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Second Sunday of Easter, Which Concludes the Octave of Easter PARISH OFFICE Tuesday – Friday: 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM 2525 Alluvial Ave., Suite 271, Clovis, CA 93611 Phone: 559-374-2242 ! Fax: 559-294-5906 PARISH STAFF Rev. Michael Cox, Pastor Rev. Mr. Rolando Nolasco, Deacon Jean Caiazza, Administrative Assistant – [email protected] Zona Roland, Bookkeeper – [email protected] Maricella Gutierrez, Religious Ed. – [email protected] Baptism & Wedding Preparations: Jean Caiazza – [email protected] RCIA: Gary Musso – [email protected] Mission Statement We welcome each person as Christ to a warm and friendly environment, where one can be spiritually nourished and refreshed in Christ, to be sent out to spread this warmth and friendliness to all they meet. Our Mission Churches Community Chapel – 41340 Tollhouse Rd. Shaver Lake, CA Infant Jesus of Prague – 32054 Whispering Springs Rd., Tollhouse, CA 559-841-3875 – Mass: 4:00 PM (Vigil) 559-855-4659 – Mass: 6:00 PM (Vigil) We pray for the repose of the souls of all the faithfully departed. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon 9:30 – Felix Reyes † them. May they rest in peace …….Amen 11:00 – Oscar Villena † Altar Flowers Welcome Our New Parishioner’s If you would like to ! George and Sarah Gonzalez purchase flowers for our Children: Ethan and Claire Sunday Mass, please ! Mark and Sandra Sihota Sanchez call the Parish Office. Flowers will be present on the altar on your Special Day. Flowers are yours to keep after Our second collection the last mass. is for our Building/Maintenance Fund Thank you for your continued generosity! Scripture Readings for the Week Sunday, 4/11 Acts 45:32-35/Ps 118:2-4,13-15,22-24/ 1 Jn 5:1-6/Jn 20:19-31 Monday, 4/12 Acts 4:23-31/Ps 2:1,3-4-7/Jn 3:1-8 Month of March *Needed for the Monthly Plate Collection: $19,586. Tuesday, 4/13 Acts 4:32-37/Ps 93:1,2-5/Jn 3:7-15 Plate Collection 15,166 Wednesday, 4/14 Acts 5:17-26/Ps 34:2-9/Jn 3:16-21 Building & Maintenance 1,347 Thursday, 4/15 Acts 5:27-33/Ps 2,9,17-20/Jn 3:31-36 Capital Campaign 19,100 Friday, 4/16 Acts 5:34-42/Ps 27:1,4,13-14/Jn 6:1-15 Charitable Collection 1,248 Saturday, 4/17 Acts 6:1-7/Ps 33:1-2,4-5,18-19/ *Plate collection supports the daily operations Jn 6:16-21 of the parish. HYMN OF THANKSGIVING TO THE SAVIOR OF ISRAEL – Let the house of Israel say, “His mercy endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His mercy endures forever.” Let those who fear the LORD say, His mercy endures forever.” I was hard pressed and was falling, but the LORD helped me. My strength and my courage is the LORD, and he has been my savior. Psalm 118: 2-4,13-15 Divine Mercy Sunday (also known as the Feast of the Divine Mercy) is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter, which concludes the Octave of Easter. It is originally based on the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy that Faustina Kowalska reported as part of her encounter with Jesus, and is associated with special promises from Jesus and indulgences issued by the Catholic Church. The feast of Divine Mercy, according to the diary of Faustina, receives from Jesus the biggest promises of grace related to the Devotion of Divine Mercy, in particular that a person who goes to sacramental confession (the confession may take place some days before) and receives holy communion on that day, shall obtain the total expiation of all sins and punishment. That means each person would go immediately after death to heaven without suffering in purgatory. On March 23, 1937, Kowalska wrote in her diary (Notebook III, item 1044) that she had a vision that the feast of Divine Mercy would be celebrated in her local chapel, and would be attended by large crowds, and that the same celebration would be held in Rome attended by the pope. She wrote: "The crowd was so enormous that the eye could not take it all in. Everyone was participating in the celebrations.” Divine Mercy Sunday is also the day after the culmination of the novena of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. Saint Faustina wrote Jesus instructed her that the Feast of Mercy (the Sunday after Easter) be preceded by a Divine Mercy Novena which would begin on Good Friday The first Mass during which the Divine Mercy image was displayed was on April 28, 1935 (the Feast of Divine Mercy), the second Sunday of Easter, and was attended by Kowalska. (Diary of St. Faustina, item 420, April 28, 1935 was also the celebration of the end of the Jubilee of the Redemption by Pope Pius XI. Michael Sopocko (Kowalska's confessor) celebrated the Mass that Sunday and obtained permission to place the image within the Gate of Dawn church in Vilnius during the Mass. The devotion was actively promoted by Pope John Paul II. On April 30, 2000, the Canonization of Faustina Kowalska took place and the second Sunday of Easter was officially designated as the Sunday of the Divine Mercy (Dominica II Paschae seu de divina misericordia) in the General Roman Calendar. On April 22, 2001, which was one year after establishing Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope John Paul II re-emphasized its message in the resurrection context of Easter: Jesus said to St. Faustina one day: "Humanity will never find peace until it turns with trust to Divine Mercy". Divine Mercy! This is the Easter gift that the Church receives from the risen Christ and offers to humanity. Saint Faustina Kowalska: Born (Helena Kowalska): August 25, 1905 –Died: October 5, 1938 (age 33) Venerated in Roman Catholic Church – Beatified April 18, 1993, St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II – Canonized April 30, 2000 by Pope John Paul II. Saint Faustina, was a Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic. Her apparitions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of “Secretary of Divine Mercy”. At the age of 20, she joined a convent in Warsaw. She was later transferred to Plock and then to Vilnius, where she met Father Michael Spocko, who was to be her confessor and who supported her devotion to the Divine Mercy. With this priest’s help, Sister Faustina commissioned an artist to paint the first Divine Mercy image, based on her vision of Jesus. Father Spocko celebrated Mass in the presence of this painting on Low Sunday, also known as the Second Sunday of Easter or (as established by Pope John Paul II,), Divine Mercy Sunday. Spread of Devotion – Before her death Saint Faustina predicted that, “there will be a war, a terrible, terrible war” and asked the nus to pray for Poland. In 1939, a year after Kowalska’s death, Romuald Jalbrzykowski noticed that her predictions about the war had taken place and allowed public access to the Divine Mercy image, which resulted in large crowds that led to the spread of the Divine Mercy devotion. The devotion became a source of strength and inspiration for many people in Poland. By 1941, the devotion had reached the United States, and millions of copies of Divine Mercy prayer cards had been printed and distributed worldwide. 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