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March 21, 2018 ST. RAPHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH SPRINGDALE, AR

The Trumpet

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

There is no Second Collection this weekend, March 31st-April 1st

UPCOMING EVENTS

PARISH NEWS AND INFORMATION

CATHOLICS RETURNING HOME

Six-week series starting April 5th These sessions are for non-practicing Catholics who are

seeking answers to questions about returning to the Church.

Week 1: Welcome, Overview of Series, Faith Sharing

Week 2: Sharing Stories of Faith

Week 3: The Church Today: Changes since Vatican II

Week 4: Explanation of the Mass

Week 5: Explanation of the Sacrament of Penance

Week 6: Explanation of the Nicene Creed

Week 7: (optional) Church Tour

Week 8: (optional) Using the missalette at Mass

Location: St. Raphael Catholic Church– Faith Hall

Contact the parish office at: 479.756.6711

St. Raphael Book & Gift Shop Easter Sunday-April 1. We have lots of fun items for your children’s and grandchildren’s Easter baskets: Coloring books, bracelets, rosaries, bibles & more.

Divine Mercy Sunday-April 8. Be sure to come in and take a look at our other Divine Mercy Sunday items: St Faustina books, Divine Mercy prints & prayers, statues. We also have the book “33 Days to Merciful Love”, by Michael E. Gaitley.

First Holy Communion and Confirmation are coming up soon. You will find everything you need for your gift giving to celebrate these sacraments for that special person in your life. We have beautiful bracelets & necklaces, gift sets, veils, purses, books, bibles, crucifixes, rosaries, saint’s medals, greeting cards & gift certificates.

Prayer Partners are needed

for the following hours:

Sunday: 3:00am - 4:00am

Sunday: 4:00am - 5:00am

Monday: 11:00am - 12:00noon

Monday: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Thursday: 3:00am - 4:00am

Friday: 11:00am - 12:00noon

Saturday: 8:00am - 9:00am

Saturday: 10:00am - 11:00am

Adorers are still needed

for the following hours:

Monday: 2:00am - 3:00am

Monday: 3:00am - 4:00am

Monday: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Tuesday: 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Tuesday: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Tuesday: 9:00pm - 10:00pm

Thursday: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Friday: 7:00am - 8:00am

Friday: 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Saturday: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

It has been a while since I’ve shared anything with you, so on this Holy Week I offer you these few thoughts...

Resource Center: Thanks to Nancy Phillips for putting to-gether our new resource area to the left of the main door to the office. You can find resources to grow in faith, resources available in the area for counseling and other family re-sources to help your family. Check out this area!

Food Pantry: There has been a change at the food Pantry. Steely Mayes has stepped aside as our Food Pantry manager and Darla Lucas has now stepped in. This is in addition to her job as our Director of PRE in English.

Give a Little, Take a little: We have two new display shelves in the vestibule for food. One is for you to donate a little nonperishable foods to our food pantry. This shelf is on the right side of the main office door. The other new shelf is under the pastors’ pictures in the vestibule. This is stocked with free bread so you take a little home with you.

Altar Top: Our altar is now completely wrapped in wood. This beautiful oak wood altar top makes our altar fit much better in our renovated church.

New Sound System: The contract has been signed by the bishop and the new system will be installed after Easter.

This new system is designed to eliminate the delay in sound and everyone should hear clearly what is being read at the pulpit and when priests & deacons speak. Remember to continue to support the Building Fund because the funds are coming from there to cover the cost of the new system.

Catholics Returning Home: The Thursday after Easter, our Catholics Returning Home classes will begin. All the in-formation you need is in the bulletin and Trumpet. This is an excellent opportunity to invite your Catholic family mem-bers or friends this Easter who may have been away from the church for whatever reason to “return home”.

Soccer: After 5 years of Soccer at St Raphael, we are taking a break from the program. There are many reasons, too many to list here, but there are plenty of other programs around the area for our youth to get involved with. Thanks to Jonathan Ramirez for his work with this program.

PRE Registration: With this year’s classes finished, regis-tration for the 2018-2019 year will begin in April. Look for dates in the bulletin, Trumpet. As always, we are needing Catechists. If you think this is your ministry please contact Darla Lucas for the program in English and Monica Lopez for the program in Spanish.

I would like to welcome back Jeanne Marie Pichoff as our cantor at the 10:30AM Mass.

Funeral Guide: The first draft of my funeral guide for St. Raphael is now being edited. I am hoping to have this avail-able in English to everyone by the end of April. This guide is to help our families when they experience a loss in their family. I am hoping to have the Spanish version available this summer. The Wedding Guide is already up on our webpage in English and the Spanish version will be ready this spring. My final guide will be one on Baptism which will be available later this year or early in 2019. The USCCB is changing the rite slightly and I am waiting for the new rite to become available before finishing this document.

Changes: Every year at this time, I am asked if there will be changes with our priests. I know nothing at this point but as I have said in the past, the only constant is me, so stay tuned….

The office will be closed Easter Monday, April 2nd.

I will have more announcements in the coming weeks. In the meantime, may this Holy Week be a time of prayer and peace and may your Easter Season be a time of joy and signs of new life!!

ADORATION CHAPEL UPDATE

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER SCHEDULE St Raphael Holy Thursday, March 29th – Mass of the Lord’s Supper – 7pm(Bilingual) – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament-- after Mass until 10pm

Good Friday, March 30th – Stations of the Cross – 3pm(English) – Celebration of the Passion of the Lord – 5:30pm(English) – Via Crucis – 7pm(Spanish) – Celebration of the Passion of the Lord – 8pm(Spanish)

Holy Saturday, March 31st – Easter Vigil (Bilingual) – 8pm

Easter Sunday, April 1st – Masses: 7am(English), 8:30am(Spanish), 10:30am(English), 12:30pm(Spanish), 5pm(Spanish) and 7pm(Spanish)

St Joseph Holy Thursday, March 29th – Mass of the Lord’s Supper - 7pm – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament-- after Mass until 10pm

Good Friday, March 30th – Celebration of the Passion of the Lord – 7pm Holy Saturday, March 31st – Easter Vigil – 8pm Easter Sunday, April 1st – Easter Mass – 9am

The Men’s Club is offering 2 Scholarships to High School Seniors.

Pick up an application in the office.

Deadline is April 5, 2018

MASS AND CONFESSION CANCELATIONS FOR APRIL 2018 All Saturday Confessions at 9AM are cancelled during the month of April due to our Sacra-ment Masses. Confessions at 9AM will resume on Saturday, May 5th.

All Masses & confessions are cancelled-Mon, April 2nd, Tues, April 3rd & Wed, April 4th at both St Raphael & St Joseph to give our priests a few days off after Easter

All Masses & confessions are cancelled-Tues, April 10th, Wed, April 11th, & Thurs, Apr 12th

at both St Raphael & St Joseph to allow our priest to participate in Continuing Education Classes for Priests in Little Rock.

Confessions at 5:00PM and Mass at 6:00PM are cancelled on Thursday, April 19th for Con-firmation practice.

Women's Council Meeting

Tuesday, April 10th—9am—St. Gabriel's room

Mary Lou Wender will be our Guest Speaker. Please bring snack type foods for the Elmdale Elementary School children.

All women of the parish are welcome

SCRIP orders will be taken after the 4pm, 7am & 10:30am Masses—April 7th & 8th.

SCRIP orders can be taken in the office April 3rd-6th.