Divine Mercy Sunday

April 3, 2016

Fr. Kevin Doyle frkevindoyle@sfcatholic.org

Mailing: PO Box 310 - Bowdle, SD 57428

Bowdle Rectory/Office: 285-6466 Melissa Sauer & Judy Weishaar

Hoven Rectory/Office: 948-2451 Dawn McClure & Linda Feldmeier

or Melissa Sauer Cell: 216-0124

Bowdle Office Email: staug@venturecomm.net

Hoven Office Email: stanthony@venturecomm.net

Webpage: staugustinebowdle.wordpress.com

Baptism: Pre-Baptism Class for parents required before all Baptisms. Please call Rectory for appointment.

Holy Matrimony: Couples planning marriage must contact their Priest at least 6 months before the wedding

date. A year in advance is not too early.

Weekly Readings Sun Apr 3: Second Sunday of Easter/ Divine Mercy

Acts 5:12-16 Rv 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19 Jn 20:19-31

Mon Apr 4: The Annunciation of the Lord

Is 7:10-14,8:10 Heb 10:4-10 Lk 1:26-38

Tues Apr 5: St Vincent Ferrer

Acts 4:32-37 Jn 3:7b-15

Wed Apr 6: Easter Weekday

Acts 5:17-26 Jn 3:16-21 Jn 3:16-21

Thurs Apr 7: St John Baptist de la Salle

Acts 5:27-33, Jn 3:31-36

Fri Apr 8: Easter Weekday

Acts 5:34-42 Jn 6:1-15

Sat Apr 9: Easter Weekday

Acts 6:1-7 Jn 6:16-21

Ministry Lists for Apr 3

Ministry Lists for Apr 10

Hosmer-Lec– Marlene G Rosary– Roy G

Bowdle– Lec– Sandy S Serv– Kalen, Brittney

Comm– Mary T

Gift– Norbert & Rosie Hoerner Rosary– Norbert T

Bowdle– Lec– Norbert T Serv– Robin, Tanner

Comm– Mary Z

Gift– First Holy Communicants Rosary– Norbert T

Anointing of the Sick: Before a hospital stay, surgical procedure, or any serious illness, please call the

rectory to arrange the blessing of the Sacrament.

Fr. Kevin’s Reflection

Saturdays 5:00pm St Anthony’s Hoven * Saturdays 7:00pm St John’s Onaka (Even Weekends) Sundays 8:30 am Holy Trinity Hosmer (Odd Weekends) * Sundays 10:30 am St Augustine’s Bowdle

Word of Life Intercessions for Life April 3 ~ Sunday of Divine Mercy

For the times we have not welcomed God’s gift of

life:

May we approach the Sacrament of Reconciliation

without fear and embrace God’s healing mercy;

We pray to the Lord: Lord hear our prayer.

Fr Kevin Doyle will have Weekend Masses for Hosmer and Onaka during these dates:

8:30 am Sun Apr 3 Hosmer 7 pm Sat Apr 9 Onaka

8:30 am Sun Apr 17 Hosmer 7 pm Sat Apr 23 Onaka

8:30 am Sun May 1 Hosmer 7 pm Sat May 7 Onaka

8:30 am Sun May 15 Hosmer 7 pm Sat May 21 Onaka

8:30 am Sun May 29 Hosmer 8:30 am Sun June 5 Hosmer 7 pm Sat June 11 Onaka

8:30 am Sun June 19 Hosmer 7 pm Sat June 25 Onaka

8:30 am Sun July 3 Hosmer

Parish Cleaning Assignments

St. Augustine: April Church Cleaning:

Chair: Cate Dominicak; Rosemary Sandmeier, Wally & Mary Grismer, Nan-cy Noyes

Holy Trinity: April Church Cleaning: Sandra & Rog-er Malsam, Martha & Damian Kappen-man, Adam & Teri Heilman

NOTE: The Holy Trinity men on for the monthly cleaning are also to be usher-

ing and taking up the collection during

your assigned month. Thank you to all those who work so hard to keep the churches clean. It is very much appreciated!

Mass Times at a Glance Saturdays: 5:00 pm Hoven

5:30 pm Selby (Apr-Jun2016) 5:30 pm Roscoe

6:00 pm Faulkton 7:00 pm Onaka* (2&4 Sat only)

Sundays: 8:30 am Eureka (Apr-Jun 2016)

8:30 am Ipswich

8:30 am Hosmer*(1,3,5 Sun only) 9:00 am Faulkton

9:00 am Onida 10:30 am Bowdle

10:30 am Herreid (Apr-Jun 2016) 11:00 am Gettysburg

11:00 am Leola

YOUR CAR IS RUNNING BECAUSE YOU CHANGED THE OIL. Why not afford the same loving care to your marriage? All cou-ples need a marriage tune-up once in awhile, and a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend can give you the tools you need to grow more deeply in intimacy and love for each other. Register today for the upcoming Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend at Joy Ranch Retreat Center north of Watertown, SD April 8-10, 2016. Visit www.sdwwme.org or 605-362-0924.

Happy Anniversary

Are you celebrating a milestone wedding anniversary this year? If you are

Bishop Swain would like to celebrate it with you. There will be a Mass in Ab-

erdeen or Sioux Falls this summer honoring those married in the following

years: 1991, 1966, 1956, 1951, and before 1951. This Mass is for parishion-

ers of the Diocese of Sioux Falls. You do not both have to be Catholic to be recognized for

this Mass. Please let Melissa know 285-6466 or drop a note in the collection basket with

your names and wedding date by April 10th if you are interested in attending this special

Anniversary Mass. Personal invitations will be sent by the Bishop with the date, time and

location.

“You may be thinking, ‘I don’t deserve to

be forgiven. My sins are too great!’

Thankfully, God’s love is greater than all

the sins of all times. Jesus offers his grace

and forgiveness to every repentant heart.”

www.hopeafter abortion.com

During the Advent and Christmas Season, we say Merry Christmas to each other as we pass by … wouldn’t

be great if, like modern Greeks, we would say public to each other… Christos Anesti! Alithos Anesti! These Greek

acclamations mean “Christ is Risen! He is truly Risen!”, and in the Christian East — both Catholic and Orthodox —

these acclamations replace the usual greetings of hello and goodbye during the fifty days between Easter and Pen-

tecost, the liturgical season of Easter or Eastertide. During Eastertide, the first eight days have a special identity,

and today (in the liturgical calendar) — eight days after Easter Sunday — has three names: 1) the Octave Day of

Easter, 2) the Second Sunday of Easter, and 3) Divine Mercy Sunday.

The number eight has special meaning in the sacred liturgy because it is a symbol of the new creation (the

eighth day of the week we await for Christ’s 2nd Coming). The drama of creation unfolded over seven symbolic

days, and the eighth day is the sign of God’s pluperfect love revealed in the new creation. This is foreshadowed in

the Old Covenant through circumcision taking place eight days after birth and is confirmed by the Resurrection tak-

ing place on Sunday, both the first day of the week and the eighth day. Accordingly, in the liturgical calendar the

eight days from Easter Sunday until today are kept as one festive celebration of the Resurrection, and today com-

pletes the eighth day or Octave of Easter.

Moreover, because the Gospel appointed for today speaks of the Divine Power to forgive sins which the

Lord Jesus gave to his Apostles when he first appeared to them after his Resurrection, the emphasis of the liturgy to-

day is on the great mercy of God. Modern devotion to the Lord Jesus as the embodiment of Divine Mercy is con-

nected to the spirituality of St. Faustina, a Polish mystic and religious Sister who was canonized by Pope Saint John

Paul the Great. (You may remember, John Paul died on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday in 2005, was beatified on

Divine Mercy Sunday in 2011, and was canonized on Divine Mercy Sunday in 2014.) It was Pope Saint John Paul

who decreed that the Second Sunday of Easter would be kept as Divine Mercy Sunday, and with Pope Francis’ a

Jubilee Year of Mercy which will conclude in on the Solemnity of Christ the King this year.

In his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (or Joy of the Gospel), Pope Francis explained that as a

teenager he had a life changing experience of mercy by going to Confession. “After making my confession I felt

something had changed. I was not the same. I had heard something like a voice or a call.” This moment of mercy in

the life of Jorge Bergoglio helps explain his burning desire to share God’s mercy with others, and now as Pope

Francis he describes the Church as a “community [that] has an endless desire to show mercy, the fruit of its own expe-

rience of the power of the Father’s infinite mercy” (EG, 24). Let us keep this Octave of Easter, Divine Mercy Sun-

day, by resolving to seek the Lord’s mercy for ourselves and be instruments of that mercy for others. Christos Anesti!

Alithos Anesti!

Weekly Collections March 25 & 27, 2016 Adult Loose Holy

Land Rice Bowl

Easter Flowers

Total

Bowdle $ 520.00 $ 225.05 $ 276 $ 254.40 $ 20 $ 1,515.45

CFSA 2016

$ 220

Generous giving produces rejoicing in one’s soul

Mass Intentions

Sat., April 2 5:00pm

Hoven

Onaka

No Mass Onaka

Sun., April 3

8:30am

10:30am

Hosmer

Bowdle

People of our Parishes

† Joe A & † Annie Dewald

Mon., April 4 5:15pm Hoven Mass/Rosary

Tues., April 5 4:30 pm Onaka Mass/Rosary

Wed., April 6 5:15pm Hoven Mass/ Rosary

Thurs., April 7 9:00am Hosmer † Peter & Rosina Heilman

Fri., April 8 9:00 am Bowdle † Christian & † Clara Gross

Sat., April 9 9:00 am

5:00pm

7:00pm

Bowdle

Hoven

Onaka

†Mary Hoerner(Weekday Mass)

People of our Parishes

Sun., April 10

10:30am

Hosmer

Bowdle

No Mass Hosmer

First Holy Communicants

Confessions will be available

Saturdays Noon – 1:30pm Bowdle 3:30pm - 4:30pm Hoven 6:30 pm-6:55pm Onaka only w/scheduled

Masses

Sundays 8:00am-8:25am Hosmer only w/ scheduled

Masses

10:00am-10:25am Bowdle OR any time upon request

CFSA 2016

Pledged Pledges

paid to

date

2016

Goal

Bowdle/Hosmer $ 15,620 $ 10,920 $ 14,500

CCD SCHEDULE BOWDLE

Apr 6, 13, 20, 27 Grades K-6: 3:30 to 5:00 pm Grades 7-8: 7:00-8:30 pm GRADES 9-12

7:00-8:30 pm @ Bowdle

Cleo Schneider

Tate Kaiser

Nursing Home Resi-

dents

Ray Schmaltz

LaVerne Gross

Rose Schmaltz

Francis Heilman, Sr

Jaci Fuhrmann

Lenny Uhrich

Dennis Bieber

Florence Engelhart

Beth Hawley

Elaine Schaefer

Catholic Daughters of the Ameri-

ca's Court St. Katharine Drexel #

2516 would like to thank every-

one that donated this Lenten sea-

son with towels and pillows for

the New Beginnings Center.

Through your generosity we

were able to provide a help-

ing hand to those in need.

God Bless you!!

Pope Francis’ Prayer Intentions for April

Universal: Small Farmers That small farmers may

receive a just reward for their

precious labor.

For Evangelization: African

Christians That Christians in

Africa may give witness to

love and faith in Jesus Christ amid political-religious

conflicts.

Confirma�on Students Confirma�on Freshmen

reminder... April 3rd retreat (juniors done already)

@ St Thomas, Faulkton 8:30am – 5:00pm.

The following students s�ll have not turned in all

the necessary paperwork to Fr Kevin which needs to be sent to the

Bishop!! Riley Grismer, Cole Kappenman, Harley Kappenman, and

Rachel Schlechter.

St. Anthony and St. Augustine Confirmation Sat April 16th @

5:00pm at Hoven with Bishop Paul Swain.

This year’s 11 Confirmands' from St Augustine are:

Riley Grismer (Vernon & Pam), Joseph Geier

(James & Lisa), Bryce Rohrbach (Rick & Carmen),

Cole Kappenman (Jesse & Amy), Rachel

Schlechter (Kevin & Sandy), Maria Beadle( Jerry

& Carrie), Seth Daede (Scott & Roseanne), Saman-

tha Frickson (Peter & Sandra), Robert Hols-

worth (Chad & Susan), Harley Kappenman

(Jesse & Amy), Robin Schlechter (Kevin & Sandy)

The students have put a lot of hours, sacrifices and effort into re-

ceiving the Sacrament of Confirma�on. Some items they have

done are Community plus Church Service hours, Retreat, Le7er to

the Editor, Right to Life essay, Right to Life Rally in Pierre, help set

up for Christmas Concert at St. Anthony, Le7er to Bishop, 2 Inter-

views with Fr Doyle, Living Sta�ons @ Hoven, plus classroom les-

sons. They are to be commended on this journey to Confirma�on.

So give them a huge Congratula�ons when you see them!!

Please join us for the Divine

Mercy Chaplet Novena conclud-

ing Prayer Service @ 3pm today

Sun April 3rd @ St. Anthony,

Hoven.

St Augustine’s

First Holy Communion

Sun April 10, 10:30 am

(Practice at Sat Apr 9th @ 1pm.)

Communicants:

Lily Beadle (Jerry & Carrie), Lindsey Geier (James &

Lisa), Isaiah Heilman (Lyle & Brooke),

Gage Kaiser (Lance & Barb)

RCIA Bowdle

Thursdays 7:00pm

RENEWAL OR “NEWAL”?

Evangeliza�on

“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all na�ons. Bap�ze them in the name ‘of the Father, and of the Son, and of the

Holy Spirit.’” — Ma5hew 28:19

A cause and effect of parish renewal is evangelization. If the parish is alive, and attached to Christ the Vine (Jn 15:5), it will

bear fruit and thereby become more alive and bear more fruit. A renewed church is evangelized and evangelizing.

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