April 7, 2019 Photograph of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church by Dean Tormey, SJE Parishioner St. John the Evangelist Mass Schedule: Sunday Mass: Catholic Church Saturday Vigil: 5 PM Sunday: 8, & 10 AM & 12 Noon Established October 4, 1960 Daily: 6:30 & 8:30 AM, 5:30 PM during Lent 5751 Locust Avenue M-F); 8:30 AM (Sat) Carmichael, CA 95608-1320 Holy Days: 6:30, 8:30 AM & 7 PM Eucharistic Adoration: Wed & Fri 9 AM to 5 PM Healing Mass every 3rd Sunday of the Month at 1:30 Parish Office………….(916) 483-8454 PM with Confession from 1:05 to 1:25 PM School…………………(916) 481-8845 Sacraments: Religious Education….(916) 483-4628 Confessions: Fridays and Saturdays 10 min before Youth Ministry …(916) 483-8454 x 254 morning Masses and 3:45 to 4:45 PM Saturday Parish website: www.sjecarmichael.org Baptism: Call office about parent preparation ses- Parish email: [email protected] sions. Must be registered in the parish. Rel. Ed: [email protected] Marriage: Contact the clergy at least six months in School website: www.stjohnev.com advance. School email: [email protected] Anointing of Sick: Call the office at any time. Fr. Bernardin Mugabo………………………………….......Pastor Fr. Thomas A. Bland………………...….............Pastor Emeritus READINGS FOR THE WEEK Fr. Alban C. Uba, SMMM…………………………...In Residence Monday: Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 [41c-62]; Mr. Lawrence Niekamp……………………………. ……...Deacon Ps 23:1-6; Jn 8:12-20 Mr. Keith Johnson………………………………………….Deacon Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 Mr. Jack Wilson…………………………………………….Deacon Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dn 3:52-56; Linda Gospodnetich…………………..………Business Manager Jn 8:31-42 Mrs. Christine Horton…….…………..………….School Principal Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9: Jn 8:51-59 Sr. Hannah M.O’Donoghue,RSM.Coord.of Religious Education Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 Mrs. Roseann Garthwait………….Director of Music and Liturgy Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 Mrs. Cara O’Shea………....School Director of Music and Choir Sunday: Lk 19:28-40 (procession); Mrs. April McDonald…….Chairperson, Parish Pastoral Council Is 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Lk 22:14 — 23:56 [23:1-49] Catholics Coming Home, for more information call (916) 483-8454 ext. 150 or Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. -Hosea Ballou e-mail to [email protected] Registration / Change of Address I want to register in the parish. I have changed my address; my envelope # is _________. Name: _________________________________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ City: _____________________ ZIP ________ Phone: _______________________________ E-mail: __________________________________________________ It may take up to 2 months to start receiving envelopes or for any changes. Place in collection basket. Pastor’s Corner - Fr. Bernardin Mugabo Fourth Sunday of Lent - March 31, 2019 Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things THE MOVIE UNPLANNED: This last Sunday on have passed away; behold, new things have come. March 31st, after my visit to the hospital, a parishioner — 2 Corinthians 5:17 asked me to see a movie that has recently come to the screens in movie theaters. I heard about this movie April 8 to while “Walking For Life” in San Francisco this past April 13 January, from the mouth of the author herself, Abby Johnson. She said that this movie was going to change Monday: the hearts of so many people who support abortion; 6:30 a.m. Brandon Young, Int. most importantly, those who choose abortion as the 8:30 a.m. Special Intention + easy way out. 5:30 p.m. John Mendonsa + Dear Parishioners, you’ve heard so many things about Tuesday: abortion such as, it is the right of the woman, to this I 6:30 a.m. Grady Young, Int. 8:30 a.m. Dennis & Sharon Doucette, Int. can say, what about the right of the baby, since the 5:30 p.m. All Souls baby in the womb is a person different from the mother Wednesday: and the father? We all thank our parents so much 6:30 a.m. Carol Young, Int. because they didn’t abort us; what we do not want to 8:30 a.m. Dominic Ielati + happen to us, we should not do it to anybody else. By 5:30 p.m. Macaria Capati + the way, there is a guilty conscience that tortures those Thursday: St. Stanislaus who have done abortion, practiced it or even supported 6:30 a.m. Maria Young, Int. it. Thank God with the Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:30 a.m. Special Intention where our sins are forgiven and the counseling that 5:30 p.m. Betty Ann Hamela + helps us to be healed of those deadly wounds of our Friday: past mistakes. 6:30 a.m. Anna & Vincent Nguyen + You heard also that the Baby does not suffer when 8:30 a.m. Carols Estrada Vasquez + being cut to pieces this is B.S. only if the baby was not 5:30 p.m. Daniel Miller, Int. Saturday: alive then it wouldn’t suffer. The movie Unplanned 8:30 a.m. Mary & Ann Robinson + showed clearly how the baby tries to go away from the cutting tools to save its life, like you and I would do if our sick and their caregivers: Helena Al- we were in the same situation. But the abortionist leman, Andrea Armstrong, Robert Burns, doctor kept following the baby. The scene is very Geoff Carter, Lupe Compton Alicia Cortez, bloody for the embryo just as it is for a baby or a grown Russ Davis, Melissa Duran, Kate Ellis, Karen Emmons, Debbie Erichs, Teri Erickson, Velia Escalante, Juanita Estrellas, Martin up person. Fiorino, Anthony Gabriele, Alison Geoffrey, Ella Gomes, Gos- You may have heard also that the embryo is a tissue not nell Family, Jimi Grant, Donna Harris, Tom Harvey, Vicky a human being. If it is a tissue, why not leave it for 9 Heard, George Heffner, Mary Jeffries, Eduardo Jimenez, Ye- months and see what happens? All these liars have one lena Kanavalchuk, Sayed Kian, Karen Lydon, Jennifer Martin, goal; to blind you and hide the whole truth from you so Manuel Molina, Michael Niekamp, Gilles Ouellet, Lynn Parry, Mike Peterson, Alex Quiroz, Jeff Reynolds, Ruth Salazar, Rena that blindly you embrace their evil and satanic theories. Scherman, Robert Scholtes, Christopher Scott Paul Scurti, So- You may have heard that women in abortion don’t corro Sabala, Hank Thompson, Kim Van Blaricom, Katie suffer at all. Forget about it, too much bleeding, very Walker & all sick parishioners. close calls, even deaths do happen. But you never hear about it because it may handicap their so called “nasty The people who prayed at the fence, the pro-life are very business”. It is attributed to some kind of reasons powerful because they reduce abortion to 75% when different than abortion itself. they are present; they even convert the abortionists Abby Johnson was a modern woman who believed in themselves; among them Abby Johnson. the freedom of women on abortion and chose to have Dear Parishioners, we all have the obligation to know the two abortions herself. Her poor parents did what they truth and follow it no matter the cost. This movie is the could but could not change her. Her husband didn’t best way to help us end this culture of death. I wish and like it but what could he do? She was recruited to work pray each and every one of us should see it. Please don’t in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas in which she became a director. One day she was invited to present any excuse unless you are blind and dead. The participate in an abortion room where she noticed the movie theater is not far away from our parish, just on truth about abortion. She had to lie to those young Greenback and Garfield. We are planning to see how the women who trusted her so that they would opt for whole Church can watch it in a very comfortable place. abortion; the goal of Planned Parenthood. We will let you know soon. God bless, Father Bernardin MUGABO Sr. Hannah O’Donoghue, RSM Don’t miss the Wednesday talks throughout Lent for the 916-483-4628 Mary’s Mantle Consecration! [email protected] Be sure to attend! Receive encouragement and refreshment for your soul. Fr. Bernardin thanks you and all the parishioners for Mass for the homebound: Every Sunday - 11:00 your attendance and enthusiastic support of these Lenten a.m. on Catholic-Radio - 1620AM. presentations by Deacon Dave Leatherby and author and Pope Francis’ April intention: “For doctors and their speaker, Christine Watkins. All of the presentations will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays. This Wednesday's talk will be: humanitarian collaborators in war zones, who risk their —Wed, April 3: The Sacrament of Reconciliation in lives to save the lives of others. ” preparation for consecration (by Christine) Discover the Lenten Prayer: “God of hope, you journey with us hidden power in the Sacrament and why Jesus called it the through the desert. You challenge us to become more place where the most miracles take place and are like Christ. During this Lenten season, may our prayers, incessantly repeated. fasting and almsgiving give us the courage to go forth —Wed, April 10: Mary as model disciple.