<p>ST. CHARLES MARCH 20, 2016 LIMA, OHIO</p><p>Staff Corner</p><p>Journeys</p><p>We have all taken journeys – some happy, some hard, some interesting and some sad. The Lima area has been on a basketball journey to the state championships. For many of you that was an exciting Monday, March 21 journey. 8:00 AM Holy Communion Service 3:30-7:00 PM Eucharistic Adoration w/Vespers @ 6:30 Tuesday, March 22 If we look at the last five Sundays of Lent, we 8:00 AM Mass can see where our scriptures have taken us. 11:00 AM Chrism Mass at Rosary Cathedral- Toledo First we found ourselves in the desert facing Wednesday, March 23 temptation in our weakness. Next we went up to the 8:00 AM Mass mountain to pray with Jesus and we see a glimpse of Easter triduum him in “his glory.” What an extreme! The third Thursday, March 24 Sundays takes us to an orchard where we find a NO 8:00 AM Mass gardener asking for extra time to save a fig tree 7:00 PM Mass of the Last Supper before cutting it down. Now we walk with the prodigal Friday, March 25 son as he goes home to his father to admit his sins NO 8:00 AM Mass and is welcomed home with open arms. Finally we 12:30 PM Celebration of the Lord’s Passion travel with Jesus to the Mount of Olives where he is 1:45 PM Stations of the Cross confronted by the scribes and Pharisees about an 8:00 PM Tenebrae adulterous woman. Lord’s Day- Easter-The Resurrection of the Throughout these travels we have seen the Lord promise of God’s mercy and eternal life. If you have a Saturday, March 26 chance, revisit the Gospels. Can you find yourself in No 5:00 PM Mass these scenes? Did they have meaning for you or did 8:30 PM Easter Vigil Mass you walk past them? Sunday, March 27 8:00 AM Mass Today continues another walk – the one to 10:30 AM Mass the cross. We know what Holy Week is about. But are No 6:00 PM Mass you going to make a better spiritual journey for yourself than maybe you did during Lent?</p><p>Ruth Fosnaugh Scripture Readings for March 27, 2016 Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Col 3:1-4 or I Cor 5:6b-8, Jn 20:1-9 or Jn 41, Lk 24:1-12</p><p>Our 8:00 AM liturgy is on radio station WCIT 940 AM each Sunday morning for our homebound or infirm parishioners. The cost of this service is generously provided to the parish by Chamberlain-Huckeriede Funeral Home.</p><p>For anonymous prayer requests, call Dennie & Judy Horlander at 419-999-5536 or Jerry & Sharon Laurent at 419-331-1763.</p><p>Welcome to our parish community! We are happy to have you! A special welcome to any guests who may be visiting. May your visit be blessed! PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION</p><p>STRONGER THAN OUR SCARS</p><p>You have bent down over our wounds and have healed us, giving us a medicine stronger than our scars, a mercy greater than our fault. Thus, even in sin, in virtue of your invincible love, served to raise us up to divine life. (Ambrosian Rite prayer) A medicine stronger than our scars. That is profound. During Lent, many of us take the time to examine our weaknesses and our scars. But do we ponder the wondrous medicine that is the Cross? Most of us have scars that are hidden, and we prefer it that way. We perceive our scars as weakness and failure. Sometimes they are: we sin. We do evil and fail to do good. We need the Sacrament of Reconciliation to heal our sin. But some of our scars are ones life has left us with, through no fault of our own. We weep for our dead friends and family; we miss them and their loss is a scar on our heart. Perhaps our scars are borne from the addictions of others; we fear for the health and safety of loved ones who cannot seem to overcome their addictions to drugs or alcohol or pornography. Maybe we are in a marriage where one party is trying so very hard to be faithful and loving, and the other person wants out. And maybe we bear actual scars from disease, illness or accident – scars that cause us significant physical pain. We think there is no medicine for these scars – no doctor can fix a broken heart or a parent’s tears. But Christ is the Great Physician, one who heals through the medicine of the Cross. Jesus was also a Man who Himself knew pain. He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, Like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our pain that he bore, our sufferings he endured. We thought of him as stricken, struck down by God and afflicted, But he was pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity. He bore the punishment that makes us whole, by his wounds we were healed. – Is. 53:3-5 By his wounds we were healed. That is the radical truth of our faith: God became Man, took our sins and scars upon Himself, and saved us. Yes, we sin and we must acknowledge our sin, but sin no longer means death. Indeed, we are stilled scarred, but Christ provides us a medicine stronger than our scars. There is nothing and no one who is greater than this truth, this Good News, this Christ. Today, take some time to thank Jesus for the medicine He has provided you. Rejoice in the fact that – despite our afflictions -we are healed through Christ our Lord.</p><p>© Diocesan Publications, 2016 –Living the Good News Posted on March 8, 2016 by Elise Hilton / Prayer ST. CHARLES MARCH 20, 2016 LIMA, OHIO</p><p>Hospitality provided by the Women’s Bible Study and St. Charles PSR Our final presentation on March 28: The Budgeted Amount Needed Weekly………... Similarities Between Islam & Christianity-7:00 PM. $21,271.93 March 13, 2016…………………………….….. $17,032.00 Depression Support Group February Online Contributions The Depression Support Group meets every Tuesday at Offertory………………………………………... 1:00 PM in the St. Charles Church basement in Room 1. $7,343.00 Any questions please call Mary Goodwin at 419-302-2198. Priest Retirement……………………………… $100.00 Year of Mercy Pilgrimage Chimes Friends…………………………………. Fr. William Kubacki is planning a pilgrimage to Rome, Sicily $100.00 and Sorrento October 17-28, 2016. Cost $4,574.00 per Thank you for your generous Stewardship! person. Contact Margaret McDaniel at 419-290-8782 or [email protected] for more information. LECTOR SCHEDULE March 26/27 Easter Vigil Rehearsal for RCIC and RCIA candidates and 8:00 AM –J. Laurent catechumens is March 26th at 9:30 am for the Easter 10:30 AM – D. Kahle Vigil at 8:30 pm. Please be at St Charles at 8 pm. If you SERVER SCHEDULE have any questions please contact Emily Betz. Thank March 26/27 Easter Vigil you! 8:00 AM – Team 5 10:30 AM - Team 6 Looking for a way to get active in your church? Come Linens March 27: J. Bianco join the M.O.M.S. Group at St. Charles! Moms mark your calendars ahead for Mom's night out on March 31st at 5:30 p.m. at the Texas Roadhouse in Lima. This is a great way to meet and socialize with other moms and support each other! You can keep up to date with our family fun days, play dates, and Mom's Night Out on our Facebook group called St. Charles Moms Group. If you have any questions or concerns you can email the City-Wide Penance Service at St. Gerard group's leader, Sarah Mayse at [email protected] Sunday, March 20-3:00 PM or call/text 937-638-9716. All Moms are welcome! Individual Reconciliation at St. Charles: Tuesday, March 22nd 6:30-7:30 PM & Wednesday, NEED FOR LIVING KIDNEY DONATION March 23rd Noon-1:00 PM We are currently looking for a living kidney donor for Nicholas Wheeler, grandson of Lyn Ritchie Berry, an Steubenville Trip for Teens active member of St. Charles Parish for many years. It is that time again, we are preparing for our trip to Nicholas is twenty-three years old and suffers from Steubenville. If you would like to sponsor a teen’s kidney failure due to malformation at birth. One Steubenville experience, please contact Angie at 419-303- kidney does not function at all and the other only 9745. The cost of the trip is $395. Both full and partial functions fifteen percent of the time. He is currently scholarships are needed. You can also drop off a check on peritoneal dialysis. We are hoping for the gift of made payable to Lima Life Teen at the parish office. life. Nicholas is a very full of life person. He has donated thousands of hours to his community. He St. Charles Mondays in March loves to give to others and does not ask for anything Monday, March 21, 2016-7:00 PM in return. He is a very kind and loving soul. With “Do You Think You Know the Bible?” becoming a first-time father in the upcoming months, Presented by Kevin Stetter we are desperately looking for a living kidney donor. If The Bible is the best-selling book of all time, and yet, it’s you have any questions please contact Erin Wheeler probably the most misunderstood. We as Catholics hear by phone, 937-407-0485, or email parts of it read every Sunday, but how well do we really [email protected]. know it? Come learn more about this great and wonderful work, and how best to read and properly Bid for Our Kids- The St. Charles & LCC Schools interpret it. BE SURE TO BRING YOUR OWN BIBLE! Auction-Friday, April 29, 2016 at LCC School Gym. Doors PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION open at 6:00 PM, 6:30-8:00 PM-dinner, 8:00 PM-Live Auction. Cost: $40 per person. </p><p>Contribution Counter Needed – If you have 1 hour (once every 5 weeks) to help with counting contributions, please call Linda Hoehn at the Parish Office 419-228- 7635. Thank You!</p>