IHM / JP II Catholic Church Office 353 South Pagosa Boulevard Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 Office Hours: PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL Mon.–Thurs. 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Rev. Kenny Udumka, Pastor Friday 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Deacon Pat McKenzie Juanita Archuleta Phones: Jim Field Pope John Paul II (970) 731-5744 Chris Gallegos Fax (970) 731-2151 Ron Halvorson Welcome Visitors Doug Purcell Please sign our guest book email: [email protected] Bernie Schuchart and worship with us often. Gene Tautges www.popejohnpauliichurch.org Father Kenny Udumka, Pastor Coming Home Inquiry classes will eventually start up again so please watch the bulletin for dates and times. Listen for the tug at your heart calling you back to the Catholic Church. That tug is Jesus softly speaking to you! Friends and family are welcome! THIRD SUNDAy Of EASTER MASS STREAMINg SCHEDULE Private Mass with father Kenny Weekly contributions can also be paid via Live Stream: using PayPal or Credit Card by pressing Daily Mass the COVID-19 Parish Rescue fund Tuesday thru friday 7:00 a.m. above the Live Stream video. Sunday Mass 9:00 a.m. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND MASS. PARISH BULLETIN VIEW AT HOME via LIVE STREAM. Our weekly bulletin is available on Parishes The link is: Online for now. http://demo.popejohnpauliichurch.org/jp-ii-in- https://parishesonline.com/ action/mass-streaming-online/ DIRECTIVES FROM THE DIOCESE In order to promote an environment of safety and health by civil authorities, the following recommendations have been put into place by Bishop Berg for the Diocese of Pueblo effective immediately. • All public Masses and public activities are suspended indefinitely. • Sacraments of Initiation for RCIA Catechumens and Candidates will be forthcoming. Delay of Sacraments of Initiation will be observed until restrictions have been lifted. Unless in danger of death. • Online Eucharistic Adoration may be found at: https://virtualadoration.home.blog/ • Confessions are moved out of small spaces where the civil mandates of Catherine of Siena social distancing can be followed. (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380), a laywoman associated with the • Spring Confirmation has been postponed and to be rescheduled through Dominican Order, was a mystic, the Office of Worship, in consultation with the Bishop. ac tivist, and author who had a great influence on Italian literature The diocesan calendar is waiting for future announcements by civic author ities and the Catholic Church. as when the current restrictions are lifted. Canonized in 1461, she is also a Thank you for your cooperation at such a difficult time. Doctor of the Church. Our prayers are with you. APRIL 26, 2020 LIVE THE LITURGY WITH fIAT-AMEN ADORATION Amen. Yes, Lord, I believe that You are truly present here, Body and “21 Ways to Worship” Blood, Soul and Divinity, hidden under what still looks like bread. Yes, by Vinny Flynn Lord, I believe that You actually want to live in me, flesh of my flesh. Behold Your Mother! Fiat , Lord. Let it be done to me according to Your will. Live in me. Let So what better person than Mary to Your whole ‘mode of being’ pass into me –– Your thoughts, Your feelings, Your attitudes, Your values, Your way of seeing and living and loving. Keep help prepare us to adore Jesus in me conscious of Your presence within me as I leave this church, and let the Blessed Sacrament, to help us me bring You with me into the world. become so transformed by Him that we, too, radiate His presence? Let me become living Eucharist, a living tabernacle of Your love. Let me be, like Mary, a living monstrance, bringing Your love and the power of In his teachings about how we all Your Spirit to all I meet so that they, like the babe in Elizabeth’s womb, may leap for joy at the tenderness of Your touch. © 2005 Vinny Flynn need to “sit in the school of Mary” to learn from her about the Eucharist, Pope John Paul II explains that Diocese of Pueblo there is a “profound analogy” Virtual Convocation 2020 be tween Mary’s Fiat and the Amen we say when we receive the Eu charist. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, in-person Convocation 2020 at Pueblo Commu nity He urges us to follow her example College has been CANCELED. and let our Amen be a Fiat. How ever, the Diocese of Pueblo will hold a virtual Convocation 2020 on WebinarJam. The event is free; however, each individual must register What an amazing insight! When I in order to view the pre sentations. read this, it touched me so deeply Reg istration is open now! https://tlwequip.org/convocation/ that I put it into a prayer that I call The webinar will be hosted by Fr. Bill Watson, S.J., President and Founder the Fiat-Amen prayer. It’s a perfect of Sacred Story Institute. prayer to say right after receiving Communion or anytime during The schedule is as follows: Tuesday, May 5: Session #1 will be 11AM to Noon (MST) our Ado ration. Session #2 will be 2-3PM (MST) Session #3 will be 6-7PM (MST) St. Patrick’s Perpetual Adoration Chapel SACRAMENTS / CLASSES Is Open At Father’s request, there are only 10 Baptism – Funerals chairs set up for Adoration. Hand CLASSES CANCELLED Contact Parish Office before san itizer is placed near the door so January, April, July, October. making arrangements with the everyone can sanitize their hands First Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. mortuary. upon entering. We are following the Call the Office for information. recommendations of the Diocese Sacrament of Sick to keep our community healthy. Confirmation - Youth Contact Parish Office 731-5744 CLASSES CANCELLED The chapel is open RCIA & Adult Confirmation 24 hours, 7 days a week. Marriages CLASSES CANCELLED Contact Parish Office at least nine months prior to wedding date. THIRD SUNDAy Of EASTER Sandra Behr, Dave Wright, Gregory Lucero Jr., Ben Day, Guadalupe Echavarria, Vina Gurule, Jimmy McCabe Please pray for our churches, clergy and parishioners experiencing financial hardship during COVID-19. Please call the parish office to have a name added to our Prayer List. Names will remain on the list for 1 month. gOSPEL MEDITATIONS twice. The journey is always different. What kinds of things ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING do you notice as you walk through life? It seems that the disciples of the Road to Emmaus missed a lot at first. We What does it take for our eyes to be opened? Every do as well. day, a man laboriously walks down Main Street of town. We are called to walk with purpose, to listen, and to With great difficulty but graceful determination, he places notice things that may not at first be apparent. We have to one foot in front of the other, uses a crudely made staff for allow the One who has a special claim on our soul to support, and walks. His pace is slow, but he walks. What en lighten, instruct, and inspire us. The incarnate mystery of does he hope to see? Where does he want to go? What God is pulsating in and through all of creation, where the does he find? We all walk through life. The type of “walking” presence of the Word who became flesh can be life requires is not always physical but is most assuredly discov ered. He has been with us all along. How could we emotional and spiritual. We walk, we look, we encounter, have missed Him? Our journey brings us back to the and we seek. How we do these things and what we actually break ing of the bread, and something begins to stir within find is determined by what we carry and what we allow us. We begin to understand, and things look differently. ourselves to discover along the way. Bread, body, wine, and blood bring us to see that everyone If walking is too challenging for us, we may choose to and everything is a “Eucharistic” encounter. We become isolate and stay alone. If we are afraid to walk, we may be - what we eat and we see what we eat. We continue to walk. come overly dependent on others providing for us and Our eyes are now opened, and we recognize Him. Our abandon the journey. We can walk and pay attention only hearts burn. Stay with us. Please stay with us. to what is in front of our feet and never notice the immen sity ©LPi of what is happening around us. The road is never the same InVEST In THE WELCOME TO OUR IHM/JP II Catholic FUTURE FOOd PanTRy Church Rentals We currently need Adopt a Child’s Religious Rentals available: IHM Parish Hall & baking mix and soup. Kitchen, JP II Meeting Rooms, Edu cation for the School Year. Please leave your donation in the Narthex, Pavilion and Kitchen. The average cost for one RE Pantry Box of the JP II Entry. The If interested, please contact stu dent is $340 per child per year. Food Pantry is on the north side of Parish Office 353 S. Pagosa Blvd. the church. Hours: Wed. 10- 12 970-731-5744 Thank you for your generosity! or email: [email protected] APRIL 26, 2020 Church At Home Home Altar We are all still at home and watching Live Stream Masses from our living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens. While this is fulfilling our spiritual soul might feel something missing. A special sacred place for prayer and devotion. Why not make a home altar? A place where the family can pray and attend Live Stream Masses while staying at home.