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April 01, 2018 Easter Sunday

St. Pius X St. Anthon y St. Mary (Solon Springs) (Gordon ) (Minong)

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Weekday Mass Schedule Monday, 04/02/18 Minong 9:00 am Communion Service & Adoration Tuesday, 04/03/18 Solon 9:00 am Blanch Lange Wednesday, 04/04/18 Minong 9:00 am The Family of Mary & Frank Wachtler Thursday, 04/05/18 Gordon 9:00 am Dick Worthing - Dolly Cosgrove Friday, 04/06/18 Middle River 9:30 am Middle River Residents

Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday, Apr. 07, 2018 Gordon 4:00 pm Steve MacDonald—Thomas Cosgrove Sunday, Apr. 08, 2018 8:30 am Margaret Bettendorf Solon - Bob & Katherine Lansing 10:30 am All Parishioners Minong

Extraordinary Ministers Schedule

Saturday, April 07, 2018

4:00 pm Gordon

Server As Available

Reader Lois Hewi!

Extraordinary

Ministers: Janet Johnson

Sunday, April 08, 2018

8:30 am Solon

Server Emme! Patel (when available)

Reader Fran Coenen

Extraordinary

Minister: Diane Lagae

Mary Ann Walt

Amy Patel

10:30 am Minong

Server As Available

Reader Jean Calcagno

Extraordinary

Ministers: Josie Johnson

Jean Groat

John Hallman

2 Welcome to the Catholic Communities of St. Pius X, St. Anthony & St. Mary

From the Pastor’s Desk

Recently Senator Jeff Flake went before the National Press Club and did something which set him apart from his party, the party which brought the current administration into power, joining himself to two other party members and senators, John McCain and Bob Corker who also chose to censure the leader of their party, the head of the current administration and, in effect, their party for its role in bringing this partic-ular leader, our current president, into power. Flake’s words, if only a bit late as all three will be shortly leaving the senate, were like a long overdo confession, sad yet prophetic given the stunning silence from the rest of their party colleagues: “If ever my party is going to pass off the degradation of the United States and her values from the White House as normal . . . If we are going to cloister ourselves in the alternative truth of an erratic leader . . . If we are going to refuse to live in the world that everyone one else lives in . . . And reck-on with the daily reality that they face- including their very real and un-derstandable anxiety that they feel . . . Then my party might not deserve to lead.” While it could be argued that Flake’s confession had badly un-derstated the depth of his party’s betrayal, as I have often stated before, most Americans can probably find within themselves some seed of com-plicity in the sad state of national affairs that Flake has addressed. But, to put our national state of affairs more directly within the scope of our Catholic ethical and ecclesial traditions, let me go back ex-actly half a century ago during the immediate prelude to Easter 1968 when two unlikely companions are characterized in a recent America magazine article as participants, in the author’s words, “in the most fa-mous reception of communion in California history. No other single Cath-olic moment touched on race, labor and politics {I would have added immigration} in such a profound way. On March 10, 1968, at an outdoor mass in the small agricultural town of Delano, Calif., the farmworker un-ion leader Cesar Chavez ended a 25-day hunger strike by receiving the body of Christ. Seated next to him was another prominent American Catholic, New York senator Robert F. Kennedy. Within three months, Kennedy would be dead, and the hopes of the farmworker movement for liberation from their exploitation would die with him.” And it’s still dead. The author of the article, Antonio De Loera-Brust, arguably of-fers us a more limited perspective on the social injustices that have tran-spired in the last 50 years of our history than can possibly account for all the moral– not to mention physical and psychological- carnage on the American landscape. Yet it still speaks eloquently for the broader issues which in some ways can be seen in what De Loera-Brust describes. Chavez’s movement had all the markings of Holy Week and the Easter season that is now upon us as it was 50 years ago. It was a pro-test in which he “urged his supporters to commit themselves to the non-violence of the Gospel, despite their being targeted with significant vio-lence, intimidation and harassment themselves. He was asking those who followed him to turn the other cheek. “By then, Chavez and the United Farm Workers had been urging a boycott of grapes for over two years. The farmworker movement em-braced Catholic symbolism. A 1966 march from Delano to the state capi-tal to raise awareness of a grape farmworkers’ strike had been dubbed a ”pilgrimage”. At the head of the march, farmworkers bore a cross and a banner of la virgin de Guadalupe, alongside Mexican, American and Fili-pino flags. They arrived at the state capital on Easter Sunday . . . “The grapes at the center of the labor struggle were themselves full of Catholic meaning. Wine occupies a sacred place in the Catholic faith, transforming into the blood of Christ.” Farmworkers wore buttons that read “Grapes of Wrath” calling to mind a previous era of exploitation John Steinbeck wrote about and a hymn of our Civil War fought for “the future of an agricultural society that had built itself on the exploitation of a racial ‘other’. “While no one would say California’s Central Valley was as bad as the antebellum South”, a fairer comparison would be after the War and continuing to this present day in which farmworkers, incredibly are still denied the federal and state protections afforded other laborers.

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Readings for the Week of April 1, 2018 Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 [24]/Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/ Jn 20:1-9 or Mk 16:1-7 or Lk 24:13-35 Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33/Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41/Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 [5b]/ Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9 [3b]/ Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26/Ps 8:2, 5, 6-7, 8-9 [2ab]/ Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12/Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-24, 25-27 [22]/Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21/Ps 118:1, 14-15, 16-18, 19-21 [21a]/Mk 16:9-15 Next Sunday: Acts 4:32-35/Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 [1]/ 1 Jn 5:1-6/Jn 20:19-31

Hey Kids! It's not only Easter on April 1st this year! It's also April Fools' Day - a day when people play silly tricks on each other and then say, "April Fools' Day!" They're not mean or hateful tricks - just funny, silly ones. What kind of a trick could you plan today? While you're thinking, think of this: some people thought Jesus was a "fool"! You know why? Because he CHOSE to be poor when he could have been rich...he "turned the other cheek" when he could have fought and won.....he even suffered and died to save the world. Tell Jesus thanks today for being a loving "fool." *Has the Easter Bunny been "fooling" around your house? Enjoy the treats!

Pray For our friends and neighbors who are ill or homebound. If you know someone who should be put on or removed from this list, please call the office.

Janet Henrkson Joseph Treb

Dawn DenHartog John Poole

Pat & Patty Cosgrove Patricia Burgraff

Tamara Frie Virginia Bartelt

Winnie Walters Darlene Flamang

Marlene Lucas Patti Joswick

03/25/18 Solon Gordon Minong

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Loose Change

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Building Fund

Holy Days/Rice Bowl

Easter Flowers

Catholic Herald

World Concerns

Haiti Fund

Total

2017 CSA Goals $10,035 $7,112 $12,555

CSA Results (as of 3/6/18)

$5245 52%

$6532 92%

$7775 62%

Electronic Donations (Monthly)

460.00 235.00 300.00

—- Mark Your Calendars——-

· Monday, Apr. 2nd, Communion Service at 9:00 am followed by Adoration at St. Mary’s..

· Wednesday, Apr. 4th, Rel. Ed meets at St. Pius from 6:15—7:45 pm.

· Sunday, Apr. 8th, Rel. Ed & Good Shepherd meets at St. Mary starting at 9:00 am.

LIVE THE LITURGY - INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK Christ is risen indeed! We have arrived at the penultimate feast on the Church's calendar, the cause of our joy and our hope. Life has defeated death. Sorrow and suffering do not have the last say. In the resurrection of Jesus we see many reasons to rejoice. Not only has Jesus conquered the specter of visible death, but he restores to us graced life. On Holy Saturday, Jesus descended to the dead and delivered the just souls into heavenly paradise. What are our own Saturday tombs? Jesus has the power to open them all. That is our invitation, this day most of all. May resurrection joy fill your heart, your family, your workplace, and your community. Happy Easter!

Due to early bulletin sub-mission dates the collec-tions for March 25th will be reported next week.