April Calendar

April 2

Nursing Home Visit

April 2 10:30 – Noon

Meet at UC Nursing Home under the portico.

Under the book request add:

The residents requested the following authors (or similar): James Patterson, Michael Crichton, Michael Connelly, Lee Child,

Harlan Coben, Agatha Christie, Kristin Hannah.

REQUEST: If you play a musical instrument, the residents of the UC Nursing Home would like to hear you! Please contact [email protected] to discuss.

Thanks! 🎸🎻🪕🪇

The activity director recommends clean reads such as those found on the following website: https://www.libraryofcleanreads.com/

April 12

Divine Mercy Sunday

2:00–3:00 PM: Silent Adoration
3:00 PM: Divine Mercy Chaplet (communal prayer)
St. Francis Church

Since April 12 is Divine Mercy Sunday, Father Cong has approved the Divine Mercy Chaplet to be led by one of our EM’s for Holy Communion beginning at 3:00 pm. Feel free to come and pray silently starting at 2 for one Holy Hour and then stay for the Divine Mercy Chaplet. See the chaplet below.

On the Second Sunday of Easter, the Church celebrates the Sunday of Divine Mercy. It provides an important opportunity to share Christ’s message of mercy, especially with those who suffer because of their participation in one or more abortions. By the age of 45, as many as 1 in 3 women have had an abortion, and a similar number of men and family members have been involved. Many feel that abortion is “the unforgivable sin.” They need to hear that, through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God forgives every sin of a repentant heart, even the sin of abortion. In fact, Jesus’ message to St. Faustina is that the greater the sinner, the greater the right to His mercy.

Saint Faustina: Mankind’s need for the message of Divine Mercy took on dire urgency in the 20th Century, when civilization began to experience an “eclipse of the sense of God” and, therefore, to lose the understanding of the sanctity and inherent dignity of human life. In the 1930s, Jesus chose a humble Polish nun, St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, to receive private revelations concerning Divine Mercy that were recorded in her Diary. St. John Paul II explains:

This was precisely the time when those ideologies of evil, nazism and communism, were taking shape. Sister Faustina became the herald of the one message capable of off-setting the evil of those ideologies, that fact that God is mercy—the truth of the merciful Christ. And for this reason, when I was called to the See of Peter, I felt impelled to pass on those experiences of a fellow Pole that deserve a place in the treasury of the universal Church.

—Pope Saint John Paul II, Memory and Identity (2005)

April 25

St. Francis Parish Picnic

Noon – 2:00 pm | Set up is at 11:30 am | Respect Life is sponsoring the drinks table

Reading Series: The Gospel of Life

Join us as we read and discuss selections from The Gospel of Life, our ministry’s papal encyclical written by Pope St. John Paul II.

St. Francis of Assisi conference room

12:30 – 2:00 pm

5 sessions as follows:

April 13
April 20
April 27
May 4
May 11

This reading will be open to the public. Look for a flyer on several doors in the community starting the first week of March.

Are you unconditionally Pro-Life? You will be after reading this!