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WEDDINGS: Those who become engaged are requested to reach out to a parish priest at least six (6) months before the desired wedding date.

Please also reach out to Deacon Warner for informa on about our Pre-Cana program around the same me. BAPTISMS: Bap sms are celebrated every Sunday following the Noon Mass, approximately at 1:00 PM. Parents are requested to call the Parish Center and speak with Deacon Warner or one of our parish priests who can assist them in registering their child for the Sacrament of Bap sm. Deacon Warner can schedule the Pre-Jordan Bap sm Program with the parents of the child at the me of registra on.

Any ques ons or concerns about the Sacrament? Reach out to Father Rossi or Deacon Warner, thank you!

PASTORAL STAFF

Rev. Anthony T. Rossi ----------------------------------- Pastor father.rossi@stanselmparish.com

Rev. John Large ------------------------------------ Senior Priest father.large@stanselmparish.com

Msgr. Thomas J. Dunleavy ---------------- Pastor Emeritus

Deacon Gerald J. Whartenby --------- Pastoral Associate

Deacon Dennis P. Warner -------------- Pastoral Associate

Mrs. Geraldine Murphy ------------------- Principal, School

Mr. Anthony Polselli ------ Coordinator of Rel. Educa on apolselli@stanselmparish.com

Mrs. Mary Ann Thackrah --------- Advancement Director MThackrah@stanselmparish.com

Mrs. Diane Leone ----------------------- Director of Music

Third Sunday of Easter April 18, 2021

PARISH CENTER

Phone: 215-637-3525 Fax: 215-637-4915

Parish Website: www.stanselmparish.com

@ St. Anselm Parish, Philadelphia

SCHOOL

Phone: 215-632-1133 Fax: 215-632-3264

School Website: www.stanselmschoolphila.com

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Weekend Saturday Vigil ............................................. 4:30 PM Sunday.............. 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM & 12:00 Noon Weekday Monday thru Friday .................................... 8:30 AM Saturday .................................................... 8:00 AM

CONFESSION SCHEDULE Saturday ------------------------------------- 3:30 - 4:15 PM

PARISH CENTER HOURS

Sunday ----------------------------------------------------- 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Monday & Wednesday ------------------------------- 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Tuesday & Thursday ---------------------------------- 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM Friday ------------------------------------------------------- 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM Saturday -------------------------------------------------- 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Masks are mandatory & hand sani zer is available in the office.

If you have an emergency and need a priest, please call 1-610-938-1372

Happy Easter to you and yours! Our Easter Season lasts until Pentecost Sunday, which this year is May 23rd, traditionally celebrated fifty days after the celebration of Easter Sunday. In this Easter season, we remember the saving action of Christ’s Resurrection and the events that followed which St Luke details in the Acts of the Apostles, which is found after the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament of the Bible.

Due to many factors, including the craziness of the pandemic and its challenges – I made the decision last

summer to move our annual Forty Hours celebration to the week of our Saint’s Patronal Feast Day which is April 21st each year. So, we will begin Forty Hours on Monday following the Daily Mass at 8:30 am. I will ask our parishioners to do their best to commit to at least a half hour before the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Exposition will begin each day at 9 am and continue through the celebration of Evening Prayer Monday & Tuesday at 7:00 pm, and Wednesday we will have Mass at 7:00 pm to properly commemorate our great patron, Saint Anselm of Canterbury.

A little bit about our great parish patron: this great Bishop and Doctor of the Church was born in, where only the best saints came from, Italy around 1033 AD. He was born in Northern Italy, in the town of Aosta to a royal family of German blood (Lombard). His father was not of great status within the royal caste, and lost some prominence due to political issues in northern Italy. So, Anselm, in his twenties, left home and traveled to France, to a monastery of Benedictine foundation. Later he would be appointed the head of the Abbey at Bec, and ordained a bishop of the local region of France. He would at this time compose and write his two best known works, the Monologion and Proslogion. These two documents focus on the understanding of God and our relationship to Him. He then composed a series of dialogues on the nature of truth, free will, and the fall of Satan. He then would travel across the English Channel and visit his good friend Lanfranc who was then Archbishop of Canterbury. This is how, eventually through the normal events of politics and other human conflicts, he would be appointed a successor of Lanfranc on the 25th of September 1093. As archbishop, St. Anselm maintained his monastic ideals, including stewardship, prudence, and proper instruction, prayer and contemplation. St Anselm worked for reform and for the interests of His Archdiocese in Canterbury. As such, he repeatedly took advantage of expedient moments to press the English monarchy for concessions and support of the reform agenda. His principled opposition to royal prerogatives over the Church, meanwhile, twice led to his exile from England. Our great patron was exiled one time by the English Monarchy, and would return on the request of King Henry II of England. Then he would be exiled in the midst of a dispute with English clerics and the King back to Italy. He, in the midst of these two exiles would write his most well-known work, Cur Deus Homo (Why did God become Man?). Anselm would eventually return to England as an older man and die during Holy Week 1109. He would be buried in the great medieval Cathedral of Canterbury, which burned in the 1170’s, and his remains were lost. Today it is not exactly known where they are – somewhere in the location of the Cathedral that stands there today. Our patron Saint Anselm has been called "the most luminous and penetrating intellect between St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas". He held in his many writings that faith necessarily precedes reason, but that reason can expand upon faith: "And I do not seek to understand that I may believe but believe that I might understand. For this too I believe since, unless I first believe, I shall not understand…” In his work Prosologion we find his famous phrase “Faith seeking Understanding”. His motto is intended "an active love of God seeking a deeper knowledge of God".[152] Once the faith is held fast, however, he argued an attempt must be made to demonstrate its truth by means of reason: "To me, it seems to be negligence if, after confirmation in the faith, we do not study to understand that which we believe". St Anselm firmly believed that faith is found once we begin to study and understand the world and those around us – finding God in the world and through natural reason. Our great patron was canonized in 1163 on the request of another great Archbishop of Canterbury – St. Thomas a Becket - who was beheaded in 1170 by then English king and monarch Henry also. Two great priests, who served as religious leaders, were great minds and holy men of God. A model for all of us who serve you, the people of God here in Parkwood!

Please join us for Forty Hours this week! Father Francis Foley will preach Monday evening. Father Keith

Chylinski, a former parochial vicar here will preach Tuesday evening. Lastly on Wednesday evening I will preach about our great patron and saint, Archbishop Anselm. And I hope to lead a procession around our beautiful church outside (depending on what the weather holds Wednesday). If it is inclement, we will process in the church itself. Many thanks to those planning and making these liturgies so beautiful for all of us. May the Lord bless you and your loved ones this week - may we ask Saint Anselm’s intercession for all of our needs!

+ Father Rossi

Mass Schedule Sunday, April 18

8:00 AM William J. Milson, 2nd Anniversary r/b McCabe/Milson Family

10;00 AM Members of Saint Anselm Memorial Society 12:00 PM Hugh Becker r/b Gerri & Bill Murphy

Monday, April 19 8:30 AM Donna Buonviso r/b Frain Family

Tuesday, April 20 8:30 AM Larry O’Brien r/b O’Brien Family

Wednesday, April 21 8:30 AM Donakis “Doc” Dimitriadis r/b John Crouse

Thursday, April 22 8:30 AM Edna Roman r/b Mark & Cathy Blanche

Friday, April 23 8:30 AM Kathryn & Arthur Gamble r/b Family

Saturday, April 24 8:00 AM Irene McEntee Ovecka r/b McEntee Family 4:30 PM Walter & Mary Kopacz

r/b Bob & Betty Koper & Jean McNally

Sunday, April 25 8:00 AM Walt Molishus r/b Family 10;00 AM Claire & William Nessel r/b Adele & Frank Nessel 12:00 PM Bud Magee & Tiffany Magee Hopson r/b Cathy Magee, Wife & Mom

Pray for Our Sick… Richard Bryan, Frank Brzyski, Daphne & Debbie Camille, Mary Clark, Helen Coe, Lisa Costello, Ed Crompton, Mary Davis, Frankie & Tony DiPietro, Kimberly Doering, Joan Donahue, Baby Everly Durham, Joe Elitz, Lena Farrington, Donny Fletcher, Marianne Galone, Alice Greiss, Vince Grillo, John Fritz, Jim Hendri, Richard Himes, Dolores Hughes, Marie Hughes, Jean Kronbar, Joseph Kronbar, Joel Laskey, Cathy Leitner, Regina Long, Michael Lowery, Sante Lucarini, Marlene McDermott, Kathy McDowell, Staci McFadden,Denise McReynolds, Joan McReynolds, Tony Maher, Cecilia Mallon, John Maloney, Mary & Peter Marcolina, Carol Masterson, Chelsea Milanese, Jack Murphy, Robert Murray, Christine Navodowski, Peggy O’Leary, Tracey Osborne, Anna Palermo, Joe Pellecchia, Sally Park, Molly Quinn, Mario Ragazzone, Virginia Richards, Jerry Russ, Janet Segaline, Agnes Smith, Robert Snyder, Sr., Tommy Stride, Joseph Verrello, Anna Mae Weber, Jack & Sophie Weber, Ray White, Dorothy Wizimirski, Joseph Zwicharowski

Pray For Our Deceased… Dolores Daly, sister of Rita Hain

Schedule Sunday, April 18

9:00 AM SCRIP Sales – Parish Center …until 12:30 PM

Monday, April 19 Forty Hour Devotions

9 AM – 7 PM 7:00 PM Al Anon Meeting – Spirituality Center

Tuesday, April 20 Forty Hour Devotions

9 AM – 7 PM 9:00 AM SCRIP Sales – Parish Center 6:40 PM Nar Anon – Spirituality Center

Wednesday, April 21 Forty Hour Devotions 9 AM

Mass & Procession 7 PM

Thursday, April 22 6:00 PM SCRIP Sales (until 7:00 PM) 7:00 PM Boy Scouts – Parish Hal1

Friday, April 23

Saturday, April 24 4:00 PM SCRIP Sales (until 5:30 PM)

Special Intention for the week of April 18, 2021

Saint Joseph Sanctuary Candle In memory of Eileen Gross

Requested by Eileen Doering

Weddings

April 9, 2021 Michael Bolash and Katie Barnett

April 10, 2021 Carl Broll, Jr. and Cara DiMarcantonio

Baptisms

April 11, 2021 Gabriella, daughter of Gabriele DiSandro & Natalia Padilla

Mason James, son of Connor & Brianna Haggerty Niklaus Logan, son of Dariel Saldana & Christin Torres Raelynn Alice, daughter of Christopher & Melissa Webb

Vincentian Message… In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus explains the meaning of the scriptures. Like the disciples, when we offer and receive forgiveness our hearts burn because we encounter the risen Christ within us. Have you considered answering the call to “help the poor find forgiveness and healing in their life” by joining the Society of St. Vincent DePaul?

Josephine C. Connelly Achievement Award

The Connelly Foundation has long recognized the value of Catholic education and through its grant making has sought to strengthen and enhance Archdiocesan schools. In further recognition of family commitment to Catholic education, the Connelly Foundation has established the Josephine Connelly Achievement Award. Congratulations to the following eighth grade students who are scheduled to receive the Achievement Award at a reception in their honor at Archbishop Ryan High School:

Francesca Brunkel Patrick McWade

Both students will attend Archbishop Ryan Catholic High School

Each awardee is entitled to 40% of the yearly standard parental tuition to be applied for each of the four years the student attends any archdiocesan high school within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia or Mercy Career & Technical High School.

MARTINA WHITE SHREDDING EVENT

Saturday, April 24th 10 AM – 1 PM

Place all items in your trunk and stay in your car. A staff member or volunteer will remove them. Please enter the schoolyard by way of the driveway between SPIN and St. Anselm School. The shredder will be in the back of the schoolyard.

We Need Your Help…

In order to prepare our Church for First Holy Communion, we have scheduled our annual spring cleaning for Tuesday, April 27th at 1:30 PM. If you are able to help, please bring a bucket, clean rags and elbow grease. We will supply the Murphy’s oil. Please use the main entrance to enter Church. Thank you.

Bereavement Ministry Sessions Our Lady of Calvary Lower Church

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

April 19 Understanding the Stages of Grief April 26 “Changed Forever” May 3 Surviving Stress & Loneliness May 10 Feelings of Denial, Bargaining &

Guilt May 17 Spiritual Elements of Grief and Healing May 24 The Value of Memories &

Personal Bereavement Reflections

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$10 Rib Rally to Go includes… Four Fall off the Rib Bones

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Order forms are available at the Parish Center or you can simply scan the code to place your order directly with Texas Roadhouse.

Sunday Collection – April 4, 2021 Church Collection $ 4,748.00 E Giving $ 2,157.00

Total: $ 6,905.00

Sunday Collection – April 11, 2021 Church Collection $ 6,144.00 E Giving $ 4,590.00

Total: $10,734.00

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