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Welcome
Church of St. Timothy | 707 89th Ave NE Blaine MN 55434 | 763.784.1329
Readings for the Week Readings for Easter Sunday: First Reading — Peter is an eyewitness: The Lord is risen (Acts 10:34a, 37-43). Psalm — This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad (Psalm 118). (1) Second Reading — All who are baptized, set your hearts in heaven (Colossians 3:1-4) or (2) Second Reading — Christ our Passover is sacrificed; therefore let us celebrate (1 Corinthians 5:6b-8). Gospel — Three witnesses, Mary, Peter, and John; each responds to the empty tomb (John 20:1-9) or Matthew 28:1-10 Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11; Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22; Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2ab, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27a; Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-21; Mk 16:9-15 Sunday: Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pt 1:3-9; Jn 20:19-31
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Where to Find the Most Current Information for St. Tim’s While this bulletin is a great source of information about what is happening at the parish, please note that it is put together and printed about ten days in advance of the date on the cover. We do have several other means of communication that are much more fluid and are updated frequently. Our website is the definitive source for the most current information, particularly in times when situations may be changing rapidly. We will post the most important updates and communications on the homepage. We also utilize an email program called Flocknote and typically we send out a Flocknote, to all who have subscribed to this service, each week and it contains brief reminders about things coming up in the next few days. Flocknote has also been used when we have urgent information to share with all of you. You can sign up for Flocknote on our website on the communications page,(churchofsttimothy.com/bulletin) or you can sign up by texting the word Blaine to 84576. We also are active on Facebook and will update our page with important news as appropriate. You can find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/StTimothyBlaine. To reach us you can send an email to [email protected]. Cover photo by Libby Huebner
Question of the Week: Witness to Faith Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed. (John 20:8) Acts 10:34a, 37-43 - Peter's discourse Colossians 3:1-4 - Mystical death and resurrection John 20:1-9 - Peter and the disciple at the tomb • Adults: What is your experience of resurrection
in your own life or the life of your family? • Kids: Jesus is with us today. How can you see
him in the people around you?
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An Easter Message from the Pastor
Church of St. Timothy | 707 89th Ave NE Blaine MN 55434 | 763.784.1329
Dear Friends:
Today, we celebrate the passage of Jesus Christ through death to new life in God. The Psalmist declares that today is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad! As we continue to make our way in this new era, the covid era if you will, we take a moment to reclaim what is essential to our faith as Christians. Though we lack the communal celebration we would all much rather share, we still join spiritually, in communion with faithful throughout the world, to declare that the love of God overcomes all evil, all suffering, and in this great sign of resurrection, we are united in a bond of faith that is far stronger than any virus or economic catastrophe can break.
The bond of resurrection in Jesus Christ is God’s invitation to live in ultimate freedom. Though our movements may be restricted, we are free in heart, for Christ’s victory over death is victory over everything and anything that leads to death. Put another way, we are now free to live fully in the love of God. Resurrection is not only our eternal destiny, it is the sign of what we are capable of becoming even now.
But resurrection is also a stumbling block. We are challenged by a rationality that says reports of his resurrection are deluded visions of his friends and followers, that resurrection is simply nonsense. Dead bodies are not “raised,” the dead are dead, and beliefs to the contrary are wishful thinking. This thinking inevitably leads to either a wholesale rejection of the Gospel as a fiction, or a rational construction of the Jesus of history. In this view, Jesus was at best a remarkable prophetic figure, who left a legacy of social reform that the world would be better off heeding. Claims of Jesus’ divinity must be rejected out of hand.
There is really little neutral ground in this debate. Faith admits that divine grace can re-create life in the fullest possible sense of the term. Faith admits that life can never be completely reduced to an empirical or physical experience. Through hearts that are truly free,
faith seeks to activate the potential for new life and love in the places where only darkness, hatred, and death seem to dwell. Faith admits that our experience of space and time is limited by our inability to perceive equally valid dimensions of existence that are just as real, though unavailable to the immediacy of our senses. (Even those scientists who work to uncover the secrets of the material of the universe, from everything between the largest celestial bodies to the smallest molecules, report that there is infinitely more to the space-time continuum than what we can experience sensually.) If we can imagine that God can operate in space and time in ways that are not always immediately accessible to us, we can at the very least consider the possibility of resurrection. But if we imagine with faith, we will not only rationalize a possibility, but recognize the fact of God’s definitive revelation, restoring the potential for eternal love in this world by signifying Christ’s power over death.
Resurrection is the manner in which God chooses to communicate the deepest mysteries of divine love as this love unceasingly seeks to share with humanity everything that is good. In this time when uncertainty, fear, anxiety, sickness, and isolation seem to dominate, we are gifted to willingly entrust our lives once again into the hands of a God who accepted the lament of his Son on the cross. It is within our own imitation of Christ in the “handing over” of ourselves, that our current lament is turned to joyful praise. And even though we may be physically apart, we are blessed to join together in praying the Psalm of the Easter liturgy. So grab your bible, and with whoever else may be present, join in reciting, or singing for those with the voice, the magnificent chorus of praise that is Psalm 118: This today is truly the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice together and be glad in it! May this blessing, and this peace of the Risen Lord, free your hearts an minds of any fear or anxiety, that we may all be one with the Lord in celebrating his victory over suffering and death. God bless you all,
Fr. Joe
2019 Easter Vigil
Dear brothers and sisters, on this most sacred night,
in which our Lord Jesus Christ passed over from death to life,
the Church calls upon her sons and daughters,
scattered throughout the world, to come together to watch and pray.
If we keep the memorial of the Lord’s paschal solemnity in this way,
listening to his word and celebrating his mysteries,
then we shall have the sure hope of sharing His triumph over death
and living with him in God.
Easter is the celebration of the Lord's resurrection from the dead, culminating in His Ascension to the Father and sending of the Holy Spirit upon the Church. There are 50 days of Easter from the first Sunday to Pentecost. It is characterized, above all, by the joy of glorified life and the victory over death, expressed most fully in the great resounding cry of the Christian: Alleluia! All faith flows from faith in the resurrection: "If Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching; empty, too, is your faith." (1 Cor 15:14)
Oh, Blessed Easter! by Therese Jorgensen
The glorious strains and texts of Easter morning remember and celebrate the very foundation of Christianity: Jesus is raised from the dead and is Lord! Those who believe and are baptized share in this resurrection to new life. This is our celebration for the next fifty days of Eastertime.
The past five to seven weeks have been rather intense. In the Mass readings, we have been called to repentance and conversion. In our everyday lives, we have lived true fasting and abstinence, giving up things that would never have occurred to us, including celebrating our beautiful liturgies in church, among our beloved community. How does one make sense of all of this darkness and suffering?
We were not able to celebrate our beautiful Triduum liturgies this year, but let’s not forget that the redemption of the cross begins with the darkness of the tomb. The tomb is truly a dark place – lifeless, still, and silent. Christ’s body lies motionless, covered in a shroud. After such a brutal death, hope is far beyond
anyone’s grasp.
Isn’t this true of the darkness we encounter in our own lives? Events around COVID-19 have many gripped in fear; many have lost loved ones and are now lost in grief; we are isolated from family and loved ones; many are out of work; supplies are limited. Is there any hope?
But, within the tomb, darkness does not win…because darkness cannot win. The Gospel of John states an eternal truth: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:1-4, NAB, italics added for emphasis) Light always overcomes darkness. In the tomb, darkness and death are destroyed forever, as Christ bursts out of the tomb in glorious light!
We are living in a time of darkness right now. But no matter how bleak our situation or
how deep our darkness, if we embrace today with the joy that is our right – because of the cross and the resurrection – light always comes! WE can be a light in this darkness! A phrase from the Exsultet, heard at the Easter Vigil, gives us pause to ponder the significance of the Resurrection, and fill us with hope in the midst of our own struggles:
“This is the night of which it is written:
The night shall be as bright as day,
dazzling is the night for me, and full of gladness.”
Unspeakable joy because of God’s unspeakable act of love! May we experience the true redemption of the cross this Easter by recognizing that the journey begins in the darkened tomb. May the blessings of the Risen Lord – and the gift of his peace, which our world so desperately needs today – be with you this Easter and always. And may we be together soon, to celebrate Eucharist as a community! God bless you, and now, go, be light to one another!
What came to be through Him was life, and this life
was the light of the human race; the light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not
overcome it.” for EASTER Pause
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Mission Statement We are a progressive, welcoming Catholic community that values full participation in worship and community service.
We commit to being a peace-loving, Eucharistic community providing integrated faith formation and applying gospel values to daily living.
Office hours: Monday, Thursday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday 8:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Friday 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday closed Sunday 8:00AM-12:30 p.m.
Mass schedule: *ASL Interpreter at 8:30 a.m. Mass* Saturday evening: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: *8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Weekdays: Tues-Friday, (Comm Service Monday) 9:00 a.m.
Holydays: variable
Rosary: Weekdays 8:30 a.m. in parish center chapel
Sacrament of Reconciliation Individual: Saturday following 5:00 p.m. Mass Penitential prayer service: variable
Prayer requests: Call 763.717.1730 or 651.233.9622
Communion for the homebound: Contact Maggie Philbrook at the parish office.
Baptisms: Parents must attend a pre-baptism class. Call the parish office for scheduling. Weddings: Arrangements must be made at least six months prior to the wedding.
Parish Staff
Pastor: Fr. Joe Whalen Deacon/baptism ministry: Tom Quayle Deacon/marriage ministry: Joe Frederick Director of Administration and Finance: Cathy Sullivan Stewardship and Development Director: David Bach Bookkeeper: Libby Huebner Office Supervisor: Jill Hanson Maintenance Director: Barry Schuetzler Director of Liturgy and Music: Bill Steffl Coordinator of Liturgical Music: Therese Jorgensen Junior and Senior High Youth Minister: Kristen Neuman DRE; Middle school programs; basket programs: Margaret Kelly Coordinator for Children’s Ministries Kristen Raaen Pastoral Minister; Befrienders: Maggie Philbrook Bulletin editor/communications Libby Huebner Receptionists Mary Kalk, Joy Heifort
