MAY 17, 2020

Dear Friends in Christ, How have you been using this time of the Stay at Home order? While all of us just want things to get back to normal, this can be a time for us to use wisely or we can use it poorly. Probably for most of us, it has been a little bit of both. No doubt there has been some stress, maybe some anxiety and some challenges

Archdiocese of Galveston — Hou- to our coping well with things. Maybe the first few weeks, we were able to be attentive to things but as time passes, it may be getting more difficult. That is certainly understandable. I would like to encourage 625 Nottingham Oaks Trail Houston, TX 77079 and invite all of us to recommit ourselves to using this time wisely. In particular, I would like to

Tel.: 281-497-1500 recommend that we take some time every day and devote it to prayer, study and reflection. Now I can Fax: 281-584-2024 hear the chorus, “Get Real! How is that going to happen with working at home, trying to keep the kids www.stjohnvianney.org doing their school work, trying to keep up with everything in the house, trying to deal with everyone stuck

______at home and worried about if I am going to get laid off? Etc.” Yes, this is a crazy time and yes, some of the PARISH CLERGY main ways that we normally are by coming together with others in the community and turning to God

Rev. R. Troy Gately at Mass and that is precisely what we have not been able to do since March! Still, let’s try to take a little Pastor time for prayer, study and reflection.

Rev. Richard Since we are not yet able to gather for Sunday Mass, I would like to recommend that you make an Hinkley opportunity for yourself and look at the Mass. Under normal circumstances we should attend Mass every Parochial Vicar Sunday and Holy Day. Obviously, this is a unique situation that we find ourselves in, so even though we

Rev. Charles J. Talar can’t gather for Mass, let’s still take advantage of the beauty and power of the prayers of the Mass. Have In Residence you ever read through the prayers of the Mass? If so, great. If not, that’s ok. But maybe now is a time for

Deacons all of us to read and read again and then reflect and ponder on what we probably take for granted. Read Fred Kossegi the prayers that we pray together (The Confiteor, Kyrie, Gloria, Creed, Offertory exchange, Preface Dale Steffes Dialogue, Sanctus, Our Father and Agnus Dei). Take some time with each of them. Read for Greg Stokes understanding. Re-read them and slowly reflect upon the deeper spiritual meaning and then pray them by Al Vacek yourself. Take them one at a time, perhaps one a day. For the Gloria and Creed, we may wish to break Jeff Willard them up into sections. After looking at the parts we pray together, pick up your missal or your device and ______look at the prayers that the priest prays during the Mass on our behalf, most especially the Eucharist PASTORAL STAFF Prayer. In the there are ten Eucharistic Prayers (four main ones, two for Reconciliation and four for Various Needs and Occasions). Priests are free to pray whichever prayer they choose. I normally Adult Formation st Yvonne Gill reserve the 1 Eucharist Prayer (Roman Canon) for major holy days, while I know Fr. Richard likes to pray it more often. During Advent and Lent, I like to pray the prayers of Reconciliation and during the Easter and Music Ministry Christmas seasons, I will pray the prayers for Various Needs and Occasions. The structure to these prayers Michael Madrid are all the same although they do have different words and phrasings. In Reconciliation Prayer I, which I Pastoral Care and normally use during Lent, I love the richness and beauty that we pray “Indeed, though we were once lost Spiritual Life and could not approach you, you loved us with the greatest love; for your Son, who alone is just, handed Jeff Willard himself over to death and did not disdain to be nailed for our sake to the wood of the cross. But before his

Parish Life/ arms were outstretched between heaven and earth…” What a picture of the eternity, humility and Activity Center magnificence of on the cross and at the altar! What a true picture of our condition and the Father’s Richard Fairly mercy! In Eucharistic Prayer II, which is the shortest of the prayers, there is the lovely and tender description, “You are indeed Holy, O Lord, and the font of all holiness. Make holy therefore these gifts, we Social Service pray by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall…” Now of course, this is moment (the Ministries Deborah Alvarenga Epiclesis) where the priest and the people pray for the coming down of the on the gifts of bread and wine that they may become the Body and Blood of Christ. In a real sense too, we are praying for Youth Formation ourselves, that the Holy Spirit may descend upon all of us gathered at the altar and the whole church and Carolina Sayago that we might become more fully the Body and Blood of Christ. Imagine how the Holy Spirit covers us and Business Office the gifts of bread and wine in holiness and grace as a fresh morning dew gently and delicately covers the C.J. Pete Prados blades of grass, the petals of flowers and the leaves of trees. Elsewhere in the same prayer, during the ______Memento, we pray, “Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the St. John Paul II resurrection and all who have died in your mercy: welcome them into the light of your face”. What a Catholic School beautiful description of love and of heaven. Imagine what the splendor of being in the presence of God 1400 Parkway Plaza Dr. must be like, that God’s beauty is magnificent that our entire being is overwhelmed by the radiance of His Houston, TX 77077 pure love. That’s heaven! 281.496.1500 In Pace Christi, Pre K-8th Grade This can be a gift if we let it. 6th Sunday of Easter

This Sunday’s Reading Mass Intentions MASS SCHEDULE

Reading 1 Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 Rip Cecil E. Gunter rip Saturday Vigil Reading 2 1 Pt 3:15-18 Rip George Massey 5:30 p.m. GOSPEL JN 14:15-21 Rip Delfina Barrera SI Joan Sobosinski Sunday Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, Rip Enny Guadalupe Fernandez Carroz RIP Bill McCurdyrip 11:00 a.m., and he will give you another Advocate to be with you 12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. RIP George Humphries always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot Spanish: 2:00 p.m., accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you SI Carolina "Carrie" Hernandez 7:00 p.m. know him, because he remains with you, and will be in SI Diego Fernandez Carroz Rip Catherine Urban Weekdays you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In Monday - Friday a little while the world will no longer see me, but you SI Eduardo Rodriguez Rip Julia Anne O'Keefe 9:00 a.m. will see me, because I live and you will live. On that Tuesday & Thursday Rip Alcira Fernandez Carroz day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are 7:00 p.m. Rip Michael and Alice Krainz in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments LITURGY OF THE HOURS Rip Bill McCurdy and observes them is the one who loves me. And Monday - Friday whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will SI Joseph Hoang 6:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. love him and reveal myself to him.” SI Eve Bonin Rip Juan Manuel Cervantes NOVENA & Rip John Bianchi ROSARY And the Two Shall Become One Rip Pablo Roman y Martimiana Sanchez Our Lady of Let us Rejoice and Pray for these Rip Ernesto Zuniga Perpetual Help soon-to-be married couples: Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. SI S. Bolton Mallory Dungen and Michael Cook Novena of the Mass Readings Sacred Heart 1st Fridays following New Parishioners Monday Acts 16:11-15; Ps 149:1b-2, 9:00 a.m. Mass Welcome to our St. John Vianney Family 3-4, 5-6a and 9b; Jn 15:26—16:4a Divine Mercy Chaplet & Federico Falllick, Luis Ortiz and Carol Cortez, Tuesday Acts 16:22-34; Ps 138:1-2ab, Rosary after 9:00 a.m. Edward and Adrienne White, Joan Drake, 2cde-3, 7c-8; Jn 16:5-11 daily Mass

Julian Ohizu, Jason Cernik, Mark and Dallas Collins, ______Emilio Rodriguez and Laura Rago, Diego Urdaneta Wednesday Acts 17:15, 22—18:1; Ps 148:1-2, CONFESSIONS Hernandez and Clarissa Valero Jimenez, 11-12, 13,14; Jn 16:12-15 Saturday Hernan Bermudez and Aida Del Valle, Thursday Acts 18:1-8; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 10:00 a.m. & 4:00 p.m. ______Renata Costa Zimpeck Mendonca 3cd-4;Jn 16:16-20 BAPTISMS Friday Acts 18:9-18; Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Classes offered Jn 16:20-23 monthly. Saturday Acts 18:23-28; Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10; Please contact the Jn 16:23b-28 Parish Office

Sunday Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9; MARRIAGE Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20 Please contact the sjvhouston Parish Office at least eight months prior to desired More on Evangelus date

Evangelus is a promising new online ANOINTING OF THE church communication tool. We hope SICK/COMMUNION it will keep us all better connected to TO THE SICK AND each other and to the life of the HOMEBOUND parish. Our first step was to load our Please contact the Parish Office parishioner contact list into the ,______

system and begin using it for parish- OFFICE HOURS wide emails. There is still much to Monday – Friday learn and explore like adding ministry 8:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. groups and social media integration. We appreciate everyone's patience as we roll out this new system. MAY 17, 2020

While all public liturgies and parish activities are suspended, the Church and Chapel are open for prayer.

The Adoration Chapel is open 24/7.

Please observe “Social Distancing” but not “Spiritual Distancing.”

Parish Reopening Mass Stewardship

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Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

The RCIA Elect and Candidates who have persevered in their journey toward with the will celebrate the sacraments of Initiation on Saturday, May 30, in the 5:30pm Mass. We give thanks to God for them and their steadfast faithfulness in their response to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and look forward to the day they will join us at the table of the Lord. Remember them in prayer in these final days of preparation and anticipation and also pray for their godparents, sponsors, and RCIA team members, who journey with them. May they become known to us and us, to them!!

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Recommended movie: Paul VI: The Misunderstood He was the Pope who closed the . He led the Catholic Church in the midst of one of its worst crises in history. He steered the course of the Church through the revolution of 1968 that shook the moral basis of a civilization. He was under fire from Lefèbvre fundamentalists, pro-guerrilla Liberation priests, sexual revolution advocates, and a press without scruples. Pope Paul VI was the first Vicar of Christ to visit Africa, America, Oceania, Asia, and the Holy Land. He was the first Pope to speak at the United Nations. He was pious, ecumenical, open to dialogue; a Pope perhaps too modernand prophetic to be understood by the people of his time. This documentary film rediscovers a Pope whose holiness isnow recognized by the Church through his beatification by in October 2014. Feast day: 5/29 MAY 17, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTS ELLING AUTHOR MATTHEW KELLEY Presents AMAZING POSSIBILITIES God Sees Them All. It’s Time You See Them Too! November 18, 2020 7:00 p.m. Saint John Vianney Church

Tickets now on sale Dynamic Catholic.com/Houston Did you know…..traditionally we sing the Marian Queen of Heaven, rejoice. Alleluia. hymn, Regina Caeli, during the Easter season. This Easter For He, whom thou wast worthy to prayer (“Queen of Heaven”) is a tribute to our savior’s bear. Alleluia. resurrection and to our savior’s mother, Mary. Has risen as He said. Alleluia. Pray for us to God. Alleluia. The Regina Caeli is one of four antiphons (short liturgical V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin texts sung or chanted, in a responsorial pattern) dedicated Mary. Alleluia. to Our Lady. It is often sung as a hymn and has had R. Because the Lord is truly risen, numerous musical settings in its original text, Alleluia. including several by Mozart. Let us pray Traditionally, it is prayed standing, often at noon, in place O God, Who by the Resurrection of of another well-known prayer, the Angelus, during the Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, hast been pleased to give joy to Easter Season from Holy Saturday until Pentecost. the whole world, grant, we beseech Thee, that through the Although she is Queen of Heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may is by no means aloof! St. Alphonsus Liguori, in his well- attain the joys of eternal life. Through the same Christ, our known work The Glories of Mary, quotes Blessed Amadeus Lord. Amen. as saying, “our Queen is constantly before the Divine This prayer reminds us at Easter, and throughout the year, of how Majesty, interceding for us with her most powerful much we have to be thankful for, even in the midst of our daily prayers.” trials. When our Lord conquered death by His resurrection he “Let the soul of Mary be in each of us to magnify the Lord, and the spirit opened the gates of Heaven for us to be able to share Eternal Life of Mary be in each of us to rejoice in God!” St. Ambrose with Him, along with his Mother, the saints, and our loved ones! 6th Sunday of Easter Youth formation Digitally Learning Together

Anyone can join! We welcome Virtual Classes current or future Now Available CCE students PK- 1 2 t h g r a d e

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Vacation Bible School New Date:

August 6-9

Camp Kappe Cost: $195

9:30 am-12:30 pm

Week 1: July 27-31 Registration for Teen Acts is now open! We only have 30 slots available, 15 for girls and 15 Week 2: August 3-7 for guys. Priority will be given to registered parishioners. Registration is first come, first served. Registration Open This retreat is open to all rising 9th-12th graders. email Anabel Acosta at email Lee Clark at [email protected] [email protected] for information for information www.stjohnvianney.org/teen-acts

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C. S. LEWIS’SCREWTAPE LETTERS: A WEEKLY GROUP STUDY

NO NEED TO READ AHEA D. JUST JOIN, LISTEN TO THAT WEEK ’ S LETTER, AND DISCUSS. M O N D AY S 7 - 8 : 3 0 P M S T A RTING ZOOM. TO JOIN EMAIL TCOOPER@STJOHN VIANNEY.ORG 6th Sunday of Easter Parish life St. John Vianney Summer Day Camp 2020 Ages 4 - 12 Monday - Friday

June 1 - July 31

Last Chance to Register is this On-line registration for camp Wednesday, For our camp information with fees, the calendar and the link to register online, May 20 visit https://www.stjohnvianney.org/ministries/parish-life/camp-sjv/ To contact the camp office, please email [email protected] MAY 17, 2020

Saint of the Day - May 20

(September 8, 1380 – May 20, 1444) his gifts ultimately caused him Most of the saints suffer great to be sent to preach. He always personal opposition, even traveled on foot, sometimes persecution. Bernardine, by speaking for hours in one place, contrast, seems more like a then doing the same in another Parish Bazaar human dynamo who simply town. Sunday, October 11 11:00 am – 6:00 pm. took on the needs of the world. Especially known for his He was the greatest preacher devotion to the Holy Name of of his time, journeying across Jesus, Bernardine devised a , calming strife-torn cities, symbol—IHS, the first three attacking the paganism he letters of the name of Jesus in Greek—in Gothic letters on a The Seven precepts of the church found rampant, attracting crowds of 30,000, following blazing sun. This was to Saint Francis of Assisi’s displace the superstitious I. To attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of admonition to preach about symbols of the day, as well as Obligation, and resting from servile works. “vice and virtue, punishment the insignia of factions: for

and glory.” example, Guelphs and II. To observe the days of abstinence and fasting. Ghibellines. The devotion

Compared with Saint Paul by spread, and the symbol began III. To confess our sins to a priest, at least once a year. the pope, Bernardine had a to appear in churches, homes IV. To receive Our Lord Jesus Christ in the keen intuition of the needs of and public buildings. Holy Eucharist at least once a year during the time, along with solid Opposition arose from those holiness and boundless energy who thought it a dangerous Easter Season. and joy. He accomplished all innovation. Three attempts V. To contribute to the support of the Church. this despite having a very weak were made to have the pope and hoarse voice, miraculously take action against him, but VI. To obey the laws of the Church concerning improved later because of his Bernardine’s holiness, Matrimony. devotion to Mary. orthodoxy, and intelligence

VII. To participate in the Church's mission of When he was 20, the plague were evidence of his faithfulness. Evangelization of Souls. (Missionary Spirit of was at its height in his hometown of Siena. Sometimes the Church) General of the Friars of the as many as 20 people died in Strict Observance, a branch of one day at the hospital. the Franciscan Order, The ten commandments Bernardine offered to run the Bernardine strongly hospital and, with the help of emphasized scholarship and I. I the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other other young men, nursed further study of theology and patients there for four months. gods before me. canon law. When he started He escaped the plague, but was there were 300 friars in the II. You shall not take the name of the Lord so exhausted that a fever community; when he died God in vain confined him for several there were 4,000. He returned months. He spent another year to preaching the last two years III. Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day caring for a beloved aunt of his life, dying while traveling. IV. Honor your father and your mother whose parents had died when he was a child, and at V. You shall not kill her death began to fast and pray to know God’s VI. You shall not commit adultery will for him. VII. You shall not steal At 22, he entered the VIII. You shall not bear false witness Franciscan Order and was ordained two years IX. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife later. For almost a dozen years he lived in Saint Bernardine of Siena X. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods solitude and prayer, but 6th Sunday of Easter Social service ministry HELP US HELP THOSE IN NEED! SJV is inviting everyone in the community to bring a bagged or boxed donation of non-perishable food to our Drive-by Food Drive benefiting Catholic Charities’ Guadalupe Center and Magnificat House. Just drive up to one of the 6 drop-off stations on the main parking lot and our volunteers will pick up the items from your trunk. Some of their most-needed items include: non-refrigerated shelf-stable milk, canned meats, fruit juices that don’t need refrigeration, dry rice and beans, mac ‘n cheese, peanut butter and jelly, cereal, pancake mix, grits, vegetable oil, nuts, salt, pepper, garlic powder, ground coffee, chips and cookies.

To feed the hungry and to give drink to the thirsty are Corporal Works of Mercy

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remains closed until further notice. We are Reach out and call someone! unable to receive As the period of isolation is prolonged for our seniors, we continue our efforts to reach out to them and provide them with support. Many of them live alone and donations throughout could use an occasional friendly phone call from a fellow parishioner. If you are this time. Thank you in interested in helping with our outreach efforts, please email Glorivel at [email protected]. advance for your “Let us stand before the Crucified One, the fullest measure of God's love for us, and before understanding and the God who serves us to the point of giving his life, and let us ask for the grace to live in cooperation. order to serve. May we reach out to those who are suffering and those most in need. May we not be concerned about what we lack, but what good we can do for others." - Pope Francis