St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church

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1 St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) April 23, 2017 Clergy Holy Hour Rev. Walter J. Tappe, Pastor First Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Rev. Richard D. Kramer, Jr., The Sacraments Assisting Priest Reconciliation: Saturday: 3:30 Mr. Desi Vikor, Deacon p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Parish Staff Baptism: 2nd Sunday of the Ms. Maggie Gutierrez, Business Manager Call the rectory to make arrange- month after the 11 a.m. Mass. Mr. Hung Le, Plant Manager ments. Marriage: By arrangement. Parish Office Contact the pastor at least six Office Hours: 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. months before intended date of Monday Friday wedding. School of Religion (CCD) Anointing of the Sick: Call the Office when a loved one is seriously ill to arrange for the shreligioused4@gmail.com sacrament. Mrs. Mary Wade, Director New Parishioners St. Joseph Regional School See the Greeter after Sunday Montgomery Road Mass to register. Beltsville, MD Departing Parishioners Mr. Zach Hooker, Principal Please inform the parish office Music Ministry that you re leaving. jen.goltz@gmail.com Music for this Sunday Jennifer Goltz, MM, Director Entrance: no. 591 of Music Glory to God: no. 377 Gerald Muller, DMA, Principal Organist and Director Preparation: no. 590 Emeritus Eucharistic Acclamations: Robin Pitts, Assistant Organist nos. 378, 379, 380 Marian: no. 600 Final: no. 594 Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed. John 20:29b Mass Times SUNDAY Sat. 5 p.m. Vigil 8 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11 a.m. DAILY Mon.-Fri. 7:15 a.m. Saturday 9 a.m. Fed. Holidays 9 a.m. 135 Crescent Road Greenbelt MD, Phone (301) , FAX (301) sthughoffice@gmail.com

2 Your Prayers Requested For those discerning their vocations For those preparing for the sacraments Our young people for First Communion, and Confirmation; those in RCIA. For the sick Please pray for: Elizabeth Pels Nash; Ludvik Matyas; Dave Williams; Tom Moran; Stephen Blizard; Rita Ann Gianechini; Donald Exner; Paul Beavers; Julia Stratchko; Emma Rose Karch; Alice Kovalchik. For the deceased In your charity, please pray for the souls of our beloved dead: Bobby Turner. For our troops Please pray for: Adam Weaver, James Hall, Christopher Pfaffman, Anthony (Tj) Hose, Anthony Ladnier, Tony Alves, Karen Mealey, Mark Bailey, Robert Bailey. To add a name to these lists, please call the rectory. PARISH CONTACTS: Catholic Family Ministry Debbie Clarke daclarke01@verizon.net Knights of Columbus Brian Mangino kofc10885@gmail.com Sodality of Our Lady Rohanie Bacchus rohaniebacchus@msn.com Ladies of Charity Mary Ann Tretler mary_tretler@yahoo.com RCIA Joe and Suzanne Lomax READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 4:23-31; Ps 2:1-9; Jn 3:1-8 Tuesday: 1 Pt 5:5b-14; Ps 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17; Mk 16:15-20 Wednesday: Acts 5:17-26; Ps 34:2-9; Jn 3:16-21 Thursday: Acts 5:27-33; Ps 34:2, 9, 17-20; Jn 3:31-36 Friday: Acts 5:34-42; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; Jn 6:1-15 Saturday: Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; Jn 6:16-21 Sunday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-11; 1 Pt 1:17-21; Lk 24:13-35 Masses for the Week of 4/23-4/30 Saturday 5pm Ladies of Charity, Living & Deceased Sunday 8am Intention of the Parish 9:30am Melven Fabina 11am Judy Holland Monday 7:15am Anne Tallon Tuesday 7:15am G. Douglas Humphrey Wed. 7:15am Frances Quinn Thursday 7:15am Fr. Thomas Crowley Friday 7:15am John Basehart Saturday 9am Int. David Angel 5pm Nancy Stebbing Sunday 8am Mary Anne Scott 9:30am Riley Williams 11am Intention of the Parish This Week at a Glance Today 4/23/2017, Second Sunday of Easter (or of Divine Mercy) 8am Mass 9:30am Mass 11am Mass, Parish Choir Religious Education 10:30am, School Youth Group 12:30pm, School RCIA 12:45pm, School Rummage Sale Collection after all Masses Monday 4/24/2017 Tuesday 4/25/2017, St. Mark Knights of Columbus 7:30pm, Grenoble Hall Wednesday 4/26/2017 Thursday 4/27/2017 Parish Choir rehearsal 7pm, Church Friday 4/28/2017, St. Peter Chanel; St. Louis Grignion de Montfort Saturday 4/29/2017, St. Catherine of Siena 9am Mass 3:30pm-4:30pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 5pm Vigil Mass Family Game Night 6pm, Grenoble Hall Growing Community Plant Sale 9am, School The calendar is also online: Mass and sympathy cards for our former pastor, Fr. Thomas Crowley, can be sent to his sister, Mrs. Kay Culnane, 85 Main Street, Susquehanna, PA, Growing Community Tree and Plant Sale! Next Saturday morning April 29 from 9 AM to Noon, St. Hughʹs will have a Tree and Plant sale. The Religious Education children have been given seeds to start up the plants and these and plants will be available to buy outside the School near the tots playground. There will be vegetables, flowers and herbs. If you have plants from your garden-perhaps those hostas have taken over too much of the yard-or you have some houseplant cuttings that others might like, please bring them, and share. In addition, this year we have gotten trees from the Arbor Day Foundation. The Religious Education kids brought in gallon milk jugs, we cut them open, filled them with composted mulch and planted bare-root trees. They are setting their roots and will be ready for planting in your yard. We have 50 white dogwood and 50 redbud trees waiting for you. Please help us at St. Hughʹs grow in community and grow plants as we bring a bit more green and beauty to Beautiful Greenbelt.

3 From the Pastor Today, the Octave of Easter, we conclude the eight-day celebration of the Lord s Resurrection that began on Easter Sunday. These eight days in effect constitute one great Sunday of spiritual joy and festivity. St. John Paul II modified the liturgical calendar during his pontificate so that this Sunday would henceforth be known as Divine Mercy Sunday. He did this in response to an ever-growing devotion to God s Divine Mercy that is rooted in the private revelations of our Lord to St. Faustina Kowalska. Faustina Helena Kowalska was born in the village of Glogowiec west of Lodz, Poland, on August 25, She was the third of ten children. When she was almost twenty, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, whose members devote themselves to the care and education of troubled young women She received her religious habit under the name Sister Maria Faustina of the Most Blessed Sacrament. In the 1930s, Faustina received from the Lord a message of mercy that she was told to spread throughout the world. She was asked to become the apostle and secretary of Godʹs mercy, a model of how to be merciful to others, and an instrument for reemphasizing Godʹs plan of mercy for the world. At our Lord s request, she willingly offered her personal sufferings in union with Him to atone for the sins of others; in her daily life she was to become a doer of mercy, bringing joy and peace to others; and by writing about Godʹs mercy, she was to encourage others to trust in Him and thus prepare the world for His coming again. For four years she recorded divine revelations and mystical experiences, together with her own inmost thoughts, insights, and prayers. The result is a book of some 600 printed pages that, in simple language, repeats and clarifies the gospel story of Godʹs love for His people, emphasizing, above all, the need to trust in His loving action in all the aspects of our lives. It also reveals an extraordinary example of how to respond to Godʹs mercy and manifest it to others. She wrote and suffered in secret, with only her spiritual director and some of her superiors aware that anything special was taking place in her life. After her death from tuberculosis in 1938, even her closest associates were amazed as they began to discover what great sufferings and deep mystical experiences had been given to this sister of theirs, who had always been so cheerful and humble. She had taken deeply into her heart Godʹs gospel command to be merciful even as your heavenly Father is merciful as well as her confessorʹs directive that she should act in such a way that everyone who came in contact with her would go away joyful. The message of mercy that Saint Faustina received is spreading throughout the world. She was canonized by the Church on April 30, 2000, and her diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul, has become the handbook for devotion to The Divine Mercy. In a prophetic statement she wrote in her diary: I feel certain that my mission will not come to an end upon my death, but will begin. O doubting souls, I will draw aside for you the veils of heaven to convince you of Godʹs goodness (Diary 281). May the Lord and Our Lady help us to respond to receive God s mercy through an ever more thorough conversion to Christ and to show God s mercy to the people he has placed in our lives. Yours in Christ, Father Walter

4 Franciscan Monastery Herb and Plant Sale The popular Franciscan Monastery Plant and Herb Sale is April 29 (9 a.m.-6 p.m.)-april 30 (8 a.m.-3 p.m.) at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, 1400 Quincy St. NE, Washington, DC Come early for organic herbs, annuals, perennials, fruit trees, vegetables and Monastery-grown plants, while enjoying food and craft vendors. Free garden tours on the hour, Saturday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sponsored by the volunteer Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild. Proceeds support the preservation of the historic gardens. Information: and Summer Camp at St. Hugh of Grenoble Academic Enrichment Services, LLC will once again offer summer camp at the St. Hugh School, beginning on June 19th and running through July 28th. Students entering Kindergarten through 5th grade are invited to attend. Each one-week session will include recreation, academics, and team building activities. For more information, please pick up a registration form in the back of the church or contact Camp Director Sue O Brien at sobrien9565@gmail.com. Knights of Columbus Summer Camp Registration for the Knights of Columbus Summer Camp has begun! We are preparing for our ninth summer in College Park, MD. We offer swim lessons, arts and crafts, games, sports, and free swim at our extensive facility. The registration form can be downloaded at Please direct any questions to Anne Irwin at (240) or kofccamp@gmail.com Annual Jubilarian Mass Cardinal Donald Wuerl will celebrate the annual Jubilarian Mass honoring couples married 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 51+ years on Sunday June 25, 2017, at 2pm at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Please call the parish office or use the sign-up forms in the back of the church to register. Names of jubilarians need to be turned in to the parish office by Monday, April 24. FROM THE SCHOOL OF RELIGION Reminder: Regularly scheduled Religious Education today. Important Dates: Sunday, April 23 - Class 10:45am-12:30pm; Divine Mercy Sunday; CRS Rice Bowls brought back TO- DAY! Sunday, April 30 final Religious Education Class 10:45am-12:30pm; First Holy Communion Retreat until 1:30pm. Growing in Community Plant Exchange & Sale -April 29 from 9am-Noon - We would like to thank everyone who donated plastic jugs for our small dogwood and redwood trees. Because of you, we are ready to plant the trees when they arrive in the next week or so. Thank you. Celebrate With Us! You re invited to a special Votive Mass in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparition at Fatima here at St. Hugh s on Saturday, May 13 at 9 am. Stay for the Rosary afterwards then come downstairs for coffee and donuts in Grenoble Hall. Bring your family and friends to mark this joyful occasion. Sponsored by the Sodality of Our Lady. Run for Vocations Run for Vocations registration is coming! Marine Corps 10K and Run for Vocations registration opens on April 22. Time to get your running shoes out and your team together! Additional information and online registration can be found at or search ʺRun for Vocationsʺ on Facebook. Throw-back Threads Wanted for Fashion Show Now is the time to break out those retro fashions! Lend or donate them to the Sodality by April 30th so we can match them with our Youth Group models. Selected items will be featured in a vintage fashion extravaganza on May 28th. Men s, women s and children s fashions are needed. Tell your friends, tell your parents and grandparents. Call or Cindy Perry today at or cindy.perry@hotmail.com to lend or donate your vintage items. Then join us for a memorable afternoon! Annual Marian Pilgrimage for Asian and Pacific Catholics The Asian and Pacific Catholic Network (APCN), in collaboration with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Secretariat of Cultural Diversity, is holding the 15th annual Marian Pilgrimage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Saturday, May 6. More than 20 unique Catholic Asian and Pacific communities, from New York to North Carolina, gather to pray and celebrate with traditional music and sacred movements reminiscent of faith practices in their homelands. A procession, call to prayer, and Rosary will precede the Eucharist to be celebrated by Cardinal Donald Wuerl. Everyone is welcome to participate in this multi-lingual, multi-cultural celebration of faith and heritage on May 6, beginning with Confessions at 12noon and the call to prayer at 1pm. Please contact Dr. Fred Semendy of APCN at or Sr. Myrna Tordillo of USCCB at for further information. Dear St. Hugh Parish Families, Classes resume tomorrow, Monday, April 24, Congratulations to the Hooker family!: Mr. Hooker is home welcoming his new baby, Graham Hooker was born March 9, his brother Finnʹs second birthday! He is 7.6 lbs and 21 inches long. What a blessing for the Hooker Family! ENROLLMENT IS ON-GOING! Please visit our website ( to register today! UPCOMING EVENTS: April 23: Knights of Columbus Oratory Contest; May 2: Supreme Court/Library of Congress Field trip, 7th & 8th grades; May 5: Talent Show 7 pm Check out what s happening on our school s website (

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8 CHURCH NAME: ST. HUGH OF GRENOBLE 135 Crescent Rd. Greenbelt, MD BULLETIN NUMBER: CONTACT PERSON: Jennifer Goltz OR Mary Wade OR Maggie Gutierrez (301) DATE OF PUBLICATION: 4/23/2017 (Sunday s date) Windows 7 Publisher 2013 NUMBER OF PAGES TRANSMITTED: 8 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Office hours end at 2pm. Please instruct FedEx that NO SIGNATURE IS REQUIRED if they deliver when we are closed they may leave it outside the door.