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Ascension, John Singleton Copley (1775) THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD MAY 24, 2020 TO SHOUTS OF THRONE THE LORD. GOD MOUNTS HIS Joy; PSALM 47 A BLARE OF TRUMPETS FOR
Ascension, John Singleton Copley (1775)
THE ASCENSION OF THE LORDMAY 24, 2020
TO SHOUTS OFTHRONE
THE LORD.
GOD MOUNTS HIS
Joy;
PSALM 47
A BLARE OF TRUMPETS FOR
MASS SCHEDULE INTENTIONS OFFERED BYSaturday (May 23 Bob and Maxine Cooper †† Jim and Donna CooperSunday (May 24) People of the Parish Father HinterschiedMonday NO MASSTuesday Clara and Joe Betz †† Gerald and Dottie BetzWednesday Robert White † Pat Davis FamilyThursday Jim Stahl † Paul LombardFriday Walter Lanigan † Joy SullivanSaturday (May 30) 5:00 p.m. People of the Parish Father HinterschiedSunday (May 31) 7:30 a.m. Sue Dunkley † Shirley and Jim Witwer 10:30 a.m. Nancy Beathard † David and JoAnn Dhume
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OFFERTORY COLLECTION: May 17Regular Collection $ 4,148.00Maintenance 70.00Easter 160.00Easter Flowers 25.00St. Patrick Total Offering $ 4,403.00
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS:Aid to Central and Eastern Europe 35.00Black and Indian Missions 25.00Catholic Communication Campaign 20.00Catholic Relief Services 25.00Diocese of Mandeville, Jamaica 70.00Good Friday Holy Land 50.00St. Vincent de Paul Society 30.00St. Patrick Total Offering 255.00
Thank You
Returning to Mass – All Catholics in the Diocese of Columbus are dispensed from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass at least through September 13, 2020. Please, if you have any concerns, do not come at this point. If you plan on attending Mass, please bring a mask for each member of your family. Every third pew will be available for seating. Please do not use the pews that are marked as spacers, they are for social distancing guidelines. We ask 1 pew per household.
Adoration – First Friday Adoration, June 5th will be one hour, starting at 4:15 p.m. and ending at 5:15 p.m. First Friday Mass will be at 5:30 p.m.
Daily Mass – Daily Mass will resume Tuesday, June 2 at 8:00 a.m.
CRS Rice Bowls – Thank you parishioners for your generous donations to the CRS Rice bowl campaign. We collected $319.26. Thank you for journeying with us throughout Lent! Given the realities of COVID-19 and that it is difficult to physically collect CRS Rice Bowls, participants can submit their CRS Rice Bowl gifts online, by phone or mail.
† Jose Roberto Fernandez, brother of parishioner and ELC Director Polly Forde-Johnston passed away May 15, 2020.† Edward McCarty, father of parishioner Billy McCarty died May 17, 2020.† Nancy Thompson, mother of parishioner Ashlee Thompson, died on May 17, 2020.Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Message from Father Hinterschied“He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3). These Easter days have been filled with intimacy with the Lord, celebrating His Resurrection and contemplating its significance. Indeed, we recognize how His Paschal Sacrifice has changed everything and that God is in control of history.
The disciples were filled with joy even as they watched Him remove Himself from their sight and ascend to the right hand of the Father. To ears without faith, this sounds odd, “normal” farewells are sad affairs, so why is there happiness?
The disciples have come to understand and believe, through the Teacher, that the Ascension is not a “disappearance,” “disconnecting” in going to heaven. Quite the opposite, it ushers in a new and deeper presence of the Savior among men. He will now be in fact even always with them, in the manner that only God is with us.
Perhaps this is one of the blessings that God has been communicating to us this extraordinary Eastertide, that even though we are without the public celebration of Holy Mass, family members and friends, or work, God is with us as only He can. We have been afforded considerably more time to pray, read, and be in the company of those we make our life with, and even to examine ourselves.
While we come back next Sunday to the parish for Mass, Confession, and times of prayer, I pray that we will not “return” to who we were on March 15. I hope that we have been emboldened with a deeper sense of Christ’s presence among us, the availability of His grace at all times, and more profound awe at His abiding presence among us in the Holy Eucharist.
-Rev. Fr. Michael Hinterschied, Pastor, St. Patrick Church
ST. PATRICK PARISH NEWS
Thank you, Mrs. Sharon Thomson, teacher at St. Patrick Early Learning Center who is retiring at end of May 2020. She has contributed 16 years of excellent service as preschool teacher. Sharon started as a teacher’s assistant in 2004. She taught the 3-year old class most of her career at St. Patrick. She and her husband Robert are active members of St. Patrick parish.
The Ascension of the Lord May 24, 2020
Jesus Took His Place Gospel Reflection by Pope John Paul II on the Ascension of Our Lord
With joy then and fresh resolves for the future, let us reflect briefly on the great mystery of today’s liturgy. In the Scripture readings the whole significance of Christ’s Ascension is summarized for us. The richness of this mystery is spelled out in two statements: Jesus gave instructions, and then Jesus took his place.
In the providence of God – in the eternal design of the Father – the hour had come for Christ to go away. He would leave his Apostles behind, with his Mother Mary, but only after he had given them his instructions. The Apostles now had a mission to perform according to the instructions that Jesus left, and these instructions were in turn the faithful expression of the Father’s will.
The instructions indicated, above all, that the Apostles were to wait for the Holy Spirit, who was the gift of the Father. From the beginning, it had to be crystal-clear that the source of the Apostles’ strength is the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who guides the Church in the way of truth; the Gospel is to spread through the power of God, and not by means of human wisdom or strength.
The Apostles, moreover, were instructed to teach – to proclaim the Good News to the whole world. And they were to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Like Jesus, they were to speak explicitly about the Kingdom of God and about salvation. The Apostles were to give witness to Christ to the ends of the earth. The early Church clearly understood these instructions and the missionary era began. And everybody knew that this missionary era could never end until the same Jesus, who went up to heaven, would come back again.
The words of Jesus became a treasure for the Church to guard and to proclaim, to meditate on and to rive. And at the same time, the Holy Spirit implanted in the Church an apostolic charism, in order to keep this revelation intact. Through his words Jesus was to live on in his Church: I am with you always. And so the whole ecclesial community became conscious of the need for fidelity to the instructions of Jesus, to the deposit of faith. This solicitude was to pass from generation to generation – down to our own day.
And the second reflection on the meaning of the Ascension is found in this phrase: Jesus took his place. After having undergone the humiliation of his passion and death, Jesus took his place at the right-hand of God; he took his place with his eternal Father. But he also entered heaven as our Head. Whereupon, in the expression of Leo the Great, the glory of the Head became the hope of the body. For all eternity Christ takes his place as the firstborn among many brethren: our nature is with God in Christ. And as man, the Lord Jesus lives for ever to intercede for us with Father. At the same time, from his throne of glory, Jesus sends out to the whole Church a message of hope and a call to holiness.Excerpted from Homily of His Holiness John Paul II, Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord, 24 May 1979 http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1979/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19790524_seminari-ingl-roma.html
Weekly ScriptureSunday, May 24
The Ascension of the LordActs 1:1-11
Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Eph 1:17-23 Mt 28:16-20
Monday, May 25Easter Weekday Memorial Day
Acts 19:1-8Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab
Jn 16:29-33
Tuesday, May 26Feast of St. Philip Neri, Priest
Acts 20:17-27Ps 68:10-11, 20-21
Jn 17:1-11a
Wednesday, May 27Easter WeekdayActs 20:28-38
Ps 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36abJn 17:11b-19
Thursday, May 28Easter Weekday
Acts 22:30; 23:6-11Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11
Jn 17:20-26
Friday, May 29Easter WeekdayActs 25:13b-21
Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20abJn 21:15-19
Saturday, May 30Easter Weekday
Acts 28:16-20, 30-31Ps 11:4, 5 and 7
Jn 21:20-25
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