RESURRECTION PARISH
Rev. William Graney, Pastor
Rev. Greg Corrigan, Assoc. Pastor
Secretary (Main Office)
John Falkowski, Deacon
Cory Zolandz, Christian Formation
Ruth Sanders, Liturgy/Music
Sandy Landoll, Social Concerns Coord.
John Werner, Business Director
Kathleen Edwards, Youth Ministry
March 22, 2015
5th Sunday in Lent
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Parish Office Hours
9:00am - 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday
PASTORAL COUNCIL
Mike Reis
Executive Officer
Donna Ramage
Assist E.O.
Joe McClory
Secretary
Jim Nolan
Trustee
Selvam Mascarenhas
Trustee
Next weekend we celebrate Passion/Palm
Sunday. This year our reading of the Passion will
be from Mark. It is always interesting when doing
the Passion how I see the assembly (not
necessarily here at Resurrection) really getting into
the Passion story. This is particularly true in
parishes where the Passion is in parts and there is
a part for the assembly to read. They seem to like
to respond, especially when their part is the part
that has them shouting, “Crucify him!” It seems that
there is some delight in what many consider a little
bit of theater. But the Passion is not meant to be
read or heard as theater. No the Passion is not
simply an historical rendering of the last days and
times of Jesus’ life. It is instead meant to be read
and heard as a real event in the now of our lives.
This is so that we can bring our lives to our faith
and our faith to our lives.
In Mark’s Passion, Jesus is the “Suffering
Servant.” Jesus as God takes on a broken world,
enters its pain and suffering and redeems it. Jesus
is in solidarity with those who suffer and they will
not be forgotten. Richard Rohr says this: “We
Christians say glibly that we are saved by the death
and resurrection of Jesus, but seem to understand
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this as some kind of heavenly transaction on his
part, instead of an earthly transformation on his
part and our part. We need to deeply trust and
allow both our own dyings and our own certain
resurrections, just as Jesus did!” In other words, we
need to see the passion and death of Jesus as
something that speaks to our own life experience;
as something that reflects all the hurts, all the
failures and all the sufferings of this messy and
broken world of ours.
So next week when the Passion is proclaimed,
here are some questions you might ask yourself.
What is hurting in your life? How can that hurt be
healed? When have you experienced being broken
and in the dark? How do we make sense of a world
ruled by violence, terror and death? Can we resist
the temptation to give up on the world and help
overcome its destructiveness?
In the cross, Jesus takes the pain, the
brokenness and hopelessness of this world and
heals it. These things are not the final answer. The
answer is the radical love of God through a broken
Christ on the cross. When we can begin to
recognize what Jesus is doing for us in his
Passion, we can then say that we are bringing life
to faith and faith to life.
Deacon John
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MASS INTENTIONS
LITURGY
Monday
Mar. 23
8:30 am
Tuesday
Mar. 24
7:00 pm
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Wednesday
Mar. 25
8:30 am
Lazarus Mass
Thursday
Mar. 26
8:30 am
Friday
Mar. 27
8:30 am
Saturday
Mar. 28
5:30 pm
Sunday
Mar. 29
8:15 am
Parish Community
10:30 am
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GATHER FOR PRAYER ON FRIDAYS DURING LENT
03/27: 7:00 pm Taizé Prayer around the Cross
5:30 pm
Calling
all
teen
and
adult
musicians!
Join a Choir for Triduum Liturgies -- a great way to
get started, or to get a taste of music ministry here at
Resurrection.
Please
let
Ruth
Sanders
([email protected], 368-0146 X106) know
if you plan to participate, so that we can be sure to
have music ready for each rehearsal.
 Holy Thursday Women’s Choir Rehearsals:
Thursday March 26, 7:00-8:30 pm
Holy Thursday, April 2, 6:30 pm for 7:30 pm Mass
 Good Friday Men’s Choir Rehearsals:
Tuesday March 24, 7:00 to 8:30 pm
Monday March 30, 7:00 to 8:30 pm
Friday April 3, 6:30 pm for 7:30 pm service
 Easter Vigil Full [Women and Men] Choir
Wednesday March 25, 7:00-9:00 pm
Saturday April 4, 1:00- 3:30 pm AND 8:00 pm for the
8:30 pm Easter Vigil
Please pray for all the
needs in our Book of
Intentions and for those in
our Parish Family who are
sick:
Lord, allow your
healing hand to assist
Lauren Lutz, Hope Tyler,
Beverly Detwiler, John
Wisniewski, Tia Langan,
Sharon Dudek, JD Howell, Betsy Barber, Kathy
Bernardin, Bill Eichelberger Jr., Joseph Hemphill,
Renee Roder, Alyssa Stover, Ben Stam, Josh
Lysinger, David Roberts, Ceil Gilmore, Jack Ward.
Christine Dalecki, Chet Andruskiewicz, Jim Gambort,
Nellie Hess, Maryann Ciabattoni, Helen Meys, Candi
Smith, Larry Edwards, Bob Straub, Gene Shields,
Felicia Callahan, Sean McCormick, John Murray,
Janice Kane, Ralph Culver, and others mentioned in
our parish book of intentions.
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Liturgy Ministers for Triduum: Please help! Signup for Triduum liturgies by email, phone or in the
Serve binder in the Gathering Space. Thank you for
your generous gifts of time and talent at this important
AND busy time of year!
Triduum Environment Prep—March 29 after the
10:30 am Mass. We will prepare our Worship Space
for the liturgies of Triduum on Passion Sunday.
Please plan to help if you are able. We will move
chairs and remove banners, so there will be lots to do.
For example, children can help by taking care of the
hymnals and hymnal holders; adults are needed to
climb ladders and moving heavy items.
Easter Environment Prep—April 4 beginning at
9:30 am. We’ll be hanging banners, and adding
flowers and plants and other decorations to our
worship environment that day. All help gratefully
accepted.
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T RI DUU M SCHE DUL E
April 2--H
Holy Thursday
7:30 pm
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
10:00 pm Night Prayer
April 3--G
G o o d F ri d a y
9:00 am
Morning Prayer
7:30 pm
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
April 4--H
Holy Saturday
9:00 am
Morning Prayer
9:40 am
Blessing of Easter Food
April 4/5-Easter Sunday of the Lord’s Resurrection
Sat 8:30 pm The Easter Vigil
Sun 8:15 am Easter Sunday Mass
Sun 10:30 am Easter Sunday Mass
Jewish sense of time, which goes from sunset to
sunset. So our three days begins on Holy Thursday
evening and ends with the celebration of Evening
Prayer on Easter Sunday. The three days celebrate
the entire passion, death and resurrection of Jesus.
They are the culmination of the Church’s entire
liturgical year. But the three days are not meant as
an historical rendering of the last days of Jesus’ life.
They instead are part of the mystery of our faith
made real again as we commemorate and celebrate
them in the now of our lives – how does
remembering and celebrating these days impact our
lives at this moment in time? Finally, the events we
celebrate during these three days are not separate
actions, but is in fact one continuous action
celebrating the entire life, passion, death and
resurrection of Jesus.
Deacon John
ADULT FAITH FORMATION
TAKING IT HOME: Next week we begin Holy
Week. Holy week has as its purpose the
remembrance of Christ’s passion, death and
resurrection. Holy week begins with Passion/Palm
Sunday, where Jesus triumphantly enters
Jerusalem, and it culminates with the celebration of
the Sacred Triduum. These are the sacred three
days that mark the holiest season of the Church
year.
These three days are marked by intense prayer
as we gather as a community, pray at home and
keep vigil. The prayer of these days is in union with
the whole Church throughout the world and
throughout the ages. The Passion of the Lord
dominates these solemn days.
Passion/Palm Sunday begins with the blessing
and procession of the palms. This symbolizes
Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. But our
mood on this day quickly turns as we somberly
proclaim the Passion.
The Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy
Thursday ends Lent and begins the season of the
Triduum. These three days have their root in the
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PARISH FAMILY LIFE
History can show that Jewish, Islamic, and
Christian people and cultures have not only coexisted but prospered together in the same location.
Today, there is a desire locally for these people to
be good neighbors and to understand one another’s
culture and faith. On March 22, at the 10:30 Mass
an Islamic spokesperson will be introduced and
then a discussion for those interested will be held in
the chapel after Mass. It is a way of encouraging
dialogue.
Resurrection Garden Season 2015!
We have begun planning for our 2015 garden
season! Our garden includes three aspects:
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(Garden continued)
1) The community garden where we grow
vegetables for our neighbors in need;
2) Individual plots for parishioners who want to
grow vegetables for their family; and
3) Our flower garden where we grow and arrange
flowers for the church and for the sick of our parish.
All involved in the garden help with all three facets
of the garden.
It is a wonderful ministry, a
wonderful way to exercise, a wonderful way to
grow spiritually, and a wonderful way to contribute
to our parish.
We have some extra plots available if anyone is
interested in gardening at Resurrection. We would
most welcome your presence!
If you are
interested, please contact Patti Falkowski at 9983894 or Mark Oliver at 737-1660.
SOCIAL CONCERNS
Hungering for a Healthy Harvest
CRS Rice Bowl brings our Lenten journey back to
Africa this week, to the Democratic Republic of
Congo. We join our fasting in solidarity with people
who go hungry, and we remember in prayer the
importance of building a community that is willing to
support those
most in need.
Hamuli
works
with
other
banana farmers
to remove the
banana
wilt
disease from his
plantation in the
North
Kivu
province
of
DRC. CRS is helping farmers whose livelihoods have
been affected by the disease to work together to keep
their plantations healthy and disease resistant.
Photo by Jean Paul Cigulube/CRS
Delaware Housing Workshops for those worried
about missing a mortgage payment or facing
foreclosure. Delaware Attorney General's Office,
Delaware Housing Workshop and Servicer Event,
March 24, 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Chase Center on
the Riverfront, 815 Justison Street Wilmington, DE.
For more information, please contact Lisa Spellman
at [email protected] or at (302) 577-5092.
delawarehomeownerrelief.com
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ELEMENTARY CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Growing Disciples:
Helping
the
children
of
Resurrection Parish to know,
love and serve the Lord.
CALENDAR: CFP will meet 3/22 from 9:15-10:15
A.M.; K to 5, Parent Meeting about diocesan
assessments 3/22 at 9:30 A.M. We are OFF on
3/29 and 4/5.
Little Lambs will meet on 3/29 during the 10:30
Mass. All children (ages 0-5) are welcome! No
need to sign up, just stop by and join the fun,
faith, and friendship!
If you would like more information about Christian
Formation for Children please contact Cory Zolandz
at [email protected].
CFP: YOUTH MINISTRY
Middle AND High School
April
19 Youth Night
Bishop Malooly invites youth and young adults
from all parishes and schools to join him as we
come together for the sixth annual Pilgrimage on
Saturday, March 28, 2015.
Young people from across the diocese will carry
the diocesan pilgrimage cross through the streets of
Wilmington with the bishop as a representation of
Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem and his journey on Good
Friday to Calvary. Cost for the day is $15 or $45
max per family (bring your own lunch). To register,
please
contact
Kat
Edwards
at
[email protected].
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Exploring the Word
PASSION SUNDAY
GOSPEL – MARK 15: 1-39
As soon as morning came, the chief
priests with the elders and the scribes, that
is, the whole Sanhedrin held a council. They
bound Jesus, led him away, and handed
him over to Pilate.
Pilate questioned him, “Are you the
king of the Jews?”
He said to him in reply, “You say so.”
The chief priests accused him of many
things. Again Pilate questioned him,
“Have you no answer? See how many
things they accuse you of.”
Jesus gave him no further answer, so that
Pilate was amazed.
Now on the occasion of the feast he used
to release to them one prisoner whom they
requested. A man called Barabbas was
then in prison along with the rebels who
had committed murder in a rebellion. The
crowd came forward and began to ask him
to do for them as he was accustomed.
Pilate answered, “Do you want me to
release to you the king of the Jews?” For he
knew that it was out of envy that the chief
priests had handed him over. But the chief
priests stirred up the crowd to have him
release Barabbas for them instead.
Pilate again said to them in reply, “Then
what do you want me to do with the man
you call the king of the Jews?”
They shouted again, “Crucify him.”
Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil
has he done?”
They only shouted the louder, “Crucify
him.”
PREPARE
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd,
released Barabbas to them and, after he had
Jesus scourged, handed him over to be
crucified. The soldiers led him away inside the
palace, that is, the praetorium, and assembled
the whole cohort. They clothed him in purple
and, weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on
him. They began to salute him with, “Hail,
King of the Jews!” and kept striking his head
with a reed and spitting upon him. They
knelt before him in homage. And when they
had mocked him, they stripped him of the
purple cloak, dressed him in his own clothes,
and led him out to crucify him.
They pressed into service a passer-by,
Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from
the country, the father of Alexander and
Rufus, to carry his cross. They brought him to
the place of Golgotha—which is translated
Place of the Skull. They gave him wine
drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it.
Then they crucified him and divided his
garments by casting lots for them to see what
each should take.
It was nine o’clock in the morning when
they crucified him. The inscription of the
charge against him read, “The King of the
Jews.” With him they crucified two
revolutionaries, one on his right and one on
his left.
Those passing by reviled him, shaking their
heads and saying, “Aha! You who would
destroy the temple and rebuild it in three
days, save yourself by coming down from the
cross.”
Likewise the chief priests, with the scribes,
mocked him among themselves and said, “He
saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the
Christ, the King of Israel, come down now
from the cross that we may see and believe.”
Those who were crucified with him also kept
abusing him.
At noon darkness came over the whole
land until three in the afternoon. And at
three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which is
translated, “My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?”
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Some of the bystanders who heard it said,
“Look, he is calling Elijah.”
One of them ran, soaked a sponge with
wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to
drink saying, “Wait, let us see if Elijah
comes to take him down.”
Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his
last.
The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two
from top to bottom. When the centurion who
stood facing him saw how he breathed his
last he said, “Truly this man was the Son
of God!”
GOSPEL REFLECTION
By the time the gospel accounts came to
be written, it was more than 35 years
after the death of Jesus. The Gospel of
Mark is now very widely held to have
been the first of the four gospels, written
in about the year 70 CE. One of the
reasons for the writing of the gospels
was the fact that those who had walked
and talked with Jesus were becoming old
and dying. There was a sense of
capturing the story before the last eye
witnesses were gone. This is very evident
in the Passion narrative from the gospel
of Mark. One can almost hear an elderly
voice dictating the events: “then this
happened … then he said … then we
all thought … Like so much of this
particular gospel, there is very little
embellishment. It’s like an old time
detective show, “Just give us the facts!”
The gospel of Mark presents the story of
the Passion as a sequence of events with
little commentary or theological
reflection. (That is partly why it lends
itself so well to being read by several
voices.)
GOSPEL FOCUS
Mark keeps one of the most important
messages for the end of this gospel. As
Jesus dies, a centurion standing by utters
the inspired words, “In truth, this man
was the son of God.” The centurion is
the voice of the gentile—the non-Jew—
representing all those throughout the
world who will recognize the truth of
Jesus’ life and purpose.
Q. Which elements of this Passion narrative are challenging / confronting / surprising?
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reserved. Lectionary for Mass, Copyright © 1998, 1997, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; All rights reserved. Reflection, questions and alternative view points
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