Archives for April 2020

Hi Folks:

What’s that old SNL routine, Norm MacDonald I think, “note to self…”? Well, note to self—CHARGE THE MICROPHONES AND RECIEVER before you try to livestream Mass! Sorry about this morning (April 15). It should get better.

And we do plan to livestream Mass this Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, at 10:00 AM. So enjoy the sleep-in (we are, trust me) and see you at 10 AM on Sunday. And in regards to the indulgence of Divine Mercy; be smart. If you’re not comfortable going out for other things, don’t rush to the Church for confession just to get the indulgence. Remember that it can still be gained with a DESIRE to go when you are able. Watch Mass and say the prayers and let the Lord into your heart; He understands. We’ll still be in Church for confessions on Saturday from 3-4 but again, be smart and be safe.

And a word about generosity. Our monthly food collection benefits the Patrician Society of Norristown. They came about two weeks ago and picked up everything we had. As you know, food banks and other charities are getting hit from two directions; lots of demand and a lessening of volunteers and donations. If you’ve found another outlet for your generosity, kudos! But if you still want to drop off something for our food collection, we’ll make sure it doesn’t sit in the Church. And any donations to St. John’s Hospice or the Caring for Friends individual meals are still welcome. But as with any generosity, financial or otherwise, do what you can and stay safe while doing it.

Praying for you always,

Happy Easter Everyone:

And I know it’s going to be so different for all of you. My own family will be getting together on Zoom for our “Easter Dinner.” But it will be as joyful as we all want to make it—for my family, for yours and for our CC family. And we’ve got a nice little “Easter Egg” for us at CC. Read below.

Here’s the Easter Sunday reflection video link. Once again, blessings to McHenry Creative for all the time filming (and editing out my goofs!) and making them available for us.

https://mchenrycreative.wistia.com/medias/nvyp4z7urf#

And here’s a special Easter Message from Archbishop Pérez to all of us.

Pastoral Message to the Faithful from Archbishop Pérez on the Occasion of Easter 2020

And that Easter Egg? Well, as you recall, when this first hit, I lamented the fact that we didn’t have WiFi in the Church building so we wouldn’t be able to stream Masses. That hasn’t changed. (It will as soon as this is over!) What HAS changed is that we’ve been able to work out a way to stream Mass for you. It took our seminarian John McCabe, Fr. Silva and myself to move a LOT of furniture around. It also took a friend of Fr. Silva’s, Mr. Shimmy Charles, who operates a YouTube radio station in India called Luminous Radio. Mr. Charles has been kind enough to let us borrow time on his station to livestream Mass for you. Yes, we could have used Facebook Live as some others are doing, but that would have required you to get a Facebook account and we didn’t want to force you into that.

So starting Monday April 13, at 8:00 AM, we’ll be livestreaming Daily Mass from the Rectory. Many of you will recognize the space as the Adult Formation Room. Since it was formerly the Convent Chapel, it didn’t take much work (other than that furniture rearranging—that was our workout for the day let me tell you :) to reset it for Mass. It will be a tighter look than you’re used to—that’s due to production issues—but it will be your priests celebrating Mass with you, at least virtually. And if you like it well enough, we’ll do Sunday also—at 10:00 AM—we could all use a little bit of a sleep in can’t we?

Again, our thanks to everyone who helped make this possible—Fr. Silva, Mr. Shimmy Charles, John McCabe and also Jim Roberts our webmaster who will get the link up to you on the parish website. That link is here:

http://corpuschristilansdale.org/live/

And here’s a backup link if there are growing pains with the website. This link takes you right to Luminous Radio where you can find the link for our Mass on their homepage.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQmSj7_ftUCIapvnSNW8-QA 

We’ll keep you up to date about this. Again, I’m excited to be able to celebrate Mass with you in this way and sorry it took so long for me to figure it out. I’m slow but we’re getting there.

Praying for you always,

I’m providing the Good Friday reflection a little early today. With the 12 Noon prayer experience with our country and the 3 PM livestream from our Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul, there’s a lot to pray today. That’s a good thing. So here are the links to both the reflection video and the 12 Noon country-wide prayer opportunity.

Reflection Video: https://mchenrycreative.wistia.com/medias/gosdskzs8t#

12 Noon National Prayer: https://www.facebook.com/usccb

And here’s what’s going on at CC. In order to keep our Church open for your private prayer without shutting you out, we celebrated the Lord’s Passion at 8 AM this morning. So the Cross is present in the Church for your veneration (and on Good Friday, it’s venerated with a genuflection—yes this one day of the year). The Blessed Sacrament is in the Chapel in Repose for prayer there too. I know that normally we wouldn’t mix those elements of our prayer, but I’m sure you agree that these are NOT normal times.

Praying for you always,

Hello Everyone:

Every time I think it will be a short note, something else comes up that I need to communicate to you. Guess that’s a good thing, actually. It tells us that even in a time of social distancing (someone said we should call it “physical distancing.” We still are and still SHOULD be reaching out in some way to each other.) good stuff is still going on.

Here is the link to our Holy Thursday reflection video. Our thanks to McHenry Creative for all the time and skill they are putting in for these videos. https://mchenrycreative.wistia.com/medias/6lsxl79jdu#

And here’s a link to another great opportunity for prayer. Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, who is also the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has invited the entire nation to pray for healing and peace from Covid-19 on Good Friday. This will take place at 12 NOON our time.

https://www.facebook.com/usccb

Praying for you always,