Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God. Psalm 51
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e Monday 8 a.m. Weekend Liturgies Confessions l u Tuesday 8 a.m. d Saturday Monday—Saturday e Tuesday 6 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 7:15—7:50 a.m. h c Tuesday S Wednesday 8 a.m. Sunday s Thursday 8 a.m. 5:30-5:50 p.m. s 9 a.m. & 11 a.m. a Friday 8 a.m. M Saturday 3–4:15 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m. Father Thomas Dufner, Pastor Father Paul Baker, Parochial Vicar March 21, 2021•Volume 59• Issue N o. 17• Fifth Sunday of Lent• Year B CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD. PSALM 51 Protocol for Masses on Saturday 4:30 p.m. & Sunday 9 & 11 a.m. We are seating up to 50% in church. have some available if you need one. Sunday Collection: Between the cafeteria and gym, we will Seating in the cafeteria, gym with chairs Ushers will collect the normal way in the seat another 250 people. If you are spaced or the parking lot, in your car. church, cafeteria and gym. For the running late and all those areas are full, If you sit in the gym/cafeteria and are parking lot attendees, please drop your tune into Mass from our parking lot on FM using a single chair, arrange it so other contribution envelope and second 100.7 or 106.5. All of our Masses are live collection in the designated baskets streamed. parishioners can use the remaining chairs. near the EM, when you receive If you are attending Mass: communion. Hand sanitizer will be available as you Communion: EMS CHECK THE CROSS enter the foyer and the main church. BOARD OR SACRISTAN! NEW: Parishioners will come forward to Please pick up a bulletin as your receive Holy Communion during the worship aid. We will NOT be using proper time during Mass. Leave your pew, hymnals. Parking lot attendees, pick up and approach the priest or EM while your bulletin under the canopy before leaving space between families. This you park your car. includes the cafeteria and the gym. An EM Face masks worn per Governor Walz will stand where you need to approach in (unless medical conditions, etc.). We each location. 1900 – 111 Avenue NW • Coon Rapids, MN 55433-4298 • www.Epiphanymn.org • 763.755.1020 FinancialFocus—2020-2021 Fiscal Year Collections: This Year This Year Variance from Last Year Variance from Actual Budget Budget Actual Last Year Week #36 72,067 46,793 25,274 51,104 20,963 YTD through Week #36 1,994,643 1,790,959 203,684 1,838,317 156,326 Week #36 Second Collection for Debt Reduction: $1,255 (included above) Dear Epiphany Parishioners, Last week, I wrote about our 4th grade teacher, Mr. Shore, who is biking 500 miles to spread the pro-life message during Spring Break; our students are joining forces with him by raising funds and doing works of mercy for Robbinsdale Women’s Center. To further complement our school’s pursuit of forming a pro-life culture, Father Dufner challenged our middle school students to enter the National Right to Life Writing Contest. Some of our students took him up on it, put their thoughts on paper, and submitted their work. One of our 8th graders, Maggie C, won third place in the COUNTRY for her exceptional work! Maggie’s essay, “Why am I Pro-Life?” was judged by a national committee who sent the good news to Maggie along with a letter that said, “We received double the number of entries from past years, and many showed exceptional writing skills. Your essay was wonderful and came in third place for the entire country!” Congratulations Maggie! We are so proud of Maggie, and all Grand Prize: Winner: of our students, for their commitment to life and defense of the unborn. 2021 Ford EcoSport Joleen Olson of SUV or $20,000 cash Buffalo, MN Ite ad Joseph! All winners can be found at In Christ, https://www.catholicunitedfinancial.org/raffle/raffle-prizes/ Ann Coone, Principal Pastor’sPage “Your son will live” Dear Mama: Well, the end is approaching, and what you have blindly refused to admit will soon be upon me. Five more days to live, perhaps ten at the most . I hope that my recent letters have helped you a bit to see things from a different point of view than the strictly human one. Above all I have wanted to make you understand the cross. Crucified love! Was there ever a greater crime? It is this sacrifice which saves us, and it is through it that Jesus continues to live here below. Understand then, that my death is but a poor enough repetition of Calvary . I accept it as such and offer it for those whom the Lord wants to save. It is a great sacrifice, and the blood which will flow, seemingly in vain, will in fact be regenerative. You must keep your promise to me to accept this death, otherwise I will not go in peace. You must prepare yourself by prayer for all that will happen, and offer everything to God instead of making your grief the center of the world . Until tomorrow, Mama dear, and do not worry too much about me. Since this morning, I have mounted to heaven, and will “In five hours I will see Jesus.” again be living in Paradise. I embrace you with all my heart (with -last journal entry painful arms.) Thank you for the little doves and the photo, and extra big kisses from your tall son, Jacques. Born April 6, 1930 Arrested for murder February 25, 1954 Servant of God Jacques Fesch Executed October 1, 1957 Cause for beatification opened 1993 Jacques Fesch (+1957) was a murderer who experienced a profound conversion before his execution in a French prison. / Oh God, From Light over the Scaffold, Prison Letters of Jacques Fesch, Whose mercy is boundless and whose and Cell 18, Unedited Letters of Jacques Fesch, Mother Mary justice accounts for human frailty, pour Thomas Noble, o.p., Tr. @1996, The Society of St. Paul, ST out on us, we pray, that same spirit of PAULS/Alba House, Staten Island, NY. www.stpauls.us. conversion with which you graced your servant Jacques Fesch, so that by his prayers and example he may teach transgressors your ways and sinners may return to you. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Light over the Scaffold and Cell 18: The Prison Letters of Jacques Fesch A rare insight into the spiritual journey of a young man CemeteryInformation condemned and executed in France in 1957. Granite Flat Markers are used in the Epiphany Cemetery and can be ordered from Epiphany. There are various designs and colors that can be ordered. You can have a favorite image or even your loved ones photo placed on the marker. For more information contact Bob Mathewson, Epiphany Cemetery Operations [email protected] or 763.862.4308 In the 18th and 19th centuries, the anxiety of being buried alive was NO MASS elevated to new heights. With cholera and yellow fever epidemics and less than ideal medical care, people feared premature burial. To 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 23 because of combat this, safety coffins were invented. These coffins came Parish Reconciliation from 6:30—8:30 p.m. equipped with a bell that one could ring if they found themselves in Many Priests Available. this most unpleasant situation. Often fresh air came in through a hatch as well. There are no documented cases that anyone ever needed the bell. Taken from Smithsonian Magazine Gathering Hymn Father We Thank Thee Second Reading Heb 5:7-9 Greeting In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears Celebrant: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of to the one who was able to save him from death, the Holy Spirit. and he was heard because of his reverence. R: Amen. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, Celebrant: The Lord be with you. he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him. R: And with your spirit. Lector: The Word of the Lord Penitential Rite R: Thanks Be To God Celebrant: Brethren, let us acknowledge our sins, and so Gospel Acclamation prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ King of endless glory! mysteries. R: I confess to almighty God and to you, my Gospel Jn 12:20-33 brothers an sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have Celebrant: The Lord be with you. done and in what I have failed to do, R: And with your spirit. Celebrant: A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. And, striking their breast, they say: through my fault, through my fault, through my R: Glory to you, O Lord. most grievous fault; Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast Then they continue: came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and Philip went and told Andrew; sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Celebrant: May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.