Dear Friends in the Risen Lord, the Church Knows How to Celebrate
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Dear friends in the Risen Lord, The Church knows how to celebrate, and in normal times we pull out all the stops in the liturgies of the Sacred Triduum and Easter. But these are not normal times. I’m very proud of our team who very quickly arranged for the livestreaming of those liturgies and brought them to life with such stark beauty, but obviously something was missing: YOU! Daily Mass at IHM is live- streamed Monday-Friday I so missed the opportunity to wash your feet and see you wash one another’s; I missed at 8:30 a.m. praying for you as you came forward to venerate the Cross; I missed celebrating Baptism, Sunday Mass is live- Confirmation and Eucharist with our parish’s Elect and Candidates. I’m consoled to learn that many hundreds of households are participating in our livestreamed liturgies or viewing them streamed on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. (English) later in the archive. But please know that I very much miss being with you in person. and 6:00 p.m. (Spanish) Last Sunday we began a 50-day celebration of the Lord’s victory over sin and death. But Masses remain on our how are we to keep our “Easter duty” in a year like this one, when there’s nowhere to go to website for a week for those feel like we’ve done something? It will have to be this: to look around and remember where who would like to view the signs of Easter’s victory are. Who are the people who show us what risen life will be like? them later. Where have we seen a vision of this world the way it needs to be? That shouldn’t be hard; heroes are not difficult to find: doctors and nurses, healthcare workers and first responders, Go to public health professionals and medical researchers—and all who lovingly accept the present www.ihmatlanta.org/ deprivations in order to save lives. We hold them in front of us, and ask God for the grace to livestream live as if we were already citizens of the new place that one day will be ours. It’s well for us to remember that those who first heard the Easter proclamation were in exactly the same position relative to the risen Christ as we are. Their faith was based on the During the present apostolic witnesses, who experienced Jesus as alive, and believed in him as Lord and Messi- public health crisis, ah. Even in this public health crisis, it is no more difficult for us to make this the center of our your parish support is lives than it was for those who first believed. needed more than ever! Whether the proclamation “Christ is risen!” is spoken in amazement in Aramaic or written If you have not already done with quills on vellum in Latin, or tapped out on a computer or in a tweet, the reality remains so, please consider one of precisely the same: Our lives as baptized people must validate this proclamation. The life of the electronic giving options on page 3 of this bulletin. Christ who is risen has been given to us. We must receive it wholly and live it daily. Wherev- er we find ourselves, there we are. And there is where salvation is possible. This was true yesterday; it is true today; and it will be true always. We have 50 days to celebrate all of this. We have a lifetime to ponder it. Easter peace! 2855 Briarcliff Road NE Through worship, education, and phone: 404-636-1418 Atlanta, Georgia 30329 service, we continue the work of Jesus. fax: 404-636-4394 Mass Monday–Friday: 8:30 a.m. Sunday, April 19 Saturdays: 4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER Misas en Español Acts 2:42-47; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 Sabados a las 6:00 p.m. Saturday, April 18 Vigil Masses 4:00 p.m. Doris Valentino † Reconciliation Mary Mullally † Saturdays: 9:00 a.m. (except Holy Saturday) 6:00 p.m. Manuel Zaa † Anytime by appointment Confesiones Monday, April 20 8:30 a.m. Walter & Mary Alice Foster † Jueves: 6:00 p.m. en español Easter Weekday Cualquier día por cita Acts 4:23-31; John 3:1-8 Eucharistic Adoration Tuesday, April 21 8:30 a.m. William Michael Galardi † Cancelled until further notice Easter Weekday Adoración al Santísimo Acts 4:32-37; John 3:7b-1 Cancelado Wednesday, April 22 8:30 a.m. For the faithful departed † The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is Easter Weekday offered monthly following the Saturday Acts 5:17-26; John 3:16-21 4:00 Mass and the Sunday 1:30 Spanish Mass, and is available at other times by Thursday, April 23 8:30 p.m. Carol Cole † appointment with a priest. Easter Weekday Acts 5:27-33; John 3:31-36 Catholic patients in metro area hospitals receive the sacraments from the neighbor- Friday, April 24 8:30 p.m. Communion Service ing Catholic parish; priests, deacons and Easter Weekday Eucharistic ministers from IHM will visit Acts 5:34-42; John 6:1-15 whenever possible. Please call the parish office if you or a family member will be Saturday, April 25 hospitalized or homebound. Saint Mark, Evangelist 1 Peter 5:5b-14; Mark 16:15-20 Sunday, April 26 THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 2:14, 22-33; 1 Peter 1:17-21; Luke 24:13-35 Saturday, April 25 Vigil Masses 4:00 p.m. Desmond Merrill www.facebook.com/IHMAtlanta Carlene Bollinger † @IHMatl Mike Horwitz † Virginia Seery † @ihmatlanta Brenda Uhler † Office Hours /Horas de Oficina 6:00 p.m. Oscar Ayala Lopez † Closed until further notice Fax Number/No. de Fax 404-636-4394 Please pray for our loved ones who have died, especially: Ernest Conzelmann, IHM School/Escuela de IHM Phyllis Gareis, Irene Bratschitsch, Ursula Bratschitsch, Irma Cordiviola, Helen 404-636-4488 Nawrocki, Crisanto Cruz Perez, Violeta Cardona, Dr. Forest Jones, Lan Mahon, Website/Sitio Web Amalia Molar Reyes, Jane Bourbeau, Doris Fanoe, Jean Cartier, Teresa Espino, http://www.ihmatlanta.org Porfirio Matias Jarquin, Geoff Abraham, Beatriz Guadalupe Flores Aguilar, Flabia Arguello, Euclides Peralta, Denise Wilson, Billie Jo Miller, Sylvia Quant, Bulletin Notices: Please submit your Kathleen Zolkowski, William Hogan, Virginia Seery, Ruben Diaz and Wilma request by email 10 days in advance. Envíe Maroney. su anuncio por correo electrónico 10 días And please pray for all the sick, especially: Joan Eads, Suzanne Anthony, antes: [email protected]. Leonie Lacroix, Brenda Markham, Doris Gavin, Betsy Gavin, Lisa Gibson, Millie Elliot, Marie Brown, Matt Drake, John Murrin, Will Broxterman, Kohlton James, Pat Howard, Clementina Cervantes, Sarah Gillespie, Ellen McIntosh, Donnie Report abuse of children and vulnerable Maddox, Barbara Patterson, Danny Starrs, Kaleb Leigh, David Caron, Luisa persons : 1-888-437-0764 Blanco, Maria Vargas and Dona Maynard. Pastor THANK YOU to the hundreds of households Monsignor Albert W. Jowdy who have responded with a pledge to the 2020 [email protected] Ext. 235 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. If you have not Parochial Vicar yet had an opportunity to make your pledge, Father Carlos G. Ortega Valera please be generous in your response. For more [email protected] Ext. 228 information, or to donate online, go to In Residence appeal.archatl.com. Father Jean Ikanga, S.V.D. Director of Discipleship Deacon Bob Hauert [email protected] Ext. 251 GIVING OPTIONS Deacon Erik Wilkinson [email protected] Ext. 230 During the present public health crisis, your parish support is needed more than ever! If you have not already done so, please consider: ELECTRONIC GIVING Receptionist/Administrative Assistant Through our electronic giving program, you authorize a specified amount of Gaby Ramirez money to be electronically transferred from your checking, savings or credit [email protected] Ext. 221 card to the parish account. You also specify the frequency of the transfer. Secretary Silvia Maldonado GIVE BY TEXT [email protected] Ext. 240 You can now make a contribution to IHM with a quick text message! Simply send a text to 888-418-5704. In the message just indicate the amount you Communications Coordinator would like to contribute. (Make sure to include the dollar sign before the Marcela Soren [email protected] Ext. 226 amount. Example: $25.) Within a few minutes, you’ll be sent a text with a link to register. Click on the link and enter your cardholder name and credit or Business Manager & Finance Director debit card information. Once your registration is complete, you will receive a Richard Plachta [email protected] Ext. 245 text verification and a receipt via email. For future giving, simply send a text with the amount you wish to give, and it will process automatically! Bookkeeper Allen Butler GIVEPLUS MOBILE [email protected] Ext. 243 Go to the App Store or Google Play and search for “GivePlus” to download Director of Faith Formation the app for free. If you are already giving electronically, use the same log in Drew Denton credentials for this mobile app. [email protected] Ext. 223 PAYPAL Faith Formation Coordinator You can conveniently make one-time offertory gifts scanning Alicia Guerrero [email protected] Ext. 227 this QR Code. This code will take you directly to the IHM PayPal account. Please enter your envelope number in the notes field if Youth Minister you have it available. Michele McPheely [email protected] Ext. 222 THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOOD STEWARDSHIP OF IHM! Faith Formation Administrative Assistant Veronica Thimann [email protected] Ext.