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MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS Special Observances And Saints: Sunday: Sunday – Resurrection of the Lord, Julian Calendar ; Monday: Monday within the ; Tuesday: Tuesday within the Octave of Easter Wednesday: Wednesday within the Saturday – April 11th – Vigil Live Streaming at 7:00 p.m. Octave of Easter, Income Tax Day; Thursday: Thursday within the Octave of Easter; +J.J. Garcia, Steve Devere Friday: Friday within the Octave of Easter, Julian Calendar ; Saturday: Saturday within the Octave of Easter th Sunday – April 12 – Easter Sunday Live Streaming Mass at 10:00 a.m. Monday – April 12th – No Mass or Communion Service Christ Has Risen: Where is your sting, O death? Where is your victory, o hell? Tuesday – April 13th – No Mass or Communion Service Christ has risen, and you are overthrown. Christ has risen, and the demons have th fallen. Christ has risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ has risen, and life reigns. Wednesday – April 14 – No Mass or Communion Service Christ has risen, and not one dead rests in the grave. For Christ having risen from Thursday – April 15th – No Mass or Communion Service the dead became the first-fruits of them that slept. To him be glory and majesty to Friday – April 16th – No Mass or Communion Service ages of ages. Amen. (Byzantine Pentekostarion) th Saturday – April 17 – No Mass or Communion Service Treasures From Our Tradition: Easter can be as early as the last week of Sunday – April 18th – Live Streaming Mass at 10:00 a.m. March or as late as the last week of April. Why does the date wobble around the calendar so? The way of calculating the date was set by the Emperor The Intentions will be said at the private Masses of the Priests Constantine in 325. The decision ended a very bitter controversy in the church. Some people wanted to synchronize the Pasch with Passover on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Nissan, and their opponents wanted it after the Passover was complete, on the Sunday after the first of springtime. Weekly Collection- Donations mailed in or dropped at the office during the The ecclesiastical rules do not exactly connect with the astronomical rules. The week were $535. Thank you for your continued support. emperor squashed the hopes of the quartodecimans, as the fans of 14 Nissan were called, and chose Sunday. The traditional rule is that Easter is the first Sunday after the first that occurs on or after the vernal Priest’s e-mails: [email protected] [email protected] equinox, the fourteenth day of the , and later than March 21. Thus, Easter wobbles between March 22 and April 25. The actual tables and methods for computing the date are extraordinarily detailed, with subtle variations and mind-bending exceptions and charts with “golden numbers,” “dominical Easter Sunday of the Resurrecton of the Lord letters,” and “epacts” measuring leap years. In 1954 and 1962 the ecclesiastical April 12, 2020 calculations actually overrode the astronomical new moons and bumped Easter When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear back a month! Today, there is a movement in the World Council of Churches with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4) (Protestants and Orthodox) for all Christians to combine their celebrations, based on the star charts for the Jerusalem skies. In principle, the is open to an ecumenical agreement on a fixed date for Easter, but we desire a unanimous decision from the World Council. (J.S. Paluch Co.) Sick and Home Bound: Please keep the following parishioners and the sick of Did You Know…? that this may be the most unusual Easter Sunday that most of our community in your prayers: Terry Allen, Ron Arko, “S.B.”, Lisa us have ever experienced? No public Masses, no Easter dinners or picnics, no Borntrager, Marie Ciochetti, Betty Davis, Russ Escapule, Peggy Fenn, Robert gatherings with friends to celebrate, and, for some, no work to return to tomorrow! Frampton, Sue Furnas, Morry Gilbert, Jeremy Gowen, Bob and Janie Hause, And yet, the Church’s proclamation – and its echo in our hearts – “Christ is risen! Indeed?” – resounds throughout the world! When we were baptized, we were June Hedegaard, Alicia Lewis, John Lewis, Mark Lewis, Betty Lopez, Jimmy immersed into the ‘death and Resurrection’ of the Lord, signed by the Water and Lopez, Alice Martinez, Antonio Martinez, E. Martinez, Tony Martinez, Richard sealed by the Spirit. This ‘dying and rising’ became the pattern of our lives on earth – & Frank Molina, Junior Morales Charlotte Morris, Katie Nixon, Anthony like a sine wave – through our life journey. We ‘die’ and ‘rise’ many, many times; Palma, Rose Parra, Joe Perotti, Robert Plant, Betty Ridge, Lileigh Martinez ‘dying’ the ‘little deaths’ of losses: loss of youth, loss of heath, loss of loved ones, Presti, Frances Russell, Silvia Scott, Rosemary Torres. If you know of anyone loss of a job, loss of many things, AND our ‘rising’ again in “little resurrections” of who should be added to or removed from this list, please let the office know. new experiences, new relationships, new maturity and growth. We are always being given new life! Think of your own life, in terms of this pattern of ‘dying and rising’, and faith will allow you to see that your life truly is ‘caught up in Christ’, as St. Paul Catholic Quiz: This week’s question: “What if the Easter Season?” The describes it, and you are sharing, more and more in Christ’s own endless life! And Answer to Last Week’s Question: “What is ‘’?” The eight-day so, all of the ‘little death’s and ‘little resurrections’ are preparing us for the ‘big death’ week, beginning with Easter and ending the following Sunday is one of the (our own personal death) and for the ‘big Resurrection’ (or own rising with Christ, Octaves kept by the Church. It is traditional to consider the octave day as beyond the reach of death, and, our complete restoration beyond all brokenness!) belonging to the feast, so that Easter would last eight days, including two This is the substance of “hope” – not ‘wishful thinking’ – but as Pope Benedict Sundays: Easter itself (the high feast) and the following Sunday (the “low” describes it: “the thrust of trust!” Everything that we have experienced of God’s one, thus Low Sunday). It was once common practice for those who had been “lifting love” in the past, teaches us not to despair or give way to hopelessness, baptized during the year, especially those initiated at the , to wear cynicism, or selfishness, when we are experiencing the down turn of a “little death’. It whit clothes to Mass during the octave. In fact, this symbolic clothing of the is like a rising and falling wave action – right through our whole life! Sometimes newly-initiated inspired all of the Faithful, ‘clothed in Christ’, to celebrate this following some tragic event, either personal or in the larger world, people will ask: “How does someone get through something like this without faith?” And the simple grace by wearing new clothes at Easter. With everyone called to ‘rise and answer is that they don’t. They might continue to ‘physically survive’ for a time, but shine’, it is not wonder that the Easter octave is called “Bright Week”! they really stop living, in the fullest sense of the word. They become more and more disconnected, trying to live in an imagined ‘golden past’, less concerned about others. Soul Food: “You see the gift our Lord intends for us may be by far the best, Without this faith, there is no real hope, and, there is no love. And so, the proclamation “Christ is risen!” takes on a very personal dimension, beyond the simple but if it is not the gift we wanted, we are quite capable of flinging it back in statement of an historical fact. Because He is risen, every one of the ‘little deaths’ in His face! That is the kind of people we are; ready cash is the only wealth we my life, can be seen in the context of this much larger pattern, in which death will understand!” (St. Teresa of Avila 1515-1582) finally be ‘swallowed up in victory.’ (1 Corinthians 15:55) Again, we are so very grateful for all of you, who continue to engage fully in the Church’s mission of proclaiming the Good News, through your prayers, participation Pro Life Quotation: “America, your very future as a nation depends on your in serving the poor, and in your gifts and offerings to the Parish, allowing us be the willingness to protect the Right to Life of the most defenseless in your sign of the Risen Lord’s presence in this community, especially at this time! society.” Pope John Paul II Parish Organizations: All Parish Organization activities are cancelled until Readings for The Week: April 30th Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; Jn 20:11-18, 36-38 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2ab, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48 Live Streaming Mass Schedule: Holy Saturday Vigil Mass at 7:00 p.m. Friday: Acts 4:1-12:12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27a; Jn 21:1-14 Easter Sunday Mass at 10:00 a.m. Daily Mass at 10:00 a.m. Sunday at 10:00 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-21; Mk 16:9-15 a.m. All of these can be accessed at standrewsv.org. Sunday: Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pt 1:3-9; Jn 20:19-31

Church Address and Phone Number: Address: P.O. Box 547, Church Web Sites For Masses: phone # - 520-457-3364 Sacred Heart: shctombstone.org for live streaming Sunday Mass at 10:00 a.m. St. Andrew’s: standrewsv.org for live streaming Daily Mass and Sunday Mass

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL! The Easter Octave: Sunday, April 5 – Sunday, April 12, 2020 CHRIST IS RISEN Time lasts fifty days: seven weeks of seven days (seven equal Biblical perfection) plus one day: perfection plus! Like an eight-day Jewish wedding, INDEED!!! or a child who can’t bear to let go of Christmas, birthdays, and school vacation, the Church celebrates the Easter Octave: “the marriage of heaven and earth,” as the Vigil calls ’ resurrection; our new members’ baptismal rebirth; our renewal of baptismal vows; our hearts’ “divine vacation” (Latin vacare, “to be empty”), newfound time and space for love of God and neighbor. Make home an Easter garden! Adorn the dining table with a pillar candle (your “”), a bowl full of water (ideally, from the parish’s baptismal font), a vase of flowers or bowl of sprouting grain with Easter eggs. Even non-singers can handle the three-fold Gospel Alleluia! Let that be our grace before meals, perhaps with a prayer recalling Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35): “Be known to us, Risen Lord Jesus, as you were to the first disciples, in your word, in the breaking of bread, and in everyone we meet. (Peter Scagnelli, J.S. Paluch Co.)