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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
March 29, 2015
During Holy Week each year, we enter most deeply into the foundation of our
Christian faith—the mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The Season of Lent ends on Thursday of Holy Week. Then the Church remembers the death and
resurrection of Jesus during the Easter Triduum. The Easter Triduum begins on Holy Thursday with
the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, is continued through Good Friday with the celebration of the
passion of the Lord and on Holy Saturday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and concludes
with Masses on Easter Sunday. These three days are the most important time of the Church year.
Please join us for these holiest of days.
Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord's Supper
On Holy Thursday we remember the Last Supper and that Jesus gave himself in
the Eucharist. We recall that Jesus chose his apostles to serve and lead the
Church. Remembering that Jesus washed the apostle’s feet at the Last Supper,
the priest washes the feet of members of the congregation. The evening Mass of
the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday is a beautiful and joyful celebration. Because
Holy Thursday is a feast day of the Blessed Sacrament, there is a procession of
the Eucharist after the Mass to an altar of repose set up in the Parish Hall.
Thursday, April 2nd (No morning Mass this day)
7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Eucharistic Adoration 8:00pm-9:00pm in the Parish Hall
Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord
(No morning Mass this day)
On Good Friday we remember the death of Jesus. According to an ancient
custom, Mass is not celebrated on this day or before the Easter Vigil on Holy
Saturday. The celebration of the Lord's passion and death takes place in the
afternoon. There are three parts to the liturgy of the day: the Liturgy of the
Word; the Veneration of the Cross; and Holy Communion with Hosts consecrated on Holy Thursday. Please note that the Parish Office will be closed
on this day.
Friday, April 3rd (No morning Mass or 1st Friday Adoration this day)
12:00pm Stations of the Cross in English & 1:00pm in Spanish
3:00pm Passion of the Lord—English
7:00pm Passion of the Lord—Spanish
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil
On Holy Saturday the Church meditates on the suffering and death of
Jesus. Then the Church gathers to celebrate the Easter Vigil. Our
celebration of the Easter Vigil takes place at 8pm and begins with a
gathering on the Church steps around the fire.
Saturday, April 4th (no 3:30pm confessions or 5pm Mass this day)
8:00pm Bilingual Mass
Easter Sunday
Join us as we celebrate the joy of the risen Lord! The Lord is truly risen, alleluia!
Sunday, April 5th
8:30am & 10:00am English Masses
11:30am Spanish Mass
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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
Mass Intentions
Saturday………….........March 28
5:00PM……..………….†Juanita Diaz
Sunday………….....…...March 29
8:30AM……...…....……People of St. Didacus
10:00AM……...…….....†Henry Lira, Sr.
11:30AM……...…….....†Felix J. López
Monday………………...March 30
7:30AM….…....…….…...†Geri Cali
Tuesday………..…..….March 31
6:00PM………….......Mitchell-House Family, Spec. Int.
Wednesday……......….April 1
8:30AM………………...†David Angrisani
Thursday………...…….April 2
7:00PM……...….……...†Rosalio Sanchez, Jr.
Friday…………...……...April 3
…………………………..No Mass Today
Saturday………….........April 4
8:00PM……..………….†Agnes Danna
Readings for the Week of March 29, 2015
Sunday:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Next Sunday:
Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16/Is 50:4-7/
Phil 2:6-11/Mk 14:1--15:47 or 15:1-39
Is 42:1-7/Jn 12:1-11
Is 49:1-6/Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
Is 50:4-9a/Mt 26:14-25
Ex 12:1-8, 11-14/1 Cor 11:23-26/Jn 13:1-15
Is 52:13--53:12/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/
Jn 18:1--19:42
Vigil: Gn 1:1--2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a/Gn 22:118 or 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18/Ex 14:15-15:1/Is 54:5-14/Is 55:1-11/Bar 3:9-15, 32-4:4/Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28/Rom 6:3-11/Mk
16:1-7
Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b
-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mk 16:1-7 or Lk 24:13-35
Weekly Events at St. Didacus
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Divine Mercy Food Sale
Confirmation II Class
Spanish Choir
Monday, March 30, 2015
Leadership Meeting
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Eucharistic Adoration
Altar Society
Set-up for Holy Week
Choir
Men’s Prayer Group
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Divine Mercy
Divine Mercy
Friday, April 3, 2015
Parish Office Closed
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Set-up for Easter
Location
after Masses
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noon-2:00pm
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8:00am
“How splendid the cross of Christ! It brings life, not death; light,
not darkness; paradise, not its loss. It is the wood on which the
Lord, like a great warrior, was wounded in hands and feet and
side, but healed thereby our wounds.”
—St. Theodore of Stoudites
GIFTS OF
OUR TREASURY
THE WEEK OF March 22, 2015
General Collection for March 22, 2015
Building Fund for March 22, 2015
Total Income:
$5,348.00
$ 143.00
$5,491.00
Please Pray For
Welcome to St. Didacus Parish!
Masses
Saturday 5:00pm
Sunday 8:30am & 10:00am English
11:30am in Spanish
Daily Mass
Mon., Thurs., Fri. 7:30am
Wednesday 8:30am & Tues. 6:00pm
Eucharistic Adoration
Wednesdays 7:30am—8:30am
First Fridays 8:00am—9:00am
Confessions—Saturdays 3:30pm or by appt.
Baptisms: Arrangements must be made 3 months in
advance. Contact the Parish Office for information.
Weddings: Arrangements must be made at least 9
months in advance. Please contact the Parish Office.
Pastor, Fr. Michael J. Sinor
Parish Office 619-284-3472
March 29, 2015
Rosalba Alarcon
Maria Luz Arrellano
Diann Bauer
Dan Bauer
Herbert Baxter
Martha Becerra
Ron Berry
Rita Bonnell
Norm Boyer
Herminia Brignoni
Ibeth Brignoni
Ruben Campos
Marie Cavanaugh
Eileen Connolly
Irene Davis
MaryLou De Luca
Bob Demers
Cecelia Dueber
Mary Farrell
Santiago Fontes
Susan Guenzel
Dolores Hansel
Sharon Ihle
Bernie Kober
Marilyn Kober
Elizabeth La Costa
Virginia Lantry
Juanita Lopez
Maria Lopez
Anthony Martinez
Rosalie Martinez
Emma McPherson
Jenna McPherson
Dolores Mediano
Esteban Mediano
Sylvia Paiz
Dominick Palestini
Gladys Palestini
Diane Porter
Antonia Raya
Dolores Robertson
Atina Rodriguez
Aaron Rodriguez
Alette Rodriguez
Jeff Salazar
Christine Segura
Alice Sergi
Mark Silke
Michael Smith
Raymond Sparks
Mary Sutton
Angel Tapia
Pedro Tapia
Therese Tucker
Carol Verdon
Adalina Zarate
Josephine
And the special
intentions in our Book of Needs
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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
4630 34th Street, San Diego CA 92116
284-8730
Thank you to Mrs. Drab and school parents for
hosting the Friday night soup dinner at the parish.
We’re still enrolling for the 2015-16
school year. If you’d like more
information about enrolling your
children, please contact the school
office.
Lent Penance Services
—Monday, March 30th Our Lady of
Guadalupe 5pm
—Tuesday, March 31st Blessed
Sacrament 7pm
—Tuesday, March 31st Mission de Alcala 7:30pm
March 29, 2015
Preparing for Holy Week:
Wednesday, April 1st at
4:00pm
Setting up for Easter:
Saturday, April 4th at
8:00am
This special time involves a lot of moving,
removing, hanging and hauling! If you’re able,
please plan on helping out!
Altar Society Meeting
Wednesday, April 1st
12:00-2:00pm in the Hall
All women of the parish are invited to attend
this luncheon meeting. Any questions? Call
Martha Crawford at 619-294-9102.
Religious Education News:
There will be no Religious Education Classes
on Wednesday, April 1st or April 8th. Classes
will resume on Wednesday, April 15th.
Youth Ministry News:
There will be no Youth Ministry meeting on Tuesday,
March 31st. But students are invited to come on
Wednesday, April 1st at 4pm to help set-up for
Holy Week. This can count toward any community
service hours you need!
Thank you to all the groups who
provided dinner on Friday nights
during Lent and to
Fr. Mike, Elena Platas,
Deacon Dino and Catherine Fahey
for leading our discussions on
discipleship. Thanks, also, to
Deacon Dino, the Parish Council and
the Men’s Prayer Group for leading
Stations of the Cross during Lent.
The Divine Mercy group will be selling
Mexican food after the Masses on
Sunday. All money raised from your
purchases will be donated to the
Church for parish needs.
Mark Your Calendars
for the Altar Society’s
Annual Rummage Sale!
Friday, April 17th
Saturday, April 18th
Sunday, April 19th
We need your stuff! Do your spring cleaning now
and save all the good stuff for us! For information
about dropping off your items, please contact the
Parish Office.
Good Friday Collection
Next Friday has been designated
for the 2015 Collection for the
Holy Land. Your contribution
helps support Christians and
maintain shrines in the Holy Land of our Lord’s
birth, agony, death and resurrection. You are
encouraged to consider a generous gift.
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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
King? Really?
There are two main sections of Sunday’s feast, which is
called “Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.” These two
make a jarring contrast to each other, and most of us
never notice! Time to get things straight. The first main
section consists of the blessing of palms and the
procession with them into church. An extra Gospel is
read as a part of this.
What do we hear? Jesus enters the city Jerusalem as a
king would. He rides on a colt—an animal always used for the entrance of royalty
into a city. The disciples spread their cloaks over the colt’s back as they would for
a king. Crowds along the way greet Jesus as a royal person: they smooth their
coats onto the roadway and then strew out palm branches that they have cut from
the fields, in order to soften the pathway symbolically. They cry out, “Blessed is he
who comes in the name of the Lord,” even as we do in the Sanctus at every Mass.
This is surely a king. At Mass a ritual procession of palms commemorates this
entrance, while priest and ministers make their way to the altar.
Then begins the second section, the Mass itself. For its Gospel we hear the
Passion Reading from Mark. We stand in silence as the soldiers ridicule Jesus’ so
-called kingship, shouting in their rough voices, “King of the Jews.” They are not
praising him as the people did, but ridiculing this poor, ridiculous captive. They
jam a kingly, mocking crown on his head and say in effect what the condemned
monarch in Shakespeare’s Richard II said: "Goodbye King!" They wrap a fake
purple robe—the color reserved for kings—around his wounds. They cackle like
clowns. And they spit on him. What a kingdom of God this had turned out to be.
The contrasting sections of Sunday’s Mass show the irony to us.
Why would the king of kings allow all this to happen? Look to the First Reading.
I have not rebelled, have not turned back; I gave my back to those
who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face
I did not shield from buffets and spitting.
These words, written centuries before, represent a passive surrender. Is passive
surrender a kingly action? You or I would have shouted, “God, why have you
abandoned me?” The Responsorial Psalm says exactly these words, and actually
Jesus will say them too from the cross. Words of a king?
The Second Reading answers this question. It is the famous passage from Paul’s
letter to the Philippians, Chapter 2, stating that Jesus did not regard being in the
form of God as something to cling to—for safety or honor or whatever other
reason. As the greatest king of all, he was able to empty himself out, to become
like a slave, obedient even to death on the cross. This is the complete opposite of
kingliness as we think of it. It surely seems like a mockery of kingship.
But the real basis of kingship is to serve the people, no matter what. The good
ruler will pull a kingdom together and make it safe, a place of abundance. Jesus,
the true leader, lets go of everything in allegiance to God and in service of the
people.
Let us be still this Sunday and listen.
—Fr. John Foley, S. J. is a composer and scholar at Saint Louis University
March 29, 2015
“You will find a colt
tethered on which
no one has ever
sat.”
—Mark 11:2
Jesus rode a
borrowed donkey
into the Holy City. Though he was a king,
his crown wasn’t visible to the crowds
who laid palms before him. There were
no finely dressed soldiers to escort our
Savior, just a band of tunic-clad disciples.
The holy procession was not a display of
power but a show of humility. During the
upcoming week, this humility will be
woven through every Gospel we hear.
We will remember Jesus washing feet
and breaking bread. We will recall his
crown of thorns and the scourging he
endured. We will see him stripped of his
clothing and suffering on the cross for
three agonizing hours. Let us begin this
week the same way Jesus began the first
Holy Week—with true humility.
—A Book of Grace-Filled Days
Called to Be Merciful
2015 Annual Appeal
Update
Thank you to everyone who has
pledged to the 2015 Annual
Catholic Appeal. Keep those
pledges coming. We are still
working toward reaching our parish goal
of $24,000! All pledges are important, no
matter how small or large the amount.
What is important is that everyone
participate in this Diocesan Appeal.
Total Pledges paid to date:
$21,789
Number of Parish Contributors: 158
Pray for those of our
parish and those all
over the world who
will be received into
the Catholic Church
at the Easter Vigil.
Lord, we pray for
those nearing the end of the RCIA process. Strengthen their faith. Open their
hearts to the fullness of your love. Deepen
their understanding. Set their hearts on
fire for the kingdom of God. We ask this
through Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth,
and the Life for all. Amen.
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Domingo de Ramos
HORARIO DEL TRIDUO PASCUAL Y EL
DOMINGO DE PASCUA DE RESURECCION
2 de abril, Jueves Santo
7:00PM
Misa Bilingüe de la Cena del Señor y Adoración
Eucarística a las 8:00 PM
3 de abril, Viernes Santo
1:00 PM
En este año por primera vez tendremos estaciones de la cruz en español a la 1 PM, por favor
acompáñenos. Y en ingles al medio dia.
Liturgia de la Pasión:
Ingles
Español
3:00 PM
7:00 PM
sábado 4 de abril, Vigilia Pascual
Misa Bilingüe
8:00 PM
5 de abril, Domingo de Resurrección
Misa de español
11:30AM
NECESITAMOS AYUDA PARA LA
Preparación de Semana Santa
Miércoles 1° de abril a las 4:00 pm
Sábado, 4 de abril a las 8:00 am
En esta ocasión especial implica una gran cantidad de
movimiento, quitar cosas pesadas.
Marquen su calendario:
La Venta de cosas usadas de la Sociedad del Altar, será
el viernes 17 de abril, sábado 18 de abril
y domingo 19 de abril.
Puede empezar a traer sus donaciones a la iglesia.
29 de marzo de 2015
LOS MIERCOLES 1°Y 8 DE ABRIL
NO HABRA CLASES DE CATECISMO
NO HABRA REUNION DE JOVENES
LOS MARTES 2 Y 7 DE ABRIL
Los esperamos con toda su familia a celebración de los días mas importantes del año
litúrgico, El Triduo Pascual. En esta misma
pagina encontraran los horarios por favor
acompáñenos con toda su familia.
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De acuerdo con el deseo del Señor, la fiesta se
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que este año será el domingo 12 de abril. En
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después de la misa de español.
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