Roman Catholic Church SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY)

A Servant Church of the Archdiocese of Detroit

MASS SCHEDULE

Weekend Mass

Sunday: 8:30 a.m., 10:15 a.m.

and 12:00 Noon Weekday Mass

Monday, Tuesday, Friday:

9:15 a.m.

Thursday Evening: 7:00 p.m.

RITE OF RECONCILIATION

Saturdays: 3:30 ± 4:30 p.m.

MISSION STATEMENT

St. Gerald Roman Catholic

Church is a welcoming, inclusive parish striving to be a reflection

of Christ. Guided by the Holy Spirit, we are dedicated to strengthening our faith through

reverent and uplifting worship, serving those in need, and living the fullness of the Gospel with all

God’s people.

OFFICE HOURS

9:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m.

APRIL 24, 2022 SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY)

21300 FARMINGTON ROAD, FARMINGTON, MICHIGAN 48336

Phone: 2484777470 | Fax: 2484773878 | Website: stgeraldparish.org

The St. Gerald Voice

Roman Catholic Church

Monday:1 Pt 5:5b14/Ps 89:23, 67, 1617/Mk 16:1520 Tuesday: Acts 4:3237/Ps 93:1ab, 1cd2, 5/Jn 3:7b15 Wednesday:Acts 5:1726/Ps 34:23, 45, 67, 89/Jn 3:1621 Thursday:Acts 5:2733/Ps 34:2 and 9, 1718, 1920/Jn 3:31

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Friday: Acts 5:3442/Ps 27:1, 4, 1314/Jn 6:115 Saturday:Acts 6:17/Ps 33:12, 45, 1819/Jn 6:1621 Next Sunday:Acts 5:2732, 40b41/Ps 30:2, 4, 56, 1112, 13 [2a]/Rv 5:1114/Jn 21:119 or 21:114

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WEEKDAY MASS INTENTIONS

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Monday 9:15 AM Joann Pavco Requested by Joe Pavco

Tuesday 9:15 AM Maria Camilleri Requested by Gjerding Family

Wednesday No Mass Thursday 7:00 PM

Phyllis Dombe Requested by Joanne and Bill

Friday 9:15 AM Fr. Kris and the Dobbs, Kemp, Trayer, Robrecht

and Goderman Families Requested by C. Kemp

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Online Giving of Donations through Simple Give is available and simple to use. Please visit our Parish Website at stgeraldparish.org and click on Online Giving to get started or call the Parish Office for instructions.

If you prefer to give by check or cash, collection baskets are located in the back of the church for your weekly donation or you may drop your donation in the Parish Office. Thank you for your continued support of St. Gerald Parish.

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5:00 PM April 30 Fr. Kris

Margaret WeberleinFor Requested by Dennis & Sharon Weberlein

Lector

Isabelle Gerhart

8:30 AM May 1 Fr. Kris For

Joan Sawchuk Requested by A . Trombley, M. Capell

& G. Meloche

10:15 AM May 1 Fr. Roodbeen Michela & Angelo VettrainoFor

Requested by Russenberger Family

Lector

12:00 PM May 1 Fr. Kris Frank E. BowlerFor

Requested by Pauline & Jerry Panyard

Lector

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for Easter, you can do now through April 24th.

If you have a fever or cough or are not feeling well, please

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stay home until you feel better. Remember it is not a sin to miss Mass because you are ill.

In Our Thoughts And Prayers . . .

Patricia Hayes Marie Josette Bolivar

Sharmella Kerbawy Kimberly Plonka Joan Goniea Anna D’Orazio Karen Bayer Pat Sockow

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i Have you learned, after the fact, that someone from our parish has died and the funeral is already over?

i Would you like to be notified when we have a funeral for one of our parishioners?

We are creating a notification list of those who want to receive an email with the funeral information so you can celebrate the Mass of Resurrection for fellow parishioners. Please send your name and email address to the Parish Office at stgeraldsecretary@yahoo.com if you would like your name added to the list.

May the soul of the faithfully departed, rest in peace.

Maria Rea

Frank Adams

SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER READINGS (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY)

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Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon’s portico. None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them. Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord, great numbers of men and women, were added to them. Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them. A large number of people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered, bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.

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I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus. I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, which said, “Write on a scroll what you see.” Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, wearing an anklelength robe, with a gold sash around his chest.

When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead. He touched me with his right hand and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last, the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld. Write down, therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.”

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On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.

As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.”

Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him,

“We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.” Thomas answered and said to him,

“My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

Now Jesus did many other signs in

the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name.

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The World Is Watching

If you’re a parent, you know this to be true: the world is watching. All it takes is one slipup ² one bad word, one selfish action, one uncharitable commentary, and that’s the thing your child seems to notice. When he or she calls you on it, the only thing you can do is come clean. “Yep, I did that,” you have to say. “I’m a work in progress, but luckily, God never stops working.”

I think it’s fair to say that we don’t think enough about the wounds of Christ. It’s a little understandable, of course. Our human bodies flinch at the sight of such pain and mortification. It’s a lot to handle, the physical trauma of a crucifixion. It carries an R rating in a PG world. But the wounds of Christ are the only thing that could make Thomas believe. Literally nothing else was so powerful, not even the testimony of his most trusted friends. Only by looking at and feeling the torn flesh ² by beholding that messy reality ² did this Apostle, this actual companion of Christ, come to believe in the Resurrection.

“Christ has no body now but yours,” goes the famous quote attributed to St. Teresa of Avila. What she’s saying is that we have become the means through which God chooses to accomplish His will in the world. Us, the broken. Us, the weary. Us, the imperfect. Yes, miraculous events and apparitions still occur from time to time, but by and large, if a person is going to come to believe in Jesus Christ in this day and age, it will be because of something we Christians do or say.

Christ has no wounds now but ours. Our brokenness, our weariness, our imperfection ² our reality. It all belongs to him, and the world is watching. ² Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi

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On Sunday, May 1st the Knights of Columbus are having a Pancake

Breakfast. There is no cost to come to the breakfast. It is the Knights way to say welcome back.

Of course, free will donations are always accepted. Hope you can join us!

Bundle Days

The St. Vincent de Paul truck will be here the weekend of May 7 and 8 for your donations!

Time for some Spring

cleaning!

M Y C . . . Our Parish Picnic is back! Mark your

calendars for Sunday, June 26th

from 1 to 4 PM. Look for more information in upcoming bulletins.

St. Gerald Parish Euchre Tournament May 7, 2022 in the Parish Social Hall

6:15 PM - Midnight Sign-in: 6:15 PM;

Tournament begins: 7:00 PM 12 Tables with 4 players per table = 48 tickets

$10 entry fee, $.25 per Euchre

Bring an appetizer. Dessert will be provided

BYOB. Water will be provided 7 rounds (each player deals twice each round)

Prizes (based on 48 tickets sold) 1^st - $150

2^nd - $100 3^rd - $75 4^th - $60 5^th - $50

6^th, 7^th, 8^th – Split the Euchre pot

Loner Dog with $10 attached kept by the last person to possess it

Tickets will be sold after all Masses this weekend After April

24^th tickets can be purchased in the Parish Office until May 5^th while tickets last. (Only 48 tickets will be sold!).

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The Knights of Columbus will be awarding two $1,000 scholarships this year for postsecondary education.

Applicants must either be a child of a registered parishioner of St. Gerald Parish, or a child or grandchild of a current (in good standing) Knight or deceased Knight. Applications can be obtained from the Parish Office Monday through Thursday.

Full details can be found on the Council’s page of the St.

Gerald website by clicking on the ‘Scholarship’ button under the Knights tab. There is also a link on the page where you can download a blank application. All applications must be received by midnight April 30, 2022. The two winners will be announced and notified in July.

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Our gardening volunteers are in need of new blood (or maybe new joints). Some of us are on current restrictions; even though gardening is a good form of physical and spiritual therapy, some are strained to do bending or pulling maneuvers needed for good groundskeeping.

Please consider joining our team! Most volunteer time is in a specific area of the church grounds and at your own time convenience.

If you can help or need more information, please call

Gerryanna at 7343411999 or email

gerryanna.youthministry@gmail.com.

Lawn bags are needed for refuse. Please leave any bag donation in the designated box outside the Parish Office.

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Afternoon Holy Mass

Sunday, June 5, 2022 at Our Lady of Refuge Church

1:30 PM

Dessert reception following Mass in the Social Hall Evening Celebration

Sunday, June 5, 2022 Bay Pointe Golf Club 5:30 PM Appetizers and Cash Bar

6:30 PM Dinner (Cost is $50 per person)

Dinner Attire

Kindly respond to Teresa Roose, Jubilee Committee CoChair

for these celebrations by Monday, May 2nd at 2485685924 or email: Jubilee6522@gmail.com

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at St. Edith Church in Livonia Saturday, April 30th from 8:30 AM to Noon

$2.00 Admission Fee

Find great deals on gently used baby, children's and maternity items.

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If you know someone who could use our prayers and would like them added to our prayer chain, please call the Parish Office at 2484777470 or email stgeraldsecretary@yahoo.com and their name will be added to our prayers.

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When you are looking for Mass Times or other special events at St. Gerald, please visit our website at www.stgeraldparish.org or “like” our Facebook page at St. Gerald Catholic Church, Farmington.

In the Gospel today, Jesus stands in the midst of us and says: “Peace be with you!” Indeed, the mercy of God centers our heart in peace.

In the month of April, through your gifts, the Society of St.

Vincent de Paul was able to help the poor celebrate the peace of Easter, by providing food and help with gas, utility and rent bills. Thank You!

we pray for the repose of the soul of

Geraldine Nolan

February 24, 1936 + April 7, 2022

Eternal rest grant unto Geraldine o lord, and may perpetual light shine upon Her.

Remembered this Easter Season

(Continued from last weekend)

Mary Winston Teddi & Jerome Williams Adolfo Palombo Palombo Family

Anna Palombo Palombo Family

Reginald Gates Gates & Palombo Families Kyle Kehus Barbara & Thom Seabolt Sylvia & Theodore Amos Teddi & Jerome Williams Evelyn Gates Gates & Palombo Families

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Even Thomas struggles to remove his boulder! Being very pragmatic and determined, he wants to see the risen Christ for himself! Thomas’s boulder is heavy with mistrust. Many of ours are too. A certain amount of skepticism is good, as it can save us from being duped or misled. But we can become so skeptical of things that it erodes our ability to trust anything we see or hear. Skepticism can actually be a welldisguised defense mechanism that we use to prevent us from being hurt or perceived as a fool. Having too much ego protection is a real risk. Thomas, because of the boulder blocking his vision, could not even trust the word of his friends.

Boulders are hard to move. It’s difficult to seek change or take a risk, especially when we are so afraid to be vulnerable or reluctant to trust another’s word. When we are closed minded, overly pragmatic, unwilling to see things in a different way, stubborn or defensive, it is difficult to be surprised by God and stretched. We need to be less guarded, selfassured, and selfabsorbed. God cannot break into the ordinary moments of our lives and inspire us when we cling to doubt. If we are going to discover resurrection faith, we have to believe that what the witnesses say is true, especially when they are credible. We also have to trust that the risen Christ is alive in us, too!

While the first witnesses to the resurrection have faded into history, there are many others who have come after them.

They continue to inspire by walking the talk of faith. They are the martyrs who offer their lives for the Gospel, the simple holy people in our communities who cling so steadfastly to their faith, those who have touched despair and found new hope and the ones who, even in spite of ridicule, still pursue their hunger and thirst for God. They are our friends, acquaintances, biblical heroes, and saints, and many others who are convinced that they have seen the Lord! The risen Christ may not surprise us with the same kind of visit as he did the first disciples, but God finds other ways. All we have to do is open our eyes, remove whatever is preventing us from seeing and believing and exclaim:

“My Lord and my God!” ©LPi

2022 C S A

We want to inform you that the 2022 CSA campaign will launch on CSA Weekend, May 78. This year, starting on May 78 you can pick up your packet for CSA 2022 after Mass. You will not receive anything directly from the Archdiocese of Detroit this year.

Each year, we have the opportunity to unleash the Gospel through our Catholic Services Appeal. The valuable ministries, programs, and services funded by our CSA benefit so many in our parish and across the Archdiocese of Detroit and beyond. When we support the CSA, together we Fuel the Mission to unleash the Gospel.

Please prayerfully consider the most generous gift possible to support the 2022 Catholic Services Appeal.

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All check payments for the CSA 2021 collection must be received at the Archdiocese of Detroit by May 16th and credit card payments must be received by May 28th, in order to be applied to the 2021 collection. If your pledge dollars are not received by this date, St. Gerald will be responsible for any balances due at that time and taken out of our parish account.

If you have any questions, please call the Parish Office at 248477 7470.

Please help us keep our parish records uptodate. If you move, have a change of phone number or any other change, please call the Parish Ofce at 248477

7470 or email stgeraldsecretary@yahoo.com.

SACRAMENTS

Rite of Reconciliation: Sacrament of the Sick:

Saturdays from 3:30-4:30PM Please call the office.

Baptism:

Please be aware that first time parents must attend a short baptism prep class prior to the baptism of their child. Arrangements for baptism may be made by calling the Parish Office.

Matrimony:

St. Gerald Parish is pleased to marry registered parishioners and their children. Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance of the wedding date. Please call the Parish Office.

Registration of new members:

Please see Fr. Kris after Mass or call the Parish Office. Registration forms are located on the shelf in the classroom hallway and the gathering space of the church for your convenience. After you fill it out, just give it to Fr. Kris or drop it off in the Parish Office. Thank you!

RCIA: Would you or someone you know want to become a full member of the Catholic Church? Please call Fr. Kris (248) 477-7470 for more information.

WE WELCOME YOU TO ST. GERALD CATHOLIC PARISH!

If you are new to the area, we look forward to meeting you personally. If you have not been active in the practice of the Catholic faith, we encourage you to return. If a previous marriage has kept you from receiving the Sacraments, we invite you to call the rectory at 248-477- 7470. In many cases, Fr. Kris can work with you to find a favorable solution.

ST. GERALD CATHOLIC CHURCH Office Hours

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Monday thru Thursday. Closed Friday.

(Parish Office closed from 12:00 pm—12:30 pm for lunch)

STAFF

Parish Office (248) 477-7470

Reverend Krzysztof Nowak, Pastor . . . . . . x 203 Mary Hoots, Administrative Assistant. . . x 212

Email: stgeraldsecretary@yahoo.com

All other offices dial (248) 476-7677

Christian Services

Matthew Yokom: Christian Service Coordinator . . . x 204 Cell: 313-205-8633

Email: myokom.sgp@gmail.com

St. Vincent de Paul . . . x 220 Education

Mary Taylor: Director Religious Education . . . x 201 Email: marytaylor.sgp@gmail.com

Music Ministry

Mary Melonio: Director of Music . . . x 222

Cell: 734-578-4179 or Email: mmelonio@aol.com

Worship Ministry . . . x 202 Norma Battel

Email: stgeraldworship@gmail.com Youth Ministry

Gerryanna Luscri . . . x 208 Email: gerryanna.youthministry@gmail.com

Maintenance Accountant Tom Kruger Kim Smith

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Question: Can anyone offer the Anointing of the Sick to a sick or dying person, or is that only something a priest can do?

Answer: The Letter of James speaks to us of the ancient tradition of a special anointing and blessing of those who are sick: “Is there anyone sick among you? Let him send for the presbyters of the Church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord … If he has committed any sins, they will be forgiven him” (5:14, 15b).

This passage forms the foundation for the theology of the sacrament that we call “Anointing of the Sick.” In keeping with what we read in the Letter of James and the ancient tradition of the Church, the anointing of a person of who sick or dying many only be performed by a priest or bishop.

Although deacons and other members of the Church are not able to celebrate the sacrament with a person who is sick, we can read Sacred Scripture and pray with and for those who are ill. Resources like the Book of Blessings also contain special blessings that can be celebrated by deacons or lay ministers. In the end, we want to be sure that we show a special care and concern for the sick, helping them to always experience God’s loving comfort through made tangible through our acts of charity and service.

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i Tuesday, May 3 and June 7 Late morning movie at the Phoenix Laurel Park Theater, 17310 Laurel Park Drive. New movies arriving every week. Check them out and then enjoy lunch with your friends. Call Elaine at 7347170303.

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