Memo from Msgr - Easter Monday
My dear family in the Lord,
The Lord is risen. ALLELUIA !
This is the real meaning of Easter…
No newspaper will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb.
The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door. And eternal life which may be ours now, by faith in Christ, is not interrupted when the soul leaves the body, for we live on…and on.
There is no death to those who have entered into fellowship with Him who emerged from the tomb. Because the resurrection is true it is the most significant thing in our world today. Bringing the resurrected Christ into our lives, individual and national, is the only hope we have for making a better world.
“Because I live you shall live also.”
That is the real meaning of Easter.
–Peter Marshall (1902-1949), The First Easter
BACK TO NORMAL (so to speak) : Now that Holy Week is over, we will go back to our "normal" quarantine schedule on Monday :
9 am - Holy Mass on-line
5:30 pm Confessions in the Adoration Chapel (Monday through Saturday)
6 pm Holy Hour on-line
THE DIVINE MERCY NOVENA will be part of the 6 pm Holy Hour each day this week.
NO MONDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY this week. We are taking an Easter break. In a few days we will announce our new Bible Study.
BLESSED EASTER WATER is available in the church.
SHARE US ON-LINE on your social media. Download the parish app onto your smart phone or tablet. It the easiest way to receive everything the parish has to enrich your life.
HOLINESS TIP: Pray the Surrender Novena and feel daily consolation praying, “O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything!”
QUARANTINE HUMOR: for all you newbie homeschooling parents out there.....
Day 1 of Home Schooling': One of those little monsters called in a bomb threat.
'Day 2 of Home Schooling': One of my children just said, "I hope I don't have the same teacher next year!"
Homeschooling is not going well. Two students suspended for fighting and one teacher fired for drinking on the job.
OUR PRAYER FOR THE DAY: this is a beautiful prayer of Thanksgiving for the Resurrection...
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast broken for us the bonds of sin and brought us into fellowship with the Father.
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast overcome death and opened to us the gates of eternal life.
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because where two or three are gathered together in thy Name there art thou in the midst of them.
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou lives forever to make intercession for us.
For these and all other benefits of thy mighty resurrection, thanks be unto thee O Christ.
I send you my fatherly blessing, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen !
Msgr. Doug Raun
The Lord is risen. ALLELUIA !
This is the real meaning of Easter…
No newspaper will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb.
The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door. And eternal life which may be ours now, by faith in Christ, is not interrupted when the soul leaves the body, for we live on…and on.
There is no death to those who have entered into fellowship with Him who emerged from the tomb. Because the resurrection is true it is the most significant thing in our world today. Bringing the resurrected Christ into our lives, individual and national, is the only hope we have for making a better world.
“Because I live you shall live also.”
That is the real meaning of Easter.
–Peter Marshall (1902-1949), The First Easter
BACK TO NORMAL (so to speak) : Now that Holy Week is over, we will go back to our "normal" quarantine schedule on Monday :
9 am - Holy Mass on-line
5:30 pm Confessions in the Adoration Chapel (Monday through Saturday)
6 pm Holy Hour on-line
THE DIVINE MERCY NOVENA will be part of the 6 pm Holy Hour each day this week.
NO MONDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY this week. We are taking an Easter break. In a few days we will announce our new Bible Study.
BLESSED EASTER WATER is available in the church.
SHARE US ON-LINE on your social media. Download the parish app onto your smart phone or tablet. It the easiest way to receive everything the parish has to enrich your life.
HOLINESS TIP: Pray the Surrender Novena and feel daily consolation praying, “O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything!”
QUARANTINE HUMOR: for all you newbie homeschooling parents out there.....
Day 1 of Home Schooling': One of those little monsters called in a bomb threat.
'Day 2 of Home Schooling': One of my children just said, "I hope I don't have the same teacher next year!"
Homeschooling is not going well. Two students suspended for fighting and one teacher fired for drinking on the job.
OUR PRAYER FOR THE DAY: this is a beautiful prayer of Thanksgiving for the Resurrection...
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast broken for us the bonds of sin and brought us into fellowship with the Father.
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou hast overcome death and opened to us the gates of eternal life.
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because where two or three are gathered together in thy Name there art thou in the midst of them.
Thanks be unto thee, O Christ, because thou lives forever to make intercession for us.
For these and all other benefits of thy mighty resurrection, thanks be unto thee O Christ.
I send you my fatherly blessing, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen !
Msgr. Doug Raun
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