LITURGIES Sundays 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 am. Weekdays 8:00 a.m., Saturday 8:30 a.m. ****************************************** DAILY ROSARY DEVOTIONS I pray the Holy Rosary daily at 7:30 a.m. Please join me when you can. + ****************************************** CONFESSION Every Saturday - 2:00 - 4:00 pm or by app’t. Sunday - before Mass and ending 10 minutes before Mass begins. ****************************************** Midnight READINGS / Morning READINGS Mat 28 : 1-10 Mar 16 : 1-8 Phi 2 : 1-11 1 Co 15 : 12-26 ****************************************** READERS Sunday, April 5 - 8:30 am Paul Boulos Sunday, April 5 - 11:00 am George Zogbi Sunday, April 12 - 8:30 am Tom Jesser Jr. Sunday, April 12 - 11:00 am Tina Maroon ****************************************** Counting Our Blessings Sunday, March 29, 2015 $2,439.00 ****************************************** EVENTS TO COME LADIES GUILD MEETING Sunday, April 12, 2015 MEN'S CLUB MEETING Sunday, April 19, 2015 CAREGIVERS MEETING Sunday, April 12, 2015 FIRST FRIDAY ADORATION May 1, 9:00am – 3:00pm ABOUT THE FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY A Nine Day Novena for the Feast Day begins on Great Friday. The First Day of the Novena will be prayed at 3:00 pm. The second day, Holy Saturday, Novena Prayers will be at 3:00 pm. The 3rd day, on Easter Sunday will be prayed at 8:00 am, before the Morning Liturgy. From Monday until Saturday the Novena Prayers will be offered immediately following the 8:00 am Liturgy. Welcome to everyone. On the Feast Day of Mercy Sunday, April 12 a Holy Hour Adoration will begin at 1:30 p.m. with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament followed by the Rosary, Silent Prayer, reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina, a special tribute to St. Pope John Paul II, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, ending with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. I will present a relic of St. Faustina for personal veneration. WELCOME EVERYONE. Why do we have the Feast of Divine Mercy? According to the Diary of St. Faustina our Lord made 14 revelations requesting this feast day be established on the Sunday after Easter Sunday. On April 30, 2000, at the time of the Canonization of St. Faustina, Pope St. John Paul II established this feast day for all the universal Church to celebrate. We also remember that this great Pope in the Catholic Church went home to the Lord on the eve of this great Feast Day in 2005. Welcome to our Holy Hour celebration on Sunday, April 12 beginning at 1:30 pm. Special welcome to all our youth as well. ******************************************** ****************************************** Think on this… Next Second Collection By Sub-Deacon Alex April 26, 2015 Catholic Home Missions ******************************************** VOLUNTEERS WANTED The Ladies Guild will be making Fatayre for the Spring Buffet on : Monday, APRIL 13, 9:00am Please make plans to lend a hand! Thank You!! Christ is risen! Happy Easter! I am glad that I get to celebrate this Easter with you, my family in Christ. I get to go this week to visit my earthly family and hope that all of you have family with which to celebrate the feast. For a joy shared is a joy doubled. Our sorrow at the cross, which was a sign of death, has become a tree which gives life. It has become the tree of life, and Christ is the fruit from this tree which gives us eternal life. May God bless you. Christ is risen, truly risen! Warm and loving Easter Greetings to all our Parish Family of all ages From – Subdeacon Paul Boulos & Subdeacon Alex Harb From - Deacon Robert Foster & Deacon Thomas Maroon From - Father Bill I pray that this most glorious Feast Day of Easter, of the Resurrection of Jesus our Lord from the dead will bring each one a deeper blessing of joy, of faith, of hope and love that can never be taken away by anyone or anything. Be assured of my love and daily prayers for You and all your intentions. God bless you. Happy Easter Christ is Risen Alleluia Divine Liturgy Schedule th th April 5 through April 12 Sunday 5 8:30 Special Intentions for All the Parish Family of Our Lady of the Cedars 11:00 Jamil Jasser by Fares Jasser & Family Monday 6 8:00 John Easterday by Linda Easterday Martyrs of Persia Tuesday 7 8:00 The Intentions of Maria & Nathan Stewart by Sub-Deacon Paul Boulos St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor, Priest Wednesday 8 8:00 Nicholas & Nimnoon Gaphery by Nicholas Gaphery Jr. The Second Council of Nicaea / St. Julia Billiart, Virgin Thursday 9 8:00 Youseff Gabraiel Hoyek by Fr. Bill St. Mary Cleophas Friday 10 8:00 Nawal Constantine by Fr. Bill The Miracle of the Icon of Christ in Beirut / St. Fulbert Saturday 11 8:30 Poor Souls by Theresa Calko St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr / St. Gemma Galgani, Virgin 12 8:30 Violet Osborne by Tom & Yvonne Jesser 8:30 Fred Boshara, 2yr Anniversary by Phyllis Boshara & Family 11:00 A Special Intention 11:00 Faris Nemr by Bahia Nemr & Family St. Julius I, Pope Sunday The Glorious Resurrection ALTERNATIVES TO ABORTION: 330-825-1900 * 330-644-4490 * 330-434-2221 * 330-253-4071 Email: sanctityoflife@live.com 800-712-4357 for other resources in your area Troubled in Marriage? Visit www.helpourmarriage.org April 5, 2015 The Glorious Resurrection www.ourladyofthecedarschurch.org Thank You Notes… -A worthy thank you goes out to Leo Michael and members of the Men’s Club for providing and serving the final Friday night refreshments after the Lenten Devotions. -I repeat my thanks to everyone for coming each Friday during Holy Lent for our traditional Devotions to the Way of the Cross and the Benediction to the Holy Cross. You really made the time of Lent a spiritual blessing for me this year. -I want to thank our faithful organist for your faithful duty each Friday. Thank you very much for leading us in our chant for this wonderful devotion we pray in our Maronite Church. I very much love our chant. I also include my thanks to our faithful Deacons and Subdeacons for their participation. This Parish is blessed to have you and your good service here. -My special thanks for my helper with the beautiful Palm decorations. The arrangements in the sanctuary were so well done thanks to Debbie Ashkar. I also appreciate the beautiful Palm that was made for me to carry. -A great appreciation goes out to Deacon Tom Maroon and family and everyone who contributed funds for the annual Palm Sunday Family Meal. I thank all the helpers who spent hours in preparing the great meal and thank you very much to all those able to attend. The donations for the meal were very generous and you really made this a great success once again. What a beautiful Palm Sunday Feast Day we had here at Our Lady of the Cedars. Thank you one and all. A big, big bravo to the visiting Easter Bunny. Come again. Another thanks to Bradley and his staff for all the good helping hands in the preparing on Saturday and for all the good help you gave us on Sunday. -One more time I wish to say thank you to all our Altar Servers. What a blessing you are to me and to this little Parish of Our Lady of the Cedars. I wish to share our little story one more time. We had our practice last Saturday at 9:00 am and then we went to Shake and Steak for our breakfast. One person in the place, a stranger to us, was so impressed by the good behavior of our youth that this person was moved to pay our bill. We had at least 20 persons at our table. I thank you very much good Altar Servers. I appreciate very much your good parents and all the good you do for your families. ALL ABOUT THE LENTEN APPEAL, FROM BISHOP ELIAS Please be as generous as possible. Please know that you are giving support for the good work of our Eparchy. Your offerings do a lot of good and you are greatly appreciated. Please know that you may return your pledge directly to our Chancery in St. Louis or you may drop your pledge in the Sunday collection and we will do the forwarding for you. For the sake of record keeping please let us know your pledge amount so the Deacons can give you proper credit on your offering record. As usual I will make my pledge for this Lenten Appeal along with you. God bless your generosity. Bishop Elias Zaidan BISHOP’S APPEAL REPORT – GOAL OF $6,500.00 For the week of : Number of Benefactors: Donations Collected: Start – March 7 10 $ 435.00 March 8 - March 21 7 $ 2,405.00 March 22 – Current 5 $ 388.50 ______________________________________________________ 19 $ 3,228.50 -$ 6,500.00 __________ (Still Needed) $3,271.50
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