Easter Sunday Join us as we celebrate the joy of the risen Lord! The Lord is truly risen, alleluia!

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2 Page 2 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 9, 2017 During Holy Week each year, we enter most deeply into the foundation of our Christian faith the mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus. The Season of Lent ends on Thursday of Holy Week. Then the Church remembers the death and resurrection of Jesus during the Easter Triduum. The Easter Triduum begins on Holy Thursday with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, is continued through Good Friday with the celebration of the Passion of the Lord and on Holy Saturday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and concludes with Masses on Easter Sunday. These three days are the most important time of the Church year. Please join us for these holiest of days. Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper On Holy Thursday we remember the Last Supper and that Jesus gave himself in the Eucharist. We recall that Jesus chose his apostles to serve and lead the Church. Remembering that Jesus washed the apostle s feet at the Last Supper, the priest washes the feet of members of the congregation. The evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday is a beautiful and joyful celebration. Because Holy Thursday is a feast day of the Blessed Sacrament, there is a procession of the Eucharist after the Mass to an altar of repose set up in the Parish Hall. Thursday, April 13 (No morning Mass this day) 7:00pm Mass of the Lord s Supper Eucharistic Adoration 8:00pm-9:00pm in the Parish Hall Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord On Good Friday we remember the death of Jesus. According to an ancient custom, Mass is not celebrated on this day or before the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. The celebration of the Lord's passion and death takes place in the afternoon. There are three parts to the liturgy of the day: the Liturgy of the Word; the Veneration of the Cross; and Holy Communion with Hosts consecrated on Holy Thursday. Friday, April 14 (No morning Mass this day) 12:00pm Stations of the Cross English and 1:00pm Stations of the Cross Spanish 3:00pm Passion of the Lord English 7:00pm Passion of the Lord Spanish Holy Saturday Easter Vigil On Holy Saturday the Church meditates on the suffering and death of Jesus. Then the Church gathers to celebrate the Easter Vigil. Our celebration of the Easter Vigil takes place at 8pm and begins with a gathering on the Church steps around the fire. Saturday, April 15 (No confessions, adoration or 5pm Mass this day) 8:00pm Bilingual Mass Easter Sunday Join us as we celebrate the joy of the risen Lord! The Lord is truly risen, alleluia! Sunday, April 16 8:30am & 10:00am English Masses 11:30am Spanish Mass

3 Page 3 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 9, 2017 Mass Intentions Saturday...April 8 5:00PM Terri Beseda Sunday......April 9 8:30AM People of St. Didacus 10:00AM..... An Bui 11:30AM..... Rafael & Elodia Casas Monday...April 10 7:30AM Joel Alcazar, Spec. Int. Tuesday......April 11 6:00PM..... Joseph Luzar Wednesday....April 12 8:30AM......Gerald & Maria Hunter, Spec. Int. Thursday....April 13 7:30AM..Maria Hunter, Spec. Int. Friday......April 14 7:30AM No Mass Today Saturday...April 15 8:00PM Bart Diaz The Joy of Giving The Lord calls us to love God and to love our neighbor. Every day we are presented with opportunities to love our neighbor and help him carry his cross. These opportunities aren t usually big events, they are usually ordinary occurrences like helping someone carry their groceries or holding the door open for them. The key is putting the other person s needs before our own and not expecting anything in return. General Collection, April 2, 2017: $5, Building Fund, April 2, 2017: $2, Welcome to St. Didacus Parish! Sunday Masses Saturday 5:00pm, Sunday 8:30am & 10:00am 11:30am in Spanish Daily Mass Mon., Thurs., Fri. 7:30am /Tues. 6:00pm/ Wed. 8:30am Eucharistic Adoration Wed. 7:30am 8:30am / Saturday 3:30pm 5:00pm First Fridays 8:00am 9:00am Confessions Saturdays 3:30pm or by appt. Baptisms: 1st Saturday of each month. Arrangements must be made 3 months in advance. Contact the Parish Office for information. Weddings: Arrangements must be made at least 9 months in advance. Please contact the Parish Office. Mental Health Ministry Direct Line: For emergencies call 911. For non-emergencies please call Pastor, Rev. Michael J. Sinor The Parish Office is open 8am-noon, 1-5pm M-F Sunday, April 9, 2017 Confirmation II Class 10:00am School Monday, April 10, 2017 Scouts 6:30pm Hall Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Set-up for Holy Week 5:00pm-7:00pm Church/Hall Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Eucharistic Adoration 7:30am-8:30am Church Choir 7:00pm Church Men s Prayer Group 7:00pm Hall Thursday, April 13, 2017 Friday, April 14, 2017 Saturday, April 15, 2017 Easter Set-up 8:00am Church Rosalba Alarcon Helen Anton-Stohrel Maria Luz Arrellano Diann Bauer Dan Bauer Herbert Baxter Robert Bayles Martha Becerra Bob Bellesi Judy Bouchard Norm Boyer Herminia Brignoni Ibeth Brignoni Ruben Campos Gail Cedercrans Joana Cisneros Cecil Crews Aaron Damishia Irene Davis MaryLou De Luca Pauline Dease Bob Demers Cecelia Dueber Mary Farrell Weekly Events at St. Didacus The cross of shame in Jesus time has become for us the sign of victory over sin and death. Through his perfect sacrifice of love on the cross, Jesus won forgiveness for our sins and defeated the power of sin and evil. By so doing, Jesus transformed the cross from an instrument of death into the tree of life and source of our salvation. Readings for the week of April 9, 2017 Sunday: Mt 21:1-11/Is 50:4-7/Phil 2:6-11/ Mt 26:14 27:66 Monday: Is 42:1-7/Jn 12:1-11 Tuesday: Is 49:1-6/Ps 71:1-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15, 17/Jn 13:21-33, Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a/Mt 26:14-25 Thursday: Ex 12:1-8,11-14/1 Cor 11:23-26/Jn 13:1-15 Friday: Is 52:13 53:12/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/Jn 18:1 19:42 Saturday: Vigil: Gn 1:1 2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a/Gn 22:1-18 or 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18/Ps 16:5, 8-11/Ex 14:15 15:1/Ex 15:1-6, 17-18/Is 54:5-14/Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13/Is 55:1-11/Is 12:2-6/Bar 3:9-15, 32 4:4/Ps 19:8-11/Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28/Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3-4 or Is 12:2-6 or Ps 51:12-15, 18-19/Rom 6:3-11/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23/Mt 28:1-10 Next Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23/Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10 or Lk 24:13-35 Santiago Fontes Jerry Goodwin Jorge Gordillo Susan Guenzel Dolores Hansel Caleb Jerome Carol Keppel Marilyn Kober Elizabeth La Costa Virginia Lantry Juanita Lopez Maria Lopez Marlene S. Magers Anthony Martinez Rosalie Martinez Claire Meighan Terrence McCabe Trish McCutcheon Emma McPherson Dolores Mediano Vernon Meyers Peter Napolitano Dominick Palestini Gladys Palestini Lupita Plascencia Antonia Raya Betty Rios Dolores Robertson Atina Rodriguez Aaron Rodriguez Alette Rodriguez Jeff Salazar Christine Segura Mark Silke Michael Smith Gerri Strachan Angel Tapia Pedro Tapia Merida Tirado Carol Verdon The Webb Family Maria Winters Jason Williamson Joan Williamson Adalina Zarate Josephine And the special intentions in our Book of Needs P R A Y E R L I S T

4 Page 4 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 9, 2017 THANK YOU! th Street, San Diego CA Thanks to Cub Scout Pack 958 for donating over 335 pounds of food to our parish Food Pantry! It came just in time to help us fill our Easter food baskets! You are cordially invited to attend the St. Didacus Parish School s Annual Dinner and Auction MOONLIGHT IN MARRAKECH Saturday, April 29th 5:00pm-11:00pm The auction is at Southwestern Yacht Club 2702 Qualtrough Street, San Diego CA Tickets are $75/per person. Please RSVP to the school by Friday, April 14th. This Moroccan themed evening is our biggest fundraiser of the year. Join us for a great dinner and lots of awesome silent and live auction items. Top off the evening with dancing under the stars at the Yacht Club! Help Wanted Preparing for Holy Week: Tuesday, April 11 5:00pm-7:00pm Setting up for Easter: Saturday, April 15 at 8:00am This special time involves a lot of moving, removing, hanging and hauling! If you re able, please plan on helping out. Religious Education News: There will be no Religious Education Classes on Wednesday, April 12th or April 19th. Classes will resume on Wednesday, April 26th. Youth Ministry News: There will be no Youth Ministry meeting on Tuesday, April 11th. But students are invited to come that day at 5pm to help set-up for Holy Week. This can count toward any community service hours you need. Lent Penance Services Tuesday, April 11th, Blessed Sacrament at 7pm Saturday, April 15th, St. Patrick at 11am. No Penance Service, confession only. Letting God Be God Branches of palm, olive, or sometimes even budding willow, are ancient symbols of victory and hope, as well as of new life. The procession celebrating Jesus entry into Jerusalem overflowed with praise and excitement, as onlookers waved these triumphant branches and proclaimed their blessings. Yet in a few days, they will cry Crucify him! The crowd expected a liberating leader, the Messiah, to free them from Roman oppression. Jesus instead takes up his Cross and invites us to do the same. Through his Death and Resurrection he is indeed a liberator, but from death and sin, not from Rome. But unable to see past their need, the crowd s disappointment turns into anger and a death order. As we enter Holy Week, Palm Sunday teaches us to let God be God, and to trust in God s wisdom not only to meet but shatter and exceed our expectations. Sourcebook Pray this week for those of our parish who are in their final preparation to receive sacraments at the Easter Vigil. We have two infants to be baptized, eight catechumens and one candidate who have been preparing to receive the Sacraments of Christian Initiation. May their hearts be open to receive God s blessings!

5 Page 5 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord April 9, 2017 Turn away from sin. Turn toward the cross and to the hope of the resurrection. In this holiest of weeks, we hear again our call to wash one another s feet, to embrace the cross, and to know the hope of the resurrection. We take to heart Jesus way of self-giving love, and we commit ourselves anew to be people who share this love with others. As we enter into Holy Week, let us dedicate ourselves to the life of discipleship, which is expressed most deeply by sharing Christ s mercy, forgiveness, and love. TURN AWAY: During Lent, we have considered much from which we must turn away in order to live freely and fully as followers of Jesus Christ. Now it is time to make this a way of life. Make a firm commitment to turn away from sinfulness and to turn toward Christ with your life. TURN TOWARD: As you celebrate Triduum Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday/Easter Sunday be mindful of all being a disciple entails. Commit to wash others feet by offering service at home, work, parish, city, and world. Embrace the cross by offering up your suffering and relieving the suffering of others. Recognize the gift of salvation, which is offered through the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Live in the constant hope of the resurrection, in which all pain, trial, and death will be transformed into the joy of everlasting life in Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior. --Copyright 2017 Leisa Anslinger Peter said to him in reply, Though all may have their faith in you shaken, mine will never be. Peter thought pretty highly of his faith. On the eve of Christ s death he professed, in essence, that he was more committed to Jesus than anyone else. And yet, we know how the story turns out: when put to the test in the moment that mattered, Peter began to curse and to swear, I do not know the man. On this Palm Sunday, we hear many stories of betrayal. The crowds, who once hailed Jesus with hosannas, will soon be chanting, Let him be crucified! Judas, who was counted among the closest companions of the Lord, turns him over to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver. And Peter falls short in the moment of truth, and then went out and began to weep bitterly. Here in the hours before Christ faces crucifixion, he is surrounded by false friends. Just when he most needs the support, he is abandoned. No wonder he feels the suffering even of being forgotten by his Father while he hangs on the cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? What trials Jesus endured, not only physically but emotionally as well. It s easy to glaze over this as a story from the past that does not involve us. But in truth, Jesus suffered all of this for each one of us. He would have preferred things to go otherwise, but submitted to his Father s will because he knew it must come to pass in this way. Jesus passion and death took place in order to bring us salvation. So today, may we not be counted among his many betrayers, but may we be truly grateful for the gift of the cross and show it through a life of sincere faith. Cycles of Faith Thank you to all the groups who provided dinner on Friday nights during Lent: the Altar Society, the Parish Council, the Spanish Community, the School, and the Small Faith Groups. Thanks, also, to the Knights of Columbus for the great fish dinner. Thanks to the Choir for our awesome Taize prayer services. Thanks to the Mental Health Ministry, Marco Huizar & Denis Grasska for leading our Stations of the Cross during Lent. And thanks to Fr. Pat Murphy, Donna Allen and Elena Platas for our Lent talks. It was a blessing to walk through our Lenten journey as a parish community! The threes of Jesus life, death, and resurrection must be the threefold pattern of our own lives. We must hear his Gospel of Good News so that we can live it. We must die to self so that we can give to others the goodness, hope, and healing he has given us. We must open ourselves to the new Life he offers us so that we might join him in his everlasting reign. This passion Gospel is not only about the past, but also about the present and the future fullness of Life given us by the perfect and complete Three the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Palm Sunday begins the holiest of all the weeks in the year for those of us who profess that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of David, our Savior. For us to enter into this week with the humility and devotion it deserves, we need to set aside all but the most necessary daily tasks and give ourselves wholeheartedly over to what we celebrate this week: Jesus final act of obedience his passing through suffering and death to risen Life. Good Friday Collection Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians in the Holy Land. Your support helps the church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines. The wars, unrest and instability have been especially hard on Christians. In these times of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection provides humanitarian aid to refugees. When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you become an instrument of peace and join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land. Please be generous. For more information about Christians in the Holy Land, visit -friday.

6 Pagina 6 Domingo de Ramos 9 de abril, 2017 Hasta Dónde Sigo a Mi Señor? Hoy, Domingo de Ramos, es un día de gloria para el Señor, que es aclamado por el pueblo como mensajero de Dios: Bendito el que viene en nombre del Señor. En la liturgia de hoy, escuchamos la Pasión, es el mismo pueblo gritando: Crucifícalo! Entendemos esto mejor cuando reflexionamos sobre nuestras propias vidas. Tenemos algunos días de felicidad gloriosa, de éxito, de alegría, pero también días tristes de contradicción y de fracaso. Hoy miramos esos días a la luz del Señor. Con él vivimos días felices; con él experimentamos también días llenos de tristeza; pero, sean días tristes o alegres, en todos ellos seguimos al Señor el esta a nuestro lado. N o t i c i a s No habrá clases del Catecismo el miércoles 12 y 19 de abril. Las clases se reanudarán el miércoles 26 de abril. No habrá Ministerio de Jóvenes el martes 11 de abril. Pero los estudiantes deberán venir este día a las 5 PM para ayudar a la puesta en marcha de la Semana Santa. No habrá Ministerio de la Juventud el martes 18 de abril. Nos reuniremos nuevamente, el martes 25 de abril. No habrá clases de Biblia para Adultos el martes 11 y 18 de abril. Nos reuniremos nuevamente, el martes 25 de abril. NECESITAMOS AYUDA PARA LA SEMANA SANTA Martes 11 de abril a las 5:00 7 PM Sábado, 15 de abril a las 8:00 AM El sábado, necesitamos ayuda en la iglesia y en el hall para preparar la recepción. TRIDUO PASCUAL Y DOMINGO DE RESURECCION 13 de abril, Jueves Santo 7:00PM Misa Bilingüe y Adoración Eucarística a las 8:00 PM 14 de abril, Viernes Santo 1:00 PM Estaciones de la Cruz en español, acompáñenos con su familia y amigos. Liturgia de la Pasión del Señor Ingles 3:00 PM Español (Actuado) 7:00 PM Sábado 15 de abril, Vigilia Pascual Misa Bilingüe 8:00 PM Domingo de Resurrección, 16 de abril Misa de español 11:30AM No habrá clases de Confirmación este domingo. Que tu Pasión no sea inútil, que no me justifique en mi debilidad para no dejarme mirar por ti; que aunque sea de lejos, te siga, y que en algún momento tus ojos me devuelvan la seguridad de que es mejor volver, comenzar de nuevo, que rendirse.

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