April 12th Easter Sunday
"He is risen", with these words we celebrate the glorious miracle that You did for us all
on Easter when You rose from the dead, triumphant, fully alive and glorious.
Help us to rejoice as we see our eternal life journey being laid out for us by You.
Help us to feel the joy and peace that tells us we are fully free of the effects of sin
and now fully alive in Your love.
Thank You Jesus for Your love.
Thank You Jesus for Your doing of the fathers will for all mankind.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday THE DARK SIDE OF THE RESURRECTION
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"Early in the morning on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the
tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away." -John 20:1
Jesus is risen from the dead! Alleluia! "This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice
in it" (Ps 118:24).
I am writing this teaching for Easter with an IV in my arm, as I await having a tube put down my throat.
This may be followed by other tortures, which may lead to surgery. What kind of Easter celebration is
this!? "While it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb" (Jn 20:1). Easter often begins when
it's dark. Possibly you are still in the night of a broken heart, painful marriage, shattered family,
severe sickness, or pervasive pain. However, without the darkness of night, we would never see the sun
rise. Without Jesus' death on Calvary, He would not have risen.
If you begin this Easter season struggling to hope against hope (Rm 4:18), renew your baptismal promises
and have faith in the Father through Jesus and in the Spirit. "Walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor 5:7).
Jesus is risen! He has victory over the darkness, and He will manifest it in your life. "At nightfall,
weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing" (Ps 30:6). Rejoice in the risen Christ! Rejoice by
faith! Rejoice when you are still in your night, for Jesus is the Light Who is sure to dawn
(see 2 Pt 1:19; cf Rv 22:16). Alleluia forever!
Prayer: Father, should anyone ask me the reason for this hope of mine, may I "be ever ready to reply"
(1 Pt 3:15).
Promise: "Are you not aware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Through baptism into His death we were buried with Him, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father, we too might live a new life." -Rm 6:3-4
Praise: Praise the risen Jesus! Alleluia!
Monday LIVING FROM HAND TO MOUTH
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"This is the Jesus God has raised up, and we are His witnesses." -Acts 2:32
Tuesday MY SWEET JESUS!
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"I have seen the Lord!" -John 20:18
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He has Risen! Alleluia! Praise be to God! Rejoice O Virgin Mary!
(Anonymous, , 4/11/2020 7:58:23 PM)
Thank you Lord for your death that save the world .Amen
(Anonymous, , 4/11/2020 10:29:13 AM)
Fear is useless.... LORD please look kindly on the petitions posted and all the requests said silently in
our hearts. Silence. darkness, trembling. Let there be light LORD. You are the light
(Jim, Wisconsin, , 4/11/2020 9:54:52 AM)
Heal us inside and out. Help our marriage. Thank you far all my blessings love and acceptance.
(Anonymous, , 4/11/2020 9:15:00 AM)
Heal us inside and out. Thank you for all of your blessings love and acceptace. Thank you for giving us
your son. Heal my marriage.
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Please, pray for my poor father. He is hospitalized righy now for an incurable illness. Ask God for a
miracle in the name of Jesus. We already lost our mother and our father is everything for us. Thanks
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Bible Telephone Line
The Bible Telephone Line (BTL) has been in operation for 28 years. Begun by Fr. Al in 1991, it now
continues with Deacon Ken Meade from the Archdiocese of Cleveland and two lay teachers, Jon Smith of
Fortville, IN and Darlene Davis of Greenfield, IN.. The BTL provides callers with a short teaching on
the readings for the daily Mass. It is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Callers may also
leave a short prayer request which will be shared on the line with the other callers the next day on
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Pope Francis, Shepherd of Truth
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Notable quotations from Pope Francis and official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
END HUNGER
THE CHURCH AND THE POOR
For her part, the Catholic Church, in the exercise of the mission with which her divine Founder has
entrusted her, struggles daily throughout the world against hunger and malnutrition in multiple ways
and through her various structures and associations, remembering that those who suffer from misery
are not different from us. They share our flesh and blood. They deserve ... a friendly hand to help
and support them, in such a way that no one is left behind, so that in our world fraternal solidarity
may boast its own identity card and citizenship, beyond any flashy slogans void of substance.
"HOPES OF MILLIONS"
The annual celebration of World Food Day emphasizes ... the needs, yearnings and hopes of millions of
persons who lack bread each day. Increasingly, there are more people who sadly make up part of that
great number of human beings who have nothing, or almost nothing to eat. It should be the opposite and
yet recent statistics are a painful proof of how international solidarity appears to be cooling.
"EFFECTIVE HELP"
The poor expect from us an effective help that takes them out of their misery... In this twenty-first
century that has seen considerable advances in the field of technology, science, communications and
infrastructure, we ought to feel shame for not having achieved the same advances in humanity and
solidarity, and so satisfy the primary needs of the most disadvantaged.
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