First Communion Class of 2017 St. Bernadette Catholic Church St. Bernadette Catholic Church May 28, 2017 350 NW California Boulevard, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986 Page 2 Dear Friends, Where the Lord has gone, we hope to follow. These words summarize today’s Solemnity of the MONDAY, MAY 29, 2017 Ascension of the Lord into Heaven. 8:00 am †Jean Martino, requested by loving son, Ric As much as the Disciples witnessing the event (and we too, for that matter) naturally lift our TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2017 heads to try to catch a glimpse of the Lord as He 8:00 am †Lillian Tulumello, requested by disappears into the clouds, we must spend our Mary Ann & Warren Evensen lives preparing to ascend to our God as well. As WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017 Matthew Leonard once said, we are either 8:00 am †Miriam Foppe, requested by spending our lives going up or going down. Bob & Family Prayer, Eucharistic Adoration, practicing the THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017 Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, in other 8:00 am †Betty Hartley, requested by words, being good stewards of God’s gifts, help us Richard & Barbara Jaworski do what we can to be lifted up and follow the Lord Jesus into His Kingdom, into the arms of our FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017 Heavenly Father. 8:00 am †Deceased members of the Benedict Family, requested by May today’s Ascension further deepen our Suresh & Angeline Desai prayer for the Holy Spirit to come upon us, next SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2017 week on Pentecost and every day of our lives! 8:00 am †Mario Aday, requested by Martha Gil Have a wonderful week! 4:00 pm †Henry & Jeanne Archambault, Father Victor Ulto, Pastor requested by Ken & Jeannine Anderson SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2017 7:30 am †Mary & Martin Healy, requested by granddaughter, Kathy 9:00 am For the People of the Parish 10:45 am †Dionisio & Zoila Suarez, requested by their son Today, Sunday, May 28 is the last weekend for the 12:15 pm Mass. This Mass time returns on Sunday, September 3. Together in the Upper Room The intensity of the sequence of events for the apostles, Mary, and others with them is almost beyond imagining. After the stunning transitions from the crucifixion to the resurrection, from Jesus’ appearances for 40 days, to His disappearance into the clouds as His Ascension, I picture them returning, slipping exhausted into almost wordless prayer. What I find heartening is that they had each other. In this time between everything they had known before and the vast unknown ahead, they were praying together in the familiar space of the upper room. All of us go through major transitions, sometimes reversals, that leave us shocked and bewildered. Beloved God, when we are thrust into the unknown, hold us in the upper room of your loving heart. Help us trust that, like the apostles, somehow your Spirit will show us the way. P. Livingston Ascension of the Lord Page 3 Stewardship....Live It! STEWARDSHIP & MEMORIAL DAY... Stewardship: a way of life for our St. Bernadette Parish Family… “May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call.” Ephesians 1: 18 STEWARDSHIP & JESUS’ EXPECTATIONS… Our first reading is from the Book of Acts. In fact, it is the beginning of that Book. Acts was written by St. Luke. It is a continuation of his Gospel in many ways. We do not learn that much about Luke from the New Testament. Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Most historians agree that he was a doctor; he was a Day. The current name for this day did not come into use Gentile; and he was a companion of St. Paul. until after World War II. Decoration Day, and then Acts is basically the continuation of Jesus’ work as Memorial Day used to be held on May 30, regardless of described in the Gospels. In effect it describes how the the day of the week on which it fell. In 1968, the Uniform Good News traveled from Jerusalem to Rome. Our Holidays Bill was passed as part of a move to use federal readings today are filled with reminders that Jesus’ work holidays to create three-day weekends. This meant that is not completed. He commissioned His followers to beginning in 1971, Memorial Day holiday has been continue it after His Ascension into Heaven. Among officially observed on the last Monday in May. those commissioned so to speak is each of us. Instituted to honor those men and women who have The Lord’s work continues from that day to today. died in service to our country, it has expanded in many However, for it to continue and for the love He shared places to a time to remember and honor our dead. and displayed to be the factor, it needs to be in our parish Regardless how you choose to commemorate Memorial and in the Church and in the world it is reliant upon us. Day, each person and each family should set aside some time to remember and pray for those who have given their It was St. Teresa of Avila who wrote, Christ has no lives so we can enjoy the freedom of this country. body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which He looks compassion eavenly Father, on this world. Yours are the feet with which He walks to H As we remember those who have made the do good. Yours are the hands through which He blesses ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, every day, we think of how they have followed yours are the eyes, you are His Body. Christ has no body in the footsteps of Your Son, our Savior, Jesus now on earth but yours. Ω Christ. Please hold our service men and women in Your strong arms. Cover them with Your sheltering grace and Your presence as they stand in the gap for our protection. May the members of our armed forces be supplied with courage to face each day and may they trust in the Lord’s mighty power to accomplish each task. Let our military brothers and sisters feel our love and support. In the name of Jesus. A men Ω Financial stewardship for the month of May will be reported in the bulletin of Sunday, June 4, 2017. St. Bernadette Catholic Church May 28, 2017 350 NW California Boulevard, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986 Page 4 Readings for the Week PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR THE SICK: Sunday: Acts 1:12-14/Ps 27:1, 4, 7-8/ Lawrence Feehley Wayne Samuel Ide 1 Pt 4:13-16/Jn 17:1-11a Monday: Acts 19:1-8/Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab /Jn 16:29-33 PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR THE DECEASED: Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27/Ps 68:10-11, 20-21/ Tina Clark Barbara Hiles Jn 17:1-11a Vicky Patsos Margarita Dick Wednesday: Zep 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16/ Francis “Dutch” Scholtz Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6/Lk 1:39-56 Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11/Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11/ Jn 17:20-26 Friday: Acts 25:13b-21/Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, The Bread & Wine, 19-20ab/Jn 21:15-19 Sanctuary Lamp & Altar Flowers for the week of Saturday: Morning: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31/Ps 11:4-5, 7/ Jn 21:20-25 May 28 - June 3, 2017 Extended Vigil: Gn 11:1-9/Ps 33:10-15/Ex 19:3-8a, 16- are offered 20b/Dn 3:52-56 or Ps 19:8-11/Ez 37:1-14/Ps 107:2-9/Jl 3:1-5/Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-30/Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39 In Memory of Day: Acts 2:1-11/Ps 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34/1 Cor 12:3b-7, Ed Winters 12-13/Jn 20:19-23 by wife, Lucille Winters Observances for the Week of May 28, 2017 Sunday: 7th Sunday of Easter; World Communications Day Monday: Memorial Day Tuesday: Wednesday: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Thursday: St. Justin, Martyr Friday: St. Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs Saturday: St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs Pentecost…. Next Sunday, June 4, will be the ANNUAL NOVENA TO Solemnity of Pentecost. As we ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA remember the coming of the Holy Spirit To celebrate this feast day to upon the first Disciples and upon us, St. Anthony, we will again this we invite everyone to wear something year pray a novena to him each red as you come to Mass on either June 3 or June 4. May what we wear morning at 7:45 am (just prior to further remind us of how we are so morning Mass) beginning next inflamed with the love of God in us, Monday, June 5 and through Jesus, in His Spirit. The glow concluding on Tuesday, from that fire will light the world! June 13—the Feast day of Also on June 4, all in the parish are St. Anthony. All in the parish are invited to join in invited to a Pentecost Celebration in this beautiful novena. the Family Life Center from 2:30 to 6:00 pm. Our speaker will be Father Antony Lopez, OCD. There will be music, praise and worship, witnessing, time to pray and a potluck supper.