Dear Padre April 21, 2019

What is spiritual communion?

Spiritual communion is a unique Roman Catholic devotional practice not to be confused with sacramental Communion, which is the participation in the mystery of Christ by eating and drinking the Body and the Blood of the Lord. The development of spiritual communion as a devotion can be traced to St. Alphonsus Liguori. It’s a form of spiritual yearning to be in communion with Christ during those times when his sacramental gift can’t be shared. To share in sacramental Communion, one must be aware of no unconfessed serious sin against God’s commands and be in good standing with the Roman Catholic Church. With exceptions for age and health, one must also have fasted from all food and all beverages except water for one hour before receiving sacramental Communion. Some Catholics are unable to share sacramental Communion because of sickness, geographic distance from a Roman Catholic community, or unavailability of priests. Any Christian who wishes to have spiritual communion with the Lord can do so by taking a moment to consider God’s love demonstrated to us in the life, passion, and death of Christ. Give thanks to God for this wonderful gift, and say a prayer of spiritual communion. ~Fr. Richard N. Fragomeni, PhD (Liguori)

Welcome Visitors! If you are new to our parish please

contact the Parish Office to register.

Reconciliation: Before each Mass or by appointment anytime.

At St. Lawrence every Saturday from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm CT

Marriage: Arrangements must be made with the Pastor at least 9 months prior to the

wedding. Baptism:

Class required for the first child. Please contact the Pastor to schedule.

Remember in Prayer Marilyn Roth, John Clarys,

Amber Wibstad, Karen Reisenauer, Nick Reisenauer, Doris Hartman,

Eileen Paul, Brad Schell, Ray Leingang, John Jochim,

Enid Steinkuehler, Lyla Schreiner, Dan Roth, Blaise & Mary Ann Koch,

Evieanna Neuberger, Pat Hauge To place a name on the Prayer List,

please call Darlene Friesz at 701-390-3308 or the parish office.

A Tweet from our Bishop David D. Kagan

Please pray for our priests that they will be faithful in all things to Christ and His Church and in so doing help you

be holy and get to heaven.

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Our Lord

April 21, 2019

This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Psalm 118

Lectio Divina (praying with the Bible)

Luke 24:1-9

Pastor

Rev. Dennis Schafer

Office: (701) 597-3228

Cell: (701) 301-7311

Email: dschafer @bismarckdiocese.com

Parish Office

421 Court Street

Flasher ND, 58535

Phone/ Fax: (701) 597-3228

Office Hours Mon-Thurs 7:30 am-3:30 pm CT

Parish Office Manager,

Director of Religious Education V. Noel Wax

Email: stlwrnce@westriv.com Sacristan Rose Hintz

Maintenance

~ St. Theresa ~

Ralph & Iola Ruscheinsky

~ St. Lawrence ~ Chris Senff

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THE WEEK

SUN April 21: Act 10:34, 37-43; Ps 118:1-2,16-17, 22-23; Phil 3:8-14; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

Mon April 22: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-11; Mt 28:8-15 Monday within the Octave of Easter

Tue April 23: Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-22; Jn 20:11-18 Tuesday within the Octave of Easter

Wed April 24: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-9; Lk 24:13-35 Wednesday within the Octave of Easter

Thr April 25: Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2-9; Lk 24:35-48 Thursday within the Octave of Easter

Fri April 26: Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-4, 22-27; Jn 21:1-14 Friday within the Octave of Easter

Sat April 27: Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:14-21; Mk 16:9-15 Saturday within the Octave of Easter

SUN Apr 28: Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118:2-24; Rev 1:9-19; Jn 20:19-30 Sunday of Divine Mercy (Second Sunday of Easter)

St. Lawrence Catholic Church 421 Court Street Flasher, ND

St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Catholic Church

Carson, ND

St Gertrude Catholic Church Raleigh, ND

Mass Schedule

St. Lawrence T 5:30 pm CT W, Th, F 7:00 am CT Sun 9:00 am CT

St. Theresa Wednesday 5:30 pm MT Sunday 10:30 am MT

St. Gertrude Thursday 5:30 pm CT Saturday 7:30 pm CT

Eucharistic Adoration St. Lawrence -Tues 4:30 pm CT

St. Theresa - Wed 4:30 pm MT

St. Gertrude - Thur 4:30 pm CT

Reconciliation: Before each Mass or by Appointment anytime.

at St. Lawrence every Saturday from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm CT

He is Risen! Alleluia!

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The Sacred Triduum begins Holy Thursday with the

Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper and ends on Easter Sunday at sundown.

In my deepest wound I saw Your Glory and it dazzled me. ~St. Augustine

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for

Forgiveness has risen from the grave. ~St. John Chrysostom

Excerpts from the Easter Proclamation

(The Exsultet)

Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven,

exult, let Angel ministers of God exult,

let the trumpet of salvation

sound aloud our mighty King's triumph!

Be glad, let earth be glad, as glory floods her,

ablaze with light from her eternal King,

let all corners of the earth be glad,

knowing an end to gloom and darkness.

Rejoice, let Mother Church also rejoice,

arrayed with the lightning of his glory,

let this holy building shake with joy,

filled with the mighty voices of the peoples. …

It is truly right and just, with ardent love of mind and heart and with devoted service of our voice, to acclaim our God invisible, the almighty Father, and Jesus Christ, our Lord, his Son, his Only Begotten.

Who for our sake paid Adam's debt to the

eternal Father, and, pouring out his own dear

Blood, wiped clean the record of our

ancient sinfulness.

These, then, are the feasts of Passover,

in which is slain the Lamb, the one true Lamb,

whose Blood anoints the doorposts of believers.

This is the night, when once you led our

forebears, Israel's children, from slavery in

Egypt and made them pass dry-shod

through the Red Sea.

This is the night that with a pillar of fire

banished the darkness of sin. This is the night

that even now, throughout the world,

sets Christian believers apart from worldly vices

and from the gloom of sin, leading them to grace

and joining them to his holy ones.

This is the night, when Christ broke

the prison-bars of death and rose victorious

from the underworld. Our birth would have

been no gain,

had we not been redeemed.

O wonder of your humble care for us!

O love, O charity beyond all telling,

to ransom a slave you gave away your Son!

O truly necessary sin of Adam,

destroyed completely by the Death of Christ!

O happy fault

that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer! ...

Alleluia!

Mass Intentions Easter Sunday

{April 21} In Thanksgiving

by Miles & Brenda Miller

Thurs {April 25} Special Intention

John & Kathy Jochim Sat {April 27}

+Harry & +Mary Ann Deichert

by Miles & Brenda Miller

Mass Intentions

Easter Vigil Saturday {April 20}

+Adam Schafer Jim Gerhardt

Tue {April 23} +Ann Zins

by John & Pam Hoff

Spy Wed {April 24) +Alex Schafer

by John & Kathy Jochim

Thursday {April 25} +Kayla Lawson

by The Lawson Family

Friday {April 26} Descendants of

+John F & +Magdalen Jochim by Bobbie Jochim

Sun {April 28} For the People

Liturgical Ministry April 28, 2019

Readers: Jackie Becker EME: V. Noel Wax Norleen Schafer

Servers: Chris Becker Olivia Erhardt

Gifts: Darrick Frank Family

Ushers: Owen Erhardt John Hoff

Music: BLJC & Guitar

Rosary: Shelly Meyhoff

Counters: Tina Hetzel Bob Hintz

Mass Intentions

Easter Sun day {April 21}

for the People

Wed {April 24} +Ken Bahm

by Allan & Joanie Bahm

Sun {April 28} Marty Martin

by Tracey Martin

Liturgical Ministry April 28, 2019

Reader: Sharon Klein

EME: Ann Hertz Reed Hertz

Servers: Sophia Hertz Carrie Muggli

Gifts: Rod Ruscheinsky Family

Ushers: Allan Bahm Ray Hintz

Rosary: Joanie Bahm

Counters: Ann Hertz Karen Ulrich

Liturgical Ministries April 27, 2019

Reader: Marlene Miller EME: Sue Koch Pauline Hartman . . Servers: Cyndi Deichert Braeden Fergel . . Gifts: Miles Miller Family Ushers: Gerard Kraft * Richard Fergel Rosary: Max Deichert

Music: V Noel Wax

Week of 04-14-19 *$ 1014.00 Fiscal Year to Date $ 23,991.62

Children’s Offering $ 2.00

Children’s Charity $ 14.00

Weekly Budget Goal $ 450.65

Actual v. Budget (to date) $ 5,170.02

Week of 04-14-19 * $ 1,291.27

Fiscal Year to Date $ 47,824.50

Children’s Offering $5.00

Children’s Charity $ 53.13

Weekly Budget Goal $ 1,076.50

Actual v. Budget (to date) $ 2,893.50

Week of 04-14-19 *$775.50

Fiscal Year to Date $ 40,917.41

Children’s Offering $ 21.00

Children’s Charity $14.50

Weekly Budget Goal $ 783.35

Actual v. Budget (to date) $ 8,201.56

* Thank you! Wow!

Carter Bonogofsky (14) 04-25 Troy Hoff 04-25

* Thank you! We’re doing better, but we still need your help!

*Thank you! Keep at it..

Divine Mercy, Crown of all God’s handiwork, I trust in You. From the Pastor’s Desk

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of Our Lord

April 21, 2019

Prayer leads us to the Risen Christ. Alleluia!

First Communion

St. Lawrence

May 5 at 9:00 am CT

St. Theresa

May 5 at 10:30 am MT

Bring your Rice Bowl donations to PREP Class or put them in the collection.

Those Who Have Gonne Before Us Praying for the dead is

a Spiritual Work of Mercy. Please pray for our beloved dead and those

who have no one to pray for them.

+Lee Hoff 04-02-2015 +Rose Ulman 04-04-2014

+Therese Deichert 04-05-2019 +Mary Schmidt 04-08-2019 +Fredrick Kopp 04-10-2011 +Margaret Hintz 04-12-2003

+Joseph Hintz 04-13-2003 +Ron Schafer 04-15-2016

+Theresa Ternes 04-18-2012 +Sharon Frank 04-18-2015

+Raymond Banning 04-20-2007 +LaNelle Timpe 04-22-2006 +David R. Frank 04-26-2012 +Stanley Laub 04-27-2013 +Bertha Heinz 04-28-2010

Trinity Gardens Bible School

May 21-23, 2019 12:30 pm-3:30 pm CT

St. Lawrence Catholic Church for students in K- grade 8 this spring

Call the office for more information

1st Communion Practice

May 4, 2019 St. Lawrence 9:00 am CT St. Theresa

11:00 am MT

First Communion Potluck

May 5, 2019

You may remember a geography lesson from elementary school in which you learned that the southernmost point of Africa is a point which for centuries has experienced tremendous storms. For many years no one knew what lay beyond that cape, for no ship attempting to round that point had ever returned to tell the tale. Among the ancients it was known as the "Cape of Storms," and for good reason. But in 1497 a Portuguese explorer, Vasco Da Gama, successfully sailed East around that very point and found beyond the wild raging storms, a great calm sea, and beyond that, the shores of India. The name of that cape was changed from the Cape of Storms to the Cape of Good Hope.

Until Jesus Christ rose from the dead, death had been the "cape of storms" on which all hopes of life beyond had been wrecked. No one knew what lay beyond that point until, on Easter morning, Jesus arose.

The ancient visions of Isaiah became the victory of Jesus over our last great enemy. Like those sixteenth century explorers, we can see beyond human death to the hope of Heaven and eternal life with the Father. More than that, we dare to believe that we shall experience in our own human lives exactly what the Son of God experienced in His, for the Risen Christ says to us, "Because I live, you shall live also." This is the heart of our Faith.

In Christ is our Hope,

Come Celebrate Divine Mercy

St. Lawrence Parish April 28, 2019

3:00 pm CT

Fr. John Paul Gardner will be our guest speaker

Is Risen!

Christ

Chase Deichert (5) 04-23 Miles Miller 04-25

Bill Koch 04-26

Christian Stewart (11) 04-22

A Little Spring Cleaning Ladies, lets get together at St. Lawrence on Saturday April 27 starting at 11 am to help clean the church. If everyone pitches in, it

won’t take long. So, bring your cleaning supplies and come help.

God’s Share supports the work

of the Catholic Church in western

North Dakota. It provides for

educational, pastoral and

religious programs and services that

help our parish and our families.

Please reflect on all the blessing that

God has bestowed upon you

and your family. God Share weekend

is May 4-5, 2019.

The butterfly is an ancient symbol of the resurrection.