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SUNDAY, MAY 13--MOTHER'S DAY
7:30am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choral)
11:30am Mass (Contemporary)
2:00pm Hosanna Youth Choir (Church)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
MONDAY, MAY 14
8:30am Word/Eucharist
TUESDAY, MAY 15
8:30am Mass
1:30pm Script/Comm (Pres Homes--RV)
2:00pm Script/Comm (New Brighton CC)
7:15pm Contemporary Music Group (Church)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
8:30am Word/Eucharist
9:00am Quilter's Group (Parish Center)
9:45am School Mass
7:15pm Sanctuary Choir (Church)
THURSDAY, MAY 17
8:30am Mass
9:15am Circle of Women (Parish Center)
10:15am Mass (Innsbruck CC)
2:15pm Script/Comm (Trevilla--NB)
FRIDAY, MAY 18
8:30am Mass
SATURDAY, MAY 19
4:30pm Mass (Cantor & Organ)
SUNDAY, MAY 20
7:30am Mass (Cantor & Organ)
9:30am Mass (Choir & Organ)
11:30am Mass (Contemporary)
2:00pm Hosanna Youth Choir (Church)
6:15pm Mass (No Music)
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Connections&
May 13--Fifth Sunday of Easter
"This is how all will know you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:31-55
Chocolat
The movie Chocolat is a wonderful fable in which a mysterious chocolate maker comes to a stuffy, pious French village. Ruled by the sanctimonious Count De Reynard, the townsfolk are in the midst of an austere Lent. Their lives and religion are mired in cold joylessness--suppression, intolerance, and self-denial bordering on self-loathing. Vianne, who opens her chocolaterie at the beginning of Lent, draws the wrath of the Count, who condemns her both for her bad business timing and what he considers her libertine lifestyle.
But Vianne not only reawakens their palates with her delectable confections, her warmth and kindness reopens the villagers' hearts and spirits to long-buried joy--joy that comes from compassion, generosity, acceptance, and forgiveness. By Easter Sunday, the town has experienced a true rebirth in mood and attitude. They discover that their real hunger is not for the bread and sweets they have denied themselves during Lent, but for the love and community they denied themselves out of fear and self-righteousness.
Even the young parish priest, struggling with his Easter Sunday sermon, finally gets it right in his simple words on the "human" Jesus: "Our faith in the Risen Christ cannot be based on what we are NOT or what we do NOT do," he stammers, "our religion is what we ARE and what we DO."
CONNECTION: As the villagers of Lansquenet discover in Chocolat , Easter faith is not the fearful avoidance of things evil; faith is the joyful embrace of what is good, a living and dynamic dedication to that distinguishing mark of discipleship: "As I have loved you, so must you love one another." Our identity as a Church, as disciples of the Risen Christ, is not in a building we frequent an hour or so each week nor only in the words of prayers we have recited since childhood; our identity as faithful Christians is centered in the joy and optimism of our love for others as God's children and our brothers and sisters--the same love that unites the Father and the Son and each of us to one another.
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Mother's Day
Living God, thank you for the women who gave us life; for the women whose bodies were our first home. Thank you for the women who have mothered us.
God, today there are some of us who are missing our mothers because of death, physical or emotional distance, because disease has made them strangers or because we do not know how to mend a frayed relationship.
Some of us are missing children; children who have died, longed-for children never born. Clothe us in hope-Thank you for tenderness toward all who are bereft.
God, some of us today are puzzling over how to nurture children given into our care. We are step-parents, adoptive parents, single parents. We have walked through premature endings, weighty new beginnings, different from our dreams. Thank you for those who have gone before us and left markers along the way & for the blessing of wisdom and compassion.
For all life-giving connections, thank you God.
(Excerpt from the Well Is Deep)
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