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PERPETUAL HELP DEVOTIONS Tuesday………………………………... 8:20 a.m.

BAPTISM Please call rectory to make arrangements for instructions.

WEDDINGS Please make arrangements at least six months beforehand.

CONFESSIONS By appointment, call Christ the King (314) 721-8737

ROSARY Weekdays………………..………….…8:00 a.m.

COMMUNION SUNDAY FOR HNS Third Sunday……….……….9:30 a.m. Mass

LADIES’ CLUB MTG Third Sunday….……after 9:30 a.m. Mass

HOLY NAME SOCIETY April 3 ........................ …………..7:00 p.m.

PARISH COUNCIL Thursday, March 28, 2019 in Hall ……………………………………………...7:00 p.m.

BULLETIN DEADLINE Monday ..................... …………..9:00 a.m. in writing to the Rectory

March 24, 2019 • 8240 Washington Vinita Park, Missouri 63114-6263

Msgr. Michael Turek, Pastor Deacon David Harpring, Parish Life Coordinator

www.stritacatholicchurch.org

RECTORY Phone ............................. (314) 428-4845 Fax ................................. (314) 736-1660 Email .............................. [email protected] Website……………..www.stritacatholicchurch.org

CHURCH and HALL Address .......................... 1700 North & South Mailing address: 8240 Washington, Vinita Park, MO 63114-6236

LITURGIES Sunday Mass ………………………………....9:30 a.m. Tuesday Mass……….. ....... …………….…..8:30 a.m. Thursday Communion Service ………….8:30 a.m. Holy days as scheduled in the bulletin the week before the Holy day.

St. Rita Parish of

THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT

Holy Hour: Wednesdays noon-1 pm

Stations of the Cross: Fridays at noon

ST. RITA, VINITA PARK, MISSOURI

DAILY READINGS & MASS INTENTIONS

MONDAY: ISAIAH 7: 10-14;8:10 HEBREWS 10: 4-10 LUKE 1: 26-38

TUESDAY: DANIEL 3: 25,34-43

MATTHEW 18: 21-35 8:30 a.m. Robert L. Lee

WEDNESDAY: DEUTERONOMY 4: 1, 5-9 MATTHEW 5: 17-19

THURSDAY: JEREMIAH 7: 23-28 LUKE 11: 14-23 8:30 a.m. Communion Service

FRIDAY: HOSEA 14: 2-10 MARK 12: 28-34

SATURDAY:HOSEA 6: 1-6 LUKE 18: 9-14

SUNDAY: 9:30 a.m. St. Rita Parish Family

St. Rita News & Notes

Aquinas Dialogues Lecture Series – Straight Talk Today about the Real God: Sr. Carla Mae Streeter, O.P. – When: 9 April, 2019, Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Cost: $25 (includes lunch). Location: Il Monastero Banquet Center (SLU Campus) 3050 Olive St., St. Lou-is, MO 63103. Free parking is available on site. To reg-ister, or for more information, contact Diane Henderson at 314.256.8856 or [email protected]. Deacon Dave and his wife plan to attend. Holy Thursday Washing of Feet – If you would like to be considered for foot washing at the Holy Thursday Lit-urgy, please contact the parish office by phone or parish email. All are invited: male, female, young, old, all rac-es and ethnicities, etc. We will choose from those who respond representative parishioners for the foot wash-ing. Archdiocesan Lenten Day of Recollection… Parish-ioners, their guests, and all throughout the Archdiocese are invited to join Archbishop Robert Carlson and the clergy of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis for a Lenten Day of Recollection on Saturday, March 30, 2019. This special day of reflection, recollection, and reconcili-ation begins at 10:00 a.m., and includes two spiritual conferences led by Archbishop Carlson. Each confer-ence will be followed by exposition of the Blessed Sac-rament and an opportunity for the Sacrament of Recon-ciliation. The afternoon conference will also be followed by Stations of the Cross. The day will end with evening vespers at 4:30 p.m. and the celebration of Mass at 5:00 p.m. All conferences and prayer will be held in the Ca-thedral Basilica, with lunch provided for all in Boland Hall. This gathering is free (good will offerings to help offset the cost of lunch will be gratefully accepted). Though a free event, organizers request advance registration to properly prepare for lunch. To register or for additional information, please contact Mary Ann Fox at 314-373-8208.

Msgr. Mike and Deacon Dave

Welcome to all visitors to St. Rita Church.

Please Pray for the Sick in Our Parish Family

Bob Beccard, Carmen Blumer, Ida Brandon, Paul Broyles, Richard Butler, Clark Fisher,

Louise Gale, Phyllis Hoerchler, Louis Jordan, Pat Kemper, Mark Kiefer, Rich Kiefer, Shirley Kiefer,

Ann McIntyre, Emma McNairy, Ed Murray-Dahnir, Audrey Pfister, Dave Pursley, Quentin Ray,

Betty Sadowski, Jim Ulett, Samuel Unnerstal, & Jim Wester.

Please pray for their speedy recovery.

STEWARDSHIP March 17, 2019 $1399.35

24 families used envelopes, 2 loose checks

Place canned goods in the baskets at all

doors to church.

March 24, 2019

St. Rita is the patroness of hopeless causes. Let us pray to St. Rita to keep our parish healthy.

Our Parish Mission Statement is: That we all become saints like Jesus wants us to.

STEWARDSHIP BULLETIN REFLECTIONS “He said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none.’” (Luke 13:7) We can all be like the barren fig tree at times. Do you cling to what you have or do you generously share with others? How will you respond when God asks you what you have done with all the gifts He has given you? Remember, not only are we called to be generous, we are called to develop and nur-ture our gifts and return with increase.

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR LENT 2019

“For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God” (Rm 8: 19)

(Continued from last week)

2. The healing power of repentance and forgiveness

Creation urgently needs the revelation of the children of God, who have been made “a new creation”. For “if anyone is in

Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Cor 5:17). Indeed, by virtue of their

being revealed, creation itself can celebrate a Pasch, opening itself to a new heaven and a new earth (cf. Rev 21:1). The path

to Easter demands that we renew our faces and hearts as Christians through repentance, conversion and forgiveness, so as to

live fully the abundant grace of the paschal mystery.

This “eager longing”, this expectation of all creation, will be fulfilled in the revelation of the children of God, that is, when

Christians and all people enter decisively into the “travail” that conversion entails. All creation is called, with us, to go forth

“from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Rom 8:21). Lent is a sacramental sign of

this conversion. It invites Christians to embody the paschal mystery more deeply and concretely in their personal, family

and social lives, above all by fasting, prayer and almsgiving.

Fasting, that is, learning to change our attitude towards others and all of creation, turning away from the temptation to

“devour” everything to satisfy our voracity and being ready to suffer for love, which can fill the emptiness of our hearts.

Prayer, which teaches us to abandon idolatry and the self-sufficiency of our ego, and to acknowledge our need of the Lord

and his mercy. Almsgiving, whereby we escape from the insanity of hoarding everything for ourselves in the illusory belief

that we can secure a future that does not belong to us. And thus to rediscover the joy of God’s plan for creation and for each

of us, which is to love Him, our brothers and sisters, and the entire world, and to find in this love our true happiness.

Dear brothers and sisters, the “Lenten” period of forty days spent by the Son of God in the desert of creation had the goal of

making it once more that garden of communion with God that it was before original sin (cf Mk 1:12-13; Is 51:3). May our

Lent this year be a journey along that same path, bringing the hope of Christ also to creation, so that it may be “set free from

its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Rom 8:21). Let us not allow this season of

grace to pass in vain! Let us ask God to help us set out a path of true conversion. Let us leave behind our selfishness and

self-absorption, and to turn to Jesus’ Pasch. Let us stand beside our brothers and sisters in need, sharing our spiritual and

material good with them. In this way, by concretely welcoming Christ’s victory over sin and death into our lives, we will

also radiate its transforming power to all of creation.

From the Vatican, 4 October 2018

Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi

Deacon Diaper Drive – Please mark your calendars!!! During the weekends of March 30-31 through Palm Sunday,

April 14th, the Permanent Deacons in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, in conjunction with the Respect Life office, will be col-

lecting diapers for infants, toddlers, and adults as part of our fourth annual diocesan-wide Pro-Life service project to assist

families in need. Last year we collected over 277,000 diapers for those in need and we’d like to exceed that total this year.

We would ask that you please consider placing the purchasing of infant, toddler or adult diapers on your shopping list and

bringing them to St. Rita. There will be drop-off spaces at all the entrances. All diapers collected will be donated to assist

families in our parish community with the assistance of our St. Vincent DePaul. For more information, speak to Deacon

Dave or give the office a call. We ask you to pray for the success of this project and to please be as generous as possible.