Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord March 25, 2018

Mailing Address: P O Box 482

Van Alstyne TX, 75495

Parish Office: 903-482-6322

For a Priest: 972-542-4667

Emergency A er Hours: 469-667-7324

Website: www.holyfamily-vanalstyne.org

Email: janis@holyfamily-vanalstyne.org

Fr. Eugene Azorji, Pastoral Administrator

Fr. Juan Carlos Marin, Parochial Vicar

Deacon Patrick A. Hayes

Mass Schedule/Misa Dominical

Sunday: 9:00 am - English Mass

12:00 pm - Spanish Misa

Thursday: 9:00 am - Daily Mass

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church

Mailing Address: 411 Paula Road

McKinney, Texas 75069

General Email: stmichael@stmichaelmckinney.org

Fr. Eugene freugene@stmichaelmckinney.org

Fr. Juan Carlos frjuancarlos@stmichaelmckinney.org

Deacons: George Polcer, John Rapier, Sid Li le,

Juan Jorge Hernandez

Main Phone: 972-542-4667

Fax: 972-542-4641

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church

Weekend Masses

Vigil Mass Saturday - 5pm (English)

Vigil Mass Saturday - 7:00pm (Spanish)

Sunday Masses / Misa Dominical

Sunday 8:00am & 11:30am )

Domingo 9:30am & 2:00pm

Weekday Masses

Mon., Wed, & Fri 8:00am

Tues. & Thurs. 5:30pm

Confessions Thursday

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Saturday 3:30- 4:30pm

Blessed Sacrament

Thursday’s at 6:00pm

ESTABLISHED IN 1980 * 919 SPENCE RD., VAN ALSTYNE, TX. 75495

Parish Mission Statement Holy Family is a Catholic community that unites for prayer and communion so that we may grow in our bap smal

discipleship and share the good news of the Gospel.

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord March 25, 2018 Baptisms/Bautizos

Baptisms: 2nd Sunday of each month Bautizos: 1er Domingo del mes

Pre Baptismal Class Registration: Registration required by the Sunday before class begins. Classes are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Parents: Bring copy of child’s birth certificate. Both parents must attend class. Godparents: Must be practicing Catholics. Copy of marriage certificate through the Catholic church. Both godparents must attend class. As a courtesy, please do not bring children to class. First Communion/ Confirmation/ Primera Comunion Confirmacion April 14, 2018 10:00 am TBD First Friday Adoration 6:00—8:00 pm

Sacraments/Sacramentos

Anointing of the Sick/Uncion de los Enfermos

Please call the Parish.

Confessions/Confesions

Immediately following the 1st Mass-30 mins. Antes de la misa

Marriage/Matrimonio

Both must be free to marry in the Catholic Church. Arrangements should be made at least 6 months prior to planned Wedding date.

Holy Orders/Vocaciones

Talk to your Parish priest or call Father Edwin A Leonard, Vocations Director, at 214-379-2860.

Weekly Calendar Sunday, March 25 8:30 am Rosary 9:00 am Mass English 10:15-11:15am K-3rd Faith Formation Classes 12:00 pm Spanish Mass Monday March 26 Tuesday, March 27 7:30 pm RCIA Classes Wednesday, March 28 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Confessions Thursday March 29 NO MASS

7:30 pm Youth Choir Practice Friday March 30 4:00 pm Stations of the Cross 7:00 Spanish Adult Choir Saturday March 31 8: 00 pm Easter Vigil at Holy Family

Believe in the Power of Prayer

Please stop by and add names to be prayed for; Gary Don Moore Ann Thomas Jim Rountree Barbara Heath Anonymous Eric Gonzales Family Andria Thomas Chris Hayes Beverly Dyrack

A endance : March 18, 2018

Offerings: March 18, 2018 $

Building: March 18, 2018 $

Deposits/A endance Next Weeks Bulle n

Weekly

Attendance/Offerings

Pray for the Repose of the Souls of deceased members of Holy Family and their Relatives: John Roberts and Elmo Smith

“THE LIGHT IS ON”

The Diocese of Dallas will once again offer The Light is On for You, a special evening set aside for a diocesan-wide celebration of the sacrament. On Wednesday, March 28th, our parish will have their “Lights On” for the diocesan-wide evening for Reconciliation. Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm. Father Fred will reside.

Easter Vigil Saturday March 31st Holy Family will have it’s First Easter Vigil at 8:00pm. One Christian Initiation of Kevin Johnson.

Baptism of five children ages seven and older:

Izabelle Talamantes Irma Isabel Izaguirre Javier Santiago Izaguirre Angel Alberto Izaguirre Elizabeth Taylor Izaguirre

Holy Family welcomes you and your family.

Thursday March 29, 2018 NO MASS

Palm Sunday

PASSION

The contrast between the processional reading in today’s liturgy and the proclama on of the Passion is striking. We

are given a glimpse of how profoundly the word of God is fulfilled in Jesus.

First he must be hailed as the Messiah, the One who is to come. He must be acknowledged by all, though they do not

know what they are saying. They think he is the promised king, a worldly king of the Jews who will free them from the Roman

occupa on. They do not yet understand, even the disciples, exactly where this triumphal procession is leading. In our lives, we

too do not know where we are going. It is in faith that we can follow Christ wherever he may lead us, trus ng that death is not

the end, nor evil the victor.

Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

For many centuries, Chris an pilgrims have longed to walk in the footsteps of Jesus, and on Passion Sunday the eyes of

the world are on the Via Dolorosa, the “Road of Sorrows,” in Jerusalem. As soon as it became safe for Chris ans to worship in

public in the fourth century, a way was marked out. It was changed a few mes over the years, and today’s usual route was

sketched by the Franciscans six hundred years ago, although Anglicans and Byzan nes have their own unique detours. Friday is

the most favored day, although it is crowded then. Almost everyone begins at the Lion’s Gate in the Muslim Quarter, and ends

at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It’s less than a quarter mile, but it threads its way through crowded markets with souvenir

shops and fast-food snacks. There are, just as in your parish church, fourteen sta ons along the way. The exact spots are not

known, but what ma ers is the pilgrim’s unique ability to see even an ordinary road in a teeming city as something more than

meets the eye.

—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

SUFFERING

Jesus did not come to do away with suffering or

remove it. He came to fill it with his presence.

—Paul Claudel

El paso de un buen pastor Ron Rolheiser, OMI

Ninguna comunidad debería descuidar sus muertes. El mes pasado murió en Canadá un admirable guía de la comunidad de fe, y podría aprovecharnos a todos recibir más plenamente su espíritu. ¿Cómo hacemos eso? Nos puede ser ú l -creo yo- destacar esas situaciones donde su vida, su energía y su liderazgo ayudaron más par cularmente a estabilizarnos en nuestra fe y a usar nuestros propios dones más plenamente para servir a Dios. ¿Quién fue este hombre? Joseph Neil MacNeil, arzobispo emérito de Edmonton, Alberta, Canadá.

Fui bastante dichoso de haberlo tenido como obispo durante los primeros dieciocho años de mi sacerdocio. Fue un buen guía, y yo necesitaba uno. Acababa de concluir el seminario y, como muchos ingenuos jóvenes que abandonaron el ministerio, tenía

unos puntos de vista demasiado rígidos sobre lo que estaba mal con el mundo y cómo ponerlo en orden: opiniones basadas más en la inmadurez personal que en la prudencia, opiniones en gran necesidad de equilibrar. Fue una mano guiadora, no sólo para mí sino para otros muchos.

Y esto fue un empo en que la iglesia estaba luchando en general por una madurez más profunda. La iglesia estaba precisamente comprome éndose en las reformas del Va cano II, preguntándose si iba demasiado lejos o no suficientemente, y tubeando al mismo empo de los radicales cambios culturales y sexuales de los úl mos años de la década de 1960. El cambio estaba por todas partes. Nada, en lo referente a la iglesia o a otra cosa, era como antes. Éramos una generación pionera eclesialmente, necesitada de nuevo liderazgo.

Él nos guió bien, nada atrevido en extremo, nada reaccionario, justamente bueno, sensato; liderazgo carita vo que nos ayudó, entre otras cosas, a ser más sensibles pastoralmente, más ecuménicos, menos auto-absorbidos, menos clericales, más abiertos a la implicación del laico y más sensibles al puesto de las mujeres. Mantuvo las cosas estables pero avanzando poco a poco, incluso mientras honraba con propiedad el pasado.

Entre sus muchos dones, tres cualidades de liderazgo -para mí- sobresalen par cularmente como un desa o para que todos nosotros vivamos siempre nuestro discipulado más profundamente.

Primera: Pudo vivir con ambigüedad y sin angus a cuando la tensión pareció que estaba por todas partes. No se asustó ni se desentendió por la polarización y el cri cismo. Los ordenó con paciencia y caridad. Eso ayudó a crear espacio para una iglesia más inclusiva, en la cual la gente de diferentes temperamentos y eclesiologías pudieran estar no obstante en la misma comunidad. Mantuvo sus ojos sobre la visión de conjunto y no sobre los diversos asuntos secundarios, guerrillas que tan fácilmente desvían la atención de lo que es importante. La gente buena carga sobre sus hombros la tensión para no permi r que se transmita a otros. Los buenos líderes cargan sobre sus hombros la ambigüedad para no dar prematuramente solución a las tensiones. Fue una buena persona y un buen líder. Supo ser paciente con la tensión no resuelta.

Segunda: Entendió la innata tensión que viene de nuestro bau smo, en el que estamos por siempre fluctuantes entre dos lealtades, esto es, la tensión entre ser leales a la iglesia y sus dogmas y reglas por una parte, y ser leales a la vez al hecho de que también debemos ser instrumentos universales de salvación que irradiemos la compasión de Dios a los componentes de todas las iglesias y del mundo, sin ningún límite. He aquí un ejemplo de eso: Ante una situación pastoral muy turbia y dolorosa, le telefoneé una vez preguntándole lo que yo debía hacer. Su respuesta se movió con propiedad entre la ley y la clemencia: “Padre, Vd. conoce la mente de la iglesia, conoce el derecho canónico, conoce mi opinión y así conoce lo que idealmente debería hacerse aquí… pero Vd. conoce también el principio de Epikeia, se halla ante el dolor de esa gente, y Dios lo ha puesto ahí. Necesita tener en cuenta todo esto juntamente y tomar una decisión basada en eso. Dígame después lo que decida y luego le diré si estoy de acuerdo o no”. Decidí, le telefoneé después y no estuvo de acuerdo conmigo, pero me agradeció que hiciera lo que hice.

Finalmente, como líder de la fe, comprendió la diferencia entre catequesis y teología, y honró y defendió el especial lugar de cada una de ellas. La catequesis se necesita para enseñarnos los principios; le teología se necesita para abrirnos a una reflexión. En-tendió eso: Como an guo Presidente de una Universidad que se había graduado en la Universidad de Chicago, no fue amenazado por los teólogos, y generalmente venía en nuestra defensa cuando éramos atacados. Uno de sus dichos favoritos, cuando una de sus facultades teológicas estaba bajo escru nio o ataque, era simplemente: “¡Son teólogos! Por tanto, especulan. Eso es lo que hacen los teólogos. No son catequistas”. Ofreció igual defensa en favor de sus catequistas.

En el lenguaje de la iglesia, un obispo, un arzobispo, un cardenal o un papa es considerado un Príncipe de la Iglesia. Él fue eso, un Príncipe de la Iglesia… no porque la iglesia le ungiera como tal, sino porque tenía la inteligencia, gracia y corazón de un líder.

No community should botch its deaths. Last month a wonderful leader within the faith community in Canada died and it could profit us all to more fully receive his spirit. How do we do that? It can be helpful for us, I believe, to highlight those places where his life, his energy, and his leadership more particularly helped steady us in our faith and helped us to use our own gifts more fully to serve God. Who was this man? Joseph Neil MacNeil, Emeritus Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

I was lucky enough to have had him as my bishop for the first eighteen years of my priesthood. He was a good mentor and I needed one. I had just finished seminary and, not unlike many a naïve young man just turned loose in ministry, I had overly-rigid views on what was wrong with the world and how to fix that, views rooted more in personal immaturity than in prudence, views in need of a lot of leveling out. He was a guiding hand, not just for me but for many others.

And this was a time as well where the church as a whole was struggling for a deeper maturity.The church was just engaging the reforms of Vatican II, wondering whether it was going too far or not far enough, and reeling at the same time from the radical cultural and sexual changes of the late 1960s. Change was everywhere. Nothing, church-wise or otherwise, was as before. We were a pioneer generation ecclesially in need of new leadership.

He led us well, nothing too daring, nothing reactionary, just good, steady, charitable leadership that helped us, among other things, be more pastorally sensitive, more ecumenical, less self-absorbed, less clerical, more open to lay involvement, and more sensitive to the place of women. He kept things steady but inching forward, even while properly honoring the past.

Among his many gifts, three qualities of his leadership, for me, particularly stand out as a challenge for us all to live out our own discipleship more deeply.

First, he could live with ambiguity and not panic when tension seemed everywhere. He was not frightened or put off by polarization and criticism. He sorted them through with patience and charity. That helped create space for a more-inclusive church, one within which people of different temperaments and ecclesiologies could still be within the same community. He kept his eyes on the big picture and not on the various side-shows, skirmishes that so easily deflect attention away from what’s important. Good people carry tension so as to not let it spell over unnecessarily onto others. Good leaders put up with ambiguity so as to not resolve tensions prematurely. He was a good person and a good leader. He could be patient with unresolved tension.

Second, he understood the innate tension that comes from our baptism wherein we are perennially torn between two loyalties, that is, the tension between being loyal to the church and its dogmas and rules on the one hand, and being loyal at the same time to the fact that we are also meant to be universal instruments of salvation who radiate God’s compassion to everyone within all the churches and within the world at large. Here’s one example of that: In the face of a very messy and painful pastoral situation, I once phoned him asking him what I should do. His answer properly interfaced law and mercy: “Father, you know the mind of the church, you know canon law, you know my mind, and so you know what ideally should be done here … but you also know the principle of Epikeia, you are standing before the pain of these people, and God has put you there. You need to bring all of this together and make a decision based on that. Tell me afterwards what you decide and then I’ll tell you whether I agree or not.” I did make a decision, phoned him afterwards, he didn’t agree with me, but he thanked me for doing what I did.

Finally, as a faith leader he understood the difference between catechesis and theology and he honored and defended the special place of each of them. Catechesis is needed to ground us; theology is needed to stretch us. He understood that. As a former President of a University who had done graduate work at the University of Chicago, he wasn’t threatened by theologians and generally came to our defense when we were attacked. One of his pet sayings when one of his theological faculty came under scrutiny or attack was simply: “They’re theologians! They speculate. That’s what theologians do. They aren’t catechists.” He offered an equal defense for his catechists.

In church parlance, a bishop, an archbishop, a cardinal, or a pope is considered A Prince of the Church. He was that, a Prince of the Church … not because the church anointed him as such, but because he had the intelligence, grace, and heart of a leader.

THE PASSING OF A GOOD SHEPARD Ron Rolheiser, OMI

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