651 East Springfield Road • Springfield, Pennsylvania 19064

651 East Springfield Road • Springfield, Pennsylvania 19064
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IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS
Business Office / Rectory
61 0-626-3321 • 610-626-3322
Parish School
610-626-1709
Religious Education
610-626-1057
Convent
61 0-626-2492
Pastoral Minister
610-626-8266
Music Coordinator
215-632-6457
Korean Catholic Center
61 0-259-2240
Catholic Social Services
61 0-626-6550
Website
www.holycrosscatholics.org
E-mail
contactus@holycrosscatholics.org
PARISH PASTORAL STAFF
Rev. John D. Gabin
Pastor
Rev. Edward B. Cahill
Pastor Emeritus
Rev. H. James Hutchins
Parochial Vicar
Rev. Msgr. Paul F. Curran
In Residence
Deacon Robert Frankenberger
Deacon Joseph N. Gousie
Sr. Loretta Saudarg, RSM
Business Manager
Sr. Mary Carmela, RSM
Pastoral Minister
Ms. Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Principal
Mrs. Kelly Meliti
Director of Religious Education
Mr. John Robinson
Music Coordinator
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Evening: 5:15 PM
Sunday, Upper Church: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 AM
BAPTISM POLICY
Baptisms are celebrated every Sunday, except for the first
Sunday of the month, at 12:30 PM. Please call the rectory at 610-626-3321 to set up an appointment with a Priest.
First time parents and godpClrents are required to attend a
Baptism Preparation Session. Only when Certificates of Eligibility from godparents are presented" then a date for the
baptism can be set.
Holy Day: 8:30 AM and 7:00 PM
Weekday:
8:30 AM
CONFESSIONS
Saturday, Lower Church: 4:00 to 5:00 PM
MARRIAGE POLICY
Arrangements are mad~ directly with t~e Parish Priest.s, vyithin
six months before the Intended wedding date. Weddings are
reserved for active parishioners. Pre-Cana Session is required.
Please call Rectory for appointment with Parish Priests. Our
next Parish Pre-Cana day will be on April 20, 2013. To reg\ister,
call Bill & Nicole @ 610-626-8486.
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VISITATION TO SICKAND INFIRM
Please call the Rectory or Sister Mary Carmela, Pastoral
Minister, when a parishioner is hospitalized or homebound.
REGISTRATIONS
By Appointment. All Catholics living in the parish should register at the Rectory. Please call Parish Office to make an appointment with one of the Parish Priests.
The Baptism Preparation Sessions are held the first Sunday
of the month at 12:30 PM in the Upper Church, with registration required. To register, please call the parish secretary
during regular business hours (Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM
to 4:00 PM). Registration must be made prior to the last Friday of the month. If no registrations are received, a session
may not be held.
RECTORY OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Friday: same as the Business Office·
1:00 - 7:00 PM • Sunday: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Saturday:
BUSINESS OFFICE HOURS
(Entrance through the middle, rear door of the Church)
Monday - Friday Only: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Closed for Lunch
12-1 PM); Closed Saturday and Sunday
PASTOR'S CORNER
We congratulate our young parishioners who will be receiving
their First Holy Communion this Saturday, May 11. May Our Eucharistic Lord
bless them and their families with the fullness of His life and love and may they
always stay close to Jesus and His Church through the Holy Eucharist.
Next weekend, May 11 and 12, Manna Bags will be available at the church doors. We ask
you to take a bag and fill it with canned food items such as beef stew, tuna fish, fruit, vegetables,
pasta, soups and pork and beans. These are the most requested items by people in need of
emergency food assistance. Then return the filled bags to church the following weekend - May 18
and 19. Thank you for your thoughtful charity to our needy brothers and sisters.
A big thank you to our hard-working Knights of Columbus for giving us a wonderful
Pancake Breakfast last Sunday. Many people attended and a good time was had by all!!
As of April 24, one hundred and eighty seven gifts to the Catholic Charities Appeal were
made by Holy Cross parishioners. Those gifts totaled $13 ,955 or 29% of our parish goal of$4 7,440.
I'm grateful to you if you have already contributed to this important Appeal that helps so many
needy people in our area. If you have not yet contributed, or even if you have and want to contribute
again, I ask you to be as generous as possible. May God bless your goodness.
We are in need of a few people to prepare decorated baptismal bibs for our parish infants
being baptized. The parish will reimburse any expenses. If interested, please call Father Gabin at
610-626- 3321.
Gina DeLuca and Joanne Miceli have agreed to be the adult coordinators of our parish Youth
Group. Weare grateful to Gina and Joanne for their willingness to serve the youth of our parish in
such an important way.
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THIS THURSDAY IS
ASCENSION T1fURSDAY
A HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION
MASSES: 8:30 AM (Sr:hool Mass)
and
7:00PM
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Monday
8:30AM
May 6
Tuesday
8:30AM
May 7
Thomas and Bridget
Lyons
Wednesday
8:30AM
MayS
Michael McKeown
No Vigil Mass
Thursday
8:30AM
May 9
Edna and Herman
Pace
Gene McGinnis
7:00 PM
Friday
8:30AM
Deceased Members of
the McCloskey Family
May 10
Thomas Bodell
Denise Berry
Branden Chandler
Victoria Cutuli
Sharon Diemer
Clare Doherty
Cornelius Dunleavy
Dorothy Eberhard
Emelia Fagnano
Robert Fiore
Anne Gallagher
Mario Gambol
Danny Hammond
Carolyn Henderson
Mary Kull
Kendall Lambert
Karen Landolfi
Susan Marconi
Patricia McCloskey
Vincent Menta
Helen Murphy
Helene Neary
Don Palermo
Eve Palermo
Melanie Palermo
Mary Pipitone
Mary Revello
Helen Sciarrone
Jeff Simmons
Joseph Sindoni
Mary Smythe
Billy Winans, Jr.
HOLY CROSS PARISH CARNIVAL
TUESDAY, JUNE 11 TO
Saturday
8:30AM
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May 11
Joseph Brodeur
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Next Weekend Mass Intentions
Saturday
5:15 PM
May 11
Ellen Berry
Sunday
7:30AM
9:30AM
May 12
Michael Horan
Sheila Flaherty
McKinley and
Mary Geary
People of Holy Cross
11:30AM
SATURDAY, JUNE 16
VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED
PLEASE CALL
610-626-3321
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FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK
None of today's readings even mention
traditional
feasts.
remembering
her name. Nor is today one of her
So, it might be easy to let day after day slip by without
even
that in this season of Easter, May is Mary's month. All the activity we
hear about in the Acts of the Apostles and the love offered and commanded
by
Our Lord in today's Gospel would not have been possible if Mary had not said
"YES" to God. Even the "new heaven" and the "new earth," promised in the Book
of Revelation
today, would not have been created.
As small children, many of us honored Our Blessed Mother by fashioning our
own little May altars. The girls yearned to play Mary in Christmas pageants, or we
simply prayed the Rosary. As adults, we should continue to respect and emulate
Mary.
Her presence is not often visible in the New Testament,
fact, at key times she is there; for example, at the Annunciation
Wedding
but it is there.
In
of Our Lord, the
Feast of Cana, the Crucifixion of Our Lord and at Pentecost, and we
should reflect on and follow Mary's example of obedience, faith, trust and love.
Every day let us ask Mary, the Mother of God and our mother, to pray for us
sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
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PREP - PARISH RELIGIOUS EDU~TION
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PROGRAM
As we look forward to another PREPyear, we would like to thank you for considering
Holy Cross for your family! Our children learn and experience the Catholic faith
through the message of Jesus Christ with our PREPprogram. Please consider being
a catechist, aide, or hall monitor for the 2013-201? PREPyear. Re-registration and
New Registration
began in March.
Please go to our website
www.holvcrosscatholics.org for information about tuition rates and guidelines for
PREP. You may download a registration form from the website or contact KellyMeliti
at 610-626-1057.
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MANNA PRA YER
Jesus. many times throughout
Your life
You fed hungry people and
You call others to help.
You called the young child with the
loaves and fishes to share his gifts.
You call each one of us today.
Open our eyes to see the needs of
others.
Open our ears to hear your call to
share.
Open our hearts to welcome all
people to the table of love.
AMEN.
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CO:N(jRJlr~L5trIONS
Conqratulations to Mary iue«
Jones, who won $198 from the 50/50
drawing at the Xnights
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CoIumbus 'Pancake Breakfast.
Thanks
to everyone
who
participaied. in this drawing.
NEW VESTMENTS - MEMORIALS
Eight new Mass vestments have been made
for us. If anyone or any group would like to
make a memorial donation of $125 for each
vestment, a memorial patch will be sewed
into the vestment and that person or persons
will be remembered in the prayers of the
Mass when the vestment is worn. The patch
may be worded "In memory of Name ..." or "In
honor of Name ..." Please make the check
payable to Holy Cross. Two of the vestments
have been memorialized.
Please see Fr.
Hutchins for any questions .
CYO BOARD OPENING
.For
anyone
interested in fillinz~ the
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Athletic Director's position, please
notify Mike Simpson or Tom Flaherty.
Thank you.
Tom Flaherty - 610-328-3097
tomflaherty83@msn.com
Mike Simpson - 610-329-9008
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PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ASCENSION!
We have been pondering and celebrating the triumph of
love over sin and death. We have heard our best stories of how
the apostles and earliest followers of Jesus became convinced of
His Resurrection, the reality of His glorified body; His abiding
; presence, and His promised return. Our own faith and relationship
with all three persons of the Trinity are based on the experiences of these first
Christians, on their interpretations of those experiences, and on the work they
undertook to share the Good News with the world and-ultimately-with
us. A long
history of faith, work, charity, prayer, and example links us to those beliievers who
stood staring at the sky and prayed together in community to await the Holy Spirit.
Traditionally, the feast of the Ascension was celebrated after a forty-day
"preparation" time: on the Thursday before the Seventh Sunday of Easter. In some
areas, the American bishops have designated the Seventh Sunday of Easter for the
celebration.
Historically, Ascension traditions have included blessings of early harvests,
solemn processions, holy dramas, and even hoisting of statues of the risen Christ
through church roofs, complete with suspended "angels" and showers offlowers and
unconsecrated wafers upon the congregation as mementos of the feast. And don't
forget Ascension picnics. These are times for eating, playing, resting, and
contemplating the sky that received the apostles' last glimpse of Jesus in the flesh.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the spring weather draws us outside instinctively.
Our central act of worship is a meal. So, a picnic is a natural expression ~f the feas.t,
but we are fed on every word that comes from the mouth of God, and just as truly,
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on the testimony of human lips. So nourish your picnic and your companions with
your own testimony of powerful encounters with GO:d.Take the risk of admitting that
you talk to God and God talks to you: that you negotiate with God for parking spaces
and healing, that God humbles you With a divine sense of humor that places you
exactly where you chose not to be, and that GO~ delivers the most subtle and
outrageous miracles when you most need them and least expectthem. Your listeners
will likely share some revelations of their own.
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