Church of the
Annunciation

7580 Clinton Street
Elma, New York 14059

716.683.5254


        ✝️ The Parish Office encourages the use of appointments.

Call 683-5254 or [email protected] for an appointment for documents or to arrange to have a Mass said for a loved one. Some transactions, but not all, may be done by phone, mail, and email.

✝️ MASS INTENTIONS

Masses are now available. Please contact the Parish Office if you wish to schedule a Mass.

Please note that our Mass schedule has changed for both the weekend and weekday Masses.

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Please return the form by mail or in the collection basket

 

Thank you to all the parishioners within our Family of Parishes who took part in the fifth and final Life in the Eucharist Retreat afternoon held at The Church of the Annunciation in Elma. Each session was well attended by all members of the WHEAT family of parishes.

As we enter into Holy Week let us take some time to quiet ourselves and enter into the stillness and sacredness of the week. Remember that we have our Reconciliation Service on Monday the 25th for our Family of Parishes at St. Vincent de Paul Parish. There will be a number of priests available for confession. Holy Thursday Liturgy and Good Friday Services are listed within the bulletin as well as on our Family websites.

Holy Saturday Liturgy will be celebrated at St. Joseph Parish in Holland and St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Spring Brook at 8:30PM. These are the two parishes within our Family who have RCIA Candidates.

The Reflection for this week is taken from the words of Pope Francis. During these holy days, Pope Francis asks us to draw near to the Crucified Jesus. The message of Holy Week is a message of Gods boundless love for us. In the silence and solemnity of the week let us find inner PEACE and HOPE

Father Jerry

Let us place ourselves before Jesus to take an honest look at ourselves, removing whatever is superfluous. Let us let Jesus regenerate hope in us. This is needed: to go back to the heart, to the essentials, to a simple life, stripped of many useless things, which are substitutes for hope. Today, when everything is complex...we need simplicity, to redis- cover the value of sobriety, the value of renunciation, to clean up what pollutes the heart and makes us sad.

Jesus did not cover up or hide his wounds when he was nailed to the cross.

Brothers and sisters, we too are wounded-who isnt in life? And many times, with hidden wounds that we hide out of shame. Who does not bear the scars of past choices, of misunderstandings, of sorrows that remain inside and are difficult to overcome? But also of wrongs suffered, sharp words, unmerciful judgments? God does not hide His wounds that pierced his body and soul, from our eyes. He shows them so we can see that a new passage can be opened with Easter: to make of our own wounds, holes of light.

Think about your wounds, the ones you alone know about, that everyone has hidden in their heart. And look at the Lord and you will see, how holes of light come out of those wounds. Jesus does not incriminate on the cross, but loves. He loves and forgives those who hurt him (cf. Lk 23:34). Thus, he converts evil into good; thus, he converts and transforms sorrow into love.

Brothers and sisters our hope has a name: the name of Jesus. He entered the tomb of our sin; he descended to those depths where we feel most lost; he wove his way through the tangles of our fears, bore the weight of our burdens and from the dark abyss of death restores us to life.

Pope Francis

 

 
 
 

 

 

If you wish to pray the Rosary with another voice the following links will provide you with that opportunity:

 

CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary

 

CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary

 

CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary

 

CLICK HERE to pray with a video of the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary

 

 

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New Schedules for

WHEAT Scattered and Sown Family of Parishes

WEEKENDS

Saturdays:

4 pm St. Vincent

4:30 pm Immaculate Conception

Sundays:

8 am Annunciation

8 am Immaculate Conception

9 am St. Joseph

9:30 am Immaculate Conception

10 am St. Vincent

10:30 am St. George

11 am Annunciation

5 pm Annunciation

WEEKDAYS

Monday:

7 am Annunciation

8 am Immaculate Conception

Tuesday:

8 am St. George

8 am St. Vincent

9:15 am Immaculate Conception

6 pm Mass at St. Vincent then 6:30-7:30 pm Adoration

Wednesday:

7am Annunciation

8am Immaculate Conception

Thursday:

8am Immaculate Conception

8am St. Joseph

6pm Mass at St. Vincent then 6:30-7:30 pm Adoration

Friday:

7 am Annunciation

1st Friday Nocturnal Adoration

3rd Friday Adoration at 9:30am

8 am St. George

6 pm 1st Friday of the month only,

devotions at

St. Vincent’s (Adoration, Rosary, Confession) followed by 7 pm Mass,

Anointing of the Sick, then a social.

Saturday:

8 am St. Joseph

Check the bulletin for Holy Day times.

                        Confessions at Annunciation: 4:00PM on Sunday and upon request. Anointing of the Sick on the first Sunday of the month after the 11AM Mass.

 

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