Welcome to the Church of Santa Susanna in Rome Italy!
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Dear Santa Susanna Parishioners, Friends and Alumni of Santa Susanna Church,
Greetings on this beautiful clear winter morning from downtown Roma. We are now in Carnevale Season as Ash Wednesday is just two weeks away. This Sunday we celebrate the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, with the Gospel focusing on discipleship with Jesus calling the fishermen apostles to begin fishing for new followers to continue his mission.
Family Based Religious Education meets again on Saturday, February 6, at 3.30 PM at Santa Maria degli Angeli e Martiri. I will be giving the adult presentation on Catholic Identity and why we decide to pass on our faith to our children, as well as taking an indepth look at the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and reconciliation. I expect to see 100 percent parent participation, with no substitutes of grandparents or cousins. One parent must attend all sessions, as was our original agreement. We only have four more sessions, and it is essential that everyone be there on time and eager to participate fully. I promise that I will make this session very much worth your while and worthy of your time and full attention. Confirmation students are to go directly to the Church, ready to begin at 3.30 PM. Parents and all other students meet me in the auditorium of Santa Maria on Via Cernaia, no later than 3.29 PM. It will be an exciting and beautiful day, and a fantastic Family Mass celebrated by Fr. Tom at 6 PM. We need all of our families to be at this Mass, with the special participation of Communion Class B. This is also the final call for Baptismal Certificates.
During Lent there will be many opportunities to enrich your spiritual life. Besides daily Mass, evening prayer, Stations of the Cross, Communal Reconciliation Services and Bible Study, we will offer four spiritual walking tours of Churches on the Tuesdays of March. On the Wednesdays of March, I will lead four experiential sessions at Marymount on Praying with the Scriptures, with Music, with Stations of the Cross and with the Rosary. Fr. Tom and I also offer you the possibility of having a Lenten group discussion, Mass and potluck supper in your home with three or four other couples. And I will offer an evening meditative retreat on The Power of Film and the Way of the Cross the week before Holy Week. I will be screening scenes from current films that resonate with the themes in the Holy Week Scripture Readings. Add the March 20 Parish Field Trip to Pitigliano and Sovana and you will see how there are plenty of opportunities to participate during Lent 2010.
This weekend, Fr. Tim Costello is the presider at the Sunday 10.30 AM Mass and I will celebrate the 9 and 11 AM Masses. The Lectors are Maire McNamara and Cheryl Richardson, the ministers of communion are Gabriella Castelli and Hiroko Sasaki, the servers are Katherine Hage and Andrew Koren , and the Hage and RichardsonOmamo Families are providing the after Mass hospitality.
At Santa Susanna, we need to expand our list of lectors, ministers of communion and servers, so now I will be personally asking some of you to become liturgical ministers and I will personally provide the appropriate training. I also would like to create a monthly schedule so that everyone knows their ministry ahead of time and we do not need to go up and down the aisles searching for assistance two minutes before Mass begins. So get ready for a very exciting remainder of 2010. Have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing all of you this weekend. Ciao for now, Fr. Greg
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