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629 S. Glendora Ave., West Covina, CA 91790 TEL: (626) 960-1805 FAX: (626) 851-0595 OFFICE HOURS: Mon - Thu: 8AM to 8PM; Fri & Sun: 8AM to 4PM Sat: 9AM to 2 PM EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: stchriswestcovina.parishesonline.com SCHEDULE OF MASSES SATURDAY:8:30 AM, 5:30 PM VIGIL SUNDAY: 7:00 AM, 8:30AM,10:15AM,12 Noon, 4:00PM (Vietnamese), 6:30PM WEEKDAY: 6:30 AM, 8:30 AM FIRST WEDNESDAY: 6:30 AM, 8:30 AM, 7:00 PM FIRST FRIDAY: 6:30AM, 8:30 AM, 6:30 PM 8:00 PM (Vietnamese) HOLY DAY: 8:00 PM (Vietnamese/English) VIGIL 6:30AM, 8:30AM, 7:00 PM SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION SAT: 9:00AM, 4:00PM, 7:30PM Pastor Rev. Joseph Dass Associate Pastor Rev. Huy Nhat Nguyen Vietnamese Chaplain Rev. Dominic John Vu, CSsR Permanent Deacons Deacon Douglas Moloney Deacon Loc Nguyen Deacon Jesse Batacan Deacon Andrew Cho School Principal Olivia Carrillo Business Manager Pauline Dimaculangan Director of Religious Formation Elizabeth Hudson Adult Faith Formation Coordinator St. Christopher Church is a faith-community of Judi Peña diverse people who gather to joyfully celebrate life, Bookkeeper faith and love in Jesus Christ Tuyet Romero through serving others. Page 2 St. Christopher Church Palm Sunday TODAY’S READINGS of perfumed oil? It could have been sold Mount of Olives. for more than three hundred days’ Reading 1 IS 50:4-7 wages and the money given to the poor.” Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will The Lord GOD has given me a well-trained They were infuriated with her. Jesus said, have your faith shaken, for it is written: I tongue, that I might know how to speak to “Let her alone. Why do you make trouble will strike the shepherd, and the sheep the weary a word that will rouse them. for her? She has done a good thing for me. will be dispersed. But after I have been Morning after morning he opens my ear that The poor you will always have with raised up, I shall go before you to Galilee.” I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have you, and whenever you wish you can do Peter said to him, “Even though all should not turned back. I gave my back to those good to them, but you will not always have their faith shaken, mine will not be.” who beat me, my cheeks to those who have me. She has done what she could. Then Jesus said to him, “Amen, I say to plucked my beard; my face I did not shield She has anticipated anointing my body for you, this very night before the cock crows from buffets and spitting. burial. Amen, I say to you, wherever the twice you will deny me three times.” But gospel is proclaimed to the whole world, he vehemently replied, “Even though I The Lord GOD is my help, therefore I am not what she has done will be told in memory should have to die with you, I will not deny disgraced; I have set my face like flint, of her.” you.” And they all spoke similarly. Then knowing that I shall not be put to shame. they came to a place named Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, Responsorial Psalm PS 22:8-9, 17-20, Twelve, went off to the chief priests to “Sit here while I pray.” He took with him 23-24 hand him over to them. When they heard Peter, James, and John, and began to be him they were pleased and promised to troubled and distressed. Then he said to R. (2a) My God, my God, why have you pay him money. Then he looked for an them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. abandoned me? opportunity to hand him over. Remain here and keep watch.” He advanced a little and fell to the ground On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened and prayed that if it were possible the Reading 2 PHIL 2:6-11 Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover hour might pass by him; he said, “Abba, Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where do Father, all things are possible to you. Take God, did not regard equality with God you want us to go and prepare for you to this cup away from me, but not what I will something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied eat the Passover?” He sent two of his but what you will.” When he returned he himself, taking the form of a slave, coming disciples and said to them, “Go into the found them asleep. He said to Peter, city and a man will meet you, carrying a in human likeness; and found human in “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not jar of water. Follow him. Wherever he keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray appearance, he humbled himself, becoming enters, say to the master of the house, that you may not undergo the test. The obedient to the point of death, even death ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” on a cross. room where I may eat the Passover with Withdrawing again, he prayed, saying the my disciples?”’ Then he will show you a same thing. Then he returned once more Because of this, God greatly exalted him large upper room furnished and ready. and found them asleep, for they could not and bestowed on him the name which is Make the preparations for us there.” The keep their eyes open and did not know above every name, that at the name of disciples then went off, entered the what to answer him. He returned a third Jesus every knee should bend, of those in city, and found it just as he had told time and said to them, “Are you still heaven and on earth and under the earth, them; and they prepared the Passover. sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough. and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. When it was evening, he came with the is to be handed over to sinners. Get up, let Twelve. And as they reclined at table and us go. See, my betrayer is at hand.” Verse Before the Gospel PHIL 2:8-9 were eating, Jesus said, “Amen, I say to Christ became obedient to the point of you, one of you will betray me, one who is Then, while he was still speaking, Judas, death, even death on a cross. Because of eating with me.” They began to be one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed distressed and to say to him, one by one, by a crowd with swords and clubs who had on him the name which is above every “Surely it is not I?” He said to them, “One come from the chief priests, the scribes, name. of the Twelve, the one who dips with me and the elders. His betrayer had arranged into the dish. For the Son of Man indeed a signal with them, saying, “The man I Gospel MK 14:1-15:47 goes, as it is written of him, but woe to shall kiss is the one; arrest him and lead The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened that man by whom the Son of Man is him away securely.” He came and Bread were to take place in two days’ betrayed. It would be better for that man immediately went over to him and said, time. So the chief priests and the scribes if he had never been born.” “Rabbi.” And he kissed him. At this they were seeking a way to arrest him by laid hands on him and arrested him. One of treachery and put him to death. They said, While they were eating, he took bread, the bystanders drew his sword, struck the “Not during the festival, for fear that there said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to high priest’s servant, and cut off his ear. may be a riot among the people.” them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave come out as against a robber, with swords When he was in Bethany reclining at it to them, and they all drank from it. He and clubs, to seize me? Day after day I was table in the house of Simon the leper, a said to them, “This is my blood of the with you teaching in the temple area, yet woman came with an alabaster jar of covenant, which will be shed for many. you did not arrest me; but that the perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again Scriptures may be fulfilled.” And they all broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his the fruit of the vine until the day when I left him and fled. Now a young man head. There were some who were drink it new in the kingdom of God.” Then, followed him wearing nothing but a linen indignant. “Why has there been this waste after singing a hymn, they went out to the March 29, 2015 St. Christopher Church Page 3 cloth about his body.