St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church

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1 St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church 135 Crescent Road Greenbelt, MD Website: PARISH STAFF Rev. Walter J. Tappe, Pastor Mr. Desi Vikor, Deacon Mrs. Lucy Fuentes, Business Manager Mrs. Kathi Kramer, Religious Education Mrs. Jennifer Goltz, Director of Music Dr. Gerald Muller, Principal Organist Mr. Hung Le, Plant Manager PARISH OFFICE 135 Crescent Road , Fax: Office Hours: 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Mon.-Fri. SCHOOL OF RELIGION (CCD) Mrs. Kathi Kramer, Director ST. JOSEPH REGIONAL SCHOOL Montgomery Road Beltsville, MD Mr. Andrew Currier, Principal SUNDAY MASSES Saturday Evening Vigil: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. DAILY MASSES Monday-Friday: 7:15 a.m.; Saturday: 9:00 a.m. HOLY HOUR First Fridays at 7:00 p.m. SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Saturday: 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM The second Sunday of every month after the 11:00 a.m. Mass. Call the rectory to make arrangements. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE By arrangement. Contact the pastor at least six months before intended date of wedding. NEW PARISHIONERS Welcome! See the Greeter after Sunday Mass to register. DEPARTING PARISHIONERS We ll miss you! Please call the parish office to let us know you re leaving.

2 Easter Sunday April 8, 2012 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. Psalm 118:17 Your Prayers Requested For those preparing for their vocations Chip Luckett, Jack Berard, Sister Mary Joy of Martyrs Kimble, SSVM, Joe Lomax, and Rick Kramer For those preparing for the sacraments For our adult catechumens and candidates preparing for the sacraments of Initiation ( Baptism, Confirmation and First Eucharist); The second and eighth graders, their families and catechists For the sick Please pray for: Roger Fisher, Bobby Mittelstetter, Tom Dwyer, Mary and Ludvik Matyas For the deceased In your charity, please pray for the souls of our beloved dead: Father David Conway and Father John Stack, former pastors of St. Hugh, and Mary Lyle For our troops Please pray for: James Hall, Christopher Pfaffman, Anthony (Tj) Hose, Anthony Ladnier, Bill Whelan, Tony Alves To add a name to these lists, please call the rectory. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12; Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Mk 16:9-15 Sunday: Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118; 1 Jn 5:1-6; Jn 20:19-31 Masses for the Week of 4/8 4/15 Saturday 8:00pm Ricardo Abellano, Jr. Sunday 8:00am Bernard Stratchko 9:30am Intention of the Parish 11:00am Cy Kovalchik Monday 7:15am Barbara O Connor & John Lockwood, Jr. Tuesday 7:15am Mary June Wright Wednesday 7:15am James & Mary Hickey Thursday 7:15am Christians in the Middle East Saturday 9:00am Joe Cozzens 5:00pm Living & Deceased Ladies of Charity Sunday 8:00am Intention of the Parish 9:30am JoAnne Kincius 11:00am Intention of Cathie Brannan This Week at a Glance Today 4/8/2012, Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord 8am Mass 9:30am Mass 11am Mass Easter Egg Hunt after the 11am Mass Monday 4/9/2012, Easter Monday (Rectory Office closed) Tuesday 4/10/2012, Easter Tuesday Knights of Columbus 7:30pm, Grenoble Hall Wednesday 4/11/2012, Easter Wednesday Thursday 4/12/2012, Easter Thursday Auxiliary of Knights of Columbus 7pm, Grenoble Hall Gabriel Network 7pm, Rectory Office Friday 4/13/2012, Easter Friday Saturday 4/14/2012, Easter Saturday 9am Mass 3:45pm-4:45pm, Confessions 5pm Vigil Mass Rosary Guild 9:30am, Grenoble Hall For the most up-to-date calendar information, go to our website: PRAYER OF THE WEEK April 8, 2012, Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten Son, have conquered death and unlocked for us the path to eternity, grant, we pray, that we who keep the solemnity of the Lord s Resurrection may, through the renewal brought by your Spirit, rise up in the light of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Reflection question: How can I keep the solemnity of the Lord s Resurrection in my daily life? Collect text from the English translation of The Roman Missal, 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. Copyright J. S. Paluch Company, Inc.

3 From the Pastor The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! Our Lenten journey for 2012 ends today with our glorious celebration of the Lord s Resurrection. Jesus, who died for us, has been raised from the dead, never again to die. His passion and death bear their fruit in the Res- urrection, the definite triumph over every evil. Jesus has trampled down opened for us the way to Way has shown us the way of the Cross, which what it truly is: the Tree the gates of death and eternal life. He who is the way to heaven. It is the on this day is revealed for of Life. Jesus teaches, If a man wishes to come after me, that is, share in the Resurrection to eternal life he must deny his very self, take up his cross, and begin to follow in my footsteps (Matthew 16:24). The very self that Jesus speaks of is that self which thinks and acts like the first Adam. It pushes us to seek our fulfillment in the things and people of this world rather than in God, and wishes us to hide from God and the demands of his love just as Adam hid himself in the garden (Genesis 3:10). That very self, Jesus tells us, must be denied put to death that we might be born again and become a new creation in Christ, the second Adam. St. Paul describes this experience of being born again in these terms: I have been crucified with Christ, and the life I live now is not my own; Christ is living in me. I still live my human life, but it is a life of faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:19b-20). We become new creatures in Christ by taking up the way of the cross. When I am crucified with Christ, I no longer take my cue from the first Adam. He has already grown old and is in the process of dying. I now take my cue from the new Adam, Jesus Christ, who lives forever. If we have died with Christ, St. Paul reminds us, we believe that we are also to live with him. If we have been united with him through likeness to his death, so shall we be through a like resurrection. This we know: our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed and we might be slave to sin no longer (Romans 6:8, 5-6). To be slaves of sin no longer, to live for and with Christ, to be born again, to be born from above, to become a new creation in Christ: that is the glory of Easter and the source of its eternal joy. A blessed and holy Easter to you and all your loved ones! Yours in Christ, Father Walter

4 Parish Life April Is Ladies of Charity Month The St. Hugh's Ladies of Charity will have the 5pm Mass on April 14th offered for all living and deceased members. The Ladies of Charity coordinate the food pantry, provide rental/ utility assistance for those in need in coordination with Greenbelt Cares, sponsor the April birthday party for residents at the Sacred Heart Nursing Home, assist with May Day fundraiser for St. Ann's Infant and Maternity Home, support Gabriel Project and provide Christmas gifts/socks to patients at Spring Grove Hospital. For more information please contact: Mary Ann Tretler ( ) or Youth Group Car Wash! Get the pollen washed off of your car and help the youth group on Saturday April 14th from 10am to 2pm in the parking lot behind the church a free will offering to will be requested! Help make our Paschal celebration joyous! There are envelopes in the rear of the Church to make a donation for Easter flowers. Donations may be made in memory of a loved one, for the intention of a loved one who is still living, for an anniversary, a birthday, or for some other special intention! From the Director of Religious Education Adult Confirmation Classes Missing that important Sacrament? Catholics from around the Archdiocese will gather this year on the Feast of Pentecost, May 27, 2012, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, and have their Christian Initiation completed with Confirmation. If you are 18 years of age or older and you have not been confirmed, please call or Kathi Kramer, Director of Religious Education. Her phone number is , and her address is st.hugh.religioused@gmail.com. Please call by April 12, as preparation classes will begin soon. The Easter Homily of St. John Chrysostom (ca ), Bishop of Constantinople and Doctor of the Church Let all pious men and all lovers of God rejoice in the splendor of this feast; let the wise servants blissfully enter into the joy of their Lord; let those who have borne the burden of Lent now receive their pay, and those who have toiled since the first hour, let them now receive their due reward; let any who came after the third hour be grateful to join in the feast, and those who may have come after the sixth, let them not be afraid of being too late; for the Lord is gracious and He receives the last even as the first. He gives rest to him who comes on the eleventh hour as well as to him who has toiled since the first: yes, He has pity on the last and He serves the first; He rewards the one and praises the effort. Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward; you rich and you poor, dance together; you sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day; you who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. The table is richly loaded: enjoy its royal banquet. The calf is a fatted one: let no one go away hungry. All of you enjoy the banquet of faith; all of you receive the riches of his goodness. Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed; let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave; let no one fear death, for the death of our Saviour has set us free: He has destroyed it by enduring it, He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom, He has angered it by allowing it to taste of his flesh. When Isaias foresaw all this, he cried out: "O Hades, you have been angered by encountering Him in the nether world." Hades is angered because frustrated, it is angered because it has been mocked, it is angered because it has been destroyed, it is angered because it has been reduced to naught, it is angered because it is now captive. It seized a body, and, lo! it encountered heaven; it seized the visible, and was overcome by the invisible. O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen and you are abolished. Christ is risen and the demons are cast down. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life is freed. Christ is risen and the tomb is emptied of the dead: for Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of those who had fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.

5 A Statement of the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, March 14, 2012 The Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, gathered for its March 2012 meeting, is strongly unified and intensely focused in its opposition to the various threats to religious freedom in our day. In our role as Bishops, we approach this question prayerfully and as pastors concerned not only with the protection of the Church's own institutions, but with the care of the souls of the individual faithful, and with the common good. To address the broader range of religious liberty issues, we look forward to the upcoming publication of "A Statement on Religious Liberty," a document of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. This document reflects on the history of religious liberty in our great Nation; surveys the current range of threats to this foundational principle; and states clearly the resolve of the Bishops to act strongly, in concert with our fellow citizens, in its defense. One particular religious freedom issue demands our immediate attention: the now-finalized rule of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would force virtually all private health plans nationwide to provide coverage of sterilization and contraception including abortifacient drugs subject to an exemption for "religious employers" that is arbitrarily narrow, and to an unspecified and dubious future "accommodation" for other religious organizations that are denied the exemption. We begin, first, with thanks to all who have stood firmly with us in our vigorous opposition to this unjust and illegal mandate: to our brother bishops; to our clergy and religious; to our Catholic faithful; to the wonderful array of Catholic groups and institutions that enliven our civil society; to our ecumenical and interfaith allies; to women and men of all religions (or none at all); to legal scholars; and to civic leaders. It is your enthusiastic unity in defense of religious freedom that has made such a dramatic and positive impact in this historic public debate. With your continued help, we will not be divided, and we will continue forward as one. Second, we wish to clarify what this debate is and is not about. This is not about access to contraception, which is ubiquitous and inexpensive, even when it is not provided by the Church's hand and with the Church's funds. This is not about the religious freedom of Catholics only, but also of those who recognize that their cherished beliefs may be next on the block. This is not about the Bishops' somehow "banning contraception," when the U.S. Supreme Court took that issue off the table two generations ago. Indeed, this is not about the Church wanting to force anybody to do anything; it is instead about the federal government forcing the Church consisting of its faithful and all but a few of its institutions to act against Church teachings. This is not a matter of opposition to universal health care, which has been a concern of the Bishops' Conference since 1919, virtually at its founding. This is not a fight we want or asked for, but one forced upon us by government on its own timing. Finally, this is not a Republican or Democratic, a conservative or liberal issue; it is an American issue. So what is it about? An unwarranted government definition of religion. The mandate includes an extremely narrow definition of what HHS deems a "religious employer" deserving exemption employers who, among other things, must hire and serve primarily those of their own faith. We are deeply concerned about this new definition of who we are as people of faith and what constitutes our ministry. The introduction of this unprecedented defining of faith communities and their ministries has precipitated this struggle for religious freedom. Government has no place defining religion and religious ministry. HHS thus creates and enforces a new distinction alien both to our Catholic tradition and to federal law between our houses of worship and our great ministries of service to our neighbors, namely, the poor, the homeless, the sick, the students in our schools and universities, and others in need, of any faith community or none. Cf. Deus Caritas Est, Nos We are commanded both to love and to serve the Lord; laws that protect our freedom to comply with one of these commands but not the other are nothing to celebrate. Indeed, they must be rejected, for they create a "second class" of citizenship within our religious community. And if this definition is allowed to stand, it will spread throughout federal law, weakening its healthy tradition of generous respect for religious freedom and diversity. All not just some of our religious institutions share equally in the very same God-given, legally-recognized right not "to be forced to act in a manner contrary to [their] own beliefs." Dignitatis Humanae, No. 2. A mandate to act against our teachings. The exemption is not merely a government foray into internal Church governance, where government has no legal competence or authority disturbing though that may be. This error in theory has grave consequences in principle and practice. Those deemed by HHS not to be "religious employers" will be forced by government to violate their own teachings within their very own institutions. This is not only an injustice in itself, but it also undermines the effective proclamation of those teachings to the faithful and to the world. For decades, the Bishops have led the fight against such government incursions on conscience, particularly in the area of health care. Far from making us waver in this longstanding commitment, the unprecedented magnitude of this latest threat has only strengthened our resolve to maintain that consistent view. A violation of personal civil rights.the HHS mandate creates still a third class, those with no conscience protection at all: individuals who, in their daily lives, strive constantly to act in accordance with their faith and moral values. They, too, face a government mandate to aid in providing "services" contrary to those values whether in their sponsoring of, and payment for, insurance as employers; their payment of insurance premiums as employees; or as insurers themselves without even the semblance of an exemption. This, too, is unprecedented in federal law, which has long been generous in protecting the rights of individuals not to act against their religious beliefs or moral convictions. We have consistently supported these rights, particularly in the area of protecting the dignity of all human life, and we continue to do so. Third, we want to indicate our next steps. We will continue our vigorous efforts at education and public advocacy on the principles of religious liberty and their application in this case (and others). We will continue to accept any invitation to dialogue with the Executive Branch to protect the religious freedom that is rightly ours. We will continue to pursue legislation to restore the same level of religious freedom we have enjoyed until just recently. And we will continue to explore our options for relief from the courts, under the U.S. Constitution and other federal laws that protect religious freedom. All of these efforts will proceed concurrently, and in a manner that is mutually reinforcing. Most importantly of all, we call upon the Catholic faithful, and all people of faith, throughout our country to join us in prayer and penance for our leaders and for the complete protection of our First Freedom religious liberty which is not only protected in the laws and customs of our great nation, but rooted in the teachings of our great Tradition. Prayer is the ultimate source of our strength for without God, we can do nothing; but with God, all things are possible.