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SUNDAY, MARCH 26
8:00am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choral)
11:00am Mass (Contemporary)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
MONDAY, MARCH 27
8:30am Word/Eucharist
7:00pm Prayer Vigil Committee (Rectory)
TUESDAY, MARCH 28
8:30am Mass
2:00pm Script/Comm (Pres. Homes--RV)
WEDESDAY, MARCH 29
8:30am Word/Eucharist
9:00am Quilter's Group (Rectory)
9:45am School Mass
7:00pm Q&A with Fr. Bill (Rectory)
7:00pm Script/Comm (New Brighton CC)
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
8:30am Mass
10:15am Script/Comm (Innsbruck Care Ctr.)
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
8:30am Mass
6:00pm Soup Supper (School Cafeteria)
7:00pm Stations of the Cross (Church)
SATURDAY, APRIL 1
3:00pm Private Reconciliation (Church)
4:30pm Mass (Cantor & Organ)
SUNDAY, APRIL 2
8:00am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choral)
11:00am Mass (Contemporary)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
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Connections&
March 26, 2000
Third Sunday of Lent
Jesus made a whip out of cords and drove the money changers out of the temple area. "Take these out of here, and stop making my Father's house a market place."
John 2:13-25
Be careful what you wish for&
A stockbroker finds a magic lamp, rubs it, and POOF! There appears a genie, who offers him one wish--what ever he would like.
After considering this opportunity carefully, he finally makes his one request: he asks the genie for a copy of the newspaper dated one year from today. The genie thinks it's a strange request and asks why he would ask for a newspaper.
"Because if I can see what the market is reading at one year from now, I'll be able to invest in the high growth stocks now and clean up."
So the genie grants the request. POOF! The stockbroker is holding a copy of the newspaper that will be published one year from today. He quickly goes to the financial pages. He makes notes of the stocks that are doing well.
As he's scanning the stock listings, he drops part of the paper. As it lands on the floor, the section flips open to the obituary page.
And there, to his horror, the stockbroker sees his picture.
CONNECTION: In the temple precints of our lives are "money changers" and connivers -- fear, ambition, addiction, selfishness, prejudice -- that distort the meaning of our lives and debase our relationships with God and with one another. What Jesus does in the temple we must do in our lives: drive out the "money changers" who shortchange us on the time and attention we give to family and friends; drive out the useless, the meaningless, and the destructive that desecrate the sacred place within us where God should dwell; drive out whatever makes our lives less than what God created us to be.
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