April 11, 2021 Mercy Sunday signor Duncanson for Masses and Confessions during these April 11, 2021 days. Mercy Sunday Looking ahead: Dear Parishioners: First Communion Mass on Saturday, May 8 at 8:30 am. Joyful greetings of the Easter season! Confirmation Mass with Bishop John Dolan on Saturday, May 15 at 10 am. (No 8:30 am Mass; No Confessions) Mass Count: Monsignor William Elliott will be returning to Ohio around Mon 3/29 49 May 15. Please pray for his safe travel. Tue 3/30 47 Wed 3/31 67 In the Risen Christ, Thu 4/1 178 Holy Thursday Fr. Fernando Ramirez, Pastor Fri 4/2 170 Good Friday Sat 4/3 293 Vigil of Easter Sun 4/4 Easter Sunday 8:30 am 275 VIRTUAL Marriage Enrichment: This year give 10:30 am 317 your marriage the gift of a Marriage Encounter Experience in Total: 1,396 the comfort of your own home. Worldwide Marriage Encoun- This Week’s Schedule: All services INDOORS with extra ter celebrates the love you have for your spouse and helps you to seating outdoors build, expand, and deepen that relationship. Our next virtual Experience is April 9-11th. Sign up today at Mon 4/12 Mass at 8:30 AM www.wwme-sandiego.org Tue 4/13 Mass at 8:30 AM Wed 4/14. Mass at 8:30 AM Thu 4/15 Mass at 8:30 AM Fri 4/16 Mass at 8:30 AM Sat 4/17 Mass at 8:30 AM CONFESSIONS Saturday, April 10 9:00-9:30 a.m. Confessions 9:00- 9:30 AM Saturday, April 17 9:00-9:30 a.m. Sun 4/18 3rd Sunday of Easter Saturday, April 24 9:00-9:30 a.m Masses at 8:30 AM and 10:30 AM The Funeral Mass for Jack Gallagher is Friday, April 23 at 10:00 am. I will be away from the parish for Easter break from April 14 -18. I appreciate the help from Monsignor Elliott and Mon- Deadline for Bulletin Articles Monday 9am. Send to: [email protected]. THANK YOU! for your help! St Timothy’s Sunday Pew Collection & Online Giving On-line Giving is available on our website www.sttimothychurch.com, Click on On-line giving. Great to use your credit cards for those points. Pay for St Timothy’s donations, Special Collection, Bible Studies, Rel Ed, Youth Ministry, plus donations to all fund raisers. See page in this bulletin with parish & special collections list. If you wish to setup online giving, you can set up to give weekly, monthly or yearly and it will automatically deduct at date you request. You can use debit or credit cards, and if you get points that is nice too. Funds on deposit (Building Fund) $357,820 for major repairs Because deposits go into separate accounts, it would greatly help if you would write separate checks for each donation and not lump multiple donations into one check. Many Thanks. Collection Envelopes Plate Total pew Weekly Date Name or # to post to Loose change no name Collection Online giving Grand Total 3/21 $6,197 $574 $6,771 $6,079 3/15-21 $12,850 3/28 $6,320 $965 $7,285 $3,265 3/22-28 $10,550 4/1 H Thu $615 $356 $971 4/2 G Fri $555 $155 $710 4/3-4Easter $19,300 $356 $19,656 $6,313 3/29-4/4 $25,969 Our Catechumens who will receive their sacraments Message from St. Timothy Outreach Com- and come into the Catholic Church MERCY SUNDAY. mittee - Interfaith is providing many more lunches and food for those in need during this time. Surplus fruit Christopher Fleming or any other donations would be greatly appreci- I am 29 years old, grew up in San Diego, ated. They have an organized drop-off system in place spent most of my life here, and the vast at their facility at 550 West Washington Avenue, Escon- majority of that time as a non- denominational Christian. Eventually, I dido. They will direct you to a parking spot and will re- fell out of the faith and into a prolonged move the items from your car. Contact Michael Fontes absurdist/atheist spell, where I thought 760 708-6819 [email protected] to help coordinate that the best the world had to offer was a pickup if needed. Your donations of canned goods and good laugh with good friends. Ultimately, food are much appreciated. Drop off frozen turkeys, hams a meaningless life with pleasant distrac- and other perishable items at Interfaith. Non-perishables tions seemed less and less satisfying to in the wagon in back of church. God bless you for your me. generosity in helping others in need. Slowly, but more and more surely, the more I looked into the meaning of things, and what things I believed and would never throw away and how these things need a founder and a safeguarder, the less of a fight I was willing to make Prayer Quilts for those who are ill are available. against God , and the more I wanted to let go of my pride and Call the office and tell Elizabeth you would like a quilt. It will understand Him. And the more I realized that I wanted to be be placed in the office front entry with a card. Give us the name certain, the more I realized that I had to come to God through and condition of the person to be prayed for and our parishion- the Catholic Church. Factoids: I work for Poway School Dis- ers will pray for them though they cannot sign the card or tie trict as a bus aide. I read a lot and forget just as much. the quilt. You take it to them for comfort and consolation in their time of need. [email protected]. Steve Gipson 42 years old. Land surveyor/engineering Have you changed your phone number or technician. I moved from Phoenix AZ to Escondido in November 2020. I began address? Please let the office know. Thanks. attending Mass in March of 2019 after I [email protected]. had spent 3 years reading the Bible. I grew up in a Jehovah’s Witness family and had become an atheist in 2010. I noticed the social and moral decline in the world and realized that it presented a IN THE HOSPITAL? Need a Catholic threat to human survival. After having priest? Please contact the Hospital Chaplain’s Of- taken many college courses in various subjects, I began to real- fice. This is the only way to get a priest that has been set ize the Bible contained the answers to life’s tough questions up by the Diocese. and that it was meant to guide all mankind in their walk of life. An acquaintance of mine took me to Mass, where I experienced peace I had never felt before. I came to the conclusion that if Jesus returned that day, and he were to choose a church to be in charge of all of his belongings, he would choose the church Special Mass for Racial Healing. Bishop McElroy that is saving the most souls from their inherited bad tenden- invites all faithful to unite with the Asian and Pacific Islander cies. The Catholic Church has the most members and is the communities at a special Mass to pray for the universal recogni- most balanced of the Christian churches. So I decided I would tion of the dignity of every man and woman as children of God, join the Catholic Church. Since then, I have faced many obsta- and to emerge from deep racial divisions stronger as one people. cles, including the pandemic, homelessness and illness, but The outdoor special Mass will be Thursday, April have managed to stick with it. 15, at 6:30 p.m., at Good Shepherd Parish. Please bring your own chairs, physically distance and wear masks. The Mass also will be live-streamed at www.sdcatholic.org/ April Is Child Abuse Prevention Month. solidarity This annual observance is dedicated to raising awareness and preventing child abuse. One in four children have experienced abuse or neglect at some point in their lives. Children who ex- perience abuse or neglect can suffer from physical, psychologi- Please keep all victim/survivors of abuse in your prayers cal, and behavioral issues. A National Institute of Justice study this month, especially those harmed within the church and found that abused or neglected children are 59% more likely to those abused as children. be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit a violent crime. Individuals and parishes are encouraged to rededicate Reporting Sexual Abuse. Complaints about sexual themselves to being supportive of families, play an active role abuse by a member of the clergy or by a parish or Catholic in preventing child abuse and neglect, and to promote child and school employee or volunteer can be made by contacting Mary family well-being. Acosta, 858-490-8353 or at [email protected]. Outreach Ministries is Looking for Volunteers Job Opening: Day/Night Childcare Worker The Outreach Ministry is a small group of parishioners who & Teacher's Assistant. actively support both parishioners and non-parishioners with Join our team at The Refuge, a Catholic residential therapeutic financial and other assistance to meet basic needs for shelter, program for 12-17 year old female victims of sex trafficking in food, clothing and other needs. Often this is acting with or as Escondido.