Saturday, February 22 8:30 AM Carl DeBonis 5:00 PM Cynthia Collins Sunday, February 23 7:00 AM Ann Minott 9:00 AM Evelyn & Rudy Conti 11:00 AM The People of St. Mary Magdalen Rev. John C Haughey Monday, February 24 8:30 AM Jayne Eells Tuesday, February 25 8:30 AM Ed Clerval 10:00 AM School Mass with Ashes 6:00 PM Evening Mass with Ashes Wednesday, February 26 8:30 AM Wilbur Milligan Thursday, February 27 8:30 AM David Sydow Friday, February 28 8:30 AM Phil Russo Saturday, February 29 8:30 AM John & Kevin O’Toole 5:00 PM The People of St. Mary Magdalen Sunday, March 1 7:00 AM Evelyn Conti 9:00 AM Frankie Houghton 11:00 AM Sue Osborn

Sunday, Feb. 23 9-10:45AM Confirmation classes begin Monday, Feb. 24 6-8PM Cub Scouts – Hall Tuesday, Feb. 25 12-1:30PM Parish Office Closed 4-9PM KofC Fundraiser at Grotto’s Wednesday, Feb. 26 Ash Wednesday: Lent Begins 10AM School Mass with ashes 6PM Evening Mass with ashes Thursday, Feb. 27 1-3PM Bingo – Hall 7-9PM Choir Rehearsal – Choir Loft 7:30-9PM Boy Scout Troop #342 – Hall Saturday, Feb. 29 8:30-11:30AM 1st Communion Retreat–

Hall

READINGS FOR THE WEEK SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Sunday Lv 19:1-2, 17-18; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48 Monday Jas 3:13-18; Mk 9:14-29 Tuesday Jas 4:1-10; Mk 9:30-37 Wednesday Jl 2:12-18; 2 Cor 5:20─6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday Dt 30:15-20; Lk 9:22-25 Friday Is 58:1-9a; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday Is 58:9b-14; Lk 5:27-32

Next Sunday’s Schedule

Altar Servers Lector(s) Priest Celebrant

Saturday, 5PM February 28th

Ryan Adams Madelyn Pacelli Nicolas Pacelli

Susan Mascioli Father Kirk

Sunday , 7AM March 1st

Luke Plunkett Sam Plunkett

Steve Schessler Father Kirk

Sunday , 9AM March 1st

Anthony DeCamp Mackenzie Zoccolillo Matthew Zoccolillo

Kathy Ifkovits Father Kirk

Sunday , 11AM March 1st

Brianne Smith Owen Smith

Clare Yeatman

Christopher Flannery Father Kirk

Second Collection This Weekend: Mission Sunday for the Society of the

Propagation of the Faith

Second Collection Next Weekend: Catholic Relief Services

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MARDI GRAS FUNDRAISER Tuesday, Feb. 25th from 4-9pm

Have a last fling before the fasting season of Lent at Grotto’s Pizza on

Concord Pike and help the Bishop Curtis Council Knights. You must present the Grotto’s paper voucher

when paying your check & Grotto Pizza will donate 20% of your total bill to the Bishop Curtis Council Knights of Columbus.

DUE TO THE FLU SEASON: The following changes to Mass have

been implemented: We will suspend the exchange of

the sign of peace. We will suspend the Precious

Blood.

Begins – Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Ends – Saturday, April 12, 2020

LET US PRAY FOR OUR MEN & WOMEN SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES.

ESPECIALLY FOR:

2LT Michael Aleixo (Army), CPT David Paul Cline Jr. (Army), CPT Matthew Cline (Army), CPT Foster Day (Army), 2LT Patrick Devine (Army), Lt. Cmdr. Jason Erickson (US Coast Guard), Corporal Michael Gallo (Marines), PFC Kyle Isakoff (Marines), CPT Sean Kealey (Army), Sgt Meghan Miller, LT JG Julie DiGiovanni Plessinger (Navy), PFC Elena Shields (National Guard), 2LT Matthew Stone (USAF), Corporal Cody Turner (Marines), & Seaman Michael A. Zullo (Navy).

Call the parish office to add an Armed Forces member.

We are thankful for their courage and dedication to duty in difficult circumstances

REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS

Please continue to pray for all those who may be hospitalized, sick, or recovering, especially:

Marietta Abello, Todd Bachmann, Michael Barton, Karen Batt, Jack Bresch, Maureen Byrne, Christine Cavaliere, Ann Davis, Connor Davis, Tom DeLucia, Anne Marie Donovan, Sue Edwards, Linda Finney, Noah Fogg, Joseph Gawinski, Helen Hahn, Ed Hunt, Ellie & Levi Jernigan, Keith Koeferl, Catherine Kohl, Greg Long, Nancy McGovern, Betty Jo McHenry, Gloria Meyers, Joanne Miller, Jo & Ed Molnar, Lester Molnar, Flora Monck, Joe Moussalli, James Mulvena, David Nash, Dolores Nowak, Marie & Bob O’Connor, Annemarie Pavco, Robert Pavlin, Gerald Petrilla, Hunter Pinki, Amy Powell, Rochelle Ransom, Devon Reed, Debbie Rice, Lou Rombach, Ann Shields, Neil Segil, Louise Simpson, Beau Smith, Vincent Smith, Jackie Steadman, Jack Toy, Joan Trolio, Becky Yu, Dolores Welty & Helen Zeroka.

Please contact the parish office if you would like to add a name or would like your name removed.

Mark your calendars…

St. Mary Magdalen’s 7th Annual Celebration of

Married Life “Lucky in Love Dinner”

Saturday, March 7th from 6-8pm

Come for 5PM Mass & then enjoy a night out with free dinner & wine in the Church Hall on Saturday, March 7th from 6-8PM. We request

that each couple brings a dessert to share.

Babysitting will be provided by the Girl Scouts and dinner for the kids will include pizza and goldfish. A

good will donation is welcomed for babysitting. Children can be dropped off in the Pre-K building

prior to dinner. Please sign up through our signup genius under the event on our homepage.

Sign up online today! By Feb. 28th – this Friday

FORTY MINUTES FOR FORTY DAYS Join us each Monday in Lent for 40 minutes of sharing and conversation on Lenten Gospel readings. Using Bishop Barron’s book, “Lenten Gospel Reflections,” these gatherings will be informal, friendly, and brief. A simple way to enrich your journey through Lent.

Each Monday in March beginning March 2 St. Mary Magdalen School Library at 7PM

REMINDER 8TH GRADERS: CONFIRMATION CLASSES BEGIN

THIS SUNDAY 2/23/20 More information about Confirmation classes can be found on our website at

www.smmchurch.org/confirmation

FEBRUARY 26TH

Masses with Ashes:

8:30AM – Daily Mass 10AM – School Mass 6PM – Evening Mass

No 12PM prayer service at SMM, the following do: Holy Child (12:05PM), St. Joseph’s on the

Brandywine and Holy Rosary (12PM just ashes).

FASTING AND ABSTINENCE

ABSTINENCE – Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of

abstinence from meat. The norms concerning abstinence are binding upon

members of the Catholic Church from age 14 +.

FASTING – The law of fasting requires a Catholic from the 18th birthday (Canon 97) to the 59th birthday (i.e. the beginning of the 60th year, a year which will be completed on the 60th birthday) to reduce the amount of food eaten from normal. The church defines this as 1 meal a day & 2 smaller meals which if added together would not exceed the mail meal in quantity.

(Ash Wednesday & Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence from meat for Catholics.)

BEST WISHES TO EILEEN

GRANT!

Eileen Grant, our parish office receptionist, is retiring. Eileen has been the heart of our parish office, as well as the face & voice of the office for 15 years. At all times she greeted you with a smile, a piece of candy, and you always felt as though your spirits were lifted after being in her company.

To send her off in style, we are asking you to please take a moment to fill out a retirement well wishes card to share a memory or send retirement well wishes to Eileen. Help us show Eileen how much she is loved!!

Cards are located in the main vestibule of church & the parish office and can be added the designated basket when filled out. All the cards will be collected and delivered to Eileen in the coming weeks. Please also feel free to drop off your own cards to the parish office and we will be sure to add them to the basket.

Please join me in thanking her for her years of service and wishing her well

in her retirement.

OFFERTORY PROCESSION Each week a child that is receiving their 1st Communion in May will bring up the

gifts with his/her family.

February 22nd & 23rd

All Masses No Family Assigned

SMM PARISH SCHEDULE

Friday 2/28 9AM & 7PM Friday 3/6 9AM & 7PM Friday 3/13 9AM & 7PM Friday 3/20 9AM & 7PM Friday 3/27 9AM & 7PM*

(*Soup & Stations- more info online & in bulletin) Friday 4/3 9AM & 7PM SMM SCHOOL SCHEDULE

“Living Stations of the Cross” Presented by the 3rd grade students

Thursday 3/12 10AM Friday 3/20 1:30PM Wednesday 3/25 10AM Monday 3/30 1:30PM

There will be no Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, only the Passion of our Lord at 3pm. The church will be

open at noon on Good Friday for private prayer and devotion (station books will be made available.)

SECOND COLLECTION THIS WEEKEND: APPEAL FOR PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH

TODAY - JOIN in the worldwide mission of Jesus! As disciples of Jesus, baptized into the Church & strengthened by the Holy Spirit, we are called to draw others to Christ: others in our family, in our neighbor-hoods; others event “to the end of the earth.” More than 2,000 years after the birth of Jesus, some 2/3 of our human family do not yet know Him in faith as we do.

Through the Propagation of the Faith, we can reach those at work at “the ends of the earth” as we help to support the Church’s evangelizing work in more than 1,150 mission dioceses worldwide. We are needed to offer daily prayer and regular financial help as well. Please join the Propagation of the Faith today. Our parish will surely become more vibrant in faith as we become more missionary.

If an envelope user, this Mission was added & is not in your packet of envelopes delivered to your house.

We will begin with Soup at 6:15pm in the Church Hall and then move up to the Church for Stations beginning at 7pm. We want to invite our parishioners to bring a crockpot of (meatless) soup to share. You do not have to bring soup to attend; you can just come and enjoy the fellowship.

The event is free & registration is not required. Please sign up online if brining soup or bread.

MARCH 27th

CELIAC DISEASE - LOW GLUTEN HOSTS If you have gluten intolerance and would like to receive the low gluten host, go to the gift table as you enter church (behind the center pews, in front of the cry room) & follow the procedure listed. For more information please visit www.smmchurch.org/low-gluten-hosts

PARENTING POINTERS:

Feb. 29 is Leap Day - an extra day. It’s also a Saturday which may mean you have some extra time to try something new together. Be playful with your family. Explore a new place, play a new game or sport.

MARRIAGE MOMENTS:

It’s tempting in marriage to try to keep things fair and even. It’s tempting, but not loving. Look for a way today (or this week) to let a minor offense slide, to do more than your fair share of the work... S. Vogt

BULLETIN SUBMISSIONS: Information for the bulletin must be in 10 days prior

to the publication date. Email submissions to Stephanie.Casey@smmchurch.org

THOSE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE

SMM’s St. Vincent de Paul Society (SVDP) will help those in need. If you are in need of assistance call (302) 652-6800 ext. 170 to start the interview process.

January SVDP Statistics: Calls Received: 26, Helped: 11,

Individual Donations: $745, Poor Box: $743, In Memory of a Parishioner: $1150

Cut out the Grotto’s voucher

and give it to your

server on 2/25.

Voucher must be present.

GIRL SCOUT SUNDAY We will celebrate Girl Scout Sunday at the 9AM Mass, March 8th, and end with coffee & donuts in the hall.

Girl Scouts of all levels will be present in mass, participate in the Children’s Liturgy of the Word and also host coffee & donuts.

14TH ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY 3V3 TOURNAMENT

There will be a special

blessing of 3v3 athletes at our 3/14 5PM Mass!

We welcome all 3v3 participants & their families to come and celebrate the Eucharist as a community.

This tournament is what our SMM community is all about: coming together, having fun, & giving back. Proceeds from the tournament this year will go to

Autism Delaware.

SOLDALITY – MARCH 7th The Rosary and prayers for the First Saturday will be prayed following daily Mass on March 7th. All parishioners are encouraged to participate & join Sodality in honoring Our Lady as she requested at

Fatima in 1917. Rosary making will resume on Mon. March 9th after Mass in the Church Hall.

The Rosary is prayed daily after the 8:30 Mass and everyone is welcome to join the group.

St. Mary Magdalen Blood Drive Sunday, April 26, 2020,

9:30 am - 1:30 pm, SMM School Gym

Be Someone’s Hero. Give Blood. Schedule your appointment NOW through

our parish website.

Closer to the date we will also have someone in the main vestibule after masses to register people, both

manually & electronically.

Attention all 6th, 7th & 8th grade girls…

Registration is now open for the upcoming 2020 VARSITY

CYM Softball Season!

Don't miss out on a fun & exciting season. Visit www.smmbulldogs.com to register or contact

Head Coach Joe Datilio for details at 302-766-4255 or by email deoutlaws@gmail.com

TAX DONATION LETTERS: To request a 2019 tax donation letter email Stephanie.Casey@smmchurch.org or

call the parish office. You may also request to have tax donation letters automatically emailed each year.

St. Mary Magdalen CYM Track and Field Registration is Open for the 2020 season!

Visit www.smmbulldogs.com to register or to get more information. Practices begin the week of March 16th, register today!

ATTENTION GENTELMEN: The Catholic Men’s Fellowship of Delmarva will hold their 1st annual conference on Saturday, March 21st at the Church of the Holy Cross in Dover from 8AM – 3PM.

Featured speakers include Jesse Romero and Father Ed Meeks via live-stream from Baltimore, and Kevin Wells, who will be speaking on-location in Dover. The conference theme is “The Holy Family/Your Holy Family.” Bring your son. Bring your dad. Bring your buddy. The tickets are $35.00 pp or $65.00 for a father & son going together. For more info/to register visit facebook.com/CatholicMensFellowshipofDelmarva.

TO OUR NEW PARISHIONERS

A warm welcome is extended to all who come to SMM Parish. All new parishioners are invited to register in the parish office. You may stop in the parish office Monday-Thursday 8:30AM - 3:30PM, Friday 8:30am – 12:30PM or call us at 652-6800 and we will get all the necessary information from you and get a parish ministries directory in your hands.

THE KEVIN SULLIVAN FOOD CLOSET (a parish outreach) is looking for

volunteers to assist with their food distribution 1 Wednesday morning a month from 9:30-11:30am at Shiloh Baptist Church, located at 23rd & Washington Street in Wilmington. If interested, email Debbie at

mosch5@comcast.net or call Steph Casey at 652-6800.

VIA CRUCIS 2020: St. Anthony of Padua Church invites you its 2020 presentation of the Via Crucis, a live re-enactment of the last days

of Christ by area schoolchildren. The one-hour performance is staged at 7:30 pm at St. Anthony’s Church, 905 N. DuPont Street in Wilmington. Performances for 2020 are Ash Wednesday & every Friday during Lent, ending on Good Friday. Over 100 students from area elementary, high schools, and colleges make up the cast of the Via Crucis.

WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER (WME) – Time Together!!

Give yourself and your spouse time away from everyday responsibilities & listen to that special

someone who loves you! Enrich your relationship by attending a WME Weekend on March 6-8th in Rehoboth Beach, DE. For more information visit www.wwme-delmar.org or to register for the weekend, please call Tony and Linda Massino at 302-220-9833.