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May 24, 2015
65th Anniversary of Ordination
May 27, 1950
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - May 24
Congratulations, Father Kelly !
Congratulations and prayerful best wishes to Father
Kelly, who will celebrate the 65th anniversary of his
ordination to the priesthood at St. Pius X Church,
Broomall, this Sunday, May 24, at the 11:30 a.m. Mass,
where he served as pastor from 1981-2000.
Newly Ordained Priests
Congratulations and prayerful
best wishes to our seven new
priests ordained May 16 by
Archbishop Chaput at the
Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and
Paul: Fathers Daniel J. Arechabala,
James J. Cardosi, Alexander R.
Gibbs, Steven W. Kiernan,
Addisalem T. Mekonnen, Kevin T.
Mulligan, Joseph S. Zaleski.
National Survey of New Priests
Men ordained to the priesthood (diocesan and
religious) in the U.S. this year report that they were, on
average, about 17-years-old when they first considered a
priestly vocation, and encouraged to consider a vocation
by an average of four people, according to a survey
released Apr, 7 by the Center for Applied Research in
the Apostolate (CARA), based at Georgetown
University.
Seven in 10 (71 percent) say they were encouraged
by a parish priest, as well as friends (46 percent),
parishioners (45 percent), and mothers (40 percent). Of
the 595 new priests (up from 477 in 2014), 411 (69
percent) responded to the survey.
Bishop Michael F. Burbridge of Raleigh, North
Carolina, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on
Clergy, found that the survey gave reason for hope, but
also provides areas for further growth.
“It is encouraging to see the slight increase in the
number of ordinations this year in the United States,”
Bishop Burbridge said. “When asked about the positive
influences they encountered while discerning the call,
those to be ordained responded that the support from
their family, parish priest, and Catholic schools ranked
very high.”
The average age of the priesthood ordination class of
2015 is 34. Eight in 10 respondents are between 25 and
39. One quarter (25 percent) were born outside of the
U.S. Eight in 10 respondents were altar servers.
Prayer for Priests
Ever-living God and Father of us all, you give to your
Church the Priesthood of your Son, Jesus, and by the
power of the Holy Spirit, you provide holy priests for a
holy people.
We pray for all our priests, who announce the Word of
God and celebrate the Sacraments, for those who are
young and those who are old, for those who serve in
difficult and trying circumstances, for those who are
faithful and those who are faltering, and for those who
have died.
We entrust all our priests to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, that they may persevere with fidelity to you and to your Church. With
Saint John Vianney, patron of priests, we pray that our
priests may never fail to lead us to you.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Convocation for Priests
Archbishop Chaput has invited our diocesan priests
to join him May 26-28 at the Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center for their annual Convocation.
Author Matthew Kelly of The Dynamic Catholic Institute
will present the theme The Priesthood Fully Engaged.
Amen.
Holy Priests for a Holy People
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Observance of the Year of the Priest—2009-10
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - May 24
Parish Office Closed
Our Parish Office will be
closed
Monday, May 25, for
Memorial Day.
Young Adult Retreat
Young adults, 20-35 years old, are invited to a retreat
on Living the Revolution of Tenderness with the Gospel of
Mercy on May 29-30 at the Malvern Retreat House.
Cost is $50/college student or $80/person. Visit
malvernretreat.com/retreats/register to register.
Nepal Earthquake Recovery Appeal
Archbishop Chaput has asked pastors to consider
taking up a voluntary collection for the Nepalese people
of whom 7,800 were killed and 15,000 injured to date by
the April 25 earthquake that devastated the country.
Our second collection next weekend, May 30-31,
will be a voluntary collection to assist Catholic Relief
Services and Caritas International in aiding the people of
Nepal recover from the earthquake.
Visit www.crs.org for further information.
Healing of Families Retreat
Part Two
Malvern Retreat house is hosting
a retreat Sunday, May 31, 2-7
p.m. on building healthy
relationships.
For more information, visit
malvrenretreat.com or call (610)
644-0400.
AOH Irish Festival
The Ancient Order of
Hiberbians (AOH) Irish Festival will
be held on the weekend of June 5-7
at St. Michael’s Picnic Grove, Mont
Clare, PA. Musical entertainment
includes a Ceile with Tom McHugh
on Friday evening, continuing with
Celtic Spirit on Saturday and Belfast
Connection with Oliver McIlhone
and Tom McHugh and the Gillians
on Sunday. On Saturday and Sunday,
Thunder Pipes and Drums as well as Irish Dancers will
perform. Tickets are $5 on Friday, $10 on Saturday and
Sunday and $20 for a weekend pass.
For more information, visit www.aohnd1.com or call
(610) 277-2738. Proceeds will benefit AOH charities.
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YOUTH GROUP EVENTS
Steubenville Meeting
There will be a MANDATORY meeting for parents,
teens and chaperones on Sunday, June 7, from
6-7 p.m. at the Parish Center. Since this is the first time
the conference is being held in NYC, there are some
different items that need to be reviewed. NY requires
headshots of all attending so photographs will be taken
at this meeting. Logistics of the trip and the side trip to
Coney Island will be discussed. This is also the last day
to turn in paperwork.
Graduation Party
All Junior and High School students welcome to celebrate our
graduates on Sunday, June 7, 7:30
-9:30 p.m. at Dave & Busters,
Plymouth Meeting. Cost is $26
which includes room, beverages,
dinner and a power card. RSVP to
Gail Toto at ymmin@eol.comcastbiz.net.
Knights of Columbus 25th Anniversary
To mark this occasion, Epiphany Knights of Columbus
Council #10605 will be celebrating their 25th Anniversary
and holding a gala event on Apr. 23, 2016 in the Grand
Ballroom of Plymouth Country Club. There will be live
music, food and beverages served in style. All parishioners, their friends and families are invited.
Please mark this date on your calendar and celebrate
this milestone with the Epiphany Knights of Columbus.
More details to follow at a later date.
Bereavement Support
Free of Cost
Sponsored by Mercy Suburban Hospital. Thursdays
from July 9-Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. 2701 DeKalb Pike, East
Norriton. Pre-Registration is requested. Call (610) 2926515 and leave a message.
Holy Communion for the
Sick and Homebound
If you or a member of your family is ill and unable to
attend Sunday Mass, our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy
Communion are available to bring Communion to the
sick and homebound. Please notify the rectory and
provide the office staff with the name, address and phone
number of the sick or homebound parishioner.
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - May 24
Pope to Priests: Exhaustion is Part of Ministry
BY CAROL GLATZ
Catholic News Service
http://catholicphilly.com/2015/04/news/world-news/pope-to-priests-exhaustion-is-part-of-ministry/
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Priestly ministry is hard, sometimes lonely or dangerous work serving the
neediest with an open, vulnerable heart, Pope Francis told the world’s priests. But priests need to learn how
to draw strength from their flock and their love for God, and not look for rest or retreat in “worldly pursuits,” hiding in their office or riding in cars “with tinted windows,” he said April 2 during the chrism Mass in
St. Peter’s Basilica.
Priests can find renewal when they do not try to be “supermen,” but instead put their trust in God to
embrace them and carry them through, he said.
Presiding over the first of two Holy Thursday liturgies, Pope Francis blessed the oils that will be used in
the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, ordination and the anointing of the sick.
As Holy Thursday was the day Jesus shared his priesthood with the apostles, Pope Francis led the more
than 1,500 priests, bishops and cardinals in a renewal of their priestly vows and dedicated his lengthy homily
to the priesthood, focusing on “the tiredness of priests.”
“Do you know how often I think about this weariness all of you experience? I think about it a lot and I
pray about it often, especially when I am tired myself,” he told those assembled.
The reading from the Book of Isaiah, he said, outlines the challenging work of priestly ministry: bringing
glad tidings to the lowly, healing the brokenhearted, proclaiming liberty to those held captive, releasing the
imprisoned and comforting those who mourn.
If a priest is doing his job right — if his heart is open and he experiences with compassion all the troubles,
fears and joys of his people, then “so many emotions, so much affection exhaust the heart of a pastor,” he
said. For a priest, knowing what one’s flock is going through is not a detached reading of “a news report,”
but comes from “suffering with them.”
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Sharing in people’s suffering makes the heart feel “broken into a thousand little pieces” and given away so
much it almost seems “eaten up by the people,” he said, drawing a parallel with what is said at the Last Supper: take this all of you, eat this, drink this.
The 78-year-old pope, who works at an often demanding pace and is known to not take vacation, said,
“How difficult it is to learn how to rest. What comes into play here is our trust and our remembering that
we too are sheep and we need the Lord to help us.”
While he had warned members of the Roman Curia in December of “15 spiritual diseases” they should
avoid, in his Holy Thursday homily for priests Pope Francis outlined three kinds of “weariness” they should
watch out for: exhaustion from being with the people; fatigue from fighting “the devil and his minions;” and
ennui from becoming selfish and worldly.
Like Jesus, the priest is called to go out and care for others, he said, which leads to a kind of “weariness of
the crowd.”
“People love their priests, they want and need their shepherds,” and a priest “with the smell of sheep”
experiences a “good and healthy tiredness” and can smile “the smile of a father who gazes upon his children
or grandchildren.” But that gaze “has nothing to do with those who smell of expensive cologne and look at
you from afar and from on high,” he said in a homily delivered in Italian. If Jesus is there shepherding with
the priest, “we cannot be shepherds whose faces are bitter, grouchy or, even worse, bored,” because being
with the flock with the smile of a father reflects a weariness that brings joy, he said.
The “weariness of enemies” comes from defending one’s flock from evil and battling the devil, who tries
to silence the word of God and distort it, he said. Priests must not let down their guard and must
“neutralize” the bad without destroying the good, but they also must not presume “to protect like supermen
what the Lord alone must protect.” “In these situations of weariness, the Lord says to us: ‘Have courage! I
have overcome the world’ and this word gives us strength,” he said.
When talking about the third form of weariness, the “weariness of ourselves,” the pope emphasized that
it was his final point “so that you won’t be too worn out by this homily,” which at 21 minutes, was longer
than the norm for Pope Francis.
While the first two kinds of weariness “come from being exposed” to the outside world, which is what
pastoral care demands, the third kind of weariness was “perhaps the most dangerous” because it is selfcentered, he said. It was a paradox of giving up everything for the priesthood yet yearning for the fleshpots
of Egypt — “a weariness I like to call ‘flirting with spiritual worldliness,'” he said. The best way to avoid this
danger, he said, is to never let go of that first love for Christ. “Only love gives rest,” he said. The weariness
that comes from following Christ and being human “is precious in the eyes of Jesus who embraces us and
lifts us up,” he said.
The pope told priests to let Jesus continue to personally wash their feet and cleanse them from “every
stain, that worldly and grimy smog that clings to us from the journey we make in his name.” No priest has
to let his feet stay dirty and sore, he said. “Like war wounds, the Lord kisses them so that he washes away
the grime of our work,” he said. “Let us learn to be tired out, but a good tired out!”
Later in the day, the pope was scheduled to celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper at a
Rome prison and wash the feet of six male and six female inmates.
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - May 24
Respect Life Rose
Is in Loving Memory of
Beatriz Skowronski
This rose will remain on the
Altar in front of
MASS INTENTIONS
The Blessed Mother
Monday, May 25
9:00 a.m. – Joseph Steuer
Tuesday, May 25
8:30 a.m. – Christopher Britt
Wednesday, May 27
8:30 a.m. – Joseph Alletag
Thursday, May 28
8:30 a.m. – Rose Sheehan
Friday, May 29
8:30 a.m. – Henry & MaryJane Marcil
Saturday, May 30
8:30 a.m. – Patrick O’Connor
The Adoration
Chapel
Votive Candles for
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit, fill my heart with Your holy
gifts. Let my weakness be penetrated with
Your strength this very day that I may fulfill all the
duties of my state conscientiously, that I may do what
is right and just.
Let my charity be such as to offend no one, and
hurt no one's feelings; so generous as to pardon sincerely any wrong done to me.
Assist me, O Holy Spirit, in all my trials of life,
enlighten me in my ignorance, advise me in my
doubts, strengthen me in my weakness, help me in all
my needs, protect me in temptations and console me
in afflictions.
Graciously hear me, O Holy Spirit, and pour Your
light into my heart, my soul, and my mind. Assist me
to live a holy life and to grow in goodness and grace.
Amen.
May 24
John
McKenna
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From the Pastor:
All of us have been baptized into one and the same
Spirit; let us live, then, by the Spirit! That same Spirit, the
Advocate, who “renews the face of the earth,” was given
as gift to the disciples to strengthen them to go forth in
the name of the Lord, and to obtain forgiveness of sins.
Please Pray For The Sick
Robert Auch*
Miriam Beaumont*
Bartholomew Cahan
Maureen Cahan
Stacy Callahan, 8yrs Old
Esperanza Galshack*
Steven Hedricks
Kathy Kane*
Bill Keenan*
John P. Kelly*
Helen Miller*
Mary Mirabile*
Janet O’Connor*
Mary Pizzico,*
Phyllis Pupkiewicz
Jill Ramos
Gloria Scandale*
Katty Tucker
*Parishioner
Epiphany of Our Lord Church - May 24
Pastoral Staff
Rev. Joseph J. Quindlen, Pastor
Rev. James J. Kelly, In Residence
(Retired)
Permanent Deacons
Emil J. Wernert,
Michael Pascarella, Jr.
Kenneth P. Clancy (Retired)
Joel M. Ziff, (Retired)
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Parish Staff
Business Manager, Paris A. DiPietro
Director of Music, Constance M. Steuer
Business Secretary, Lydia Hayward
Administrative Assistants:
JoAnn O’Connor
Cecilia T. Dadario, part-time
Information Technology Coordinator,
Nicole Zimmerman, part-time
Maintenance Supervisor
Anthony R. Mashaintonio
Church Sacristan,
John F. Phipps, part-time
Perpetual Adoration Chapel
In order to keep our Perpetual Adoration Chapel open 24/7, we need your help.
Please ask a family member or friend to consider spending time with our Eucharistic
Lord Jesus.
You can come to Him with praise and adore Him or pour out your heart to Him,
to ask for inspiration, to be consoled and comforted, to ask for favors and guidance,
and to give thanks.
Please call Elaine Thorpe at (610) 828-6925 if you can commit to any of the following open hours:
Sunday:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
5-6AM, 12-1PM, 1-2PM, 8-9PM
5-6AM, 11AM-12PM, 4-5PM
5-6AM, 11AM-12PM, 2-3PM, 4-5PM, 9-10PM
4-5PM, 5-6PM
6-7PM, 7-8PM, 10-11PM
5-6AM, 3-4PM, 6-7PM, 7-8PM, 9-10PM, 10-11PM
11AM-12PM, 12-1PM, 1-2PM, 3-4PM, 7-8PM, 9-10PM
NOTE: We are asking men to cover the early morning times. Please do not leave any
religious articles in the chapel, i.e., books, magazines, metals, prayer cards, rosaries,
etc.
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3050 Walton Road,
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Stephanie Quigley,
Coordinator, part-time
Carla Manno,
Adm. Assistant, part-time
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Youth Ministry
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Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Gail Toto, Coordinator, part-time
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Holy Rosary Regional
Catholic School
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(610) 825-0160
3040 Walton Road,
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
Lisa S. Hoban: Principal
lhoban@holyrosaryregional.com
Beth Sheldon,
Administrative Assistant
bsheldon@holyrosaryregional.com
Mass Schedule
Saturday
5 p.m. Vigil
(fulfills the Sunday Obligation)
Sunday
7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., & 11:30 a.m.
Daily
8:30 a.m. Monday to Saturday
Holydays
7 p.m. Vigil, 8:30 a.m., 12:05 & 7 p.m.
Confessions
Saturday
3:30-4:30 p.m. & by appointment
Parish Office Hours
Monday-Friday
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
After 4:30 p.m. by appointment only
Closed for lunch: 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday
By appointment only
Sunday
By appointment only
A mail slot is located in
the rectory front door.
Parish Office Requests
To register in the parish,
arrange for a baptism, or
request a Certificate of
Eligibility for sponsorship at
Baptism or Confirmation,
contact the rectory Monday
through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to
12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:30
p.m. (email is preferable).
Mass on the fifth Sunday of
the month. Both first-time
parents must attend a PreJordan class, which is held the
first Wednesday of every
month.
Pre-Registration for the class
is required by contacting the
rectory. Sponsors not from
Epiphany are required to
Also, please advise our office submit a Certificate of
staff of any change of Eligibility from their parish two
address, telephone number weeks prior to the Baptism.
or family status.
Marriage
Notify the priest of your
Anointing of the Sick
intention to marry at least six
First Saturday of the month
months before the date of the
during 8:30 a.m. Mass or by
wedding to assure sufficient
special request.
preparation and to arrange for
Please notify the rectory as
Pre-Cana sessions.
soon as possible when any
parishioner becomes
Miraculous Medal—
seriously ill or is admitted to
Perpetual Novena
the hospital.
After 8:30 a.m. Mass every
Baptism
Saturday.
Baptisms are celebrated after
the 11:30 a.m. Mass every Healing Mass
Sunday, with the option of 1st Saturday of the month
Baptism during the 11:30 a.m. at 8:30 a.m.
May 0, 2015
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