Month: March 2020
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Financial Giving
March 26, 2024
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I hope this note finds you well in the midst of this pandemic. These are certainly unprecedented times and nothing we could have ever planned. While we are not able to meet with each other physically, we are with each other in spirit and through the use of social media. I would invite you, if you are able to make online contributions to our parish.
You can access online giving by going to www.holynamespringfield.org. When you get to the website, scroll down where it says “We Share” from there it is self- explanatory in how to donate.
I realize this appeal comes at a very difficult and uncertain time. I am aware of some of the challenges you may be facing. Please be assured as your Pastor, I would never ask you to sacrifice your families’ needs for the needs of your parish and your spiritual nourishment is more important to me than the business of the parish but it is a reality that I cannot ignore. I simply ask you for your continued financial support for the parish during this time.
If you are able to at this time, please consider using online giving, as this would be the easiest to manage. You could also mail your donations to the Parish or ask your bank to send a check directly.
I hope you are staying healthy, safe and sane during this time. You can follow us on Facebook daily for Daily Mass. We are celebrating Mass in our personal chapel where we still have our WIFI activated and your intentions are celebrated every day. Please be assured of my continued prayers during this time. God Bless you and your families.
Sincerely Yours,
Fr. David Aufiero
Holy Name Parish
Pastor
Mass for March 27, 2024
Pope Francis to give a special Urbi et Orbi blessing amid coronavirus pandemic
From the Catholic News Service
You can watch the blessing a www.vaticannews.va at 1 pm eastern time.
Pope Francis announced Sunday that he will give an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing this week with the opportunity for Catholics to receive a plenary indulgence by tuning in via media.
“This Friday, March 27 at 6 p.m., I will preside over a moment of prayer outside of St. Peter’s Basilica with the square empty. As now, I invite everyone to participate spiritually through the media,” Pope Francis said March 22 in his livestreamed Angelus address.
“Urbi et Orbi” means “To the City [of Rome] and to the World.” It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica every year on Easter Sunday, Christmas, and other special occasions.
Pope Francis said the March 27 prayer broadcast for those suffering from the coronavirus pandemic will include listening to the Word of God and Eucharistic Adoration.
More than 300,000 people have contracted COVID-19 as of March 22, according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. The respiratory disease, which originated in Wuhan, China, has spread to 157 countries, and has led to the deaths of 13,672 people worldwide.
“We want to respond to the pandemic of the virus with the universality of prayer, compassion, tenderness. Let us stay united,” Pope Francis said.
“All those who spiritually join this moment of prayer through the media will be granted the plenary indulgence according to the conditions provided for in the recent decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary,” Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni told journalists following the pope’s announcement.
The Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary has granted a plenary indulgence for people who pray for an end to the pandemic, healing for the sick, and the eternal repose of the dead. Plenary indulgences, which remit all temporal punishment due to sin, must be accompanied by full detachment from sin.
In this case, the person must also fulfill the ordinary conditions of an indulgence, which are sacramental confession, reception of the Eucharist, and prayer for the intentions of the pope, by having the will to satisfy the conditions as soon as possible for them.
To receive the indulgence, a person may offer at least a half hour of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament or a half hour of prayer with scripture, or the recitation of the rosary or chaplet of divine mercy “to implore from the Almighty God an end to the epidemic, relief for those who are suffering, and eternal salvation of those whom the Lord has called to himself.”
Pope Francis asked people to pray for the lonely, the elderly, doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, government authorities and the police. The pope also stressed the importance of praying for the dead during his Sunday morning Mass livestreamed from his residence in Vatican City.
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