THE FIRST PARISH OF THE JOLIET DIOCESE (ESTABLISHED 1838) 710 WEST MARION STREET ~ JOLIET, IL 60436-1598 (815) 727-4746 ~ FAX (815) 727-4798 ~ WWW.STPATSJOLIET.COM

Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Friday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Monday - Friday 7:30 a.m. in English Wednesday 7:00 p.m. in Spanish

Saturday Vigil Mass 4:30 p.m. in English Sunday Masses

8:00 & 10:00 a.m. in English 12:00 p.m. in Spanish

Holy Day Masses Dates and times vary.

Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Wednesdays 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. & 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. Saturdays 3:30 - 4:15 p.m. or by appointment

Sunday Early Session 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Sunday Late Session 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Tuesday Confirmation Classes 7:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.

Please call the Parish Office for more information. English baptisms normally are held on the 3rd Saturday of the month at noon.

Please call the office before setting a date for your wedding. The diocese requires a six month preparation prior to the wedding.

Call the Office if you know of someone in need of the Sacrament.

Contact the Parish Office before placing any obituary notices.

Registration Forms are located in the Parish Office or in Church.

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February 27-28, 2016: The Third Sunday of Lent

St. Patrick’s Irish Mass & Dinner

Saturday - March 5th

Confessions 8:00 a.m. - Midnight

Bagpipe Mass 4:00 p.m.

Irish Dinner 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

with Soda Bread & Dessert $12 Beverages A La Carte

with Soda Bread & Dessert $11 Beverages A La Carte

with Dessert $5 Beverages A La Carte

with Chips or Potato Salad & Dessert $8 Beverages A La Carte

Bagpipe & Irish Music - Keigher Irish Dancers Raffles & Other Drawings - Fun for All!

For the last six years, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church (710 West Marion St. in Joliet) has hosted an annual on the first Saturday of March. This year, the Mass & Dinner takes

place on Saturday, March 5th from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. We will be serving a traditional Corned Beef dinner for $12 and an Irish Lamb Stew for $11 (both served with Irish Soda Bread and Dessert). Corned Beef Sandwiches (with Potato Salad or Chips and Dessert) costs $8 and there will be Pasta and Dessert for the Kids for $5. Families can buy a dinner for four for $20. Beverages will be served a la carte. We will be offering entertainment throughout the evening including the Keigher Irish dancers and Bagpipe Music as well! Confessions will be heard all day from 8:00 a.m. until Midnight. The purpose of this event is NOT to make money (although the thousand or so dollars we make comes in handy!). Rather, we want to bring the community together to celebrate our Irish Heritage, have a nice meal, and celebrate in this case our 178 year history of the parish. Contact the Rectory at (815) 727-4746 for more information.

, beginning at 8:00 a.m. until Midnight. Confes-sions will be heard in conjunction with our and our

, continuing through the night. To learn more, go to www.stpatsjoliet.com. As part of our Year of Mercy Commemoration, this has been a wonderful experience, both for me and the parish com-munity. This Lent, I am stopping at midnight (or until all confessions are heard) because I am celebrat-ing all three Masses on March 6th and the students from our Religious Education Program have their confessions heard between the three Masses celebrated that day. I need to have a little energy to get through the weekend, so come support your faith life and the parish community as well. In these experi-ences, folks from around the diocese have made the trip to support the cause - you are most welcome to join us!

As we have discussed these last few weeks, please consider the opportunity to For $1,000, we can convert each classroom to the LED variety, thus saving us

costs on replacing the lights as frequently and saving anywhere from 30-60% on our electric bill! Through the kindness of an anonymous donor, we have already raised the $10,000 for the church. Now we are seeking $1,000 to change the lights in each classroom of our church building and $5,000 for the gym lights (we are hoping Catholic Charities can help us with the gym). For more information, please contact the office at (815) 727-4746 for more information.

Finally, we have not discussed for awhile at the parish. Do you realize you can help sup-port our parish or donate your Sunday contribu-tions from the privacy of your home without the use of envelope? Please call the office or go online at our website for more information.

God Bless.

Gloria Dei Vivens Homo (The Glory of God is Living in Man) - St. Irenaeus of Lyons

Online Giving is a great way to support the parish without having to use envelopes or while you are on vacation or away

from the parish. Save the hassles and sign up now!

First Reading - The LORD God appears to Mo-ses and directs him to go and deliver the Israelites from Egypt (Exodus 3: 1-8a, 13-15) or Exodus 17: 3-7. Psalm - The Lord is kind and merciful (Psalm 103) or Psalm95. Second Reading - We are not to grumble like the people who were with Moses in the desert (1 Co-rinthians 10: 1-6, 10-12) or Romans 5: 1-2, 5-8. Gospel - If you do not repent, you will all perish (Luke 13: 1-9) or John 4: 5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42].

Monday: 2 Kgs 5: 1-15ab; Ps 42; Jn 4: 24-30 Tuesday: Dn 3: 25-43; Ps 25: 4-9; Mt 18: 21-35 Wednesday: Dt4: 1, 5-9; Ps 147: 12-20; Mt5: 17-19 Thursday: Jer 7: 23-28; Ps 95: 1-9; Lk 11: 14-23 Friday: Hos 14: 2-10; Ps 81: 6c-llab, 14, 17;

Mk 12: 28-34 Saturday: Hos 6: 1-6; Ps 51: 3-4, 18-21ab; Lk 18: 9-14 Sunday: Jos 5: 9a, 10-12; Ps 34: 2-7; 2 Cor 5:

17-21; Lk 15: 1-3, 11-32

PASTORAL ASSOCIATE

RCIA & YOUTH MINISTRY

HISPANIC MINISTRY

DIR., RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

- JOB DESCRIPTION CHANGES DAILY

- PARISH ADMINISTRATOR

POPE FRANCIS TWEET FOR THE WEEK: INEQUALITY IS THE ROOT OF SOCIAL EVIL.

Ministry Schedule for March 5-6, 2016

THE COLLECTION FOR FEBRUARY 13-14 WAS $6,304.05 FEBRUARY 20-21 WAS $4,017.63 EASTERN EUROPE WAS $496.00

Please remember St. Patrick’s in your Will or Estate Planning

And thanks for supporting St. Patrick’s Catholic Church!

Time, Talent and Treasure

4:00 p.m. Altar Servers Lector Greeter Eucharistic Minister

Senior Carlos Lockwood Julian Jankowski Maria Jankowski Scott Lockwood

8:00 a.m. Altar Servers Lector Greeter Eucharistic Minister

Senior Emily Schroeder Larry Lindholm Mary Lou Cicciotelli Dc. Paul Kolodziej

10:00 a.m. Altar Servers Lector Greeter Eucharistic Minister

Senior Maggie Becker Emily Limbach Religious Education Dc. Darrell Kelsey

Boyan Golden Students Margie Keigher Virginia Luna

On behalf of our nine hundred family com-munity, we welcome you to the oldest parish in the Joliet Diocese and second oldest parish in Northern Illinois! As one of our new family members, we invite you to register at St. Patrick’s Church, which invests you into the life of the Parish family. In the process, you will be able to receive through email or postal correspondence all the activities that our parish has to offer. Being a registered pa-rishioner makes things much easier when it is time for infant baptism, registration for our religious education, weddings, when asked to be a baptismal or confirma-tion sponsor and even funerals. You may obtain a registration form in the rectory, in the back of church, at our web-site at or by filling out the information below. We would be more than happy to mail you the registra-tion form for the parish. Thank you and welcome to the Saint Patrick’s Catholic community!

¡A nombre de nuestra comunidad de nove-cientas familias, le damos la bienvenida a la parroquia más antigua de la Diócesis de Joliet y la segunda más antigua del norte de Illinois!

Como un nuevo miembro de nuestra fami-lia, le invitamos a que se registré en la Igle-sia de San Patricio, que le invierte en la vida de la familia parroquial. En el proce-so, usted podrá recibir a través del correo electrónico o correspondencia postal, to-das las actividades que nuestra parroquia puede ofrecer. El ser un feligrés registrado facilita las cosas cuando es tiempo de bau-tizar a un niño, registro para la educación religiosa, bodas, o para ser padrinos de bautizo o confirmación e incluso funerales.

Usted puede obtener una forma de regis-tración en la rectoría, en la parte posterior de la iglesia, en nuestra página de internet

, o llenando la in-formación abajo. Con mucho gusto tam-bién le podemos enviar la forma de regis-tración de nuestra parroquia por corres-pondencia postal.

Please fill out the following information and place in the collection basket or mail for more information. Por favor llene la siguiente información y colóquela en la canasta de la colecta o mándela por correo para más información.

St. Patrick’s Church Short Registration Form Welcome to the Parish!

Reflection on The Year of Mercy...

Extend your mercy towards oth-ers, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us? - Saint Vincent de Paul Fr. Pete hears confessions every Wednesday at 3:00 and on Saturdays at 3:15 p.m.

Reflexion del Ano de Misericordia… Amplíe su misericordia hacia los demás, por lo que no puede haber nadie en necesidad quien

cumple sin ayudar. Por qué es-peranza hay para nosotros si Dios

retirara Su Misericordia de noso-tros? - San Vicente de Paúl Padre Pedro escucha las confesiones cada Miércoles a las 3:00 y Sábados a las 3:15 p.m.

~

At the 4:00 Saturday Night Mass this weekend, a group of men and women preparing for the sacraments at the Easter Vigil take part in the Mass of the First Scrutiny, a special rite of prayer and conversion that usually takes place during the Third Sunday of Lent. The

emphasis of our first scrutiny will focus on the importance of the Nicene Creed and the challeng-es this prayer offers. Please continue to pray for our elect as they walk through the final stages of their sacramental preparation.

As is customary at St. Pat-rick’s Catholic Church, we have asked our com-munity during the Season of Lent to pray even more for the men and women of our community who will receive the initiation sacraments at the Easter Vigil. As a sign of support from our com-munity, we ask that you write a note of support for these elect and drop them off the in display located in the Narthex during the Fourth and Fifth Sunday of Lent. Thanks for helping us sup-port those who wish to enter the faith life of the Church at Easter.

United States Marine Corps

Col. Timothy Tocwish David Gomez

James Hall Jason Hamilton

Robert Dale Bailey Devon McKeown

United States Navy

Josh Dolph Christopher Johnson

Paul Lyne Brian Marincic

United States Army

David Conner Donald Erickson Kristine Erickson

James Johnson David Lapello Douglas Legan

Roger Lonergan Michael Moore Brian Zoleske Alex Valtierra David Krueger

United States Air Force

Sean Robert Kinney Jerome Lavely James Steffen

Let Us Pray for Those from St. Patrick’s Who Protect Us in the Armed Forces

28 Febrero 2016: III Domingo de la Cuaresma

Primera Lectura - El Señor se aparece a Moisés y Lc indica que vaya y libere a los israelitas de su opresión en Egipto (Éxodo 3: 1-8a, 13-15) o Éxodo 17: 3-7. Salmo-El Señor es compasivo y misericor-dioso (Salmo 103 [102]) o Salmo 95 (94). Segunda Lectura - No nos quejemos. El que se sienta seguro deberá cuidarse para no caer (1 Co-rintios 10: 1-6, 10-12) o Romanos 5: 1-2, 5-8. Evangelio - Si no se arrepienten, todos perecerán (Lucas 13: 1-9) o Juan 4: 5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42].

Lunes: 2 Re 5: 1-15ab; Sal 42 ; Lc 4: 24-30 Martes: Dn 3: 25, 34-43; Sal 25 ; Mt 18: 21-35 Miércoles: Dt4: 1, 5-9; Sal 147: 12-20; Mt 5: 17-19 Jueves: Jer 7: 23-28; Sal 95: 1-9; Lc 11: 14-23 Viernes: Hos 14: 2-10; Sal 81 (; Mc 12: 28-34 Sábado: Hos 6: 1-6; Sal 51 (50): 3-4, 18-21ab; Lc 18: 9-14 Domingo: Jos 5: 9a, 10-12; Sal 34 (33): 2-7; 2 Cor

5: 17-21; Lc 15: 1-3, 11-32

18 Hour Adoration Vigil Mensual de Oracion March 5th - 6:00 a.m. - Midnight

St. Patrick’s Church (710 West Marion St., Joliet) invites you to our Monthly Prayer Vigil for Vocations in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament for 18 hours on March 5, 2016. We will begin the vigil at 6:00 a.m. Confessions will be heard until midnight. Everyone is invited to join us at any time in the evening or the entire time in praising the gift of God and our faith! For more information, please contact us at (815) 727-4746.

La Iglesia católica San Patricio (710 West Marion St. Joliet) les invita a la vigilia mensual de oración y alabanzas en compañía del Santísimo Sacramento el sábado 5 Marzo 2016 por 18 horas. La vigilia dará comienzo a las 6:00 de la mañana y habrá confesiones toda la noche. ¡Todos están invitados a participar del amor de Dios en familia! Para más información favor de llamar a la parroquia al teléfono (815) 727-4746.

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Parishioner

February 29, 2000 - Mary Yanchick March 1, 1996 - Gertrude Devereaux

March 2, 1997 - Donald Fisher, Sr. March 2, 1999 - Joseph Petrone

March 2, 2002 - Deacon John Renville March 2, 2009 - Ursula Martin March 3, 1990 - John Petrone

March 3, 1996 - Rev. Ronald Rigovski, OSB March 3, 2000 - Deacon James Gagnon

March 3, 2002 - Catherine Rodgers

March 3, 2004 - Dorothy Vargo March 3, 2009 - Donald Boseo

March 4, 1990 - Marie Vosburgh March 4, 1994 - Florence Sealy

March 4, 2007 - Rev. Paschal Honner, OSB March 5, 1992 - Margaret Dillon

March 5, 1995 - Eleanor Fenili March 6, 1996 - Rev. Victor Rudden

March 6, 2000 - Deacon James Gagnon

@ In Memoriam @

4:00 p.m. † Ann Valek

8:00 a.m. † Robert & Anne Fitzpatrick (Family) 10:00 a.m. † Eugene J. & Donald J. Fisher (Family) 12:00 p.m. The Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Church

ADORATION CHAPEL OPEN MON-FRI 8:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. THE ROSARY IS PRAYED MONDAY-FRIDAY AT 12:00 NOON AND THURSDAYS AFTER THE 7:30 A.M. MASS

7:30 a.m. † Francesca & Antonio Mazzulla

7:30 a.m. † Salvatore Cosenza 7:00 p.m. Holy Hour with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

7:30 a.m. † Don Cordano (Family & Friends) 7:00 p.m. Spanish Mass † Maria Simpson

7:30 a.m. † Annette Cooper

7:30 a.m. † Don Cordano 8:00 a.m. English Stations of the Cross 6:00 p.m. El Via Crucis en Español 7:00 p.m. Spanish Holy Hour - Círculo de Oración

7:00 p.m. † Bernard & Florence Sealy (Dolores Larson)

8:00 a.m. The Parishioners of St. Patrick’s Church 10:00 a.m. † Marcella Keigher (Family) 12:00 p.m. † Joan Nugent

Fr. Pete’s dispensation for that day allows us to enjoy a traditional St. Patrick’s Day Meal. We start a prayer and a wonderful Irish dinner (Provided by Maria Jankowski and crew) of Corned beef, Potatoes, Cabbage & Carrots with a delicious dessert to follow. A short business meeting will keep everyone alert for our entertainer “Jessica Michna” from Wisconsin will portray an Appalachian Woman “Sara (Ma) Semple” as she recalls her life in the 19th century. , To RSVP by March 7th, please call Peter & Judy

Valek at (815) 725-1528.

St. Pat’s Young at Heart Corned Beef

& Cabbage Lunch

Friday - March 11, 2016 12:00 noon in the School Gym

. As our Lord calls us to live as a Christian community, we invite you to participate in the social life of the parish by joining us at the event. A free will offering for these services would be appreciated. Much

thanks to the for sponsoring this event next weekend.