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SACRAMENTS

Baptisms are normally celebrated on Sunday at 11:45 am. Call the rectory at least one month in advance.

First Penance is celebrated by second graders who have attended CCD regularly for two years. Parents are required to attend preparatory meetings.

Lent/Advent: During Lent and Advent, the Sacrament of Reconciliation is available every Monday evening. See bulletin for times.

Saturdays: The Sacrament of Reconciliation is also available every Saturday from 4:30 - 5:00 pm or by appointment. First Eucharist is received by second graders who have attended CCD regularly for two years. Parents are required to attend preparatory meetings. Confirmation is celebrated in 8th grade for those who have attended CCD regularly.

Anointing of the Sick is administered as needed. Urgent calls will be answered at any time. Please call the rectory if anyone is home-bound or hospitalized. Matrimony must be scheduled at least one year in advance. Please call the rectory and speak to Father Frank to confirm the wedding date and to begin the preparation process.

Rectory: 70 Murray Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501  

Phone: 973-742-1969 / 973-742-3431

Fax: 973-742-1335

Email: ourladyofpompeii@aol.com

Website: www.ourladyofpompeiichurch.com

Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm Fr. Frank Agresti, Pastor fr.frankagresti@optimum.net

Sana Cuntrera, Parish Secretary

Dawn Makowski, Organist Phone: 973-633-5795

Sana Cuntrera, Local Youth Protection Coordinator

MASSES

Saturday Evening --------------------------- 5:15 pm

Sunday ---------------------------- 8:00 & 10:30 am

Holydays ------------------------------ As announced

Weekdays: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday --------- 8:00 am DEVOTIONS

Blessed Mother: Monday at 8:00 am Mass

St. Anthony: Tuesday at 8:00 am Mass

Rosary: Before Mass daily at 7:30 am

Eucharistic Adoration: Friday, 8:30 - 9:30 am RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Elementary: CCD classes are held every Sunday during the school year from 9:00 to 10:00 am. MEETINGS

Social Activities Committee: September to June

Finance Committee: Meets quarterly

Rosary Society: Second Thursday of the month, September to June

PARISH MEMBERSHIP

Our Parish family invites all of its members to participate fully in our spiritual and social life. Every family moving into the parish is requested to register at the Rectory. If you move to another parish, or change your address, please notify us.

ADORATION AND PRIVATE PRAYER Our Lady of Pompei will be open for Adoration and private prayer every day from 9:00 am until 12:00 Noon.

SUPPORT OUR LADY OF POMPEI

We strongly encourage you to consider online giving as soon as possible at www.ourladyofpompeichurch.com You can choose one-time, weekly or monthly recurring gift. Thank you for your generosity.

Norms for Holy Week,

the Paschal Triduum, and Easter in the Diocese of Paterson By Mandate of the Bishop

1. The date of Easter is the linchpin of the entire liturgical year and is declared immovable by the Apostolic See through mandate of the Supreme Pontiff. The date of Easter remains April 12, 2020.

2. The Chrism Mass is postponed to a date following Easter. The announcement of the date of the celebration will be given at a later time. The Sacred Chrism and Holy Oils consecrated and blessed last year remain for the administration of the sacraments. The administration of sacraments are completely valid and licit with the use of the Sacred Chrism and Holy Oils consecrated and blessed last year.

3. Holy Week, the Paschal Triduum, and Easter will be celebrated without the physical participation of the faithful.

4. To the degree that they are able, parishes are to live stream the liturgical celebrations of the Holy Week and Easter to the faithful without the physical presence of the faithful.

5. Liturgical celebrations are to be live streamed and not recorded so that the faithful may prayerfully unite themselves from their homes with the sacred action taking place in the parish church or chapel.

Further specific norms regarding individual celebrations:

1. Passion (Palm) Sunday: Palm is not to be blessed for distribution at this time; it will be blessed and distributed at a later time.

2. Holy Thursday: The washing of feet, already optional, is omitted in every celebration this year. The procession to the place of adoration is omitted and the Blessed Sacrament is not available for adoration. The parish church should not be kept open on the evening of Holy Thursday to prevent the gathering of large crowds. 3. Good Friday: To the measure that it is possible, the parish priest should celebrate the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion without people present. There is no veneration of the cross by the people. A special intention for the sick, the dead, and those who feel lost or dismayed is to be added to the Universal Prayer. The parish church should not be kept open on Good Friday to prevent the gathering of large crowds. 4. All expressions of popular piety and processions, i.e., live Stations of the Cross, processions with the Sorrowful Mother or other types of processions are suspended. Such expressions of piety may be moved to later dates which will be announced at an appropriate time. 5. Easter food is not blessed at the parish or any other public setting. The faithful may be referred to an adaptation made by the pastor and distributed via the internet of the Order for the Blessing of Food for the First Meal of Easter in the Book of Blessings. 6. The Mass of Easter Day may be celebrated and the faithful joined spiritually with the liturgical action through live stream.

7. All the above guidelines apply to religious houses, institutes and communities.

A Plenary Indulgence

The Apostolic Penitentiary, through the authority of the Supreme Pontiff, has granted a Plenary Indulgence to all of those who are suffering from the coronavirus or those who are caring for those who are ill, and additionally to all those subject to

quarantine during this time of grave difficulty. In order to obtain the Indulgence, which is the remission before God of guilt for sins already forgiven, the faithful are to observe the devotions and disposition outlined in the decree: The Plenary Indulgence is granted to the faithful suffering from Coronavirus, who are subject to quarantine by order of the health authority in hospitals or in their own homes if, with a spirit detached from any sin, they unite spiritually through the media to the celebration of Holy Mass, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, to the pious practice of the Way of the Cross or other forms of devotion, or if at least they will 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 fulfil the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer according to the Holy Father's intentions), as soon as possible. Health care workers, family members and all those who, following the example of the Good Samaritan, exposing themselves to the risk of contagion, care for the sick of Coronavirus according to the words of the divine Redeemer: "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends" (John 15: 13), will obtain the same gift of the Plenary Indulgence under the same conditions. The Holy Father has provided this Plenary Indulgence in order for the suffering and those who selflessly labor in the care of the sick are united ever more closely with Christ the healer and reliant on the all-powerful and never failing mercy of God. All to the contrary notwithstanding. Given this 20th day of March, 2020.

Most Reverend Arthur J. Serratelli, S.T.D., S.S.L., D.D. Bishop of Paterson

Rev. Stephen T. Prisk Vice Chancellor

MASS INTENTIONS WEEK OF MARCH 29, 2020 FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2020 5:15 For Our Deceased Parishioners SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2020 8:00 Agostino & Domenica Capalbo, r/b family John Surowitz, r/b Lori & Rudi Ference 10:30 Eugenio Gencarelli, r/b family

Elisabetta & Santo Gencarelli, r/b Assunta, Angie & Maria Concetta Porporino, r/b sister – in - Law Anthony Trapanese, r/b Benedetto & Santa Gencarelli Luigi Bagnuolo, r/b Mario & Vincenza Ippolito

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2020 8:00 For Our Deceased Parishioners TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2020 8:00 For Our Deceased Parishioners WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2020 8:00 Mary & Louis Giordano, r/b daughter FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020 8:00 For Our Deceased Parishioners SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2020 8:00 For Our Deceased Parishioners 5:15 For Our Deceased Parishioners SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2020 PALM SUNDAY 8:00 Agostino & Domenica Capalbo, r/b family Francesco Gencarelli, r/b Mario Ippolito & family 10:30 Eugenio Gencarelli, r/b family

Josephine Agresti, r/b family Sam Mangani, r/b wife Lucy & family Henry Aulenbach, r/b The Maritato Family Anthony Trapanese, r/b The Lambert Family Emilio Porporino, r/b wife Luigi Bagnuolo, r/b wife & children Domenico & Maurizio Mitolo, r/b Nunzio & Franca Ferrigno

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