St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Chicago, Illinois 60615-5299 Telephone: (773) 667-1142 Mass Schedule Confession Fax: (773) 891-0602 Sunday Saturdays, 2:30-3:30Pm

Serving Hyde Park’s Catholic Community since 1869

May 9, 2021

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Parish Offices: Hours: Weekdays: 7am-3pm, Mon.-Fri. Located at 55th & Woodlawn 5472 S. Kimbark Avenue Chicago, IL 60615-5297 Phone: (773) 324-2626 Fax: (773) 891-0602 [email protected] Fr. Dan Costello Extension 107 Deacon: Deacon Kurt Davis Parish Office: Lisa J. Couch, secretary (773) 324-2626 Parish Voicemail box, ext. 0 Director of Parish Operations Paula Jones, ext. 109 Music Ministry Matthew Merz Liturgist Jennifer Davis Bulletin Editor Lissa Romell Parish School Erin Monahan, Principal 5467 S. Woodlawn Avenue St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Chicago, Illinois 60615-5299 telephone: (773) 667-1142 Mass Schedule Confession Fax: (773) 891-0602 Sunday Saturdays, 2:30-3:30pm. www.stapostleschool.com 8am & 10am Baptism Monday-Friday Please contact the Parish Office. 8am Marriage Saturday Please make arrangements eight months in advance. 8am & 4pm Membership Holy Days Please register at the Parish Office or online at 8am www.stapostleparish.org under “Contact Us”. Please don’t forget the poor boxes. Come visit us at www.stapostleparish.org Page 2 St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Sixth Sunday of Easter

We’re so glad you’re here and invite you to journey in faith If you or a loved one with us. We believe the church is the sacrament of God’s wish to receive a tele- saving presence in the world. phone visit from a Our goal is to provide a spiritual home where all are wel- minister of care—to come, where the healing, reconciling, liberating love of God pray or simply talk— flows through us to all people. please call Lisa at 773- If you have any questions about our parish, please call 324-2626, & she will or email our parish office. arrange for a Minister of Care to call.

Today’s Readings: Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48  Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4  1 John 4:7-10  John 15:9-17 Dorothy Fleming, Helen Irvin (Birthday blessings!), Lenora Austin (Happy and blessed birthday!)

We encourage you to prepare yourself for next weekend’s liturgy by reading and praying the scriptures (visit www.usccb.org).

Next Sunday’s Readings: Ascension Acts 1:1-11  Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9  Ephesians 1:17-23  Mark 16:15-20

Weekday Mass Intentions

Weekly morning masses are being live-streamed at 8am, Monday-Saturday, via our Facebook page. Please join us! Please remember those listed below in your prayers this week. MONDAY, May 10 Anecito family (special intention) FRIDAY, May 14-St. Matthias Readings: Acts 16:11-15  Ps 149:1b-2, Gireard Hunt Readings: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26  Ps 3-4, 5-6a & 9b  Jn 15:26—16:4 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8  Jn 15:9-17 WEDNESDAY, May 12 As the Father loves me, so I also love “If you consider me a believer in the Readings: Acts 17:15, 22—18:1  Ps Lord, come and stay at my home” you. Remain in my love. Jn 15:9 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14  Jn 16:16-20 Michael McCall Acts 16:15 I have much more to tell you but you Prayers of gratitude for all Rosa & Trinidad Alfaro cannot bear it now. Jn 16:12 transplant donors. Prayers of Selwyn Revish SATURDAY, May 15 Readings: Acts 18:23-28  Ps 47:2-3, 8 comfort for their families. Ronaldo Pascual Ronaldo Pascual -9, 10  Jn 16:23b-28 Erdelinda Juridicio The hour is coming when I will no TUESDAY, May 11 THURSDAY, May 13-Ascension longer speak to you in figures. Jn  Readings: Acts 16:22-34 Ps 138:1- Acts 18:1-8  Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4  16:25  2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8 Jn 16:5-11 Mk 16:15-20 Antoinette Tyskling When I called, you answered me; you You will grieve, but your grief will be- deceased built up strength within me. Ps 138:3 come joy. Mk 16:20 Mary Pat White (Birthday blessings!) John M. Coruthers, Jr.

We are happy to announce the children who have received their First Holy Communion last Sunday, May 2. Welcome to the Table of the Lord

Francesca Rowden Catania Derek Liu Gianna Spight Isaac Thomas

We also extend our sincere thanks to our parish catechist, Dr. Charemi Jones and Ms. Susan Malnar, educator at St. Tho‐ mas the Apostle School, who have inspired and helped our First Communicants to this important step in their initiation into the Body of Christ and his sacramental mysteries. St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Sixth Sunday of Easter Page 3 Thoughts from Fr. Dan Costello Parish Administrator

Dear Parishioners and Friends of Next Sunday, we celebrate the Solemnity of the St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, Ascension of the Lord, as most dioceses in the United Along with the Sixth Sunday States have transferred this solemnity from Thursday of Easter, we celebrate Mother’s to Sunday. Thank you Jesus for your Ascension and Day today. Thanks to all the mothers in our lives who sending us the Holy Spirit of Pentecost quickly there- have carried us, nourished us, and loved us in the best after! ways they possibly could. We pray for them in a spe- ~Fr. Dan cial way today and are grateful for their love.

Blessing Prayer for Mother’s Day God of Love, listen to this prayer. God of Holy People, of Sarah, Ruth, and Rebekah; God of holy Elizabeth, mother of John, God of Holy Mary, Mother of Jesus, bend down Your ear to this request and bless our mothers gathered here. Bless them with the strength of Your spirit, they who have taught their children how to stand and walk. Bless them with the melody of Your love, they who have shared how to speak, how to sing and how to pray to You. Bless them with a place at Your eternal dinner table, they who have fed and nurtured the life that was formed within them while still helpless but embraced in her love. Bless them today, now, in this lifetime, with good things, with health. Bless them with joy, love, laughter, and pride in their children and surround them with many good friends. May they who have carried life in her womb be carried one day to Your divine embrace: there, for all eternity, to rejoice with their family and friends. This blessing and all grace, we pray, descend upon these mothers: in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. (from “Prayers for the Domestic Church/A handbook for Worship in the Home” by Edward Hays)

The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry is open to give out groceries from 10am until 1pm on Saturdays at the Hyde Park Union Church at 56th and Woodlawn. For more information, contact Jan at [email protected]. Page 4 Sixth Sunday of Easter

STA Celebrates Week of the Young Child

From April 12-16, STA’s Pre-K—2nd grade students celebrated the annual Week of the Young Child! Students decorated their hallways, wrote letters of encouragement to each other, painted outside, used chalk to write messages and celebrated in various other ways. Thanks to our teachers who made this a fun and memorable week for all! Below are some photos of the 2nd graders sharing their Dates to Remember letters of encouragement with their Kindergarten and 1st grade friends & Kindergarten students enjoying the beautiful weather and painting! May 9 Happy Mother’s Day!

May 20 Virtual Parent Coffee at 6:00 pm

May 31 NO SCHOOL—Memorial Day

June 4 Kindergarten Celebration & 8th Grade Graduation

June 7 Last Day of School ——————–———————— STA’s Website:

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We appreciate the encouraging words we have received from our community. Thank you for your support! In an effort to continue showing our STA pride and come together as a community, please consider leaving an online review for STA on one of the available outlets. These include: Facebook, Google Reviews, Niche, Great Schools and Private School Review. Thank you! St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Sixth Sunday of Easter Page 5

(Reprinted from the May 2, 2021 St. Edna Parish bulletin, www.StEdna.org.) Page 6 St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Sixth Sunday of Easter

A Prayer for Mother’s Day

Nurturing God, There are those for whom the relationship between mother on this Mother's Day we and child is strained, or difficult, or non-existent. pause to remember the gifts There are those who are distanced from their mothers, and of mothering. mothers distanced from their children, by geography, or ill- And as we remember we ness, or unhealed hurts, or communication failures. pause to give thanks for the There are those who have said farewell to mothers or chil- ways you are a mother to us: dren, not to meet again until we join in the life which lies be- for nurturing us, giving us the yond this life. guidance and the freedom we For all these mothers and children who meet pain or struggle need to grow in experience this day we pray for comfort, that they would know they are and wisdom (even if we are not alone. sometimes headstrong and On this day also we remember those who want to be mothers make unwise choices); but are unable, or those who still carry the wondering of hav- for comforting us when we are ing placed a child for adoption, or those who wish to know wounded in body or spirit, the woman who carried them but never will.

helping us to heal and be May they too know Your peace.

stronger for it; God of life, for believing in and challenging us, calling us to be more than today and everyday we give thanks for the gifts of life. we are, encouraging us to live out our potential; Today and everyday we also remember the people in the for giving us the swift kick in the backside that we need at world who know more about curses than blessings. times, not letting us coast, reminding us to keep trying and Today we remember that the roots of Mother's Day lies in growing; we offer words of thanks. women's grief at burying husbands and brothers and sons as a Gracious God, result of brutal warfare, and so we pray for peace and justice on this day we also give thanks for those in our lives who throughout the world. have been like mothers to us. And so in the spirit of those roots we pray today for that time Some of them are related to us through blood, some of them when we live out Jesus' prayer “That all may be ONE”, for have come into our lives through happenstance, some of them the vision of a truly just society where none are on the out- have been part of our lives for decades, some of them are new side, for the day when Dame Julian's words “all manner of to us, but many people have nurtured, taught, comforted, thing be well” have come to full fruition. challenged, encouraged us. This we pray in the name of the one who taught about your Without them we would not be who we are, and so we give love, your justice, your hope for the world, Jesus of Nazareth, thanks for them and all that we have learned from our interac- our rock and redeemer, our teacher and guide, in whose life tions with them. death and resurrection we find the path that leads to the King-

dom. AMEN. And yet, in the midst of our thankfulness, we remember…

We remember that there are those for whom Mother's Day is [From Gord Waldie, http:// difficult. worshipofferings.blogspot.com/2013/05/prayers-of-people-for -mothers-day.html.]

Archdiocese of Chicago Offers Virtual PreCana

The Archdiocese of Chicago is now offering vir- tions. Couples do not need to be living or getting married in the tual PreCana for engaged couples through the Archdiocese of Chicago to participate. Dates and times for Office of Lifelong Formation. The virtual Pre- PreCana sessions, and a link to register are available at Cana is available via Zoom in English, Spanish and https://pvm.archchicago.org/virtual-precana.

Polish. PreCana sessions are held live and led by Here’s what some of the participants of virtual PreCana trained married couples. Engaged couples enjoy are saying... the benefit of live interaction with other couples as well as the comfort of having private conversations. PreCana programs are “I thought it was nice to do it in the comfort of our home. I offered as one six-hour session or two three-hour sessions. Cou- feel as though we shared more bc we were not worried about ples can choose between weekend and weekday evening op- what we were saying.” St. Thomas the Apostle Parish Sixth Sunday of Easter Page 7

A convenient way to give to St. Tho- Public Masses are held on Saturdays at 4pm mas the Apostle Parish is through and Sundays at 8am and 10am. Given the cur- online donations via GiveCentral. You rent restrictions on attendance (up to 20% capac- can use this website to make donations ity of our church), please use Sign-up Genius, an online tool, to reserve space for you and those in your household for Mass: to STA using your credit card, debit card or electronic checking payments. www.signupgenius.com/go/9040448A9AA2CA0F49-reservations You can make both one-time and recur- To help ensure that everything runs as smoothly and peacefully as possible, ring donations. To take advantage of please review the Parishioner Reopening guide online (https:// this convenient option, visit stapostleparish.org/parish-life/reopening-our-parish/) and contact us with www.givecentral.org/location/136. We any questions at 773-324-2626. are grateful for your support.

St. Thomas the Apostle How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good He has done me?. LIVE Mass ~Psalm 116:12

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