MASS INTENTIONS for the OCTAVE OF EASTER

April 12, 2020 – Easter Sunday

Reconciliation – by appointment.

Baptism – Please call Fr Lefor .

Wedding – Please call Fr Lefor

Funeral – Please call Fr Lefor. Bishop Folda has placed

restrictions on funerals.

New to Parish – Please register at the parish office or call parish secretary, Sue (284-6060).

Fr. Lefor will pray these intentions during private daily Mass this coming week. 04/12 – Easter Sunday – For a Swift End to the Coronavirus Pandemic 04/13 – Easter Monday – † May Gallaway 04/14 – Easter Tuesday – (L) Cornelis & Cornelia Jonk – Corrie Enander 04/15 – Easter Wednesday – † Aloys Lutovsky – Ray & Linda Lutovsky 04/16 – Easter Thursday – † Joe Zikmund – KC 5055 04/17 – Easter Friday – (L) Mike & Lisa Krile family – Scott & Mary Salwei 04/18 – Easter Saturday – (L) Elinor Grabanski – Knudson Families 04/19 – Divine Mercy Sunday – Pro Populo (for the people)

PRAYER LIST Please pray for the following members of our Tri-parishes who are sick or hurt:

Norman Kaste, Lorraine Zikmund, Elaine Swartz, Elinor Grabanski, Ron Dvorak, Robert Gemmill, Heidi Gustafson, John Beneda, Hadler Ellingson, Charles Waechter

If you would like a name added to the prayer list, please contact the Parish Office. After 4 weeks names will be removed unless resubmitted. Thank you.

ST. JOHN NEPOMUCENE, Pisek ST. JOSEPH, Lankin ~ STs. PETER & PAUL, Bechyne

Pastor – Rev. Jason Lefor Email: jason.lefor@fargodiocese.org – Cell: 701-520-0369

PO Box 27 – 167 Newton Ave – Pisek, ND 58273 Telephone: 701-284-6060 stjohnne@polarcomm.com

www.plbtriparish.org

www.facebook.com/NepomuceneOfPisek

Faith Formation Schedule

All classes canceled until further notice. Fr. Lefor will send emails with resources to help you continue faith formation with your children at home.

Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for April

Freedom from Addiction: We pray that those suffering from addiction may be helped and accompanied.

04/12/20 04/13/20 04/14/20 04/15/20 04/16/20 04/17/20 04/18/20

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Easter Sunday A – Gerald & Wanita Cost

Easter Monday Lindsey Jelinek

Easter Tuesday

Easter Wednesday A – John & Erika Miller A – Dennis & Karen Brodina

Easter Thursday

Easter Friday Linda Knudson

Easter Saturday

Damian Dvorak Courtney Shirek

WEEKLY BIRTHDAY, ANNIVERSARY, EVENTS & SAINT of the DAY CALENDAR

St. John’s Stewardship Report

Total Budgeted Sunday Collection for 2020 $54,080.00

Budget to Date 14,560.00

Actual Sunday Collection to Date 12,103.45

Excess/(Shortfall) (2,456.55)

Weekly Budget $1,040.00

Past week (Total 59 Households Registered)

4 Households Gave past Week 355.00

Online Giving

Loose Plate 125.00

Total 480.00

Past Week’s +Excess/(Shortfall) (560.00)

Jesus is nowhere visible. Yet today’s Gospel tells us that Peter and John “saw and believed.”

What did they see? Burial shrouds lying on the floor of an empty tomb. Maybe that convinced them that He hadn’t been carted off by grave robbers, who usually stole the expensive burial linens and left the corpses behind.

But notice the repetition of the word “tomb”—seven times in nine verses. They saw the empty tomb and they believed what He had promised: that God would raise Him on the third day.

Chosen to be His “witnesses,” today’s First Reading tells us, the Apostles were “commissioned . . . to preach . . . and testify” to all that they had seen—from His anointing with the Holy Spirit at the Jordan to the empty tomb.

More than their own experience, they were instructed in the mysteries of the divine economy, God’s saving plan—to know how “all the prophets bear witness” to Him (see Luke 24:27,44).

Now they could “understand the Scripture,” could teach us what He had told them—that He was “the Stone which the builders rejected,” who, today’s Psalm prophesies, will be resurrected and exalted. (see Luke 20:17; Matthew 21:42; Acts 4:11).

We are the children of the apostolic witnesses. That is why we still gather early in the morning on the first day of every week to celebrate this feast of the empty tomb and give thanks for “Christ our life,” as today’s Epistle calls Him.

Baptized into His death and Resurrection, we live the heavenly life of the risen Christ, our lives “hidden with Christ in God.” We are now His witnesses, too. But we testify to things we cannot see but only believe; we seek in earthly things what is above.

We live in memory of the Apostles’ witness, like them eating and drinking with the risen Lord at the altar. And we wait in hope for what the Apostles told us would come—the day when we too “will appear with Him in glory.”

St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology ~ Sunday Bible Reflections with Dr. Scott Hahn ~ www.salvationhistory.com

REFLECTION ON TODAY'S LITURGY

Psalm 91 Assurance of God’s Protection 1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High,

who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

2 will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress;

my God, in whom I trust.”

3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler

and from the deadly pestilence;

4 he will cover you with his pinions,

and under his wings you will find refuge;

his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

5 You will not fear the terror of the night,

nor the arrow that flies by day,

6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side,

ten thousand at your right hand;

but it will not come near you.

8 You will only look with your eyes

and see the recompense of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the Lord your refuge,[a]

the Most High your habitation,

10 no evil shall befall you,

no scourge come near your tent.

11 For he will give his angels charge of you

to guard you in all your ways.

12 On their hands they will bear you up,

lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread on the lion and the adder,

the young lion and the serpent you will trample under

foot.

14 Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him;

I will protect him, because he knows my name.

15 When he calls to me, I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble,

I will rescue him and honor him.

16 With long life I will satisfy him,

and show him my salvation.

Prayer for Deliverance from the Coronavirus Pray this prayer every day...

Almighty and eternal God, source of existence, energy, and life for the whole universe, we come before you to invoke your mercy, as we face the fragility of the human condition before this new viral epidemic. We believe that in boundless goodness you guide the course of human history and your love can change our destiny for the better, no matter what circumstances may befall us. Inspired by this, we entrust the sick and their families to you: may the Paschal mystery of your Son bring relief and salvation to their bodies, minds and spirits. Help all members of society contributing their best efforts and accepting whatever sacrifices may be necessary at this difficult time. Enlighten and protect doctors and health workers, educators and social workers in the performance of their duties. to stand in solids by Comfort us in our fatigue. Support us in our weakness. Keep us from anxiety. Through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, inspire all researchers, doctors and health care professionals, all committee and political leaders. Deliver us from this pandemic and from every evil, so that we may resume our daily duties in safety and serenity. We ask this with thanks and praise in our hearts, confident that you will hear our petitions through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Don’t forget to check out the Tri-Parish website

and St. John’s Facebook page for Fr. Lefor’s daily

Morning and Evening prayers as well as daily

Scripture Reflections. The audio files are uploaded

to Soundcloud for Facebook users and the full mp4

files are on the website. There is also a link below

and on the website for the parish YouTube page

where Fr. Lefor will live stream Sunday Mass

every Saturday at 5pm.

Tithing & Donations Please remember to send in your weekly tithing

to St. John's for all three parishes by using your regular weekly envelopes. Thank you!

Mail to: St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church PO Box 27 Pisek, ND 58273

Here are a few options to view Mass online or on TV:

Daily & Sunday Mass - Cathedral of St. Mary – Fargo

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK0-KTuzbnUVsw-vJtxTPwg

Live at 7am Monday-Saturday & 9am Sunday May also be viewed later

EWTN Daily Mass - 7am, 11am, 6pm, 11pm Midco Channel 74 Polar Channel 121 Directv Channel 370 Dish Network Channel 261

Sunday Masses – Local Stations

10:30am – WDAY Channel 6, Fargo

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it, alleluia! “With the whole Church we rejoice at the resurrection of Christ! The Church celebrates the Easter season or Eastertide. St. Athanasius said “[t]he fifty days from the Sunday of the Resurrection to Pentecost Sunday are celebrated in joy and exultation as one feast day, indeed as one ‘great Sunday’“ (General Norms of the Liturgical

Calendar), but the first eight days or octave specifically celebrate the solemnity of Easter every day.” www.catholicculture.org

Fr. Lefor has been scheduled to host Real

Presence Radio on both April 16 & Friday, April 24, from 9 - 11am. Don’t forget to tune in!