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Community Events
(All Liturgies begin at 9:30a unless otherwise noted.)

For the month of May, 2012: (all services at 9:30am unless otherwise noted)
  • May 06: 5th Sunday of Easter, Rev. Francis Baiocchi presiding, community sing, fellowship, no community meeting 11:00am Bikers' Blessing in church parking lot
  • May 13: (Mothers' Day!) 6th Sunday of Easter, Rev. Donald Wright presiding, community sing, no fellowship
  • May 20: 7th Sunday of Easter, Rev. Thomas Marlier presiding, community sing & fellowship
  • May 27: PENTECOST Sunday, Rev. Robert Weiss presiding, Memorial Day cemetery blessing of graves, community sing & fellowship
For the month of June, 2012: (all services at 9:30am unless otherwise noted)
  • June 03: Trinity Sunday, Rev. Thomas Marlier presiding, community sing, fellowship & June community meeting
  • June 10: Corpus Christi, Rev. Kathy Vandenberg presiding, community sing & fellowship
  • June 17: (Fathers' Day!) 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Rev. Francis Baiocchi presiding, community sing & fellowship
  • June 24: Feast of John the Baptist, Rev. Don Wright presiding, community sing & fellowship


Weekly Bulletin
Two parts for the week of 13 May, 2012: part 1 | part 2



Homily
13 May 2012

6th Sunday of Easter

Love, love, love. Mother, Mother, Mother. The two words are synonymous. Where there is a good mother there is love. Today we pay tribute to both love and mothers in a special way.


News
Sacramental Marriage Beyond Anatomy

Jamie L Manson, NCR

As I listen to the fallout from President Obama's announcement that he supports marriage equality, I have been struck particularly by the argument that marriage between a man and a woman is superior to committed relationships between same-sex partners.

Titanic Lesson: More Sorrow Than Sin In The World

Eugene Cullen Kennedy, NCR

We gaze together at the seas long smoothed over at the place where the RMS Titanic went down a century ago. Like the psalmist who sang “Out of the depths I have cried unto you, O Lord,” so the Titanic still cries out to us from the depths of the iceberg-crowned waters, a thousand and more voices speaking to us of the wounds of loss that a hundred years of solitude on the sandy floor of the Atlantic have not healed.


Meditations
Ever-evolving Salvation History

Roger Karban, NCR

One of the most helpful concepts to enter our religious thought and vocabulary in the mid-’60s was “salvation history.” It dovetailed with the happenings of Vatican II, helping us understand we were part of an ongoing process by which God, through Jesus, was saving the world. Scripture was emphasized more than ever. In those writings we surface the beginnings of that history. So it was only logical when our new Lectionary came out in 1970 that the first of the weekend readings was usually from the Hebrew scriptures. If nothing else, those rarely heard passages helped us place Jesus more firmly in his historical, Jewish environment, an essential element in understanding God’s actions on our behalf throughout history.

Heaven - Now and Later

Fr. Pat Brennan, NCEPR

The April 16, 2012, issue of Time magazine has an interesting cover story entitled "Rethinking Heaven," by Jon Meacham. The article begins by the author discussing conventional understandings of heaven. He says that the images that many of us jump to when we think of heaven can be found in the best-selling book Heaven Is for Real, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. The book tells the story of four-year-old Colton Burpo, who reported that he visited heaven during surgery for an appendicitis. The child was indeed seriously ill and close to death. He told his parents about seeing Jesus, sitting on his lap, meeting John the Baptist, meeting his grandfather, and meeting a deceased sister whom he knew nothing about. He saw Mary, who acted like a mom toward Jesus. Meacham talks about how art, tradition, and religion have influenced our understanding or concepts about what heaven will be like.