St. Mary’s Church - St. Patrick’s Church 6th & Pine Sts. Wilmington, De. 19801 15th & King Sts. Rev. Leonard R. Klein, Administrator Rev. John C. McVoy, Assisting

Deacon Robert J. Levesque MASSES: ST. MARY’S MASSES: ST. PATRICK’S Sunday: 10:15 A.M. Mon., Wed., Fri.: 8:00 A.M. Wednesday: 7:00 P.M. (Sept. to May) Tues., Thurs.: 5:30 P.M.; Confession 5:00 P.M. With devotions to St. John Neumann Sunday: 9:00, 10:30 A.M. (Extraordinary Form/Latin) 5:00 P.M. Saturday Evening: 4:00 PM (Vigil); Confession 3:30 PM First Friday: 6:00 PM (Extraordinary Form/Latin) First Saturday: 9:00 A.M. (Extraordinary Form/Latin) Baptisms: By Appointment Holy days: As announced. Rectory: 1414 King St. Phone: 652-0743

Second Sunday of Lent February 24, 2013

The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom should I fear?

Psalm 27:1

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Feb. 23 4:00 PM Alphonse DelCampo(D), req. Family Feb. 24 9:00 AM Nicla D’Amico(D), req. John & Concetta Farrace 10:15 AM Theresa M. (West) McClain(D) req. Mary Catherine & Charles Lawson 10:30 AM Chad Quinn(L), req. Girone Family 5:00 PM People of the Parish Feb. 25 8:00 AM John Francis Scully(D), req Bud Fitzsimmons Feb. 26 5:30 PM No Intention Feb. 27 8:00 AM John Francis Scully(D), req. Ann Tobin 7:00 PM No Intention Feb. 28 5:30 PM Jack Newnam(L), req. Sheila Dunne March 1 8:00 AM No Intention 6:00 PM Rebekka Rueda(L), req. Girone Family March 2 9:00 AM Liv./Dec. mem of Issel Family, Req. Issel Family 4:00 PM No Intention March 3 9:00 AM Julio & Marguerita Margiotta (D) req. Ellio & Patty & Family 10:15 AM Sen. John E. Reilly, Sr. & Alice Scanlon Reilly(D), req. Eleanor Riley 10:30 AM Linda K. Archer(L) (birthday), Req. Joe & Judy Archer 5:00 PM Jeremiah C. Dunne(D), req. Sheila Dunne March 4 8:00 AM James Francis Scully(D), req. Larry & Sally Tobin, Jr. March 5 5:30 pm People of the Parish March 6 8:00 AM Carol Baker Fata(D), req. Ann Tobin 7:00 PM No Intention March 7 5:30 PM No Intention March 8 8:00 AM No Intention Calendar of Events:- Feb. 26 St. Vincent dePaul Soc.—6:00 PM—Rectory Feb. 27 Clean Church—St. Patrick’s; Novena Mass at St. Mary’s—7:00 PM; Stations after 7:00 PM Mass March 3 St. Mary’s Annual Irish Tea—after 10:15 AM Mass March 6 Clean Church—St. Patrick's; Novena Mass at St. Mary’s—7:00 PM; Stations after 7:00 PM Mass March 7 40 Days for Life—St. Mary/St. Patrick’s day to Volunteer to pray outside Planned Parenthood

ST. PATRICK’S SACRIFICIAL GIVING Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 Offertory $2,741.00 St. Vincent dePaul Society 330.00 Candles 25.00 ST. MARY’S SACRIFICIAL GIVING Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 Offertory $1,1180.50 St. Vincent dePaul Society 15.00 Black, Indian & Home Missions 98.50 Weekly Offertory budgeted needs:- St. Patrick $2,692.00 St. Mary $885.00 PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS Rocky Rapposelli, Barbara Stackow, Arlene Dahl, Ruth Simpkins, Lisa Sulecki, Pat Zickgraf, Terry Mowbray, Louise Myers, Steve Naughton, Mary Dennis, Robin Passwaters, Lillian Devenney, Alena Rossita, Sharon Edwards, Pat & Frank Forsythe, Cecelia Elliott, Chris Seltzer, Sherlene Emory, Madeline Askins, Jay Slagle, Lareine Hagen, Mollie Archer, Elena Tadlock, Judith Gertman, Elaine Moser, Michael Hare, Dorothy Walsh, Ronald Lane, Jim Kelly, Kath McDermott, Virginia Lane, Patrick McGinnis, Joe & Bill McGiveny, George Wu, J. B. Harrington, Bill Taylor, Harry Coulsting, Christopher McGonigle, Duncan Ryan, Anastasia Sillen, Cristina Smith, Juanita Henderson, Sean Dahl, Cynthia Herrick, Diane Nangle, Tyler White, John Lewis, Judy Leary, Sr. George Mary Rhodes, John Nawrocki, Henry Manlove, Jr. Family, Mary Sobocinski, Larry Tobin, Jr., Pat Martin, Vernon Cropper, Jack Manlove, Richard Grier, Alice Lagowski, Ida Lane, Pat Shahan, Pat Coulsting, Stanley K.Szymanski, Joey Farrell, Grace Monaco, Betty Manlove, Alexis (Lexie) Collins, John Alexander McGonigle, Betsy Linhoff, Fr. Bruce Byrolly, Cindy Knorr. If you wish to add or remove a name from this list, please call the Parish Office—652-0743. Thank you. St. Mary’s Annual Irish High Tea will be Sunday, March 3 immediately following the 10:15 AM Mass. Coffee, refreshments and lots of wonderful hospitality will be provided. For more information contact Mary Jane Lisansky at 373-4136. Rice Bowls are available for your use during Lent. Day of Adoration:- We will once again have a day of adoration in Lent, on March 1, the First Friday. Exposition will follow the 8:00 AM Mass, and benediction will take place at 5:30 PM, preceding the 6:00 PM Latin Mass. You may sign up for an hour of adoration on the clipboard in the back of the church.

St. Mary’s/St. Patrick’s now has a live website. Check it out at http://smspwilmington.com/. The long-standing practice in the American Church is to conduct the collection for Black and Indian Missions on the third weekend of February. Somehow St. Patrick’s envelope set put the collection on this weekend. If you have brought an envelope for this second collection, please place it in the basket at the time of the regular collection. There will be no second collection.

Dear Members and Friends of St. Mary’s and St. Patrick’s: On this second Sunday in Lent the Church pauses to reflect on the glory of the risen Christ, anticipated during his ministry when he was transfigured in the presence of Peter, James and John. From this point in the Gospels Jesus turns his face to Jerusalem, to another mountain, Calvary. There his figure will be distorted by suffering and death, but the one who dies is the one the Father acknowledges as his beloved Son. On the cross his glory is hidden but still real. The transfigured Christ will pass through death to the glory of the resurrection. With him we continue our Lenten journey from the mount of the Transfiguration to the celebration of Christ’s Passover from death to life. Because of my assignment at the Cathedral, we will observe Christ’s Passover, the Sacred Triduum, this year at other locations. The Mass of the Lord’s Supper for Holy Thursday will be celebrated at 7:00 PM at St. Peter’s Cathedral with Bishop Malooly presiding. The Bishop will also preside at the Good Friday Liturgy at 3:00 PM the next day. Stations of the Cross will be prayed at St. Patrick’s at 7:00 PM on Good Friday. The Easter Vigil will be celebrated at St. Elizabeth’s at 8:00 PM on Holy Saturday, again with the bishop presiding, and we will be joined there by Christ Our King and St. Joseph’s. While this is in some ways a jarring change, it will give us the opportunity to celebrate these wonderful liturgies with a larger congregation. I hope that you will all take the opportunity to participate. (And don’t worry about parking around the Cathedral. There were over 300 for Christmas Eve mass and it worked out fine.) Easter Sunday morning mass schedule will be as on every other Sunday. May God assist you toward a renewing and holy Lent. Fr. Klein All during Lent we will use the Eucharistic response “Save us, Savior of the World.” READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 9:4b-10; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Lk 6:36-38 Tuesday: Is 1:10, 16-20; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 23:1-12 Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14-16; Mt 20:17-28 Thursday: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 16:19-31 Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 Sunday: Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15; Ps 103:1-4, 6-8, 11; 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Lk 13:1-9 Alternate readings (Year A): Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42] SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Second Sunday of Lent; Penitential Rite for Candidates for Full Communion Friday: World Day of Prayer; First Friday; Abstinence Saturday: First Saturday

Lenten Fasting Regulations:- 1) Abstinence on all the Fridays of Lent, and Good Friday. A) No meat may be eaten on days of abstinence. B) Catholics 14 years and older are bound to abstain from meat. Invalids, pregnant and nursing mothers are exempt. 2) Fast on Good Friday:- A) Fasting means having only one full meal to maintain one’s strength. Two smaller, meatless and penitential meals are permitted according to one’s needs, but they should not together equal the one full meal. Eating solid foods between meals is not permitted. B) Catholics from age 18 through age 59 are bound to fast. Again, invalids, pregnant and nursing mothers are exempt. C) Of course, fasting and abstinence can be observed as a spiritual discipline by those who are not required by law to do so. Confessions are offered at 3:30 PM on Saturdays, at 5:00 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and before the Latin Mass at St. Patrick’s and at 11:30 on Fridays at the Cathedral. In addition the churches of the City are working together to provide opportunity for Confession. Confessions will be heard every Wednesday from 6 to 7 PM from February 20 to March 20 at St. Ann, St. Elizabeth, St. Hedwig, St. Joseph, St. Patrick, St. Paul, St. Thomas and Christ Our King. “Catholicism” sessions at St. Patrick’s and St. Peter’s Cathedral stopped on Ash Wednesday and will resume after Easter. Listen to Catholic Forum every Sunday morning at 10:05 AM on 1150AM WDEL and www.wdel.com. Next Sunday, March 3 tune in to learn about the Catholic Relief Services’ Rice Bowl Program In balloting after the masses on the weekend of February 9/10, John Del Campo and Leopold Williams were elected Trustees of St. Patrick’s Church for the year 2013. The Knights of Columbus Fr. James F. Trainor Council Food Drive - Due to the continuing need for these food staples, the food drive will continue through Lent. 40 Days For Life is 40 days of peaceful prayer and fasting for and end to abortion. Please consider volunteering to pray outside Planned Parenthood, 625 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, during the 40 days. St. Mary’s/St. Patrick’s day for volunteering outside Planned Parenthood is March 7. For information call Sheila Dunne - 301-351-4417. St. Anthony of Padua Parish invites you to attend Via Crucis (Way of the Cross). An hour-long Lenten devotion performed in pantomime by children from kindergarten through high school, is presented at 7:30 PM every Friday during Lent in the church at 9th & DuPont Streets, Wilmington. There is no admission charge but free-will offerings will be taken. When necessary, contact Father Klein—(home) 478-2028; (cell) 717-586-9611; or e-mail LRKLEIN45@comcast.net.

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