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St. Mary’s Parish ARCHDIOCESE OF VANCOUVER
5251 Joyce Street, Vancouver, BC V5R 4G8 (604) 435-9611 [email protected] stmarysvancouver.ca FB: St. Mary’s Parish—Vancouver
April 12, 2020
EASTER SUNDAY
Year A
Sunday Mass Readings
First Reading: Acts 10: 34-43
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 118: 1-2, 14-24
Second Reading: Col 3: 1-4
Gospel: John 20: 1-18
Dear Parishioners, It is marvelous indeed In the words of St. Peter in today’s first reading, “God raised Jesus of Nazareth from death. He had first anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, so that he might go about doing good and healing all who were oppressed. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day.” It would take the disciples some time, and only with the help of the Holy Spirit, to grasp the full extent of what follows from this momentous event. Probably the most immediate realization was the understanding of Jesus’ resurrection as the Father’s stamp of approval, his authentication of everything that Jesus had said and done, and of everything that it implied. Here at the parish, we have a parish stamp. It is unique to us. So that when we stamp a document, it amounts to saying, for the benefit of the one who receives the document, “Yes, this document really comes from us, St. Mary’s Parish”. In the same way, Jesus’ resurrection is God the Father say-ing to the world, “yes, this man really came from me”. We know that it is God’s stamp and no one else’s because God alone has the power to raise someone from death. Jesus, we are told by Peter, “appeared to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead”. He appeared, apparently, only to those who were chosen as witnesses. For a long time, I wondered about this. Why is this? Why did Jesus appear only to certain people? Now I think I know the answer. What did these people to whom Jesus appeared after his resurrection have in common? They were all people who had known him in life. It was essential, in order to ascertain the identity of this Risen One, that he be recognized by a significant number of people as the Jesus of Nazareth that they had known. Only his acquaintances, his disciples and a number of others who had known him, were in a position to do this.
Now that his identity was established, the tor-rents of understanding of the meaning of his life and his ministry, of his preaching, of his passion, death and resurrection, were un-leashed. In the Holy Spirit, their eyes were opened and they recognized him everywhere in the Law, the Prophets and the other writings of the Old Testament. He had been there all along, discreetly announced. He was the Suffer-ing Servant of Isaiah. He was the Messiah. He was the Son of Man. He had been prefigured in Joseph, son of Jacob, in Moses, and in a multi-tude of other Old testament figures. Looking ahead, they knew him to be present to them. They understood themselves to be called, as Church, to be his ongoing life, presence, and ministry to the world. They were to live, in a million different ways, his life, his ministry, his passion, and his death, until the end of the age, at which time they would experience his resur-rection. It was indeed, and continues to be, all very wonderful. And by the grace of God, we are part of it. Of the Church, proclaiming and living the gospel of Jesus of Nazareth, now made Christ and Lord. Words fail me when I consider all the light that was lavished upon us, and the ushering in of this new reality, the Church, that are the fall-out of Jesus’ resurrection. I must fall back, as always, on the words of the Scripture: “Return, my soul, to your rest; the Lord has been very good to you. For my soul has been freed from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I shall walk before the Lord in the land of the living… How can I repay the Lord for all the great good done for me? I will raise the cup of salvation, I will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord”. Ps. 116. This is the Church’s cry for Easter. To each and every one of you, a happy, light-filled, peace-filled Easter! - Fr. Guy
PASTOR ’S CORNER “I shall not die, I shall live,… The stone that the builders rejected has become the
chief cornerstone. This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.”. Ps 118:17, 22-23
The church remains closed, but regular live streamed masses will be aired as follows:
Sunday, 11:15 am & 3:00 pm (Tagalog); Mon—Sat, 9:00 am
Wed, Thurs & Fri, 7:00 pm
DEVOTIONS: All Prayer gatherings on Devotions are temporarily can-celled until further notice. HOLY COMMUNION for shut-ins: Contact the Parish Office.
BAPTISM: To register your child for baptism, contact Reception or visit http://stmarysvancouver.ca/baptisms/
MARRIAGE: One of the couple must be Catholic and a parish-ioner of St. Mary’s Parish. Contact us at least six months prior to the wedding. Please make no wedding arrangement until you have met with the priest. More information at stmarysvancouver.ca/matrimony and rcav.org/m-prep
RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults): Contact the RCIA Coordinator. For adults in need of Baptism, First Communion, or Confirmation, or who want to learn more about the Catholic Faith.
PREP (Catechism for children attending public schools): Contact the PREP Coordinator. Occurs Tuesdays or Wednes-days 6:30-8pm / Teen Prep Wednesdays only
VANSPEC (an alternative to regular PREP setting): one-on-one Catechism for special needs. Occurs Mondays 6:30-8pm
ST. MARY’S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Principal: Ms. Brenda Krivuzoff Website: stmary.bc.ca Phone: (604) 437-1312 Fax: (604) 437-1193
PARISH OFFICE (Open Mon-Fri 8:45am to 5pm) Phone: (604) 435-9611 Fax: (604) 439-9413
Pastor: Fr. Guy Rivard, O.P.
Ext. 4 [email protected]
Assistant Pastor: Fr. Gabriel de Chadarévian, O.P.
Ext. 3 [email protected]
Assistant to the Pastors: Theresa De Ocampo
Ext. 6 [email protected]
Finance & Property Manager: Ossie Fernandes
Ext. 7 [email protected]
Youth & Young Adult Ministry: Rocelyn Catris
Ext. 247 [email protected]
RCIA & PREP Coordinator: Edwin Cruz
Ext. 5 [email protected] [email protected]
VANSPEC Site Coordinator: Christina Reyes
Marriages Coordinator: Riz Geronimo
Ext. 233 [email protected]
Reception & Parish Records: Lorna Acosta
Ext. 0 [email protected]
Stewardship Reflection April 12, 2020 Easter Sunday
“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” Colossians 3:2
Do you put God first in all things? Possessions, money, power, ego can easily become gods to many of us. Do a quick check of what is im-portant to you. Is God at the very top of the list? If not, your priorities need to be readjusted. Don’t let earthly things become a god before God. This is also the first commandment—I am the Lord your God, you shall not have any strange gods before me.
Copyright Archdiocese of Fort Worth
OTHER SUNDAY & DAILY MASS ONLINE / TV & OTHER RESOURCES
EWTN https://www.ewtn.com/radio/podcasts/daily-mass-ENMASS
SALT & LIGHT MEDIA https://saltandlighttv.org/mass/
WORD ON FIRE Daily Mass https://www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass/
VISIONTV: Sunday 5am; Mon–Fri 5am & 9am; Sat 5am & 6:30am
JOYTV: Sunday 7:30am; Mon-Fri 7:30am & 1:30 pm; Sat 7:30am
CANADIAN BROADCASTING COUNCIL:
https://mycatholictube.com/videos/ncb-daily-mass/
HOPETV: Daily 11:30am
INTERNET: dailytvmass.com / youtube.com/dailytvmass
FORMED: https://formed.org/
MAGNIFICAT: https://us.magnificat.net/free RCAV :https://rcav.org/coronavirus/#prayers
For those unable to attend Mass due to the restrictions, make an “Act of Spiritual Com-
munion”. Please refer to the Prayer for Spiritual Communion
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/act-of-spiritual-communion-339
BELOW ARE THE SCHEDULES OF LIVE-STREAMED MASSES IN THE ARCHDIOCESE AND SOME HELPFUL LINKS AND RE-SOURCES YOU CAN USE FOR PRAYER & REFLECTION: (press control & click on the church or link) Holy Rosary Cathedral • Monday to Saturday 7:15 am, 12:10 pm, 5:10 pm • Sunday 8:00 am, 11:00 am, 6:30 pm (Spanish), 8:00 pm Holy Family, Vancouver
• Monday to Sunday 9:00 am Canadian Martyrs • Saturday 5:00 pm (Mandarin) • Sunday 10:00 am (Cantonese), 11:45 am (English) Corpus Christi • Mass uploaded to YouTube each day Our Lady of Fatima, Coquitlam • Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00 am (English/French) • Sunday 9:00 am (French) Our Lady of Sorrows Precious Blood St. Ann’s • Monday to Friday 7:00 pm • Saturday 5:00 pm • Sunday 10:00 am • Monday & Saturday 8:00 pm – Holy Rosary • Tuesday & Thursday 8:00 pm – Eucharistic Adoration • Wednesday 8:00 pm – Lenten Reflection • Friday 8:00 pm – Stations of the Cross St. Anthony of Padua St. Francis Xavier • Sunday Mass (Cantonese/Mandarin) available from Saturday night St. Joseph’s, Squamish St. Joseph’s, Vancouver • Saturday 7:00 pm • Sunday 9:30 am St. Joseph the Worker St. Mary’s, Chilliwack
• Daily Mass at 9:00 am St. Mary’s, Vancouver • Mon—Sat, 9:00 am; • Wed, Thurs & Fri, 7:00 pm • Sunday 11:15 am & 3:00 pm (Tagalog) St. Matthew’s • Monday to Sunday 9:00 am St. Patrick’s, Maple Ridge • Monday to Friday 8:00 am • Saturday 9:00 am • Sunday 9:00 am, 4:30 pm St. Peter’s The “Virtual Parish” (Young Adult Community) • Daily Mass at 9:00 am / Daily Rosary at 9:30 pm
N E W S I N A N D A R O U N D T H E P A R I S H
• Direct Online Donation to St. Mary’s Parish
Go to the website https://stmarysvancouver.ca Click DONATE at the upper right hand side of the home page and fill up the information. OR
• From the Archdiocese Development Office It is now possible to make your regular offer-tory gift online, either by credit card or direct bank deposit. Your parish relies on your regu-lar offertory giving to both sustain itself and grow. Go to https://rcav.org/sunday-offering/ and select St. Mary’s Parish Vancouver, By making your pre-authorized offertory gift, you are providing crucial support to carry your parish during this difficult time. If you prefer to make a one-time donation to your parish offertory, please click here. If you would like make a gift to any Second Collec-tion, please click here.
If you have questions regarding this form or would like to make changes to your offertory gift please contact the Archdiocese of Vancouver Develop-ment Office at 604-683-0281 ext. 50322 or [email protected]
R E M E M B E R S T . M A R Y ’S P A R I S H I N Y O U R W I L L
Catholic Registered Counsellors in the Lower Mainland For a list of Catholic counsellors ready to support clients who want to adhere to the Church's
teachings on life, marriage, and family. Visit rcav.org/personal-counselling
CANCELLATION OF ST. MARY’S SCHOOL RAFFLE EVENT
In view of the current COVID 19 pandemic, St. Mary’s Fundraising Committee feels that health and personal finances are the top priorities and it is only appropriate to CANCEL the St. Mary’s School Raffle event.
If you have purchased any tickets, you will be contacted shortly for refund or you can consider donating to the Building Fund by forgoing the reimbursement.
We appreciate all your support and participation to parish fundraising initiatives for the past years. Take care, stay safe and may the Lord give us strength and guidance dur-ing these trying times.
- ST. MARY’S FUNDRAISING TEAM
TO ACCESS LIVE STREAMING ONLINE:
For Facebook: Open Facebook and login to your account. Search for St. Mary’s Parish—Vancouver Or go to https://www.facebook.com/stmarysvancouver/ For YouTube: Go to https//www.youtube.com and search St. Mary’s Parish—Vancouver For Instagram: Open Instagram app /; Search @stmarysvancouver Click profile picture and it will open the LIVE streaming video.
Can’t find the LIVE button? Click St. Mary’s Parish profile picture and at the bottom you will see LIVE button. St. Mary’s Website: Open stmarysvancouver.ca At the home page towards the bottom of Welcome to St. Mary’s, near the logo, click here to visit our Youtube channel or go and click Watch Live Mass at St. Mary’s under News and you will be redirected. For questions, please email [email protected]
PARISH OFFICE MEASURES TO PROTECT EVERYONE The parish offices are still open, but given the current Covid-19 situation, no one, other than staff is allowed in-side the rectory without an appointment. If you absolutely need to come to the rectory, please call ahead. Thank you for understanding.
Please make your offertory contribution online using a secure form.
Yes, I want to stand by my Parish during this difficult time!
BETH HERNANDEZ Life Insurance Agent
“Insured Retirement Plan Specialist”
Tel. 604.230.0827; 604.431.9945 [email protected]
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2223 Kingsway (in front of T&T) 8am-6pm Mon-Thurs & Sunday
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Mabuhay Kababayan!
