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Mass Intentions: Week of April 12th
Confessions: Saturdays 4:25 to 4:55 p.m.
Eucharistic Adoration: Saturdays 4:25 – 4:55 p.m.
| Day | Time | Intention | Requested By | Living or Deceased |
| Saturday | 5:00 p.m. | For the Parishioners (Living and Deceased) | ||
| Sunday | 9:00 a.m. | Raymond Frasene, Jr. Mary Ann Pilon | Stephen Frasene Doris E. Motl | Deceased Deceased |
| 11:00 a.m. | Anthony and Lillian DeFeo Matthew Joseph Pianka | Their Children George and Audra Pianka | Deceased Deceased | |
| Monday | 8:00 a.m. | No Mass | ||
| Tuesday | 8:00 a.m. | Nijole Raskys | George and Audra Pianka | Living |
| Wednesday | 8:00 a.m. | Kenneth Tierney Thomas Litts | The Duignan Family Joan and Matt Coffey | Deceased Deceased |
| Thursday | 8:00 a.m. | Peter Intervallo Milo McEvoy | Pat Richards and Jim McEvoy Pat Richards and Jim McEvoy | Deceased Living |
| Friday | 8:00 a.m. | For the Holy Souls in Purgatory | The Antonecchia Family | |
| Saturday | 5:00 p.m. | The Cleary Family The Mansa Family | The Estate of Beatrice C.M. Gavin The Haase Family | Deceased Deceased |
| Sunday | 9:00 a.m. | George R. Morrow Carlotta and Michael Olivieri | Peggy Morrow The LiMarzi Family | Deceased Deceased |
| 11:00 a.m. | Msgr. James T. Gorman, Msgr. Neil J. Graham Peggy Kennon | Father Tim John and Lisa Griffin | Deceased Deceased |
Week of April 12th
From the Pastor’s Desk
Easter – New Life In Christ
Easter, the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection, is the oldest and most solemn feast in the Church Year. It is the “Feast of Feasts!”
The Resurrection of Jesus is recorded in the Gospels and proclaimed in the New Testament, particularly by Saint Paul, who wrote that without the Resurrection, “your faith has been in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14) because its powerful energy permeates our lives, our history and our world.
Disciples who knew Jesus was dead and where He was buried went to His tomb, but found it empty, and were told by God’s Angel, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but He has been raised” (Saint Luke 24:5-6). Later, Saint Paul writes, the risen Jesus appeared to more than five hundred disciples. (1 Corinthians 15:6)
Throughout the Centuries, Catholics have continued to faithfully understand, appreciate and celebrate the significance of this most central experience in the life of the Church and their life as well.
Acknowledging the Resurrection’s mysterious depths and meaning, the Church’s Liturgical Cycle is based on remembering and celebrating Easter. Every Sunday is a memorial of Easter, a “little Easter.” Easter is the only feast in which every day of its Octave (Eight Days) is a “Solemnity,” the highest ranking given to any day. And the 50-Day Easter season, from Easter to Pentecost Sunday, is the longest in the Church Year except for Ordinary Time.
Liturgical exuberance at Easter is intended to draw you into a celebration of God’s gift of salvation and revive in you an appreciation of the promise of new life. Pope Francis reminded us that “Christ’s Resurrection is not an event of the past but contains a vital power that has permeated this world: “Where all seems to be dead, signs of the Resurrection suddenly spring up. It is an irresistible force.” The Exultet at the Easter Vigil boldly declares: “O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a redeemer!”
To remind you that Easter joy is experienced only when you do your part, when you respond faithfully to your Baptismal Call to love God and others as yourself, on Easter Sunday, the Church asks you to renew your Baptismal Promises to reject evil and to “serve God faithfully in His Holy Catholic Church” and to continue living with faith in the days ahead.
The Word of God
Reading I: Acts 2: 42-47 In every aspect of life, the earliest believers led an ideal life, united as a real family, sharing faith, meals, material goods and worship.
Reading II: 1 Peter 1:3-9 St. Peter blesses his readers for their faith, reminding them that we believers “live by faith and not by sight.” He also explains suffering as a kind of smelting process that removes impurities from the gold of their faith.
The Gospel: John 20: 19-31 The author makes the point that Jesus was raised with the same body that was crucified and dies only days earlier. The beautiful “Thomas story” follows. When “The Doubter” is convinced, he utters the climactic confession of the whole Gospel when he kneels before Jesus: “My Lord and my God.”