SATURDAY, APRIL 6

8:00� am� � Peter Pagliari (d)�

4:30� pm� � Herbert C. Gillett (d) 29th Anniversary�

SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 5TH SUNDAY OF LENT�

8:00� am� � William Purcell (d)�

10:00�am� � Mary Connolly (d) Birthday Remembrance�

11:30�am� � Parishioners of St. Pius V�

6:00� pm� � Sylvia Muriel (d) 8th Anniversary�

MONDA Y, APRIL 8

7:00� am� � Special Intention�

12:00�Noon� �William I. Swift (d)�

TUESDAY, APRIL 9

7:00� am� � Special Intention�

1200�Noon� �Joyce Costello Nofi (d)�

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10

7:00� am� � Special Intention�

12:00�Noon� Jim Collins (d)�

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

7:00:� am� � Allen Hendry (d)�

12:00�Noon� Juvenal Mbanzamihigo (d) & All Deceased�

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

7:00� am� � Jack Pendergast (d)�

12:00�Noon� Carol A. Dragon (d)�

SATURDAY, APRIL 13

8:00� am� � Peter Pagliari (d)�

4:30� pm� � Viola Proto (d)�

SUNDAY, APRIL 14, PALM SUNDAY OF THE

PASSION OF THE LORD�

8:00� am� � Manuel & Freancisco Ramos (d)�

10:00�am� � Living & Deceased Members of the �

� � � Chiodo & McVeigh Families�

11:30�am� � Parishioners of St. Pius V�

6:00� pm� � Stephen Patrick Fallon (d) 4th Anniversary�

St. Pius V Mission Statement

We, the Christian family of St. Pius V Parish, are gifted by God with the vision of St Dominic. Empowered by the Holy

Spirit and truth, we actively minister to the spiritual and physical needs of the members of the Body of Christ. Through a

welcoming Eucharistic community, we commit to praise, bless, preach, and to live the love of Jesus through word and

deed.

St. Pius V Parish is FORMED. Go to www.formed.org and enter our parish password TX4KG3�

Dear Parishioners,

The Fifth Sunday of Lent finds us just two weeks away

from Easter and I don’t know about you, but I am ready

for Easter Sunday! Of course, we can still benefit from

this Lent especially by making a good Confession before

Easter.

Our 8th Graders will be confirmed by Bishop Tobin this

Tuesday, April 9, at 7:00pm here in our Church. Please

pray for the “confirmandi” and for their sponsors. It is a

great privilege to be a sponsor or godparent and it is

even more of a great responsibility. To provide another

person with the witness of our own Faith is something

that we can only fulfill with God’s grace. Perhaps this

week each of us could pray for our own godparents and

even for all of our godchildren as well. Please join us for

Mass Tuesday night as we celebrate this great sacra-

ment in the lives of our 8th Graders and in the life of the

Parish.

I especially want to thank all of the CCD teachers and

school teachers who have prepared them along the way

throughout their years of catechesis but particularly to

thank Miss Bridget Scott and Sister Vincent Marie, O.P.,

who teach 8th grade religion.

On this Friday, April 12, we will have a special presenta-

tion of the Stations of the Cross at 1:30pm. As you can

read in the bulletin, it will be a dramatic performance

with music but what you can’t read in the bulletin (until

now, that is) is that my brother, Kevin, and my niece AND

goddaughter, Kayley, are starring in it along with my

great PC friends, Kate and Michael Joseph. AND to make

it all the more family related, the clarinetist, Danny Ma-

rella, is my other niece, Jessica’s, boyfriend. Please

come and enjoy this special Lenten offering so that the

Church will have more than just my family members in it!

Congratulations to our St. Pius V Girls Junior Basketball

team (grades 4-6), who after becoming the RI State

Champions in Division One, went on to take Second

Place in the CYO Regional Tournament last weekend in

Manchester, NH. They played three games in two days

so they worked hard for this achievement! Congratula-

tions to Coaches Christina Batastini and Richard Nicolo

as well!

AND FINALLY, our parish’s beautiful Pin Oak tree on the

corner of Fairoaks and Elmhurst was named #1 in its

“species rank” for all of Rhode Island. The tree has a

crown spread of 95 feet and an overall height of 89 feet

and a circumference of 186 inches. I am not congratulat-

ing a tree.

Blessed Lent!

In Saint Dominic,

Fr. James Sullivan, O.P.

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY�

April 28, 2019�

We need volunteers on Divine Mercy

Sunday for confession monitors,

greeters, parking lot attendants, and

ushers. Please call Ernie or Eileen at

353�0544. Thank you!�

For on�line giving go to www.faithdirect.net or call toll free 1�866�507�8757. Our parish code is RI487�

Lent 2019 + St. Pius V, Providence�

SUNDAY PREACHING�

The 10 o’clock Sunday Mass�

Judgement�

April 7, 2019 + Rev. James Mary Sullivan, OP�

Heaven�

April 14, 2019 + Rev. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP�

THE WAY OF THE CROSS

(A dramatic performance with music)�

Friday, April 12, 1:30 p.m., St. Pius V Church�

French playwright Henri Gheon (1875

�1944) originally wrote the drama,

based on the Stations of the Cross,

for production at the Benedictine Ab-

bey in Tancremont, Belgium, in 1932.

The Oxford Companion to the Thea-

tre states that “Gheon’s plays com-

bine fine poetry and an excellent the-

atrical sense with great simplicity and

religious feeling.” The play is per-

formed by 4 players who speak for

the watchers and characters in the

Passion. By words and gestures the Passion story is told.\�

� This production was first performed in Lent 2017 in Our Lady of the

Rosary Chapel in the Dominican Priory at Providence College and is com-

posed of PC alumni and faculty. The production is directed by Fr. Matthew

Powell, O.P., and Prof. David M. Cabral created the costumes. The cast con-

sists of Michael Joseph, Kate Joseph (husband & wife), Kevin Sullivan and

Kayley Sullivan (father & daughter). Danny Marella will accompany the perfor-

mance in playing the clarinet. The performance will last approximately 40

minutes and admission is free.�

CATHOLIC MEDIA SALE�

There will be a sale of Catholic books, DVDs, and CDs for adults and

children (including some First Communion items) before and after all

the Masses on Palm Sunday weekend (April 13/14). Please take ad-

vantage of this opportunity to grow in the knowledge and understand-

ing of our Faith and Spirituality.�

We always think about ways to deepen our faith during Lent… �

�

BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO ENRICH YOUR FAITH �

DURING THE EASTER SEASON?�

Come to Called & Gifted, a 5�week workshop that will help you recognize your

God�given spiritual gifts (charisms) which you received at your baptism � gifts

you are meant to share for the upbuilding of your family and friends, your par-

ish, and the world. For more info go to our website www.spvchurch.org and

follow the link on our home page. Registration forms are at the front entrance

of the church.�

�

If you have questions please contact calledandgifted@spvchurch.org or call

the priory. �

Workshop starts on Tuesday, April 23

rd

and runs until May 21

st

. Meetings are

from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. �

NOTE: If we have enough interest we will also offer an afternoon work-

shop beginning on Wednesday, April 24

th

and running until May 22

nd

.�

�

Cost is $15 for the books. Please register by April 14

th

so we can order the

books on time! �

Just 1 week left to sign up!�

FR. PATRICK’S CORNER

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: “The Father in heaven urges us, as children of

heaven, to ask for the bread of heaven. [Christ] himself is the bread who, sown in the

Virgin, raised up in the flesh, kneaded in the Passion, baked in the oven of the tomb,

reserved in churches, brought to altars, furnishes the faithful each day with food from

heaven.”

DOMINICAN SUNDAY BULLETIN

A FEW THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK FROM THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT, APRIL 7, 2019

1. The Profession of Faith�

�

“Jesus means in Hebrew: God saves” (CCC,

#430). Of all the names that the Father could

have chosen for His Son, He chooses the one

which says the most about the purpose of His

Son’s becoming man. God became man so

that He might save us. As we go through the

Season of Lent this reminder can not be forgot-

ten. God wants to save us and the only ques-

tion that we have to answer is: “Do we want

Him to save us?” Lent can be depressing at

times as we focus on our sins and on our un-

worthiness before God. But Lent can at the

same time be a time of great joy because we

come to know our Savior more personally. We

know that there is nothing that can separate us

from the love of God. “Since God alone can for-

give sins, it is God who, Jesus his eternal Son

made man, ‘will save his people from their

sins’” (CCC, #430).�

2. The Celebration of the Christian Mystery�

�

Because God wants to save us from our sins

He gave the Sacrament of Confession when

we hear the priest say to us: “I absolve you

from your sins in the Name of the Father, and

of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” We can

pray for forgiveness before we go to bed, we

can ask God for His mercy at the beginning of

each Mass but it is only in the confessional

where we hear God’s words of forgiveness.

And this is why regular Confession is part of

our lives as Catholics. The Catechism of the

Catholic Church teaches: “the sinner, placing

himself before the merciful judgment of God

anticipates in a certain way the judgment to

which he will be subjected at the end of his

earthly life” (CCC, #1470). We have no fear of

the judgment at our death because we have

died many times before in the confessional, a

death to sin, of course.�

4. Christian Prayer�

�

And this is why: “The first movement of

the prayer of petition is asking for-

giveness, like the tax collector in the parable:

‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ It is a prereq-

uisite for righteous and pure prayer” (CCC,

#2631). Jesus did not come to make us pride-

ful, self�sufficient, or self�reliant. He came to

reveal our need for Him, our emptiness without

Him, our sin that needed a Savior. To have

“righteous and pure prayer” means that we

begin from a place of need�not what I can do

for God, but rather what God, and only God,

can do for me. One of the time�tested traits of

the Christian life is joy. In the midst of suffer-

ing, adversity, and even persecution, Christians

remain filled with joy. The reason for this is

simple: Joy is the proof that we believe that

God is saving us, that no matter what is hap-

pening around us, it cannot take us away from

Him and His saving work in me. “Jesus, be

merciful to me, a sinner!”�

3. Life in Christ�

�

And these graces that we receive in the

Confessional configure our life more

perfectly to that of Christ, even if it is only little

by little. Two examples might be the habit of

gossip and rash judgment about someone.

“Respect for the reputation of persons forbids

every attitude and word likely to cause them

unjust injury” (CCC, #2477). Coming to Con-

fession reminds us of the great gift of speech

as we use it to name our sins. The same

tongue that hurts others, the Lord now uses to

bring us closer to Himself. Rash judgment is

when we “assume as true, without sufficient

foundation, the moral fault of a neigh-

bor” (CCC, #2477). It is a fact of regular Con-

fession that as often as we submit ourselves to

the judgment of another, the priest, for exam-

ple, the much more tolerant of the faults of oth-

er we become. As we seek to understand our-

selves and our sins, we become more under-

standing of others as well.�

The community of St. Pius V extends its deepest

sympathy, prayers, and support to the families of

Louis Pugliese and Mary Stebenne who passed

away.�

JUST A REMINDER �

Palm Sunday, April 14,

will be the last Sun-

day for the 11:30am

Mass.�

Save the Dates!

EASTER LECTURES

On the seven Wednesdays of the Easter Season begin-

ning on April 24, Saint Pius V will be sponsoring a lecture

series on the Acts of the Apostles. Bring your Bible and

your questions as some of the Dominican professors at

Providence College share the fruits of their own contem-

plation and study. The talks will be given in the Church

Hall from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. For the first evening, please

read Chapters 1 and 2.�

Holy Thursday Seven Church Tour

Please join us for the ancient

tradition of keeping watch

with our Lord on Holy Thurs-

day while He endures His

imprisonment by visiting the

Tabernacles of 7 churches in

Providence. The origin of the

Seven Church Tour is typi-

cally credited to St. Philip

Neri (16th Century) and is

practiced by Catholics

around the world. Catholics remember when Jesus asked

his disciples to stay and watch with Him while they were in

the garden. This tradition of mindful watching is a sort of

pilgrimage to various altars in different churches that corre-

spond to each of the seven places or “stations,” that were

made by Jesus from the Upper Room to the Cross. Please

join us for this profound meditation upon the Passion of

Christ. �

�

Holy Thursday Mass will begin at 7:00 p.m. at St. Pius V

and then a bus will depart from the front of the church at

9:00 pm for the Seven Church Tour and return to St. Pius

V around 11:00 pm. If you want to come on the buses,

please reserve your seat by emailing or calling Tyler Row-

ley at t3rowley@gmail.com or (401) 290�7201. Anyone is

welcome to follow the bus in their car.�

EASTER NOVENA

The Dominican Friars are happy to announce that they

will offer a novena of Masses for your loved ones, liv-

ing and deceased, and your intentions during the

EASTER Novena. We invite you to come and pray with

us at some of these Masses. The cards are available at

the rear of the church through Wednesday, April 17.

The cards can also be picked up at the parish office

during office hours. The envelope and donation can be

placed in the collection or returned to the parish office

before EASTER SUNDAY. Your novena offering is a

contribution to the Dominican Community. Please

make check donations payable to the Dominican Fa-

thers.�

Our Lady of Sorrows�

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

The St. Pius V Bereavement Ministry is sponsoring an 8�

week bereavement support program on Thursday eve-

nings from May 2 through June 27 in the St. Pius Rectory

assembly room. This series will provide a peaceful, sacred

place for those who are mourning to learn about and to

share their experiences of grief. Although there is no fee,

pre�registration is required. For more information or to

register, call Pat Owen at 274�3854.�

�

�

�

MASS TIMES�

Easter�

Sunday�

Eight o’clock, Sunday morning�

Ten o’clock, Sunday morning�

There will be no other Sunday

Mass.�

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