Mass Schedule Weekdays: 8:00 a.m., Tuesday through Friday

Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.

Last Sunday of the Month: 10:00 a.m. Family Mass

April 5, 2020

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

St. Patrick Parish 114 King Street, Larkspur, CA 94939

Email: parish@stpatricksmarin.org Phone: 415-924-0600 www.stpatricksparish.com

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Saturday 4:15 p.m.- 4:45 p.m.

or another time by appointment.

St. Patrick’s Thrift Shop 457 Magnolia Avenue Larkspur CA 94939 Phone: 415-924-5393 Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Thursday: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Saturday: Noon - 4:00 p.m. Parish Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. (Monday—Friday)

St. Patrick School of Religion

415-924-0600 x15

St. Patrick K-8 School

415-924-0501

TO REGISTER IN THE PARISH Visit our website and register online or come to the Parish Office

Parish Staff Cathy Plocki Liturgical Coordinator Phyllis Rybensky Helping Hands Coordinator Barbara Cavalier Hospitality Coordinator Deborah Benedict Adult Choir Director Daniel Savio Pianist

Monsignor Michael Padazinski Pastor Reverend Andrew Ginter In Residence Angela Hadsell School Principal Lisa Gramlich Director of Religious Education & Evangelization Agata Konopka Parish Office

Donating to St. Patrick Church Online

The church relies on an increase in contributions to support special programs and basic operating expenses. Please be as generous as you can. For your convenience, we offer online giving through the church website. It’s easy to donate! Simply go to our website, www.stpatricksparish.com. On the homepage click on ‘Giving,’ and you will be directed to VANCO. Please call the parish office with any questions.

Your donations to St. Patrick Parish

are always most appreciated!

The Pontifical Good Friday Collection: Holy Land

Every year on Good Friday, a collection is taken up in Catholic Churches to support the work of the Franciscans working in the Holy Land. Christians there rely heavily on the help that comes to them during this special day in the Church and our life of faith.

The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land have the unique responsibility of caring for the Holy Places as well as caring for the Christians living in the Holy Land. It is vital that we care for the Christians living in the Holy Land in order to maintain a Christian presence in a land that is filled with a majority Islamic and Jewish population.

The Collection for the Holy Land, in the words of Paul VI is “not only for the Holy Places but above all for those pastoral, charitable, educational, and social works which the Church supports in the Holy Land for the welfare of their Christian brethren and of the local communities.” Please be generous!

HOLY WEEK SERVICES “ONLINE ONLY”

April 7 TUESDAY MASS 8:00 a.m. April 8 WEDNESDAY MASS 8:00 a.m.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

(Confession) Call anytime for an appointment

415 924 0600

April 9 HOLY THURSDAY 7:30 p.m. MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER

April 10 GOOD FRIDAY 12:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross 2:00 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion (with Holy Communion) April 11 HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 p.m. EASTER VIGIL

April 12 EASTER SUNDAY

MASS 10:00 a.m.

The Parish Office will be closed On Good Friday, April 10

and Easter Monday, April 13.

Wishing all a very blessed and happy Easter!

Mass Intentions April 4 — April 12

In response to news of progression of COVID-19 outbreaks, the following are canceled or closed until further notice: Daily Masses Weekend Masses CFF classes Parish School RCIA Soup Suppers First Reconciliation Lenten Confessions St. Patrick’s Thrift Shop Men’s Hoops

Act of Spiritual Communion

The Church encourages frequent, even daily, Holy Communion, but if at any time we cannot go to Mass in or out of this season of the coronavirus, we can still unite ourselves to the Eucharist through making a spiritual Communion. By making an Act of Spiritual Communion, we express our faith in Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist and ask him to unite himself with us. Here is the Act of Spiritual Communion written by St. Alphonsus de Liguori:

My Jesus, I believe that You

are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things,

and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally,

come at least spiritually into my heart.

I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.

Never permit me to be separated from You.

Amen.

Good Friday — Fast and Abstinence ABSTINENCE: Everyone fourteen years of age and older is bound to abstain from meat. FAST: Everyone eighteen years of age and older but under the age of sixty is also bound to fast. The law of fast allows only one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food during the day, so long as this does not constitute another full meal. Drinking liquids during the day is permitted. When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige. In doubt concerning fast or abstinence, a priest assigned to pastoral ministry or confessor should be consulted. In the spirit of penance, the faithful should not lightly excuse themselves from this obligation.

Saturday April 4

5:00 pm

Jerry Finley †

Palm Sunday April 5

8:00 am 10:00 am 11:30 am

Aurora Peguero † Nunes, Rosa & Silva † People of the Parish

Monday April 6

No Mass

Tuesday April 7

8:00 am

Spillane family

Wednesday April 8

8:00 am

Wynn Halligan †

Holy Thursday April 9

7:30 pm

Monsignor Padazinski

Good Friday April 10

12:00 pm 2:00 pm

Stations of the Cross Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

Holy Saturday April 11

8:00 pm Bob Rybensky †

Easter Sunday April 12

8:00 am 10:00 am 11:30 am 12:45 pm

Clarence Jump † Terence Flynn † Elena Bartley † People of the Parish

PRAYER LIST If you would like any names to be included on our prayer list you may call the Parish Office or email parish@stpatricksmarin.org. Please indicate whether it is a prayer for healing, employment, discernment, or any other needs.

Our Holy Father’s Monthly Intention: April 2020

Freedom from Addiction We pray that those suffering from addiction may be helped and accompanied.

FORMED.ORG

Our parish has a subscription to formed.org. FORMED provides us with access to video-based study programs, feature films, audio presentations, and Ebooks from the Church’s foremost presenters. Just go to formed.org and use our parish enrollment code NZNDPT to create an account. Then you can begin to explore the rich offerings available to you!

WEBPAGE WITH LENTEN RESOURCES New on the archdiocesan website is a page devoted to Lent, with a beautiful slide show illustrating Our Journey through Lent, and many resources for entering deeply into and emerging fruitfully from this spiritually challenging but rewarding season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Read the Archbishop’s Lenten message, Bishop Barron’s Gospel reflections, and find activities and resources for all ages, including a link to the page “The Light is on for You.”. Visit the webpage, sfarch.org/lent.

DAILY MASS FROM ST. PATRICK CHURCH In light of measures being taken to contain the outbreak and avoid further illness, and in an effort to continue the practice of our faith in these trying times: Monsignor Padazinski will be offering daily Mass for the foreseeable future. It is at this exact moment that our faith is most needed. Join him for the celebration of holy Mass at:

https://www.stpatricksparish.com.

Dear friends, Today, Palm Sunday begins the most holy week of our year and what a way to begin! Sequestered in our homes, unable to gather as a community of faith, we are still called to celebrate this sacred time. While we cannot be together personally, I invite you to celebrate along with me by viewing the sacred liturgies in our church throughout this week. They can be found on our parish website at www.stpatricksparish.com. Simply scroll down until to see the video link, click on it and you will be able to pray along with me. Let us then prepare to celebrate respectfully the liturgies of Holy Week beginning with Mass at 10:00 A.M. this Sunday, Palm Sunday. This will be followed by the liturgies of the Sacred Triduum, our high holy days (Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Saturday). These, too, will be live streamed and can be viewed on our parish website at the times noted in this bulletin. While this Lent and Holy Week are certainly unique for all of us, I pray that the extra time spent in prayer will bring you grace, joy and a sense of the risen Lord's presence during these challenging days. It is my hope and prayer, too, that this experience of Holy Week will strengthen us as a parish family. Be assured that you and your families have been and continue to be remembered by me in daily prayer, especially the prayer of the holy Mass which I have been celebrating each day in our parish church. May the grace and peace of our risen Lord, Jesus be with us now, and forever. Have a Holy Week and be assured that God is with us! Monsignor Michael Padazinski