Palm of the Passion of the Lord St. Mary Parish March 28, 2021 Times Vigil: Saturday 5pm Sunday Masses: 6am, 9am, 11:30am, and 6pm LIFE TEEN Mass Weekday Mass: Monday- Friday: 6am & 7:15am; Saturday: 7am Holy Days: Vigil- 5:30pm; 6:00am, 7:15am, 8:15am (during the school year) and 5:30pm Reconciliation: Saturday: 4- 4:45pm or anytime by appointment Parish Sta Pastor: The Very Rev. Stephen Vrazel Parochial Vicar: Rev. Cecil Spotswood School Principal: Deborah Ollis Church Offi ce Administrator: Sandi Clark Pastoral Assistant: Laurel Wallace Director of Development: Marcelle Naman Volunteer Coordinator: Millie Dixon Organist/Music Director: Richard Courtney Music Team: Mary Catherine Sylvester; Canticle Choir MDO Director: Alex Stroecker Dir. of Youth Ministry: Drew Donovan Dir. of Religious Education: Steve Dolan, Jr. Mass Celebrant Schedule Weekday Masses- March 29th- April 2nd: Monday- 6am & 7:25am- Fr. Spotswood No EDGE or LIFETEEN Tuesday- 6am- Fr. Vrazel; 7:25am- Fr. Spotswood This week! Wednesday- 6am- Fr. Vrazel; 7:25am- Fr. Spotswood Have a blessed Holy Thursday- 7pm- Fr. Vrazel Friday (Passion of the Lord)- Week. 3pm- Fr. Spotswood Saturday Mass ( Vigil)- April 3rd: 8pm- Fr. Spotswood Sunday Masses (Easter)- April 4th: 6am- Fr. Spotswood; 9am- Fr. Spotswood; 11:30am- Fr. Vrazel; 6pm- Fr. Vrazel Church School 106 Providence St. 107 N. Lafayette St. Mobile, Alabama 36604 Mobile, Alabama 36604 251-432-8678 www.stmarymobile.org 251-433-9904 www.stmarymobile.org

Divine Sunday-The Sunday Gospel Meditation: after Easter is Sunday and Extraodinary Graces are off ered to us this day. March 28, 2021 To receive the Graces of this Feast, the only condition is to receive Holy Communion of the Passion of the lord worthily on Divine Mercy Sunday (or the Vigil Many struggle with . Some who consider themselves faithful celebration) by making a good hail him in their churches but still struggle to fi gure out what beforehand and staying in the state to do with him on our streets. The message is somehow more of grace and trusting in His Divine Mercy. palatable when it echoes pious renderings and sentiments and In preparation of Divine Mercy Sunday we are involves singing hosannas during worship. It becomes a bit invited to participate in the Divine Mercy trickier when it gets to the part about changing the way we . A novena is typically nine days of conduct the business of our lives, becoming more sensitive to the prayer in preparation of a celebration of a disadvantaged, poor, and marginalized, and living as servants of feast day. This Novena starts on . our Loving Creator. Ultimately, it is a struggle between wanting To particpate, pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy every day for to be God ourselves and letting God be God as God is. That’s why nine days. There is a specifi c intention for each day given by it’s so easy to become hypocritical. We, like those who hailed Jesus to St. Faustina. The Chaplet can be said anytime of day, Christ as he arrived in Jerusalem and sent Christ to the cross to but is said by many people at the Hour of Mercy- 3pm. die, also talk out of both sides of our mouths. We entertain what Intentions and directions on how to pray the Chaplet can be suits us at the time and walk away from the rest. found online at TheDivineMercy.org. Jesus promised, “By this Many neglect God’s beautiful creation because they prefer what Novena (of Chaplets), I will grant every possible grace to souls.” humans have made instead. Progress isn’t seen in preserving and The extraordinary graces promised to the faithful by our Lord enhancing what God has made but replacing it with something Himself through St. Faustina should not be confused with the we believe is better and more useful. The earth, fl owers, and plenary granted by Pope John Paul II for the devout animals are all expendable if they stand in the way of the “more” observance of the (Divine Mercy we want to achieve. We seek to remove as many obstacles and Sunday). The Decree of the Holy See off ers: “A plenary hurdles as possible in search of the easiest, quickest, and most indulgence, granted under the usual conditions (sacramental effi cient path we can fi nd. We have created drugs and laws that confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer for the preserve our free choice, even though it may mean setting aside intentions of Supreme Pontiff ) to the faithful who, on the God’s vision and example. Why suff er when we can easily be put Second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, in any to rest? Why endure insult or injury when we can retaliate, church or chapel, in a spirit that is completely detached from eliminate or subdue? Why accept life when it is acceptable to the aff ection for a sin, even a venial sin, take part in the prayers choose otherwise? We want to be God and resist accepting the and devotions held in honour of Divine Mercy, or who, in the fact that our real Creator has already given us the blueprints for presence of the Blessed exposed or reserved in the the life we need to live in the Beatitudes and in the example of his tabernacle, recite the Our Father and the Creed, adding a Passion. We don’t like being stewards and managers and really devout prayer to the merciful Lord Jesus (e.g. Merciful Jesus, I want the power to do as we wish and desire. We want to create trust in You!)...” our own way. Where has the true, eff ective Christian voice been through all 3/28 Stewardship Report of the wars and violence, prejudice and unjust conquests, abuse Sunday Collections: $2,208.00 of human beings and attempted extinctions of nationalities, the $1,790.00 establishments of procedures and protocols that serve only a few Mailed in: and not the many and all of the injustices and exploitations that Online: $13,327.00 are a part of our human history? A few courageous prophets have Total: $17,325.00 stood up and out throughout all of the comings and goings of our Thank you for your support of St. Mary’s! human journey with many receiving the same fate as the Crucifi ed One we hail this week. Some still walk among us as  shining stars showing us how it really can be. How would Jesus’         journey have ended if he lived life as we do? Unless we encounter       the good with the bad, the just with the unjust, the grace with the    sin, the glory with the cross, the death with the life we most         certainly risk rendering God obsolete. After all, haven’t we    already convinced ourselves that we can do better? ©LPi    Weekly Mass Intentions Monday: Sunday: 6am- Richard J. Wobbe (l) 6am- Kilday Family (l&d) 7:25am- Deacon John Cretaro (d) 9am- Parishioners of St. Mary Parish Tuesday: 11:30am- Joseph Oshea (l) 6am- Mellanee & Carl Oshea (l) 6pm- Joy  ompson (l-Birthday) 7:25am- Henry Osborne, Jr. (d)

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Today, Sun., March 28, we will have a collection for the Aid to the Church in Central & Eastern Europe and Aid to the Church in Africa. Thank you for your prayerful generosity. Envelopes for Tuesday, March 30 Easter fl owers are in the 5-6pm Confession & Adoration at St. Joan with Fr. Spotswood pews. Donations can be Wednesday, March 31 placed in the collection 6pm Living (St. Mary’s Church) basket or dropped off at the Parish Offi ce. and honorary donations Thursday, April 1 submitted this week will be listed in the bulletin for Divine HOLY THURSDAY Mercy Sunday (the Sunday after Easter). Specifi c locations 10am Living Stations of the Cross (St. Mary’s Church) for memorial or honorary fl owers can be 7pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper requested and are as follows: 8:30pm-12am Adoration in the Repository Blessed Mother/Infant of Prague, St. Joseph Friday, April 2 Our Lady of Lourdes, , Ambo, GOOD FRIDAY St. Anthony, St. Therese 3pm Celebration of Our Lord’s Passion 5:30pm Stations of the Cross at St. Joan of Arc ~ The 9am Mass Choir is looking for more singers. If 7pm you are interested in Saturday, April 3 joining, please contact Choir Director, Richard Court- ney, at [email protected]. 9am Tenebrae ~ We now have hearing devices that will be available in 3pm Confessions at St. Mary’s the church beginning March 20. We will have ear pieces 8pm available that we ask you to take home with you after you return the hearing device in the designated baskets. Sunday, April 4 EASTER SUNDAY Please Pray for ’ March Intention: 6am Mass Sacrament of Reconciliation- Let us pray that we 9am Outdoor Mass (weather permitting) may experience the sacrament of reconciliation with 11:30am Mass renewed depth, to taste the infi nite mercy of God. 6pm Vespers Kurt Thompson, Rev. Matthew Venuti, Cindy Klotz, Sonja Powell, John Stringfellow, Ellen Reilly, Christy Blackmon, Kim Lowe, Tom Davis, Harry Savells, Holly Reese, Sheri Graham, Emily Talasek, Larry Bush, Sr. Raymond, L.S.P., William Anderson, Walter Neese, Butch McPherson, Gwendolyn Daigle, Ollie McNichol, Martha Delmas, Donna Voivedich, Pat Anderson, Jennifer Clark, Gary Henrickson, Beatrice Tyler, Travis Conner, Fr. David Carucci, Bruce Conaway, Hoagy Kearns, Janet Pierre, Claujia Williams, Michael Newburn, Eddie Serda, Milton Days, Susan Sweeney, Anthony Gambino, Betty Spotswood, David Knizley, Ashley Spillman, Jimmy Van Hoof, Francis Arata, Kathie Wall, Marian Imsand, Lendora Freeman, Ann Schilling, Lynne Blissett, Karen Clarke Andrews, Gary Graham, Jeanelle Clarke, Anne Marie Stanley, Betsy McAleer, Peggy Hasser, Harold Harden, John Hayes, Georgia Dominick, Pete Banks, Graham Family, Daniel Lawrence, George Finkbohner, Andrew Mills, Dorothy Rose, Laura Cummings, Fr. John Holleman, Carnes Craig, Felice Lomangino, Philip Tapia, Dale Andrews, Pamela Stiles, Tonya Edwards, Javon Edwards, Preston Griffi th, James O’Donnell, Madison Palazzo, Karen Johnson, Bob Collier, Sandra Edwards, Stan Anderson, Jack Burke, Mary Lou Noletto, Marcia Kossik, Sandi Clark, Mickey Ludeigsen, Brad Jensen, Guillermo Hearreau, Cherie Lynn Williams-Hansen, Marsena Walsh; Michael Laird, Barbara McDonaugh, Andrew Sanders, Michelle Keith, Adiene Carroll Pray for all the faithfully departed that they may enjoy eternal life with Christ:

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