April 8, 2018 St. Ann’s Parish Mission St. Ann Parish seeks Pastor ...................................................................... Rev. Timothy S. Reid ............................... 704-523-4641 x222 the salvation of souls Deacon ................................................................ Rev. Mr. Thomas Sanctis............................ 704-523-4641 x223 through the redemption Pastoral Associate .............................................. Sister Judy Monahan, SSJ ........................... 704-521-9589 of Jesus Christ as Liturgical Ministries ....................................................... Carol Kuhn ....................................... 704-527-5277 Music ............................................................................ Terese Rowe ...................................... 704-599-5725 revealed to us in and Facilities/Scheduling/Maintenance Supervisor ............. Savas Mallos ...................................... 704-523-4641 x233 through the divinely Maintenance .............................................................. Raymond Mosley .................................. 704-523-4641 x233 instituted Holy Financial Administrator .............................................. Terry Alderman ................................... 704-523-4641 x224 Catholic Church. We Parish Secretary ............................................................. Marcy Rothe ...................................... 704-523-4641 x221 Weekend Receptionist………………………………....Rebecca Spain……………………….704-523-4641 x221 invite all to receive God's love as we give of ourselves in Liturgical Schedule Parish Office Hours compassionate service. (Changes in the schedule noted inside) Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Closed 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. for lunch. Sunday Mass Schedule Weekday Masses Adoration Reconciliation Vigil Mass (Saturday): 4:30 p.m. Monday: 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. (Mass Tuesday 8:00 a.m. through Thursday: 5:30-6:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.; in the Extraordinary Form), Wednesday 5:00 p.m. Saturday: 3:00-4:00 p.m. Mass in the Extraordinary Tuesday and Thursday: 7:00 a.m. Holy Hour: Form: 12:30 p.m. Wednesday: 6:00 p.m. (Mass in the Wednesday 5:00 p.m. Extraordinary Form) Friday: 7:00 a.m. (Mass in the Extraordinary Form) and 8:30 a.m. Divine Mercy Sunday April 8, 2018 THIS WEEK AT ST. ANN + denotes deceased Mass Intentions Meetings & Events Divine Mercy 8:00 a.m. Intentions of Abbey & Rick 9:00 a.m. Faith Formation (School) | Sunday Lejk’s Anniversary Faith Formation Adults (Classrooms) April 8th 10:30 a.m. +Michael Kitson 12 noon Pro-Life Rosary (Chapel) by the family 2:00 p.m. Baptism (Church) 12:30 p.m. Latin 6:30 p.m. Men’s Club (Kitchen & Café) Our parish family Monday 7:00 a.m. Intentions of 9:00 a.m. H.S. Testing (Library) 9th Kayla Budidharma 9:30 a.m. Family Holy Hour (Church) by Ellena Budidharma 10:00 a.m. Scout room in use 1:00 p.m. Catholic Classic Enrichment (All rooms) 4:30 p.m. Servers (Church) 5:30 p.m. World Rosary (Chapel) 6:00 p.m. Classrooms 1 & 2 in use 6:30 p.m. Fraternus (Gym) | Fidelis (Café) 7:00 p.m. Legion of Mary (Conference room) Tuesday 7:00 a.m. Intentions of 8:30 a.m. Classrooms, Scout room, and Ceramic 10th Courtney McNamara room in use by the Cortes family 1:00 p.m. Catholic Scripture Studies (Scout room) Adoration in the chapel at 8:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. Scout room in use | Bible Study (Ceramic room) Wednesday Adoration continues in the chapel 10:00 a.m. Bible Timeline (Scout room) 11th 5:00 p.m. Holy Hour 7:00 p.m. Catholic Scripture Studies (Scout room) | 6:00 p.m. Latin St. Vincent de Paul Society Meeting Intentions of Arte Burnham (Conference room) by Christine Burnham Thursday 7:00 a.m. +Lisa Baldwin 8:30 a.m. Classrooms, Scout room, and Ceramic 12th by the Lauer family room in use 5:30 p.m. Confessions 9:30 a.m. Conference room in use 6:00 p.m. Choir (Church) 7:00 p.m. Scout room in use Friday 7:00 a.m. Latin 8:00 a.m. School Rosary (Chapel) 13th Intentions of Luiz Cortes 9:00 a.m. Catholic Classic Enrichment (All rooms) by the family 5:00 p.m. Rehearsal (Church) | Classrooms in use 8:30 a.m. +Charlie Sain by Lana & Nick Wilkens Saturday 3:00 p.m. Confessions 8:00 a.m. Carmelites (All room) 14th 4:30 p.m. Intentions of 9:00 a.m. Classrooms in use Beata D’Innoenzo 1:30 p.m. Wedding (Church) by Jim D’Innocenzo Sunday 8:00 a.m. Intentions of 9:00 a.m. Faith Formation (School) | Faith 15th Rev. Mr. Peter Tonon Formation Adults (Classrooms) by Marcy & Jeff Rothe 9:10 a.m. Baptismal Preparation Class (Scout 10:30 a.m. Intentions of Linda Denton room) 12:30 p.m. Latin 12 noon Pro-Life Rosary (Chapel) Our parish family 12:30 p.m. Homeless Ministry (Kitchen ) 2:00 p.m. Church & Café in use 2 St. Ann Catholic Church www.StAnnCharlotte.org Dear Parishioners, A blessed Divine Mercy Sunday to you! This is always one of my favorite feasts of the year, for it reminds us so clearly of God’s unfathomable love for us. As we consider all that our Lord promised St. Faustina about His divine mercy, we see that there is nothing that should ever keep us from God. As long as we are sorry for our sins, repent of them, and confess them, then His mercy covers all things – even the worst of our sins. Who of us cannot take great comfort in that? With this in mind, I encourage you to make good use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation from time to time. While Holy Mother Church only requires us to go to Confession once a year (a requirement that is only binding on those who are conscious of grave sin), it is a very good practice to go to confession regularly (say, every 4-6 weeks) – even for just venial sins. It is there in the confessional that God’s mercy is poured upon us so generously and in such a way that not only are our sins forgiven, but we are given new strength to overcome our persistent sins. When we humbly approach our Lord in the confessional with true sorrow for our sins, He opens wide His arms and draws us so gently to Himself. This week I ask you to pray for our fellow parishioner, Peter Tonon. Peter will be ordained as a permanent deacon this coming Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Mark Catholic Church. All are invited to attend. Peter has been in training for several years, and it is our hope that once he is ordained he will be assigned with us here at St. Ann’s. Please pray that he and the men who will be ordained along with him will always be conscious of the great dignity of their vocation and always fulfill it well. Lastly, as many of you know by now, Sr. Judy had a small stroke in Holy Week. She spent several days in the hospital and is now in a rehab center working toward a full recovery. Please keep her in your prayers as she rehabilitates. You are welcome to send any cards to us here at the parish office, and we will be sure she gets them. Trustful of God’s Great Mercy, Fr. Reid Fr. Reid’s homilies (audio & PDF) & the bulletins are posted on the website: www.StAnnCharlotte.org 3 Divine Mercy Sunday April 8, 2018 Your Stewardship of Treasure 722 registered families Weekly YTD March 18, 2017 Actual Budget Actual Budget Weekly Collection 17,512.50 16,538.46 657,919.31 611,923.02 Other Revenue Streams: 87,686.62 81,750.01 Total Revenue: 745,605.93 693,673.03 YTD Surplus/Deficit: 51,932.90 DSA: 2018 Goal: 106,285.00 Marion Grotto Pledged: 78,358.88 Goal: 160,000.00 Received: 49,004.84 Received: 114,500.00 Assessment Balance: 57,280.16 Balance: 45,500.00 Donors: 129 Loan Balance: 244,990.90 Give Electronically at www.StAnnCharlotte.org The decision to give has not so much to do with calendars and budgets. Rather, the decision to Please be generous to the Diocesan give is really a matter of putting Support Appeal. Your your life with God into contribution to the Diocesan perspective. Support Appeal is a way to act with love for our sisters and brothers throughout the Food Collections for the Catholic Charities Diocese diocese and to continue the saving work begun by of Charlotte Food Pantry are the first and third Jesus. Next week during Mass, you may complete a weekends of every month: The next collection pledge envelope or go to www.charlottediocese.org/ weekends are: April 7th-8th, April 21st-22nd, and dsa to make a gift online. May 5th-6th. I am the light of the world, says the Lord; In the Gospel today, Jesus stands whoever follows me will have the light of life. in the midst of us and says: “Peace -- USC of Catholic Bishops be with you!” Bring peace to those who live in fear and doubt, For those of you who would like to learn more about loneliness and dread through your our beautiful Catholic faith, we’ve got some great gift to St Vincent de Paul. online resources available to every member of our parish through a program called Formed. In order to access these resources, just go to: www.formed.org and click on “Find Out More” at the bottom of the homepage. Endowments for St. Ann’s Parish: You will be taken to page where you can enter a parish code Did you know that we have an endowment for both our to get access to the resources. Our parish code is: parish and our school? These funds, established in 1999 for Y6ZQ8M. Once you’ve logged in under our parish code, the parish and 2000 for the school, are for the general and you can create your personal profile and login.