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RECTOR: Rev. Justin Wylie
IN RESIDENCE: Rev. Joseph Bernardo
Rev. Eric Clark
Email: [email protected]. All bulletin submissions must be received by 5pm on Tuesdays.
MASS INTENTIONS: MONDAY, May 11: 6:30- Poor Souls (MA) 8:15- Larry & Ethel Brouillette 5:00- † Pat Engelhard TUESDAY, May 12: 6:30- Deceased Members of the Bruegman Family 8:15- † Kevin Morehouse 5:00- Drea Kincheloe WEDNESDAY, May 13: 6:30- Deceased Members of the Bruegman Family 8:15- John & Mary Hansen Family & Deceased Family Members 5:00- Rita Santana THURSDAY, May 14: 6:30- † Patricia Carter 8:15- † Fr. Edward Tuchek & † Sr. Mary Lutz (OSF) 5:00- † Margaret Lewis FRIDAY, May 15: 6:30- † Hang Dang 8:15- The Neugebauer Family 5:00- † Aron Elder & † Dee Elgert SATURDAY, May 16: 6:30- † Tom & † Jarmilla Mara 8:15- † Garry Lechner 5:00- † Gary Watkins SUNDAY, May 17: 6:00- For the People 7:30- Mary Leeper & Josh Carrier 9:00- Richard & Karen Noel’s 60th Anniversary 11:00- † Rosemary Thorpe 6:00- † Eleanor Walters
Readings for Sunday, May 10, 2020 1st Reading: Acts 6:1-7 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 2nd Reading: 1 Peter 2:4-9 Alleluia: John 14:6 Gospel: John 14:1-12 *Check your e-mail or Facebook each weekend for Fr. Wylie’s Sunday homily!
Prayer Intentions - Bishop Conley - Martha, mother of Fr. Bernardo - Seminarian Matthew James Schilmoeller, Theology 1 - All religious sisters - All those affected by the coronavirus - For the repose of the soul of † Arlene Schwindt - For all mothers on this Mother’s Day
An Act of Spiritual Communion My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
Prayer for Our Parish Family Please pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, and 1 Glory Be daily for this intention: that the Cathedral parish family will grow toward greater perfection in unity, love, and holiness.
Cathedral Prayer Line Call Barb (402-483-5105) or Mary (402-617-2233) to have Cathedral Prayer line members intercede for your intentions.
Stay Connected to Cathedral! This is a great time to update your contact information! Fr. Wylie has been calling parishioners on their birthdays so if you have not heard from him or if you are not receiving emails from the parish office, please provide us with your current phone numbers and email addresses. Make sure to like us on Facebook!
Child Abuse/Neglect Hotline: Notify DHHS
at 1-800-652-1999 or local Law Enforcement of any child abuse or neglect.
Misconduct Hotline: Notify the diocese of
any misconduct at 1-844-527-0596.
PARISH
From the Parish Office Public mass at Cathedral will resume on Monday, May 11! Please see the bulletin insert from Father Wylie that lists the guidelines for public mass during the pandemic or visit this link: http://www.cathedraloftherisenchrist.org/documents/pdf/covid-19-guidelines.pdf. All ministries, meetings, and parish events are still suspended. The Cathedral School is closed for the remainder of the school year and the parish office is closed to the public until further notice. Our parish staff will be working from home during normal office hours of 8am-5pm Monday-Friday and will be available to answer emails. If you call, please leave a voicemail and we will try to reply in a timely manner. Reminder: no more than 10 persons are permitted in the church at one time with the exception of mass. You are welcome to make your visits to the church to light a candle or to pray but please be conscious of others already present. Holy water is available near the communion rail.
ACTS Young Adults Group
Our next meeting for Bible Study is Monday, May 18 at 7pm. Please watch the next session of “Who am I to Judge” by Dr. Ed Sri called “Exposing the Mask: What Relativism is Often Covering Up” on www.formed.org before we meet. We will use Zoom to discuss the video. For the Zoom meeting ID or with questions, contact Jessica at 402-429-3455, Adam at [email protected], or on Facebook: “Cathedral ACTS”.
Baptisms Baptism prep classes are temporarily suspended but you can still schedule a baptism. Contact the parish office to schedule a baptism or with questions.
Bulletins
We will print a small number of bulletins to leave in the vestibule for those who do not have access to a computer. Please do not take one if you can access it on our website or your email. The bulletin will be posted by all entrances to the church and by the adoration sign-in book.
Charity & Stewardship Appeal 2020
The Charity and Stewardship Appeal has begun! Our parish goal is $116,080. To date, our parish has pledged $73,484.00 with 161 pledge cards returned (12.1% of our parish). If you received your pledge card in the mail, please use the return envelope to mail your pledge. If you did not receive your pledge card, please look for your card on the CSA table in the vestibule. You may then place your pledge card in the receptacle or mail it to the parish office. Please visit www.lincolndiocese.org/diocese/charity-and-stewardship-appeal if you prefer to give online. Thank you for your support!
CSS Clothing Drive
CSS is collecting gently used clothing items. Please enter the side door of the CSS trailer parked in the church parking lot and put clothes all the way to the back. Visit www.cssisus.org/ for other ways to help those in need!
Drive-Through Confessions
Confessions will continue to be in the northwest corner of the church parking lot. Times are Mondays: 7:40am-8:10am, Wednesdays: 4pm-5pm, and Saturdays: 11:30am-1pm and 4pm-5pm.
Knights Mowing Schedule 2020
The Knights have volunteered to maintain the Church grounds again this summer. Questions or to volunteer, please contact Dave Brady at 402-525-0480 or at [email protected]. May 16 group: Derance Chandler, Stephen Watson, Martin Ciecior, Fr. Eric Clark, John Connealy, and Ray Coulter.
Liturgy of the Hours
While we are unable to meet in person on Monday evenings, you can still pray the Liturgy of the Hours on your own. Simply download the ibreviary app or visit ibreviary.com/m2/breviario.php.
Strategic Planning Open Forum! Save the date and join us for the next Cathedral Strategic Planning Open Forum on Thursday, May 21 at 7:30pm. We would love to hear from more of our parishioners! More details will be in next weekend’s bulletin.
Perpetual Adoration Open Hours are MON 1AM, WED 11AM, FRI 5PM, and SAT 4PM. Many share hours available. Subs also needed. Call Rita: 421-2918 (daytime) or Cassie: 310-7799 (evening) to sign up. Adoration will temporarily revert to the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of the main church. Please enter through the doors with the combination lock and sign in at the Adoration sign in book.
Reach Cathedral If you know of someone who is elderly and/or homebound and needs help with grocery shopping or simply needs to be checked on, contact Reach Cathedral at [email protected].
SPIRITUAL ENRICHMENT
Day of Reflection with Fr. Jim Morin Join Fr. Jim Morin for a day of reflection on "Prayer for the Bored, Distracted, and Anxious" on Sat., May 16 from 9am-4pm. Attend at the Good Counsel Retreat House in Waverly or online (free-will donation). Visit goodcounselretreat.com to register. Questions, call 402-786-2705 or [email protected].
YOUTH ~ FAMILY ~ SCHOOL
Arroyo Roofing If your house was damaged from the recent hail storm, consider Arroyo Roofing. Not only are they a parish family business, but they will donate 5% of each roof repair to the Cathedral School. Contact them at 402-484-8140 and mention “Eagles-Cathedral”.
Elizabeth Ann Seton Used Book Sale Cathedral School is accepting used books for the Elizabeth Ann Seton used book sale (date TBD). Proceeds support the Cathedral scholarship fund. Contact [email protected] or Mary at 402-327-1389 to arrange for drop-off or to help.
Give to Lincoln Day Give to Lincoln Day is Thursday, May 28 and Cathedral needs you now more than ever! Please help Cathedral School provide scholarships to students who want to receive a Christ-centered education. Any donation you make between now and May 28th through Give to Lincoln Day will be matched by a $500,000 match fund. Please find it in your heart to invest in a child's future by donating online at the following link: https://givetolincoln.com/nonprofits/cathedral-of-the-risen-christ-school.
Principal Appreciation Day May 1 was Principal Appreciation Day! Thank you to Principal Jeremy Ekeler, and Assistant Principal Jenny Bykerk, for their faith, dedication to our parish and school, commitment to providing an excellent education to our children, and for their outstanding leadership! They have both shown strength, compassion, and perseverance during a unique school year. We are truly blest to have you be a part of our Cathedral family!
Teacher Appreciation Week This past week was Teacher Appreciation Week! Cathedral School has an amazing group of teachers and we thank you all for your hard work and commitment to staying connected to your students and providing them with the tools they need to continue their education from home. We are proud to have you as a part of our Cathedral family!
OTHER
IHM Counseling Center The Immaculate Heart of Mary Counseling Center (IHMCC) offices have transitioned to "virtual" due to COVID-19. The social distancing we're all experiencing comes with a unique set of mental health challenges including isolation. However, know that you are not alone. Our trained clinicians are here for you via our telehealth counseling services. We are here for you! To reach out to us, visit immaculateheartcounseling.org/.
Have a happy and blessed
Mother’s Day to all Moms in our
Cathedral Parish Family!
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 10, 2020
NOTE: This chart does not reflect the IRA tithing contributions.
Adult,
Plate,
E-Tithe
5-3-20
On-line
Giving
4-26-20
On-line Giving
Emergency
Fund – Total
raised to date
Adult,
Plate,
E-Tithe
4-26-20
On-line
Giving
5-3-20
STEWARDSHIP TIME~TALENT~TREASURE:
Stewardship gift from May 3:
Adult: $13,682.00 Plate: $1,097.00 E-tithe Weekly: $744.00 Online Giving: $9,048.14 Weekly budgetary need: $26,938.00 Total: $24,571.14
Emergency Fund to date: $12,300.00 Ways to give:
Place your tithe in the baskets provided during mass, mail your tithe to the parish office, drop it in the SVDP poor box by the Adoration sign-in book, or sign up for online giving at giving.parishsoft.com/App/Giving/cath3500268. Thank you to those who made extra gifts or increased their tithing to the parish. We are truly grateful for your continued support of our parish family!
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“We are proud that Nebraska will be the 12th state to host this
important apostolate. I am happy to give my whole-hearted support and
endorsement to this new initiative.”
-Most Reverend James D. Conley
• Cathedral of the Risen Christ School is deeply committed to the idea that NO child should be
denied a quality Catholic education based on his or her family’s financial situation.
• With enrollment continuing to grow we are called to be more generous, more giving and
accepting of the call to help make Catholic education available to all who desire it.
• Our in-parish Eagle families pay an average of $1,750 per student. While the cost to educate
each child is $6,250, our parish and supporters help cover the $4,500 difference. Our most
significant source of support comes from individuals and private donors.
• This year, more than ever, due to COVID-19 our families find themselves in financial situations
they didn’t plan on. Our scholarships will provide ON-GOING SUPPORT for these families. We
understand that things change due to jobs and personal reasons, and it is our hope that
through our Friends of Cathedral Scholarship Fund we can help these families.
• YOU can help make an immediate difference and provide a scholarship for a child. From now
until May 28th you can give to Cathedral through Give to Lincoln Day and have your donation
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The first time I saw it, I was very much impressed that the City of St. Louis, to celebrate its status
as “the gateway to the west”, should choose to memorialize this through the use of a giant arch. Modern man has, perhaps, a different understanding of a ‘gate’ – but in ancient times, when heavy
stone walls protected cities, there could be no talk of building a gate without recourse to the
architectural notion of an arch. What we are talking about here is the creation of a gate or portal
through a heavy wall. A wall is an obstacle to entry. It is the gate-way or arch in the wall that
gives access. On Good Shepherd Sunday, last week, we heard Christ proclaim, in the Gospel, that “I am the
gate” to the sheepfold: “whoever enters through me will be saved”. This Sunday’s liturgical
readings marvelously develop this same theme. In our second reading, this Sunday, St. Paul explains salvation in architectural terms. We, “like
living stones,” are to become built into a spiritual dwelling, in which Christ – also, “a living stone”
(the stone, in fact, which the builders rejected) – is constituted “the cornerstone.” Too often we might think of a cornerstone in some purely ceremonial sense, at the corner of a
new building’s entrance, inscribed with the dedication or date of edification. But that is not at all
what the Apostle intends by this metaphor. For ‘cornerstone’ we’d do far better to read ‘cornered-stone’ – or ‘capstone’, as some translations
render it”: for the capstone (or head stone) of an arch-way was not square-edged like all the others,
but rather, was cornered with angled sides – so that the other stones of the arch could rest their
weight into its sides. The capstone of the arch functions as the key to the whole notion of a gateway. The arch can only
hold to the extent that it directs the weight of all the stones into the sides of this central keys-
stone, which holds the arch up (as well as the wall above it). The harder they lean, in fact, the
stronger the arch – for the capstone will never budge. Absent the capstone, though, and all notion
of a gate is gone: gravity ensures a collapse of the stones of the arch and all the stones above it. What this means, in the first place, is that there can be no gateway of entry, without Christ. Jesus
is not some John the Baptist-like figure who merely indicates or announces something apart from
Himself (“make clear a way for the Lord in this world”). He is, in Himself, that way. “No-one
comes to the Father, except through me.” Small wonder, then, that the first name given to our
religion – long before we were known as Christians – was simply “The Way”. In the second place, however, it renders to each of us, also, an important role in granting access
– for an arch consists not simply of a cornerstone. Without the capstone, there is no arch; but the
capstone is not a stand-alone, but acts in concert with the many other stones constituting the
gateway arch. We have an essential role to play in granting others access to heaven. The notion of ‘scandal’ derives from the stone – seemingly small (known as a ‘scandalum’) –
which, overlooked, causes others to stumble. Those, therefore, who overlook Christ as the
cornerstone of the gateway opening heaven – or who consider His uniqueness ‘scandalous’ – will
find in Him a stumbling-block to their life’s journey. We, on the other hand, must also be aware
of how our strength or cohesiveness as heaven’s gateway for others, depends very much on the
degree to which we, ourselves, lean on Christ, as cornerstone. “Going it alone” in the faith will
certainly cause our collapse. Strewn about, thus, on the pathway of others, that would make us,
also, serve as an obstacle or ‘scandalum’ to the faith of others.
Something of a scandal must have presented when, in our first reading, we are told the Greeks
felt slighted by the Jews with respect to the treatment of their respective widows. A marvelous
miracle results from the resolution of this complaint: the development of the sacrament of holy
Orders to include the grade of ‘deacons’ – so that the presbyters of the Church might focus
exclusively on priestly work (prayer and the service of the word). In a few days, your cathedral will be host to Ordination ceremonies in which generous young
souls will become configured to Christ, the High Priest (presbyters), and to Christ, the Servant of
All (deacons). Please continue to pray for them and for those contemplating making over to the
Lord for the whole of their lives this generous gift. Please God, they may always lean on the Lord
and make Him the stable rock of their witness, opening heaven to all. On this, their witness
depends. To speak of the three grades of holy Orders like this, and then also, of the Order of Widows (such
as existed in the early Church), is so important when it comes to the question of our vocation.
Each stone has its proper place in that arch. Every soul is quite unique; for each there is a home
in the Church – it doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. Thus, we are promised in this
Sunday’s Gospel that “in my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.” This is so
comforting to know. Sometimes, bereaved families unable to select readings for funerals leave this, rather, to the
discretion of the priest. Whenever that occurs, this Sunday’s Gospel is the one I choose. How
comforting, the notion that the ascending Christ provides those who mourn His departure with
the sure hope that they, too, will follow where He goes! How reassuring, the idea that, since Christ
has promised to come to retrieve us (so that, where He is, we too may be), we are being assured
of our own places in heaven! How touching, the sulking remark of Thomas (still smarting from
Christ’s rebuke for his little faith): “How can we know the way?” How stunning Christ’s reply,
not only that He shows them the way, but that “I am the way”! As we prepare for our Lord’s Ascension in two weeks, we would do well to consider what our
Lord’s entry into heaven with a human nature opens up for the whole human race. In his same
letter to the Ephesians, St. Paul describes it thus: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity
captive.” Christ goes up, as it were, opening (in Himself) a way to the heavens for those with a
human nature, like His – like a new Moses, opening a way through the sea for God’s people to
make safe passage to the other shore of our true homeland. As we celebrate this Sunday the witness of those who made themselves the gateway for our lives
in this world – our mothers – even as we are still unable to resume public worship until tomorrow,
let us not forget Who is our gateway to the next: Jesus Christ, the way, the truth and the life! “Do
not let your hearts be troubled. Have faith. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.”
Blessed Sunday and Happy Mother’s Day to you all!
Cathedral of the Risen Christ
3500 Sheridan Blvd. | Lincoln | NE | 68506
402-488-0948 | www.cathedraloftherisenchrist.org
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