Special Announcement For Cemetery
The Parish Council and Finance Committee approved the updated Cemetery Rules and Regulations listed below at their meeting of Dec. 6 2023. We ask for your assistance in keeping our cemetery as a safe and beautiful area not only for our visitors, but for the cemetery personnel. Any questions or comments can be directed to any memeber of the Parish Council or Finance Committee. Thank you.
Cemetery Rules and Regulations - effective 4/1/24
(For the safety and efficiency of cemetery personnel)
- No planting of trees, shrubbery, or flowers
- No glass or wire allowed
- Decorations - Flowers, shepherd's hooks, statues, solar lights, personal items, etc.
- Up to 2 decorations allowed on the concrete base of the monument
- One saddle arrangement allowed per monument
- One additional decoration per grave allowed in the ground
(does no include Veterans's markers)
- Any excess decorations will be removed by cemetery personnel
Families will be notified that the decorations were removed and will be
told where they can pick them up
- All seasonal or damaged decorations will be removed prior to the semi-annual
Clean-Ups on April 1st and October 1st of each year
Daily Readings
Weekly reading
Readings for the week of April 28, 2024
- Sunday: Acts 9:26-31 / Ps 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32 (26a) / 1 Jn 3:18-24 / Jn 15:1-8
- Monday: Acts 14:5-18 / Ps 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16 / Jn 14:21-26
- Tuesday: Acts 14:19-28 / Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21 / Jn 14:27-31a
- Wednesday: Acts 15:1-6 / Ps 122: 1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 / Jn 15:1-8
- Thursday: Acts 15:7-21 / Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10 / Jn 15:9-11
- Friday: 1 Cor 15:1-8 / Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 / Jn 14:6-14
- Saturday: Acts 16:1-10 / Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 5 / Jn 15:18-21
- Next Sunday: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 / Ps 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 (see 2b) / 1 Jn 4:7-10 / Jn 15:9-17
Pastor Message and Prayer
4/28
Words of the New Testament
PASHA
GREEK: pascha
LATIN: pascha
The Greek pascha, which appears to be a mere transcription from the Hebrew and Aramaic words pessah and peshah, was widely used in the Septuagint for the feast of Passover (Exodus 12; Numbers 9: Deuteronomy 16). With a relatively small number of occurrences, it is amazing how the usage of the word pascha in the New Testament provides us with a fair amount of information about the Jewish feast of Passover.
The word is used mostly in the gospels, the highest concentration of occurrences being in the last chapters of the four gospels ( Mark 14; Matthew 26; Luke 22; John 13 and 18). where they provide appropriate background for Jesus' Last Supper with his diciples and the meaning of his Passion and death. Other than this momentous instance, Luke mentions also Jesus' observance at the age of twelve of the yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the feast (Luke 2:41-42), and John reports two more Passovers during Jesus' public ministry (John 2:23; 6:4). Both , Luke and John, speak of Passover as a feast or festival (Luke 2:24; 22:1; John 2:23;13:1).
The evangelists also refer to Passover under its alternative name, "day/festival of Unleavened Bread" (Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:1-12; Luke 22:1,7) and are keen on reporting Jesus' emphasis on proper preparations for the Passover meal ( Mark 14:12, 16 and parallels).
All New Testament occurrences of the word pascha but one, refer to the Jewish feast. This one exception though highlights the newness and uniqueness of Christ's "Passover" and of its implicatins for Christians: "Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sanctified" (1 Corinthians 5:7). With a different terminology, John puts forward too, the symbolic character of Jesus' last celebration of the Passover meal: "Now, before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart (literally: "to pass-over") from this world and go to the Father" (John 13:1)
P.S.
Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew into Hellenistic Greek.
Fr. Joachim
St. Mary Mass Times
Saturday 6:00pm
Sunday 8:30am
Daily Mass Times
Wednesday 8:30am
Wednesday: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9am-9:30am
Friday 8:30am
First Friday 8:30am Healing Mass and Adoration
Confession Times
Saturday from 5:30-5:50 or
by appointment by calling the Rectory at 815-858-3422
Ash Wednesday: March 2nd
St. Mary 8:30 A.M.
6:00 P.M.
St. John 4:00 P.M.
St. Mary Office Hours
Wednesday 8:30 am- 3:30 p.m.. by appointment
Thursday 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
