Office Hours / Horario de Oficina Monday through Thursday / Lunes a Jueves: 8:00 am to 3:00pm Friday / Viernes: 9:00 am—12:00pm Sunday Masses / Misa Dominical Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm English / Ingles Sunday/ Domingo 8:00 am English/ Ingles 10:0 am English / Ingles 12: 00 pm Espanol Weekday Masses / Misa Diaria Monday/ Communion Service/ Lunes Servicio de Comunion Tuesday—Friday / 8:30 am Mass Martes a Viernes 8:30 am Misa Confessions / Confesiones: Thursday / Jueves 6:00 pm or by appointment o por cita previa Anointing of the Sick / Uncion de los enfermos Call the office at 352-567-2894 Marriage Preparation: the couple must call the office to make an appointment with Father Pedro to explain the requirements. Thank you Preparacion Matrimonial: La pareja debe hacer una cita con el Padre Pedro para explicar los requisitos. Gracias

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New Parishioners: Welcome to your New Home! Please stop by the Church Office and fill out a Regis-tration Form to be a member. Nuevos Parroquianos Bienvenidos a su nueva casa. Favor pasar por la oficina para registrarse y hacerse miembro de la comuidad de Santa Rita St. Vincent de Paul assistance / Asistencia de San Vicente: (813) 713-8323 Director of Faith Education / Director de formacion Religiosa: Mr. William Terranova 352– 567– 2498 Parochial Administrator / Administrador Parroquial Rev. Pedro Zapata Ext. 223 Deacon/Diacono: Rev. Mr. Irv W. Lau

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MASS INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK

Saturday March 20 Fifth Sunday of Lent 4:30pm Jacek Niewartiwich Requested by Cassandra Playzewsky

Sunday, March 21 The Fifth Sunday of Lent 8:00am + Mary McCall Requested By Jim McCall 10:00am Living and deceased Parishioners 12:00pm + Matias Jara Requested By Teresa Kaluza Monday March 22 Lenten Weekday 8:30 am Community Service Tuesday March 23 Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo 8:30am intentions of J acek Niewartiwich Requested by Cassandra Playzewsky Wednesday March 24 Lenten Weekday 8:30 am Felipa Alvarez Requested by Candida Rodriguez 7:00pm + Manuel y Graciela Mariscal Requested by Lorena Farias Thursday March 25 The Annunciation of the Lord 8:30am + Eugene Fleck Requested by Richard & Lucy, Sharon Ewart Friday March 26 Lenten Weekday 8:30 am + Mary & Charles Trombly Requested by Family 6:00 pm Bilingual Stations of the Cross/ Estaciones de la cruz. Bilingue Saturday Vigil March 27 Palm Sunday Celebration 4:30pm + John Kutsch Requested by Liz Sunday, March 28 Palm Sunday Celebration 8:00am Living and Deceased Parishioners 10:00am + Bill McLeod Requested by Marie McLeod 12:00 pm + Mike Kaluza Requested by Teresa Kaluza

FR. PEDRO’S MESSAGE

OUR COMING EVENTS Dear Parish Family. The Lord be with you. We have to prepare for the coming Easter festivities that are warned and thus welcome them in a very spiritual way. Next week we will begin our Holy Week with Palm Sunday. I want to anticipate that we WILL NOT have processions this year because of the Corona virus pandemic. This is a very different image of a Holy Week without processions, so different from what we have done for so many years and today we are forbidden... it's not allowed. The important thing is that we can celebrate Holy Mass and give God all praise and accompany Christ to live his passion and death so that we can all be resurrected with Him. For this reason I invite you to continue to take care of ourselves and to be able to celebrate these Easter celebrations with great rejoicing and reverence. Last year we were very sad for not being able to celebrate Lent any of these events, so we must take advantage that this year we enjoy good health and have the joy to celebrate these important events of our Catholic Faith. The celebration of Holy Thursday with the washing of the feet will be very different this year since there will NOT be washing of feet neither kissing on the feet of the disciples. This year we are all going to WASH OUR HANDS as a sign that we are clean to receive Communion at the end of Mass. The celebration of Good Friday that we call The Adoration of the Cross, this celebration will also be very different because it will be without kiss to the cross, we will all make A SOLENM VOW to the Holy Cross. The celebration of the Holy Saturday with our Easter Vigil at 8:00 pm. This year we want to give more importance to the PASCHAL FIRE and the EASTER CANDLE since last year we did not have one. Our Easter Sunday Celebration will be a TO-TAL JOY in our Saint Rita’s Parish Family as this year we will have an EASTER MORNING CELEBRATION at 6:00 am in the parking lot. I want to encourage you all to celebrate all these Easter festivities and enjoy them with great joy. Let us ask God to help us celebrate them with dignity and much happiness. Peace to all and many Blessings! Fr. Pedro

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2021 Annual Pastoral Appeal Apelación Pastoral Anual

2021

Original Goal/ Nuestra Meta: $ 51, 614.00

Total Pledge/ Total donado: $ 23,979.00

Total Paid/ Total pagado:

$ 15,873.99

Shorfall / Déficit $ 27,635.99

Thank you all for your generous contributions to our 2021 APA collection!

Gracias a todos por sus generosas contribuciones

a nuestra colecta de APA del 2021

OUR STEWARSHIP COLLECTION March / Marzo 13 & 14, 2021

Envelopes & checks/ sobres y cheques……………………. $ 5,859.00 Cash / Efectivo………….……..……….$ 4,013,12 Total ..……………………………………$ 9,872,12 GOD ENTRUSTS SOME THINGS TO US Since God owns everything, all that we have comes from him. Not just our resources either. Wealth, honor, strength, power, and authority belong to him too.

“Wealth and honor come from you; you are

the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give

strength to all.” — 1 Chronicles 29:12 This is one of the most challenging aspects of biblical stewardship that Christians have to grasp. There are times when we feel we’ve earned something by our own merit or effort, but even then, God is the one who deserves the credit and has true ownership.

THE NEW COVENANT Today’s first reading is an enormously important passage, not only in the history of the Jewish people, but also for us as disciples of Jesus, who see in it a foreshad-owing of the Christian dispensation. The prophet an-nounces that God has chosen to forgive the people, and that as a sign of divine forgiveness a new covenant will be established. Contrasting the new covenant with the one made with Moses on Mount Sinai, Jeremiah says that the new covenant will be written on the people’s hearts rather than on tablets of stone. No longer will the community’s tradition be the sole bearer of the covenant; henceforth, God will speak directly and personally to each individu-al, forgiving sin and calling for a return to God in faith-fulness. No longer will mere outward compliance with the dictates of the Law suffice; henceforth, God asks for an obedience that springs from the depths of one’s heart. Precisely that kind of obedience is highlighted in today’s second reading, where the author of the Letter to the Hebrews describes Jesus as the mediator of the new covenant whose obedience has made him the source of salvation for all who, in turn, obey him. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — I will make a new covenant; I will write my law upon their hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-34) or Ezekiel 37:12-14. Psalm — Create a clean heart in me, O God (Psalm 51) or Psalm 130. Second Reading — Christ learned obedience and became the source of eternal salvation (Hebrews 5:7-9) or Romans 8:8-11. Gospel — If a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it produces much fruit (John 12:20-33) or John 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45]. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 [41c- 62]; Psalm 23:1-6; John 8:1-11 Tuesday: Numbers 21:4-9; Psalm 102:2-3, 16-21; John 8:21-30 Wednesday: Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Psalm from Daniel 3:52-56; John 8:31-42 Thursday: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10; Psalm 40:7-11; Hebrews 10:4-10 Luke 1:26-38 Friday: Jeremiah 20:10-13; Psalm 18:2-7; John 10:31-42 Saturday: Ezekiel 37:21-28; Jeremiah 31:10, 11- 13; John 11:45-56 Sunday: Micah 11:1-10 or John 12:12-16 procession); Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8- 9, 17-20, 23-24; Philippians 2:6-11; Mark 14:1 — 15:47 [15:1-39]

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FEAST OF FAITH The First Reading

Each Sunday, we listen to three scripture readings. The first reading usually comes from the Old Testa-ment. “The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament comes fully to light in the New,” we read in the Introduction to the Lectionary. “Christ himself is the center and fullness of the whole of Scripture” (5). On Sundays, these readings usually have a close connection to the Gospel. In this season of Lent, for example, the Exodus account of the thirst of the Isra-elites in the desert is paired with the Samaritan wom-an’s encounter with Jesus at the well. Ezekiel’s vision of the Lord raising people from their graves is paired with the narrative of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. The readings are taken from many sources—historical books like Judges, Kings, and the Acts of the Apostles, prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel, wis-dom literature like Proverbs or Ecclesiastes. But no matter its genre, the first reading always ends with the same acclamation: “The word of the Lord.” The scrip-tures are written by human authors who wrote in widely different cultural and historical contexts, but these human authors are also divine instruments through whom God speaks to us. And so we say, “Thanks be to God.” —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co

GOD’S PROMISE The promise made by the LORD in the first reading

is very bold. He says that all people shall know him, with-out having to be taught by others. The way people will know Him is through forgiveness of their sins. Remember, he is speaking to the Israelites: When they broke a com-mandment or law, they were isolated from the community. So the promise that God would place his law in their hearts meant they would be free to do God’s will because they want to, not because they were feared punishment or rejection.

Jesus says something similar in today’s gospel. He tells the disciples that his crucifixion would draw every-one to him. Now, Jesus’ death showed that he took on the punishment for sins in place of us, who deserve it. By dy-ing on the cross, Jesus shows how much God loves us. By rising from the dead, he shows that we can rise from sin to a new life of faith and love.

Getting back to the first reading, we experience that promise when we bring our sins to God. When we forgive people who have hurt us, we also help them to experience that love. We also help others to know God when we share or experience of being forgiven. The sac-rament of Reconciliation gives us the assurance of God’s forgiveness, as well as the experience. Along with the oth-er sacraments, it helps us keep God’s love in our hearts. Tom Schmidt, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

A big Thank you to our disciples for cooking and pre-paring the Fish fry for us to enjoy on Friday March 12 and March 19, 2021 It was deli-cious ! Good job !! May God Bless you all for your great service to our com-munity !

G O D I S G O O D

THANK YOU to all who par ticipated in our Pretzel Fundraiser through your donations and purchases of pretzels. We raised enough

money to buy t-shirts and plan more activities! God bless you for your support!

Next Youth Group Meeting: Sunday, March 28, 2021

1:30-3:30 pm

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EL NUEVO PACTO La primera lectura de hoy es un paso muy im-portante, en la historia del pueblo judío y también para nosotros como discípulos de Jesús que ven en ella un anuncio de la dispensación cristiana. El profeta anuncia que Dios ha escogido perdonar al pueblo, y que como un signo del perdón divino se establecerá una nueva alianza. Contrastando la nueva alianza con la que Dios hizo con Moisés en el Monte Sinaí, Jeremías dice que el nuevo pacto será inscrito en el corazón del pueblo y no en tablas de piedra. Ya no será la tra-dición de la comunidad la única portadora de la alianza; a partir de ahora, Dios hablará directa y personalmente a cada individuo, perdonando el pecado y pidiendo un retorno a Él en fidelidad. Ya no bastará el mero cumplimiento de los dictados externos de la ley; a partir de ahora, Dios pide una obediencia que brota de lo más profundo de nuestro corazón. Precisamente ese tipo de obediencia se destaca en la segunda lectura de hoy, donde el autor de la Carta a los Hebreos describe a Jesús como el me-diador del nuevo pacto, cuya obediencia ha hecho de él la fuente de salvación para todos los que, a su vez, le obedecen. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

LECTURAS DE HOY Primera lectura — El Señor hará una nueva alianza con la casa de Israel. (Jeremías 31:31-34) o Ezequiel 37:12-14. Salmo — Oh Dios, crea en mí un corazón puro (Salmo 51 (50)) o Salmo 130 (129). Segunda lectura — Cristo aprendió obediencia, y los que ahora le obedecen encuentran en él la salva-ción eterna (Hebreos 5:7-9) o Romanos 8:8-11. Evangelio — Si el grano de trigo cae en tierra y muere, da mucho fruto (Juan 12:20-33) o Juan 11:1-45 LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 Salmo 23 (22):1-6; Jaun 8:1-11 Martes: Numeros 21:4-9; Samol 102 (101):2-3, 16- 21; Juan 8:21-30 Miércoles: Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Salmo tomado de Daniel 3:52-56; Juan 8:31-42 Jueves: Isaias 7:10-14; 8:10; Salmo 40 (39):7-11; Hebreos 10:4-10; Lucas 1:26-38 Viernes: Jeremias 20:10-13; Salmo 18 (17):2-7; Juan 10:31-42 Sábado: Ezequiel 37:21-28; Jeremias 31:10, 11-13; Juan 11:45-56 Domingo: Macabeos 11:1-10 o Juan 12:12-16 (procesión); Isaias 50:4-7; Salmo 22 (21):8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Filipenses 2:6-11; Marcos 14:1 — 15:47

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MENSAJE DEL PADRE PEDRO

NUESTROS PROXIMOS EVENTOS Querida Comunidad Parrouial de Santa Rita. El Senor este con ustedes. Tenemos que prepararnos para las fiestas pascuales que se avisan y asi darles la bienvenida muy spiritualmente. La proxima semana damos comienzo a la Semana Santa con el Domingo de Ramos. Les anticipo que no tendremos procesiones este ano debido a la pandemia del virus. Esta es una imagen muy distinta de una srmana santa sin pro-cesiones, tan distinta a lo que hemos hecho por tan-tos anos y hoy se nos prohibo...no es permitido. Lo importante es que podamos celebrar la Santa Misa y darle a Dios toda alababanza y acompanar a Cristo a vivir su passion y muerte para que todos po-damos resucitar con El. Por esto les invito a que nos sigamos cuidando y podamos con distancia y precau-cion celebrar estas fiestas pascuales con mucho regocijo y reverencia. El ano pasado lamentamos no poder celebrar nada de estos acontecimientos por eso debemos tomar ventaja que este ano temenos salud y gozo para celebrar. La celebracion del Jueves Santo con el lavatorio de los pies sera muy distinto este ano ya que no Ha-bra ni lavado ni beso en los pies de los discipulos. Este ano nos vamos todos a LAVARNOS LAS MANOS como signo de que estamos limpios para recibir la comunion. La celebracion del Viernes Santo que llamamos La Veneracion de la Cruz, esta celebracion tembien sera muy distinta y sin beso a la cruz, todos haremos la VENIA BENDITA a la Santa Cruz. La celebracion del Sabado Santo sera afuera ya que este ano queremos darle importancia al FUE-GO PASCUAL y al CIRIO PASCUAL ya que el ano pasado no tuvimos uno. El Domingo de Pascua sera un gozo total en nuestra comunidad ya que este ano tendremos una Misa de Pascua a las 6:00 am Estoy ancioso por

celebrar todos estas festividades pascuales y poder disfrutar con ustedes estas grandes fiestas. Pidamos a Dios que nos ayude a celebrar esta Pascua con dignidad y mucha alegria. Paz para todos y

BUSCANDO A JESÚS, ENCONTRANDO LA CRUZ En la lectura del Evangelio, amigos de Felipe se acercaron a él para pedirle una cita con Jesús. Cuando Felipe y Andrés le presentan a Jesús esta petición, Jesús empieza un discurso enigmático acerca del discipulado, la transformación y el jui-cio divino. Nunca escuchamos si los amigos de Felipe llegaron a conocer personalmente a Jesús. Quizá simplemente se mezclaron con la multitud. Jesús dice: “Cuando sea levantado de la tierra, atraeré a todos hacía mí”. El narrador dice que las palabras de Jesús indican cómo él iba a morir; los lectores ya saben que Jesús será crucificado. Jesús también habla del juicio divino que ex-pulsa a los gobernantes del mundo y la necesidad de ser transformado, como una semilla fructífera. Él advierte sobre el amor a nuestra vida y la pérdi-da de esta. A diferencia de la visión detallada de Jeremías, Jesús solo insinúa qué tipo de vida trans-formada traerá su muerte. ¿Y si nosotros, como los amigos de Felipe, qui-siéramos acercarnos a Jesús? ¿Significa eso que el discurso sobre la muerte y el juicio está dirigido a nosotros? Si Jesús atrae a todos hacia sí mismo cuando es “levantado”, ¿significa que estar más cerca de él significa unirse a él en su cruz? (¿Queremos estar muy cerca de Jesús?) ¿Queremos ser transformados? Si decimos “sí”, la liturgia de estas dos semanas puede mostrarnos la única manera que la Iglesia conoce para acercarse a Jesús: estar dispuestos a ser “levantados” con él en su sufrimiento y en el nuestro.

MAYORDOMIA DIOS NOS CONFÍA ALGUNAS COSAS Como Dios es dueño de todo, todo lo que tenemos proviene de El… no sólo nuestros recursos. La riqueza, el honor, la fuerza, el poder y la autoridad también le perte-necen a Dios. "La riqueza y el honor provienen de Dios; El es el gobernante de todas las cosas. En tus manos hay fuerza y poder para exaltar y dar fuerza a todos." —1 Crónicas 29:12 Este es uno de los aspectos más desafiantes de la mayordomía bíblica que los cristianos tienen que com-prender. Hay momentos en que sentimos que hemos ganado algo por nuestro propio mérito o esfuerzo, pero incluso entonces, Dios es el que merece el crédito y tiene verdadera propiedad.

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Muchas gracias a nuestros discipulos por cocinar y preparar el pescadao frito para todos disfrutar el Viernes Marzo 12 y Marzo 19. Estsaba deli-cioso! Buen trabajo !

Que Dios les Bendiga for su gran servicio a la comunidad !!

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