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CONTACT US Church Office: 304-845-1593 Xavier Hall: 304-845-7080 Rev. That Son Ngoc Nguyen: Pastor | 408-858-7467 Email: [email protected] Website: sfxmoundsville.org Facebook: facebook.com/ StFrancisXavierMoundsville MASS SCHEDULE Weekends: Sat - 4 p.m. Sun - 8 a.m., 10 a.m. Weekdays: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. Holy Days: 8 a.m., 7 p.m. STAFF Secretary: Robin Targosky Bookkeeper: Susan Board RESURRECTION of the LORD Bulletin Editor: Kathy Swift DRE: Mary Helen Marling

GOSPEL MEDITATION: LEARN YOUR WHISPERED NAME

ho are you? This question was most is totally human. With all that people from Divine Power and claims us as one who W assuredly asked of Jesus on the day of witnessed and all that Jesus knew about his is special and chosen in God’s eyes. This is resurrection, and it is a question asked of physical human self, his divinity also shined the self that will rise one day with the eternal each of us. Our identities can be described in forth. There was so much more to know Christ of God and live eternally as God so many ways. We can start with our gifts, about him. Whereas once Jesus was provides. This is the self that can discover talents, expertise, and unique personality transfigured on top of a mountain before his and know freedom in a way never possible expressions. We can describe things we like disciples’ eyes, so today he is transfigured before. This is love lifting us up and and things we prefer to set aside. As before our eyes as he reveals his resurrected transforming us into who we really are, not descriptive and captivating as these can be, self as the Christ. His glorified presence who we want or need ourselves to be. Who none come close to our essence, our real and stands before us showing us that we are all are you? A special, unique child of God who true self. While accurate in their own right, much more than we see ourselves to be and has been fashioned in God’s image, the self who lives and interacts with the show to others.  sustained by the power of God’s love and world is the self we want others to see, the  kept eternally with the Blessed Trinity in one we project. But there is much more to us Within each one of us is a spark of Divine heaven.  just as there is much more to Jesus. Love where creature and Creator meet, and   we are known uniquely by the name God ©LPi Jesus could describe himself based on all the whispers to us. It is not the earthly name same criteria we use for ourselves. After all, that was given to us but the one that flows

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Christians Worldwide Celebrate Easter With Spirit, Originality APRIL 3 Christians across the crops and land, and bilbies are 8:00 p.m. Veronica DiCola† globe will be celebrating endangered, so the change began. Vigil Mass Rick & Robin Targosky Easter Day with some traditions that Companies now make chocolate may surprise you. in bilbies for Easter and donate proceeds APRIL 4 EASTER SUNDAY the United States are said to have to protecting bilbies. 8:00 a.m. Thanks for recovery come from German immigrants and FLORENCE, ITALY and return to our their stories of an egg-laying In Florence, locals keep a 350-year-old church hare called "Osterhase.” Here are just a Easter tradition known as Scoppio del 9:30 a.m. Stephanie Phillips Eddy† few Easter traditions from other Carro or "explosion of the cart." An countries for you to enjoy: ornate cart packed with Mom & Dad BERMUDA fireworks is led through 11:00 a.m. Thanksgiving for our the streets by people in parishioners Festivities begin with a Kite Fest 15th century costumes before stopping outside APRIL 5 MONDAY where celebrants fly the Duomo. Florence’s 8:00 a.m. Drew & Diane Haaser homemade kites. Folks also eat codfish and Archbishop then lights a Joan Lemasters traditional hot-cross fuse during Easter Mass buns, and on Easter that leads outside to the APRIL 6 TUESDAY Legend says Kite Fest comes cart and sparks a lively Sunday attend sunrise from a Bermudan teacher’s 8:00 a.m. Bob & Bernadine Miller† services on beaches creative effort to illustrate the fireworks display. Miller/Porter families Ascension of the Lord. across the island. The meaning behind the custom dates back to the APRIL 7 WEDNESDAY ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA Antigua covers its streets in colorful First Crusade and ensuring that there 8:00 a.m. Don McCormick† carpets during to prepare would be a good harvest. Ellen McCormick for its Good Friday . The HAUX, FRANCE Each year a giant omelet is served up APRIL 8 THURSDAY long carpets are made from flowers, colored sawdust, fruits, vegetables, in this town's main square. The omelet 8:00 a.m. Charles Freeman† and sand. They're often covered in uses more than 15,000 eggs and feeds Mary Ruth Whorton scenes that are important to the up to 1,000 people. The story goes that artists who create them. when Napoleon and his army were APRIL 9 FRIDAY MEXICO traveling through the south of France, 8:00 a.m. Gary Dobbs† Easter celebrations in Mexico vary they stopped in a small town and ate Jan Dobbs across regions, with one tradition omelets. Napoleon liked his so much involving blowing up giant papier- that he ordered the townspeople to APRIL 10 SATURDAY mâché Judases with fireworks. gather their eggs and make a giant 4:00 p.m. Jim Campbell† one for his army the next day. AUSTRALIA Kathy & Denny Phillips In 1991, -Free Australia launched To read the source article visit https:// a vigorous campaign to replace the w ww.womansday.com/life/travel-tips/ APRIL 11 SUNDAY with the Easter bilby, or g2175/easter-traditions/.

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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR HAPPY EASTER SFX! CALENDAR SUPPORTING OUR PARISH WITH Live broadcast of Easter Mass your time and your donations as Next Sunday is the Feast with Bishop Brennan we restore traditions while still of Divine Mercy, which ends 10:30 a.m. April 4 managing pandemic restrictions. this upcoming week known as the Easter Octave. Every day in WTRFDT3/ABC - Wheeling We are especially grateful for the Octave is a continuation of WBOYDT/ABC - Clarksburg those who patronized and worked Easter Sunday itself, with each day Listings at DWC.ORG/HOME/MASS/ the Lenten fish fry, as well as those being another solemnity or “little who made sure Knights of Columbus - FREE, Easter.” The Feast of Divine Mercy there were first-year, online membership is especially important because of plenty of KOFC.ORG/JOINUS its call to accept God’s mercy. This pierogis to sell. time also begins the 50 days of Bible Study Session Resumes Gratitude also for the great feast of Easter that ends those who delivered Jesus: The Way, The Truth, The Life with . So, be sure to Easter flowers to our Wednesdays 9 a.m. /Thursdays 6:30 p.m. keep celebrating and wishing shut-ins and care home Church Hall everyone a happy Easter! residents, those who decorated Friday, April 30 the church with flowers by SEEING EVERYONE BACK IN THE DWC Tuition Assistance Deadline memorializing family and loved CHURCH THROUGHOUT HOLY FACTSMGT.COM ones, and those who prepared our Week is a long-awaited blessing Friday, May 14 beautiful church for Holy Week that has inspired us to resume all Deadline for bringing donations celebrations. Special thanks to the Masses in the church, at least for of rosaries and religious medals Eucharistic ministers, lectors, the time being. This decision for the poor of Zimbabwe. servers, ushers, cantors, comes as more of you choose to accompanists, and PSR teachers vaccinate against Covid-19, which LECTORS who helped make Holy Week we believe is the key to returning April 10 4:00 p.m. B. Blake events in the church a reality. safely to our pews. Add to the list the families with Keeping Masses in church will still April 11 8:00 a.m. R. Scherich children who actively participate. depend greatly on wearing masks, 10:00 a.m. L. Niemiec Not to be forgotten also are those distancing, and using hand who keep the everyday tasks and sanitizer upon entering and OFFERING MARCH 21, 2021 missions going throughout. We leaving. Cleaning also must Envelopes $1,417.00 are blessed to have each other, continue. These measures remain one and all. Loose Offering $198.00 necessary to protect those in our Church Repair $30.00 THE EASTER SPECIAL church and in your own families Catholic Relief $5.00 COLLECTION THIS who are unvaccinated, as well as those at high risk for contracting 9:;<= >9??<>:@9AB: weekend is to benefit Covid-19. We also encourage Easter Flowers $655.00 the Education of Seminarians fund. forming seating pods with those Memorial $1,850.00 Giving to the education of like vaccination status since Candles $63.00 of our seminarians supports their mixing seating with vaccinated Candles - St. Joseph $15.00 training and formation. This is and unvaccinated people is most unsafe for those at higher risk. Online Giving $25.00 especially important during a time when upbuilding of We believe and pray these steps, Attendance 151 vocations is critical to our church. under current conditions, will PLEASE CLICK HERE TO DONATE Thank you for your support. work with your ongoing support. THANK YOU

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