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SUNDAY, APRIL 9
8:00am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choral)
11:00am Mass (Contemporary)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
MONDAY, APRIL 10
8:30am Word/Eucharist*
TUESDAY, APRIL 11
8:30am Mass
2:00pm Script/Comm (Pres. Homes--RV)
2:15pm Mass (New Brighton Care Center)
7:00pm St. Vincent DePaul Mtg. (Rectory)
7:00pm Communal Reconciliation (Church)
WEDESDAY, APRIL 12
8:30am Word/Eucharist*
9:00am Quilter's Group (Rectory)
9:45am School Mass
7:00pm Script/Comm (New Brighton CC)
THURSDAY, APRIL 13
8:30am Mass
9:00am Seniors Mtg. (Rectory)
9:15am Circle of Women (Rectory)
7:00pm Script/Comm (St. Anthony CC)
7:00pm Script/Comm (Trevilla-New Bright.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 14
8:30am Mass
6:00pm Soup Supper (School Cafeteria)
7:00pm Stations of the Cross (Church)
SATURDAY, APRIL 15
9:00am Funeral Luncheon Committee Champagne Brunch (Cafeteria)
3:00pm Private Reconciliation (Church)
4:30pm Mass (Cantor & Organ)
SUNDAY, APRIL 16 PALM SUNDAY
8:00am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choral)
11:00am Mass (Contemporary)
4:00pm Communal Reconciliation (Church)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
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Connections&
April 9, 2000
Fifth Sunday of Lent
"Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life."
John 12:20-33
My Dog Skip
My Dog Skip is a jewel of a film, based on the memoir of editor and writer Willie Morris.
Nine-year-old Willie grew up in the sleepy Southern community of Yazoo, Mississippi, during World War II. An only child, Willie is tagged with the label "sissy" and become the target of the neighborhood bullies. His mother wants to get Willie a dog for his ninth birthday but his father will not hear of it. An embittered veteran who lost a leg in the Spanish Civil War, Mr. Morris believes Willie is not old enough for the responsibility of caring for a dog.
"A dog is a heartbreak waiting to happen," he says. "Loss is hard enough for an adult -- a boy shouldn't have to deal with that."
But Mrs. Morris stands up to her husband's obstinacy and buys a dog for Willie. His father relents and Willie names the Jack Russell terrier Skip, who becomes what Willie will remember as "the best friend I ever had."
In caring for Skip, Willie emerges from his shyness and fears to stand up for himself and take matters into his own hands with his father and his schoolmates. It would be too simple to say that the eager and lovable puppy rescues Willie and solves all his problems; but Skip draws Willie beyond the self-imposed limits of his world, enabling Willie to grow from childhood to boyhood to adulthood.
CONNECTION: Both My Dog Skip and the grain of wheat in today's Gospel teach an important lesson about love: that the risk of being hurt, of being broken, of giving up some part of ourselves is the price of love. But only by loving is love returned, only by reaching out beyond ourselves do we learn and grow, only by giving to others do we receive, only by dying do we rise to new life.
PARISH READING RACK
"Magnificat" is a splendid source of spiritual reading. Each day offers a carefully selected meditation drawn from the writings from the Fathers of the Church as well as from recent spiritual masters. The great champions of the faith come alive as one reads "Magnificat's" eloquent lives of the saints.
Check out the April issue of "U.S. Catholic" on the parish reading racks. Ed Wojcicki tells us how Henri Nouwen struggled to accept God's overwhelming love. Our lives are not entirely of our own making, Patrick McCormick points out, when he reviewed biographies of people whose lives have shaped our own.
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