 31:3cd-4,6,7b,8a,17,21ab Jn 6:30-35

†John O’Sullivan - Family

Wednesday, April 29 St. Catherine of Siena, virgin, doctor of the church

Acts 8:1b-8 Ps 66:1-3a,4-7a Jn 6:35-40 †Raymond W. Haubner - Ruth Haubner

Thursday, April 30 St. Pius V, pope

Acts 8:26-40 Ps 66:8-9,16-17,20 Jn 6:44-51 †Mary Sharick - Diane Waterstreet

Friday, May 1 St. Joseph the Worker

Acts 9:1-20 Ps 117:1bc,2 Jn 6:52-59 †Dr. Anthony Mancuso - Richard & Mary Ann Loiacano

Saturday, May 2 St. Athanasius, bishop, doctor of the church

Acts 9:31-42 Ps 116:12-17 Jn 6:60-69

Sunday, May 3 FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

Acts 2:14,a, 36-41 Ps 23:1-6 1 Pt 2:20b-25 Jn 10:1-10 †Frank & Genevieve Palermo - Mary Jane & Marty Rimmele

Sanctuary Lamp Intention this week at OLQP is in Memory of: Bill Fay

PRAYER FOR 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 in 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

When the Vatican announced recently a new plenary indulgence for those around the world affected by the Covid-19 virus, many Roman Catholics had forgotten about indulgences altogether. The history of indulgences is intimately involved with the practice of the Sacrament of Penance. During the first centuries of Christianity, the reconciliation of those who had committed grave sins (such as adultery or murder) took place only after many years of public penance aimed at the complete conversion of the sinner. Once one was reconciled, however, such an extraordinary act of forgiveness could never be repeated. This changed only when, in the seventh century, the Irish missionaries brought to continental Europe their monastic practice of frequent private confession of both grave and venial sins and then, after some period of private penance, full reconciliation to the sacraments. About the year 1,000 AD, however, that changed: both absolution and reconciliation were granted immediately after confession with the performing penance to follow (as it is today). But, in this switch, the Church faced a problem. Penances may have been performed incorrectly or not at all…or the penances assigned were too light to have brought about the full conversion of the sinner. According to the Church’s theology, the Sacrament of Penance involves a number of important elements to bring about the conversion of the sinner. We have to be sorry for our sins because of our love of God or at least fearing the just punishment for our actions. Moreover, after an examination of conscience, we have to do our best to confess to a priest all the grave sins we can remember that have not been previously confessed. Finally we have to perform the penance assigned to us by the priest confessor in order to make “satisfaction” for our sins. The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains “satisfaction” this way: “Many sins wrong our neighbor. One must do what is possible in order to repair the harm (e.g. return stolen goods, restore the reputation of someone slandered, pay compensation for injuries.) Simple justice requires as much. But sin also injures and weakens the sinner himself, as well as his relationships with God and neighbor. Absolution takes away sin, but it does not remedy all the disorders sin has caused. Raised up from sin, the sinner must still recover his full spiritual health by doing something more to make amends for the sin.” [1459] This could consist, for example, of prayer, almsgiving, service to neighbor, works of mercy or some acts of self-denial. But, in the end, it is only God’s grace which saves us. Theologians have perennially taught that whatever the grace of conversion had not accomplished in this life was left to God’s mercy in death. The Church has always believed that God’s grace purifies the sinner in life as well as in death, transforming us into the image of God’s beloved Son, making us ready and fit for the eternal glory and vision of God in heaven. While sometimes this transformation was wrongly pictured as a physical place of punishment (i.e. purgatory), Pope Benedict XVI has rightly called it rather a process of sanctification, in which we can accompany our continued on page 3

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Registration for K-12 Faith Formation has

begun.

K-5 Faith Formation will be offered on Tuesday nights from 6:00 pm to 7:15

at Siena Catholic Academy on the

St. Thomas More Campus.

Registration materials are available on our website at olqpstm.com under Faith Formation

(you will have to print the forms) or by contacting Jennifer Abdalla

jennifer.abdalla@dor.org

If you have not received an email from us and you wish to stay

connected in that way please call Robin at 244-3010 or email her at

robin.levy@dor.org and give her your email.

We are trying to stay in touch with as many parishioners as possible during this

difficult and challenging time. And don’t forget to check in on the website,

olqpstm.com, for other information and a link to YouTube for daily/Sunday liturgies, or go to

YouTube.com and search OLQPSTM.

continued from page 2 loved one with our prayers. Sometimes the prayers of the Church ask God to be “indulgent” in this process of transforming the sinner because of the infinite merits of our Savior Christ Jesus and those baptized into his Body. But the plenary (or complete) indulgence just announced is unusual in that it asks God to treat the sinner as if he or she had the fervent charity of a saint and needed no further purification. The Pope, in announcing this plenary indulgence, is doing so to show mercy to those facing death in this time of trial, to encourage them to accept their suffering as Christ accepted his own suffering, and to know that the Church accompanies them in this time when one might die without the grace and consolation of the Sacraments of the Church.. The Church is confident of the efficacy of this prayer since Jesus himself promised the Church “whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” [Mt 16:19 and 18:18] Peace to all, Fr. Hart

CENSUS REMINDER It is easy for things to get lost in the shuffle of everything that is going on, but don’t forget to fill out your census form. You should have received something in the mail concerning the 2020 Census a few weeks ago along with a follow up post card last week. Go to www.2020census.gov to fill it out online or call 844-330-2020 to do it over the phone. Did you Know? Census results affect planning and funding for employment and training—including programs for vocational rehabilitation state grants, dislocated workers, and American Indian and Alaska Native employment and training.

VOICE OF THE WEEK The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. - Thurgood Marshall

Since the Sr. Regis Food Cupboard is closed at the moment, the cereal

and toilet paper that you donated during our Lenten time together has been

delivered to Hillside Children’s Center and to House of Mercy for them to distribute. Thank you for your contributions. May God continue to bless you and keep you safe.

VATICAN EXPLANATION OF PLENARY INDULGENCE

On March 20, 2020, the Holy See issued a decree granting plenary indulgences to “the faithful suffering from the Covid-19 virus, as well as to healthcare workers, family members and all those who in any capacity, including through prayer, care for them.” The document comes in response to pastoral, spiritual and sacramental concerns for those affected by the pandemic, which has raised “new uncertainties and above all widespread physical and moral suffering.” The Decree grants a plenary indulgence to coronavirus patients quarantined by health authorities in hospitals and in their homes if, “with a spirit detached from any sin, they unite themselves spiritually through the media to the celebration of the Holy Mass, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, to the pious practice of the Way of the Cross or other forms of devotion.” The plenary indulgence can also be obtained by the faithful if they at least “recite the creed, the Lord’s Prayer and a pious invocation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, offering this trial in a spirit of faith in God and charity towards their brothers and sisters , with the will to fulfill the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer according to the Holy father’s intentions,) as soon as possible.” A plenary indulgence is also granted to healthcare workers, family members and all those who, “exposing themselves to the risk of contagion, care for the sick” under the same conditions stated above. Also, the faithful who offer a “visit to the Blessed Sacrament, or Eucharistic adoration, or read the Holy Scriptures for a half an hour, or recite the Holy Rosary, or the pious exercise of the Way of the Cross, or the recitation of the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy” while praying for an end to the pandemic will be granted a plenary indulgence.

Please keep the sewing of masks going. We have been able to provide the Catholic Family Center with over 500 masks. They are

beyond grateful. Marcus Ebenhoe says, “I want to say “Thank You” to all the amazing people who have been supporting Catholic Family Center as we collect masks for our medically fragile clients and staff. Please keep them coming! With the new mask order by the governor our need for masks have continued to increase. If you want to start making masks, but aren’t sure where to start, feel free to email me at mebenhoe@cfcrochester.org. You can drop masks off at OLQP M-F 9:00-3:00. Thank you.

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1st Reading Acts 2:14, 22-43 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed: “You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to my words.You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by Godwith mighty deeds, wonders, and signs,which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him. But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it. For David says of him: I saw the Lord ever before me, with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted; my flesh, too, will dwell in hope, because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.

“My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption. God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. Exalted at the right hand of God, he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father and poured him forth, as you see and hear.” The Word of the Lord

Responsorial Psalm Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; I say to the LORD, “My Lord are you.” O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. I bless the LORD who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me. I set the LORD ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever. R. Lord, you will show us the path of life.

2nd Reading 1Pt 1:17-21 Beloved: If you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.

He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. The Word of the Lord

Gospel Lk 24:13-35 That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus’ disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?” And he replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place. Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the Scriptures. As they approached the village to which they were going he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread. The Gospel of the Lord

Readings for the Third Sunday of Easter

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Staff

Rev. Joseph A. Hart, Pastor/Co-Administrator hart@dor.org

Margaret Ostromecki, Pastoral Associate/Co-Administrator margaret.ostromecki@dor.org

V. Rev. Paul Tomasso, V.G., Assisting Priest fr.paul.tomasso@dor.org

Deacon Art Cuestas arthur.cuestas@dor.org

Jennifer Abdalla, Assistant Director, Faith Formation, Administrative Assistant jennifer.abdalla@dor.org

Meghan Robinson Music Director/Pastoral Minister meghan.robinson@dor.org

Connor Doran, Choir Director/Organist connor.doran@dor.org

Mike Dybas, Regional Finance Director michael.dybas@dor.org

Robin Levy, Administrative Assistant robin.levy@dor.org

Amanda Schiralli, Webmaster amanda.schiralli@dor.org

Nils Lightholder, Maintenance Scott Nobes, Maintenance

Times are certainly challenging right now, in so many ways. If you find it

in your heart and you are financially able to continue to donate to our

parishes you can mail in your donation. Alternately,

you can sign up for online giving by visiting our cluster

website and click on the “Online Giving” button to

enroll in EFT Giving Today! www.olqpstm.org. Thanks for anything

you can do!

In response to Governor Cuomo’s statewide “Stay at Home” executive order, the Pastoral Center office staff are now working remotely. CMA tracking will not continue during this period. The CMA figures showing on the DOR homepage will not change, and the Parish-to-Parish listing will not be updated. As soon as we are able to begin tracking CMA progress again, we will let you know. However,

mail is still being delivered so you can still send in your donation. We have received and are continuing to receive donations from parishioners. Thank you for your understanding and patience. We will update the numbers as soon as possible.

STM

Goal - $75,520.00 $54,995.00 as of 3/23

72.83% of goal 134 Donors

OLQP

Goal - $64,653.00 $44.139.00 as of 3/23

68.27% of goal 142 Donors

Catholic Schools in Area:

Seton Catholic School Grades Pre-K-6 Mrs. Patty Selig, Principal 473-6604

Siena Catholic Academy Grades 6– 8 Mr. David Carapella, Principal 381-1220

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