Holy Martyrs Catholic Church 3100 OLD WEYMOUTH RD MEDINA, OH 44256

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 14, 2019

Holy

Week

Father Stephen Dohner

Pastor

Father Mark Ott

Weekend Associate

Father Robert F. Pfeiffer

Pastor Emeritus

Janet Payton

Pastoral Associate

Diane Bruce

Director of Faith Formation

Christopher Ilg

Director of Music

Sr. Marie Ellen Kuhel

Bereavement Coordinator

Skip McQuate

SPIRIT Coordinator

Michael Cox

Life Teen Coordinator

Parish Staff

Holy Martyrs Catholic Church Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord —April 14, 2019

Mass Schedule & Intentions this Week

Sat 5:30 pm Len Timpone

(Rich & Lori Ruh)

Sun 7:30 am Parishioners

9:30 am Sophie Tesny

(Jerry & Eloise Dolph)

11:30 am Richard Gaeckle

(James & Mary Gaeckle &

Family)

Mon 8:00 am Norbert Sarnavcsky

(Irina Egorova)

Tues 6:30 pm Rosary for Peace

7:00 pm Dolly Hood

(Jean Peterson)

Wed 8:00 am Jerry Giordon

(Pat O’Sullivan)

TRIDUUM

Thurs 7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Eucharistic Adoration

Following Mass until midnight

Fri 3:00 pm Commemoration of the

Lord’s Passion

Sat 2:00 pm Blessing of food

8:30 pm Journey Candidates

EASTER SUNDAY

7:30 am Rhea Lesti

9:30 am Parishioners

11:30 am Joan Menillo

(Mike Menillo)

This week at Holy Martyrs

Sun 4/14 Palm Sunday Time Travelers 9:30 AM Room 203

Golf Fundraising Meeting 10:30 AM Room 200

NO YOUTH MASS

NO SPIRIT OR LIFE TEEN

Mon 4/15 NO Monday HM Kids

Tue 4/16 Glory Bees - Week 3 9:00 AM Worship Space

Little Rock Scripture Study 1:00 PM Room 103

NO Tuesday HM Kids

Wed 4/17 SPIRIT Prayer Group 4:00 PM Chapel

Intercessory Prayer Group 5:30 PM Chapel

Choir Rehearsal 7:15 PM Worship Space

Holy Thursday

Jesus of Nazareth cordially invites you to a banquet

being given in His honor

Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7:30 pm

Prayer Vigil until midnight

Good Friday

3:00 pm, Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion

Veneration of the Cross with Holy Communion

Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence

Holy Saturday

9:30 am, Contemplative Prayer

2:00 pm, Blessing of Food

8:30 pm Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday Masses

7:30am, 9:30am, 11:30 am

Time Travelers at 9:30 am Mass

Parish News

Daily scripture readings for this week can be obtained

on the USCCB website, where you can sign up to have

readings emailed to you.

You can also download one of these apps on your

phone: Laudate or The New Missal

Church Office hours: Monday - Friday:

9:00 am - 12:30 pm, 1:15 pm - 5:30 pm

330-722-6633

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Hymns for April 13/14 Masses

Entrance Hymn: All Glory, Laud and Honor, 139 Communion: We Remember, 494

Offertory: O Sacred Head, Surrounded, 148 Sending Forth: Were You There, 152

CONNECT: Small group experience

Connect with others. Connect with Christ. Connect Christ with all the parts of your life.

The goal of “Connect - Small Groups” is to create insightful, relevant content that can be put to use in your

personal faith journey. If you are a practicing Catholic — or aspire to be — then you are encouraged to join

one of our Small Groups. You’ll have more confidence in your faith so you can feel more comfortable and

more comfortably share that faith with others.

Offerings for the final session of the 2018-2019 Small Groups experience are being prepared. Several

groups will continue with the popular lectio divina of the upcoming Sunday’s Gospel reading. Don’t let the

Latin scare you away from learning to do it yourself. Each of the steps in lectio divina form a process by

which we encounter God in his sacred word and respond to his grace. Also returning is the Beloved

program for married couples. This study is for every married couple, whether your marriage is great, good,

not so good, old or new or somewhere in between. This is a repeat of the popular Beloved program first

offered in the January session. Part two of the Beloved will be offered in the Fall session.

Two groups invite young children to attend for playtime. One group will continue looking at the lives of

saints and how those saints can encourage us today in the trials we face. The second group will be reading

and reflecting on Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart by Father

Jacques Philippe - What must we do to overcome the moments of fear and distress which beset us and how

can we learn to place all our confidence in God and abandon ourselves into his loving care? Another group

will resume their reflection upon Living the Integrated Christian Life by delving into Catholic social teaching

and a survey of the common prayers we’ve used since we first learned to pray.

“Connect - Small Groups” offer extraordinary opportunities to explore spirituality, and in small communities

within our larger community, offer opportunities to listen to and encourage one another. The atmosphere is

prayerful, respectful and confidential. Please consider joining a Small Group this session. The session will

be under way the week of April 28. Watch the bulletin, register at the Welcome Center, or register online for

a Small Group that will nurture your faith. Paper registrations are available at the Welcome Center in the

Gathering area or use the following QR code with your phone to open the online registration:

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”

― G. K. Chesterton

Parish News

Holy Martyrs Church April 14, 2019

Medina, Ohio

Here’s what’s up for the next two weeks:

Sunday, 4/14

No Life Teen Mass

No Life Night

Sunday, 4/21

No Life Teen Mass

No Life Night

SPIRIT

On Sunday, April 7, the SPIRIT students talked

about strengthening and maintaining our

connection with God through prayer. We will not

meet on April 14 or April 21 but will meet again

on April 28.

Thank you for helping with last weekend’s

bake sale!

Holy Martyrs SPIRIT is on Facebook and Snapchat

under hmcSPIRIT.

Save the Date

“Fore” the Kids Golf Outing

June 8, 2019

Shale Creek Golf Course

Sign up at hmforethekids.com to play in

or sponsor the event

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING TIME,

TALENT, TREASURE

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Grateful Giving Holy Martyrs Parish

March 23 & 24

Weekly Offering $10,607.06

Electronic Donations $4,377.33

Total $14,984.39

Thank you!

Holy Land Collection

Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the

Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians

in the Holy Land. Your support helps the church

minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools, offer

religious education, preserve sacred shrines and provide

humanitarian aid to refugees.

For more information about Christians in the Holy Land,

visit www.myfranciscan.org/good-friday.

Parishioners Invited to Pentecost Play

We invite parishioners to attend our fourth

graders’ presentation of the Pentecost play on

April 29 and 30 at 6:45 p.m. each night. Our

fourth graders will set your hearts on fire and

send you out to evangelize. Please join us. It’ll

only cost you your time and your support will

mean a lot to our students.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful

and kindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth

your Spirit and we shall be created, and You shall

renew the face of the earth.

Amen.

A MESSAGE FROM BISHOP PEREZ

Beginning the Sunday after Easter, all parishes

will be adopting the proper posture during the

Communion Rite at Mass to reflect the teaching

in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal

(2003).

We are to remain standing after the Lamb of God

and throughout the singing of the Communion

hymn, until the end of the distribution of Holy

Communion.

Once the last person has received Holy

Communion and the Communion hymn ends,

we should sit (or kneel) for a period of

private prayer.

There is a promise of marriage between:

I Wedding Announcement:

Robert Gentry and Emily Giesen

HMKids HQ - 330-952-1466

Holy Martyrs Church April 14, 2019

Medina, Ohio

Putters and Helpers Needed

Children will have a chance to try for a hole in one

while helping students in El Salvador. After Masses on

May 11 and 12, kids can try their hand at putting for

25 cents a ball. A hole in one wins $50!

Proceeds will go toward the “Fore” the Kids Golf

Outing, which raises money for scholarships for

students in El Salvador.

There will be four separate areas for age groups

ranging from toddlers to age 14, and we’re looking for

16 eighth graders per Mass to help with the putting

games after each Mass. Eighth graders will receive an

email with a signup for this event.

First Grade Orientation Dinner

Children who will be in first grade this fall are invited

to an orientation dinner on May 7 at 6 p.m. in the

Gathering Area. This fun evening will introduce

parents to HMKids and preparing for

First Communion. If you haven’t signed up yet,

please call HMKids HQ at the number above.

May Crowning Coming Up

Students in grades 1-6 should be receiving a signup

to be prayer leaders for the May Crowning on May 6.

Second graders will lead the procession to the

Pavilion, weather permitting.

A Note to Our Prayer Partners

With the many distractions in young families’

lives, we ask our Prayer Partners to pray that

First Communicants’ families may keep their

focus on this important spiritual milestone

coming up. Second graders will celebrate Jesus

Day on April 8 and 9. We pray that they will use

the nine-day novena they were given for the days

leading up to their First Communion this month.

We Listen

This week, the young people of the parish who are

preparing for Eucharist reflected on listening to the

word of God. God’s presence with us is manifested

in the gift of the Scriptures, God’s own word to us.

How do we as a parish listen attentively to the word

of God and allow the Spirit of love to transform our

hearts and our minds—our very lives?

Throughout the Diocese

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Help for victims of domestic abuse

Victims of domestic abuse may call the BATTERED

WOMEN’S SHELTER of Summit & Medina Counties’

confidential hotline for help 24 hours a day,

7 days a week.

Medina County Hotline 330-723-3900

Toll Free 877-414-1344

Summit County Hotline 330-374-1111

Toll Free 888-395-4357

For substance abuse resources, go to

www.greaterthanheroin.com.

Spiritual Opportunities

Jesuit Retreat Center (www.jrh-cleveland.org)

Intimacy with Jesus

9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. April 29

Marriage Resources

www.helpourmarriage.org

www.foryourmarriage.org

Married Couples Weekend

Husband & Wife Getaway! Many husbands and

wives seem to be "married" to their career, TV,

phones, sports or their children. Re-examine your

married lifestyle and your priorities and

rediscover the newlyweds you once were by

attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter

Weekend.

The next area weekend is April 26-28, 2019 at

the Homewood Suites, Solon. Call 330-305-9963

or go to www.GreatMarriagesOhio.org to apply.

The FEST Returns August 4

Mark your summer calendar for Sunday, August 4

when The FEST returns for its 19th year. This

Catholic Family FESTival in Wickliffe will include

national Christian artists: Casting Crowns, Tenth

Avenue North, Matt Maher, and Jordan Feliz. The

FEST also has activities for the entire family and

concludes with an outdoor Mass with Bishop Nelson

Perez. For more information, go online to:

www.theFEST.us.