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Confessions:
Saturdays: 3:30 PM-3:45 PM
Sundays: 8:00 AM-8:15 AM
10:30 AM-10:45 AM
*Any time by appointment
Mass Intentions Apr 8 Mon 8:00 am St. Leo Int. of Bob & Marlene Wilmes (Wheatley)
Apr 9 Tues No Mass
Apr 10 Wed 8:00 am St. Martin Lynette Gilligan (B-day)
Apr 11 Thur 8:00 am St. Leo Flood Victims (Wheatley)
Apr 12 Fri 8:00 am St. Leo Flood Victims & families of NE (Hoffman)
Apr 13 Sat 4:00 pm St. Leo Positive outcome & speedy recovery for Tom Minor (Donovan)
Apr 14 Sun 8:30 am St. Martin People of our parishes
Apr 14 Sun 11:00 am St. Leo +Arthur & Lorene Murphy (Nisley)
Adoration:
Sundays prior
to 11:00 am
Mass
St. Leo Catholic Church St. Martin Catholic Church
330 W. 8th
Street 125 W. 3rd
Street
Palmyra, NE 68418 Douglas, NE
(402) 780-5535 (Please send mail to St. Leo Church) Emergency Calls Only: (402) 202-7685
www.stleoandstmartin.com Email: [email protected]
Fr. Adam Sparling, Pastor
CALENDAR ITEMS
Lenten Evening of Recollection– All are invited to join us on Thursday, April 11th beginning at 7pm at St. Leo’s for an evening of recollection. During this time Fr. Tim Danek (Assistant Pastor of Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Plattsmouth) will offer a few reflections in addition to there being time for prayer and confessions. Please mark your calendars and come to prepare for the celebration of Holy Week!
The newly formed Emmaus Institute for Biblical Studies will offer its second of three introductory and promotional sessions on Tuesday evening, April 2, 7:00-8:30, at St. Joseph Church in Lincoln. The presentation will include short talks on Scripture and Christian living by the Emmaus instructors, as well as additional information about the Institute. All are welcome to come and meet the staff, ask questions, and learn more about this new resource for the Diocese of Lincoln.
The Spring Full Board meeting of the Lincoln Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (LDCCW) is April 13th
at St. Mary’s in Aurora,
beginning with ‘Mary’s Way of the Cross’ at 8:30 a.m. All women in the Lincoln Diocese are members of the LDCCW and encouraged to
attend. Please email [email protected] if you plan to attend.
Meet someone with the Gift of Healing and conclude your Lent with a Palm Sunday weekend retreat April 12-14 at Our
Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House in Waverly. April 12-14, Bishop Ronald Gilmore, bishop emeritus of Dodge City, KS; and
Jacqueline Loh of "Grace that Reigns", will lead retreatants to understand of how God works in their lives, and experience
spiritual, mental, and physical healing. See goodcounselretreat.com or call 402-786-2705.
There will be a Day Long Retreat for couples experiencing primary or secondary infertility held in Lincoln on May 5th from 9 a.m.-3:30
p.m., led by Fr. Tim Danek with other guest speakers. Cost is $40 and includes Mass and brunch. Sign up/more information at:
https://lincolndiocese.regfox.com/infertility-retreat
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The time for fulfillment of your Easter Requirement is from the First Sunday of Lent through Trinity Sunday. This
means all Catholics are required to go to Confession in this time period and at least once receive Holy Communion as a
visible sign of unity. It is hoped, however, that all in a state of grace will receive Holy Communion at every Mass
attended throughout the year in addition to making it a practice of a monthly confession or immediately after falling
into mortal sin.
St. Leo & St. Martin Strategic Plan Update– St. Leo & St. Martin parishes are finalizing the Strategic Plan and we thank those that have attended the Open Forum meetings to help us with the process. The final draft of the Strategic Plan will be posted to the website on April 9th for review by our parishioners. If you have any suggestions or comments on the draft of the Strategic Plan, please send them via email to our Strategic Plan Consultant at [email protected]. Starting on April 16th, we will begin the Implementation Project planning phase of the Strategic Plan, with three Pillar Implementation Teams. The Pillar Implementation Teams will be meeting over the next few weeks to create projects and a 5 Year Budget for the parishes that will ensure that the Strategic Plan will be fully implemented. If you are interested in serving on one of the Pillar Implementation Teams, please complete an application and drop it off at the parish or email it to [email protected]. The application form is on the website under the ‘Bulletins tab’ and in the back of both parishes and are due by April 12, 2019. Please prayerfully consider serving on this important project for the future success of our parishes. For more information, please contact Fr. Sparling or Eva Fujan, at [email protected].
MASS INTENTIONS NEEDED! If you have a family member, friend, fellow parishioner, or petition that could use some
prayers please consider having a Mass, the supreme prayer given by our Lord, offered. The suggested donation is $10 per Mass. Checks should be made payable to: St. Leo Stipend Account.
Safeguard your family’s purity of heart by texting the word “secure” to the number 66866. You will receive a
series of short videos to help you protect your family.
GREAT RESOURCE FOR LENT! FORMED.org — programs, eBooks, movies, and talks that will entertain, engage, and inspire
them with the beauty and wonder of their faith. FORMED is an on-line Catholic resource treasure trove. The parish pays for an annual
subscription for you to use to grow in our beautiful faith. If you have not signed up for it yet, go to www.formed.org -- enter the parish code
KN4A9J -- enter information required -- create a password -- search through and enjoy the material.
E-Tithe! Parishioners can now contribute to the Church via check, credit or debit card by going to our website and clicking the “Give Now”
(or by going to http://giving.parishsoft.com/stleo). As always you can still give via cash or check in your envelope anytime. THANK YOU!
Weekend Masses: 1st, 3rd & 5th (Odd Sundays) 2nd & 4th (Even Sundays)
Saturday 4 PM at St. Martin Saturday 4 PM at St. Leo
8:30 AM at St Leo Palmyra 8:30 AM St Martin Douglas
11:00 AM at St Leo Palmyra 11:00AM St Leo Palmyra
April 7, 2019
5th
Sunday of Lent
YOUR RESPONSE TO THE LORDS BLESSINGS
March 31, 2019
Adult Youth Plate
St. Leo $ 1,965 $ 0 $2
St. Martin $ 440 $ 16.47 $60 Amount needed to balance 2018-2019 budgets:
St. Leo: $5,498/month or $1,271/week
St. Martin: $3,852/month or $893/week
“God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in
abundance for every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8
Thank you to those who give!
Attention Amazon users! If you do please consider using AmazonSmile for your purchases! If you do
and select St. Leo Catholic Church of Palmyra as your charitable organization a portion of your purchases
will be given back to the parish Religious Education Program. Or go to: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/47-0537439
Villa Marie Home and School has been providing a Christ-Centered, quality education for special needs children, ages 6 – 18, from all faith backgrounds since 1964. If you are a parent with a special needs child, and if you would like to see what Villa Marie may be able to offer your child and family, please contact Sr. Jeanette, Principal, 402-786-362 May God bless you!
Southern Nebraska Register New Update: We are getting closer to closing the gap. St. Leo’s will pay $570 for SNR
subscriptions for parishioners this fiscal year and to date we have collected $190. St. Martin’s will pay $375 for SNR
subscriptions for parishioners this fiscal year and to date we have collected $170. If you have not already submitted your
subscription envelope please consider giving $15 or more to help cover your annual subscription.
Job Opening The Education Technology department for the Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Lincoln, in conjunction with Hastings Catholic Schools, have an immediate opening for a Full Time Technology Integration Specialist. Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree or higher in education; hold a current Nebraska teaching certificate; have at least three years of successful full-time experience as a classroom teacher. This new, full time position will assist classroom teachers to integrate mobile devices into the classroom curriculum and develop teacher guidelines for the responsible and intentional use of mobile devices in classroom instruction, in accord with the vision and philosophy of the Diocese of Lincoln. The position will work out of Lincoln, but approximately 1/3 time will initially be spent in Hastings, NE, later transitioning completely to St. Cecilia School in Hastings. For more information, see the full job description at https://www.lincolndiocese.org/school-employment. To apply, send letter of interest and resume to [email protected]. No calls, please.
THANK YOU to all those who came out to support the Knights of Columbus pancake breakfast this weekend that was done in conjunction with the Palmyra Easter Egg Hunt. All men of St. Leo and St. Martin parishes are strongly encouraged to join the Knights of Columbus. The Knights are a fraternal organization that works support the Church giving of their time and talents to continue the Mission of Christ! Contact Chad Hartwick for more information.
From Father:
We are still in need of Mass intentions! We have received about 10 more Mass offerings but still need more to fill our Mass
times. If you have a family member, friend, fellow parishioner, or petition that could use some prayers please consider
having a Mass, the supreme prayer given by our Lord, offered.
As the Diocese promotes ‘Safe Haven Sunday’ to safeguard the purity of souls please feel free to pick up a copy of
Equipped: Smart Catholic Parenting in a Sexualized Culture located in the back of Church. There is also a prayer card for
individuals and families for you to take to pray together as a family. Our over sexualized and misled culture is in desperate
need of understanding sexuality as God has designed it. No individual, family or institution in our world today is free from
the harmful effects of the world’s view of sexuality. We must fight to change the world as Disciples of Christ to correct the
error about human sexuality and to rid our world of the harmful effects.
I ask you to keep in your prayers those preparing for Sacraments this Easter: Harry Petersen, Melissa Donovan, Declan
Donovan, Norah Donovan, Patty Beecham, and Emily, Lillian and Wesley Parolek. This is truly a great year to rejoice as
our small parish has this many people coming into the Church! It is clear that the Holy Spirit is working greatly in hearts!
Please take some time in the next coming weeks to pray for these wonderful people. Please also remember in your prayers
all of our children preparing for confirmation on May 1st.
Last weekend a good group of parishioners went down to collect the High Altar donation to bring back to our parish.
Please join me in thanking them: Mick and Jackie Donovan, Rich Carmen, Chris Beeck, Garrett Beeck, Mark Bennier,
Chad Hartwick, Vince Hinrichsen, Gus Hinrichsen, Harry and Connie Petersen, Darren Donovan, Brandon Donovan,
James Bremmer, and David Bennier. I know there were some others who had expressed they wanted to help but could not
make the trip down. Thank you to Emily and Jason Parolek and Gayle and Larry Royal who donated some packing
supplies for the team to use. If I missed anyone please let me know. I am so thankful for all of those who helped in anyway.
We are deeply grateful to Wilfred Miller and his family for donating the altar and many statues with it! Some parishioners
from the team who went down suggested I open it up to your generosity if any of you would like to donate towards the
refurbishment of the Altar and some of the statues. I was advised by them that now might be a good time to have some
refurbishment done. If you would like to donate please feel free to do so by putting your donation in an envelope and
marking it ‘Altar Donation’. We will be working to get the altar in to the Church as soon as we can in order to be true to
the conditions which were agreed upon when we received this amazing gift! If you have any thoughts or questions please
feel free to let me know. I am honored to be a part of this parishioners led project!
Please join in on praying the Stations of the Cross this lent!
Stations of the Cross will be Friday evenings at 6pm. (Next week 4/12 @ St. Martin)
St. Leo & St. Martin Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday, April 14
th Good Friday, April 19
th
● 4:00 pm Mass (Saturday Vigil) @ St. Leo ● 3:00 pm – Stations @ St. Leo
● 8:30 am Mass @ St. Martin ● 6:30 pm Passion & Veneration of the Cross @ St. Martin ●11:00 am Mass @ St. Leo ● Confessions after each liturgy at the respective parish
Monday of Holy Week, April 15th
Holy Saturday, April 20th
● 5:00 pm Chrism Mass @ Cathedral
● Confessions from 4-5 pm @ St. Leo ● 8:30 pm Easter Vigil @ St. Leo
Wednesday of Holy Week, April 17th
Confessions 6:30-7pm
Holy Thursday, April 18th
Easter Sunday, April 21st
● 6:30 pm Last Supper Liturgy @ St. Leo ● 8:30 am Mass @ St. Martin ● Confessions after Liturgy @ St. Leo ●11:00 am Mass @ St. Leo *Adoration after Mass until 11pm
It is my hope that many families will participate in as many of the Holy Week liturgies as possible. Through the liturgy itself we commemorate our Lords Passion, Death & Resurrection that brought about our salvation.
For Lent, prayerfully consider not just “giving up” something but also “adding” to your prayer, fasting or almsgiving.
A blessed and sacrificial lent to you all!! God Love You! ~ Fr. Sparling