Thursday is the Ascension of our Lord!

“Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Mark 10:4

Sunday, May 25, 2014 Volume 2, Issue 21

The one we were waiting for!The one we were waiting for!The one we were waiting for!The one we were waiting for! Do you remember what a prophet

is? A prophet is somebody who speaks for

God. God tells him what to say to the peo-

ple, and then the prophet tells that message

to the people.

Seven hundred years before Christ was born

(and even a long time before that), the Jewish

people were waiting for somebody to save

them. A prophet named Isaiah told them about

somebody who was coming. 700 years before

Christ was born, Isaiah wrote that God would

send somebody to “open the eyes of the blind.”

Only God could do a huge miracle like that!

Today is the Sunday of the Blind Man. We hear about how Jesus saw a man

who had been blind ever since he was born! Jesus saw him and healed him.

He could see for the very first time! After that, some of the authorities were

angry and worried. You see, everybody knew the prophecy. Everybody knew

that this meant something BIG. Somebody who could “open the eyes of the

blind” was the person God sent.

And that is exactly what we celebrate today. Jesus Christ is the person that

God the Father sent. And He proved then that He is God too!

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Can you Say it?

HELP ST. JOHN OF USTIUGHELP ST. JOHN OF USTIUGHELP ST. JOHN OF USTIUGHELP ST. JOHN OF USTIUG

Say “Christ is Risen!” in

Chinese!

Helisituosi fuhuoleHelisituosi fuhuoleHelisituosi fuhuoleHelisituosi fuhuole! ! ! !

“Truly He is risen” is:

Queshi fuhuole! Queshi fuhuole! Queshi fuhuole! Queshi fuhuole!

Help St. John

make it

through the

streets of

Ustiug, Russia!

SAINT JOHN OF USTIUG A “FOOL FOR CHRIST”

You probably have never heard of Ustiug.

It’s in Russia, 12 hours north of Moscow. Today, if

you’ve heard of it, it’s probably because of this saint,

Saint John of Ustiug.

Saint John was a kind of saint called a “fool for

Christ.” Usually, it’s not good for somebody to act like

a fool. But some saints really acted like fools. Some of

them tried to act crazy. Some of them did silly things.

Saint John prayed all through the night. Then, when

the town woke up, Saint John walked around the

town. No shoes. Hardly any clothes. Sleeping in gar-

bage.

It wasn’t a surprise that people laughed at him and

made fun of him. But the people noticed Saint John,

didn’t they? And that was the whole point of being

a “fool for Christ.” They noticed him, and some

people learned that the most important thing was to be close to Christ—

not clothes, not money.

Even though people laughed at Saint John, God did not laugh! God gave

Saint John the gift of healing. Lots and lots of miracles happened be-

cause of Saint John’s prayers.

We celebrate St. John of Ustiug on Thursday, May 29th.

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