Resurrection Parish

ALL PUBLIC MASSES ARE CANCELLED!!!

AS OF MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2020
By order of the Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton, David O’Connell, all public Masses in the Diocese has been cancelled until further notice.  There will be no Holy Week or Easter Mass celebrations with congregations; all will be available LIVE STREAMED
on the Diocese of Trenton Website at dioceseoftrenton.org.   This extreme action is being taken in order to contain the Coronavirus pandemic. Fr. JC Garrett will offer Mass privately for the intentions which were requested.
 
Fr. J.C. will LIVE STREAM on
his YouTube channel: Fr. JC Garrett

Mondday of Holy Week: 7 PM
Weekday Mass at 9am
Morning Prayer at 8:30am
Angelus & Daytime Prayer at 12pm
Evening Prayer at 6pm
Sunday Mass at 10am
Palm Sunday at 10am

The Parish Office will be closed until further notice.  In case of true Catholic emergency (Anointing) please call the office at 856-461-6555 for instructions.  Please visit our website for updates and notices at resurrection2.org.
Questions or concerns email Trish@resurrection2.org 

There are several ways to give to the Weekly and Easter collections:
1. mail to P.O.Box 1099, Delran
2. place in secure mailboxes at Parish Office or the Rectory at the front doors
3. join Parish Giving by clicking on the Sign Up box below .

Thank you to everyone that has sent in their contributions or have recently joined the Parish Giving Program!

Until further notice the Churches will not be open to the public.  There will be no Religious Education classes, confessions or Adoration. 

 The Pope has requested to say the Rosary daily for the World, the lives lost, the sick and an end to this pandemic.

God bless and stay healthy,
Fr. J.C. and the Staff

 

Join the Holy Father in Prayer!
Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., encouraged the faithful of the Diocese
of Trenton to join in this extraordinary opportunity to pray with the Holy Father and the world, and receive the Pope’s formal blessing.  Pope Francis will lead the world in prayer at 1pm eastern time, he states we are called to respond to the coronavirus pandemic "with the universality of prayer, of compassion, of tenderness and to remain united." Go to the USSCCB United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops.

The Diocese of Trenton is committed to the initiatives outlined in the U.S. Bishops' Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in regard to the reporting and investigation of sexual abuse allegations involving minors.

If you have been sexually abused as a minor by a member of the clergy or anyone representing the Catholic Church, or if you know of someone who was, you can report that abuse through the diocesan Abuse Hotline:  1-888-296-2965 or via email at abuseline@dioceseoftrenton.org.

The Diocee of Trenton reports any allegations of sexual abuse to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.  Anyone with an allegation is also encouraged to provide that information to local law enforcement authorities.

Palm Sunday: Fr. J.C. will live-stream the Mass at 10am.
During the Mass he will bless a small amount of palm.
We do not want to encourage people to violate the Governor's Stay Home Order, 
so blessed palm will not be available at either church until after this crisis has passed.

Monday of Holy Week: Since the Bishop has postponed the Chrism Mass until after the quarantine is lifted, he has asked that all the priest join him in celebrating Mass at the same time.  So our daily Mass today will be at 7 PM, not 9 AM.  We will be spiritually united with the Bishop and all the priests of the Diocese.  After the homily, Fr. JC will renew his priestly promises.

Holy Thursday: Fr. J.C. will live-stream the Mass of the Lord's Supper at 7pm.

Good Friday: Fr. J.C. will live-stream the Passion of our Lord at 3pm.

Easter Vigil: On Saturday, April 11 at 7pm, Fr. J.C. will live-stream the Easter Vigil Mass.

Easter Sunday: April 12, Fr. J.C. will live-stream the Easter Mass at 10am.

All live-streaming is on Fr. JC's YouTube channel:  Fr. JC Garrett

 

"A Light in the Darkness" April 8, 2020 The clergy, religious and lay faithful of the Diocese of Trenton are invited to safely display a lighted candle in the window of their homes, (for example, the type of electric candles used at Christmas), around sunset (7:32 pm) on Holy Saturday evening, as a symbol of our unity with Catholics throughout the world while Paschal Candles are being lit at Easter Vigils. This symbol will be for us in the Diocese of Trenton “A Light in the Darkness,” the darkness that has been the COVID -19 Pandemic.    The following prayer from the Easter Vigil may be said as candles are lit:  “May the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness  of our hearts and minds.”

April 3, 2020  

Dear Members of Resurrection Parish,

     As we continue to live through the Coronavirus Pandemic, I would like to keep you up to date with what we are doing in the parish.

     As some of you know, I have figured out how to live-stream on Facebook.  The schedule of when I live-stream liturgies are in the right hand column of this page.  Some have contacted the office and me to say that they do not use Facebook, and wondered if I could live-stream using another service such at YouTube.  I looked into that.  You need 1000 subscribers for a YouTube channel to be free.  Plain and simple, we do not have the money (more on financial matters below).  (UPDATE:  I HAVE FIGURED OUT HOW TO BYPASS YOUTUBE'S 1000 SUBSCRIBER RULE.  SO ALL LIVE-STREAMS WILL BE ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL:  Fr. JC Garrett)  So we will be live-streaming on YouTube and reposting to Facebook; you could open a Facebook account just during this pandemic crisis, and just friend us, "Resurrection Parish in Delran, New Jersey," and once this crisis is over close your account. 

     The Diocese will be live streaming Bishop O’Connell’s Holy Week services on the Diocesan website:  www.dioceseoftrenton.org.  Here is the schedule for the live stream Holy Week schedule:

• Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020 – 11 AM.
• Holy Thursday, Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, April 9, 2020 – 7 PM.
• Good Friday, Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, April 10, 2020 – 3 PM.
• Easter Vigil, April 11, 2020 – 7 PM.
• Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 – 10 AM.

     I will be live-streaming the Holy Week schedule, and again the schedule is in the right hand column.  One change, this coming Monday, April 6, the priests of the Diocese would have been gathering with the Bishop for the annual Chrism Mass where we renew our priestly promises, and the sacred oils are blessed.  Given the pandemic, the Bishop is postponing the Chrism Mass, however, he asked all the priests of the Diocese to celebrate Mass at 7 PM, so that we will be united spiritually in prayer.  It will be the ordinary Mass for Monday in Holy Week, but the priests will renew their promises.  So this coming Monday, April 6, instead of live-streaming the Mass at 9 AM, I will be doing it at 7 PM.

     How I must talk with you about the parish finances.  First, thank you to the parishioners who have continued to mail in or drop off your weekly collection envelopes.  And thank you to those who have signed up for Parish Giving, our electronic donation service.  Your weekly contributions are essential for the good of the parish.  Yet, our income is seriously down.  I have not paid myself my salary since the first week of March.  Today we paid all of our employees, but I also had to furlough Rich Scanlon, our Director of Faith Formation, and Mariana Pirri, the parish secretary.  We will bring them back as soon as we can, and continue to pay their benefits.  With the CARES Act, there was a change in the unemployment rules, so they will be able to receive the Federal portion of unemployment, $600/week.  Barbara Meehan, who works for us part-time, voluntarily asked to be furloughed.  But money is still very tight.  The Diocese is starting a "Pass the Basket" online giving program where you can designate which parish should get the money.

      There is another way inwhich you can help the parish financially.  I imagine that many of us are ordering more things online.  Amazon.com must be seeing increased sales during the pandemic.  While I discovered that they have a program for supporting charities called AmazonSmile.  If you go to www.smile.amazon.com and then just sign into you Amazon account as usual.  You will be asked which charity you would like to support, in the search line type in "Church of the Resurrection Delran Township NJ" and you will find us.  Just select us and 0.5% of your purchased on Amazon will be given to the parish.  It is not much, but if we can get most of our. parishioners to sign up, it would really add up.  Thanks.

     Today I received some amazing news.  I belong to a priest group which gets together monthly.  Last Friday we video conferenced on Zoom.  We were sharing our experiences of the pandemic and encouraging each other.  I mentioned my concerns about paying the parish's employees.  Fr. James O'Neill, the pastor of St. John's in Lakehurst, took my concern (and that of another pastor) to his finance committee.  They have been blessed financially, so they decided to give Resurrection Parish a gift of $25,000.00.  Yes, you are reading that right, it is a gift of $25K.  Please offer prayers of thanksgiving for Fr. O'Neill and all the people of St. John's Parish in Lakehurst for their incredible generosity.

     Know that I am praying for all of you everyday.  I guess that is the one silver lining in this stay at home situation – we have plenty of time to pray for each other.
 
                                                                                    Sincerely yours in Christ,
                                                                                    Fr. JC Garrett
                                                                                    Pastor