Dear Friend,

We hope you’ll join us in two weeks for our annual Wearin’ the Green fundraiser on Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:00pm. For safety, the fundraiser will be virtual that won’t limit the fun! Anyone can watch the main broadcast at 7:00pm but tickets are required for the pre-show at 6:30pm, the post-event performance by comedian Pat McGann, and to participate in the live and silent auction. Upgrade your experience by ordering dinner from BOKA Catering Group (Order by Saturday, April 24, 2021). Find out more at www.wearinthegreen.com

In the weeks before Wearin’ the Green, we hope you’ll join us in person or virtually for Mass. Attendance at Mass on Sundays requires a reservation. Make your reservation to attend Mass at www.standrew.org/mass-reservations

The remainder of this webpage is the Your Sunday Connection prayer guide.

May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, may we look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection. Through or Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. AMEN.

Reading I                      Acts 3:13-15, 17-19
Peter said to the people: “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence when he had decided to release him. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did; but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets,
that his Christ would suffer. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away.”

Reading II                             1 Jn 2:1-5a
My children, I am writing this to you so that you may not commit sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one. He is expiation for our sins, and not for our sins only but for those of the whole world. The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. Those who say, “I know him,” but do not keep his commandments are liars, and the truth is not in them. But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him.

Gospel                             Lk 24:35-48
The two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way, and how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them.

He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.”

Please click on the video link below to watch the homily for this week.

For the Church, that we may be a compassionate and forgiving people as we preach repentance for the forgiveness of sins to all the nations.
We pray to the Lord LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER

For world leaders, that they may always grow in wisdom and insight and that they may be committed to the truth as they exercise their leadership.
We pray to the Lord LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER

That we may open our minds and hearts to the truth that all people are children of God, so that we may fight racism, sexism, and any evil that mocks this sacred truth. We pray to the Lord. LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER

For all who have been affected by COVID19, may God’s healing presence be comfort to them and bring health and well-being.
We pray to the Lord. LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER

For the departed, who remain with us in our prayers and our memories, and for the promise of a joyful reunion, and especially for:
+Deceased of the O’Malley Family, +John and Virginia Kaufman and
+Amanda Wavernick
We pray to the Lord LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER

Sometimes, receiving Holy Communion is not possible. Catholics in these cases are encouraged to make “Spiritual Communion.” St.Teresa of Jesus wrote about this practice:

“When you do not receive communion and you do not attend Mass, you can make a spiritual communion, which is a most beneficial practice; by it the love of God will be greatly impressed on you”

Look with kindness upon your people, O Lord, and grant, we pray, that those you were pleased to renew by eternal mysteries may attain in their flesh the incorruptible glory of the resurrection. Through Christ our Lord. AMEN.

Wearin’ the Green

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