Parish Information

Rectory / Office Phone (505) 722-3361

For bulletin announcements: sjv@dioceseofgallup.org

St. John Vianney Staff Rev. Kevin H. Finnegan Deacon John Margis JoAnn Apodaca (505) 722-3361 JoNell Becenti D.R.E (505) 722-5085 Sr. Rene Backe (RCIA) (505) 726-1617 CCD Office/Hall (505) 722-5085

Office Hours: Monday 8:30—3:00 Tuesday—Thursday 8:30—12:30

Friday closed

John Vianney St. Parish

3408 Zia Drive ● Gallup, New Mexico 87301

APRIL 8, 2018

SACRAMENTS

Mass Schedule

Weekends – Saturday Vigil ............ 4:30 pm Sunday ...................... 9:30 and 11:30 am Holy Days .......................... See Bulletin Monday, Wednesday and Friday....... 7:15 am Tuesday and Thursday ................. 5:30 pm

Confession Saturday 3:00 - 4:00 pm or by appointment

Marriage 6 months in advance

Baptisms By appointment (birth certificate required)

Communion for Contact Ethel the Homebound (505) 863-3438

Legion of Mary Tuesday evening at 4:00 pm Contact Ethel (505) 863-3438

Last Weekend’s

Collections

Easter Collection $4629.02 Easter Flowers $ 425.00 Holy Land $ 346.00 Bldg. Maintenance $ 275.00 Donations $ 433.00 Mass Stipends $ 10.00

Good Friday Attendance 54 Easter Attendance 552

Collections for the Weekend of March

24 and 25 Sunday Collection $2856.96 Easter Flowers $ 270.00 Bldg. Maintenance $ 375.00 Donations $ 298.00 Mass Stipends $ 150.00 Attendance 386

Mass Intentions

SAT VIGIL APRIL 7 -

4:30 pm: For VCharles and VLola Esparza by their children

SUN [2] APRIL 8 - Sunday of Divine Mercy

9:30 am: For VValencia Nabunya by the Kaddu-Dube family

11:30 am: For VMildred Mineer by Eddie and Annie Ward

MON APRIL 9 -

7:15 am: For VRamon Gonzales by Jennie Jaramillo

TUES APRIL 10 -

5:30 pm: For VJohn L., John A. and Paul Cattaneo by Robert and

Ruth Baca WED APRIL 11 - 7:15 am: For Michael Schaaf THURS APRIL 12 -

5:30 pm: For VTranquilino Romero by the family FRI APRIL 13 -

7:15 am: For VVincent Apodaca by the family

SAT VIGIL APRIL 14 -

4:30 pm: For VZora Schmaltz by Georgia Taylor and family

SUN [3] APRIL 15 - Sunday of Divine Mercy 9:30 am: For the Analla and Martinez family by the Hren family 11:30 am: For our parishioners

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Easter Changes Everything! By George Weigel Christmas occupies such a large part of the Christian imagination that the absolute supremacy of Easter as the greatest of Christian feasts may get ob-scured at times. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an Italian biblical scholar, sug-gests that we might begin to appreciate how Easter changed everything—and gave the birth of Jesus at Christmas its significance—by reflecting on the sto-ry of Jesus purifying the Jerusalem Temple, at the beginning of John’s Gos-pel. In this prophetic and symbolic act, Ravasi writes, Jesus draws a sharp con-trast between a religion of superficiality and self-absorption and a pure faith, centered on his person. God can no longer be present in a Temple that has ceased to be a place of encounter, the “meeting tent” of the ancient He-brews; that Temple, however magnificently constructed, had become a place of superstition and self-interest. In cleansing the Temple, Jesus is declaring that God is now present to his people in a new and perfect way and in a new “meeting tent”: the incarnate Son, “the Word . . . made flesh” who dwells among us, “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). He, Jesus, is the new Tem-ple, and to recognize that and live in this new mode of the divine Presence one must “remember,” as St. John writes at the end of the Temple-cleansing story (John 2:22). And remember what? Remember Easter. Remember the Resurrection. Through the prism of that extraordinary event that changed both history and nature, everything comes into clearer focus. Only a mature, paschal faith—an Easter faith—can perceive who Jesus is, understand what Jesus taught, and grasp what Jesus has accomplished by his obedience to the Father. Only in the power of this paschal “memory,” Cardinal Ravasi concludes, can we rec-ognize that Jesus is the Christ, the Holy One of God. Easter faith—the faith which proclaims that “he. . .rose again on the third day”—is not one article of Christian conviction among others. As St. Paul

PRAY FOR OUR SERVICE

MEN AND WOMEN Navy: John Ryan Gutierrez (overseas) Coast Guard: Frankie Lopez (Hawaii)

LIVING THE BEATITUDES

Day of Retreat with Sister Barbara Leonhard, OSF

The Beatitudes have often been

called the Gospel within the Gospel; the heart of the gospel.

April 28, 2018, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm

Sacred Heart Retreat Center- Marian Hall, Gallup, NM

Registrations are due by April 23 $30.00 (includes lunch)

or $35.00 walk-ins Make check payable to Sisters’ Coun-cil and mail to Sister Monica Dubois, P.O. Box 366, Chambers, AZ 86502

teaches in 1 Corinthians 15, Easter faith is that conviction on which the en-tire edifice of Christianity is built. Without Easter, nothing makes sense and Jesus is a false prophet, even a maniac. With Easter, all that has been ob-scure about his life, his teaching, his works and his fate becomes radiantly clear: this Risen One is the “first-born among many brethren” (Romans 8:29); he is the new Temple (Revelation 21:22); and by embracing him we enter the dwelling place of God among us (Revelation 21:3). In the Gospel readings of the Easter Octave, the Church annually remembers the utterly unprecedented nature of the paschal event, and how it exploded expectations of what God’s decisive action in history would be. No one gets it, at first; for what has happened bursts the previous limits of human under-standing. The women at the empty tomb don’t understand, and neither do Peter and John. The disciples on the road to Emmaus do not understand until they encounter the Risen One in the Eucharist, the great gift of paschal life, offered by the new Temple, the divine Presence, himself. At one encounter with the Risen Lord, the Eleven think they’re seeing a ghost; later, up along the Sea of Galilee, it takes awhile for Peter and John to recognize that “It is the Lord!” (John 21:7). These serial episodes of incomprehension, carefully recorded by the early Church, testify to the shattering character of Easter, which changed everything: the first disciples’ understanding of history, of life-beyond-death, of worship and its relationship to time (thus Sunday, the day of Easter, becomes the Sabbath of the New Covenant). Easter also changed the first disciples’ understanding of themselves and their responsibilities. They were the privileged ones who must keep alive the memory of Easter: in their preaching, in their baptizing and breaking of bread, and ultimately in the new Scriptures they wrote. They were the ones who must take the Gospel of the Risen One to “all nations,” in the sure knowledge that he would be with them always (Matthew 28:19-20). They were to “be transformed” (Romans 12:2). So are we.

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Thank you to the following for Easter flower offerings: Don Mitchell in memory of Ray Garcia and Donald R. Mitchell Gabe and Cindy Saucedo in memory of the Saucedo family Cindy Margis in memory of Debrah R. Chavez John Margis in memory of Ann, Hugh and Chuck Apodaca and Chicharello families in memory of Vincent Apodaca Margaret Perales in memory of Joe A. Perales, Sr. Eugene and Corrine Pacheco in memory of Tobias and Elvinia Pacheco and Baca family Frank Spolar in memory of the Matajcich and Spolar families Dave and Louise Lopez in memory of Cleto & Margie Gonzales and Joe Lopez Ethel Kayate in memory of Lucy Kayate John & Bernadette Hren in memory of Lucy Sanchez and John & Virginia Hren Eddie Sanchez and family in memory of Lucy Sanchez & Antoinette Martinez Mary, Ruby and Rayne in memory of Ruben Maldonado Charles and Maria Guimaraes in memory of Francis Callis Julia Lopez in memory of Juan C. Lopez Maria Delgado in memory of Carl Connolly Resendiz family in memory of Bill and Maria Susan Lopez In memory of Joe and Maria Colaianni Rachel and Dale Lovato in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Trinidad Salas, Jr., Lorenzo Molina and Bernie J. Lovato Lawrence and Aedra Andrade in memory of Santana Milagros & Richard D. Andrade In memory of the Doirons

Readings for the Week

of April 8, 2018 Sunday: Acts 4:32-35/Ps 118:2- 4, 13-15, 22-24 [1]/1 Jn 5:1-6/Jn 20:19-31 Monday: Is 7:10-14; 8:10/Ps 40:7-8, 8-9, 10, 11 [8a, 9a]/Heb 10:4-10/Lk 1:26-38 Tuesday: Acts 4:32-37/Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5 [1a]/Jn 3:7b- 15 Wednesday: Acts 5:17-26/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [7a]/Jn 3:16-21 Thursday: Acts 5:27-33/Ps 34:2 and 9, 17-18, 19-20 [7a]/Jn 3:31-36 Friday: Acts 5:34-42/Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14 [cf. 4abc]/Jn 6:1-15 Saturday: Acts 6:1-7/Ps 33:1-2, 4- 5, 18-19 [22]/Jn 6:16- 21 Next Sunday: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19/Ps 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9 [7a]/1 Jn 2:1-5a/Lk 24:35-48

Observances for the Week

of April 8, 2018 Sunday: 2nd Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday Monday: The Annunciation of the Lord Tuesday: Wednesday: St. Stanislaus, Bishop & Martyr Thursday: Friday: St. Martin I, Pope & Martyr Saturday: Next Sunday: 3rd Sunday of Easter © Liturgical Publications Inc

Yvonne Martinez is asking for help on behalf of Mother Magda Garcia and the Sisters of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Joseph. From April 4 through 14, the Sisters will be on retreat and are in need of people to help with adoration hours. The schedule is April 4—14 from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm every day. Please call Yvonne at 505-906-8957 for scheduling or ques-tions. The new location of Casa Reina is 701 S. Strong, Gallup, NM.