MASS INTENTIONS for the OCTAVE OF EASTER April 12, 2020 – Easter Sunday Reconciliation – by appointment. Baptism – Please call Fr Lefor . Wedding – Please call Fr Lefor Funeral – Please call Fr Lefor. Bishop Folda has placed restrictions on funerals. New to Parish – Please register at the parish office or call parish secretary, Sue (284-6060). Fr. Lefor will pray these intentions during private daily Mass this coming week. 04/12 – Easter Sunday – For a Swift End to the Coronavirus Pandemic 04/13 – Easter Monday – † May Gallaway 04/14 – Easter Tuesday – (L) Cornelis & Cornelia Jonk – Corrie Enander 04/15 – Easter Wednesday – † Aloys Lutovsky – Ray & Linda Lutovsky 04/16 – Easter Thursday – † Joe Zikmund – KC 5055 04/17 – Easter Friday – (L) Mike & Lisa Krile family – Scott & Mary Salwei 04/18 – Easter Saturday – (L) Elinor Grabanski – Knudson Families 04/19 – Divine Mercy Sunday – Pro Populo (for the people) PRAYER LIST Please pray for the following members of our Tri-parishes who are sick or hurt: Norman Kaste, Lorraine Zikmund, Elaine Swartz, Elinor Grabanski, Ron Dvorak, Robert Gemmill, Heidi Gustafson, John Beneda, Hadler Ellingson, Charles Waechter If you would like a name added to the prayer list, please contact the Parish Office. After 4 weeks names will be removed unless resubmitted. Thank you. ST. JOHN NEPOMUCENE, Pisek ST. JOSEPH, Lankin ~ STs. PETER & PAUL, Bechyne Pastor – Rev. Jason Lefor Email: [email protected] – Cell: 701-520-0369 PO Box 27 – 167 Newton Ave – Pisek, ND 58273 Telephone: 701-284-6060 [email protected] www.plbtriparish.org www.facebook.com/NepomuceneOfPisek Faith Formation Schedule All classes canceled until further notice. Fr. Lefor will send emails with resources to help you continue faith formation with your children at home. Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for April Freedom from Addiction: We pray that those suffering from addiction may be helped and accompanied. 04/12/20 04/13/20 04/14/20 04/15/20 04/16/20 04/17/20 04/18/20 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Easter Sunday A – Gerald & Wanita Cost Easter Monday Lindsey Jelinek Easter Tuesday Easter Wednesday A – John & Erika Miller A – Dennis & Karen Brodina Easter Thursday Easter Friday Linda Knudson Easter Saturday Damian Dvorak Courtney Shirek WEEKLY BIRTHDAY, ANNIVERSARY, EVENTS & SAINT of the DAY CALENDAR St. John’s Stewardship Report Total Budgeted Sunday Collection for 2020 $54,080.00 Budget to Date 14,560.00 Actual Sunday Collection to Date 12,103.45 Excess/(Shortfall) (2,456.55) Weekly Budget $1,040.00 Past week (Total 59 Households Registered) 4 Households Gave past Week 355.00 Online Giving Loose Plate 125.00 Total 480.00 Past Week’s +Excess/(Shortfall) (560.00) Jesus is nowhere visible. Yet today’s Gospel tells us that Peter and John “saw and believed.” What did they see? Burial shrouds lying on the floor of an empty tomb. Maybe that convinced them that He hadn’t been carted off by grave robbers, who usually stole the expensive burial linens and left the corpses behind. But notice the repetition of the word “tomb”—seven times in nine verses. They saw the empty tomb and they believed what He had promised: that God would raise Him on the third day. Chosen to be His “witnesses,” today’s First Reading tells us, the Apostles were “commissioned . . . to preach . . . and testify” to all that they had seen—from His anointing with the Holy Spirit at the Jordan to the empty tomb. More than their own experience, they were instructed in the mysteries of the divine economy, God’s saving plan—to know how “all the prophets bear witness” to Him (see Luke 24:27,44). Now they could “understand the Scripture,” could teach us what He had told them—that He was “the Stone which the builders rejected,” who, today’s Psalm prophesies, will be resurrected and exalted. (see Luke 20:17; Matthew 21:42; Acts 4:11). We are the children of the apostolic witnesses. That is why we still gather early in the morning on the first day of every week to celebrate this feast of the empty tomb and give thanks for “Christ our life,” as today’s Epistle calls Him. Baptized into His death and Resurrection, we live the heavenly life of the risen Christ, our lives “hidden with Christ in God.” We are now His witnesses, too. But we testify to things we cannot see but only believe; we seek in earthly things what is above. We live in memory of the Apostles’ witness, like them eating and drinking with the risen Lord at the altar. And we wait in hope for what the Apostles told us would come—the day when we too “will appear with Him in glory.” St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology ~ Sunday Bible Reflections with Dr. Scott Hahn ~ www.salvationhistory.com REFLECTION ON TODAY'S LITURGY