Tuesday, May 15, 2018 8:00 am - People of Saint Patrick

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

8:00 am - People of Saint Patrick

Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:00 am - People of Saint Patrick

Friday, May 18, 2018 8:00 am - People of Saint Patrick

Saturday, May 19, 2018 4:00 pm - Rosemary Tewes ( † ) by Frank & Millie Zielinski Sunday, May 20, 2018

8:00 am - The People of Saint Patrick 9:30 am - Julio Castro ( † ) by Theresa Campa 11:15 am - Rafaela Castañeda ( † ) by Eli Razo

MASS INTENTIONS Readings for the Week of May 13, 2018

Sunday Acts 1:15-17,20a,20c-26; 1 Jn 4:11-16; Jn 17:11b-19 Ascension - Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mk 16:15-20 Monday Acts 1:15-17,20-26; Jn 15:9-17 Tuesday Acts 20:17-27; Jn 17:1-11a Wednesday Acts 20:28-38; Jn 17:11b-19 Thursday Acts 22:30,23:6-11; Jn 17:20-26 Friday Acts 25:13b-21; Jn 21:15-19 Saturda Vigil - Gn 11:1-9; Rom 8:22-27; Jn 7:37-39 Mass - Acts 28:16-20,30-31; Jn 21:20-25 Next Sunday Acts 1:1-11; 1 Cor 12:3b-7,12-13; Jn 20:19-23

OFFICE HOURS: Monday thru Friday 9:00 am - Noon & 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

OFFICE PHONE: 815-965-9539

OFFICE FAX: 815-965-0086

WEBSITE: stpatrickrockford.org.

CHURCH EMAIL: stpatrickrockford@gmail.com

FR. DEL TORO’S EMAIL: frdeltoro.stpatrick@gmail.com

CCD CLASSES: Tuesday 6:00 - 8:00 pm CRE: Lorena Moctezuma

MARRIAGE: Arrangements should be made with Fr. Alejandro del Toro A minimum of 6 months preparation is required.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the office to arrange to receive this Sacrament.

BAPTISM: (English) please call the Parish Office to make arrangements for the Preparation Classes.

PLATICAS PARA BAUTISMO: Las platicas pre-bautismales seran el primer sabado de cada mes a las 5 pm en el centro parroquial. Informacion de las fechas de bautizos seran dadas durante las platicas. No niños por favor.

Saint Patrick ChurchSaint Patrick ChurchSaint Patrick ChurchSaint Patrick Church 2505 School Street, Rockford, IL 61101 — 815-965-9539

Welcome to our Parish Community!

REV. ALEJANDRO DEL TORO ~ Pastor

THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS: Saturday: 4:00 pm (English) Sunday: 9:30 am (English) 8:00 am & 11:15 am (Spanish) Tuesday thru Friday: 8:00 am in the Chapel

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: Thursday 8:30 am - Noon RECONCILIATION: Saturday afternoon from 3 :30 pm - 3:50 pm and after 8: 00 am week day Masses Arrangements for other times may be made by calling Fr. Alejandro del Toro at 815-965-9539

MAY 13, 2018 7TH SUNDAY OF EASTER

DAILY READINGS

May 2, 2018 & May 3, 2018

Envelopes ....................... $2,475.14 Easter ............................... $ 1.00 Holy Day .......................... $ 31.00 Children’s ......................... $ 142.00 Loose ............................. $1,351.94 Total ................................. $4,001.08

OUR MONTHLY BREAKFAST is June 3rd , after all Masses.

English & Spanish food available.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR PARISHIONERS FAVOR DE ORAR POR NUESTROS FELIGRESES

Nursing Home: Pat Stahl, Joe Wong Homebound: Florence Dimke, Delores Flanagan,

Eloise Jones, Anna Orlicki, Maxine Rush, Frank Zielinski Recovery: Bob Redding

BANNS OF MARRIAGE LAZOS DE MATRIMONIO

May 26, 2018 Huge Enrique Loredo Garcia

Vanessa Jasmine Juarez

June 16, 2018 Gonzalo Martinez Carrillo

Claudia Alejandra Cabral Solis

HOME VISITS

Father del Toro will be visiting registered parishioners who are homebound

or in a nursing home on the first Friday of every month .

He will offer Reconciliation, Communion and Anointing if needed.

If you would like Father del Toro to visit, please call the office at 815-965-9539.

BAKE SALE We will be having a Bake Sale

May 19th & 20th after all the masses. Anyone who would like to donate some goodies

can drop them off before any Mass during the sale.

DIOCESAN SUMMER CAMPS St. Theresa Camp & Retreat, for young woman in 7th grade thru college age will take place from June 24 - 27. Jeremiah Days, for boys entering 7th thru 9th grades will take place July 8 - 11. First Call Retreat, for young men entering 10th thru college will take place July 15 - 18. The cost is $90.00. These camps & retreats are open to all youth, not just those who have already shown interest in the priest-hood and religious life. The goal is to have fun and at the same time plant seeds for the future. This is an excellent program for our youth that are to be making their Confirmation in the coming year. This is an opportunity to learn about their faith, religious life and priesthood from Sisters, Nuns, Priests and Seminarians first hand. For more information, anyone can check out our web-site www.rockforddiocese.org/vocations.

VOCATIONS CORNER by Fr. Bobby Gonnella

Job and his wife Job is described in the bible, as a man who stands out for his righteousness and his respect for God. In that book of Job, it is also mentioned how he is well known because of his wealth. He had “seven sons and three daughters, many servants, owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred donkeys.” (Job 1:2-3) Job’s story tells us how God allowed Satan to attack him, first in his position, losing sons and daughters, servants and animals. Then, his body was wounded with incurable sores from the feet to the head. (Job 2:7) After all of that, Job never cursed God. His story is the story of a just man’s suffering; a man who loves God, and although he does not understand the reason for his sufferings, nevertheless accepts them, confident that there will be a better future. My attention is especially drawn to verse 9 of chapter 2, in the same book. “His wife said to him, ‘Do you still persevere in your faith? Curse God and die!’” It is neither the invitation to curse God, nor the questioning of faith that attracts my attention, but instead, the fact that his wife, up to this moment in history, is still present and at the side of Job. Job has lost sons, daughters, possessions, and even his health, but not his wife. We could make many conjectures, or conclude with a bad-tasting joke that “the devil didn’t want Job’s wife”, but I think there is a deeper truth. There are some ideas that can help us better understand this part of history. First of all, we must say that Job’s wife is not a “possession” of his. She is a person; free, independent, with dignity --- not a something, but someone. She is his partner, not to be “owned”, therefore, she was not attacked when satan attacked Job’s possessions. This first approach continues to leave the possibility that in the second attempt in which satan attacked Job, she would have been attacked since as spouses, the two are one. She was not attacked, and in spite of not being Job’s best counselor, during all the time of suffering, she was always with him. Perhaps the answer is in the nuptial blessing that is given to the spouses on the day of their wedding: “….God, you who have wanted the union of man and woman and have blessed this community; established from the beginning, with the only blessing that was not abolished neither by the pain of original sin, nor by the punishment of the flood…”. The union of man and woman narrated in the book of Genesis, in which each one is a help and inseparable company to the other, is protected by God throughout the history of salvation. The book of Job is not the exception. Marriage is also respected in this passage of scripture. Certainly, there have always been imperfections in marriages, and the story of Job addresses this point. That is why it is neces-sary to constantly look to God's plan for marriage, and thus purify our intentions, heal our past wounds, and learn to be a better spouse every day.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION - MAY GOD BLESS YOU

Jimena Molina-Munoz Jorge Molina

Genesis Yamilet Montoya Fernando Olguin

Abraham Osorio Pasillas Adrian Francisco Porras

Briana Alexis Porras Angeles Renovato

Miley Chavez Izabella Rivera Litzy Romero Jairo Romero

Andrew Romero Alexander Torres-Macareno

Maria Guadalupe Valencia Madrigal Ramiro Valencia Madrigal

Esmeralda Velasco Israel Velasco

Alex Carranza Giselle Adanarin Contreras

Adrian Jose Davila Alejandro Delgadillo

Angel Delgadillo Genesis Delgado

Adrian Gomez Eduardo J. Gomez Leilani M. Gomez Daniella Gonzalez

Edgar Gnzalez Jadie Magali Gonzalez

Brisa Hernandez Ivan Hernandez

Alejandro Herrera Cervantes Guillermo Ildefonso Soto Giovanni Lara Alarcon

Joan Jesus Alarcon Arely Lozano

Daniel Jesus Manriquez

Sarah A. Lopez Dylan A. Lopez

Zion Christopher Aranda Ricardo Herrera

Kassandra Ivett Lozano Ovando Roxanna Ivett Lozano Ovando

Christian Guzman Marquez Gizelle Anahi Ramos

Cristina I Muñoz Toxqui Yuridia Luna

Reyna Dayanara Aguirre Montes de Oca Alexander Aguirre Montes de Oca

Sandro Pavel Aguirre Montes de Oca Ivan Alvarez

Jackelin Alvarez Destiny Alvarez Loyola

Emily Guadalupe Alvarez Loyola Leonardo Carlos Hernandez

Raul Jorge Carranza Sherlyn Robi Carranza