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Saturday/Sabado: 4:00 PM English 6:00 PM Spanish Sunday/ Domingo 7:00 AM/ 4:00 PM Español Live streamed Sixth Sunday of Easter 9:00 AM English May 9, 2021 12:00 PM Español Weekly Masses/ Monday and Friday 8:15AM It was not you who chose me, but I who Misas entre semana Wednesday 6:00 PM chose you and appointed you to go and Thursday 7:00 AM bear fruit. — John 15:16 Parish Staff Fr. Philip Kollithanath: Pastor, Email: [email protected] Parish Secretary: Maricruz Palma Music Coordinator: Colette Estes Faith Formation Coordinator: Dawn Harris Faith Formation Coordinator (Spa): Manuela Torres Parish Council: Rosemary Chriscoe Finance Council: Scott Harris Building Committee: Kim Price

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We Catholics are people of faith, people of Los católicos somos gente de fe, gente de oración prayer, and people of devotions. Faith helps y gente de devoción. La fe ayuda a creer que to believe that we are God’s children , prayer somos hijos de Dios, la oración nos permite enables us to encounter the Heavenly Father encontrar al Padre Celestial y renovar nuestra and renew our loyalty and relationship with lealtad y relación con Dios y las devociones God and devotions reinforce the first two. refuerzan los dos primeros. En estos días, el These days secular humanism confuses humanismo secular confunde a muchos creyentes many a believer with its “feel good” con su enfoque de “sentirse bien”. approach. It is important for us to have Es importante para nosotros tener claridad sobre clarity on our catholic concept of prayer. nuestro concepto católico de oración. La cuarta Catechism of the Catholic Church part four parte del Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica trata de deals with Christian prayer. la oración cristiana. El resumen de la primera parte de esta sección dice que “la oración es elevar Summary of part one of this section says “ la mente y el corazón a Dios o pedirle cosas prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart buenas a Dios. Hay muchos modelos y métodos to God or the requesting of good things de oración en el Antiguo Testamento. La oración from God. There are many models and filial de Jesús es el modelo perfecto de oración en methods of prayer in the Old Testament. el Nuevo Testamento. Jesus’ filial prayer is the perfect model of prayer In the New Testament . The Holy El Espíritu Santo tiene un papel inspirador e Spirit has an inspiring and instructing role in instructivo en la vida de la iglesia con respecto a la the life of the church regarding prayer. Our oración. Nuestras formas de oración son: ben- forms of prayer are: blessing, petition, dición, petición, intercesión, acción de gracias y intercession, thanksgiving, and praise. alabanza. El Espíritu Santo en la iglesia enseña a The Holy Spirit in the church teaches the los hijos de Dios a orar. La familia cristiana es el children of God to pray. Christian family is primer lugar para la educación en la oración. La the first place for the education in prayer. oración vocal, la meditación y la oración contemplativa se enseñan tradicionalmente a una Vocal prayer, meditation and contemplative edad muy temprana para que los niños prayer are traditionally taught at a very young encuentren fácil y agradable tener el recuerdo del age so that children will find it easy as well as corazón en la oración. enjoyable to have the recollection of the heart in prayer. God bless you all Dios los bendiga a todos 5/09/2021 St. Joseph Catholic Church 3

THE CALL AND CAUSE OF LOVE MASS SCHEDULE: Week of 5/09/2021 Love calls and causes us to do great things, Mon 05/10 8:15am St Joseph Glory & Intentions more than we might believe we are capable by Albert Hodges of. While some are called to give their lives as Wed 05/12 6:00pm Tayyiba Azeem by Alex Krasowski martyrs, most of us find ourselves called to Thur 05/13 7:00am Tayyiba Azeem by Alex Krasowski lay down our lives in smaller ways in the midst of everyday life. Parents lose sleep in Fri 05/14 8:15am St Joseph Glory & Intentions the early moments of their baby’s life, and by Albert Hodges again as their teens mature and gain Sat 05/15 10:30am Quinceañera Alexia Porcayo Dominguez independence. Adult children change their 4:00pm plans to care for aging parents. We hear the 6:00pm Sofia Mendez by Cecilia Arellano call of love as we become attentive and Sun 05/16 7:00am respond to the needs of the poor, lonely, 9:00am †Deceased Members of the sick, and vulnerable. Love causes us to turn Knights of Columbus our lives around, to strive to become more 12:00pm 4:00pm Special Intentions by Albert Hodges Christ-like in our words and actions. Peter followed this call of love when he entered the

house of Cornelius, a Gentile. He was likely as astounded at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as were the believers who Saturday 1:00PM-3:00PM accompanied him, yet love caused Peter to see beyond the accepted boundaries of BIRTHDAY LIST religion and race, seeing instead evidence of the Lord’s great love at work. 5/10 Santiago Alcantara, Jose Juan Batz Ajpacaja, Roberto Benitez, Richard Bills, Gerard Burke, Mario Gonzalez, Blanca Hernandez, Anna Lopez, Jose Luis Nieves, Alfredo Sanchez 5/11 Gleydith Basulto, Estela Magana, Manuel Morales Castro, Beatriz Ramirez 5/12 Ricky Calderon, Francisco Cortes, Anallely Flores, Sofia Mendes, Catalina Miramontes, Albert Stellwag, Karmelita Thomas 5/13 Juan Perez, Daniela Reyes 5/14 Mirna Del Cid, Omar Garcia, Lessly Lopez 5/15 Froylan Alejo Valdez, Fernanda Alvarez, Michael Arias Vargas, Michael Benefield, Isidra Benitez, Angelica Fer- nandez, Esperanza Vera, Jose Luis Lopez, Isidra Ca- lixtro, Elizabeth Soto, Isidro Vences 5/16 Erika Acosta, Angela Avila Garcia, Alexander Dominguez Velazquez, Francisco Garcia Avila, Karyn Ann Greco, WEEKLY OFFERINGS: 5/02/2021 Erik Martinez, Alberto Soto, Offertory: $6,09700 Xander Vega Palomino Weekly Budget Expectation: $5,900.00 Weekly Over/Under: $197.00 Have a Very Blessed Birthday 5/09/2021 St. Joseph Catholic Church 4 TODAY’S READINGS LECTURAS DE HOY First Reading — The gift of the Holy Spirit was poured Primera lectura — Mediante las prédicas de Pedro, el out on the Gentiles also Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48. Espíritu Santo viene a los gentiles Hechos 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48. Psalm — The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power Psalm 98. Salmo — El Señor nos ha mostrado su amor y su lealtad. Aleluya Salmo 98 97. Second Reading — God is love Segunda lectura — Dios es amor y Dios nos ama 1 John 4:7-10 or 1 John 4:11-16. 1 Juan 4:7-10 o 1 Juan 4:11-16. Gospel — No one has greater love than this: to lay Evangelio — Jesús da este mandamiento a sus down one’s life for one’s Friends discípulos: ámense unos a otros como yo los he amado John 15:9-17 or John 17:11b-19 Juan 15:9-17 o Juan 17:11b-19.

READING OF THE WEEK LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Monday: Acts 16:11-15; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Lunes: Hch 16:11-15; Sal 149:1b-6a, 9b; Jn 15:26 — 16:4a Jn 15:26 — 16:4a Tuesday: Acts 16:22-34; Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8; Martes: Hch 16:22-34; Sal 138 137:1-3, 7c-8; Jn 16:5-11 Jn 16:5-11 Miércoles: Hch 17:15, 22 — 18:1; Sal 148:1-2, Wednesday: Acts 17:15, 22 — 18:1; Ps 148:1-2, 11-14; Jn 16:12-15 11-14; Jn 16:12-15 Jueves: Hch 1:1-11; Sal 47 46:2-3, 6-9; Thursday: Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47:2-3, 6-9; Ef 1:17-23 o Ef 4:1-13 1-7, 11-13; Eph 1:17-23 or Eph 4:1-13 1-7, 11-13; Mc 16:15-20 para la Ascensión; Mk 16:15-20 for Ascension; o Hch 18:1-8; Sal 98 97:1-4; otherwise Acts 18:1-8; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 16:16-20 Jn 16:16-20 Viernes: Hch 1:15-17, 20-26; Sal 113 112:1-8; Friday: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113:1-8; Jn 15:9-17 Jn 15:9-17 Sábado: Hch 18:23-28; Sal 47 46:2-3, 8-10; Saturday: Acts 18:23-28; Ps 47:2-3, 8-10; Jn 16:23b-28 Jn 16:23b-28 Domingo: Hch 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; Sunday: Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; Ps 103:1-2, Sal 103 102:1-2, 11-12, 19-20; 11-12, 19-20; 1 Jn 4:11-16; Jn 17:11b- 1 Jn 4:11-16; Jn 17:11b-19; o, 19; or,for Ascension, Acts 1:1-11; para la Ascensión, Hch 1:1-11; Sal 47:2-3, 6-9; Ef 1:17- 23 o Ef 4:1-1 Ps 47:2-3, 6-9; Eph 1:17- 23 or Eph 4:1- 1-7, 11-13; Mc 16:15-20 13 1-7, 11-13; Mk 16:15-20 LOS SANTOS Y OTRAS CELEBRACION SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Domingo: Sexto Domingo de Pascua; Sunday: Sixth Sunday of Easter; Mother’s Day Día de las Madres Monday: St. Damien de Veuster; St. John De Avila Lunes: San Damián de Veuster; San Juan de Ávila Wednesday: Ss. Nereus and Achilleus; St. Pancras; Miércoles: San Nereo y san Aquiles; San Pancracio Thursday: The Ascension of the Lord unless Jueves: La Ascensión del Señor a menos que ` transferred to Sunday; sea transferida al domingo; o Nuestra Señora de Fátima otherwise Our Lady of Fatima Viernes: San Matías Friday: St. Matthias Sábado: San Isidro, labrador; Saturday: St. Isidore; Armed Forces Day Día de las Fuerzas Armadas 5/09/2021 St. Joseph Catholic Church 5

FEAST OF FAITH FIESTA DE LA FE The Creed El Santo Evangelio Following the readings and the homily, we La palabra evangelio significa “Buena stand together and say or sing the Creed, our Nueva”. La Sagrada Escritura nos presenta cuatro profession of faith. The Creed is a solemn statement “buenas nuevas” o evangelios: Mateo, Marcos, Lucas of belief, a “rule of faith” (General Instruction of the y Juan. Son cuatro estilos distintos de presentarnos a Roman Missal, 67). It states the core of what we Jesús, la Buena Nueva de Dios. Mateo nos presenta a believe about God the Father, the Son, and the Holy un Jesús nacido en el más puro de los judaísmos, con Spirit. The language of the Creed is knotty and tres conjuntos de 14 generaciones cada uno; a lo difficult at times, precisely because its purpose is to largo de su relato nos dirá una y otra vez que Jesús express with precision what we believe about God. es el Maestro de maestros, es el cumplimiento de la The Creed that we pray most often, the Nicene Ley, en plenitud. Marcos, por su parte, no nos Creed, came out of the earliest ecumenical councils: presenta ningún relato de su nacimiento, sino que va Nicea in 325 and Constantinople in 381. It originated al punto: “Esta es la Buena Nueva de Jesucristo, el in a time of great controversy about the divinity of hijo de Dios”. Puesto que su comunidad cristiana en Christ, and thus the longest section of the Creed Roma es perseguida, mediante el sufrimiento de relates to Christ, truly human and truly God. Jesús da sentido a su sufrimiento martirial. Lucas The Creed is both communal and personal: it encarna la realidad y sufrimiento de los pobres y is “we,” but it is also “I.” In the Rite of Christian desposeídos de este mundo, y para ello, les cuenta el Initiation of Adults, it is only after listening to the relato de un Dios que nace pobre entre los pobres; teaching of the Church and professing faith in the más tarde, presentará a Jesús no sólo del lado de los Holy Trinity that the candidate is admitted to the pobres, sino a la mesa, compartiendo ya el Reino de sacraments. So it is every Sunday. We listen to the Dios por adelantado. Juan nos dirá desde el word, we profess our faith, and then we come principio lo que sus contemporáneos no pueden to the altar. —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. aceptar: Jesús es Dios, desde el principio. THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ——Miguel Arias, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. We have a unique episode in the Acts of the LA PRESENCIA DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO Apostles today. A whole roomful of people are Hoy tenemos un episodio único en los Hechos de baptized with the Holy Spirit before they are los Apóstoles. ¡Un grupo de personas que llena una baptized with water! The verb used—“the Holy Spirit habitación es bautizado con el Espíritu Santo antes de que ‘fell’ on them” (Acts 10:44)—is characteristic of the se bautizaran con agua! La palabra que se usa para way the Spirit works throughout the book of Acts: describir el suceso: “el Espíritu Santo descendió sobre powerful and surprising. Though this “baptism” is ellos” (Hechos 10:44), es característica de la forma en que not the normative way the New Testament describes el Espíritu obra en todo el libro de los Hechos: de manera baptism, it is still a good reminder today that the poderosa y sorprendente. Aunque este “bautismo” no es la Holy Spirit is not controlled by whether or not we norma para describir el bautismo en el Nuevo Testamento, es sin embargo un buen recordatorio de que pour water, but rather that our sacramental signs el Espíritu Santo no está controlado por si hemos vertido reveal the presence of the Spirit at work among us. el agua o no, sino que nuestros signos sacramentales And we have a double reinforcement of how this revelan al Espíritu presente y obrando entre nosotros. Y work is accomplished from a Letter and a Gospel tenemos un doble refuerzo de cómo esta obra se lleva a bearing John’s name. It is love, self-sacrificing and cabo en la carta y el Evangelio que llevan el nombre de self-giving love, that manifests the Spirit of Jesus in Juan. Es el amor, el auto sacrificio y el amor de entrega, our midst. It is love that is the greatest of que manifiestan al Espíritu de Jesús entre nosotros. El commandments. The Spirit is manifested equally amor es el más grande de los mandamientos. El Espíritu through those who live in that love. se manifiesta también a través de los que viven en ese Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. amor. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. 5/09/2021 St. Joseph Catholic Church 6

† Sacraments † KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS **Sacrament of Baptism—Baptism is a highly sacred event *The Knights are looking for new and deserves careful and complete readiness. Please contact members to join their brotherhood. For more the church office (336-629-0221) to register for the Baptism information please contact Grand Knight Preparation Class, which is done on a regular basis. Jason Kroeger at 336-301-4418. Parents must be registered and participating members of our parish community COLUMBIETTES: **Sacrament of Marriage - Couples should contact the The St. Joseph Columbiettes – Auxiliary Pastor (336-629-0221) at least 6 months prior to the wedding 10891 would like to extend an invitation to all date for necessary preparation. the ladies of the parish to join our **Ministry of the Sick— Please call the church office organization. If you are interested in joining or would (336-629-0221) to inform us of an illness or hospitalization of a like more information, please contact the church office. family member. Federal Privacy A current Columbiette will return your call. Law prohibits the hospital from giving room numbers, so we must have prior knowledge of a pa- tient’s room number before we visit the hospital. The Sacrament of Anointing is done upon request prior to surgery or a illness. **Prayers for our Military—please call the office (336-629-0221) to notify us of their Military Status ******************************************** Out of respect for the Liturgy in which we partake, please turn off or mute all cell phones and pagers as you enter the Sanctuary of Our Lord. If your Children are acting up, please take them to the cry room in order not to disrupt the liturgy for others. PRAYERS FOR OUR PARISHIONERS & THEIR FAMILIES Please take a moment to pray for our parishioners needs, Illness, persona problems and our young men serving our country: Christopher Gardner, Lillian Hazelwood & Ramona Shepard, Colleen Greene, Flora Smith, Gary Hutchins, Jose Espiallet, Calling all young men ages 10-18. Are Monica Smith, Patrick Guarion, Raphael you looking to grow in your faith, Guriel, Josefina Arellano, Laurie Wills, learn to become a community leader, JR Newsome, Mary Matthews, Sara or help your community and church Dunmeyer’s daughter, Donald Hills, Robert Barker, all while having fun with Mary Poremba, Sharon Derosi, Chester Devarney, other Catholic young man? Well, the Ernest Devarney, Albert Trapani, Luis Saavedra, Columbian Squires are looking for new Don Troup, Phyllis Morrison members. The Columbian Squires is part of the Knights of Columbus family. For more Military: Adolfo Angel Vasquez, Matthew Bryant information please have a parent contact Seminarians & Religious: Jose Palma, Kevin Martinez, Grand Knight Jason Kroeger at 336-301-4418 & Jessica Palma 5/09/2021 St. Joseph Catholic Church 7

Pray the Rosary My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her. —George Washington

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RECYCLING

The Youth Group is collecting aluminum RECICL@NDO cans, tin cans, and other metal items for recycling to support the Youth Group El Grupo de Jovenes es recogiendo latas de aluminio, activities. Please leave your items by the latas de comida o cualquier otro metal para apoyar las shed in the corner of the parking lot. Thank you in actividades del Grupo Juvenil. Por favor advance for separating the cans into separate bags for deposite los articulos que usted aluminum and steel. Steel items like old fry pans, tenga a la esquina de la casita. basketball hoops, poles, tools, shovels, tire rims etc. can Gracias a los que poneen en bolsa be turned in for cash. Please donate. Thank you. separadas el alumino y el acero. Please print and send 100 copies. Than you for the help and assistance