“Arise and Eat, Else the Journey Will Be Too Great for You.” (I Kings 19:7)

Mass Intentions

Sat.        Apr. 21        5:00 pm      People of the Parish

Sun.       Apr. 22       10:00 am      †Marion Case

Hispanic                  2:30 pm      People of the Community

                                6:00 pm      †Jim Tomallo

Tues.     Apr. 24        5:30 pm     †Hank Carney

Wed.     Apr. 25       10:00 am     †Pat Maxwell

Thurs.    Apr. 26        5:30 pm      †Mary Lou Chicos

Fri.        Apr. 27        8:00 am      Kay & John Case’s 50th                                                      Wedding Anniversary

Sat.        Apr. 28        8:00 am      †Charles Tritz

                                5:00 pm      †Everett Hill

Sun.       Apr. 29       10:00 am      †Margaret Corneliuson

Hispanic                  2:30 pm      People of the Community

                                6:00 pm      People of the Parish

Readings for the Week

Monday:       Acts 6:8-15; Jn 6:22-29

Tuesday:       Acts 7:51 — 8:1a; Jn 6:30-35

Wednesday:  1 Pt 5:5b-14; Mk 16:15-20

Thursday:      Acts 8:26-40; Jn 6:44-51

Friday:          Acts 9:1-20; Jn 6:52-59

Saturday:       Acts 9:31-42; Jn 6:60-69

Sunday:         Acts 13:14, 43-52; Ps 100; Rv 7:9, 14b-17;

Jn 10:27-30

 

WELCOME TO EVERYONE and a blessed Easter season to all:

 

We are all praying for the victims, students, families, faculty and all who are terrorized by the massacre at Virginia Tech.  Our emotions of rage and shock will settle, and then what? 

Unfortunately, for most of us, life will go back to the “same old, same old”. 

Who isn’t “connecting the dots”?  Why is the moral fabric of our culture and society

degenerating to allow such horror?  All of us can identify horrors that are as evil as this senseless act.  Insensitivity, ignorance and inaction about the physical, mental and spiritual needs of too many people are rampant.  Who isn’t “connecting the dots?: Parents who allow too much freedom for their young with computers, videos, cell phones, giving everything they want to keep them happy and not moody?  Teens and young adults who tolerate their peers and friends “pushing the

envelope” too far. or letting them disappear from their caring radar screen?  The entertainment industry providing

violence and sexual excesses and making those evils attractive and so available?  Politicians who argue for their

positions instead of ours?  Counselors who counsel for freedom of expression without regard for discipline and values, without inserting the rights and dignity of others into the rights and dignity of the self.  Certainly we are praying. 

But we must do more.—Father Ralph   
Text Box: Faith Formation Margaret Stimmler, Director Faith Formation Office Contact Information: 952-935-5536 ext. 4 or mstimmler@stjohnhopkins.org . Sunday, April 22nd—Rite of Sending will be celebrated at 6PM Mass for the 10th Grade Confirmation Candidates. This is in preparation for their Confirmation in St. Paul on April 29th at 2 PM. Wednesday, April 25th—All classes will meet as scheduled this week except 2nd graders and others preparing for First Eucharist.  The Eucharist class will meet Wed. April 25th for a mini-retreat. Parents are expected to attend with their child.  We will bake bread, and make a 1st communion banner.  It begins in the Community Room at 6:30. Wednesday, May 2nd—Our last faith formation class The First Eucharist Families will celebrate with a pot luck dinner.  All Faith Formation families are invited to join them in the Community Room at 6:30.  All families with last names beginning with A-F bring main dish; families with G-N bring bread and /or salads; families O-Z bring desserts. Sunday, May 6th—1stEucharist at the 10AM Mass. First Eucharist Families gather at 9AM in Community Room.

Opportunity Outreach

Next week’s second collection will support missions here the United States. There are many places in America—Appalachia, the Deep South, the Southwest, the Rocky Mountain states—where the Catholic Church struggles to keep parishes open and to educate children in the faith. Some dioceses are short of priests, brothers, sisters, and the money needed to run parishes. We will be taking up the Catholic Home Missions Appeal in our second collection next week to strengthen the Church at home. Please plan to give generously to assist Catholics in America.