Parish Staff. Parish Organizations and Meetings

Parish Staff

Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Bishop of Belleville Father Linus Umoren, C. M., Pastor

Trustees: Ms. Rose Jordan Mr. Duane McClanahan Kathy Bellmann, Administrative Assistant

Joan Scharf, Bulletin Production Parish Organizations and Meetings

Parish Council-Every Second Tuesday of the Month Choir Practice-TBA

Women’s Club-Third Tuesday of the Month Quilters-Every Tuesday after 8 a.m. Mass Knights of Columbus -First and Third Wednesday

Parish School of Religion (PSR)-Sunday after Mass

St. Vincent dePaul-First Monday every month at 6:30 at

Immaculate Conception in Columbia

Worship Opportunities Saturday Vigil Mass:

5:00 p.m. at Holy Family

Sunday Masses:

8:00 a.m. Mass at Sacred Heart 10:00 a.m. Mass at Holy Family

Weekday Masses: Wednesday, and Friday

8:00 a.m. at Holy Family

Tuesday & Thursday

8:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart

Reconciliation

Sunday’s at 7:30 a.m. and by appointment

Rosary

Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday at 7:15 a.m.

130 South Third Street, P. O. Box 35, Dupo, Illinois 62239

Office: 286-3224 (closed Tuesdays and Thursdays) Parish Hall: 286-4373 Fax: 332-1699

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A Reflection from the desk of the Pastor…April 26, 2020 Third Sunday of Easter

The Easter story is more astonishing than the nativity story. It is easier to proclaim that Jesus was born of a woman than to say he rose from the grave. Even Jesus’ disciples, the ones who were closest to him and spent the most time with him had difficulty in understanding the resurrection. When the women first brought the message to them, they did not jump up to sing alleluia. They dismissed the women’s testimony as idle talk.

In the Gospel narrative this weekend, we are presented with the report of the encounter between the risen Lord and the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. This narrative depicts the unfolding character of revelation and the revelatory nature of the Eucharist—the breaking of bread. The two disciples were probably returning home from the celebration of the Passover. Emmaus was seven miles from Jerusalem; a distance one could cover by foot ordinarily. What was surprising to the disciples was that the man that came up to walk with them was not updated on the “breaking news.” Thus one of the disciples, Cleopas asked: “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have taken place there in these days?” And as though very ignorant, the stranger responded: “What things?” We could sense the feeling of disappointment in the disciples’ tone as they remember and narrate what had taken place. They had hoped that Jesus was the Messiah. But given what has happened, he is not. This is where Jesus met them. He simply met them where they were and began the revelatory interpretation of what had happened. Finally, it is at the breaking of bread that their eyes are opened, and they recognized him for who he was. Luke provides a way of understanding divine presence as seeming absence. Christ vanished out of their sight. But they recognized his presence. Perhaps, visible apprehension does not always sustain enduring faith.

Who does not feel disappointed in times of distress, sickness or broken dreams? Who does not question or doubt what he/she believed previously when the outcome is not consistent? But sometimes our wounded heart can blind us from recognizing how God comes to walk with us in our distress. Our misery can make us so myopic that we see nothing but a dark tunnel. But when we recognize God standing by us, he takes our minds away from our fate and directs us to our destiny. God is good all the time; all the time God is good! Fr. Linus Umoren, CM-Pastor

April 26, 2020 Third Sunday of Easter

Alleluia Jesus has risen Year A

***Special Notice***

Coronavirus 19 Mass Live Streaming

We will continue to live stream our masses every Sunday at 10 am.

THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH

MASSES ARE SUSPENDED AT THIS TIME

  April 26, Third Sunday of Easter Sacred Heart-Parishioners

Holy Family Latin Mass-Parishioners Holy Family-Parishioners

April 27, Monday of Easter

April 28, Tuesday of Easter, St. Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr and St. Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest Sacred Heart-Parishioners

April 29, Wednesday of Easter, St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

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April 30, Thursday of Easter, St. Pius V, Pope

Sacred Heart-Parishioners

May 1, Friday of Easter, St. Joseph the Worker First Friday

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May 2, Saturday of Easter, Vigil of the Fourth Sunday of Easter

May 3, Fourth Sunday of Easter Sacred Heart-Parishioners

Holy Family Latin Mass-Parishioners Holy Family-Parishioners

Call to Worship

Good morning and welcome to the Sacred Heart Church website or electronic version of the bulletin. Alleluia He

is risen! Just as Christ lives, we too are awakened by the

beauty of spring. God brings forth new life to fulfill our winter hope. March and April seemed filled with panic and desperation, just as the Disciples felt at Christ’s death. As Christ fulfilled his promise to never leave them, we too realize Jesus’ resurrection continues to renew us and he will not abandon us. As the pandemic begins to level off we realize that we have been given a gift; the gift of renewing ourselves in prayer, appreciation for family and one another, and slowing down to realize just how

God is good all the time!-Joan

The needs in our community continues! DuKare

desperately

See Linda Martin with any questions.

Thanks and God Bless you! Parish SUPPORT

Please prayerfully consider your own stewardship and pray for the financial well

being of Sacred Heart Parish April 20, 2020

General Collections

Envelopes (9) $ 990.00

Loose 50.00 Building Maintenance (4) 250.00

Total General Collections $1,290.00

Special Collections Candle $ 0.00 Good Friday (1) 15.00 Easter Flowers (2) 65.00 Catholic Relief (1) 15.00 Mass Intentions (1) 60.00 Total Special Collections $ 155.00

Total of general and special collections $1,445.00 Thank you for your generous support of our church. **During this time that we cannot meet as a church

family, the upkeep and utilities of our parish home continues. You can mail your envelopes to: 116 Church Street, Cahokia, IL 62206 or tithe online at: www.Holyfamily1699.org powered by a secure site through Parishsoft Giving.**

Annual Blessing of the Farm Cancelled

In consultation with the Reverend Robert J. Zwilling, Rural Life Coordinator, and after prayerful consideration for the safety of our priests, deacons, and families, the Diocesan Spring Blessing of the Farm will not be held due to the Covid-19 Pan-demic. We look forward to and pray that the Blessing of the Harvest can be held this Fall. Please keep our farm families in your prayers.

Prayer for Safety of All in Agriculture Blessed Mary, Mother of God, and great Saint Joseph, you protected and kept safe the Divine Child, Jesus. We ask your special intercession and protection of all who work in Agriculture, especially on the farm. Man, having been cast out of the Garden of Eden, must now work by the sweat of his brow to get food to eat as you foretold in Genesis. And he must also battle fatigue, danger, and ac-cidents. Protect all in agriculture against these and all danger and evil, so that when they complete their work each day and each season, they return to your altar and their families whole and entire to love and honor You and the ones you have given them all the days of their lives. We ask through the holy name of Jesus. Amen.

The Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton, Ph.D., S.T.D. Bishop of Belleville

P. O. Box 35 Dupo, Illinois 62239-0035

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“A Plan for Resurrection”

“Un plan para resucitar” A Reflection in the time of the

Corona Virus Pandemic His Holiness, Pope Francis “Suddenly Jesus met them and greeted them, saying: ‘Rejoice'” (Mt 28:9). It is the first word of the Risen One after Mary Magdalene and the other Mary discovered the empty tomb and ran into the angel. The Lord meets them to transform their mourning into joy and to comfort them in the midst of affliction (cf. Jer 31:13).He is the Risen One who wants to resurrect the women to a new life and, with them, all of humanity. He wants us to begin to participate from now in the resurrected condition that awaits us.

An invitation to joy could seem like a provocation, and even like a bad joke in the face of the serious consequences we are suffering from COVID-19. Like the disciples at Emmaus, not a few could think of it as a gesture of ignorance or irrespon-sibility (cf. Lk 24:17-19).

Like the first disciples who went to the tomb, we lived surrounded by an atmosphere of pain and uncertainty that makes us wonder: “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” (Mk 16:3). How can we deal with this situation that has completely overwhelmed us?

The impact of everything that’s happening, the serious consequences that are already being reported and glimpsed, the pain and mourning for our loved ones disorient, distress and paralyze us.

It is the heaviness of the tombstone that imposes itself on the future and that threatens, with its realism, to bury all hope. It is the heaviness of the anguish of the vulnerable people and elderly people who are going through quarantine in total solitude; it is the heaviness of families who can’t now put a plate of food on their tables; it is the heaviness of health person-nel and public servants feeling exhausted and overwhelmed… that heaviness that seems to have the last word.

However, it is moving to highlight the attitude of the women of the Gospel.

Faced with doubts, suffering, perplexity in the face of the situation and even with fear of persecution and of everything that could happen to them, they were able to keep going and not be paralyzed by what was happening. Out of love for the Master, and with that typical, irreplaceable and blessed feminine genius, they were able to confront life as it came, cunningly circumventing obstacles to be close to their Lord.

Unlike many of the apostles who fled as prisoners of fear and insecurity – who denied the Lord and escaped (cf. Jn 18:25-27) – they [the women], without evading reality or ignoring what was happening, without fleeing or escaping…, they knew how to just be and to accompany.

Like the first women disciples, who, in the midst of dark-ness and grief, loaded their bags with perfumes and set out to anoint the buried Master (cf. Mk 16:1), we ourselves were able, at this time, to see many who sought to bring the anointing of co-responsibility to offer care and not put the lives of others at risk.

Unlike those who fled with the hope of saving them-selves, we witnessed how neighbours and family members set out with effort and sacrifice to stay in their homes and thus curb the pandemic. (continued on page 5)

(continued from pg. 4)

We were able to discover how many people who were already living and suffering the pandemic of exclusion and indifference continued to strive, to accompany each other and to sustain themselves so that this situation is (or was) less painful.

We saw the anointing spilled by doctors, nurses, super-market shelf stackers, cleaners, care givers, people who transport goods, agents of law and order, volunteers, priests, women religious, grandparents and educators and many others who were encouraged to give up everything they owned to contribute a little of healing, calm and soul to the situation.

And although the question remained the same: “Who will roll away the stone from the tomb?” (Mk 16:3), all of them did not stop giving what they felt they could give and had to give. And it was precisely there, in the midst of their cares and concerns, that the women disciples were surprised by an over-whelming announcement: “He is not here, he is risen”.

His anointing was not an anointing for death, but for life. Their watching and accompanying the Lord, even in death and in the greatest despair, was not in vain, but allowed them to be anointed by the Resurrection: they were not alone, He was alive and preceded them on their way.

Only this overwhelming piece of news was able to break the cycle that prevented them from seeing that the stone had already been rolled away, and that the spilled perfume could overflow further than that which threatened them.

This is the source of our joy and hope, which transforms our actions: our anointings, dedication…our watching and accompanying in all possible ways at this time are not and will not be in vain; they are not a dedication to death.

Every time we take part in the Passion of the Lord, we accompany the passion of our brothers; living even our own passion, our ears will hear the novelty of the Resurrection: we are not alone, the Lord precedes us on our way, removing the stones that paralyze us.

This good news made those women retrace their steps to look for the apostles and the disciples who remained hidden so as to tell them: “Life torn off, destroyed, annihilated on the cross has awakened and pulses again”.

This is our hope, the hope that cannot be stolen, silenced or contaminated. All the life of service and love that you have given in this time will pulse again. It is enough to open a crack so that the anointing that the Lord wants to give us expands with unstoppable force and allows us to contemplate suffering reality with a renewing outlook.

And, like the women of the Gospel, we too are invited again and again to retrace our steps and allow ourselves to be transformed by this announcement: the Lord, with his newness, can always renew our life and that of our community (cf. Evangelii Gaudium),

How many times on your walk through life have you met the risen Lord and not recognized him? As you continue your journey, stay open to his presence. He constantly and lovingly tugs at your heart and soul!

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