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

Mass Intentions

Sat.        Mar. 25        5:00 pm      †Dr. Everett Hill

Sun.       Mar. 26      10:00 am      †Pat LeSage

             Hispanic      2:30 pm      People of the Community

                                6:00 pm      People of the Parish

Tues.     Mar. 28        5:30 pm      †Harry Nelson

Wed.     Mar. 29       10:00 am     †Dora Bissonette, Colleen                                                         Blanchette, and Jean                                                            Knoblauch

Thurs.    Mar. 30         5:30 pm     Bill Karanikolas

Fri.        Mar. 31        8:00 am      †Agnes Smith

Sat.        April 1         8:00 am      †Clarence Ebert

                                5:00 pm      †Isabelle McLenighan

Sun.       April 2       10:00 am      People of the Parish

             Hispanic      2:30 pm      People of the Community

                                6:00 pm      †Rev. Allen J. McIntyre

 

Prayer Corner

Please remember the sick of our parish in your prayers:  Roland Bangsund, Jan Blod, Tom Burwell, Elise Christianson, Jim Dawson, Robert Fink,  Debbie Griggs, Elizabeth Hanley, Rose Hennen, Rose Holland, Donna Johanns, Dorene Johnson, Gloria Lindquist, Renee Lubbers, Joseph Mannelly, John McGowan, Deacon Jim Murphy, Irene Turmes, Bob and Barb Velner, and Jim Walker.

Please pray for David Murrin and his family as they mourn the death of David’s mother, Rose Murrin.

Please pray for Rita Fox and her family as they mourn the death of her mother, Louise Fox.

 

Readings for the Week

Monday:       Is 65:17-21; Jn 4:43-54

Tuesday:       Ez 47:1-9, 12; Jn 5:1-16

Wednesday:  Is 49:8-15; Jn 5:17-30

Thursday:      Ex 32:7-14; Jn 5:31-47

Friday:          Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

Saturday:       Jer 11:18-20; Jn 7:40-53

Sunday:         Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51;Heb 5:7-9; Jn 12:20-33

                     Alternate readings (Year A):

                     Ez 37:12-14; Ps 130; Rom 8:8-11;

                     Jn 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45]

WELCOME TO ALL ON THIS DAY OF THE LORD

 

Schedules for Lent abound around here, and I know you have received at least one of them.  However, “we” tend to put things off.  So, may I remind you to plan ahead for some events that are most wonderful and helpful for our salvation:  The Sacrament of Confession/Reconciliation.  Confession is good for the soul. It is an experience of freeing oneself from sin and guilt.  The one who is aware of sin comes before God and before one who speaks for God (the priest) and empties himself/herself of the guilt and at once hears and receives the forgiveness of God.  This Sacrament is offered here on Saturdays at 8:45 a.m., in the Communal Penance Service on Wednesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m., and at two special times for your convenience, Wednesday, April 12 at 6:00 p.m. and Thursday, April 13, at 11:00 a.m.  Plan ahead.

Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday are really one celebration of the Mass Jesus has given us:  The Eucharist from the Last Supper of Holy Thursday, the perfect Sacrifice of Jesus to the Father in the Good Friday commendation of the death of Jesus on the cross, and the new life promised us in the Resurrection of Jesus celebrated at the Holy Saturday Vigil Mass (and on Easter Sunday).  The Holy Week services call for our presence and are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. (8:00 p.m. on Holy Saturday) again for your convenience.  Plan ahead.

As a family community, we begin those three days (the Triduum) with a pot luck supper on Holy Thursday, April 13, at 6:00 p.m. in the Community Room.  Let us all enter this most holy week together.               —Father Ralph

 

P. S.  Did you notice the new lighting for the Stations of the Cross?  An anonymous donor made it possible to light this important area of the church that provided very dim light for a very significant part of our faith.  Many thanks from all of us to that party.  Now, perhaps another donor or a few together may make it possible to put a motor under the Baptismal Font so the water can be running water, a sign of the "living water" that it is.  Originally there was a natural drain to the earth under the Font; however, the earth is so packed there now that the drain backs up very quickly and so we cannot run the Font in the way it was designed.  Constructing an electrical line and a motor is a little pricey—close to $4000.  A donor or donors could be anonymous—or they don't have to be!