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MASS SCHEDULE
GIRARD Sat. 5:30pm Sun. 10:00 am ARMA 4:00pm 8:00 am

CONFESSION Sat. 2:00-2:45pm 3:15-3:45pm Weekdays before Mass; anytime by appointment.

STAFF Fr. Roger Lumbre Pastor Janel Scales/Marcel Normand Bookkeeper/Bulletin Editor Judy Smerchek Secretary Rectory Office Hours Wednesdays 9AM-Noon Tel. (620) 347-4525

Have you experienced being betrayed? Being abandoned by people you relied upon especially during the time when you needed them most? How would you feel if you experience that situation? It would certainly be very painful and forgiveness would certainly be very hard to give. Our Lord was betrayed by his disciples. Peter, denied him three times and except for John the Evangelizer, all of them ran away. On this second Sunday of Easter our Lord uttered the words upon meeting his disciples: Peace, be with you! Certainly, they are words of forgiveness and an offer of reconciliation! We hear and exchange these words at mass. I hope you realize how we are given a chance to experience the peace of Christ every time we come to mass, that God has offered us forgiveness and reconciliation. Being forgiven and reconciled is always a joy! May this Easter Season be really a cause for REJOICING for all of us. On the other hand, Thomas doubted about the resurrection and followed the principle to see is to believe. Yet the words of our Lord to him is an inspiration to all of us who believe though we havent seen him physically: Blessed are those who have not seen, yet believe! The second Sunday of Easter is also Divine Mercy Sunday. On April 30, 2000 Blessed Pope John Paul II instituted this feast at the canonization of St. Maria Faustina. Divine Mercy Sunday can be seen as the convergence of all the mysteries and graces of Holy Week and Easter Week. The purpose of the feast is to lead the faithful through their faith, hope and love to share more deeply in the whole mystery of Christ as it unfolds throughout the year. The feast focuses the light of the Risen Christ into a radiant beam of merciful love and grace for the whole world. In his revelations to St. Faustina Jesus expressed His desire to celebrate this special feast. He says that the Feast of Mercy emerged from his very depths of tenderness and mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of his Mercy. Jesus says that the divine floodgates through which grace flow are opened and let no soul fear to draw near to him. Even though his sins are as scarlet they would be forgiven because of the Mercy that emerges from the very depths of his tenderness. This Feast is a summation of the event of his mercy active in our lives now. Next Sunday(4/22/2012) 8:00 AM Drew Ashbacher & Joseph Polhlopek Henry Ashbacher & Bill Harman Marcel Normand Ron Pommier Dave & Cindy Ashmore

Next Saturday (4/21/2012) Altar Servers: Ushers E. M. E. Lectors: Gift Bearers 4:00 PM Trevor Graham Aaron Kreutzer & Emil Pronier Linda Carpino Laurie Graham Mary Otto & Donna Fleury
4:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 AM Sunday 10:00 AM 7:00 AM Monday 5:30 PM Tuesday 6:30 PM Wednesday 8AM-6:30PM 8:00 AM Thursday 8:30AM-4PM 7:00 AM Friday 4:00 PM Saturday 5:30 PM 8:00 AM Sunday 10:00 AM Saturday

Mass Schedules & Intentions for April 14th-22nd:

April 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Roy, Pauline, David Harman Verl Diskin Ruth Wingebach Pro Populo Thomas Cussimanio Frank & Mary Meyer Thomas Cussimanio Eucharistic Adoration Frank Doue Eucharistic Adoration Thomas Cussimanio Randy Peak & Beverly Jenkins Verdan Davied Pro Populo Frank Doue Arma Girard Arma Girard Girard Arma Girard Girard Arma Arma Girard Arma Girard Arma Girard

Because we dont have a communal schedule of praying together the chaplet of the Divine Mercy I encourage all of you to say the chaplet of the Divine Mercy the afternoon of this Sunday at 3PM and every Friday at 3PM. I am sure that this would be another opportunity of grace and to grow in our love for God and one another. Finally, how would you like to see our parishes at Saint Michael and Saint Joseph grow strong and vibrant? Neither you or I could make it happen! God could make it happen, touching peoples hearts and empowering them to build the body of Christ! So, we can do something to let this happen. We have to ask God. And the best way to ask Him is through our prayers. Our Eucharistic adoration every Wednesday from 8:00AM to 6:30 PM for Girard and every Thursday from 8:30AM to 4:00PM in Arma is a very powerful prayer moment to ask the Lord something especially for the good of the community. We are inviting all of you to spend at least an hour with the Lord at our Eucharistic adoration. Call the parish office to let us know of your time preference. God bless you all! Fr. Roger HELP! We need 2 or 3 heavy duty power strips to use for the Spaghetti Feed. If anyone out there has one or more to loan out, please call Karen Pryer at 347-4613. You will get them back!

God Exists: Its No Accident Last weekend, Fr. Roger reminded us that our faith is real. If Jesus had not been resurrected, we wouldnt have been in Church. But, He Contributions $1,606.00 $50,950.67 WAS resurrected and many believers through the years have been Expenses $50,039.28 willing to lay down their lives for this truth. Few would sacrifice life Over/ (Under) $911.39 to defend a lie. We, as Christians, KNOW that God exists and well name a few Saint Josephs Upcoming Events ways that we show it. First, in our daily lives, we accept the fact that Finance Council Parish Council human reason is trustworthy. If a number of people looking for the Next Meeting Next Meeting, Tuesday, April 17th answer to a problem all come to the same conclusion, wed be inTBA 6:00 in the rectory clined to agree with that answer whether it be the search for a vaccine or plotting a trip in space. IT IS A FACT that people of all times and St. Ann Altar Society Knights of Columbus in all countries have believed in the existence of God from the dawn Next meeting, April 18th 1st Tuesday of Month, 7pm of civilization along the Nile, as well as the Greeks, the Romans, and 6:00PM in the Church Hall St. Michael Parish Hall to our day. A belief so universal cant be due to chance. If human reason is trustworthy, we recognize the fact of Gods existence. Parish Pastoral Council Officers: Secondly, we can verify Gods existence by following the princiChair Pat Westhoff ple that there must be a CAUSE for everything which exists. When Members at Large Emil Pronier, Betty Rons & Marcel Normand we see an egg, this is a sign that a chicken exists. When we look at Secretary Karen Pryer how the computer works, we know that a person of intelligence designed it. NOTHING in the world is the cause of itself. Everything Worship Committee: was caused by something. Books come from paper that came from Chair Karen Pryer Lectors Marcel Normand wood, trees, sunlight, and the soil of the earth. But the line of causes E.M.Es Joann Black Music Jan Harman ends, and we come to the conclusion that, at the beginning, there is Ushers/Greeters Bill Harman Sacristan Larry Pronier an UNCAUSED CAUSE, or God. Altar Society: Judy Smerchek And lastly, well mention another way we can prove Gods existence. Look at your wristwatch. If we think deeply about it, it presupParish Finance Council: poses a watchmaker. Its an intricate mechanism--the minute hand Chair Fred Bogina traveling precisely 60 times faster than the hour hand and the second Members Bill Harman, Judy Wingebach, Linda Broyles hand 60 times faster than the minute hand. We KNOW that such a working machine didnt happen by chance. It required a person of intelligence who had a plan in mind. Our modern aircraft are not acTickets for Spaghetti Feed-We will be in the back of the Church at cidentally formed by a tornado that passes through a junkyard. the Masses, Saturday and Sunday passing out the remainder of the Theyre crafted by engineers who take the necessary time and equiptickets of those who did not pick them up. We have a book of tickets ment to make the perfect machine. The same is true of you and me. for all of the parishioners. The money and unsold tickets should be returned by April 21 to Joe or Linda Broyles or Karen Pryer. The sold The human body is made up of many cells that are far too small for the naked eye to see. Microbiologists now tell us of remarkably comticket stubs should be returned then also. Keep selling the unsold plex structures within these cells. Once again, this description cries door prize tickets! We have around 29 prizes to draw for. If your out designer! Who is this designer? We call him God! name is drawn and you are not present, you can pick up the prize at the Church rectory the following Wednesday from 9:00-12:00. The Humility of Saints Thomas More, as he was to be beheaded, kneeled and asked the peoFinal Meeting for Cooks-The final meeting for all cooks will be ple to pray for him. He then recited Psalm 51, the Miserere, prayer of Monday, April 16, in the parish hall at 6:00pm. Those who need to repentance. Saints, unlike sinners, dont think much of themselves attend are as follows: Sauce & Meatballs: Joyce Klinkon, Tom & before God. Theyre more aware of having failed to serve Him in Debbie Amershek, Sharon Cizerle, Ron & Janet Pommier, Mary small ways. Saints dont look on Heaven as cheap. More had intense Sayre, Barbara Doue, Joan Barbieri, Ron Black, Pat Westhoff, & faith, but still didnt feel he deserved heaven. He hoped for it ONLY Frank Esposito; Beans: Joyce Klinkon, Joan Barbieri, Sharon Cizerle, Audrey VanLeeuwen; Salads: Bernie & Judy Wingebach, Lau- with Gods mercy and forgiveness. Most of us think that nearly everyone deserves Heaven. The saints knew that NOBODY DOES. It rie Graham, Heather Ashmore; Drinks: Mary Ann Boyd, Margaret Setina, Joan Black, Gay Kranker. Bread workers do not need to show can only be won by faith and repentance, and then ONLY by Gods grace. up. Karen Pryer and Betty Rons will finalize the Spaghetti Feed.
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