St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Church 3901 Violet Road, Corpus Christi, TX 78410 Parish Office: 361.241.3249 Religious Education Office: 361.241.3372 www.stpeterprince.net Fax: 361.241.0533 REV. EMILIO JIMENEZ, PASTOR REV. JAISON MATHEW PAROCHIAL VICAR PRIESTS: Msgr. Seamus McGowan DEACONS: Allen Cicora Eluterio Farias WEEKEND MASSES: Saturday: 6:00 PM Sunday: 8:00 & 10:00 AM 12:00 PM and 6:00 PM Confessions are heard on Saturday from 4:30-5:30 PM and by appointment. St. Mary August Mission 18, 2013 Mass, Twentieth 9:30 AM Sunday In Ordinary Time PARISH MISSION STATEMENT St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Catholic Church is a welcoming community dedicated to promoting a devout life of prayer and teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ through living the sacraments in a spirit of generous service.
Page 2 MASS INTENTIONS April 10-15, 2018 St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Tuesday 6:30 pm Susie Diaz - Family Wednesday 6:30 pm Francisca Rodriguez - Chano Rodriguez Thursday 8:00 am Manuel Rodriguez, Jr. - Chano Rodriguez Friday 8:00 am Gary Duge - Nita Repka Saturday 6:00 pm Lupita G. Morin - Margaret R. Morin Sunday 8:00 am Mari Garcia - Family 9:30 am Tina Reyes & Quitugua Family - Joe & Lydia Quitugua 10:00 am Julian Liam Galloway - Chano Rodriguez 12:00 pm Bernard Neslony - Vic & Marguerite Vatzlavick 6:00 pm People of the Parish St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Church 4/01/18 Envelopes... $13,041.00 Loose... $2,120.00 Other Fees... $370.00 Total... $15,531.22 Holy Thursday... $418.00 Good Friday... $1,626.00 3/25/18 Envelopes... $12,303.00 Loose... $1,884.31 Other Fees... $1,195.00 St. Mary Mission 4/01/18 Envelopes... $876.00 Loose... $256.00 Total... $1,132.00 Holy Thursday... $163.00 Good Friday... $154.00 3/25/18 Envelopes... $1,190.00 Loose... $93.00 Total... $1,293.00 SO THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE It is not often that the author of one of the books of the Bible comes right out and tells us directly why he is writing what he is writing. In this Sunday s Gospel reading, taken from the conclusion of John s Gospel, the author tells us that he has chosen to record these events so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name (20:31). The letter of John echoes this idea by saying that [e]veryone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God (5:1) what we might refer to as being born again. Our reading from the Acts of the Apostles for this Second Sunday of Easter shows us exactly what it looks like when believers are born again through faith. The Knights of Columbus are having a Chicken Barbecue on Sunday, April 15 (to go) at the pit 11 am - 1:30 pm 1/2 Chicken, beans & rice $9.00 per plate
Second Sunday of Easter or Sunday of Divine Mercy Page 3 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 7:10-14; 8:10; Ps 40:7-11; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 Tuesday: Acts 4:32-37; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Jn 3:7b-15 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 3:13-15, 17-19; Ps 4:2, 4, 7-9; 1 Jn 2:1-5a; Lk 24:35-48 Online Cityof.com/goodnews Saints & Special Observances MONDAY: The Annuciation of the Lord; Adult Bible Class 8:30 am. WEDNESDAY: Feast of St. Stanislaus; Prayer Group Meeting 7 pm. THURSDAY: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 8:30 am - 6:30 pm. Choir Practice 7 pm. Holocaust Remembrance Day. FRIDAY: Feast of St. Martin I SATURDAY: Confessions 4:30-5:30 pm. Vigil Mass 6:00 pm. ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION CMSE SAFE ENVIRONMENT RECERTIFICATION CLASS FOR ADULTS TEENS ARE WELCOME When: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Time: 7:00 pm Where: St. Matthew Hall PLEASE CALL JANIE C. PENA TO REGISTER (361) 241-3249 EXT. 106 CMSE SAFE ENVIRONMENT CORE CLASS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT TAKEN A CMSE CLASS NOW IS THE TIME When: Thursday, April 12, 2018 Time: 7:00 pm Where: CCD Building, Room 6 PLEASE CALL JANIE C. PENA TO REGISTER (361) 241-3249 EXT. 106 CMSE seeks to educate on the prevention and reporting of child abuse, Please make child care arrangements. ATTENTION 2018 ALTAR SERVER GRADUATES The Sean Riley College Scholarship will be awarded to a 2018 Altar Server Graduate that will be attending an accredited university or college. Please pick up an application at the Parish Office and return it filled out by May 10th. The family of Sean Riley will be determining the scholarship FIRST ANNUAL MEMORIAL $500.00 SCHOLARSHIP In memory of Martin & Tomasita Colunga One page essay on the following questions: What is your favorite worship song? And why? Requirements: Must be registered and attending St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Parish Deadline: May 10, 2018 Please drop essay off at St. Peter s Parish Office.
Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) Page 4 A Pastoral Council meeting will be held Tuesday, April 10th, at 7 p.m. in St. William's Hall. All heads of ministries or a representative from the ministries needs to have a brief written report for the meeting. All parishioners are welcomed to attend. Let your religion so be less of a theory and more of a love affair G.K. Chesterton Religious Education Announcements April Classes Sunday: 8, 15, 22, 29 Wednesday: 4, 11, 18, 25 Congratulations to the 12 students who received the sacraments of initiation on Easter Sunday! Also want to thank their parents and godparents for fulfilling their requirements and for allowing us to be a big part of their journey! God Bless! Priscilla, Julie, Catechists and Aides TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Sometimes children acquire nicknames in childhood that stalk them through adulthood: Pinky, Boo-boo, and the like. This Sunday was once called Low Sunday, a step down from Easter glory, and an unfortunate nickname since Easter rejoicing goes on for fifty days. Traditionally this is the day when the newly baptized put away their white baptismal robes and returned to their everyday life after a week of intense celebration. Of course, the goal was to take up everyday duties with a very new point of view. A long title for the day was Dominica in albis deposito, or The Lord s Day for Putting Away the Albs, so no wonder the nickname Low Sunday arose. In the old calendar it was also called Quasimodo Sunday, after the first word of the opening chant, Quasimodo geniti infantes, or As newborn infants, a reference to the newly baptized taken from the Epistle of Peter. Victor Hugo s bell-ringing hero in The Hunchback of Notre Dame was abandoned as an infant on the threshold of the cathedral of Paris on Low Sunday, 1467, and named Quasimodo for the feast.
Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) Page 5 Origin of Divine Mercy Sunday, the Divine Mercy image, the Chaplet, and the Novena Saint Faustina: Mankind s need for the message of Divine Mercy took on dire urgency in the 20th Century, when civilization began to experience an eclipse of the sense of God and, therefore to lose the understanding of the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. In the 1930s, Jesus chose a humble Polish nun, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, to receive private revelations concerning Divine Mercy that were recorded in her Diary. St. John Paul II explains: This was precisely the time when those ideologies of evil, nazism and communism, were taking shape. Sister Faustina became the herald of the one message capable of off-setting the evil of those ideologies, that fact that God is mercy the truth of the merciful Christ. And for this reason, when I was called to the See of Peter, I felt impelled to pass on those experiences of a fellow Pole that deserve a place in the treasury of the universal Church. ~ Pope Saint John Paul II, Memory and Identity (2005) H T P C D M Optional Opening Prayers: You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. (Repeat 3 times) O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fountain of Mercy for us, I trust in You! Our Father, Hail Mary and the Apostle's Creed For each of the five decades (On each Our Father bead of the rosary, pray) Eternal Father, I offer you the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your Dearly Beloved Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world. (On each of the 10 Hail Mary beads, pray) For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Concluding prayer (Repeat 3 times) Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us and on the whole world. Optional Closing Prayer Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look kindly upon us and increase Your mercy in us, that in difficult moments we might not despair nor become despondent, but with great confidence submit ourselves to Your holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself.