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Epiphany of Our Lord Church
He
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Easter Sunday of The Resurrection of The Lord
April 5, 2015
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Easter Reflection
“Josef Pieper once remarked that the human capacity
for festivity arises from the ability to affirm all creation
as good-from the ability to embrace, in one resounding
‘yes,’ the length and breath, the heights and depths of
our experience in this world. We can hear this yes in
Mozart’s music-the play of light and shadow in the later
piano concerti; the poignant song of an oboe rising
above a steady pulse in a divertimento for winds. We
can hear it in the delighted squeals of a child as its face is
licked by the moist tongue and hot breath of a new
puppy. We can hear it in the contented, prayerful whispers of an elderly woman-full of love, grace and years-as
she prepares to meet death with quiet courage and dignity.
Saying yes to all of life, letting all of it in-that is festivity’s sustaining source. But there’s the rub. Few of us can
say yes to anything for very long. We live, after all, in an
intensely mobile culture of fast food, faster cars, disposable diapers and planned obsolescence. Our greatest
goal (as Andy Warhol once quipped) is to be famous for
fifteen minutes. At parties, we do not carry on conversations, we posture-repeating to one another snippets of
dialogue from movies, beer commercials, sitcoms, or
interviews with sports’ celebrities. Small wonder that
many in our society feel so isolated and lonely, so unable
to connect, so incapable of forming relationships that
last. Small wonder, too, that as a people we find ourselves increasingly bored, angry and violent-enraged and
terrified by the awful emptiness that seems to stretch in
every direction around us.
Given such cultural conditions, the Christian celebration of the ‘blessed Pentecost’ will strike many as mad
indeed. Fifty days of ‘dwelling in’ the paschal mystery!
Fifty days of surrendering in joyful faith and love as the
Spirit of God takes possession of our lives! Fifty days of
mystagogy, of walking with the neophytes ever more
deeply into the baptismal mysteries of death and resurrection. Good heaven! What an order!
One reason why such a prolonged celebration strikes
us as difficult-if not downright absurd-is that we tend to
link feasts and holidays with mindless hoopla. ‘Party
time,’ for many, is an invitation to obliterate consciousness, to get wasted, to veg out, to forget. But, a season
of Christian festival is precisely the opposite. It is a time
of intensified consciousness, finely tuned awareness,
awakened memory. The great fifty days of Pentecost are
not an unwelcome, unrealistic, obligation to ‘party on,’
even if we don’t feel like it, but an invitation to explore
more deeply ‘the weather of the heart,’ to awaken our
memory of God’s presence and power in our lives, to
look more closely at all the rich and varied textures of
creation. In short, Pentecost is a season for learning how
to say yes in a culture that wants to keep on saying no.”
Taken from “The Blessed Pentecost,” Nathan Mitchell, in Assembly, Vol.
20:1. © Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, Notre Dame, IN.
Bereavement Support
Sponsored by Mercy Suburban Hospital, 2701 DeKalb
Pike, East Norriton. Thursdays, from Apr. 9-May 14 at 6
p.m. Pre-Registration is requested. For more information,
call (610) 292-6515.
St. Mary’s Easter Dinner
All are invited to join us on Saturday, Apr. 11, at 1 p.m. at St.
Mary’s Hall on Elm and Oak Sts.,
Conshohocken. $15 Adult, $7 children, under 6 free. For tickets,
contact Felicia Jemionek Rzeznik at (610) 825-9027, Gloria Mastrocola at (610) 828-3014, or Leah Hepler at
(610) 834-8538.
Spiritual Baby Shower
The Respect Life Committee is
continuing its annual Spiritual Baby
Shower the weekends of Apr. 11-12
and Apr. 18-19. We will collect gifts
the weekend of Apr. 25-26. Baskets containing colorful
Easter eggs will be at all doors as well as in the vestibule. Enclosed in the eggs are gift suggestions. Please do
not wrap gifts. All financial gifts should be placed in an envelope. Make checks payable to Respect Life Epiphany of
Our Lord.
Knights of Columbus
Annual Dinner
Epiphany Knights of Columbus
Council #10605 will be holding its annual dinner on Saturday, Apr. 11, at the
Plymouth Country Club. Festivities
begin at 6 p.m.
All Knights are invited along with
their spouse, companion or friend.
Dinner is your choice of chicken cordon blue, baked
salmon or prime rib. Cost is $35 per person.
Please plan on joining us for this great event. Contact Frank McCreesh at [email protected] for further details.
Holy Rosary School’s Class of 2015
Spaghetti Dinner
Join them on Saturday, Apr. 11, from 4:30-8 p.m. at
the Holy Saviour Social Club, 434 E. Main St., Norristown. There will be Raffles, Lottery Tree, Wine Wall,
and MORE!
There is plenty of off-street parking and Take-Out is
available. For reservations, contact Janet at [email protected], or purchase online at http://
www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0b4facae2ea5fb6-spaghetti.
The proceeds will be used to offset the graduation
expenses of Holy Rosary’s Class of 2015.
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Divine Mercy
This year we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday on Apr.
12. Excerpt from the Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska, a
Polish nun from the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady
of Mercy in Poland: "On (the Feast of Mercy) the very
depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole
ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the
Fount of My Mercy. The soul that will go to Confession
and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete
forgiveness of sins and punishment… Let no soul fear to
draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My
mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or angel, will
be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. Everything
that exists has come forth from the very depths of My
most tender mercy.... The Feast of Mercy emerged from
My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be
solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter.
Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of
My Mercy. Every day at three o'clock, implore My
mercy, immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in My
abandonment at the moment of agony. This is the hour
of great mercy.... In this hour I will refuse nothing to the
soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of My Passion.
Please pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet every day.”
Services for Divine Mercy Sunday will be held at St.
Paul Church, 2007 New Hope St., East Norriton. The
Chaplet of The Divine Mercy will be recited at 2:30 p.m.
and Mass will be celebrated at 3 p.m.
Religious Education Program (REP)
Registration
REP registration for 2015–16 grades 1 through 7 is now
open and forms are due by Monday, Apr. 13.
Registration is to be completed online at http://
epiphanyofourlord.com/rep/documents/ and checks for
tuition and any applicable sacramental fees should be made
payable to Epiphany of Our Lord Parish and mailed to: Religious Education Office, 3050 Walton Rd., Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. Families must be registered in Epiphany of
Our Lord Parish to participate in REP or have permission
from the parish where they are registered. A Baptismal
Certificate is required for all new students.
Parents
Meeting: to be held on Wednesday, Sept. 9, from 6:45
to 8 p.m. in Parish Center 2. New families are asked to
have at least one parent attend this meeting. Contact
Stephanie Quigley at (215) 367-5853 with any questions or
visit http://epiphanyofourlord.com/rep/about-the-program/.
2015 Spring Workshops for
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Cathedral Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, Saturday, Apr. 18, from 10 a.m. - 12 Noon. Saint Katherine
of Siena, Northeast Philadelphia, Thursday, Apr. 23, from 79 p.m.
Youth Group Events
Junior High Youth Group Resurrection Party:
All 6th-8th graders are invited for an
XTREME EGG HUNT, egg dyeing and
more on Sunday, Apr. 12, 6-8 p.m. in
the Parish Center. RSVP to Gail Toto at
[email protected].
NET Overnight Retreat/Lock-In:
Montgomery County Youth in 8th-12th
grades are welcome the weekend of Apr.
25-26, 10 a.m. at St. Rose of Lima Church, North
Wales. Cost is $30 which includes food, registration,
supplies and Mass. Financial assistance available if needed.
What is NET?
NET is a ministry challenges young Catholics to love
Christ and embrace the life of the Church. Every August,
150 young Catholics aged 18-28 leave behind their jobs,
school, family, and friends to devote nine months to
serving with the National Evangelization Teams (NET).
These young adults travel the country giving youth retreats, speaking at high schools and giving parish missions.
What is a NET retreat/lock-in?
A NET retreat is lead by a group of young adult missionaries that have spent time training and working with
youth. The retreat will consist of skits, games, testimonies, talks, small groups, activities, prayer, mass and relationship building.
For more information, email Gail Toto/EOL Youth Minister at [email protected].
Steubenville Trip: Will be going to St. John's University in New York for the annual Steubenville Youth Conference, Aug. 7-9. $300 due on May 1. Make checks
payable to Epiphany of Our Lord and mail or drop off at
the Parish Office, Attn: Gail Toto. The trip is open to all
incoming freshman to graduating seniors!
Pre-K is back !
Holy Rosary Regional Catholic
School is now offering a 4-year-old
Pre-K! Options include three or five
full days from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
with before and after CARES available. Students will enjoy our faithcentered school along with Middle
School Buddies, Spanish, Technology, PE, Library and the
arts. Sign up now. Spots are filling quickly. For more
information, contact Beth Sheldon at (610) 825-0160 or
by email at [email protected].
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Of Human Dignity: The Declaration on Religious Liberty at 50
+Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood
March 17, 2015
EXCERPTS
Vatican II ended in December 1965 with an outpouring of enthusiasm and hope. The Council’s hope was grounded in two things: a
renewed Catholic faith; and confidence in the skill and goodness of
human reason.
In some ways, the Council’s Declaration on Religious Liberty –
Dignitatis Humanae in Latin, or “Of Human Dignity” in English – is
the Vatican II document that speaks most urgently to our own
time. The reason is obvious. We see it right now in the suffering of
Christians and other religious believers in many places around the
world.
Pope Paul VI, who promulgated Dignitatis Humanae, saw it as one of
the most important actions of the Council. It changed the way the Church interacts with states. And it very much
improved the Church’s relations with other Christians and religious believers.
In its own words, Dignitatis Humanae says “religious freedom … has to do with immunity from coercion in civil society [emphasis added]. Therefore it leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion and toward the one Church of Christ.”
In the same passage, the Council Fathers stress that the “one true religion subsists in the Catholic and Apostolic
Church,” and that “all men are bound to seek the truth, especially in what concerns God and his Church, and to embrace the truth they come to know, and to hold fast to it.”
To put it another way, Dignitatis Humanae is not just about freedom from coercion. It’s also about freedom for the
truth. The issue of truth is too easily overlooked.
In the mind of the Council, religious liberty means much more than the freedom to believe whatever you like at home,
and pray however you like in your church. It means the right to preach, teach and worship in public and in private. It
means a parent’s right to protect his or her children from harmful teaching. It means the right to engage the public
square with moral debate and works of social ministry. It means the freedom to do all of this without negative interference from the government, direct or indirect, except within the limits of “just public order.”
It’s also worth noting that the full title of Dignitatis Humanae is: On the right of the person and of communities to social and
civil freedom in matters religious. Religious liberty belongs not just to individuals, but also to communities. Civil society
precedes the state. It consists of much more than individuals. Alone, individuals are weak. Communities give each
one of us friendship, meaning, a narrative, a history and a future. They root us in a story larger than ourselves or any
political authority. Which means that communities, and especially religious communities, are strong – and a necessary
mediator between the individual and the state.
And what about the United States? Compared to almost anywhere else in the world, our religious freedom situation is
good. Religious believers played a very big role in founding and building the country. Until recently, our laws have reflected that. In many ways they still do. A large majority of Americans still believe in God and still identify as Christian. Religious practice remains high. But that’s changing. And the pace will quicken. More young people are disaffiliated from religion now than at any time in our country’s past. More stay away as they age. And many have no sense
of the role that religious freedom has played in our nation’s life and culture.
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Of Human Dignity: The Declaration on Religious Liberty at 50 cont’d
That leads to the key point I want to make here. The biggest problem we face as a culture isn’t gay marriage or global
warming. It’s not abortion funding or the federal debt. These are vital issues, clearly. But the deeper problem, the
one that’s crippling us, is that we use words like justice, rights, freedom and dignity without any commonly shared
meaning to their content.
We speak the same language, but the words don’t mean the same thing. Our public discourse never gets down to
what’s true and what isn’t, because it can’t. Our most important debates boil out to who can deploy the best words in
the best way to get power. Words like “justice” have emotional throw-weight, so people use them as weapons. And it
can’t be otherwise, because the religious vision and convictions that once animated American life are no longer welcome at the table. After all, what can “human rights” mean if science sees nothing transcendent in the human species? Or if science imagines a trans-humanist future? Or if science doubts that a uniquely human “nature” even exists? If there’s no inherent human nature, there can be no inherent natural rights – and then the grounding of our whole
political system is a group of empty syllables.
Modern pluralist democracy has plenty of room for every religious faith and no religious faith. But we’re lying to ourselves if we think we can keep our freedoms without revering the biblical vision – the uniquely Jewish and Christian vision – of who and what man is. Human dignity has only one source. And only one guarantee. We’re made in the
image and likeness of God. And if there is no God, then human dignity is just elegant words.
Earlier I said we need to leave here tonight with a spirit of hope. So let’s turn to that now in these last few minutes
before we have questions and discussion.
We need to remember two simple facts. In practice, no law and no constitution can protect religious freedom unless
people actually believe and live their faith – not just at home or in church, but in their public lives. But it’s also true that
no one can finally take our freedom unless we give it away. Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life” (Jn
14:6) He also said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (Jn 8:32). The Gospel of Jesus Christ is
for people who want to be free, “free” in the truest sense. And its message is meant for all of us; for all men and women
– unless we choose to be afraid.
Looking back over the past 50 years, and even at our lives today, I think it’s too easy to see the problems in the
world. It’s too easy to become a cynic.
There’s too much beauty in the world to lose hope; too many people searching for something more than themselves;
too many people who comfort the suffering; too many people who serve the poor; too many people who seek and
teach the truth; too much history that witnesses, again and again, to the mercy of God, incarnate in the course of human affairs. In the end, there’s too much evidence that God loves us, with a passion that is totally unreasonable and
completely redemptive, to ever stop trusting in God’s purpose for the world, and for our lives.
The Second Vatican Council began and ended in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the worst war in human history. If
there’s an argument to be made against the worthiness of humanity, we’ve made that argument ourselves, again and
again down the centuries, but especially in the modern age. Yet every one of the Council documents is alive with confidence in God and in the dignity of man. And there’s a reason.
God makes greatness, not failures. He makes free men and women, not cowards. The early Church father Irenaeus
said that “the glory of God is man fully alive.” I believe that’s true. And I’d add that the glory of men and women is
their ability, with God’s grace, to love as God loves.
And when that miracle happens, even in just one of us, the world begins to change.
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Our Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for April
MASS INTENTIONS
Monday, Apr. 6
Universal: That people may learn to respect creation and care for it as a gift of God.
Evangelization: That persecuted Christians may
feel the consoling presence of the Risen Lord and the
solidarity of all the Church.
8:30 a.m. – MaryAnne P. Koehler
Tuesday, Apr. 7
8:30 a.m. – Joan Cullen
Wednesday, Apr. 8
8:30 a.m. – Elizabeth Dungan
The Adoration Chapel
Votive Candle is In
Memory of
Thursday, Apr. 9
Apr. 5
Debbie
Miller
8:30 a.m. – Anthony Engro
Respect Life Rose
Friday, Apr. 10
8:30 a.m. – Edward Dash
Is in Loving Memory of
Saturday, Apr. 11
Mary Mack
8:30 a.m. – Mary & Joseph Velten
This rose will remain on the
Altar in front of
The Blessed Mother
Voter Registration
Christians have a duty to be politically active, to
register, vote and speak up about issues that affect
the common good. Tuesday, May 19 is the Primary
Election Day. Make sure that you are properly registered to vote. The last day to register is Monday,
Apr. 20. If you know that you will be out of town on
that day, or otherwise are unable to get to the polls,
don't let that make you lose your vote! Obtain an
absentee ballot application and submit it right away!
But the deadline is Tuesday, May 12. Registration materials and absentee ballot applications are available in
the church vestibule.
Stewardship is a way of life.
Tithing is God’s Plan for Giving.
Due to the printing deadline, tithing information was
not available for this parish bulletin.
The Adoration Chapel
Votive Candle
If you wish to reserve a week for a special occasion
that merits a memorial candle, simply a wish, or tribute
for someone? The Votive Candle Stand offers you a candle for a donation of $10 that will remain lit 24/7 for one
week and a parish bulletin announcement. Call Lydia
Hayward at (610) 828-8634.
Carry Your Rosary Everyday
When you carry a Rosary,
Satan has a headache.
When you use it, he collapses.
When he sees you praying it, he faints.
Let us pray the rosary every time,
Indulgences
A plenary indulgence is granted if the Rosary is recited
in a church or public oratory or in a family group, a religious
Community or pious Association. A partial indulgence is granted
in other circumstances.
Thank you for your continued support!
From the Pastor:
“The fifty days from the Sunday of the Resurrection
to Pentecost Sunday are celebrated in joy and exultation
as one feast day, indeed as one ‘great Sunday’ (St.
Athanasius, Epistula festalis: PG 26, 1366). These are the
days above all others in which the Alleluia is
sung” (Universal Norms, 22).
Please Pray For The Sick
Robert Auch*
Miriam Beaumont*
Bartholomew Cahan
Maureen Cahan
Stacy Callahan, 8yrs Old
Kathy Fonash*
Esperanza Galshack*
Steven Hedricks
Kathy Kane*
Bill Keenan*
John P. Kelly*
Bob Hamilton*
Helen Miller*
Mary Mirabile*
Janet O’Connor*
Mary Pizzico,*
Phyllis Pupkiewicz
Jill Ramos
Gloria Scandale*
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Pastoral Staff
Rev. Joseph J. Quindlen, Pastor
Rev. James J. Kelly, In Residence
(Retired)
Permanent Deacons
Emil J. Wernert,
Michael Pascarella, Jr.
William R. Radetzky (Retired),
Kenneth P. Clancy (Retired)
Joel M. Ziff, (Retired)
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Parish Staff
Business Manager, Paris A. DiPietro
Director of Music, Constance M. Steuer
Business Secretary, Lydia Hayward
Administrative Assistants*
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*Cecilia T. Dadario, part-time
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Nicole Zimmerman, part-time
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Mass Schedule
Parish Office Requests
To register in the parish,
Saturday
arrange for a baptism, or
5 p.m. Vigil
request a Certificate of
(fulfills the Sunday Obligation)
Eligibility for sponsorship at
Sunday
Baptism or Confirmation,
7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., & 11:30 a.m. contact the rectory Monday
through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to
Daily
8:30 a.m. Monday to Saturday 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:30
p.m. (email is preferable).
Holydays
7 p.m. Vigil, 8:30 a.m., 12:05 & 7 p.m. Also, please advise our office
staff of any change of
Confessions
address, telephone number
Saturday
or family status.
3:30-4:30 p.m. & by appointment
Anointing of the Sick
Parish Office Hours
First Saturday of the month
during 8:30 a.m. Mass or by
Monday-Friday
special request.
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
After 4:30 p.m. by appointment only Please notify the rectory as
Closed for lunch: 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
soon as possible when any
parishioner becomes
Saturday
seriously ill or is admitted to
By appointment only
the hospital.
Sunday
By appointment only
Baptism
Baptisms are celebrated after
A mail slot is located in
the 11:30 a.m. Mass every
the rectory front door.
Sunday, with the option of
Baptism during the 11:30 a.m.
Mass on the fifth Sunday of
the month. Both first-time
parents must attend a PreJordan class, which is held
the first Wednesday of every
month.
Pre-Registration for the class
is required by contacting the
rectory. Sponsors not from
Epiphany are required to
submit a Certificate of
Eligibility from their parish two
weeks prior to the Baptism.
Marriage
Notify the priest of your
intention to marry at least six
months before the date of the
wedding to assure sufficient
preparation and to arrange for
Pre-Cana sessions.
Miraculous Medal—
Perpetual Novena
After 8:30 a.m. Mass every
Saturday.
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Religious Education
CHAPEL CLEANERS NEEDED
www.epiphanyofourlord.com
(215) 367-5853
[email protected]
Stephanie Quigley,
Coordinator, part-time
Carla Manno,
Adm. Assistant, part-time
Since many people come to pray at our Adoration
Chapel, we are in urgent need of volunteers
to help clean. Consider helping ONLY ONCE
every eight weeks on Mondays, from 8-10 a.m.
Please call Dolores Gallagher at (610) 825-0287.
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Youth Ministry
www.epiphanyofourlord.com/youth
(215) 367-5854
[email protected]
Gail Toto, Coordinator, part-time
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Holy Rosary Regional
Catholic School
www.holyrosaryregional.com
(610) 825-0160
3040 Walton Road,
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Lisa S. Hoban: Principal
[email protected]
Beth Sheldon,
Administrative Assistant
[email protected]
Perpetual Adoration Chapel
In order to keep our Perpetual Adoration Chapel open 24/7, we need your help. Please ask a
family member or friend to consider spending time with our Eucharistic Lord Jesus. You can
come to HIM, to praise and adore HIM or to pour out one’s heart to HIM, to ask for inspiration, to
be consoled and comforted, to ask for favors and guidance, and to give thanks. Please call
Elaine Thorpe at (610) 828-6925. If you can commit to any of the following Open Hours:
SUNDAY:
MONDAY:
TUESDAY:
WEDNESDAY:
THURSDAY:
FRIDAY:
SATURDAY:
5-6AM, 12-1 PM,1-2PM, 3-4PM, 8-9PM
5-6AM, 11AM-12PM, 4-5PM
10-11AM, 11AM-12Noon, 2-3PM, 4-5PM, 9-10PM
4-5PM, 5-6 PM
6-7PM, 7-8PM, 10-11PM
3-4PM, 6-7PM, 7-8PM, 9-10PM, 10-11PM
11AM-12PM, 12-1PM, 1-2PM, 3-4PM, 7-8PM, 9-10PM
NOTE: We are asking the men of the parish to cover the early morning times. Please do not leave any
religious articles in the chapel, ie, books, magazines, metals, prayer cards, rosaries, etc.
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