Parish Office: 773-731-8822

ST. BRIDE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO WWW.ST-BRIDE.ORG Founded 1893 7811 SOUTH COLES AVENUE – CHICAGO, IL 60649

Our Parish Staff Parish Office: 773-731-8822 Reverend Robert J. Roll, Pastor Church Hall: 773-734-9125 Ms. Laura L. Zbella, Fax: 773-721-0673 Administrative Manager Email: [email protected] Mr. Terry Rose, Youth Minister Mr. Tommy Slay, Facilities Manager

Liturgy Schedule Sunday at 10 AM Monday thru Friday as scheduled 8 AM in the House Chapel The Sacrament of Reconciliation Before Mass and anytime by appointment! The Sacrament of the Sick The Third Sunday of Easter Please make arrangements with April 19, 2015 the Parish House to have the Sacraments brought to the sick and homebound. The Anointing of the Sick should take place early in any illness and as often as necessary. Please note: Hospitals are not allowed, MASSES THIS WEEK by law, to contact the parish. Daily Mass is celebrated at 8 AM Please have someone contact In the Parish House Chapel as scheduled the Parish House for a hospital visit. The Third Sunday of Easter: New Parishioners For the Intention of Alice Tijerina Please consider registering after Mass at the For the Intention of Activity Table in the Church or call the Archie (Eddie) W. Edwards, Jr. Parish House at your convenience! For the Intention of Freddye Redd-Anderson Welcome Visitors to St. Bride For the Intention of Gloria Tepavchevich We are honored to have you with us! For the Intention of Jacqueline "Jackie" Jackson For the Intention of Margaret Cmarik Please be sure to sign our guest book. For the Intention of the Harris Family For the Intention of the Reverend William J. Lynch Second Pastor of St. Bride - 1910 - 1933 + April 19, 1933 For the Good Health of Helen Rabe Monday: Easter Weekday Tuesday: St. Anselm Wednesday: Easter Weekday Thursday: St. George; St. Adalbert Friday: St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen; Saturday: St. Mark The Fourth Sunday of Easter: For the Intention of Dr. Violet Eggert For the Family of Naveed Kham For the Intention of Margaret Cmarik For the Intention of Frank and Marie Gill For the Intention of Joe Golab For the Intention of Michael G. Mongello For the Intention of Sister Elaine Marie, CSFN For the Intention of Virginia Cannelle For the Good Health of Baby Olivia For the Good Health of Marilyn Dolton A

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24, 26- 27, 29-30; Jn 6:22-29 Tuesday: Acts 7:51 — 8:1a; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6, 7b, 8a, 17, 21ab; Jn 6:30-35 Wednesday: Acts 8:1b-8; Ps 66:1-3a, 4-7a; Jn 6:35-40 Thursday: Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9, 16-17, Electronic Giving for Weekly Offerings, 20; Jn 6:44-51 Mass Intentions, Memorial Candles and Friday: Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1bc, 2; more… Jn 6:52-59 Since we have started Give Central, more than $5000.00 has been contributed through this Saturday: 1 Pt 5:5b-14; Ps 89:2-3, 6-7, 16- electronic means of giving! No problems at all! It is 17; an excellent way of scheduling your offerings to St. Mk 16:15-20 Bride, as well as a way of marking special events. Sunday: Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 21- Click on the “Donate Now” button on our web site. 23, 26, 28, 29; 1 Jn 3:1-2; Jn 10:11-18 Support Our Food Pantry The St. Bride Food Pantry continues its work and our shelves are literally BARE! We will welcome your donations of NON-PERISHABLE food items to stock our shelves and prepare bags for those who utilize our outreach program each week, September to June! We serve over 150 families a month. We have more than 400 families now registered for the program. We also accept clothing for our clothes pantry, household goods; dishes, silverware, glasses, linens, etc. Mass Intentions Available If you have a special anniversary or celebration that you want to remember at Mass, now is the time to arrange to reserve that date. Please be sure to include your intention as well as your phone number when submitting the request. The traditional stipend per Mass is ten dollars. You can schedule Masses by email or on Give Central; see left column of our web page at www.st-bride.org. Pray For Peace these Easter Days St. Bride Parish Upcoming Events Sunday, May 17th – Our Annual Spring Luncheon Reception 12 pm Luncheon 1 pm Dynasty Banquets - 4125 Calumet Avenue - Hammond, Indiana Donation: Adult $45.00 / Child $20.00 May 24th – Pentecost Sunday – Mass at 10 AM June 7th – The Celebration of Corpus Christi - Benediction after 10 AM Mass

SAVORING THE EXPERIENCE One of the wonderful things about vacations is the time we spend two or three weeks afterward savoring the experience, sharing vacation photos and memories with our family and friends. This kind of reflection puts us back in touch with the original experience and reminds us of the relaxation and wonder the vacation afforded us. Today, on the Third Sunday of Easter, the Church blesses us with reminders of what we celebrated two Sundays ago. All three readings are reflections on the meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ. One of the threads running through these reflections is that the purpose of the Lord’s suffering, death, and resurrection was to save us, to forgive our sins. We are given fifty days to ponder this reality—fifty days to savor the experience of Christ’s dying and rising for us.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION With the Easter season well under way, we now resume our survey of the sacrament of the sick. The pastoral care of the sick will be misunderstood if we start from the vantage point of the sickroom. Begin with the Sunday assembly, from which the sick person has been separated by the crisis of illness, and whose absence is given expression in prayer and service. The goal is to extend the consolation of the Lord’s presence at the table to those who are apart from it, and for the assembly to enfold them in prayer. Secondarily, the goal is to teach people what the Church desires for all those who are sick. Seeing ministers dispatched to the sick from Mass every Sunday might help a caregiver realize that their dear one can also receive Communion. Witnessing the anointing of a woman facing surgery might help another person to overcome hesitation and ask for the sacrament’s healing and strength. Society’s impulse may be to marginalize the sick, but the tradition of our community is to see them at the center of our life. When Roman persecutors ordered St. Lawrence the Deacon to hand over the jewels of the church, he assembled a motley crew of the sick and the infirm and announced with all humility, “Behold, my lord, the treasures of the church of Christ.”

Third Sunday of Easter - Fault or Fate? Peter seems to be pretty tough with his listeners in the first reading. He says they handed Jesus over, denied him before Pilate, asked for a murderer to be released in his place, and put Jesus to death. They must have thought they were doomed. Suddenly, he tells them they were just ignorant. And that God had planned all this long ago. So is he saying Jesus’ death is their fault, or just fate? The answer of course is that it’s everyone’s fault. Our sins are the reason for Jesus’ death. We deny Jesus when we choose to be selfish instead of loving. We hand him over when we tell ourselves we are too busy to take time to pray. We ask for Barabbas to be freed instead of Jesus when we insist on doing things our own way rather than God’s way. We crucify Jesus when we follow the crowd instead of following the Lord. It is only “fate” in the sense that our sins needed to be forgiven and God plan’s for salvation was through Jesus’ death and resurrection. Does that mean our sins cause something in the past to happen? There were sinners long before Jesus’ time and God knew there would be sinners after that. God also planned to forgive anyone who repented their sins. In one sense, Jesus died for those who deserved to be punished for sin, and also for those who would deserve punishment in the future. He rose from the dead to show that God’s forgiveness raises us up from guilt to a new life. Peter wasn’t laying a guilt trip on the listeners. After all, this is good news. God planned all this to show how much he loved us. Our response should be one of joy that we are forgiven because of that love. All we have to do is tell God we are sorry, mean it, and start living our response of love. Sins may be our fault, but Love is our fate.

St. Bride Church – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago – April 19, 2015