Weekend of March 19 -20

Dear Friends,

We will, once again, be participating as a parish family in 24 Hours for the Lord, an initiative called for by Pope Francis. We will have Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament beginning on this coming Friday, March 25^th at 4:00 P.M. until Saturday, March 26^th at 4:00 P.M. in our lower church. Confessions will be heard on Saturday, March 26^th from 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M., from 12:00 Noon - 2:00 P.M., and from 3:15 - 4:15 P.M. Please join us for this sacred time of encounter with the Lord Jesus in the Eucharist and in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. There is a chart on a table at the break in the church for you to sign up, in half-hour increments, for periods of adoration. Our goal is for the Blessed Sacrament not to be left alone during this twenty-four hour period. Thank you for being willing to keep vigil with our Eucharistic Lord.

I remind you that we are working with Catholic Leadership Institute to implement the Disciple Maker Index (DMI) survey at every parish in the Archdiocese from March 2 to April 4, 2022. The DMI survey is a nationally recognized survey administered at parishes around the United States and Canada since 2013 by The Catholic Leadership Institute. The survey will ask you to reflect on your own spiritual growth and will enable you to provide feedback on our parish’s efforts to help you grow. All responses are confidential and the parish will only receive information on the community as a whole. Maximum participation in the DMI is encouraged to involve the greatest number of people as possible. I ask everyone to please take the time to participate in the DMI. It will take about ten minutes of your time, and will greatly assist us in pastoral planning both here at Saint Timothy’s and on the archdiocesan level. We will receive the results this spring/summer at which time I will share what we have learned with the entire parish.

To take the Disciple Maker Index survey, please use the link below:
https://www.catholicleaders.org/phila-dmi
PLEASE NOTE:  When you open the link you will see a list of all the parishes in the Archdiocese. Please select our parish (Saint Timothy, Philadelphia) to complete the Disciple Maker Index survey.

If you prefer a paper copy of the survey, you may pick up a paper copy after daily or Sunday Mass. The paper copies of the survey are located in both the upper and lower churches. A printable version of the survey (in multiple languages) is also available at https://portal.catholicleaders.org/d/yd170y

To submit the completed paper survey, please drop it off at the rectory or in the special folder on the table where the surveys are located.

I call your attention to a few Lenten highlights:
 

• In addition to our regularly-scheduled daily Masses, there is an extra Mass celebrated each week on Wednesday at 7:00 P.M., followed by confessions;

 

• Stations of the Cross every Friday evening at 7:00;

 

• our Lenten adult faith formation program, which will be held every Monday of Lent at 7:00 P.M. in the Rectory. This year’s topic is Catholicism: The Pivotal Players, Part III. We will once again be using the acclaimed series of the same name by Bishop Robert Barron as our starting-point for discussion each week, as we discover more about several important figures in Church history and their importance to the Church today; 

            Please remember your Little Black Books, your Lenten quarter folders, and your Rice Bowls, all of which are available at the church entrances.
           
            Know that you and those you love are daily remembered in my Mass and my prayers.

                                                                                    Love and prayers,
                                                                                    Father Olivere