LITURGY SCHEDULE Mass Times: Sunday 8:30 am Mass Live Stream 11:00 am Mass 5:00 pm Mass Monday 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Tuesday 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Wednesday 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Thursday 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Friday 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Saturday 8:00 am Mass 4:00 pm Mass Sunday 8:30 am Mass Live Stream 11:00 am Mass 5:00 pm Mass FROM OUR PAROCHIAL VICAR Sunday March 21, 2021 8:30 am: Therese O’Conner ╬ Day of Mercy: Begin Again 11:00 am: Pat Donaldson 5:00 pm: Mass for the Parish All of us need mercy and all of us need the grace to begin Monday March 22, 2021 again. We have all made mistakes, missed opportunities, 8:00 am: Robert McGrew ╬ miscalculated, and misjudged situations and people. We’ve let Tuesday March 23, 2021 people down, not kept our word, spoken harshly, not listened, 8:00 am: Phyllis Sanfilippo ╬ lied, been selfish, and selfcentered. We have hurt others and we have been hurt. Our failures, moral and otherwise, can sometimes shape and define us. Wednesday March 24, 2021 8:00 am: Ken Malek ╬ We may even come to identify ourselves with them: “That is who I am.” We Thursday March 25, 2021 can base our selfworth on them, allowing the gnawing doubt to creep into 8:00 am: Jerry Lafeber ╬ our mind: “If they only knew what I did, if they only knew what I’ve done….” Friday March 26, 2021 All of this can profoundly shape our present and our future relationships. 8:00 am: Ed & Betty Rucker ╬ How do we respond to our sin? Saturday March 27, 2021 Sometimes, we can respond to our sin by trying to hide it and pretend it didn’t 8:00 am: Hoa Nguyen 4:00 pm: Lawrence Henning ╬ happen, pretend we didn’t commit the sin. Sometimes we can try to minimize what we’ve done: “It’s not that big of a deal,” but does that ever give us Sunday March 28, 2021 lasting peace? Does that ever give us peace of conscience? Sometimes we 8:30 am: Dolores Popp ╬ can respond harshly to ourselves and beat ourselves up. 11:00 am: Richard Sunderman ╬ 5:00 pm: Mass for the Parish But God doesn’t want us to beat ourselves up. He wants us to have a broken heart and come back to Him through repentance and confession. Sin is RECONCILIATION isolating and painful. He doesn’t want to leave us in that pain. He wants to Monday thru Friday: 7:30 7:55 am be with us. So, He calls us: “Come back to Me. I will forgive you. You can Tuesday: 4:45 5:30 pm begin again. There is hope.” Thursday 4:45 5:30 pm What we tell ourselves is never as powerful as what God wants to tell us. Saturday: 2:30 3:30 pm What mercy means is that we let God’s Word have the final, defining power. Sunday: 4:00 4:45 pm He gets to say who we are, not our sin. He gets to say who we truly belong to: Him and His covenant family, the Church. He knows what we have done EUCHARISTIC ADORATION and He still loves us. The whole meaning of the Cross, which we are coming Wednesday: close to remembering on Good Friday is God’s faithful covenant love for us Exposition following 8:00 am Mass an unshakeable love, an unconditional love ready to forgive and welcome back, ready for us to begin again with Him. We prayed this Sunday: Benediction @ 5:00 pm Sunday: “Create a clean heart in me, O God. Exposition @ 1:00 pm Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; Benediction @ 4:45 pm in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt MARRIAGE & BAPTISM Contact the parish office to make arrangements Please allow at least six Continued on page 4~ months to prepare for marriage and three months for baptism. 5th Sunday of Lent ~ March 21, 2021 Saint Ambrose · Page 2 Our Parish Family Contact Information Saint Ambrose Catholic Community 4125 Woodbury Drive Woodbury, MN 55129 Phone: 651.768.3030 Fax: 651.714.9257 Parish Hours: We welcome into the family of God Monday Thursday: 8:30 am 5:00 pm and our Catholic Community: Friday: 8:30 am 4:30 pm Peter Neil Bruns Building Hours: Son of Sean & Alexandra Monday Friday: 7:30 am 5:00 pm Saturday: noon 5:30 pm Sunday: 8:00 am 6:30 pm Website: saintambrosecatholic.org Fr. Peter Williams, Pastor [email protected], 651.768.3005 Fr. Ben Wittnebel, Parochial Vicar New Parishioners [email protected], 651.768.3006 Deacon John Vomastek, Pastoral Minister We welcome the following new [email protected], 651.768.3008 parishioners to our parish family: LeAnn BauerStaiger, Operations Manager [email protected], 651.768.3009 Rochelle & Todd Zuerlein Yvonne Blanchard, Faith Formation Administrative Assistant [email protected], 651.768.3015 Jackie Harvey, Director of Music & Liturgy [email protected], 651.768.3007 Bob Harvey, Director of Music & Liturgy [email protected], 651.768.3017 Greg Hereford, Parish Business Administrator [email protected], 651.768.3010 Marie Maki, Communications Coordinator [email protected], 651.768.3064 Jenni McAtee, Faith Formation Elementary/PreSchool Ad Asst. [email protected], 651.768.3020 Nancy McGrew, RCIA & Liturgy Coordinator [email protected], 651.768.3023 Danny Orsinger, Youth Ministry & Confirmation [email protected], 651.768.3022 Janet Parker, Administrative Assistant [email protected], 651.768.3030 Bri St. Amour, Middle School Faith Formation & Youth Ministry [email protected], 651.768.3021 Mike Thompson, Buildings & Grounds [email protected], 651.768.3026 Patti Watkins, Director of Faith Formation [email protected], 651.768.3011 Saint Ambrose Catholic School Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Phone: 651.768.3000 Fax: 651.768.3080 Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Betsy OsterhausHand, Principal [email protected] To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; Early Childhood Education Center with you Christ became man. Phone: 651.768.3031 Fax: 651.768.3090 Anne Huber, Director Blessed Joseph, to us too, [email protected] show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life. Promise to Protect For information about the commitment to create safe environments in our Archdiocese Obtain for us grace, mercy, and courage, please visit http://safeenvironment.archspm.org. and defend us from every evil. Victim Hotline: 1.800.422.4453 Victim Assistance Program: 651.291.4475 Amen. Saint Ambrose Safe Environment Coordinator: LeAnn BauerStaiger, [email protected] , 651.768.3009 Saint Ambrose · Page 3 Stewardship Weekly Schedule SACRIFICIAL GENEROSITY Week of March 14th, 2021 Adult Contributions . $24,396.03 Votive Candles . $61.00 Sunday 8:30 am Mass TOTAL . $24,457.03 8:30 am Preschool Faith Formation Special Collections: 9:45 am Preschool & Elementary Faith Formation 11:00 am Mass Church Building Fund . $3,500.00 1:00 pm Adoration Church 4:00 pm Reconciliation Fiscal YeartoDate Information 5:00 pm Mass Church July 1st, 2020 February 28th, 2021 6:30 pm Edge Gym 6:30 pm Confirmation Year I & II Large Group Church Sunday Stewardship collected . $1,309,370.88 Monday Sunday Stewardship Budgeted . $1,424,689.00 7:30 am Reconciliation Difference . ($115,318.12) 8:00 am Mass Live Stream December 2020 YTD Comparisons: 2020 vs. 2019 Tuesday Source 2021 2020 7:30 am Reconciliation ACH $482,871 $490,838 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Envelopes $417,004 $529,718 4:45 pm Reconciliation Children’s Envelopes $1,414 $662 6:00 pm First Eucharist Retreat Plate Cash $78,083 $101,772 Wednesday Stock $55,959 $66,977 WeShare App $143,098 $52,233 7:30 am Reconciliation Special/Misc $66,708 $73,785 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Holy Days $66,753 $67,660 8:30 am Adoration Returns/NSF ($2,520) ($6,269) 10:00 am Day of Mercy (10:00 am 8:00 pm) 6:30 pm Elementary Faith Formation NNNN NNNN $1,309,370 $1,377,376 6:30 pm Edge Gym Thursday January 2021 Debt Payments: Payment Type Debt Balance 6:15 am Mass Men’s Impact 133 7:30 am Reconciliation Principal Payments $28,771 $6,440,872 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Interest payments $17,394 4:45 pm Reconciliation $46,165 6:00 pm First Eucharist Retreat Friday READINGS FOR THE WEEK 7:30 am Reconciliation 8:00 am Mass Live Stream Sunday: Jer 31:3134/Ps 51:34, 1213, 1415 [12a]/ 5:30 pm Stations of the Cross Heb 5:79/Jn 12:2033 or Ez 37:1214/ Rom 8:811/Ps Saturday 130:12, 34, 56, 78 [7]/Jn 11:145 or 11:37, 17, 20 8:00 am Mass 27, 33b45 8:30 am Women’s Lenten Series Monday: Dn 13:19, 1517, 1930, 3362 or 13:41c62/ 2:30 pm Reconciliation Ps 23:13a, 3b4, 5, 6 [4ab]/ Jn 8:111 4:00 pm Mass 7:00 pm Extreme Faith Night Fellowship Hall Tuesday: Nm 21:49/Ps 102:23, 1618, 1921 [2]/Jn Sunday 8:2130 8:30 am Mass Wednesday: Dn 3:1420, 9192, 95/Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 8:30 am Preschool Faith Formation 56 [52b]/Jn 8:3142 9:45 am Preschool & Elementary Faith Formation 11:00 am Mass Church Thursday: Is 7:1014; 8:10/Ps 40:78, 89, 10, 11 [8a, 1:00 pm Adoration Church 9a]/Heb 10:410/Lk 1:2638 4:00 pm Reconciliation Friday: Jer 20:1013/Ps 18:23a, 3bc4, 56, 7 [cf.