The Catholic Community of Sts. James, Cornelius & Cyprian

www.saintsjcc.org READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF April 19th

MASS INTENTIONS (Fr Kusi says private Mass and is honoring all Intentions)

Saturday, April 18th Margo Vincent

Sunday, April 19th Mike & Sue Beauregard & Mary Jo Whitten

th Monday, April 20 Divine Mercy Sunday Tim & Brenda Young

Tuesday, April 21st Acts 2:42-47 Thanksgiving to God & St. Mary Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 Wednesday, April 22nd 1 Pt 1:3-9 Ralph Morrison Jn 20:19-31 Thursday, April 23rd

Maria Monday Friday, April 24th Diane Cornell Acts 4:23-31

Saturday, April 25th Ps 2:1-3, 4-7a, 7b-9 Al Kmiecik Jn 3:1-8 Sunday, April 26th For the People of the Parish Tuesday Acts 4:32-37 Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5 Jn 3:7b-15

Wednesday Acts 5:17-26 RECONCILIATION BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 CONTACT FATHER KUSI Jn 3:16-21 [email protected] Thursday LIST YOUR PHONE NUMBER IN THE EMAIL Acts 5:27-33 Ps 34:2 and 9, 17-18, 19-20 Jn 3:31-36

Friday Acts 5:34-42 Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14 Jn 6:1-15

Saturday 1 Pt 5:5b-14 Ps 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17 Mk 16:15-20

Third Sunday of Easter Acts 2:14, 22-33 Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 1 Pt 1:17-21 Lk 24:13-35

St. James, Mason, Michigan Page 2 Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian, Bunker Hill COVID-19: A PRAYER OF SOLIDARITY by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops For all who have contracted coronavirus, We pray for care and healing. For those who are particularly vulnerable, We pray for safety and protection. For all who experience fear or anxiety, We pray for peace of mind and spirit. For affected families who are facing difficult decisions between food on the table or public safety,

We pray for policies that recognize their plight. For those who do not have adequate health insurance, STAY INFORMED THROUGH We pray that no family will face financial burdens alone. MYPARISH APP For those who are afraid to access care due to immigration status, We pray for recognition of the God-given dignity of all. Download myParish App to For our brothers and sisters around the world, access messages quick and easy! We pray for shared solidarity. Stay updated & informed with us. For public officials and decisionmakers, Daily Mass through Word on Fire We pray for wisdom and guidance. is available on it! Father, during this time may your Church be a sign of hope, comfort and love to all. Grant peace. Just text “app” to 88202 to down- Grant comfort. load. Once installed, select Sts. Grant healing. James, Cornelius & Cyprian Be with us, Lord. and access is complete! Amen.

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A portion of our 4% Thank you to Christian Service Our Sponsor Tithe has been sent of the Week: to: ~ David W Golder, DDS ~ ~ Child and Family Services ~

STEWARDSHIP St. James, Cornelius & Cyprian

Last Week’s Collections April 12th $14,133.00 St. James $14,133.00 Last Year $11,246.49 Sts. C&C $0.00 Last Year $2,569.91 (29 envelopes, 54 EFT from 953 households) Fiscal Year to Date (since July 1st) $481,618.05 Year to Date Last Year $479,447.01

CONTRIBUTIONS ARE MAILED TO MASON; REASON FOR STS CC ZERO 30.6%

St. James, Mason, Michigan Page 3 Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian, Bunker Hill ELEMENTARY FAITH FORMATION WE ARE SHARING WITH YOU REFLECTIONS FROM OUR 7/8 YEAR OLDS ABOUT WHY THEY FOLLOW JESUS: I follow Jesus because he died on the cross for us.

Kym Piggot Love, Brooklyn Lisa Carey Margaret Marshall Aydin Weyer Kari Olney Florence Eifert Phil Shier Stephen Crippen Timothy Williams Fr. Ioane Sigarara Anne Hentkowski QUESTION: Deacon Tom Feiten David Schroeder Where did the feast of Divine Mercy come from? Arnulfo Rodriguez ANSWER: Jim Belbeck If you were born well before the year 2000, you know the Jay Jensen feast of Divine Mercy has not always been celebrated in the Eddie Cozart Andrew David Church. In the early 1900s, a young Polish nun began Carol Demshuk receiving private revelations. Jesus appeared to her during Karen Heeney her times of prayer, speaking a message of mercy and love Gloria Schultz for the world. She received a set of prayers — the Divine Justin Benhard Sales Mary Curtis Mercy Chaplet — and the request to have a feast day Ron Wieferich established to remind the Church of the mercy of God. St. Marsha Schering Faustina died in 1938, on the cusp of war and in the midst of Joan Coolidge one of the most violent centuries in the history of the world. Steve Coolidge Her story and her diaries began circulating in Poland and Aly Perry Lauralee Sanders beyond. It quickly became apparent that this was a holy Beverly Charter young women, and the cause for her canonization opened. Nancy Hammock In the year 2000, she was canonized by the first-ever Polish Joe Choma pope, St. John Paul II. On her canonization day, he Larry Poxson Merlin & Kaye Batdorff established the second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Rebecca Clinton (4/5) Sunday, “a perennial invitation to the Christian world to Douglas Wilson (4/5) face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the difficulties Cathy McCormick (3/15) and trials that mankind with experience in the years to Mary Smith (3/15) come.” Karl-Heinz Mueller (3/29) Dorothy Burch (4/5)

Amy Clarke (4/19)

Please contact the office if you have a seriously ill relative or friend. Names will remain on the list for 4 weeks.

St. James, Mason, Michigan Page 4 Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian, Bunker Hill HOW TO RECITE THE CHAPLET It’s recited using an ordinary rosary.

1. Make the Sign of the Cross-In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 2. Optional Opening Prayers You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole GOSPEL MEDITATION world and empty Yourself out upon us. A person was going through a very dark time, question- (Repeat three times) ing the meaning of life, not feeling very purposeful or O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of worthwhile, and feeling disconnected and unappreci- Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You! ated. Suddenly, they gazed up at the night sky, found 3. Our Father themselves in awe of all the stars and constellations, 4. Hail Mary and exclaimed, “I am here on purpose and I am 5. The Apostles’ Creed loved!” Having been brought by God to this moment of intense connection and awareness, his life changed I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and from that moment on. earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was If we are always preoccupied with the challenges, obli- conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered gations, and stuff of daily life, we can easily miss the under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; He wonderful opportunities when the resurrected Christ is descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the knocking at our door. If we open ourselves to the full- dead; He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right ness of experience, we will find ourselves listening and hand of God the Father almighty; from there He will come to embracing all that is around us, being caught up in the judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the magnificence of creation’s grandeur and knowing in holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness our heart and soul that God is and I am. of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. While that sounds like a simple, tell-me-something-I 6. The Eternal Father don’t-know kind of revelation, it is life changing when it Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity takes root in the depth of a person’s soul. Stumbling up- of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in on this awesome truth and internalizing it doesn’t re- atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. quire an assent of the mind. It beckons for a claim on 7. On the 10 Small Beads of Each Decade our soul. We find ourselves knowing something profound that cannot be explained or reasoned, but purely is. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on When we are caught up in an experience and encoun- the whole world. ter the truth, it doesn’t matter how all of the pieces got 8. Repeat for the remaining decades put together. Truth is simply truth. The “my Lord and my Saying the "Eternal Father" (6) on the "Our Father" bead and God” responses we utter are not evoked because all of then 10 "For the sake of His sorrowful Passion" (7) on the the pieces of faith and life make reasonable sense. The following "Hail Mary" beads. “my Lord and my God” affirmations come when we are 9. Conclude with Holy God (Repeat three times) lifted up out of our preoccupations and silliness and are Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy in the presence of mystery and mercy. on us and on the whole world. God is mystery, one who is beyond our grasp but at the same time within our reach, knowable yet unknowable. 10. Optional Closing Prayer And when in the presence of mystery, there comes an Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of intense experience of mercy. We know deep within the compassion — inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase essence of ourselves — and in the very life of creation — Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not this beating, unconditionally accepting, life-sustaining, despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence profound, mysterious yet familiar presence of love. We submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy have found our peace. “Peace be with you.” Breathe in itself. and breathe out. Peace

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PARISH DIRECTORY

The Catholic Community of Sts. James, Cornelius & Cyprian Mason: 1010 South Lansing St. Mason, MI 48854 517.676.9111 Leslie: 1320 Catholic Church Rd. Leslie, MI 49251 517.589.8492 www.Saintsjcc.org Office Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:00—4:00 Fridays: 8:00—Noon (Mason only) Parish Staff Pastor Rev. Fr. Kusitino Cobona [email protected] Rectory 517.676.1159 Emergencies only 517.775.0302 Senior Priest-in-Residence (Leslie) Fr. Jim Shaver Deacon Al Turkovich [email protected] 517.388.0017 Deacon Tom Feiten (Senior status) [email protected] 517.676.9690 Business Manager Alison Burch [email protected] Office Administrator Bonnie Sweet [email protected] Monday-Bunker Hill (517.589.8492) Tuesday to Thursday-Mason (517.604.6207) Dir. of Faith Formation Maureen Stockwell [email protected] Youth Minister/Evangelization Heather Dunivon [email protected] Director of Music Antoinette LaCinski [email protected] 517.414.0679 Administrative Assistant Gina Orlando [email protected] Maintenance (SJ) Ruth Olney Maintenance (CC) Bill Schaerer Parish Leadership Teams Senior Leadership Team Fr Kusitino Cobona [email protected] Gary Smith [email protected] Heather Dunivon [email protected] Jim Marshall [email protected] George Wygant [email protected] Parish Councils & Commission Chairs Pastoral Council: Pete Barnum [email protected] 517.930.6282 Finance Council: Gary Smith [email protected] 248.296.4856 Education Commission: Maureen Stockwell [email protected] Evangelization Commission: Tom Holmes [email protected] Christian Services Commission: Bonnie Gurzenda [email protected] Parish Life Commission: Chris Harrison [email protected] -International Outreach Sue Powers 517.449.0999 -Knights of Columbus (CC) Grand Knight Fred Wilson [email protected] -Knights of Columbus (SJ) Grand Knight Chris Knudstrup [email protected] -Knights Angels President Teresa James-Bates 517.980.4167 -St. James Women’s Club President Chris Harrison 517.290.5525 -Sts. CC Ladies President Anne Rowse 517.851.7588 Spiritual Directors Carol Demshuk [email protected] 517.881.8461 Bonnie Gurzenda [email protected] 517.285.6456 Jim Marshall [email protected] 517.694.7331 Rose Robertson [email protected] 517.676.5513

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