Dear Parishioners,

By now, you all know – or should know – that our

Assistant Pastor, Father Bartholomew, is no longer with

us. He has been given a new assignment. He will now assume the duties

as Chaplain of Immaculate Conception Chapel in the Diocese of Rapid

City, South Dakota. He took his leave of us last week. Ordinarily, such

departures, though bitter-sweet, are festive occasions where our priest

and his ministry are celebrated with a sumptuous reception replete with

gifts. These are traditional signs of our devotion and gratitude.

Unfortunately, due to our present circumstances, the normal festivities

were not able to happen. Nevertheless, I know very well that Father

began his journey away from us with the knowledge that we are all

grateful for his service and ministry and that, though we will miss him,

we are happy for his good fortune and his opportunity to share his

talents and ministry in a place that needs him.

As a rule, transfers are handled with a good deal of discretion. A

transfer is announced when everything is firmed up and a definite date

is arrived at. In this instance, however, due to the uncertainty of the

present situation plus the knowledge that nothing was “going to

happen,” probably, until Easter, caused a bit of a lax in the usual

discretion with which these things are handled. In addition, the situation

in Rapid City is a bit unusual in that the present chaplain (ironically,

Father Cassavantes, who was slated to be second chair here until All

Souls Day 2018) needed to be relieved to care for his aging mother.

“Provisional” priests were sent to help out, but, these priests were taken

from other positions that suffered by their absence. So, the logical step

was that, considering the present dearth of liturgical services and the

urgency to get a permanent chaplain in place, it was decided that Father

would leave sooner rather than later. At any rate, we all wish Father

well and ask God’s blessing upon him as he begins a new stage in his

priestly vocation.

By now, you all may have also noticed some remarkable changes in the

church/parish “plant.” We are now in the beginning stages of another

major milestone, the creation of our handicapped entrance, the

necessary finishing work in the rear of the nave and, due to the removal

of trees and shrubbery, the renewal of our exterior landscaping. What

exciting times, my children and my friends. God bless you all.

Father Magiera

Saint Joseph Catholic Church

March 28th / 29nd, 2020

A Parish Apostolate of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

Fr. Michael W. Magiera, FSSP, KHS, ChLJ, Pastor

1329 Belleview Avenue Rockdale, IL 60436-2577

Phone: (815) 725-4469 FAX: (815) 714-2078

Father Magiera’s Email: michael_magiera@hotmail.com

Website: www.fsspjoliet.wordpress.com

Facebook: St. Joseph Catholic Church – Rockdale, Illinois

Elizabeth Kelch, Co-DRE Denise Lonigro, Co-DRE Phone: (815) 729-9149 Phone: (708) 646-3834 Email: stjosephrep@hotmail.com Email: deniselonigro@gmail.com

Office/Rectory Hours: Monday through Friday

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

2020 Liturgical Calendar and Mass Intentions

Sanctuary Lamp Conversion and Salvation of the Clergy and

Consecrated by Renee Cottingham

Sat., March 28th Fifth Sunday of Lent

+ Andrew Pavnica by Rick & Jeanine Goss

Sun., March 29th Passion Sunday (1st cl.)

Intentions of Monica Becker

by Denise Lonigro

Pro Populo

Mon., March 30th Monday of Passion Week (3rd cl.)

+ Jason Frost by Lenore M Anders

Tues., March 31st Tuesday of Passion Week (3rd cl.) The Guthrie Family by The Hoeller Family

Wed., April 1st Wednesday of Passion Week (3rd cl.)

+ Fr. Robert Schindler by Brian Lane

Thurs., April 2nd Thursday of Passion Week (3rd cl.)

Josef Molinski

by Magdalena Molinski with family

In repentance and reparation for the sins within

our Church and our World

Fri., April 3rd Friday of Passion Week (3rd cl.)

Deceased member of the Brennan Family

by Joseph & Patricia Brennan

+ Peter and + Elizabeth Ortegel

by Jim & Trudy Holuj

Sat., April 4th Saturday of Passion Week (3rd cl.)

+ Kenneth N Crozier Jr. by the Crozier Family

Sat., April 4th Palm Sunday

+ Maria Fairman by the Bartuce Family

Sun., April 5th Palm Sunday (1st cl.)

+ Maria & Jan Molinski

by the Molinski Family

Pro Populo

+ means deceased

Mass Schedule When restrictions are lifted

Ordinary Form

Saturday 4:15pm

Extraordinary Form

Sunday 8:00 am; 10:00 am; 5:30 pm (Naperville) Monday through Friday: 7:30 am

Thursday 5:30 pm, followed by Holy Hour and Benediction

Saturday 8:00 am

Holy Days of Obligation

Ordinary Form: 5:15 p.m. anticipated Mass, if a priest is available Extraordinary Form: 7:00 am & 7:00 pm

Confessions

30 minutes before Mass

Baptisms

Any weekday is possible, but Saturdays are preferred. To schedule your family’s Baptism, please call or email Fr. Magiera. Thank you very much!

Weddings

For parishioners with faithful parish membership for at least one year. Please inquire at least 6 months prior to intended date.

WELCOME VISITORS! Worship Aides for both forms of the Mass are in the pew racks. We

welcome new parishioners. Census forms are in the back of the

church, either in racks or on the tables. Turn in your form to Fr.

Magiera or place your form in the collection basket. No need to

respond ‘Amen’ at Latin Mass Holy Communion.

Prayer Intentions for the living and deceased:

Christy Becker, Jim Dernulc, Mark Evans, Cris Galounis, Michael

Kelly, Mary Lund, Kathleen Mary McNair, Ray Tomanio, Merlin

Melnarik, Fr. Vytas Memenas, Kaira Paramo, Russler Family, Angie

Schuman, Judy Splayt, Fr. Chris Steinle, OSA, Jim Wright, Ken

Zabel, Adele Stukas, Aldona Peciura, Nancy Tomanio, Zita Stukas,

Hellmann/Roman/Kasperek, Robert Fearncombe, Jr., Isabella

Goodrich, Bonnie Reichstadt, Ellen McCague, Mary Mitchell,

George Magee, Fr. Christopher Manuele, Susanna Wheeler and

James Wheeler, Ricardo Martinez, Ayako Naganuma, Ed Bowlan,

Cole Francis Leon, Mason Leon and Chris Galounis , Raymond

Courney and Cyndy Crane..

RIP: Ben Bazik, Glen Dykhuizen, Tahara Dykhuizen, Barbara

Schoenberger, Fran Nelli, Dale Bixenmann, Arthur Birsa, Mary Rose

Bucciarelli, Diane Wolfe, Bonnie Nagra, Corinne Bowers,

Dr.Stephanie Pavnica, Andrew Pavnica, Maria Fairman, George

McCague, Linda Stortz, Kevin Hansen, Richard Blaskie, and Rich

Goss.

Donuts! Please join us for donuts following our 10:00 AM

Mass every Sunday. Everyone is invited! WHEN

RESTRICTIONS ARE LIFTED

Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for Us. Please join us on Monday, January 13th at 6:00 P.M. as

we pray the Holy Rosary in reparation for the sins

committed within Christ’s Church.

St. Joseph’s Lending Library We have a lending library of spiritual books on shelves in

the northwest corner of the basement. Many beautiful

books waiting to be read.

By the Numbers for March 21st / 22nd , 2020

Regular Collection $5,056.00

Special Needs (Building) $1,490.00

Easter Flowers

Easter

Sanctuary Lamp

Mass Intentions

Votive

Good Friday

Organ

Salt

$40.00

$100.00

$10.00

$10.00

$293.00

$20.00

$90.00

$59.90

TOTAL $7,173.90

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Mass Attendance: Saturday, 3/21/20, 4:15 PM –

Sunday, 3/22/20, 8:00 AM –

Sunday, 3/22/20, 10:00 AM –

Sunday, 3/22/20, 5:30 PM – Naperville

ALL Religious Education Classes & Sacramental

Preparation are cancelled indefinitely.

Spring Cleaning Please help us clean the church on Thursday, March 26th

after the 7:30 a.m. Mass. Thank you for your help!

Bulletin Articles If you have an article that you would like to be included in our

bulletin, please type and email your announcement to

stjosephrep@hotmail.com at least 10 days in advance. Father

Magiera must approve all articles. Thank you very much!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Website:

www.fsspjoliet.wordpress.com

Join Flocknote our parish communication tool:

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Mass Intentions Mass Intention envelopes are available in the back of church. Please

PRINT and completely fill out the front of the envelope. We will do

our best to accommodate your request. Mass Intentions are filled on

a first come, first served basis. Our Mass intention dates are

completely filled for 2019 and 2020 are quickly filling up. The Mass

Intention Envelope MUST be completely filled out in order to take

your request. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to

call the rectory. Thank you very much!

Diocese of Joliet Office of the Bishop

My dear sisters and Brothers in the Joliet Diocese,

Thank you very much for your cooperation with actions that have been

taken to minimize, to the degree possible, the spread of COVID - 19

(coronavirus). Your health, as well as the health of the public at large,

have been my deepest concern. It is important that all of us cooperate

with public leadership to make our efforts as effective as possible in

containing this pandemic.

I fully realize and feel the painful loss along with you the cancellation of

Masses on weekends. Because celebrating Mass is central to whom we are,

I understand that its absence creates a palpable void. However, out of

genuine concern for the welfare of everyone, I believe it is prudent to

cancel weekend Masses for the time being.

I want to strongly encourage all of the faithful to continue our Lenten

practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Need experienced by those

served by the Church continues, even especially so, at this time of crisis.

Please consider reaching out to your local parish about the possibility of

providing financial support or personal assistance.

Catholic Charities, which serves many of the poor and elderly in the Dio-

cese of Joliet, has a special need for volunteers to serve those in vulnerable

situations. Please visit http://www.cc.doj.org for more information.

During this extraordinary time, our efforts throughout the community are

to the benefit of all and are very much in accord with our identity as

Christians. Be assured your participation contributes significantly to the

common good.

Once again, I am fully cognizant this is a time of severe uncer-

tainty and fear. I promise my wholehearted prayer and support.

Especially comforting is the realization that the Dear Lord

accompanies us in our trials.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend Richard E. Pates Apostolic Administrator Dio-

cese of Joliet

Continuation of Spiritual Communion It consists of three parts:

1. An act of faith whereby we renovate our firm belief in the Real Presence

of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. It is, itself, an excellent preparation for

communion, be it spiritually or sacramentally.

2. An act of desire to receive Christ sacramentally and to unite intimately

with Him. This what formally constitutes Spiritual Communion.

3. A fervent petition in which we as Our Lord to grant us spiritually, all the

fruits and graces we would obtain through Sacramental Communion.

The Prayer: My Jesus, I believe that Your 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.

Warnings

1) Spiritual Communion may be repeated several times a day. It can be

made while we are at Church or elsewhere, at any time of day or night,

before or after meals.

2) All those who do not receive Communion sacramentally should at least

make a Spiritual Communion, when attending Mass. The better time to

make a Spiritual Communion is, obviously, when the priest is taking

Communion.

3) Those who are in the state of mortal sin must make an act of contrition

beforehand, if they wish to receive the fruits of Spiritual Communion.

Otherwise, they would not benefit from it at all, and it would be an

irreverence, although not a sacrilege, according to Fr. Antonio Royo Marín,

OP, “Moral Theology for Lay People”.

Regarding Spiritual Communion, the Catechism of the Council of Trent,

known as Roman Catechism, because it is a compendium of the Roman

doctrine, states the following: “It is necessary that the pastors of souls

teach that there is not only one way of receiving the admirable fruits of the

Sacrament of Eucharist, but two: Sacramental Communion and Spiritual

Communion.” The latter is not very well known, and it is practiced by a

very few people, nonetheless it is an incomparable and special fountain of

graces. Countless souls have attained a high degree of perfection through

it.

Saint John Mary Vianney, used to say: "A spiritual communion acts on the

soul as blowing does on a cinder-covered fire which was about to go out.

Whenever you feel your love of God growing cold, quickly make a

spiritual communion."

The Holy Council of Trent immensely praises Spiritual Communion, and

urges the faithful to practice this devotion.

Our Lord expressed to His servant, Sister Paula Maresca, founder of the

Monastery of Saint Catherine of Siena, in Napoles, how much Spiritual

Communion pleases Him, and the great number of graces that are granted

to us through this devotion, by showing her two precious vessels, one made

out of gold and the other one made out of silver; then He said to her that

He kept His Sacramental Communions in the gold vessel, and the Spiritual

Communions in the silver one.

Jesus would like to come every day in our hearts through Sacramental

Communion, however this is not enough for Him: He would like to unite

with us continually. This desire of the Divine Savior is fulfilled through

Spiritual Communion. Our Lord said to Saint Matilda: “Every time your

heart desires Me, you attract Me into you. A desire or a longing is enough

to make Me yours.” He said to Saint Margaret of Alacoque: “My daughter,

your desire has pierced My Heart so deeply that if I had not already

instituted this Sacrament, I would do so now to become your food.” He

also asked to Saint Margaret of Cortona to remind a religious the words of

Saint Augustine: “Believe and you have eaten already”; that is, make an act

of Faith and desire towards the Eucharist, and you will be fed by this

divine food. During the celebration of a Mass, He said to Blessed Ida of

Louvain, who had not been able to receive Him sacramentally: “Call me

and I shall come to you!”, the saint exclaimed: “Come, O Jesus!” and she

immediately felt filled with happiness as if she had really received

Communion. Lastly, after having made a Spiritual Communion, Saint

Catherine of Siena heard that Jesus said to her: “In such manner and place

as may please Me I can, I will, I am able marvelously to satisfy the holy

ardors of a soul that desires Me.”

This great desire of Jesus to unite with us is infinite and omnipotent: it has

no other barrier than our liberty. Jesus has multiplied the miracles to give

Himself to us in the Eucharist. Is he not capable of making another

miracle? Is he not His own Lord and owner of all His graces and Divinity?

If he comes down from Heaven to the Host, between the hands of the

priest, would He not come down to our hearts, if we call Him with the

ardor of our desire?

The first effect of Spiritual Communion is that of increasing our union with

the Humanity and Divinity of the Incarnated Word. This is its main effect,

its essential fruit; all the other graces that we receive through this devotion

stem from it. Here is a brief summary of the several graces that are granted

to us through Spiritual Communion:

Our fervor is rekindled. "A spiritual communion acts on the soul as

blowing does on a cinder-covered fire which was about to go out.

Whenever you feel your love of God growing cold, quickly make a

spiritual communion,” said Saint John Mary Vianney. Amidst the many

trials on our earthly pilgrimage, sadness continuously takes hold of us, and

our hearts fill with darkness. Spiritual Communion dispels the gloom, like

the morning’s sun; it brings back joy to the heart and peace to the soul.

Spiritual Communion also facilitates and favors interior retirement. It is the

most effective means to fight against dissipation, fickleness and digressions

of the mind and fantasy. It helps us to keep our sight fixed on God, to live

in a sweet and constant intimacy with Him, and in a continuous union of

hearts.

Spiritual Communion detaches us from everything that is purely sensitive

and earthly; it helps us to despise all vanities and pleasures of the world,

which last so little. “It is the bread of the heart,” said Saint Augustine, “The

healing of the heart.” It also helps us to detach our hearts from everything

that is unclean and faulty; and it transforms them and closely unites them

to the Heart of Jesus.

It is also greatly effective for removing venial sins and attaining from God

forgiveness of punishment for the sins committed. Spiritual Communion

will also give an amazing glory to all the souls that practiced well this

devotion, and they will enjoy of special joys, sweeter and more delicious,

that other souls will not know. One day, Our Lord said to Saint Gertrude

that each and every time we devotedly look at the Host, our place in

Heaven is raised, and the more we increase these amorous looks and desire

for the Eucharist, the more joys we will enjoy in Heaven.

It pushes us towards Sacramental Communion by increasing each day our

desire to receive Jesus, it prevents us from willfully ceasing to receive Him

sacramentally, and it helps us preparing to better receive Sacramental

Communion and to get more fruits out of it.

We can also offer up Spiritual Communions for the intentions of others,

whether alive or dead. Saint Margaret of Alacoque highly recommended

Spiritual Communion as suffrage for the souls in purgatory. “You can

greatly relieve those poor souls by offering up as much Spiritual

Communions as you can to repair the misuse they made of Sacramental

Communions.”

Spiritual Communion can be made after prayer, meditation, spiritual

reading, before and after the praying of the Rosary, and at night, before

going to sleep. It can be made as many times as one wishes to. Time is not

important, but ardor and vehemence of desire, hunger and thirst of the soul,

the impulse of the heart!

All saints are unanimous in praising the wonders of Spiritual Communion.

Some go as far as saying that “Many times, through this means, God fills

us with the same graces we receive with Sacramental Communion”, as

Blessed Mary of the Cross used to said; and Saint Gertrude, together with

Father Rodríguez, agree that “sometimes He grants even greater graces,

because although Sacramental Communion is in itself of greater

effectiveness, the fervor of desire can make up for the difference.”

40 Days for Life Campaign Many prolife groups from various Catholic parishes will participate

in the 40 Days for Life campaign. This non-violent protest includes

prayer at the Aurora abortion clinic on six Saturdays, February 29

through April 4. Participants peacefully and prayerfully witness to

the harm that abortion inflicts on the child in the womb, the mothers

seeking abortion and the society that allows such activity. Those who

would like to come and pray for an hour at the abortion clinic with

other Catholics from our diocese will meet in front of St. Joseph's

Church in downtown Joliet at 9 a.m. on these six Saturdays and re-

turn around noon. Carpools will be available. If you have questions,

contact bethhansen2@yahoo.com. If you need more information

about this campaign go to www.40daysforlife.com.”