A Word from Your Pastor April 2 - Fifth Sunday of Lent

Dear Parishioners:

Life and Resurrection in the face of this world’s limits are the themes of the fifth Sunday of Lent.  Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life.  In our experience of this world, we discover that there is always an end limit.  Jesus makes known to us that He understands this reality for us, but that He is the way to a deeper experience of Reality, the Truth that Eternity beckons and promises New Life.

When we find ourselves closed in by suffering and death and by our own way of thinking about ourselves and about the world around us, the Spirit of Jesus promises to breathe newness into us.  Our graves are opened and we rise when we respond to the Lord’s Word as He calls us out of the tomb.  Freedom comes when we acknowledge that change is possible and that what seemed to be end limits are really the threshold to a new way of life.

Our parish has experienced something very powerful in the Alpha Program.  All who have participated are to be commended in their willingness to try something new.  The evening sessions on Sundays, the retreat day away, and the conversations that have opened up at the table and in the myriad of encounters Alpha has made possible have all served to remind us of the power of the Kerygma, that is, the Message of the Gospel.  We look forward to the new life that will come into our parish that flows from the encounter with Jesus and His Spirit that Alpha has offered.

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.  Jesus tells us Himself that He is the Alpha and the Omega.  May the beginning we have made in Alpha continue on as our first session of the program comes to its close on Palm Sunday.

Events of Holy Week and Easter 2017 at St. Timothy Church
April 8-9, Palm Sunday Mass of the Passion of the Lord with procession at all Masses
Saturday 5 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Tuesday, April 11, Chrism Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral at 6 p.m.

Holy Thursday, April 13, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, at 7:30 p.m.,
followed by procession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until Midnight

Good Friday, April 14 Stations and 7 Last Words at 12 p.m.
Good Friday Services at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Reading of the Passion, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion

Holy Saturday, April 15, Easter Vigil at 8:30 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 16 Easter Masses 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Divine Mercy Sunday: Anointing of the Sick at all Parish Masses,
Saturday 5 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m., 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Divine Mercy Devotion Sunday April 23 – 12-3 p.m.