MASS SCHEDULE Sat Mar 2 9:00am FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTIONS ST. RAYMOND’S - Rosary & Confessions followed by Mass 4:00pm ST. ANDREW’S – Intentions of the People of the Parish Sun Mar 3 + Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin 8:15am ST. PATRICK’S – (Brasher Falls) 10:45am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Roger Wolfe by The Family Mon Mar 4 + Saint Casimir 8:30am ST. ANDREW’S – No Mass due to Funeral in Norfolk 10:00am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Funeral Mass – Stephen Clemmo Tue Mar 5 8:30am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Annie LaBarge by Pat LaRose & Christy McDonald 9:30am LBSH, Brasher Falls Wed Mar 6 + ASH WEDNESDAY 8:30am ST. ANDREW’S – Paul Cutler by The Cutler Family 12:00pm CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – John J. Plonka by Natalie Todd 5:30pm BRASHER FALLS – St. Patrick’s Church Thu Mar 7 + Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs 8:30am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Kim Grady by Jim & Nancy Besaw Fri Mar 8 + Saint John of God, Religious 8:30am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Mike Lynch by Steve Osgood Sat Mar 9 + Saint Frances of Rome, Religious 4:00pm ST. ANDREW’S – Ann Fiacco by Tom & Family Sun Mar 10 8:15am ST. PATRICK’S – (Brasher Falls) 10:45am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Intentions of the People of the Parish

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Mar 2 Fr. Giroux Installation, St. Andrew’s after 4pm Mass Mar 3 Faith Formation, 9:35am – 10:35am, FAPC Mar 3 Children’s Mass 10:45am, Church of the Visitation Mar 4 NHN Nursing Home Crafting, 10:00am – 12:00pm, FAPC Mar 4 NHN Bingo, 1:30pm – 3:30pm, High Street Senior Citizens, Norfolk Mar 4 Manicotti Monday, 4:00pm – 6:30pm, FAPC Mar 5 Mardi Gras, 5:00pm until?, FAPC Mar 6 Ash Wednesday, see Mass schedule Mar 10 Norfolk Knight’s Brunch, 8:30am – 12:00pm, FAPC Mar 10 Faith Formation, 9:35am – 10:35am, FAPC Mar 10 Blessed Is She, 12:30pm – 3:30pm, SA Church Hall

Father Giroux's Weekly Schedule

Monday Norwood, Norfolk & Raymondville

Tuesday Brasher Falls & North Lawrence

Wednesday Norfolk, Norwood & Raymondville

Thursday Mass at Brasher Fall then

Canon Law work at Ogdensburg

Friday Typically a day off

Saturday All three parishes

Sunday All three parishes

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

Lent As you ponder what you will do for

Lent this year, perhaps you might like to consider

sharing your time & talents with any of NHN mini-

ministries. For more information on our ministries,

please pick up a brochure at the entrance to church.

If you are thinking about a monetary donation,

please consider any of our local outreach programs

including Neighbors Helping Neighbors, NNCS

Snack Pack, Community Lunch Program for Kids,

Norwood Norfolk Raymondville Outreach, Norfolk-

Raymondville Food Pantry. All of these programs &

ministries are only as strong as the support they

receive. God bless you during your Lenten journey.

YOUTH RALLY 2019

A Day of Faith and Fun For 7th to 12th Grade Students

God has blessed each, and every one of us with

the “Light”, the gift that enables us to be the best

that we can be. The time is now. It’s time to

RISE UP! Join us for a day filled with Fun,

Praise, Food, Music and the Holy Spirit.

Date: April 6th, 2019

Time: 9:30am to 5:00pm

Rally location: Trinity Catholic School,

Massena New York 188 Main Street

Registration for this one, day event is $25.00,

and lunch is included.

To Register: www.rcdony.org/youthrally

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS, MARCH 29TH

If you would like more information please contact:

Tom Semeraro, Director of Youth Ministry at, 315-

393-2920 ext. 1415 or tsemeraro@rcdony.org

Several people have asked for Fr. Murphy’s new

address. It is: Msgr. John R Murphy

189 Park Ave.

P O Box 236

Old Forge, NY 13420

BULLETIN POSTINGS Any postings to go in the bulletin for the week

needs to be given to the parish office by 10:00am

on the Tuesday of that week if not before. Thank

you!

WOMEN'S RETREAT: Save the Date

Save the date! A day long women's retreat will

be held May 4th at Norfolk. Edwina Gateley is

a very inspiring and entertaining presenter.

Stay tuned for on line registration.

PARISH OF THE VISITATION AND ST. RAYMOND

SANCTUARY LIGHT

A beneficial spiritual practice in our churches allows people to request that the Sanctuary Lamp before the Blessed Sacrament burn for one week remembering a person or family members. A $10 offering is asked. To make arrangements contact the parish office, or speak with those who accept Mass intentions at St. Andrew's. You are also welcome to use one of the "Sanctuary Lamp" envelopes at the church entrances, placing it in the collection basket any weekend.

ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH

ST. ANDREW’S PRAYER LINE

Members of our Parish who would like a member of their family or a close friend put on our Prayer Line are asked to call either Doreen Valade @ 315-212-5729 or Ann Miller @ 315-353-2950. Please be sure the person we will be praying for agrees to this before you call. Everything you share with us is kept confidential.

ST. ANDREW’S PRAYER GROUP St. Andrew’s prayer group meets at St. Andrew’s Church Hall each Monday at 7:00pm. All are welcome.

3-YEAR-OLD CLASS AT TRINITY Trinity Catholic is looking into opening a 3-year-old program for the 2019-2020 school year. If you are interested in exploring this option for your children, please attend an informational meeting on Tuesday, February 26, in the Trinity Dining Hall....just come in the big double doors! If you cannot make it that evening, but are interested the program, please let them know at 315-769-5911.

INSTALLATION OF FATHER GIROUX

On Saturday, March 2,, 2019, at the 4:00 pm Vigil Mass at St. Andrew’s Church in Norwood, Bishop Terry LaValley will formally install Fr. Garry Giroux as the pastor of the parishes of Visitation and St. Raymond of Norfolk and St. Andrew’s of Norwood. A reception will follow the Mass. Parishioners from both parishes are encouraged to participate in this Mass.

Parish of the Visitation &St. Raymond and St. Andrew’s:

*** NEW CLASS TIME ***Sunday, March 3rd: All Classes Children‛s MassNOTE:~ The 3rd Confirmation Parent Meeting has been moved from March 24th to Wednesday, May 8th 6 - 8pm~ First Communion Rite of Enrollment will be on March 17th

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CHURCH IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Next week we will take up the Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. This collection supports the Church in more than 20 countries that are still struggling to recover in the aftermath of communist rule. Funds from this collection support pastoral care, catechesis, building renovations, and seminary formation. Your support restores the Church and builds the future in this region. Please prayerfully consider how you can Support the collection next week. More Information can be found at www.usccb.org/ccee.

The Key to Evangelization: Start Talking and Start Inviting In the next month, if ten visitors come to your Sunday liturgy, how many will return for a second visit? According to Chris Walker, founder of EvangelismCoach.org, the answer is one or two. Can you guess the number-one reason the other eight to nine did not return? Because no one talked to them! The number-one thing most visitors are looking for is a friendly parish. How do they decide if a parish is friendly? They decide a parish is friendly by how many people talked to them. Make a visitor’s first ten minutes welcoming! According to the Church Growth Institute, the first ten minutes of a visitor’s experience are important. Those big evangelical mega-churches are big for a reason. Many of them have greeters in the parking lot, striking up what will be the first of many conversations a visitor to their churches is likely to have on any given Sunday. Make a visitor’s last ten minutes even more welcoming! But as important as those first ten minutes are, the crucial time is the ten minutes immediately after the Mass concludes. That is the time frame in which most newcomers make up their minds about the friendliness or unfriendliness of a parish. Did we talk to any visitors? Did we even look to see if there were any visitors? Or, were we just eager to get to our car? An easy solution—or maybe not The solution seems both easy and difficult. It is easy to look for visitors and chat with them, isn’t it? This requires a major shift in parish culture. It means we all need to develop new habits. The benefit to your parish But what would happen if we could change our habits and start looking for and talking with visitors? The Church Growth Institute did some research to answer this question. They asked churches to block out six continuous weeks and observe the number of people who visited once, twice, and three times during that block. Then they asked how many of those visitors were active in the church one year later. Guess what? The more often people visit, the more likely they are to become active parishioners. They found that 9% of the one-time visitors were active a year later. Of those who visited twice in that six-week block, 17% were active. And a whopping 33% of the three-time visitors were active. So how to do we get visitors to make return visits? As we said at the beginning, the number-one reason people don’t return is that no one talked to them. We need to start talking. And we need to start inviting. Three simple steps are all it takes: 1. See visitors 2. Talk to visitors 3. Invite visitors

TRINITY OPEN HOUSE AND REGISTRATIONPlease join Trinity Catholic School March 4th-8th for their annual Open House and Registration for students Pre-K through 6th grades. Schedule a tour, or just come at your convenience. Hours will be 8:30am–5:30pm, Monday-Wednesday, with extend-ed hours until 6:00pm on Thursday. Friday will have normal school hours of 8:30am -3:30pm. Please visit the school website for tuition information and downloadable paperwork. If you plan to register your child, make sure to bring a $55 registration fee, along with birth certificate, baptismal records (if Catholic), and immunization records. Questions? Call 315-769-5911 or email principa@twcny.rr.com.

MANICOTTI MONDAY At the special meeting that was held this past Monday, February 25th, it was decided that we will c keep our Manicotti Monday fundraiser going on a more consistent basis. We still need more help with food prep, and serving. Our workers are finding it too difficult to keep going monthly without added help. if you are interested in helping contact the office (315) 384-4242. Your participation and assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

St. Andrew's Church invites our parishioners and the parishioners of

PVSR, St. Patrick's, and St. Lawrence to its

Annual St. Patrick's Day Pot Luck Dinner

Saturday, March 16, 2019 in the church hall

following 4 o'clock Mass

Corned beef & cabbage, drinks, door prizes, 50/50 raffle, and lots of music and fun!

Please bring a dish to share

Entertainment by: Nichol Falls Fiddling Group

LENT 2019 Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ:

Lent is a truly graced time to take stock of our ongoing journey of conversion and transformation in Christ. We desire to cultivate an intimate relationship with Jesus making His presence in our lives real and vibrant so that we might follow Him more closely while supporting one another in our common pilgrimage of faith.

This Lent, we might reflect on a question that the bishops’ Retreat Director recently asked: Is Jesus for us a person,

or just a personality, a celebrity, a cult figure? There’s a big difference between the two. Personalities might include people like Oprah, even Elvis Presley or any number of people who have a following today. A personality is someone who has name recognition, but not someone with whom we can easily strike up a personal relationship. There are plenty of personalities out there today. An intimate relationship develops with a person, not a personality.

Unfortunately, for many of us, Jesus is a personality and not a person. He is the eminent figure in Church doctrine.

He is the one whose memory we celebrate in the liturgy even proclaiming the Eucharist as His Real Presence. However, without developing a personal relationship between ourselves and Jesus, He remains external to us, outside of ourselves, touching our minds, but not our hearts. He remains a remnant of the past because we instinctively place twenty centuries between ourselves and Him.

Yet, Jesus says, “I am with you always, until the end of the age” (Mt.28:20). The Resurrected Christ is alive and

present, not physically as He had been, but His presence today is even stronger and more real. Christ is not only beside us but dwells within us. Therein lies our hope and confidence during these troublesome times.

Particularly during our Lenten journey, the Church asks us to focus our attention on Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving.

These spiritual disciplines are indispensable means to strengthen our personal relationship with Jesus. Additionally, I hope that you avail yourself of the Lenten programs and liturgies provided by your parish. These will help you grow in love and knowledge of our Lord.

May our hearts be renewed as we encounter Christ ever more intimately this Lent. As St. Paul announces to us on

Ash Wednesday: “Now is a very acceptable time” (2 Cor. 6:2). Let us pray for one another this Lent and always.

Faithfully yours in Christ,

Most Reverend Terry R. LaValley Bishop of Ogdensburg

DIOCESE OF OGDENSBURG

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604 WASHINGTON STREET • P.O. BOX 369 • OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK 13669 TELEPHONE: 315-393-2920 • FAX: 1-866-314-7296 • E-mail: lross@rcdony.org

LENTEN REGULATIONS 2019

March 6, 2019 is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the Season of Lent.

ABSTINENCE

All Catholics who have reached their 14th birthday are bound to abstain totally from meat on the following days: Ash Wednesday, Fridays of Lent, & Good Friday. It is particularly important to be mindful of this obligation with the occurrence of the secular observance of St. Patrick’s Day on the weekend of March 16-17.

FASTING

All Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 are bound also to observe the Law of Fast on the following days: Ash Wednesday (March 6) and Good Friday (April 19). Fasting, that is, eating less, involves limiting oneself to a single full meal and avoiding food between meals. Lighter nourishment may be taken on two other occasions in the course of the day.

PRAYER & PENANCE

The entire season of Lent should be observed in a spirit of prayer and penance. Spending extra time in prayer or Bible study, attending daily Mass, voluntary sacrifice and self-denial, combined with works of charity and service to others, are all excellent ways to obey the Lord's command to reform our lives and to prepare for the joyful celebration of Easter. Parishes are highly encouraged to offer periods of Eucharistic Adoration during the Lenten Season, as well as, the traditional devotions of the Stations of the Cross and the recitation of the Rosary.

SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

Bishop LaValley encourages parishes throughout the Diocese to offer an extended period for the Sacrament of Penance. Some recent observances have been “The Light is on for You” or “24 Hours with the Lord”. In addition to this occasion, other occasions for the Sacrament of Penance should be made available during the Lenten Season and the Sacred Triduum.

EASTER DUTY

All Catholics who have reached the age of reason must confess their serious sins in the Sacrament of Penance at least once a year. They must also receive Holy Communion at least once each year between the First Sunday of Lent (March 10) and Trinity Sunday (June 16).

MARRIAGE

Although other seasons are more suitable, the celebration of marriage and the Nuptial Mass are not forbidden during Lent, according to The Code of Canon Law. When liturgical rules permit, the Ritual Mass for the Celebration of Marriage may be used and the nuptial blessing may be given. However, you should advise the spouses and their guests to exercise proper restraint in accord with the penitential character of Lent.

OBLIGATION

All Christ’s faithful are obliged by divine law to do penance. The days set aside for fast and abstinence in Lent are special ways of doing penance and are an expression of unity for all the Church.

CHRISM MASS

A reminder that this year’s Chrism Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, April 11th at 11:00 am at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ogdensburg. Details pertaining to this event will be forthcoming.

FUNERALS DURING THE SACRED TRIDUUM

On Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, Funeral Masses may not be celebrated. However, a Funeral Service consisting of the Liturgy of the Word and the Final Commendation may be held in Church.

Please bring these Lenten Regulations to the attention of your people by publishing them in the bulletin and by reminders in oral announcements. Thank You!

February 21, 2019

GOD’S PLAN FOR GIVING – TITHING “Your light must shine before all so that they may see

goodness in your acts.” (Matthew 5:16)

Parish of the Visitation and St. Raymond

February 24-25, 2018 - $2,160.00 February 23-24, 2019 - $1,211.00 Adult Env. $1,018.00, Plate $104.00 Maintenance $69.00 Holy Father/Catholic Relief Services $10.00 Easter & Central European Relief $10.00 Fiscal year-to-date adult envelope comparison:

2/24-25/18 – $67,647.40 2/23-24/19 – $74,857.00 Adult weekly envelopes:

2018 - $1,136.00 2019 – $1,018.00 Adult envelopes used:

2/24-25/18 – 46

2/16-17/19 – 51

2/23-24/19 – 36 *includes EFT contributions

St. Andrew’s Church

February 24-25, 2018 - $2,434.00 February 23-24, 2019 - $1,518.00 Adult Env. $936.00, Plate $554.00 Maintenance $28.00 Fiscal year-to-date adult envelope comparison: 2/24-25/18 - $55,935.00

2/23-24/19 – $74,515.00 Adult weekly envelopes: 2018 - $1,291.00, 2019 - $936.00 Adult envelopes used:

2/24-25/18 – 61 2/16-17/19 - 56 2/23-24/19 - 42

LET US PRAY

Please remember in your prayers all of our parish family and friends who suffer emotionally, spiritually or physically especially for Jeremiah Hammill, Cathy Rodger, Fr. John Kennehan, Rick Jessmer, Rita West-King, and Msgr. John R. Murphy. If you wish to have someone listed for one month, please contact the Parish office at 315-384-4242.

Anyone from Our Catholic Parishes may request to have a person included in the bulletin for prayers. We will adhere to the practice of including a name for one month before removing it. Prayer can always be requested again at any time.

Creating a culture of vocation . . . DID YOU KNOW… there has been a decrease in sacramental marriages? Why is that? God is still calling couples to a married life that expresses Christ’s love for the Church, sacrificial and selfless. Pray for married couples!

PARISH OF THE VISITATION AND ST. RAYMOND

Lector and Ministers of Eucharist Church of the Visitation

3/3/19 - Peggy Molnar, Gil Gonthier, Kris Layo 3/10/19 - Molly Pressey, Dorthy Gately, Jean Gang

Collection Counters 3/3/19 - Molly Pressey, Jean Gang 3/10/19 - Fred Baxter, Mike LaShomb

ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH

Lector and Ministers of Eucharist

3/2/19 - Ellen Farrington, Andy Burnett Elaine Haggett, Linda Regan

3/9/19 - Patti Dean, Linda Regan Ted Levison, Lisa Levison

Collection Counters 3/3/19 - Phil Regan, Doreen Valade 3/10/19 - Rita Jackson, Ellen Farrington

ST. RAYMOND’S CHAPEL MASS SCHEDULE Father Jack Downs will celebrate daily Mass at St. Raymond’s Church in the rectory chapel at 8:00am

according to the following schedule: Week of March 4th Mon - Fri

FUN FACTS FOR CATHOLIC KIDS

March 3rd – Ring, ring, it’s a ding-a-ling day! Today’s the birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented the telephone. What would your life be like WITHOUT a telephone? Maybe it would be better – if you are a ding-a-ling on the phone! Today, think of ways you could “reach out and touch someone” if you DIDN’T have a phone. What could you do right now to “reach out” to someone?

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS “40 FOR 40” Norwood and Norfolk K of C Councils are each holding their annual “40 for 40” can and food drives during Lent. Collection baskets are located in each of our three churches.