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May 10 2020 PHA SE 1 OF RE-O Pastor PENING! SEE PAGE Fr. Mark Heuberger 6 Parochial Vicar Fr. Michal Szyszka Weekend Masses Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:30 am, 11:30 am Daily Masses Mon, Wed, Fri: 11am Tue, Thur, Sat: 8 am Holy Days Holy Day Vigil: 4:30 pm Complete schedules are listed in the bulletin prior to the Holy Day Confessions Saturday: 3:30 —4:20 pm Divine Mercy Chaplet Wednesdays 7pm in the chapel Unless noted in the bulletin Eucharistic Adoration First Friday of the Month 11:30 am— 4pm in the chapel “Do we not have in the Eucharist the living, true and real Jesus present before us?” —St. Teresa of Avila 2 Sunday, May 10, 2020 Fifth Sunday of Easter § Deceased n Living Monday, May 11 Go Deeper Into Today’s Gospel Acts 14:5-18 • Jn 14:21-26 When earthly lives end, especially when the person is younger, we tend to 11am § Modesta Solier focus upon and consider what was lost. We think of lost opportunities — things they won’t be able to see, babies they won’t be able to cradle, and Tuesday, May 12 adventures that now must go undiscovered. Our minds create this chasm Ss. Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs; between earth and heaven that sees the losses of this life as permanent St. Pancras, Martyr Acts 14: 19-28 • Jn 14:27-31a ones, never possible to achieve again. This perception causes many folks to remain stuck in their grief as they ponder all of the missed opportunities 8am § Dominga Ingles and regrets. This is not resurrection thinking. All of the love that we can give and receive, Wednesday, May 13 the joy and elation that can be experienced, the adventures that can be Our Lady of Fatima undertaken, and the possibilities to be discovered are all part of a Acts 15:1-6 • Jn 15:1-8 continuous journey. They are not ends in and of themselves but are all part 11 am § Joe Pedota of the unfolding of a relationship we have with God, who not only makes all of these wonderful things possible now but sustains them and fulfills them Thursday, May 14 into eternity. The perception and experience of loss is really an illusion, St. Matthias, Apostle because in God’s eternal kingdom and in God’s time, nothing is ever lost. Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 • Jn 15:9-17 Even the most intimate and tender of moments we can conceive of sharing 8am n Thanksgiving to Saint with another human being are only part of a journey toward perfect intimate Michael for Favors Received and tender moments to be shared with God in our resurrected life. We become like God and see God as He is in eternity. What greater joy, love, Friday, May 15 and hope can ever be discovered as we walk down our often dimly lit paths St. Isidore in this world. Acts 15:22-31 • Jn 15:12-17 This is an awesome wonder and magnificent news to behold. Call to mind 11 am § Charlotte Hoagland someone you have lost in death. How do you see them now? How do you see yourself in heaven? Remind yourself, again, that God is the Way, the Saturday, May 16 Truth and the Life. Our happiness is not going to be fully realized in this Acts 16:1-10 • Jn 15:18-21 world, and there is nothing we can find here that cannot be found one 8am § Patty Virgilio hundred fold in eternity. It’s all about relationship, and not solely about the relationships we have with each other, ourselves, and the world in which 4:30 pm § Ann Keppler we live. It’s about our relationship with God. If we realize how special that one relationship really is, then there is only one particular of heaven and Sunday, May 17 life eternal that really matters: namely, that we fall into love eternal and Sixth Sunday of Easter discover truth. For when we finally close our eyes in death, then all will be Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 • 1 Pt 3:15-18 well as long as we are with God. There are no losses, only gains. Jn 14:15-21 ©LPI 7:30 am § Teresa Joseph Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 9:30 am n Parishioners of SSP&P Next Sunday’s Readings 1 Peter 3:15-18 § Sixth Sunday of Easter 11:30 am Patty Virgilio John 14:15-21 Sunday, May 10, 2020 Fifth Sunday of Easter 3 PHASE 1 OF RE-OPENING THE CHURCH! See page 6 for details and mandatory protocol. BULLETIN DEADLINE: MASS LIVE STREAMED DAILY! Mondays 11am Church Office 9:00AM — 7 Days a Week 2850 75th Street West Bradenton, FL 34209 www.sspeterandpaul.org (941) 795-1228 Click on the Facebook logo at the top Office Hours (You do not have to have a Facebook account to view the Mass) Mon.-Fri. 8:30am- 4pm Email parishoffice@ THANK YOU sspeterandpaul.org Website for Your Continued Support! www.sspeterandpaul.org Our parish will weather the COVID-19 crisis with faithful support from all. Fax Below we have listed the offerings since our last bulletin report. (941) 794-0127 Offerings can be mailed, dropped off at the office, or completed online in two ways: Use your bank’s online BillPay feature, or use WeShare on our parish website - just click on the Online Giving tab. Faith Formation There is a WeShare phone number at the bottom of the page if assistance is needed. (941) 798-9705 St. Vincent de Paul Society (941) 794-1328 St. Joseph Stewardship of Treasure Catholic School Thank you for your commitment (941) 755-2611 to support your parish! www.sjsfl.org Week of March 23 Week of April 13 SACRAMENTS Offertory $14,729.50 Offertory $18,235.00 BAPTISM Online $1,191 Online $1,632.50 Parent baptism instruction is required; call the office. Week of March 30 Week of April 20 ANOINTING Offertory $11,567.00 Offertory $9,834.50 OF THE SICK Online $2,171 Online $2,655.00 Call office to schedule. Week of April 6 Week of April 27 MARRIAGE Please contact a priest at Offertory $25,256.50 Offertory $14,389.00 least six months prior to Online $3,345.00 Online $1,440.00 wedding date. 4 Sunday, May 10, 2020 Fifth Sunday of Easter Blessed Jerzy Ciesielski Feb. 12, 1929 - Oct. 9, 1970 Knights of Columbus 1st Wednesday/Month is OFFICERS ONLY @ 6pm. 2nd Wednesday/Month is for ALL MEMBERS @ 6:30pm. (in Council Room at MMC) Tex Johnson: (941) 704-2822 Bill Dunn: (941) 840-3653 Grief Support call (941) 795-2540 Marriage Preparation & Marriage Encounter When John Paul II was a local parish priest, he taught and guided a group call (941) 795-1228 of university students in Krakow. One of them was engineering student, Retrouvaille Jerzy Ciesielski. He was born in Krakow in 1929. He was 9 years younger to heal and renew marriages than John Paul II. Jerzy spent much of his university life attending meetings call (239) 395-0810 at the Basilica of St. Florian’s Church with the circle of students that met or (800) 470-2230 regularly with Fr. Karol. Jerzy had been a scout as a youngster and shared Poor Boxes two great passions with Wojtyla: the mountains and canoeing. It was in this are located at each doorway Catholic group that Jerzy met his wife Danuta whom he married in 1957. as you exit the church. All donations benefit our John Paul II was the priest who married them. “Fr. Karol came with us on St. Vincent de Paul Society. trips, to concerts, to the theatre and the cinema”, Mrs. Danuta explained SVDP green donation a while back, recalling the atmosphere of that group. “We talked during ex - envelopes are in the pews and info boxes in vestibule. cursions, around the fire and at organized meetings which took place in our homes.” In one of these discussions, John Paul II said that Jerzy spoke Holy Water about the fact that regular Catholics were also called to become saints. Jerzy To refill your personal holy water bottles, please use the became a professor at the university and he had 3 children with his wife. holy water dispenser and By that time, Fr Karol had become the Archbishop of Krakow. But the small funnel located in the bond between him and the Catholic students remained the same as ever. chapel vestibule on the wall In 1968 Jerzy decided to join a catholic movement called the Focolare. next to the candles. Jerzy was offered the opportunity to teach young engineers for a semester Votive Candles at a university in Africa. He gladly accepted. In fall of that year Jerzy’s family are located in the vestibules went to visit him, and they decided to take a boat ride on the Nile River. of the church and the chapel. The boat capsized and only his wife Danuta and their elder daughter sur - Religious Articles Store vived. Jerzy and his two boys died in 1970, when he was only 39 years open after weekend Masses. old. John Paul II was there at his funeral and expressed the extreme sadness Altar Flowers at the passing of his friend. Jerzy’s beatification process began in 1985 and parishioners Mark & Susan Pope Francis has recognized his heroic virtues in 2014. Clark of Flowers by Edie donate the altar flowers. Excerpted from ConquestYouthMinistry.com Sunday, May 10, 2020 Fifth Sunday of Easter 5 Sometimes we NEED a helping hand.