Sacred Heart Parish
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Monday, April 5
12:05 PM Anthony F. Lombardo
Saturday, April 10
4:00 PM Parishioners of Sacred Heart
Sunday, April 11
9:00 AM Reynaldo Opeña
11:45 AM Anna and Patrick Coffey, and Claire Coffey
CELEBRANTS FOR NEXT WEEKEND’S MASSES
Saturday, April 10
4:00 PM Fr. Connelly
Sunday, April 11
9:00 AM Fr. Imbelli
10:30 AM Fr. St. Martin
11:45 AM Fr. Connelly
CONFESSIONS
Saturday, April 10 – 2:00 to 3:30 PM – Fr. Connelly
READINGS FOR THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
First Reading: Acts 5:12-16
Second Reading: Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19
Gospel Reading: John 20:19-31
EASTER EGG HUNT
Sunday, April 4, 2010
After the 9 o’clock Mass, an Easter Egg Hunt will be held on the rectory grounds. Children, ages 1 to 10, are invited to this fun event. The Easter Bunny will be there. The regular Coffee Hour after the 9 a.m. Mass will not be held on Easter Sunday.
A “THANK YOU” FROM THE
GUILD OF SAINT FRANCIS
Once again, thank you to all those who made our “Bake and Book” Sale such a wonderful success last Sunday. A special “thank you” to all those who supported the event by visiting the Parish Center and buying books and goodies, but also to those who donated their time and talents baking the goodies and helping out at the event. THANK YOU ALL.
SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM
The next Social Justice Forum will be held on Sunday,
April 11 at 7:30 PM in the Lower Church. Lewis Randa of the Peace Abbey will present “Through the Prism of Gandhi and Mother Teresa.”
OFFERTORY INCOME
Weekend of March 27/28 $5,280
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
There will be no CCD classes today in order to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ!
Our Confirmation Speaker series continues this week on April 6th with Katie Dardis from the Respect Life office speaking to the students on Evolution vs. Creationism. All parents and parishioners of Sacred Heart are welcome to join us and learn about our Catholic faith together! CCD begins with a decade of the Rosary in the Chapel and class at 7:15 – 8:30 pm.
There will be a Parent Workshop for all who have students receiving 1st Communion in May 2010, on Sunday, April 11th in the Convent from 10:30 – 11:45 am. At least one parent must attend this workshop! If you have any need of baby sitting services, please call or email the Religious Education Director so we may get sitters.
Christ is Risen! Alleluia!
Michelle Solomon, RE Director
ROOM NEEDED
A parishioner of Sacred Heart is seeking a room starting May 1 – furnished or unfurnished. Please call Sue at 617-216-4687.
CALENDAR NOTES
EASTER EGG HUNT:
Sunday, April 4 – 10 AM– Rectory lawn
COFFEE HOUR/EGG HUNT AFTER THE ASL MASS:
Sunday, April 4 – 11:30 AM – Parish Center
BOY SCOUTS:
Monday, April 5 – 7:30 PM – Parish Center
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Tuesday, April 6
Grades 1-5 – 4:00 to 5:15 PM – Lower Church
Grades 6-10 – 7:00 to 8:30 PM – Lower Church
GUILD OF ST. FRANCIS BOARD MEETING:
Tuesday, April 6 – 7 PM – Guild Room
PASTORAL PARISH COUNCIL MEETING:
Thursday, April 8 – 7:30 PM – Convent (Library)
COFFEE HOUR:
Friday, April 9 – Following 9 AM Mass – Parish Center
LITURGY, ADORATION AND THE ROSARY:
Saturday, April 10 – 9 AM to 12:30 PM – Lower Church
EXTENDED COFFEE HOUR:
Sunday, April 11 – 10 AM to 1 PM – Parish Center
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION - Grades 1-5:
Sunday, April 11 – 10:30 to 11:45 AM – Lower Church
WOMEN’S DISCUSSION GROUP:
Sunday, April 11 – 10:30 AM – Convent (DR)
SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM:
Sunday, April 11 – 7:30 PM – Lower Church
ST. FRANCIS HOUSE
Thank you for your continued generosity to St. Francis House. The items needed for April are cold cereals. You can place your donations in the shopping cart or in any of the boxes located at the Church entrances.
INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER FOR THE
MONTH OF APRIL
General Intention: That every tendency to fundamentalism and extremism may be countered by respect, tolerance, and dialogue among believers.
Mission Intention: That persecuted Christians may persevere, sustained by the Holy Spirit, in witnessing to the love of God for all, even for those who persecute them.
SIGNINGS
Good People,
The Lord is risen. He is truly risen. We know from where he has risen. Where? He has risen from the dead. It is not that he has risen from bed or from the ground. Jesus has risen from the dead!
This is the best rising. It is the full rising. We all know how it can feel good to rise from a good sleep or to recover from a long illness and have our health back. We can rise from sleep or rise up if we fall and trip. We can "rise" from a sickness or an injury back to health and it changes us in a way that is more than simply restorative.
My arm has risen. It was broken but it is "risen." It feels good to move it. I rejoice in being able to move my arm in ordinary ways that before I had almost no appreciation of.
Now imagine Christ's resurrection. It was not a little rising. It is a rising from being completely broken. It is a rising not from a deep sleep or a coming out of a coma even. It is rising from the dead; from really being dead! Dead on a cross and dead for days!
His new life is similarly profound. It is transformed. It is so completely transformed and new that it renews the whole world forever. We rejoice in it now!
At the beginning of Lent we remembered how Jesus fasted in the desert for 40 days. The devil tempted him but Jesus was victorious. Now Jesus has followed the Father's will, has accepted sharing in our human dying, and has conquered! Death now is powerless! With Jesus we now know that death for us can be overcome in a real and definitive way.
When we believe Jesus and his power over death, he gives us freedom. We too have the power to die and rise with him. And when we experience a taste of death, from sickness, or even a deep sleep, we know that with Christ we will come through that to an even greater life then before.
God takes our sufferings and pains and transforms them into the pathways to new, full, happy life. We believe that Jesus has risen. He is risen from the dead. And we who die with him, we will rise with him to new life and new love.
Look at your lives again. See where you have experienced a real kind of deep "dying." Think of a real challenge or pain or disappointment you have experienced and then try to see how that has opened the door to something good. That is a way for us to be able to say with the Mary Magdalene who first saw the risen Lord, "He is risen! He is truly risen!"
From the deepest darkest depths of death he is risen! And he is risen in you and even in my everyday ordinary arm.
In Christ, Father St. Martin