Bring your hand and feel the place of the nails, And do not be unbelieving but believing, alleluia. Cf. John 20:27 Basilica of Saint Josaphat • Milwaukee, WI 2 Sunday of Divine - April 19, 2020

While all public Masses are cancelled, know that Fr. Lawrence Pope Francis’ Prayer to Mary during the and Fr. John will continue to be praying for your intentions dur- coronavirus pandemic ing their daily private masses. O Mary, you always shine on our path Mass Intentions as a sign of salvation and of hope. We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, Sunday, April 19 — Sunday of who at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain, keeping your faith firm. Sat. 4:30PM 40th Wedding Anniversary - Stephen & Pa- You, Salvation of the Roman People, tricia Pontus know what we need, and we are sure you will provide Sun. 8:00AM +James Emme & Danna so that, as in Cana of Galilee, 10:00AM For the Basilica Parish Community we may return to joy and to feasting after this time of trial. 12:00PM To Honor the Divine Mercy Help us, Mother of Divine Love, Monday, April 20 — Easter Weekday to conform to the will of the Father and to do as we are told by Jesus, 7:00AM Deceased Friars, Sisters, Relatives and Bene- who has taken upon himself our sufferings factors of the Franciscan Order and carried our sorrows to lead us, through the cross, Tuesday, April 21 — Easter Weekday to the joy of the resurrection. Amen. 7:00AM Saint Anthony of Padua Novena Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God. Do Wednesday, April 22 — Easter Weekday not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but deliver us 7:00AM +Bernard Fialkowski from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

12:00PM Saint Joseph Novena All parish activities are suspended until further notice! Thursday, April 23 — Easter Weekday

7:00PM +Cecilia Maurer Once again, we would like to thank you from the Friday, April 24 — Easter Weekday bottom of our hearts for the continued outpouring of 7:00AM +Teddye Zawatdzke financial support for our beautiful Basilica! We are 8:45AM +Very Rev. Michael J. Glastetter, OFM Conv. blessed to have such thoughtful and generous parish- Saturday, April 25 — Saint Mark, Evangelist ioners and friends. Additionally, of the $15,521.50 in contributions received this week, $5,753 we made 8:00AM Jennifer Jezak online, and your online presence has continued to Sunday, April 26 — Third Sunday of Easter grow. Thank you again, and God Bless!

Sat. 4:30PM +Bonnie Hildebrand Sun. 8:00AM +Ed Kaufman Parish Stewardship 10:00AM +Joan T. Kierzek Easter Sunday (4/12) Sunday Collection…………… $3,008.50 12:00PM For the Basilica Parish Community Online Collection.…………… $4,390.00 Boiler………………...…………… $20.00 2020 Calendar Raffle Winners Light a Candle…...…………… $150.00 Good Friday…………....……… $490.50 Date Ticket # Winner Amount Easter Flowers………..……… $95.00 04/06/20 24053 Margaret Sytkowski $25.00 Easter……….……....…………… $7,367.50 $15,521.50 04/07/20 22802 Dani Mulhern $25.00 Thank you for your faithful stewardship. Donate online by visiting 04/08/20 22396 Ron Thate $25.00 www.thebasilica.org or scan the QR-Code on the right.. 04/09/20 20847 Tom Karakis Sr $25.00 Image on cover... 04/10/20 22267 Holly Hepp $25.00 The original image painted according to the apparitions of Saint 04/11/20 17625 Paul Meier $25.00 Faustina by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski

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Ordination Bann III Timothy Richard Schumaker, a parishioner of the Basilica of St. Josaphat, is scheduled to be ordained to the Order of Deacon on April 25, 2020 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist by Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki. This is a public announcement of the upcoming ordination and fulfills the canonical requirement . Catholics are obliged to reveal any concerns, impediments or circumstances that could prevent Timothy Richard Schumaker from re- ceiving Sacred Orders and should contact the pastor or the Archbishop with such information as soon as possi- ble if there is a serious question about the candidate’s suitability for ordained ministry.

Have a candle lit at the Basilica during this pandemic, either for your own intention of for that of a loved one. The Coventual Friars will light the candle and pray for your intention. Recommend- ed donation is $5.00. Please go to the link below: https://thebasilica.weshareonline.org/LightaCandle

Well, if I can’t have a church full of my parishioners, or brass and timpani and a fantastic choir singing Easter hymns, and not a lily in sight, at least I have such a gorgeous altar to celebrate Easter Mass!

Dear parishioners, It wasn't the same without your physical presence, but I celebrated Mass this Easter morn in our beautiful Basilica looking out over the hundreds of photos you sent in. It helped me feel connected to you on this most sacred day. I blessed water and sprinkled each of your pictures with it. Know I lift- ed each of you in my prayer as I celebrated Mass today. Have a blessed and happy Easter! - Fr. Lawrence Zurek, OFM Conv Rector of the Basilica . Basilica of Saint Josaphat • Milwaukee, WI 4 Sunday of Divine Mercy - April 19, 2020 A word from Fr. John about Divine Mercy Gerda said to Lieutenant Klein that most of the women and girls, if not already dead, were inside and were too sick to walk the result of Dear Parish Community today our thoughts turn to God’s Divine disease, torture, and malnutrition. Lieutenant Klein responded: Mercy on this tremendous Feast celebrating God’s greatest attribute. “will you come with me and show me?” Prominently reflected in today’s readings highlighting the for- Gerda then recalls exactly what happened next: she said: “he held giveness of sins we discover the link between Easter and today’s the door open for me and let me proceed him …. And that was the Feast: . But the “richness” of god’s mercy is moment my restoration, of my humanity, of my humaneness, of my not limited to just the forgiveness of sins. Divine mercy is a form of dignity, of my freedom.” love because it wants what is good for the one who is loved. You see Gerda Weissman’s experience reminds us of the power we So when we celebrate this Feast of Divine Mercy today ---- we are each possess to “restore” one another through an act of mercy. It celebrating the form that God’s love takes when it meets our human reminds us that “great love can change small things into great ones, misery. But more than a celebration we are also recalling that di- and it is only love which lends value to our actions.” As my Francis- vine mercy is an invitation. It is an invitation for us to be merciful can confrere Saint Maximilian Kolbe was fond of saying, “love alone when we meet misery, not just the misery of others, but also the creates.” misery we find in ourselves. Since today is Divine Mercy Sunday we cannot fail to mention anoth- To understand what divine mercy is perhaps we should point out er young polish girl; Sister , a Catholic nun who what it is not. Saint Thomas Aquinas points out that mercy is a God- Pope John Paul II called the “Great apostle of Divine Mercy in our like virtue because it involves the strong showing pity to the weak. time.” But here a subtle mistake can corrupt even this understanding. In the early 1930’s, hidden under a seemingly monotonous existence From this truth someone may delight in showing “mercy” precisely of domestic duties Sister Faustina began receiving extraordinary rev- because it allows him to highlight one’s own superiority both on a elations and messages from Jesus. He directed Faustina to record spiritual and material level. But this isn’t really mercy, instead it’s these experiences in a diary. just pride dressing up as mercy. Mercy is not condescension. Mercy instead is a kind of “restoration.” However, the Divine Mercy message contained in Faustina’s diary is not new. Instead, it is firmly rooted in the gospel message, and a Mercy doesn’t love another’s poverty whatever form it takes. In- powerful reminder of who God is and has been from the very begin- stead mercy wants to free the other from their present limitations. ning. This is the gift of mercy and its rooted in profound respect. But through her diary Faustina introduced the world to the chaplet Divine mercy’s “restorative” power reaches into the darkest places prayer, the Divine Mercy novena, and the now-famous image of Di- of our lives. And it has been this way since the beginning of salvation vine Mercy. We have copy of this unique image displayed in Basilica history – starting with Moses and the Prophets. gift shop window this week facing all those who pass by on Lincoln God’s people have always experienced this paradigm of “sin---exile--- Avenue. Through this devotion to his mercy Jesus promised pro- then…. Restoration” so when we hear the word “restoration” we found graces. should also hear the word “mercy.” Divine Mercy, Jesus told Faustina, must be lived out every day in sim- I am reminded of a story of a young polish girl at the end of World ple ways, in our ordinary life. He says, “I am giving you three ways War II. It was May 1945 and the Nazis were in retreat as allied forc- of exercising mercy toward your neighbor: The first by deed, the sec- es liberated Europe and shut down Hitler’s ruthless network of con- ond by word, and the third by prayer. In these three degrees, Jesus centration camps. says, “is contained the fullness of mercy, and it is an unquestionable proof of love for Me. By this means a soul glorifies and pays rever- In one of these camps was a polish woman named Gerda Weiss- ence to My mercy.” mann. Gerda Weissmann had spent six years living under Nazi rule — three of them in a concentration camp. Jesus emphasized repeatedly to Saint Faustina that it is by “trusting god” that we tap into Divine Mercy’s “restorative” power. We draw Her parents and brother had been taken away. Her best friend had graces to ourselves solely with the vessel of trust. If our trust is died in her arms during a 350-mile death march. great, there is no limit to God’s generosity. When the American soldiers liberating her camp found Gerda she This “trust” you and I are called to is not merely passive resignation was standing in a door-way outside the barracks where women and to life’s struggle and hardships. Nor is it an effortless faith that ex- girls were imprisoned: she was sickly, wearing rags, her hair white pects god to do all the work. “Trust” is the challenge to entrust our and matted. She weighed only 68 pounds and had not bathed in st lives to god’s love in word, deed, and prayer, in service of his King- three years. It was one day shy of her 21 birthday. dom of Mercy. An Allied-soldier from America, Lieutenant Kurt Klein entered into My dear friends as we approach the Lord this Sunday in our Spiritual this misery and approached this young girl. Lieutenant Klein asked Communion let us remember that like the young lieutenant who her if she spoke either German or English. Gerda answered in Ger- invited Gerda Weissmann to trust His goodness and to proceed Him man. God invites us to believe in his “inexhaustible” goodness and pro- The Lieutenant then asked her; “May I see the other ladies?” Being ceed Him with our trust and in that trust Jesus promises our sanctifi- cation, our liberation, and our restoration. referred. to as “a lady” was a term Gerda Weissman had not heard in six years. Basilica of Saint Josaphat • Milwaukee, WI 5 Sunday of Divine Mercy - April 19, 2020

How to Recite the Chaplet

The Chaplet of Mercy is recited using ordinary rosary beads of five decades. The Chaplet is preceded by two opening prayers from the Diary of Saint Faustina and followed by a closing prayer.

1. Make the Sign of the Cross In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. 2. Optional Opening Prayers You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.

(Repeat three times) , which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You! 3. Our Father Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, Amen. 4. Hail Mary Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen. 5. The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. 6. The Eternal Father Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. 7. On the 10 Small Beads of Each Decade For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. 8. Repeat for the remaining decades Saying the "Eternal Father" (6) on the "Our Father" bead and then 10 "For the sake of His sorrowful Passion" (7) on the following "Hail Mary" beads. 9. Conclude with Holy God (Repeat three times) Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world. 10. Optional Closing Prayer Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion — inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy . will, which is Love and Mercy itself. From www.thedivinemercy.org Basilica of Saint Josaphat • Milwaukee, WI 6 Sunday of Divine Mercy - April 19, 2020

Readings for Sunday of Divine Mercy - April 19th Acts 2:42-47 | Psalm 118 | 1 Peter 1:3-9 | John 20:19-31 Daily (and Sunday) readings with meditations can be accessed at wau.org/meditations. Please continue to make Sunday the Lord’s day especially during these difficult times by taking time to delve in the Word of God! The Word Among Us is also allowing individuals to post their personal prayer request. Follow the link here: wau.org/prayer

First Reading - Acts 2:42-47 by fire, may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the reve- lation of Jesus Christ. Although you have not seen him you love They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him, the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers. you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their property and Gospel Acclamation possessions and divide them among all according to each one’s Alleluia, alleluia. need. Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in You believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me, says the the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They ate Lord; their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God blessed are those who have not seen me, but still believe! Jn and enjoying favor with all the people. And every day the Lord 20:29 added to their number those who were being saved. Alleluia, alleluia. Responsorial Psalm - Psalm 118 Gospel - John 20:19-31 R. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting. On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors or R. Alleluia. were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Je- Let the house of Israel say, sus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be “His mercy endures forever.” with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands Let the house of Aaron say, and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Je- “His mercy endures forever.” sus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has Let those who fear the Lord say, sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed “His mercy endures forever.” R. on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins I was hard pressed and was falling, you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are but the Lord helped me. retained.” My strength and my courage is the Lord, and he has been my savior. Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them The joyful shout of victory when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, “We have in the tents of the just. R. seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of The stone which the builders rejected the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and has become the cornerstone. put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” By the Lord has this been done; Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas it is wonderful in our eyes. was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, This is the day the Lord has made; and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he let us be glad and rejoice in it. R. said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and Second Reading - 1 Peter 1:3-9 bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbeliev- ing, but believe.” Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe be- his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the cause you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that and have believed.” is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you who by the power of God are safeguarded through faith, to a Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final time. In this you that are not written in this book. But these are written that you rejoice, although now for a little while you may have to suffer may come to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, that through this belief you may have life in his name. more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested

Currently, Archbishop Listecki has extended the suspension of Mass with a congregation through May 3rd. The dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass is also extended through May 31st. Continue to check both www.thebasilica.org and www.archmil.org for updates regarding the coronavirus pandemic. May God con- tinue to bless us all abundantly as we make recourse to Him. . Basilica of Saint Josaphat • Milwaukee, WI 7 Sunday of Divine Mercy - April 19, 2020

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