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St. Mary Catholic Church Church Mary Catholic St. THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER APRIL 18, 2021 Dear Friends, We hear again in today’s This is our last week for Faith Formation Sessions. Gospel from John about Jesus We are so grateful to those who helped us with appearing to the Apostles af- our groups this year. Virtual Faith Formation ter His Resurrection, giving started as a challenge, but ended as a marvelous them a greeting of peace, but experience for all of us, and we learned a lot. challenging them because of Vacation Bible School 2021 their reluctance to believe. Registration has begun for both teen helpers and camp- We, too, are given that same challenge: to ers. Check the website as well believe in the power of God in raising Jesus as email and Flocknote for from the dead, and of our own calling to live in registration information. the newness of life which Christ gives to us all. We are planning for the last week of July. At this time we will host ONE session in the morning from May the grace of the Spirit guide us in living out 9:30 to 12:30. The cost will be $75.00 per our Faith, and witnessing our belief that Jesus IS camper with scholarships available. risen, alleluia! If you would like to help, please call Maureen Father Fred Tiffany at 891-8939 or 962-5808. Please leave a message. Peter saw Jesus after the Resurrection. He listened as Jesus told the disciples all that had been written about him in the scriptures, all that he had said and done when he was ministering among them. Peter heard how Jesus had ful- filled all in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms. Jesus, the Messi- ah, had come to be among them to bring them peace, to offer forgiveness of their sins. Peter shared this Good News with the crowds who gathered to hear him tell the sacred story, the story of God’s love, poured out in Jesus the Christ and offered to the whole world. All who hear and believe are offered new life, life in which God’s love is perfected in them. Are you listening? Are you ready to share in this abundant new life? NOT WHAT WAS EXPECTED. Have you ever waited for something for so long you began to think it might never happen? Your graduation day, or the day of your marriage, or the birth of a child, perhaps. The Israelites had waited for centuries for the coming of the Messiah. Yet when Jesus, the long-awaited Anoint- ed One came, many failed to believe in him. He wasn’t what they expected. The Messiah was supposed to be a strong, powerful commander of armies, not humble, compassionate, and suffering. After his resurrec- tion, Jesus appeared to the disciples and explained all that he had said in his time with them, opening their minds to what had been written in the scriptures so that they could accept his suffering and death and re- joice in his resurrection. GOD’S LOVE IN FLESH AND BONE. While the disciples had come to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, his crucifixion and death had left them fearful and confounded. The news of the empty tomb and his ap- pearance to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus added to their confusion. It seems that at first, Jesus’ presence with them did not alleviate their uncertainty. In fact, they were “startled and terrified and thought they were seeing a ghost” (Luke 24:37). Jesus saw that they needed physical proof that it was he who stood among them. They needed to see the nail marks in his hands and feet, to see God’s love in flesh and bone, in one who ate among them. Only when their fear and confusion had been quelled, could they hear the story, the sacred story of how the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead. Only when they were filled with the peace of Christ, would they be ready to witness, to share the sacred story with others. We, too, are invited to hear the sacred story and to perceive God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Staff and Administration MASS INTENTIONS Website: www.stmary-wc.org DATE TIME LOCATION INTENTION Parish Office 891-8900 04/17 4:30 pm Drive-in Joy & Ted Todd (wed. ann.) Fax 934-1358 Fr. Fred Riccio, [email protected] 04/18 9:00 am Drive-in The People of St. Mary Pastor 891-8900 Fr. John Blaker, 891-8900 11:00 am Drive-in Peggy Brunwin In residence 1:00 pm Drive-in Chris Hudson Deacon Paul Turek [email protected] Ana Lau, [email protected] 04/19 12:05 pm In church Ruth Mellinger Office Manager 891-8908 Aileen Baker, [email protected] 04/20 12:05 pm In church Phyllis Ruth Conway Bookkeeper 891-8911 04/21 12:05 pm In church Chris Hudson Faith Formation 04/22 12:05 pm In church Special Intention Maureen Tiffany [email protected] Director of Faith Formation 962-5808 04/23 12:05 pm In church Aurora Jimenez (L) Mary Kerfs, [email protected] 04/24 8:30 am In church Florencio Jimenez Administrative Assistant 891-8939 Austin Pisciotto [email protected] Coordinator K-Grade 6 891-8944 SAINT FIDELIS OF SIGMARINGEN 1577-1622 - Feast Day: April 24 Jethro Castillo [email protected] Youth Minister Grades 7-12 891-8920 Born in Sigmaringen Heather Abraham, [email protected] (Germany), Mark Roy stud- Coordinator Confirmation 891-8934 ied philosophy and law at & Community Service the University of Freiburg in Tim Mannix [email protected] Breisgau. After tutoring RCIA & Liturgy Coordinator 891-8921 young aristocrats and travel- School ing Europe with them, he be- gan practicing law in Alsace, Office 935-5054 where he quickly became [email protected] Website: www.st-mary.net “the poor person’s lawyer.” But, disillusioned over Alumni: [email protected] other lawyers’ behavior, he gave up the law to Garrett Padia, Principal 935-5054 follow a vocation in religious life. As an ordained Capuchin named Fidelis, he was renowned for his holiness, preaching and leadership. He was superi- or at several houses before being invited to east- Allison Flamez Loretta Holmes ern Switzerland to call Protestants back to Catholi- Susana Jaime Nancie Campi cism. This mission, complicated by the politics of the Rosalinda Reyes Betty Baker time and hatred of the Catholic Habsburgs, be- Jeanine Gordon Carol Erikson came increasingly dangerous and led to his murder Jake Johnstone Danyel Sheets by opponents. He was canonized in 1746. Diane Hewson Beth Wainwright Copyright © 2021, USCCB, Washington, DC. All rights reserved. Clarissa Gutierrez Robin Wood Fred & Emilia Sohn Billy Silva Raul Gonzalez Mary Kennedy “What made the holy apostles and martyrs Raquel Zittel Cheryl LaMarre endure fierce agony and bitter torments ex- David Toy Marissa Magno cept faith, and especially, faith in the resur- Ana Lopez Ed Regan rection? What is it that today makes true fol- Dominador Hontucan Annabelle Semira lowers of Christ cast luxuries aside, leave Oralee Floria PRAY FOR Mary Ann McGill pleasures behind and endure difficulties and Mary McLoughlin Maryann Moran THE SICK pain? It is a living faith that expresses itself Angela Crane Bibiana Christman through love. It is this that makes us put aside Beverly Regan Carmen Bardges the goods of the present in the hope of future Josefina Zabat Pat O’Rourke Audry Robinson Marina de Castilla goods. It is because of faith that we exchange the present for the future.” —St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen Confession & First Communion FATIMA/ST. JOSEPH VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Reclaiming the Family through Fathers Question: Do children need to re- Saturday, May 1 6:30 - 10:30 am Pacific Time ceive the Sacrament of Reconcilia- Feast of St. Joseph the Worker and First Saturday tion before their First Communion? Our Lady of Fatima is a beacon of Answer: For centuries the Catholic hope and light for these times, and Church has taught that a person St. Joseph has a prominent role to needs to be in a state of grace play in the ongoing battle for mar- (free from mortal sins) in order to riage and the family. This conference worthily receive the Eucharist. To for men and women presents solutions that end, Catholics should make an to the first steps in rebuilding the do- effort to celebrate the Sacrament mestic church by reclaiming the voca- of Reconciliation any time they recognize the need tion of fathers. for the sacrament (and in keeping with the precept of Three virtual talks: the Church that asks that we celebrate this sacrament • St. Joseph and the Longing for a Father in Culture at least once each year). Today by Fr. David Guffey, CSC, National Direc- In the case of children preparing for their First tor of Family Theater Productions and producer of Communion, the Code of Canon Law is very clear that the movie Pray: The Life of Patrick Peyton. they should also celebrate the Sacrament of Reconcil- • The Seven Principles of St. Joseph’s Spirituality for iation before receiving the Eucharist for the first time: Fathers by Devin Schadt, co-founder of The Fa- “It is the responsibility, in the first place, of parents thers of St. Joseph, author and speaker. and those who take the place of parents as well as of • Consecration to St. Joseph by Fr.