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1 WELCOME TO THE CHURCH OF Easter Sunday - April 1, Huber Avenue N.W. Clearwater, Minnesota Father Dennis Backer, Parochial Administrator Pastoral Emergencies Parish Office Hours... Mon. - Thurs. 8:30 am-3:00 pm Fri. 8:30 am-12:00 pm Phone office@churchofstlukes.com Father Backer... Ext1or fatherbacker@churchofstlukes.com Website... Prayer Line Deacon:. Peter Bellavance Ext 6 or deaconpete@churchofstlukes.com Trustees... Judy Lashinski & Steve LaFond Finance Council Chairperson... James Lieser Pastoral Council Chairperson...David Herzan Parish Staff Parish Administrator... Sue Miller Ext 3 or admin@churchofstlukes.com Director of Faith Formation... Marilyn Popp Ext 2 or stlukefaithandlife@gmail.com Music... Tammy Reinert Mass Schedule Weekend Sat. 5:00 pm; Sun. 8:00 & 10:00 am Weekday Masses Monday 9 AM Communion Service Tuesday Friday 8:00 am Saturday 9:00am Chapel Hours Sun. Sat. 5:00 am to 9:00 pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Fri 9:00 am 9:00 pm Hospitality after Mass Join us in the gathering area for coffee Sacraments Reconciliation 1/2 hour before Daily Mass Tues-Sat Before weekend Masses: Sat.- 4:15 PM; Sun. 7:15 & 9:15 AM And by appointment Baptisms/Baptism Prep Classes Prep class required before each baptism, please call parish office to make arrangements. Weddings Contact the parish office one year prior to your requested wedding date. RCIA Contact: Bruce Fladebo brucefladebo@gmail.com Facebook: ChurchOfStLukes

2 2 P A S T O R S R E F L E C T I O N S HE HAS RISEN!!!! Happy Easter to you all. We celebrate the empty tomb at Easter. As we move into the Easter Season, we will hear about Resurrection accounts. The disciples were in the depth of despair. His death was seen as the end, they were fearing that they would be next. Now the tomb is empty. Hope and Joy return as they experience the resurrection of Christ. As we gather with family and friends today, let us not forget the reason for the day. I am never sure how hiding Easter eggs, and chocolate bunnies (too many hollow inside) have become a big focus. As we sit down for that big Easter meal, do we as a extended family stop and pray? Or since many of our family may not, do we just dig in? Make sure to bring Jesus into your Easter celebration. One of my fondest memories of my mother is of her leading prayer. I was about 2 years ordained before she would defer to me for prayer. And not just the prayer before meals, she prayed all the time. She had one of the deepest relationships with the Lord I have ever witnessed. If we share in the life of Jesus, we must share in his cross and resurrection. We don't always want to share in his cross, his suffering and death. But in sharing in that we receive the promise of the resurrection and eternal life. What brings you joy today? It may be more than one thing. I put the Holy Week Liturgies at the top of my list. Then giving last rites to all my Peeps. Those sugar covered marshmallows that disappear the rest of the year, do not last very long at the Rectory. Maybe you get to catch up with family, those who live far away call, or we call them. Let us also remember those we have lost, not just in this last year, but all who have gone before us. Jesus Christ death and resurrection is a sign of faith that we will see them again. May the Good Lord fill your minds and hearts with Easter Joy. Blessings, Fr Backer There will be no Hospitality on Easter Weekend Have A Happy and Blessed Easter Holy Spirit Academy Fine Arts Night: Come Join us for an entertaining evening on April 13, 2018, at Holy Spirit Academy's Fine Arts Night and enjoy music by the Seminarian Barbershop Quartet and Holy Spirit Academy Choir. Peruse the beautiful prints, water colors, oil paintings, and sculptures done by the students and vote on your favorite. HSA is located at St. Henry's Catholic Church in Monticello, and the evening events will be from 6:30-8:30 PM. St. Timothy s Catholic School in Maple Lake will be holding its annual Dinner/Auction April 7th at The V by HH in Maple Lake. Dinner is 5:00-7:00, silent auction 5:00-7:15. Live auction 7:30 to completion. The car raffle will be drawn at the end of the live auction. Dinner tickets are $20 through April 1st, $25 after and can be purchased at the school office, parish office or Star Bank in Maple Lake. Raffle tickets for a 2018 Ford Focus are $25 and can be purchased at the same locations. This year will feature a wonderful Italian dinner of chicken parmesan, shrimp fettuccini, and sides Guardian Angels Elim Hospice is looking for volunteers to bring the power of presence and community to hospice patients in your area. If you have some time and are able to pray with, read to, or sit with a hospice patient, please call Rachel at , or at rtemplin@gaehc.org. We also are looking for volunteers who are veterans, musical, or have a well-trained small dog for pet therapy. Feel free to or call for more information. FORMED.org There is an amazing amount of Catholic material on formed. Sign up and check it out, from studies to apologetics as well as movies on saints and educational videos for children. There is something for everyone. You can sign up for FREE by going to V I S I O N S T A T E M E N T The Church of St. Luke is a Catholic Community, centered in Christ through baptism and formed by the Eucharist. We strive to always be a community where every heart is touched by our Christian fellowship.

3 P A R I S H & C O M M U N I T Y E V E N T S 3 Faith and Family Happy Easter! We are celebrating the foundation of our faith! Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins. Not only are we celebrating that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, but more importantly that He is risen and lives even now! This time of year in the church is such an exciting time and time of hope. It starts when the risen Christ appears to Mary Magdalene and some other women. They are filled with excitement that Jesus is not dead but alive. The Lord commissions them to tell the apostles that He is risen. At first they are skeptical. But later Jesus appears to the Apostles, and to two distraught followers on the road to Emmaus. No one saw Jesus rise. Instead they saw an empty tomb and they saw Him as the Risen One. He was brought to life in a new way, with a body, but a body that was glorified, a body in which His wounds are visible to the doubting Thomas and a body who eats a meal with them, but who also passes through walls. More important is the fact that this Risen Christ lives through us and when we allow Him to do so our faith is believable to others. The transformation of the lives of the early Christians is what made faith in the Risen One believable. Jesus Christ still transforms us today through the mystery of the sacraments. As Catholics we believe that forty days after Jesus resurrection, Jesus ascended from the earth into Heaven. His resurrected body returns to God. Then Jesus sends a helper ten days after he ascends. He sends us the Holy Spirit to help us live our lives according to his teachings. Jesus Christ is present today through the Mass and in the sacraments, forgiving our sins and giving us graces to live for Him. It is the Risen Body of Christ that nourishes us in the Eucharist. As Catholics we believe that during the consecration in the Mass the ordinary bread and wine are transformed invisibly in the real body and blood of Jesus Christ. So Easter is the new springtime of our Risen Lord! It is the celebration of what Jesus did for us that day on the cross; the great gift of the institution of the Eucharist at the last supper and the gift of the cross that brought us eternal life. Now it is up to each one of us to accept that great gift of eternal life-the gift of allowing Jesus to permeate our hearts. He is Risen! Alleluia! April 8 th April 8 th IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER After 8 &10 am Masses KC Pancake Breakfast 3:00pm Divine Mercy Prayer Service (2:00pm Confessions start) April 8 th 6:30pm Confirmation session Divine Mercy Sunday: Divine Mercy Sunday is the Octave Day or 8 th day of Easter, a day that celebrates the merciful love of God shining through the whole Easter Triduum and the whole Easter mystery. It is a day of declaration of reparation for all sin, thus the Day of Atonement. All are invited to attend the Divine Mercy Sunday Prayer Service at 3:00 p.m. April 8 th. Confessions will start at 2:00 pm and continue throughout the service. At the end of the service there will be a special anointing of the sick. Baptism Attendance at a one hour Baptismal Preparation Program is required and parish registration is expected. Please call the parish office to sign up for upcoming classes. The next class will be May 3rd at 7 pm in the Parish Center. Weddings Contact the parish office one year prior to your requested wedding date and set up an appointment with Father Backer Marriage Preparation classes and a retreat are required. Knight Of Columbus Breakfast next Sunday, April 8th. Serving after the 8 & 10am Masses. Come and enjoy a delicious breakfast and support the many KC s projects. Remember to save your milk caps from Kwik Trip. Deposit them in the container in the entry to the Church. Thanks! Hope Changes Everything. The Faith Formation Youth are rallying around their classmates Mother, parishioner Lori Youngdahl and her family, as she battles stage 4 metastatic Breast Cancer. The Youth and teachers are asking everyone to keep Lori and her family in your prayers as they walk this difficult journey. To help the family out, the youth are also asking you to help them raise money to help with expenses during this time. Please consider donating any loose change or bills to this cause Hope CHANGE S Everything in the container that is out in the gathering area. Please help Lori and her family. Holy Hours for Vocations. The next gathering to pray for vocations is on Tuesday, April 10, 7 8 p.m. Church of St Michael, St. Michael. The upcoming prayer hour in St Michael is a closer but if you are unable to attend in St Michael, please take advantage of the opportunity to pray here in the Adoration Chapel at St Luke for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious. The Lord is working in many of the lives of our young people from St Luke, please take this time to pray for our youth for vocations to religious as well. Men s Group: Join the men of St Luke as they gather to meet and pray every Saturday morning from 7AM-8AM in the Adoration chapel. Please join Deacon Pete and other men of the parish for an hour of prayer, scripture, and fellowship. Coffee and refreshments will be served. You are welcome to attend all Saturday mornings or come when you can. Prayer Team Date: There will be the opportunity for anointing and prayer at the Divine Mercy Service, on Sunday April 8th. The service begins at 3:00pm. Plan to attend if you would like to be anointed and prayed over this month. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Worldwide Marriage Encounter For more information and weekends available to attend, Call Alan & Missy Block at M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T We, the community of St. Luke, come together to worship with joy and unity, to guide our children in faith, to show compassion and love towards others, and to work together as a parish family, so that we may be instrumental in building a meaningful and everlasting community to God by sharing our time and talents and following our Lord Jesus Christ.

4 Mass Schedule & Intentions Tuesday, April 3rd 8:00 am Al Westerhaus Wednesday, April 4th 8:00 am Rev. Mark Dosh Thursday, April 5th 8:00 am Parishioners Friday, April 6th 8:00 am Rev. Thomas Garvey Saturday, April 7th 9:00 am Poor Souls in Purgatory Saturday, April 7th 5:00 pm Gertie Thole Sunday, April 8th 8:00 am Bruce Cardinal 10:00 am Parishioners Minister s Schedule For April 7th & 8th Servers 5:00 pm Alyssa & Amanda Klocker 8:00 am Russell & Grace Jarvis 10:00 am Carter Leither & Amy Lieser Lectors 5:00 pm Mert Gohman 8:00 am Sharon Klisch 10:00 am Ben Helget Ushers 5:00 pm Lance Klocker & Lynette Totz 8:00 am Durane & Ed Corrigan 10:00 am Brad & Nicole Wurm Eucharistic Ministers 5:00 pm Dan Goeman(P), Jan Goeman, Julie Neisch 8:00 am Doc Gohman(P),Jane Gohman,Marie Gohman Boots Skelton 10:00 am Donna Dovel(P),David Herzan(P),Dan Popp,Marilyn Popp, 2 volunteers needed Sacristans 5:00 pm Julie Neisch 8:00 am Mary Lou Thompson 10:00 am Marilyn Popp Sound 5:00 pm Glen Lewerenz 8:00 am John McCooley 10:00 am Sam LaFond Video 5:00 pm Jennifer Lewerenz 8:00 am Rita McCooley 10:00 am Sylvia LaFond Music 5:00 pm Ruth & Cantor 8:00 am Choir 10:00 am Choir Hospitality 5:00 pm Tricia Sladky Family 8:00 am No Hospitality-Pancake Breakfast 10:00 am No Hospitality-Pancake Breakfast Greeters 5:00 pm Mary Theede & Celestine Boyd 8:00 am Marie Gohman & Vicki Wittrock 10:00 am Laura & Hali Lieser Easter Sunday 4a

5 Natural Family Planning Class Near Me: A series of Natural Family Planning (NFP) classes will begin soon in or near your community. This Church approved method is scientific and marriage building. The classes teach couples how to achieve or postpone pregnancy, while embracing the beauty of God s gift of sexuality. A series of classes taught by a qualified instructor. For a complete list of classes offered throughout the Archdiocese, call or visit family. Quilt Bingo sponsored by the Council of Catholic Women AND the Knights of Columbus of the Church of Saint Henry in Monticello. Sunday, April 22, 2018 from 1:00 to 4:00. Doors open at 12 noon to preview beautiful, HANDMADE QUILTS. Little Mountain Elementary School at 9350 Fallon Avenue in Monticello MN Cash Only - 25 guaranteed games of Bingo. $15.00 for the first card, $10.00 for additional cards per person. Bag lunch and/or snacks available for purchase. For more information, please call Bonnie Sobiech, CCW President at Readings for the Week of April 1, 2018 Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, [24]/Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mk 16:1-7or Lk 24:13-35 Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33/Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41/Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 [5b]/Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 [3b]/Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26/Ps 8:2, 5, 6-7, 8-9 [2ab]/Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12/Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-24, [22]/Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21/Ps 118:1, 14-15, 16-18, [21a]/ Mk 16:9-15 Next Sunday: Acts 4:32-35/Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, [1]/1 Jn 5:1-6/ Jn 20:19-31 St. Luke s Calendar Monday, April 2nd 9:00am Communion Service 10:00am Widows Meeting 7:00pm AA Meeting Tuesday, April 3rd 8:00 am Quilting Wednesday, April 4th 6:45pm Faith Formation Thursday, April 5th 6:00 pm Praise Company Friday, April 6th 9:00 am 9:00 pm Adoration Sunday, April 8th KC s Pancake Breakfast after 8 & 10 Masses 3:00pm Divine Mercy Program 2:00pm Reconciliation Begins Registration Welcome to the Church of St. Luke. Please call the parish office to become a registered member. Prayer Line

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