701 Gaul Street, Philadelphia, PA 19125 Website: www.holynameofjesus-fishtown.org

Rectory Phone: 215-739-3960 Fax: 215-739-7597 St. Laurentius Church Worship Site, Berks & Memphis Streets

REV. JOSEPH J. ZINGARO, Pastor

DEACON JOHN G. BOYLE, Permanent Deacon

MRS. THERESA DOMBKOSKI, Director of Parish Services

SATURDAY EVENING VIGIL MASS: 4:30 P.M. SUNDAY MASSES: 9:30 & 11:30 A.M.

HOLY DAY MASSES: 9:00 A.M. & 7:00 P.M. DAILY MASSES: 7:00 A.M. Mon./Tues./Wed./Thurs./Fri.

8:00 A.M. Saturday Communion Service CONFESSIONS: Saturday: 3:30 to 4:15 P.M.

Sunday: 8:45 to 9:15 A.M.

ST. LAURENTIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL School: 215-423-8834 Principal: Mrs. Elaine McKnight

April 6, 2014 + Fifth Sunday of Lent

HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF FISHTOWN

Prayer for Unity You have called us to be Your one Church. Make us one in our faith and hope,

and one in our loving service. Make us one in worship and in daily living. Lord Jesus, send your Spirit to make us one as You want us to be.

Lord and our Saviour for ever. Amen.

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APRIL 6, 2014 MARCH 30th Attendance: 426 Envelopes: 324 1st Collection: $4,499.00 Children’s Envelopes (21): $97.00 Envelopes mailed to Rectory (8): $182.00 2nd Collection (Fuel) (125): $1,258.02 Additional (Latin America) (7): $77.00 Grand Total: $6,113.02

MONDAY – APRIL 7th

ST. JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE 7:00 a.m. For the Parishioners TUESDAY – APRIL 8th

7:00 a.m. Memorial Society WEDNESDAY – APRIL 9th

7:00 a.m. +Catherine Bartle req. by Daughter THURSDAY – APRIL10th

7:00 a.m. Good Health req. by Helen M. Ferris FRIDAY – APRIL 11th

ST. STANISLAUS 7:00 a.m. Special Intention req. by Sylvia SATURDAY – APRIL 12th

8:00 a.m. Prayer & Communion Service 4:30 p.m. +Corrine Louise Janton req. by Marie SUNDAY – APRIL 13th 9:30 a.m. +Joseph Murphy req. by Parents 11:00 a.m. +Michael Blancuzzi req. by Joette & Jeff Tomczak

SANCTUARY CANDLES There are special seven-day candles available at the Sacred Heart, the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph for those wishing to “light a candle” for an intention. The offering is $10.00 for the week. Blessed Mother

Catherine Bartle (Daughter)

PREP PROGRAM REGISTRATION Registration for Holy Name of Jesus Parish PREP (Parish Religious Education Program) will take place from April 1st to April 30th. PREP is a year-long program designed for children Grades K through 8 who attend public schools, and non-Catholic private schools. PREP teaches the fundamentals of our faith and prepares children to receive the sacraments. Registration fees are: $80.00 for one (1) child; $130.00 for two (2) children; and $50.00 for each additional child. This is payable at the time of registration and includes all classroom materials: text books for each child, the “Gospel Weekly” for each child, books specific to sacramental preparation as well as treats, snacks, and seasonal religious items and gifts throughout the year. (Advent and Lenten calendars, small gifts and treats, etc.) Registration forms can be obtained at the Rectory. If the child was not baptized at Holy Name of Jesus Church or St. Laurentius Church please provide a copy of the baptismal certificate. Any questions please call Mrs. Dombkoski at 215-739-3960.

FACT MEMBERSHIP MEETING The Fact Membership Meeting will be on Monday April 7th at 7:00 P.M. in Holy Name of Jesus Hall. Guest speakers are Council President Darrell Clarke & Councilman Mark Squilla. There will also be an update from Carol Phillips on the Moyer Street Lot (400 block of Moyer Street). Carol is on the Moyer Street Advisory. Refreshments will be served!!!

ICE CREAM PARTY WITH THE BUNNY The Ice Cream Party with the Bunny will be on Sunday, April 6th at 1:00 P.M. in Holy Name of Jesus Hall. Boys and girls make their own ice cream sundaes and visit with the Easter Bunny! Treats & surprises! Bring your camera for pictures with the Bunny! The cost is $2.00.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 [41c-62]; Ps 23:1-6; Jn 8:1-11 Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dn 3:52-56; Jn 8:31-42 Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9: Jn 8:51-59 Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 Sunday: Mt 21:1-11 (procession); Is 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14 — 27:66 [27:11-54]

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Can you believe it? Next week is Palm Sunday! It seems like it was Ash Wednesday and we are now preparing to celebrate Holy Week and Easter. You should all have received my Easter letter with the schedule for Holy Week and your Easter Offering Envelope. If you have not received it, please call the Rectory. For your convenience, we are printing the Holy Week Schedule at the bottom of my column. We ask you to bring your Rice Bowl Offering next Sunday and place it in the bowl at the entrance of the Church. This offering will be sent to help the poor in our Archdiocese and in the world. We thank you in advance for your generosity. Palm will be distributed by the ushers next week as you come into the Church. It will be blessed at the beginning of Mass.

This Friday, April 11th, we will have the Living Stations of the Cross performed by our 8th Graders of St. Laurentius School, a spiritual talk by Catherine Joanne and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. The service will begin promptly at 7:00 P.M. You will be inspired by Catherine and the Way of the Cross that she wrote. It is called “He Knows My Pain.” Bring a relative or friend. Make time and plan to attend. Catherine Joanne runs a Retreat House in Ludlow, Vermont, near the Weston Priory. I go to her retreat house, called St. Joseph’s Dwelling Place, every year for my annual retreat. We will have a Penance Service this Tuesday, April 8th, at 7:00 P.M. in Holy Name of Jesus Church. I have invited several priests to come and help you to reconcile with the Lord. Please take advantage of this opportunity to prepare yourself for the celebration of Easter. We thank everyone who supported the Say Goodbye to Winter Raffle Drawing and Beef and Beer last weekend. The event was a success. The winners of the raffle were: 1st prize $3000.00 - Marge Maines 2nd prize $1000.00 - Caitlyn Ellis 3rd prize $500.00 - Carl Bender

The Schedule for Holy Week and Easter is as follows:

PASSION (PALM) SUNDAY Palms will be blessed before the

4:30 Vigil, 9:30 and 11:30 Sunday Masses.

HOLY THURSDAY Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper: 7:00 P.M.

followed by adoration at the Repository till 10:00 P.M. Night Prayer: 10:00 P.M.

GOOD FRIDAY Church will be open from 8:00 A.M.

Living Stations: 12:00 Noon Liturgy of the Passion and Death of Jesus: 7:00 P.M.

HOLY SATURDAY Blessing of Easter Food in Holy Name of Jesus Church:

8:30 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Confessions: 3:00 – 4:45 P.M. Easter Vigil Mass: 8:00 P.M.

EASTER SUNDAY

Masses: 9:30 A.M. and 11:30 A.M. in Holy Name of Jesus Church

INCREASED OFFERING APPEAL The Stewardship of Treasure/Increased Giving Appeal continues to meet with great success. At this time 114 families have responded, representing a combined weekly increase of $572.01. If you have not yet responded to Father Joe’s letter, please do so this week. Your response will be acknowledged immediately.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION There is a geography to the liturgy of baptism that distills the journey of faith. Each part of the liturgy is assigned to a distinct part of the church building. Baptism, whether of infants carried to church by their parents or of adults following the paschal candle into a darkened church at Easter, starts at the door. First, a threshold must be crossed and a new community of meaning and memory encountered for the first time. Then, the celebration moves to the place for God’s Word. Next, as the litany of the saints is sung, there is a procession to the font. Finally, the movement is to the table, the altar of the Eucharist. There, newly baptized adults are brought to the sacred meal, or the parents of infants are blessed and reminded that their child will one day share fully in the table’s banquet. Many Catholic churches honor this geography by placing the font near the door, or at least small vessels with water. The doorway of our church is a place of memory, and a passageway to a new way of living. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

PRAYER The more you devote yourself in prayer the more you will do

well in your work. —St. John Baptist de la Salle

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The St. Laurentius/Holy Name CYO is looking for responsible individuals for coaching (soccer, basketball, baseball, etc.) positions for the upcoming school year. These positions will need to be filled in order to continue our program. If you are interested in making a positive difference in the lives of our children, please contact Tim Breslin 215-764-9361.

FROM THE DEACON’S DESK. In today’s second reading we have St. Paul’s instruction to the Roman Christians, we have a direct reference to the future resurrection to a life of unending glory for all those who during this time on earth were loyal to God and Christ. This resurrection in a new body, which will never again be subject to death or pain or suffering, has been won for us by Christ who, having died for our sins, was raised by the Father, on Easter morning. The thought of this glorious future should never be far from our minds. It was this thought that enabled the martyrs to face their executioners with joy in their hearts. It was this thought that made the saints rejoice in their bodily sufferings. It was this hope of eternal happiness which sparred on millions of ordinary men and women like ourselves, whose life on earth was a monotonous sequence of one drudgery after another, one misfortune following on the heels of the previous one. It is by imitating these people that we too will join them when our call will come. It is by bearing the burdens of each day, by welcoming, and seeing God’s will in all the ups and downs of our very ordinary lives, that we can join them. You have the Spirit of Christ in you, St. Paul tells us, if you are striving to live a Christian life. This means taking each day as it comes, offering to God its joys and its sorrows, its honest pleasures and its pains, its sunshine and its showers. All this means: living in peace with God and with your neighbor. This may sound easy but it is not so; it will mean much self denial, but then think of what awaits us at the end of our road, a resurrection to a new life, an unending life of happiness. May God grant that we may all have this happy ending to our earthly ending.

PRINCIPAL’S CORNER On a gloomy, rainy Sunday, while walking home from the 9:30 A.M. Mass at Holy Name of Jesus Church, I felt as though even the heavens were feeling my pain. Suddenly, my umbrella got caught on a low-lying limb. While trying to detangle it, of course, I got soaked. However, when looking more closely at the limb, there on the wet, dark brown wood, were tiny green leaves. Hope and renewal, my friends. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Thank you to all of you who helped support the parish/school fundraiser last week at Holy Name of Jesus Church Hall and who bought raffle tickets. Tiny, little green leaves! The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be received for the first time by our 2nd and 3rd graders, and students from the PREP program, on Thursday night at 7:00 P.M. at Holy Name of Jesus Church. Please pray for these children and their families as they enter into the mysteries of our faith. A Scholastic Book Fair is being held on Monday and Tuesday this week. This is an opportunity for our children to have a book store come to them. Proceeds help maintain our school library. Our 8th grade students will perform the Live Stations on Friday night at 7:00 P.M. at Holy Name of Jesus Church. This is truly a moving presentation and I hope many of you can find the time to come. As we draw closer to the holiest of seasons in our faith, let us all continue to pray for each other. Have a joyous week, everyone. Look, really look, for signs of hope and renewal. God bless you. – Mrs. McKnight

ST. LAURENTIUS SCHOOL The tenth tuition payment is now due. Please use your Smart Tuition Account. Non-Smart payments may be made at the Holy Name of Jesus Rectory during normal business hours.

LIFE FROM DEATH Lent is about Easter, and Easter is about life after death. As we draw closer to Easter, the Sunday readings become more and more explicit about this. In a rather dry, matter-of-fact way, today’s reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans teaches that our “mortal bodies” will be raised to life. But in a far more gripping way, the Lord shouts at us through the prophet Ezekiel, “O my people, I will open your graves . . . I will put my spirit in you . . . I have promised, and I will do it.” When Jesus saw the people weeping over the death of Lazarus, he was troubled in spirit and moved by the deepest emotions. Approaching the tomb, Jesus himself began to weep. He loved Lazarus. In fact, Jesus loved Lazarus so much that he snatched him out of his tomb, back to life. That’s how God loves us. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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RECTORY HOURS Members of the Rectory staff are glad to assist you during the

following business hours: Monday to Friday: 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

Saturday & Sunday: Closed Evening hours by appointment only.

Saint Laurentius Catholic School at Holy Name of Jesus Parish

1612 East Berks Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19125

215-423-8834

Mrs. Elaine F. McKnight

Principal School Website: www.stlaurentius.org

Principal’s email: emcknight@stlaurentius.org

TRANSITION TEAM NEWS The Transition Team is committed to strengthening the bond of our parish community. We welcome your ideas and suggestions for building a stronger parish.

TRANSITIONAL TEAM MEMBERS

HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH Tim Booth 215-528-0926 John (Deacon Jack) Boyle 215-915-1003 Tim Breslin 215-764-9361 Bob Edinger 215-739-8099 Evelyn Gohn 267-481-5419 Joseph Gohn 267-481-5387 Elaine McKnight emcknight@stlaurentius.org Terry Richardson 215-426-8993 Duane Rutkowski drutkowski@stlaurentius.org Mary Winn winn@lasalle.edu Myles Kuppe mkuppe@howecpas.com

Patricia Augustyn, Irene Baj, Joe & Helen Baranowski, Anna Barndt, Michael Beyers, Mary Kozul Blazic, Phil Bowdren, Lisa Butterline, Elizabeth Campbell, David Caruso, Carol Ann Cashin, Jack Claus, Margaret Claus, Ginny Coleman, Anna Dailey, Ann Marie Dailey, Michael Dailey, Dolores Devine, Tom DiPetro, George Dobrowisky, Marie Firman, Jimmy Flanagan, Regina Foster, Billy Gallagher, Jimmy Gallagher, William Gallagher, Laura Gault, Donna Geiger, Sis Goebig, Azucena Gutierrez, Deacon Ed Hanley, Joseph Hess Sr., Harriet Jablonski, Sheila Kendall, Mary Kosmalski, Kathleen Krayger, Vivian Makin, George Matwiejczyk, Brendan McCulligan, Jeffrey McDonald, Kylie McGovern, Rosemary Mikolaitis, Amy Noel, Theresa Nowosielski, Maggie Oleszczyk, Cole Pinto, Susan Pollack, Frank Price Sr., Joseph Riggio, Mark Roccia, Jasmira Rosado, Marisol Rosado, Carol Santangelo, Rev. Joseph Scordo, Stanley Sobotka Sr., Gus Squillace, Dorothy Strikey, Eleanore Szalejko, Carol Turchi, Joe Walker, Eileen Wallis, Pat Westfield, Elizabeth Williams, Mildred Wollover, Cindy & Joe Yenchik, Terry Yorks, Bud Young, Stanley Zwolinski

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Visits to the Sick and Homebound

The pastoral staff visits with the sick in their homes and in area hospitals. Please contact the

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Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) RCIA prepares adolescents and adults for Baptism and full communion in the Catholic Church. For more information, please contact Father Zingaro.

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Religious instruction for grammar school students takes place during the school year.

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