St. Agnes Catholic Community Many Visions † One People Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) April 28, 2019
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St. Agnes Catholic Community Many Visions † One People Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) April 28, 2019 PARISH OFFICE 3966 Chestnut Ave. Concord, CA 94519 Tel: (925) 689-0838 Fax: (925) 689-7899 Website: www.stagnesparish.net E-Mail: [email protected] Instagram: stagnesparishconcord Twitter: @stagnesparish OFFICE HOURS Monday-Thursday 9:00am - Noon & 1:00pm - 4:30pm STAFF Rev Fr. Johnson Abraham, Pastor (925) 689-0838 [email protected] Marlene McCann, Business Manager [email protected] Deacon Bill Drobick Confirmation/Life Teen Coordinator OUR PARISH MISSION [email protected] To know Christ, and to make Him better known by Deacon Tony Reyes all, teaching and sharing the Faith, providing worship and [email protected] spiritual growth opportunities, and serving those in need. Linda D'Souza Religious Ed / Liturgy Coordinator [email protected] Donna Cassianos Secretary–Religious Education [email protected] MASS SCHEDULE Pete Frevele, Director of Music Ministry [email protected] SUNDAY Donna Roberts, Bulletin Editor 7:00 AM | 9:00 AM | 11:00 AM | 5:00 PM [email protected] Linus Farias, Pastoral Council Chair MONDAY—THURSDAY [email protected] 8:00 AM in Chapel FRIDAY SCHOOL OFFICE 8:15 AM in Church 3886 Chestnut Ave., Concord Tel: (925) 689-3990 Website: www.stagnesconcord.com SATURDAY Office Hours: 7:30-4:00 M-F Daily Mass: 8:00 AM in the Chapel Reconciliation: 3:30 PM Jill Lucia, Principal [email protected] Sunday Vigil Mass: 5:00 PM Ana Kelley, Secretary [email protected] 1 Calendar for the Week Mass Intentions Parish Events and Meetings Saturday, April 27, 2019 Sunday, April 28, 2019 8:00 p.m. For the People of St. Agnes, 1:00 p.m. Video—The Face of Mercy—Church Living and Deceased 2:00 p.m. Hospitality for Divine Mercy—Church Hall 3:00 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration—Church Sunday, April 28, 2019 7:00 a.m. Pacita Gonzaga—Repose Monday, April 29, 2019 9:00 a.m. Rick Frost—Repose 8:00 a.m. Daily Mass—Chapel Marco Michelato—Repose 5:00 p.m. Children’s Faith Formation—Classrooms Erick Kolhmyer—Special Intention 7:00 p.m. EDGE—Cauchi Hall 11:00 a.m. Peggy & Cy Coenen—Repose Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Edgardo del Rosario—Repose 8:00 a.m. Daily Mass—Chapel Irene Drobick—Repose 6:00 p.m. First Communion Practice—Church 5:00 p.m. Delia D’Souza—Repose Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Monday, April 29, 2019 8:00 a.m. Communion Service—Chapel 8:00 a.m. LoRaine Gray—Repose 10:00 a.m. Rosary Makers—G.P. 7:30 p.m. Youth Band Practice—Church Tuesday, April 30, 2019 8:00 a.m. Hal Baltazor—Repose Thursday, May 2, 2019 Wednesday, May 1, 2019 8:00 a.m. Daily Mass—Chapel 8:00 a.m. Communion Service Only 6:00 p.m. School Board Mtg—8th Grade Classroom 6:30 p.m. Just Faith—A.R. Thursday, May 2, 2019 7:00 p.m. Stewardship Meeting—G.P. 8:00 a.m. Nick Tudor—Repose Friday, May 3, 2019 Friday, May 3, 2019 8:00 a.m. Mary Chatterton—Repose 8:00 a.m. Mom’s Prayer Group—A.R. Ramon Santos—Repose 8:15 a.m. First Friday Mass—Church 1:00 p.m. School Mass—Church Saturday, May 4, 2019 5:30 p.m. First Friday Dinner—Church Hall 8:00 a.m. Ramil Antonio Legaspi—Repose Brad Van Scyoc—Special Intention Saturday, May 4, 2019 5:00 p.m. Marco Michelato—Repose 8:00 a.m. Daily Mass—Church Nick & Mary Tudor—Repose 8:30 a.m. Lector Practice—Church Delores Tuns—Repose 10:00 a.m. First Holy Communion—Church Sunday, May 5, 2019 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES 7:00 a.m. For the People of St. Agnes, Sunday: Second Sunday of Easter Living and Deceased (or Sunday of Divine Mercy); 9:00 a.m. Carolyn Thompson—Special Intention Monday: St. Catherine of Siena Tuesday: St. Pius V 11:00 a.m. Roland Galvan—Repose Wednesday: St. Joseph the Worker 5:00 p.m. Delia D’Souza—Repose Thursday: St. Athanasius; Naonal Day of Prayer; Yom Ha‐Shoa (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Friday: Ss. Philip and James; First Friday Saturday: First Saturday 2 Faith and Spirituality Pastor’s Reflection FOR SPIRITUALITY: Divine Mercy Sunday DAILY MASS IN THE CHAPEL—Monday ‐ Saturday at 8:00 Today is Divine Mercy Sunday! And what’s so special AM. (Communion Service on Wednesday.) about this parcular Sunday, you ask? Jesus himself Friday morning at 8:15 AM in the Church. asked to celebrate this day because he wanted to EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ‐ Chapel daily from 6 am—9 pm. shower us with abundant graces! St. Fausna, a Contact Sumner or Veronica Peery at 827‐0916 for scheduling. humble nun who lived in Poland, received many FOR ADULT LEARNING: private messages from Jesus. In 1936, Jesus said to SCRIPTURE SHARING: Thursdays from 9:30‐11:00 a.m. in her, “Tell the whole world about My inconceivable the Assembly Room. mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge FOR MINISTRY: and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor PRAYER TREE: A ministry of people who pray specifically sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender for those who are ill. Please nofy the parish office if you mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces or a member of your family are in, or going into, the upon those souls who approach the Fount of My hospital. mercy. The souls that will go to Confession and HELPING HANDS: Call Gloria Schafer: 685‐7786. receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete Helping Hands provides meals in me of need, such as forgiveness of sins. On that day all the divine funeral recepons, illness or births. floodgates through which graces flow are opened….. MARTINEZ SHELTER MEALS: Plan a meal for 35 residents. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the Purchase & prepare food; serve dinner at the shelter. first Sunday aer Easter. Mankind will not have Please contact to volunteer: Anne Kurylo, 925‐876‐7510 or [email protected]. peace unl it turns to the Fount of My Mercy.” (Diary 699). ST. VINCENT DE PAUL MINISTRY: Please contact the St. Vincent de Paul Hotline at In 2002, Pope St John Paul II added a plenary (925) 689‐0838, Ext. 250. indulgence to this promise! To prepare to receive CARING HANDS‐JOHN MUIR HEALTH: these graces, our Divine Mercy Ministry Members Contact Stacy Appel by e‐mail at and friends have prayed the Novena, went to [email protected]. Confession, and aended Saturday Vigil Mass. Today, on Divine Mercy Sunday, we will be hosng a Video on “The Face of Mercy“ @1pm followed by Please remember the 2019 Bishop’s Appeal. Hospitality and culminang with Adoraon and “Rebuild My Church” was the message Our Lord recitaon of the Chaplet @ 3pm. Everyone is invited spoke to St. Francis. Your donaon will help to and encouraged to join in this celebraon! rebuilt our Church by supporng youth programs, faith formaon and evangelizaon, clergy formaon I’ve personally enjoyed parcipang in the Cenacle as and support, as well as priest rerement and care. it gives me an extra guide to my faith. In addion to Let us all come together to Rebuild Christ’s Church. our regular study, we have also completed a retreat on “33 Days to His Merciful Love” and will consecrate ourselves together with Fr. Chris Alar on EWTN Second Sunday of Easter today. (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) If this interests you, our group is always open to April 28, 2019 anyone who would like to make this journey with us! Once I was dead, You may reach me at: [email protected]. but now I am alive forever and ever. — Revelaon 1:18a Pat Jung 3 Parish News and Activities SEEING IS BELIEVING TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Seeing is believing! Since cellphone screens An ancient tle for this Sunday is Dominica in connect us instantly to social media, live TV, and Albis, or “Sunday in White.” During the Easter Vigil, loved ones’ faces near and , “Doubng Thomas” the newly bapzed are invested with a white could be our patron saint: “Unless I see, I will not garment, a sign that they have put on Christ. At one believe!” But how comforng for any of us who me, the garments were worn for a full week of share Thomas’s doubt, or love “doubters” who do, celebraon and reflecon, and on this Sunday the to see how kindly Jesus responds. By offering the newly bapzed would appear in their robes again in very evidence that Thomas demanded, Jesus doesn’t their new place among the faithful for Eucharist. scold Thomas, but seems to understand such In later centuries, the energy of new life at skepcism. Could Jesus have been thinking of us, Easter was largely forgoen, and this Sunday was who long to believe that “Jesus is risen!” but see so renamed “Quasimodo Sunday,” or “Low Sunday.” In much suffering, and perhaps even cause some, that recent years, with the recovery of the insight that we wonder, how could something so wonderful be Easter is the privileged me for celebrang and true? In today’s reading from the Acts of the renewing bapsm, there is nothing “Low” about this Apostles, the risen Jesus’ healing love comforts Sunday. At a week’s distance, the beauty and grace through disciples who love others. In Revelaon, of our Easter celebraon is sustained by joyful “our brother John” doesn’t just claim he saw Jesus alleluias, the blessing and sprinkling of holy water, alive, but passes on Jesus’ life‐giving words, “Do not and the comfort of the Lord’s presence to us.