PARISH DIRECTORY

 

Parish Priests.................................... 612-789-7238

      Father Glen T. Jenson, Pastor

      Father Glen at St. Anthony.............. 612-379-2324

         (revglenjensen@onebox.com)

 

      Father Waldemar Matusiak, SChr

         (waldemarmatusiak@gmail.com)

      Deacon John Belian

 

Pastoral Ministry............................... 612-789-9168

      Sister M. Benita, OSF

      Sister Donna, OSF

 

Business Manager............................ 612-789-3430

      Janice Frakie         (JFrakie@comcast.net)

 

Parish Secretary................................ 612-789-7238

      Janice Godlewski  (JGodlewski@comcast.net)

 

Bulletin Announcements due by Monday, noon.

 

Telephone Numbers

      Parish Office................................... 612-789-7238

      Parish Office Fax............................ 612-789-5769

      Pope John Paul II Catholic School... 612-789-8851

      Convent......................................... 612-789-3256

 

Prayer Line

      Weekdays...................................... 612-789-7238

      Anytime.......................................... 763-572-1713

 

Website:    www.ourholycross.com

 

OFFERTORY COLLECTION

 

March 27, 2011 - $7,578.08     Thank you!

2nd Collection for Aid to Japan:  $4,642.00   

 

CATHOLIC SERVICES APPEAL.  Christ has no body on Earth but yours; no hands but yours; no feet but yours.  Yours is the body through which He is to go about doing good; yours are the hands with which He is to bless people now.  The Catholic Services Appeal is a very practical means of “doing good”.  Thus far 157 Holy Cross parishioners have responded with gifts totally $11,183.00 which is 45% of our parish goal of $25,000.  Please consider a gift and return the pledge card as soon as possible.  Thank you!

 

MAY HE REST IN PEACE

 

Eternal rest grant on to Stanley Maznio

O Lord, and let the perpetual light

shine up him. May he rest in peace.   Amen.

 

OLAN MILLS PICTORIAL DIRECTORIES The Olan Mills pictorial directories will be shipped to us on April 5th.  We will pass them out to parishioners at Coffee and Donut Sunday the weekend of April 16 and 17.

            

FATHER GLEN’S

THOUGHTS…..  

 

 

This Sunday is Laetare, or Rejoice Sunday, and in our Gospel we have the account from John’s Gospel of the man born blind.  Jesus declares that he is the light of the world.  Despite working a miracle of healing for the man which none could question, the Pharisees reject Jesus’ divine authority demonstrated by his power to heal the blind man, because they had become hostile toward him.  Many things in our life can blind us to the will of God.  Yet Jesus remains the only true light of the world and authoritative guide for us in this life so as to reach heaven after we die.  We rejoice this Sunday, half way through Lent, as we bring to mind that the resurrection and eternal joy in heaven is the goal of our prayer, fasting, and works of charity in Lent.  Although our Lenten efforts may be hard to accomplish at times, they will bear fruit in great joy eternally.  Rejoice, all our good efforts are rewarded by God through Jesus.

 

This Sunday is the Northeast Holy Name Men’s Club’s annual French Toast Breakfast at Kolbe Hall from 8:00-AM to 12:00 Noon.  Please come and support the Christian men of our Northeast parishes in their fundraising effort to support Pope John Paul II Catholic School here in Northeast and the Salvation Army Food Shelf on Central Avenue.

 

There will be another meeting for those who would like to express their interest in new ministries offered by our Northeast Parishes.  The meeting will be held Wednesday, April 6^th in Kolbe Hall at 7:00 PM.  All are welcome.

 

Father Glen Jenson, Pastor

FORTY HOURS THANK YOU - Our 40 Hours Eucharistic Devotion last weekend was wonderfully successful!  We had many people come to adore the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.  The young adults of our parish stepped up to the plate and helped cover the late hours on Friday night in good numbers.  The closing ceremony had the largest crowd that I have seen in the last six years that I have been stationed in Northeast and able to participate in it, nearly five hundred!  The festival choir was very large and very powerful and the total effect of all elements of our worship last Sunday was inspiring. 

 

I want to thank everyone who participated in making this 40 Hours Devotion time so rich and powerful, all of you who came to adore, our large core of excellent trained servers who were so devout, our choir director and the choir members, those who provided the hospitality in Kolbe Hall for the congregation afterwards and those in Kennedy Hall for the clergy, and the sisters who decorated the sanctuary so magnificently.  All of your efforts will bring many graces for the people of our parish. 

 

God bless you all - Father Glen