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Pastor Rev. Steven Zehler 904-692-1366, ext. 3 [email protected] Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil 5:00pm Sunday 9:00am and 11:00am Daily Mass Schedule M,T,F 8:00am Wednesday 6:00pm Thursday 9:00am Confessions Saturday 4:00 – 4:30pm Wednesday 5:00 – 5:30pm Church Staff Office Manager: Terri Sowards Office Assistant: Marybeth Gaetano Religious Ed. Coordinator: Christine Humphries Music Director: Tom Rivers Youth Ministry Coordinator: Chris Fisk Office Hours Monday – Thursday 9:00am to 2:00pm Church Address 6070 Church Rd. April 11, 2021 | Second Sunday of | Divine Sunday Elkton, FL 32033 Office: 904-692-1366 Year of Saint Fax: 904-692-1136 choffice1@saintambrose- Living the Gospel of Christ church.org in the Catholic tradition since 1875 saintambrose-church.org Ministry Contact List Hospitality After All Altar Servers: Parish Office 904-692-1366 “ Sunday” Masses Fair Chairman: Frank DuPont 904-814-2276 April 11th and 12th Finance Council: Larry Clark [email protected] Music Director: Tom Rivers [email protected] Please join us! Office Manager: Terri Sowards [email protected] Saint Ambrose Parish Calendar Office Assistant: Marybeth Gaetano Monday, April 12 [email protected] 8:00 am No Mass Chris Fisk Youth Ministry Coordinator: Tuesday, April 13 [email protected] 8:00 am No Mass Pastoral Council: Nancy Dupont, Church Office 904-692-1366 Prayer List: Donna Rogero [email protected] 386-325-5230 Wednesday, April 14 5:00 pm Confessions (until 5:30 pm) RCIA: Parish Office 904-692-1366 5:30 pm Religious Education Class Respect Life: Ana Martin 904-692-4927 & Kathleen Quinones 6:00 pm Evening Mass Religious Education: Christine Humphries Intention: Mary & Frank Conway † [email protected] Sacristan: Maggie Hill 904-797-2733 Thursday, April 15 9:00 am No Mass

NEW PARISHIONERS Friday, April 16 Welcome! Please take a few minutes to complete a confidential 8:00 am No Mass registration form which can be found in the Church lobby. You Saturday, April 17 may hand the completed for to a Welcome Minister or mail it to 4:00 pm Confessions (until 4:30 pm) the office. Thank you. 5:00 pm Vigil Mass SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Intention: JoAnn Barkoskie Parishioners should contact the Pastor before setting a wedding date. Normal preparation time is 8 months which includes a Dioc- Sunday, April 18 esan marriage preparation program. 9:00 am Morning Mass Intention: Ann Carringan (SI) SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM 11:00 am Morning Mass Parents must be registered and active members of the Parish for Intention: For the Parish at least six months prior to the Baptism. A Baptismal Class for the parents and godparents is required. Please call the office for more information. Birthday Celebrations April SPIRITUAL OR MEDICAL EMERGENCY 10 – Deardra Rice; Lauren Swain If you have a spiritual or medical emergency, please call Father Steven at the emergency number: 904-436-3056. No texting 11 – Chris Fisk; Robert Sierakowski; Barbara Spiller please. 12 – Catherine Futch; Elizabeth Golden; Landon Lopez HOMEBOUND MINISTRY For those parishioners who can no longer attend Mass, you can 13 – Robert Wilson still receive Holy Communion. Our Extraordinary Ministers are 14 – Cathy Card; Margaret Hill available to bring the Lord to your home. Father Steven also makes First Friday visitations to provide the Sacrament of the 15 – Carrie Brubaker; Eileen McCormick; Sherwood Smith Sick and Confession. Call the office at 692-1366 to arrange a visit. Giving Donations March 27 & 28 2021 Online Donations $ 1,640.83 5pm Mass $ 1,551.00 9am Mass $ 1,206.70 11am Mass $ 909.00 $ 3,666.70 We ask everyone in the parish to pray for the people on the Renovation & Maintenance Fund $ 255.00 prayer list. Blessings! Online Renovation & Maintenance Fund $ 320.00 $ 575.00 Chris Barnes Family, Jackie & Dan Barry, Laura Boyd, Sharon Brown, Johnny Colson Sr., Chad Corbett, Jim Devlon, NP - Holy $ 125.00 Joan Dietrich, Fred Duquette, Eggland, Gerald Eubanks,

Rik Freeney, Baby Girl Feibel, Gail Freeman, Annalee Fruend, Giving Donations April 3 & 4 2021 Pat Gay, Sybil LaFountain, Robert Hall, Valorie Kline, Online Donations $ 230.70 The Ludas Family, Mary Geer, Kathleen Green, Gary Harrington, 8:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass $ 1,744.00 Caleb Herrington, Evelyn Kennedy, Lucy Kirk, Gary Levine, 9am Mass $ 2,415.00 Dr. Robert McLendon, Juliana McCumbers, Sandy McCumbers, 11am Mass $ 2,306.00 Dr. Joe Maltby, Andrea Novak, Walter Rogero Family, Alicia Stratton, Stuart Stratton, Don Sutton, Austin Tilton Family, $ 6,695.70 Erin Wilson Holy Thursday $ 130.00 Please notify Donna Rogero at 386-325-5230 or Renovation & Maintenance Fund $ 2,156.00 [email protected] with your prayer request. We have Online Renovation & Maintenance Fund $ 25.00 updated our list and anyone wishing to be put back on the $ 2,181.00 list that was previously listed please contact Donna. NP - Holy Shrines $ 800.00 NP - Rice Bowl $ 293.29 Easter Thanks! The Divine Mercy Message and Devotion Thank you to our ministers who served during the Holy Triduum. The message of The Divine Mercy is simple. It is that God loves There are so many people behind the scenes who made the litur- us – all of us. And, He wants us to recognize that His mercy is gies possible. Thanks to Tom Rivers and our choir participants greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, re- who sang so beautifully. Thanks to Nancy DuPont and the many ceive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will members of the environment committee and all of the sacristans, come to share His joy. lectors, EMCHs and altar servers who faithfully gave their time in the service of God! The Divine Mercy message is one we can call to mind simply by remembering ABC: Our Annual Easter Egg Hunt was a huge success— a special thanks to Debbie Thomas who created over 1500 Easter eggs A. Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer filled with money, candy, etc.; and the multitude of gifts that com- constantly, repenting of our sins and asking Him to pour His plemented the “hunt”! Also, thanks to the office staff, Terri, mercy out upon us and upon the whole world. Marybeth, Bret and Doug for their behind the scenes work! B. Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others. He wants us to extend love and What is Eastertide? forgiveness to others just as He does to us. On Easter Sunday (the Resurrection of the Lord, 1st Glorious C. Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that all the Mystery of the ), we entered into what is known as Easter- graces of His mercy can only be received by our trust. The tide. It is the period of 50 days, spanning from Easter Sunday to more we open the door of our hearts and lives to Him with Pentecost Sunday. Eastertide is celebrated as a single joyful trust, the more we can receive. feast, called the “Great Lord’s Day”. Each Sunday of the season is treated as a Sunday of Easter. The Sundays of this season This message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercy is rank as the paschal Sundays and, after Easter Sunday itself, are based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated called the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Sun- Polish who, in obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a dia- days of Easter. The period of fifty sacred days ends on Pentecost ry of about 600 pages recording the revelations she received Sunday. The first eight days of the Easter Season make up the about God's mercy. Even before her death in 1938, the devotion and are celebrated as solemnities of the Lord. to The Divine Mercy had begun to spread. On the fortieth day after Easter the Ascension (2nd Glorious Mys- The message and devotional practices proposed in the Diary of tery of the Rosary) is celebrated, except in places where, not Saint Faustina and set forth in this web site and other publications being a holy day of obligation, it has been transferred to the Sev- of the Marians of the are completely in enth Sunday of Easter. This solemnity directs our attention to accordance with the teachings of Church and are firmly rooted in Christ, who ascended into heaven before the eyes of his disci- the Gospel message of our Merciful Savior. Properly understood ples, who is now seated at the right hand of the Father, invested and implemented, they will help us grow as genuine followers of with royal power, who is there to prepare a place for us in the Christ. kingdom of heaven; and who is destined to come again at the Spend time to learn more about the mercy of God, learn to trust in end of time. Jesus, and live your life as merciful to others, as Christ is merciful The weekdays after the Ascension until the Saturday before Pen- to you. tecost (3rd Glorious Mystery of the Rosary) inclusive are a prepa- Excerpt from https://www.thedivinemercy.org/message ration for the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete. This sacred season of fifty days comes to an end on Pentecost Rice Bowl Collection Drop Off Sunday, which commemorates the giving of the Holy Spirit to the , the beginnings of the Church and its mission to every Please remember you can still drop off your Rice Bowl Collection tongue and people and nation. (Excerpted from the General in the Cry Room today, , April 11th. Norms for the Liturgical Year and Ceremonial of Bishops) Parishioner Contact Information Updates Father-Son Cookout & Obstacle Course, May 1 If you have had any change in your address, telephone number or Our Father-Son Cookout and Obstacle Course will be held Satur- email address, please notify Marybeth at the following email ad- day, May 1st from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, for boys 5 years old dress [email protected] or call the through 5th grade and their fathers. If dad is unable to attend, we office with your updated information. If you are not receiving invite mom to please bring the boy(s). We will have hotdogs and emails that you typically receive, check your junk mail and spam hamburgers and a bounce house obstacle course! Please sign folders. Also, please put the above email in your contacts list so up in the vestibule. that your system will accept future emails, particularly those with attachments (i.e., bulletin, schedules, etc.). 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