Weekly Newsletter Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
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March 28, 2021 Weekly Newsletter Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Highlights this Week Prayer & Worship Main: 303-799-1036 2 Mass Intentions | The Triduum | Holy Week Reflections Sacramental Emergencies: opt. 2 Living & Growing in Faith 5761 McArthur Ranch Rd Good Friday Stations of the Cross | Spiritual Adoption Update Littleton, CO 80124 3 Returning God’s Gifts Update Community Events Parish Office Hours Calendar | VBS Registration | In Loving Memory Mon - Thurs: 9:00a-5:00p 4 Haiti Lenten Cups | Breakfast Burritos | Stewardship Award Fri: 9:00a-12:00p Kids’ Corner by St. Katharine Drexel [email protected] 5 Celebrating Holy Week with Kids Parish Resources www.paxchristi.org 6 Staff | RGG Appeal | Missals | Community Rewards 2 Prayer & Worship MASS SCHEDULE THE MOST HOLY Tue - Fri: 9:00am Triduum Sat: 5:00pm For the last three weeks continues for fifty days - longer Sun: 8:30am, 10:30am, we have explored all of the than the forty days of Lent. 5:00pm beautiful symbolism and The joyful music, the elegance meaning behind the liturgy of and fragrance of lilies, and SACRAMENT OF the Triduum. We’re just in time life in Christ, new or renewed, RECONCILIATION this week to talk more about continues until Pentecost...and Tue - Fri: 8:30 - 8:50am Easter and the Easter Season. beyond. Thu: 6:30 - 7:30pm or by appointment EASTER IN REVIEW Easter morning follows the During Holy Week, we follow HOLY HOUR OF glorious coming to life of the the events of Jesus’ passion ADORATION Easter vigil. New life and fresh through his resurrection. Thu: 6:30-7:30pm hope have come in the risen Palm Sunday and the Easter First Friday: 9:30-10:30am Christ. We celebrate with a Triduum mark the main events renewal of baptismal promises of Holy Week. to reject sin and eveil, love God ADORATION CHAPEL and follow Jesus. Jesus entrusts us with Mon -Thu: 7:00am-5:00pm sharing the good news of his Friday: 7:00am-12:00pm Easter is such a significant resurrection with others. feast that the celebration MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY, MARCH 27 5:00p | Fr. Andrzej Szczesnowicz FOR YOUR Reflection SUNDAY, MARCH 28 8:30a | The People PALM SUNDAY HOLY THURSDAY 10:30a | Helen Kuros Remember an opportunity How is God asking you to 5:00p | Donald “Buzz” Thurnal † you had recently to welcome “wash feet” in your life? TUESDAY, MARCH 30 someone. If may have been 9:00a | Helen Kuros someone who sat next to you GOOD FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 in church, someone new at Who do you still need to 9:00a | Helen Kuros work, someone you just met. forgive? Picture yourself laying SUNDAY, APRIL 4 What did you do to help this the burden of your anger and 8:30a | The People person feel welcomed and hurt and the foot of the cross. 10:30a | Janice Jansen † accepted? 12:30p | Graciela Barbara Lazano de Zevallos HOLY GOOD EASTER THURSDAY FRIDAY EASTER VIGIL 8:30 AM Stations: 3 PM 8 PM 10:30 AM 7 PM Service: 7 PM 12:30 PM Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord -2- March 28, 2021 Living & Growing in Faith 3 Spiritual Adoption UPDATE The Beginning of Month 1 GOOD FRIDAY At the moment of my conception, I became a unique human being! Even though I Stations of the Cross am a single cell, I have a DNA On Good Friday we will be of clerical sexual abuse blueprint that will define my praying a new and different and responds to each with eye and hair color, my height Stations of the Cross called profound confessional prayer. as an adult, and my aptitude The Stations of the Cross: in Thought-provoking paintings for such things as math, art Atonement for Abuse and the by author and liturgist Ronald and sports etc. All that is Healing of All. Patrick Raab, CSC, accompany each station. required now is nourishment, This new version invites a safe home in which to live a wounded church to We understand that the and grow, and a loving family. contemplate the passion sensitive nature of the content “Before I formed you in the and death of Jesus through of this version of Stations may womb. I knew you.” the experience of clerical trigger a strong emotional abuse survivors. This one-of- response for some people. PARISHIONER’S PRAYER a-kind resource is written and There is a copy of the booklet FOR THE SPIRITUALLY illustrated by priests to foster we will be using at the Front ADOPTED BABIES: healing amidst the destruction Desk, and you can also find Dear Jesus, through the committed by their brothers. it on Amazon at tinyurl.com/ intercession of Your Mother, Award-winning author and GoodFridayStations. If you Mary, who gave you life acclaimed liturgist Paul Turner have any reservations about with love, and through the pairs each of the fourteen attending, we encourage you intercession of St Joseph, a Scripture-based stations with to please review the booklet man of faith, who took care powerful quotes from survivors beforehand. of you after you were born - I beg You to spare the lives Goal: of the unborn babies whom $110,000 $, RETURNING GOD’S GIFTS people have adopted who are $100,000 in danger of abortion. I also $90,000 CURRENT PROGRESS pray for their parents. Give $80,000 We’re almost to the half-way point of reaching ...continued on page 4 $70,000 our goal at 42.61% pledged. There’s still time $60,000 to make your pledge if you haven’t yet! That the Spirit of Truth may $50,000 Don’t forget that your generosity helps fund Pledged: $50,635.16 enable all people to see that $40,000 diocesan ministries including Seminarian and human life at every stage must $30,000 Clergy formation; Campus, Youth and Young be respected and protected, and Paid: $31,560.65 $20,000 Adult ministries; grants to fortify that no person has the right to choose to kill another, $10,000 our parishes and schools; service diocs.org/GIVE-NOW/Returning-Gods-Gifts/ For the glory of God. programs; education; and a lot more! Corinthians : we pray to the Lord. Pax Christi Catholic Church -3- Littleton, CO 4 Community News THIS WEEK @ PAX: Holy Week In Loving MONDAY, MARCH 29 Memory 7:30p | Choir Rehearsal, Church TUESDAY, MARCH 30 9:45a | Jesus Study, Gt Hall Long-time parishioner Dee Chambers passed away on March 17. 1:00p | Prayer Shawl, Gt Hall Services will take place on Friday, April 16 here at Pax Christi. THURSDAY, APRIL 1 Holy Thursday Rosary at 10:15 a.m. | Memorial Mass at 11:00 a.m. 5:30p | The Search, Gt Hall Please keep Dee and her family inPROJECTS your prayers. YOUR LENTEN CUP CONTRIBUTIONS COULD COMPLETE 6:45p | HS Youth Group, Yth Room 7:00p | Holy Thursday Service, Church FRIDAY, APRIL 2 St. Elisabeth in Borga was badly damaged by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and since then the faithful has been unable to Good Friday Last week 9:30a | First Friday Adoration, Church FOR HAITI LENTEN CUP CONTRIBUTIONS! reconstruct their chapel. The roof and one of the walls came 10:00a | St. Elizabeth’s Pantry, Gt Hall off and for the past 4 years, the faithful gather each Sunday to 3:00p | Stations of the Cross Fill your Haiti Pax Christi Lenten Cups to the brim celebrate mass under a roof made of rudimentary posts and 7:00p | Passion Service & Veneration, Church (or write a check to Pax Christi with Haiti Lent in memo) and plastic sheets and a makeshift wall of roofing sheets. The pro- return to the parish officeon or before Holy Thursday, April 1st. ject includes installing a new roof; reconstructing the fallen SATURDAY, APRIL 3 PROJECTS YOUR LENTEN CUP CONTRIBUTIONS COULD COMPLETEwall; finish (plaster and skim) the walls; paint inside and out; Holy Saturday obtain, install, and paint new doors. 8:00p | Easter Vigil, Church PROJECTS YOUR HAITI LENTEN CUP SUNDAY, APRIL 4 CONTRIBUTIONS COULD St. Elisabeth COMPLETE in Borga was badly damaged by Hurricane Easter Sunday Matthew in 2016 and since then the faithfulThe has village been ofunable Duverger to has grown and the number of faithful has in- 8:30a | Easter Mass, Church reconstruct their chapel. The roof and one creasedof the walls past came the size of the small chapel. The community is very proac- 10:30a | Easter Mass, Church off and for the past 4 years, the faithful gathertive eachand tookSunday it uponto themselves to rebuild the church. What was a 12:30p | Easter Mass, Church celebrate mass under a roof made of rudimentarysmall chapel posts hasand now is become an important church that can accom- plastic sheets and a makeshift wall of roofingmodate sheets. all The its growing pro- faithful and that once finished, because of the ject includes installing a new roof; reconstructingsize of itsthe congregation, fallen will be consecrated as a parish. Now they set wall; finish (plaster and skim) the walls; paintrudimentary inside and posts out; and tarps as a roof in order to celebrate mass. They obtain, install, and paint new doors. are seeking our help to finish the project which will include installing the new roof; finishing (plaster and skim) the walls; paint inside and out; St. Elisabeth in Borga was The village of Duverger has obtain, install and paint windows and doors. June 14-18, 2021 badly damaged by Hurricane grown and their chapel has Matthew in 2016 and since beenThe village rebuilt of Duverger into a haschurch grown thatand the number of faithful has in- 8:30am-12:00pm creased past the size of the small chapel.