April 21, 2019 Easter Sunday ST. GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC CHURCH Stewardship Reflection on Readings 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 He is risen! He is truly risen! This is what the celebration of Easter is all about the truth that Jesus was crucified for our sins and three days later rose from the dead, conquering death once and for all. We know it s true, but this Easter Sunday, let s ask ourselves if we live as if it s true. Do we live as witnesses to the glorious reality of the Resurrection? A witness, of course, is one with first-hand knowledge. Our readings today focus not only on the Resurrection itself, but also on those who were witnesses to it. In the Gospel, St.John describes the very first witnesses to the empty tomb, Mary Magdalene, John ( the disciple whom Jesus loved ), and Peter. Each had an individual experience of the empty tomb. Each went up close to see for themselves what Jesus love had accomplished. How can we as Christian stewards all these years later see for ourselves and so become His witnesses? We see for ourselves when we prayerfully read the Scriptures knowing they are a living love letter from God with a message to each one of us. We see for ourselves each time we receive the precious Body and Blood of our Lord in the Eucharist. We see for ourselves when we experience His personal and healing power in our hearts during Reconciliation. We see for ourselves when we pour out our lives in loving service to those around us and experience the deep satisfaction that only comes when we are imitating our Savior. This Easter, resolve to live as if the saving power of the Resurrection is true. Experience Jesus for yourself every day from now on. You will be a powerful witness to the truth that He is risen! He is truly risen! PARISH OFFICE 8755 Scarborough Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80920 www.saintgabriel.net Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 am-5:00 pm Phone: (719) 528-8407 Fax: (719) 598-1696 Email: office@saintgabriel.net PARISH CLERGY Pastor, Fr. Kirk Slattery frkslattery@saintgabriel.net Father Don Billiard, OFM dcbofm@gmail.com Deacon Mike McGrady mmcgrady@saintgabriel.net Deacon Dave Geislinger dgeislinger@diocs.org MASS SCHEDULE Weekend: Saturday 5:00 pm; Sunday 8:30 am, 10:30 am, 12:30 pm (Spanish) & 4:30 pm Weekdays: Tuesday-Friday 12:15 pm SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Tuesday-Friday: 11:50 am-12:10 pm, Saturday: 2:30-3:30 pm. First Friday: 10am to noon. Eucharistic Adoration: Wednesday 10 am to 7 pm.
EASTER SACRAMENTS We welcome into our Faith Community, the newest members of God s Family: The following were baptized and brought into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 20th: Brent Clark Mohit Kumar Eric Larson Tom Dishion Adriana Dishion Dominic Dishion Jamir Hernandez Cody Fall Bellajolie Velasco The following was brought into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 20th: Chris Boyer The following were brought into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 21: Kevin Dawson Damon McEnaney NO DAILY MASS WEEK OF APRIL 29 Due to the Priest Spring Leadership Meeting, there will be no Daily Mass April 29 through May 3. PARISH E-MAIL LIST Keep abreast of all that is happening at St. Gabriel by signing up for the parish e-mail list. You can do this by going to the parish website at www.saintgabriel.net and clicking on Parish Info and selecting E-mail List Subscriptions and then filling out your e-mail address under Parish News. ADORATION OF OUR LORD Jesus loves us so much that He Chose to remain with us in His glorified human body veiled in the Holy Eucharist. How do we repay this love? By simply visiting Him. For more information contact: Kathy Thomas at 528-8407 or kthomas@saintgabriel.net. SUIT DRIVE Local transitioning military need your help as they prepare for civilian life. The Blue Star Mothers (a 501c3 non-profit organization) in partnership with the American Legion Post 209 is conducting a Suits for Troops drive. We need gently used, current style business attire for men and women. Your donation will be provided through the Soldier for Life Transition Assistance Office at Ft. Carson to service members exiting the military and preparing for civilian employment Suits, sport jackets and women s suits and dresses only, please. Items must be clean and in a dry cleaner bag with size attached. Drop off your donations On April; 28 between 1-4 p.m. The American Legion located at 3613 Jeannine Dr. Your donation (tax deductible) will make a difference! Thank you. MARRIAGE PREP CLASS There will be a Live Marriage Prep Class beginning on Tuesday, April 30 th, 6:30pm to 8:45pm, meeting once per week for one month. The class will end on May 21 st. The total cost per couple is $75. Contact srichards@holyapostlescc.org as soon as possible. Class limit is 8 couples. St. Gabriel the Archangel 2 Colorado Springs, CO
THIS WEEKEND Sun CALENDAR Easter Sunday. Mases at 7am, 9am, 11:30am, and 1:30pm in Spanish. UPCOMING Mon, Apr 22 Walk Toward Eternity Bible Study 7pm. Tues, Apr 23 ESL Class 9am. Tues, Apr 23 EPIC: A Journey through Church History Bible Study 9:30am. Wed, Apr 24 Eucharistic Adoration as scheduled. Pray the Rosary at 6:00pm. Evening Prayer and Benediction starts at 6:30pm. Wed, Apr 24 Children s Choir 5:15pm. Wed, Apr 24 Knights of Columbus Meeting 7pm. Wed, Apr 24 Divine Mercy Movie 7pm. Thurs, Apr 25 ESL Class 9am. Thurs, Apr 25 Shroud Seminar 6:30pm. Fri, Apr 26 Date Night 6:30-8:30pm. Sat, Apr 27 CPR Class 9am-1pm. Sat, Apr 27 First Communion Retreat. Sun, Apr 28 Divine Mercy Holy Hour 3pm. SAVE THE DATE Apr 29-May 3 No Daily Mass due to Priest Leadership Meeting. May 6 Health and Safety Team Meeting. All are Welcome. May 11 Faith Formation End of the Year Celebration. June 2 Blood Drive June 24-28 Vacation Bible School. July 17-19 Mission Possible. July 21-26 Totus Tuus. BULLETIN DEADLINE The bulletin deadline for the April 28th bulletin is Monday, April 22nd by 10am. Please send all announcements to office@saintgabriel.net. SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND Next week, we will take up the Catholic Home Missions Appeal. Right now, over 40% of dioceses in the United States are considered mission territory because they are unable to fund essential pastoral work in their communities. Your support of this appeal eases the struggle of these dioceses. Please prayerfully consider how you can support this appeal. Find more information at www.usccb.org/home-missions. ST. GABRIEL S EVENTS CALENDAR Do you know that you can check the dates and times of St. Gabriel s events at the online Events Calendar on our website? Visit saintgabriel.net and click on Events Calendar on the horizontal menu just below the purple banner on the home page of the website. 2019 RETURNING GODS GIFTS UPDATE 2018 Parish Goal: $119,764 Total Pledged: $89,219 Percentage Pledged: 74.50% Total collected to date: $54,086 Percentage collected: 45.16% FINANCIAL BLESSINGS RECEIVED Fiscal Start of year July 2018 Feb 2019 Total Offertory & Other Income Received: $805,148 Total Operating Expense: $832,680 TITHING RECIPIENT Today s Tithe is for Fostering Hope. They affirm and support foster parents in their task of caring for neglected and abused children. Our volunteers and community partners serve as an extended family for foster parents and to the children entrusted to them. We stay with kids into adulthood, ensuring they always have someone they can count on. Please pray for the people supported by this organization. 2019 RETURNING GOD S GIFTS Please remember to continue to pray for the success of the Returning God s Gifts Annual Appeal as it supports our seminarians, deacons, Catholic schools, Catholic Charities, and the many ministries and parishes in our diocese. If you have not yet made your commitment, you can donate online at www.diocs.org. St. Gabriel the Archangel 3 Colorado Springs, CO
St. Gabriel the Archangel 4 Colorado Springs, CO
MAKING A GOOD CONFESSION 1. Examine your conscience. 2. Be sincerely sorry for your sins. 3. Confess your sins to a priest. 4. Resolve to amend your life. 5. After your confession, do the penance the priest assigns. PROCEDURE IN THE CONFESSIONAL You say: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been - (state the length of time) since my last confession. These are my sins. Then tell your mortal sins and the number of times committed. If you have no mortal sin to confess, then confess the venial sins you have committed since your last confession. When you have finished telling your sins, you should say: For these and all the sins of my past, I am truly sorry. The priest now gives the necessary advice, assigns your penance and asks you to say the Act of Contrition (in some form). Then wait and listen as the priest gives the absolution. Then say Thank you, Father, then leave the confessional and then perform the penance assigned by the priest. ACT OF CONTRITION O MY GOD, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, and to amend my life. Amen. St. Gabriel the Archangel 5 Colorado Springs, CO
An Easter Proclamation The hosts of heaven exult and sing aloud in mighty triumph! Let the earth be glad as glory alights and night reigns no more. Let the Church rejoice at the victory of her Lord and Master, Who paid the debt of Adam, Who frees those doomed to die, Who heals the broken-hearted and bind up their wounds, Who forgives the sinner and raises up the lowly, Who destroys death forever, Whose Kingdom shall have no end. God our Father, eternal is your love for us! Christ the Son, in victory you reign! Holy Spirit, set the Easter fire ablaze in our hearts. Together you live and reign and ransom your people, one God forever and ever. Amen. SPIRITUAL COMMUNION When Should You Make an Act of Spiritual Communion? The most common occasion for making an Act of Spiritual Communion is when we cannot fulfill our obligation to attend Mass on a Sunday or Holy Day of Obligation, whether because of illness or bad weather, or some other reason outside of our control. It is also good to make an Act of Spiritual Communion when we can attend Mass, but when something prevents us from receiving sacramental Communion that day say, a mortal sin that we know we have not had the opportunity to confess yet. But our Acts of Spiritual Communion do not need to be confined to those times. In an ideal world, it would be best to attend Mass and receive Communion every day, but we can't always do so. We can, however, always take 30 seconds or so to make an Act of Spiritual Communion. We can even do so multiple times a day even on days when we have been able to receive the Eucharist. Why would we do that? Because each Act of Spiritual Communion that we make increases our desire to receive sacramental Communion, and also helps us to avoid the sins that would make us unable to receive Communion worthily. St. Gabriel the Archangel 6 Colorado Springs, CO
EASTER OCTAVE Easter Sunday is not the end of our Easter celebration. After forty days of preparation with Lent, and the Easter Triduum, from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday, it is easy to miss looking ahead on the Church s liturgical calendar. This is, after all, the climax of the Christian year with the celebration of the Passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Catechism calls Easter the Feast of feasts and the Solemnity of solemnities. Yet, Easter Sunday is actually just the first day of the Easter Octave, the eight-day festal period, in which we continue to celebrate the momentous conclusion to the Paschal mystery and the economy of salvation played out in liturgical time. The eight days of the Easter Octave are a special time to celebrate the Lord s Resurrection and more deeply contemplate its mysteries. The Church punctuates the special importance of this feast by assigning it the highest liturgical ranking, that is, as a Privileged Octave of the First Order. This means each of the eight days is counted as a solemnity, the highest-ranking feast day, in which no other feast can be celebrated. It begins the fifty days of the Easter celebration to the feast of Pentecost, but these first eight days of the Easter Octave culminates with the second Sunday of Easter: Divine Mercy Sunday. It is entirely fitting that Divine Mercy Sunday is the culmination of the Easter Octave, for as St. Pope John Paul II stated in his Divine Mercy Sunday homily in 2001, Divine Mercy! This is the Easter gift that the Church receives from the risen Christ and offers to humanity.. Divine mercy is the grace and merit won by Christ on our behalf in His Passion and Resurrection. The grace of Easter naturally flows into Mercy Sunday. Even before the official designation, the Church has historically designated these eight days of Easter to celebrate the Paschal mysteries of divine mercy. The early Church celebrated the Sunday after Easter as the feast day, Dominica in Albis depositis, the Sunday dressed in white linen. St. Augustine is attributed to have called it the compendium of the days of mercy. Indeed, in his Regina Caeli address on Divine Mercy Sunday on April 26, 1995, Pope John Paul II said The whole Octave of Easter is like a single day, and that Octave is thanksgiving for the goodness God has shown man in the whole Easter mystery. In these eight feast days, we offer thanksgiving for the divine mercy and salvation wrought for us on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 21 Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33/Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41/Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20 and 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 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9 [2ab]/ Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12/Ps 118: 1-2 and 4, 22-24, 25-27a [22]/Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21/Ps 118:1 and 14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21 [21a]/Mk 16:9-15 Sunday: Acts 5:12-16/Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 [1]/ Rv 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19/Jn 20:19-31 Apr 22 Apr 23 Apr 24 Apr 25 Apr 26 Apr 27 Apr 28 PRAY FOR VOCATIONS Bob Seydel, Candidate Fr. Don Billiard,OFM Mark Thuli, Candidate Ed Wilmes, Candidate Pope Francis Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Bishop Michael J. Sheridan ALTAR FLOWERS Easter Flowers are donated by our parish families. PRAYER CHAIN If you have a request for needed prayers, strength, hope, courage or thanksgiving for yourself, family or friends, please email ncbelanger54@gmail.com. The suggested donation for a Mass Intention is $10. Mass Intentions can be booked for either living or deceased persons; a Mass Intention can be booked for more than one person if both or all the people for whom the Mass is being celebrated are either all living or all deceased. When booking Mass Intentions, especially more than three or four at one time, we would greatly appreciate receiving the Mass Intention donations at the time you reserve the dates of the Masses. Sat Apr 20 8:30pm for: Joseph Graff Sr (+) Sun Apr 21 7:00am for: Frank & Edna DeJohn (+) Sun Apr 22 9:00am Pro Populo Sun Apr 21 11:30am for: Charlene Pardo (SI Birthday) Sun Apr 21 1:30pm for: Antonia Ruesga (+) Mon Apr 22 12:15pm NO MASS Tues Apr 23 12:15pm for: Ed & JaJa Garcia (SI) Wed Apr 24 12:15pm for: David Hendrixson (SI) Thur Apr 25 12:15pm for: Barbara Guischard (+) Fri Apr 26 12:15pm for: Arthur & Charlotte Brisbois (+) Sat Apr 27 5:00pm for: The Cardenas and Chavez Families (SI) Sun Apr 28 8:30am for: Lee & Rose Maney (+) Sun Apr 28 10:30am Pro Populo Sun Apr 28 12:30pm for: Marc Martinez (SI Birthday) Sun Apr 28 4:30pm for: Marybeth Rufin & Michelle Rufin Beard (SI) St. Gabriel the Archangel 7 Colorado Springs, CO