www.resurrectionde.org 0310 1 Welcome to the parish of the Resurrection and www.resurrectionde.org. We strive to live our faith and rejoice in the Resurrection which gives us all hope. Financial advisor, Andy Sullivan’s most repeated line is that the only thing we can be sure of is change. Our parish renewal team tied together growth and change. So, it is not change for change sake but always to engage in self reflection with the goal of improvement and growth. In that context the staff and leaders read and compare. Often if we read something good, we say if the shoe fits wear it. Examples of reading: Best Practices from America’s Best Churches; From Maintenance to Mission by R. S. Rivers, CSP; Wake up, Lazarus! Paths to Catholic Renewal by Pierre Hegy. The last book reminded me that the best commentary on one section of the Bible is another section of the Bible. This could be applied to our homilies that are focused on the readings we just heard at Mass. In the homily we should not limit ourselves to those reading(s). So, other parts of the Bible could reinforce or balance those readings. Another point that book makes is to use stories or examples from actual lived experiences. Or it is good to share faith experiences both large and small. The renewal speakers did that and the point being made stayed with us longer and/ or came across more clearly. We know we are redeemed by the blood of the Cross, by Jesus our Savior. And the Resurrection leads us to an ever fuller life. Hegy points out that redemptive suffering must be balanced by incarnational theology. Suffering will find us, yet we were not born to endure or suffer. As Genesis (1:26- 28) says: “let people have dominion…over all the creatures that crawl on the ground.” “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it….” Thus, we not only offer up our pain with Christ, but humans become co-creators with God. Hegy (pp 384-5) “As Mary became a coworker in the Incarnation, Christians are coworkers in the creation of the kingdom of God in the secular world. Catholics are to be …cocreators in the reign of God in their families, careers, societies, relationships, and leisure activities.” So, united with Jesus, we can have this goal. In John 10:10, the Good Shepherd proclaimed: “I came that they may have life and have it more abundantly.” In Revelation: “The one who sat on the throne [Jesus] said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’” This is Easter joy. Fr. Bill Graney Rev. William Graney, Pastor x102 Rev. Greg Corrigan, Assoc. Pastor x115 Secretary (Main Office) x 0 John Falkowski, Deacon x110 Cory Zolandz, Christian Formation x104 Ruth Sanders, Liturgy/Music x106 Sandy Landoll, Social Concerns Coord. x103 John Werner, Business Director x105 Elaine Little, Youth Ministry x107 Parish Office Hours 9:00am - 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday PASTORAL COUNCIL Mike Reis Executive Officer Donna Ramage Assist E.O. Joe McClory Secretary Donna Ramage Trustee Chip Schussler Trustee March 27, 2016 Easter Sunday d
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Welcome to the parish of the Resurrection and www.resurrectionde.org. We strive to live our faith and rejoice in the Resurrection which gives us all hope. Financial advisor, Andy Sullivan’s most repeated line is that the only thing we can be sure of is change. Our parish renewal team tied together growth and change. So, it is not change for change sake but always to engage in self reflection with the goal of improvement and growth. In that context the staff and leaders read and compare. Often if we read something good, we say if the shoe fits wear it. Examples of reading: Best Practices from America’s Best Churches; From Maintenance to Mission by R. S. Rivers, CSP; Wake up, Lazarus! Paths to Catholic Renewal by Pierre Hegy. The last book reminded me that the best commentary on one section of the Bible is another section of the Bible. This could be applied to our homilies that are focused on the readings we just heard at Mass. In the homily we should not limit ourselves to those reading(s). So, other parts of the Bible could reinforce or balance those readings. Another point that book makes is to use stories or examples from actual lived experiences. Or it is good to share faith experiences both large and small. The
renewal speakers did that and the point being made stayed with us longer and/ or came across more clearly. We know we are redeemed by the blood of the Cross, by Jesus our Savior. And the Resurrection leads us to an ever fuller life. Hegy points out that redemptive suffering must be balanced by incarnational theology. Suffering will find us, yet we were not born to endure or suffer. As Genesis (1:26-28) says: “let people have dominion…over all the creatures that crawl on the ground.” “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it….” Thus, we not only offer up our pain with Christ, but humans become co-creators with God. Hegy (pp 384-5) “As Mary became a coworker in the Incarnation, Christians are coworkers in the creation of the kingdom of God in the secular world. Catholics are to be …cocreators in the reign of God in their families, careers, societies, relationships, and leisure activities.” So, united with Jesus, we can have this goal. In John 10:10, the Good Shepherd proclaimed: “I came that they may have life and have it more abundantly.” In Revelation: “The one who sat on the throne [Jesus] said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’” This is Easter joy. Fr. Bill Graney
Rev. William Graney, Pastor x102 Rev. Greg Corrigan, Assoc. Pastor x115 Secretary (Main Office) x 0 John Falkowski, Deacon x110 Cory Zolandz, Christian Formation x104 Ruth Sanders, Liturgy/Music x106 Sandy Landoll, Social Concerns Coord. x103 John Werner, Business Director x105 Kathleen Edwards, Youth Ministry x107 Parish Office Hours 9:00am - 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday PASTORAL COUNCIL Mike Reis Executive Officer Donna Ramage Assist E.O. Joe McClory Secretary Donna Ramage Trustee Chip Schussler Trustee
Rev. William Graney, Pastor x102 Rev. Greg Corrigan, Assoc. Pastor x115 Secretary (Main Office) x 0 John Falkowski, Deacon x110 Cory Zolandz, Christian Formation x104 Ruth Sanders, Liturgy/Music x106 Sandy Landoll, Social Concerns Coord. x103 John Werner, Business Director x105 Elaine Little, Youth Ministry x107 Parish Office Hours 9:00am - 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday PASTORAL COUNCIL Mike Reis Executive Officer Donna Ramage Assist E.O. Joe McClory Secretary Donna Ramage Trustee Chip Schussler Trustee
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MASS INTENTIONS
Monday Mar. 28 8:30 am
Tuesday Mar. 29 7:00 pm
Wednesday Mar. 30 8:30 am
Thursday Mar 31 8:30 am
Friday April 1 8:30 am
Saturday April 2. 5:30 pm +Rosanna Tavoni
Sunday April 3 8:15 am +Camille Schwarz
10:30 am Parish Community
5:30 pm
Pray for all the needs in our Book of Intentions and for those in our Parish Family who are sick: Lord, allow your healing hand to assist Lauren Lutz, Beverly Detwiler, John Wisniewski, Tia Langan, JD Howell, Jack & Jane Tabaka,
Hemphill, Renee Roder, Alyssa Stover, Ben Stam, Chet Andruskiewicz, Jim Gambort, Maryann Ciabattoni, Helen Meys, Candi Smith, Larry & Kat Edwards, Gene Shields, Felicia Callahan, Sean McCormick, Janice Kane, Ralph Culver, James Barber, Jane Hanson, Margaret Brennan, Cass Thomas, Dave Roberts ,Kevin Rzucidlo, and others mentioned in our parish book of intentions.
LITURGY
As parish we welcome and rejoice in the baptism, confirmation, and reception of Holy Communion of Christopher Fraser, a child of God and child of Margie Sharp. We thank all you helped make the Parish Renewal and Holy Week liturgies so meaningful. Musicians under the leadership of Ruth Sanders again out did themselves in skill and generosity of many hours of hard work and leading us in participation at worship of an awesome God. Image of God was one of the several topics covered in the Renewal. Talk about it so that it can be a deeper memory and continue to enliven us.
PARISH LIFE
2016 Annual Catholic Appeal
In the Resurrection of Jesus we find hope in the prospect of everlasting life in heaven. But to obtain eternal life, we must accept the Lord’s invitation to follow Him by imitating His love and compassion for others. During the weekend of April 9 and 10, our parish will participate in the 2016 diocesan Annual Catholic Appeal. Funds generated through the Appeal support the work of the Church by responding to an abundance of human needs within our diocese. Your gift helps bring Christ to those who seek his presence - the poor, the sick, the distressed, our children and our elderly.
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As Christian stewards we are called to a lifelong conversion to the ways of Jesus. Each of us is asked to examine the blessings we have received from God and to discern how best to use them for others. We do this cheerfully and sacrificially and with faith in God’s love for us, knowing that He will provide for our earthly wants. You can learn more about the 2016 Annual Catholic Appeal by reading next week’s Dialog or visiting the diocesan website at www.cdow.org; click “Giving” then “Annual Catholic Appeal.”
Save the Date: Bus Trip to Hershey Park
on May 22, 2016 The Office of Marriage and Family Life announces a trip to Hershey Park on May 22, 2016. Come and join your diocesan family for a day of prayer, food, and fun at Hershey Park. Trip and registration details will follow in early March.
SOCIAL CONCERNS EMMANUEL DINING ROOM: 170 people were served Resurrection's Shepherd's Pie this day of March 12, 2016. We were fortunate, as always, to be blessed with a great group of volunteers! They included Eileen Craig, Linda & Mike Duffy, Kelli Bowers & Chris McKenna, Judy & George Ward. We thank Cannon's Bakery with their donation of 7 cakes. Please consider signing-up in April to work in this ministry. Emmanuel Dining Room Auction Raffle – Saturday April 30th, at Barclay Bank on the Riverfront. The feature event of the Auction is the drawing of the Grand Raffle, awarding three prizes: $10,000, $2,000 and $1,000. You do not have to be present to win. Grand Raffle tickets are $100 each and only 500 will be sold. Please help by buying a ticket as a group or individual. All of the money raised is desperately needed to support our three dining rooms, which feed many hungry people. Raffle Tickets and Event Tickets may be purchased on www.ministryofcaring.org or mailing a check to The Emmanuel Dining Room, 121 N. Jackson St, Wilmington DE 19805. For more information please call 302-652-3228
Zingo: Don’t forget to put in your cash register tapes in the boxes in the hallway leading to the nursery. We will be sending them in at the end of the year. All proceeds benefit parish outreach. Thank you!
ELEMENTARY CHRISTIAN FORMATION
K-5 Christian Formation Program (CFP) meets almost every Sunday morning from 9:15-10:15 a.m. See website for calendar.
KIDS’ BIBLE STUDY for kids in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade: We will meet on Wednesdays in April. Upon registration, please note your preference for meeting time. We will choose the time that the most people can make. Pizza will be provided either before or after. Register online here: http://www.resurrectionde.org/kids-bible-study Questions? Please contact Cory.
April 15, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Kids Only Spring Fling! Drop off your kids for a night of fun! Movies, crafts, games, and junk food provided.
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CFP: YOUTH MINISTRY
Sun April 3, 2016: Middle School and High School Youth Gathering 6:30-8:15. We will be outside weather permitting. Wear walking shoes and dress for the weather. Sat April 9, 2016: Christina River Cleanup 8a.m.-12:00p.m. Fri April 15, 2016: 5:30-8:30: Spring Fling! Come hang out with our elementary CFP students. Play games, and help with crafts! Rack up those service hours! Contact Cory if you can help out at [email protected]. Sun April 17, 2016: 6:30-8:15 Seder Meal/Prayer. Families of our Middle School and High School students are welcome to join us. JESUS HOUSE PRAYER & RENEWAL CENTER
Encountering Jesus Through Guided Imagery, Reflection and Spiritual Direction, A Day of Reflection offered at Jesus House on Tuesday, April 19th, 9:30 am. - 3:30 pm. Cost $40.00 includes program, continental breakfast and lunch. Retreat facilitators are Angie Malmgren, MS in Pastoral Care and Spiritual Direction and Pamela Nash, MS in Pastoral Care and Spiritual Direction. For more information, contact Jesus House at 302.995.6859 or go to our website for more details at www.jesushousecenter.org.
VOCATIONS
When Mary Magdalen returned from the empty tomb, she told Peter and John “they have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” In today’s world, many people don’t know where to look for the Lord. Priests, deacons, sisters and brothers spend their lives helping people to find Him. Can you see yourself serving in that great mission? Call or write Father Norman Carroll, Diocesan Director of Priestly and Religious Vocations (302-573-3113, [email protected]). Be sure to visit our website: www.cdow.org/vocations!
ADULT FAITH FORMATION TAKING IT HOME: We have immersed ourselves anew into the Passion and Death of Jesus, now on this day of days we rise triumphant with Jesus from the waters of new life. We began our Paschal season with Lent on February 10 when we received our ashes and prepared to keep the next six weeks in prayer, fasting and charity. We taught ourselves to die to our weaknesses and to turn to God once again. We sought also to be reconciled with God and our neighbor. But now we plunge ourselves into the waters of baptisms so we can rise again to the glory of resurrected life. We celebrate that death no longer has its sting; that sorrow has turned into joy and that despite our still broken lives there is yet hope for us and this world. This is the joy we celebrate today and for the next fifty days of Easter. But just like takes time to change our hearts, Easter too takes time to wear on us; time to allow the joy and love of this great mystery of our faith to take possession of us. Easter is a season of fifty days concluding with the Solemnity of Pentecost, a season which by its number of days is indicative of its greater importance. But I suppose we fail to recognize this significance. We really think that Lent is the bigger season. But Easter does call us to live in the new life that Jesus graced us with, even if we often don’t know how to do this; and this is why we need Easter, even more so than Lent. Yes during Lent we focus on our separation from God, which is good because it helps us understand our limitations and keeps us honest. But in Easter we dwell not on our limitations, but on our goodness, which comes from the love of God and helps us to overcome our separation from God. And we need to take time during Easter, and other times as well, to dwell in our goodness and the hope our faith gives us lest our faith become too skewed. Yes with are unworthy, but God has found us worthy. We are God’s creation and as God’s creation we are capable of the good that God has planted within us. This is why Easter is so important to our faith because it helps us dwell on how we might produce the good fruit that with the Spirit’s help and God’s grace we can produce. We need to savor God’s love and savor the indwelling of the Spirit, which fire’s our hearts with God’s love. This is the reason for our joy and the reason why we should heartily celebrate the season with robust life. Deacon John
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But all together they shouted out, “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us.”
—Now Barabbas had been imprisoned for a rebellion that had taken place in the city and for murder.—Again Pilate addressed them, still wishing to release Jesus, but they continued their shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
Pilate addressed them a third time, “What evil has this man done? I found him guilty of no capital crime. Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.”
With loud shouts, however, they persisted in calling for his crucifixion, and their voices prevailed. The verdict of Pilate was that their demand should be granted. So he released the man who had been imprisoned for rebellion and murder, for whom they asked, and he handed Jesus over to them to deal with as they wished. As they led him away they took hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country; and after laying the cross on him, they made him carry it behind Jesus.
A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him. Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’ At that time people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ for if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?”
Now two others, both criminals, were led away with him to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, they on his right, the other on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.”
They divided his garments by casting lots. The people stood by and watched; the
PASSION SUNDAY GOSPEL – LUKE 23:1-49
The elders of the people, chief priests and scribes, arose and brought Jesus before Pilate. They brought charges against him, saying, “We found this man misleading our people; he opposes the payment of taxes to Caesar and maintains that he is the Christ, a king.”
Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
He said to him in reply, “You say so.” Pilate then addressed the chief priests
and the crowds, “I find this man not guilty.”
But they were adamant and said, “He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where he began even to here.”
On hearing this Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean; and upon learning that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod who was in Jerusalem at that time. Herod was very glad to see Jesus; he had been wanting to see him for a long time, for he had heard about him and had been hoping to see him perform some sign. He questioned him at length, but he gave him no answer. The chief priests and scribes, meanwhile, stood by accusing him harshly. Herod and his soldiers treated him contemptuously and mocked him, and after clothing him in resplendent garb, he sent him back to Pilate. Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, even though they had been enemies formerly.
Pilate then summoned the chief priests, the rulers, and the people and said to them, “You brought this man to me and accused him of inciting the people to revolt. I have conducted my investigation in your presence and have not found this man guilty of the charges you have brought against him, nor did Herod, for he sent him back to us. So no capital crime has been committed by him. Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.”
rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him and said, “He saved others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Christ of God.”
Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine they called out, “If you are King of the Jews, save yourself.”
Above him there was an inscription that read, “This is the King of the Jews.”
Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.” The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.”
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun. Then the veil of the temple was torn down the middle.
Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”; and when he had said this he breathed his last.
The centurion who witnessed what had happened glorified God and said, “This man was innocent beyond doubt.”
When all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts; but all his acquaintances stood at a distance, including the women who had followed him from Galilee and saw these events.
Q. Why is it Peter, the chosen leader of the disciples, who denies knowing Jesus? Q. Why do the gospels go into such detail about the death of Jesus? Q. Why would the beliefs of early Christianity have been confronting to the Greeks and Romans?
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