MAY 2, 2010 – 10:30 a.m.
5TH SUNDAY OF EASTER
CELEBRANT: Fr. Jim Shappelle
LECTOR: Pat Burley & Denise Hammond
READINGS:
-First: Acts 14:21-27
-Second: Revelations 21:`-5a
-Gospel: John 13:31-33a, 34-35
EUCHARIST MINISTERS:
Barbara Reed, Mimi Daly, Debbie Myles
ACOLYTE: Bill Dvorak
SERVERS: Johnathan Rozier
Ziaire Sherman
Dante Keeling
USHERS:
Mateo McElroy
Jerome Herring
MAY 9, 2010 – 10:30 A.M.
6TH SUNDAY OF EASTER
CELEBRANT: Fr.
LECTOR: Sr. Barbara Busch & Myra Boggs
READINGS:
-First: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29
-Second: Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23
-Gospel: John 14:23-29
EUCHARIST MINISTERS:
Sr. Barbara Busch, Brenda Miller, Angela Storms
ACOLYTE: Bill Dvorak
SERVERS: Aryanna Allen
Desmond Daly
Donovan Givens
USHERS:
Brenda Miller
Brenda Russell
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PRAY FOR THE SICK
Richard Menefield,
Peggy Arnold,
Valencia Cottrell (Judson Village)
Margie James (Glen Care)
Alean Glenn, Areda Burgess
FIRST COMMUNION
ANNOUNCEMENT
REMINDER: May 9th – Blessing of First
Communion Candidates
May 16th – First Communion
HEALING SERVICE
Mass with a Healing Service, Wednesday, May 5, 7:30
PM at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, I-74 & North Bend
Rd., Monfort Heights, sponsored by Lighthouse
Renewal Center. For more information, see
http://lighthouserenewalcenter.org or call 513-4715483.
Congratulations Clarissa Chenault
On a very outstanding accomplishment SENIOR of
the YEAR award from Kentucky State University!
Great Job!
Pantry HOURS
Monday
10:00 – 11:30 AM
4:00 – 5:30 PM
If you need assistance,
Please call Jodie at 604-6518
An Easter Reflection: This is the beginning of the Fourth
Week of Easter and there is a total of seven weeks to the
Easter Season, so are we at the half-way marker of our
Easter celebration?
It is so important that we continue our celebration for the
entire fifty days. Easter continues for us way past the
official day of Easter. This Sunday is the fourth Sunday in
the Easter Season and it gives me cause for the following
reflection. This fourth Sunday is unofficially known as
Good Shepherd Sunday because in all three cycles of
readings the Good Shepherd is mentioned.
My dog, Nora, is a Border Collie. Border Collies in
addition to being very smart and great Frisbee players are
sheep herders. Nora is obviously growing older by the
minute. I rescued her from a rescue group and we think she
is about thirteen years old. I don’t know if she ever played
Frisbee. She certainly doesn’t care for it now but I do know
that she has been an experienced herder. Just before I got
her three years ago, she was herding cattle with two other
Border Collies at the adoptive home where she was staying.
Her age and arthritis prevent her now from using her once
finely tuned instincts.
As herding dogs, Border Collies will nip at the heels of
cattle or sheep or whatever they are herding to get the other
animal to move together with all the other animals, to keep
them in line and to be sure that they get to where they are
supposed to go. They do this without hurting the other
animals and under the diligence and care of the Border
Collie, the sheep cannot get lost.
I don’t know if Jesus, the Good Shepherd, had a Border
Collie but as the shepherd of the flock he takes the lead and
the sheep follow him. They know his voice and he knows
their voices and there is no snatching the sheep out of his
hand or away from his care. In these ways, like the Border
Collie, the Good Shepherd leads the flock together and
keeps them in line and makes sure that we will get to where
we are supposed to go, safe and sound.
As we continue to celebrate the joy of these fifty days and
especially since we are at the half-way marker, what nipping
or tugging at our heels are we experiencing from our Good
Shepherd so that we can move together as church in the
direction of the resurrection of Jesus? Are we being asked
to move deeper into a faith relationship with the Lord? Are
we being asked to move together and stay together with
Christ’s gift of Easter peace and forgiveness? How does the
Risen One herd us into life with God and each other? What
nipping, tugging, caring, protecting, holding, and leading
will the Good Shepherd give us in our planning for the
future? Move us, O Good Shepherd, with the very life that
has moved you to lay down your life so that others may
live. May your way of selfless giving forever nip at our
heels! Amen.
Harvard University
Announcement
No tuition and no student loans
Harvard University announced over the weekend that
from now on undergraduate students from low-income
families will pay no tuition. In making the
announcement, Harvard's president Lawrence H.
Summers said, "When only ten percent of the students
in elite higher education come from families in the
lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing
enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite
higher education to the lower half of the income
distribution."
If you know of a family earning less than $60,000 a
year with an honor student graduating from high
school soon, Harvard University wants to pay the
tuition. The prestigious university recently announced
that from now on undergraduate students from lowincome families can go to Harvard for free... no tuition
and no student loans!
To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for
families making less than $60,000 a year, visit
Harvard's financial aid website at:
http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/ or call the school's
financial aid office at (617) 495-1581.
MAY BIRTHDAYS
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5/15
5/18
5/19
5/21
5/22
5/29
5/30
5/31
- Darlene White
- Mykel Brooks
Layla Hammond
- Devan Harris
- Marietta White
- Ariyanna Allen
Rosa Boggs
- Alex Baler
- Chantal Charles
- Ruth Lewis
- Jasmine Storms
- Clarissa Chenault
- John Rozier
- Amy Fletcher
- Barbara Reed
- Jessie Eutsey
Ada I. Okwuobi
- Tara Irby
- Peggy Arnold
- Meryl Sherman
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