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Download bulletin for April 29, 2018
The Easter Vigil, which was celebrated on the evening of Saturday, March 31st opened up a great season for our parish: no, I’m not speaking about the delightful swan song of a lingering Minnesota winter. Not to worry—winter shall indeed pass: “April snowflakes brings May flowers” just doesn’t have a ring to it!
It is a basic sign of a virtuous person that he or she is interested in the question of justice, and it is an even greater virtue to be interested in doing what can be done to bring more justice into the world.
Happy Easter! A welcome is in order for any family members, neighbors and visitors present throughout our campuses today for our celebration of Easter. We are thrilled to share this glorious day with you!
For many centuries the final two weeks of Lent have been referred to as Passiontide—a privileged time to focus our attention upon the Mystery of the Cross of Christ. The vailing of some our crucifixes and statues is meant to have this effect.
I admit that a bulletin article is not the hippest mode of communication, but I’m hoping against hope that these words will receive a hearing by at least some of the young people in our midst. Certainly our ‘older folk’ are welcome to listen in and pass this article along to young people in their lives.
With the body, so too with a parish; thus is it meant to be and thus has it been in these past few weeks! St. Paul’s recurring image for the church was the many parts of a body working in a symphony of cooperation and mutual support.
The Pontifical Good Friday Collection supports Christians and programs in the Holy Land. At the request of the Holy Father, collections support the Holy Land Franciscans as they nourish and minister to the many pastoral, educational and humanitarian needs of the Holy Land, including shrines that are important to our faith.
This weekend we are celebrating our annual Forty Hours Devotion here at Holy Cross. The Forty Hours has been kept by our parish faithfully for....a very long time! It is one of the greatest badges of honor for Catholicism in the Northeast. On behalf of Fr. Howe I can say it has become one of our greatest privileges since our assignment here to be able to take the torch passed to us by Fr. Glen Jenson and carry on this tradition.
An important part of maintaining a spiritually fruitful parish is communication—both to regular parishioners and to those who have not yet joined us, but who want to, or who might. In our society we have for quite some time been habituated to electronic communications and to the world of virtual experience on the internet.
The Fourth Sunday of Easter has colloquially come to be known each year as Good Shepherd Sunday. In some dioceses —including in Rome—it is the occasion of the annual priestly ordinations. Interestingly, the three readings of today’s liturgy all take the form of a good shepherd speaking to the flock: St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles; St. John in his first epistle; Christ Himself in the tenth chapter of John’s Gospel.