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MISSION STATEMENT St. Bartholomew is a diverse Catholic community welcoming to all.
Called to serve, we are united by faith, bonded by prayer, and committed to living the Gospel message.
Welcome to
St. Bartholomew Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord April 12, 2020
A Roman Catholic Community
5100 E. Broadway • Long Beach, California • 90803
Mailing Address & Parish Office: 252 Granada Ave • Long Beach, California • 90803 Office: 562.438.3826 • Fax: 562.438.2227
www.stbartholomewcclb.org • [email protected]
2 PARISH INFORMATION
Pastor: Fr. Michael Reardon (562) 438-3826 [email protected]
Fr. Thinh Pham, In Residence Pastor Emeritus: Msgr. Bernie Leheny
Deacon Miguel Torrado (707) 513-3903
Parish Administrator: Kathleen Flood (562) 438-3826 [email protected]
Parish Office Hours Monday – Friday: 8:30am to 5:00pm (Closed Noon-1:00pm)
Administrative Assistant Amparo Baldemor (562) 438-3826 [email protected] Bulletin Editor/Webmaster Kathleen Flood (562) 438-3826 Funeral Planning Coordinator Amparo Baldemor (562) 438-3826 Operations Manager Robert Crowley (562) 438-3826 [email protected] Secretary Chris Ahumada (562) 438-3826 [email protected] Safeguard the Children (562) 438-3826
Faith Formation Director: Kellie De Leo (562) 438-3826 [email protected]
Music/Liturgy Director: Brian Archambault (562) 208-8222 [email protected]
Parish Ministry Director: Sr. Mary Dean Pfahler, SND (419) 304-8530 [email protected]
Parish Directory Mass Schedule Saturday 8:00am, 5:00pm Vigil
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:00am, 12:30pm & 5:00pm
Holy Days 8:00am, 12:15pm & 7:00pm
Federal Holidays 9:00am-no 8:00am Mass
Daily Mass 8:00am
Because of the rapid spread of COVID-19 and the need to protect the most vulnerable members of our community, the Church will remained locked and is no longer open for quiet prayer until further notice. In these times of uncertainty, we still need a quiet place to pray and be still. Please find a corner in your home where you can set up a prayer table with your bible and cross. “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in
the midst of them.” - Matthew 18:20
www.stbartholomewcclb.org • [email protected]
By the direction of Archbishop José Gomez, the parish office will be closed to all visitors. Your parish staff will continue to work and serve you
by phone, email, and website.
Take care of each other and continue to pray for the healing of the coronavirus. May God bless you and keep you safe.
Receiving the Bulletin at Home Each week, we will continue to publish a condensed version of the Sunday bulletin. Copies can be downloaded from the parish website (www.stbartholomewcclb.org) or emailed to your Inbox. To sign up individually to receive your bulletin electronically, go to the following link: www.oneparish.com/covid-19 or text ‘BULLETIN’ to 94090.
PARISH INFORMATION 3
Scripture Meditation
Christ has Risen!
Parish Life
Today’s Readings: Acts 10: 34a, 37–43; Psalm 118: 1–2, 16–17, 22–23; Colossians 3: 1–4 or 1 Corinthians 5: 6b–8; John 20: 1–9 or Matthew 28: 1–10 If Christmas is the “most wonderful time of the year,” then Easter is the most joyous, glorious, awesome time of the year! Really? Today’s readings don’t exactly brim over with the kind of holiday cheer we find at Christmas—except for the responsorial psalm, which admittedly rings with gleeful joy. But otherwise, not so much. In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, Peter gives a dry, condensed rendering of the story of Jesus to a group of Gentiles in Caesarea. The Colossians reading actually does have us looking forward to glory. Most underwhelming, though, is the Gospel proclamation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. When we want to hear about angels and earthquakes and trumpets and glory, we hear about a dark, silent, empty tomb. This Easter Sunday story from John’s Gospel is startling in its emptiness. Like Peter in the story, we must enter into this mystery.
The Mystery of Emptiness Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! This Paschal greeting is customary in Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches on Easter Sunday. Then there is St. Augustine’s acclamation of joy: We are an Easter people and Alleluia is our song! However you express it, Easter is the time for rejoicing because Jesus Christ, our friend and brother, is risen from the dead. And yet today’s scriptures are less joyful than one would expect for the most important feast in the Christian calendar. Perhaps we are being asked to look deeper into the mystery of the Resurrection, just as Peter went into the tomb to look deeper into the mystery of its emptiness.
Mary Magdalene, who loved the Lord so much that she risked everything, possibly even her life, to go to the tomb before daybreak, finds the stone rolled away and assumes that someone has taken Jesus’ body. Frightened and sad, she runs to tell Peter and John. They all run back to the tomb, but what do they expect to see? Peter enters the tomb and sees. John enters, sees, and believes. But what does he believe? Scripture states, “For they did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead” (John 20:9). They went home, not really knowing what had happened. But John “believed” something.
Something Happened What do we believe? Somewhere between that Easter morning and Peter’s confident teaching about Jesus in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, something (the Risen Christ) happened. Peter has evolved from his bewilderment into a witness to the Resurrection.
What are we to find in the empty tomb? Maybe the Colossians reading has an answer. By entering the empty tomb of our lives to seek the Lord, we see, we believe, we die, to be raised with Christ. “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3). And we will rise in glory with him. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
Where is your sting, O death? Where is your victory, O hell? Christ has risen, and you are overthrown. Christ has risen, and the demons have fallen. Christ has risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ has risen, and life reigns. Christ has risen, and not one dead rests in the grave. For Christ having risen from the dead became the first-fruits of them that slept. To him be glory and majesty to ages of ages. Amen. —Byzantine Pentekostarion
Now—more than ever—St. Bartholomew needs to receive your weekly offertory donations. We need to support our staff who are continuing to be of service to the families of this parish. While we have eliminated non-essential expenses, we still need to pay for utilities, property insurance and taxes, and outside services. Parishioners who receive offertory envelopes can mail them or drop them in the mailbox at the Rectory. Or, perhaps this is a good time to switch to supporting the church through online banking. Simply add St. Bartholomew as you would any other organiza-tion or business. Please use our mailing address: 252 Granada Avenue, Long Beach 90803.
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