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EASTER SUNDAY
          The Resurrection of the Lord
                 April 20, 2014

              The Resurrection of Christ - Fra Angelico
“CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE IS TRULY RISEN, ALLELUIA!”
EASTER SUNDAY The Resurrection of the Lord April 20, 2014 - "CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE IS TRULY RISEN, ALLELUIA!"
On Easter the Eastern Churches greet each other by saying:
                            “Christos Anes , Alleluia!” Which means: “Christ is risen, Alleluia!
                  The response is: “Alethinos, anes alleluia!” The response: “He is truly risen, Alleluia!”

                                                            The Easter Alleluia
                                Saint AugusƟne of Hippo Early Church Father and Doctor of the Church
This excerpt on the Easter Alleluia from St. AugusƟne's discourse on the Psalms (Ps. 148, 1-2: CCL 40, 2165-2166) is a wonderful explanaƟon of the
joy of the Easter Season. Just as Lent was a season of penance, so the fiŌy days of Easter is a season of praise, an anƟcipaƟon for the age to come
                                                                 in heavenly glory.

        Our thoughts in this present life should turn on the praise of God, because it is in praising God that
we shall rejoice for ever in the life to come; and no one can be ready for the next life unless he trains
himself for it now. So we praise God during our earthly life, and at the same time we make our petitions
to him. Our praise is expressed with joy, our petitions with yearning. We have been promised something
we do not yet possess, and because the promise was made by one who keeps his word, we trust him and
are glad; but insofar as possession is delayed, we can only long and yearn for it. It is good for us to
persevere in longing until we receive what was promised, and yearning is over; then praise alone will
remain.
        Because there are these two periods of time - the one that now is, beset with the trials and
troubles of this life, and the other yet to come, a life of everlasting serenity and joy - we are given two
liturgical seasons, one before Easter and the other after. The season before Easter signifies the troubles
in which we live here and now, while the time after Easter which we are celebrating at present signifies
the happiness that will be ours in the future. What we commemorate before Easter is what we
experience in this life; what we celebrate after Easter points to something we do not yet possess. This is
why we keep the first season with fasting and prayer; but now the fast is over and we devote the present
season to praise. Such is the meaning of the Alleluia we sing.
        Both these periods are represented and demonstrated for us in Christ our head. The Lord’s
passion depicts for us our present life of trial - shows how we must suffer and be afflicted and finally die.
The Lord’s resurrection and glorification show us the life that will be given to us in the future.
        Now therefore, brethren, we urge you to praise God. That is what we are all telling each other
when we say Alleluia. You say to your neighbor, “Praise the Lord!” and he says the same to you. We are
all urging one another to praise the Lord, and all thereby doing what each of us urges the other to do. But
see that your praise comes from your whole being; in other words, see that you praise God not with your
lips and voices alone, but with your minds, your lives and all your actions.
        We are praising God now, assembled as we are here in church; but when we go on our various
ways again, it seems as if we cease to praise God. But provided we do not cease to live a good life, we
shall always be praising God. You cease to praise God only when you swerve from justice and from what
is pleasing to God. If you never turn aside from the good life, your tongue may be silent but your actions
will cry aloud, and God will perceive your intentions; for as our ears hear each other’s voices, so do God’s
ears hear our thoughts.

                             Christ is truly risen, my                                        Easter Sunday
                             brothers and sisters. May                                     Stewardship Thought
                             we all follow the example
set by our Lord: love poured out in service of our                                          Christ is risen!
neighbor. Fr. Eugene and I would like to thank the                          Our heavenly Father gives us the greatest gi
community and all the ministers that have served in                                   of all: an opportunity for
these liturgies. Thank you all for your service, help and
                                                                                  salva on through Jesus, His Son.
support. Happy Easter!
                                                                                         - Taken from Stewardship ReflecƟons on the Liturgy of the Word
                                              - Fr. Salvador
EASTER SUNDAY The Resurrection of the Lord April 20, 2014 - "CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE IS TRULY RISEN, ALLELUIA!"
Easter Lilies
                      The Easter Lilies are the most popular Easter flower. Because of the shape of the
                      Easter Lily's petals, Christians refer to them as the trumpet of God summoning
                      Jesus to return. The white lily is held as the traditional Easter Flower and represents love
                      and hope.
Although the traditional Easter lily is white with a bell-shaped flower, there are a number of different colors of
lilies to choose from such as pink, white, yellow, and red orange. Originating in Japan, the Easter Lily
symbolizes purity and renewal of Easter. Gifting white lilies to someone during this time indicates that you
are very happy to be acquainted with the recipient. Giving yellow lilies to a person
represents your request or advice to this person to “live for the moment”.
    A very special thanks to all for having made it possible for our parish community to
have the gift of love and hope for our Easter Vigil. That we may continue to gift one
another these gifts not only in the Easter Season put throughout our life long journey.
In the words of St. Augustine, “We are Easter people and Alleluia is our song.”

Waiting for the Resurrection [April 11, 2004]
                                                           “When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way
                                                 of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and
                                                 tyrants, and for a time they seem invincible. But in the end they always fall.
                                                 Think of it, always.” Mohandas K. Gandhi wrote those words and they can
                                                 be helpful in difficult times.
                                                           We live in difficult times. We’ve only to watch the news on any
                                                 given evening. If there’s an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving God
                                                 who’s Lord of this universe, his presence isn’t very evident on the evening
                                                 news: There’s violence all over the planet, fuelled on every side by
                                                 self-righteous ideologies that sanction hatred, by self-interest that lets
                                                 community fend for itself, and by a socially-approved greed that lets the
                                                 poor fend for themselves. It’s fair and reflective to wonder: Where is the
                                                 resurrection in all of this? Why is God seemingly so inactive? Where
                                                 is the vindication of Easter Sunday?
                                                 These are important questions, even if they aren’t particularly deep or new.
They were the questions used to taunt Jesus on the cross: “If you’re the son of God, come down off that cross! If
you’re God, prove it! Act now!” Then and now, it seems, we’ve never figured out why salvation can’t work like a
normal movie where, at the end, a morally superior violence kills off all that’s bad.
         Except God doesn’t work like a Hollywood movie and never has. For centuries they prayed for a messiah, a
superman, to come and display a power and a glory that would simply overpower evil but what they got was a helpless
baby lying in the straw. And when that baby grew up they wanted him to overthrow the Roman empire and instead he let
himself be crucified. We haven’t changed much in what we expect of God.
         But God, as revealed in the death and resurrection of Jesus, doesn’t meet our expectations even as he infinitely
exceeds them. What the resurrection teaches is that God doesn’t forcibly intervene to stop pain and death.
Instead he redeems the pain and vindicates the death. God rids the world of evil not by using force to blot it out, but
by vindicating what’s good in the eyes of evil so that eventually the good is all that’s left. Evil has to forever “look upon
the one whom it has pierced!” until it understands what it has done and lets itself be transformed. How does this work?
         What the resurrection of Jesus reveals is that there’s a deep moral structure to the universe, that the contours
of the universe are love and goodness and truth and that this structure, anchored at its center by Ultimate love
and power, is non-negotiable: You live life its way or it simply won’t come out right. More importantly, the reverse is
also true: If you respect the structure and live life its way, what’s good and true and loving will eventually triumph,
always, despite everything. If this is true, and it is, then we don’t have to escape pain and death to achieve victory, we’ve
only to remain faithful, good, and true inside of them.
         However part of what’s revealed here is that we need a great patience, a patience called hope. God’s day will
come, but God, it seems, is not in any hurry. Good and truth will always triumph, but this triumph must be waited- for,
not because God wants us to endure pain as some kind of test, but because God, unlike ourselves, doesn’t use coercion
or violence to achieve an aim. God uses only love, truth, beauty, and goodness and God uses these by,
structurally and non-negotiably, embedding them into the universe itself, like a giant moral immune-system that
eventually, always, brings the body back to health. God doesn’t need to intervene like a super-hero at the end of a
Hollywood movie and use a morally- superior violence to kill the bad people so that the good are spared pain and death.
God lets the universe right itself the way a body does when it is attacked by a virus. The immune-system
eventually does its work, even if, in the short term, there are pain and death. But always, in the end, the universe rights
itself.
         Simply put: Whenever we do anything wrong, anything at all, it won’t turn out right. It can’t. The structure of the
universe won’t receive it and it comes back to us, one way or the other. Conversely, whenever we do something right,
anything that’s true, good, loving, or beautiful, the universe vindicates that. It judges our every act and its
judgment allows no exceptions.
 Perhaps that judgment doesn’t seem to be immediate, it can seem a long time in coming and thus, for a time, we can be
confused and ask the question: “Why doesn’t God, truth and goodness, come down off the cross?” But, eventually,
  as Gandhi says, always, without a single exception, evil is shamed and good triumphs. The resurrection works.
                     Used with permission of the author, Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser: www.ronrolheiser.com.
EASTER SUNDAY The Resurrection of the Lord April 20, 2014 - "CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE IS TRULY RISEN, ALLELUIA!"
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Mass Intentions for the Week                                            Mass Readings for April 20th - April 27th
Sunday, April 20th
                                                                 Sun., 20th of April – Easter Sunday
8:00 am DeLaRosa Family                                          Acts10:34,37-43;Ps118;Col 3:1-4 or 1Cor 5:6-8;Jn20:1-9or Lk 24:13-35
9:30 am       Leticia Galván
                                                                 Mon., 21st of April
11:30am  Edward Mainz
                                                                 Acts 2:14, 22-33; Psalm 16; Matthew 28:8-15
1:30 pm  Pablo Medina López 
Monday, April 21st                                               Tues., 22nd of April
8:00 am  Souls in Purgatory                                     Acts 2:36-41; Psalm 33; John 20:11-18
Tuesday, April 22nd                                              Wed., 23rd of April
5:30pm  Chris Matera                                           Acts 3:1-10; Psalm 105; Luke 24:13-35
Wednesday, April 23rd                                            Thurs., 24th of April
8:00am  Patrick Sánchez                                         Acts 3:11-26; Psalm 8; Luke 24:35-48
Thursday, April 24th                                             Fri., 25th of April
5:30pm  Katherine Rafalko                                      Acts 4:1-12; Psalm 118; John 21:1-14
Friday, April 25th                                               Sat., 26th of April
8:00am         For Prisoners & The Needs of the World          Acts 4:13-21; Psalm 118; Mark 16:9-15
                                                                
Saturday, April 26th                                             Sun., 27th of April – Divine Mercy Sunday
8:00pm Gómez Hernández Family                               Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 118; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31

 We pray for those in need of healing May the Holy Spirit Light Their Way
George Nixon,Lloyd Bryant,Lorenzo Vasquez, Margarita Rodriguez, Walker Phillips,
Albert Fre oloso, Lois Flecher, Augus ne Guzman, Sr., Mary Kalupa, Mike Sullivan,
Charlo e Peters, Catherine Cappello, Terry Good, Marcelino Venegas, Kyle Tbrdik,
Raymond Young, Andrew Sanchez, Ofelia Sanchez, Florinda T. Sanchez, Joy DeLong,
Betsy DeLong, Mary Timpleton, Shawn Stacia, Maria Mora, Yolanda Jenkins, Heather Woods,
Tyler, Art Menager, Timothy Blankenship, Adela Simbrano, Consuelo Aurillo, Patricio Lopez,
Merced Almendarez, Pedro Almendarez, Joseph Travers, Carolan Faber, Deborah Pitrone,
Daryl Duit, Janie Thompson, Rachel Owens, Jeff Hull, Brad Sherrod, John Andrew, Warren Lanz,
Barbara Lanz, Kathryn Mercado, Bobby Bailey, Ma Inacia Leal, Jovita Reyna, O la Garza,
Armando Garcia, Myrna, Linda Nicosia, Bill Wilhoit, Ysabela, Teresa LeBlanc, Adrian Garza, Freeda Davison,
Martha Gonzales, Celia Pearson, Marilyn Hopper, Kelly Semon, Arthur Davila, Gene Villinski, Richard Fuller

            If you would like to add someone to the prayer list for healing, please kindly call the parish office.
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MONTSERRAT RETREAT HOUSE
Ignatian Retreat for Young Adults
Ages 18+           May 23-26, 2014
Montserrat Jesuit Retreat
House is a place of
quiet, peace, and                                          The Good Friday Pontifical Collection
prayer. Our purpose is to                              Each year the Holy Father invites Catholics to support fellow
help you to find your                                  Chris ans and sacred shrines in the Holy Land.
own way to God and
discover what God                                              God bless you for your generosity in the
hopes and wants in you                                       collecƟon that was taken up on Good Friday.
and your world.
                                                                             “Let us be bearers of hope!”
Take time to be with the Lord and around others
that are searching just as you may be.                                                       - Pope Francis

                                                                 ADULT DINNER SOCIAL
 Register online at www.montserratretreat.org … or
  call Sheila at 940-321-6020 if you would like more
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                                  Two Popes, One Canonization

                                Pope Francis announced the date for
                                          the canonization of
                                  Popes John Paul II and John XXIII.
                             They will be declared saints on April 27, 2014.
                        Musical Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Concert
                               Join us on, Sunday, April 27th at 4:00pm
                                  Please do not miss this prayer event.
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Weekly Calendar
Sunday, April 20th                                       Thursday, April 24th
 9:00 – 10:30am No Adult Bible Study                     2:00—4:00pm      St Vincent de Paul Food Pantry, HF
10:00 – 1:15pm No Faith Formation K-6th                  6:00—7:00pm      Adoration & Confessions
 6:00 - 8:00pm No High School Youth Ministry             7:00—8:30pm      RICA/RICA, HF, SR, SM, Drake South
 7:00 – 9:00pm Legión de María, Drake N & S              7:00—10:00pm CRHP Women, CL3
Monday, April 21st                                       Friday, April 25th
10:00—2:00pm Prayers & Squares, HF                        7:00—9:00pm Talleres de Oración y Vida, Drake N&S
  7:00—9:00pm Jóvenes Para Cristo, SR,HF, CL5             7:00 – 9:00pm Lectors (Sp) Church
  7:30—9:00pm Legión de María, Drake N & S                7:00—9:00pm Choir (Sp.), CL5
  7:00—10:00pm CRHP Men, CL3                             Saturday, April 26th
Tuesday, April 22nd                                       8:00—10:00am Talleres de Oración y Vida, Drake
 2:00—4:00pm St Vincent de Paul Food Pantry, HF           9:00—11:00am Baptism Class (Eng), SM
 6:00—9:00pm Adult Dinner Social, SM                      11:15—4:45pm FF K-12th, HR, SR, SM, Drake, CL3, 5, 6&7
 7:00—9:00pm Jóvenes Para Cristo, SR                       3:00— 4:00pm Confessions
 7:00—9:00pm Grupo de Oración, CP                          5:00— 6:30pm St. Vincent de Paul Bag Distribution, Narthex
Wednesday, April 23rd                                      5:00— 6:30pm St. Mary’s Catholic School, Narthex
10:00—11:00am Women’s Bible Study, CL3                                  Please keep filling those baby banks;
 2:00—4:00pm St Vincent de Paul Food Pantry, HF                             your loose change can make a
 4:30—5:30pm Children’s Choir Rehearsal, HF
 6:00 – 8:30pm Catolicismo, CP                                          difference. Baby Banks are due back
 7:00—9:00pm FFM.S.Confirmation(Eng),HF,R,SM,D,CL3 & 5                   on or before Sunday, April 27th.

St Vincent de Paul Food Pantry: Holy Family Hall             Tues., Wed. & Thurs. Open: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  Food Distribution is held on the Second Saturday of the month from 8:30 am to 10:30 am.
             Bag Distribution: Next weekend Food Collection: May 3rd & 4th

  Thanks to your donations, we were able to help 558                Helpline: 214-314-5698
  individuals during the month of March. Thank you!      Email:stvdp@stmichaelmckinney.org

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                                    McKinney Bus to St. Mary’s School

                                                                GROWING HEART S AND M INDS

                                      Taller Para Matrimonio
                              “Un matrimonio feliz y duradero siempre es de tres:
                                             Dios, Tu Pareja y Tu “
                                Esta invitación es para todos los matrimonios,
                                           casados por la iglesia o no.
                                El Padre Rogelio Segundo espera contar con su presencia.
                                             ¡Los Esperamos!

                            Fecha: viernes, 25 de abril Horario: 6:00- 9:00pm
                                       Lugar: Salón de San Miguel
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Este es el día en que actuó el Señor: sea nuestra alegría y nuestro gozo.
                                                           - Salmo 118

Jesús nos enseña a perdonar desde la cruz
   En Jesús crucificado caben todos los hombres. Toda la miseria y sufrimiento humanos están en Él. En este sentido,
todos los hombres están en Cristo. En la ignominia y escándalo de la cruz se ha mostrado cómo Dios mismo, en la
Persona del Hijo, ha planificado la naturaleza humana, pues para resucitar ha pasado por la muerte como la más
profunda experiencia humana. Es en este momento de abandono en la muerte, a la puerta de la nada, que Jesús perdona
a sus verdugos. Con este signo de caridad ha mostrado la perfección del amor, que desea el bien, y nos ha enseñado a
hacer lo mismo. San Juan Crisóstomo, el Doctor de Constantinopla, comentó el texto de San Lucas que narra este
momento. En su comentario, El Crisóstomo habla de Cristo como un maestro que enseña a sus alumnos a perdonar
desde la cruz. Esto lo hace a la luz de un pasaje de San Mateo que cuenta que Cristo encargó a sus discípulos “orar por
sus perseguidores” (Mt, 5, 44)
   “Que el Señor dijera “Orad por sus perseguidores” esto también lo hizo cuando fue ascendido en la cruz, de donde
se sigue que Jesús también decía: “Padre, perdónalos”, no porque no pudiera el mismo perdonar, sino para que nos
enseñara a orar por los perseguidores, no solo con palabras, sino con acciones”. (1)
   Crisóstomo continúa la explicación así, y responde a por qué Cristo dijo “perdónalos”: “Jesús también dijo
“Perdónalos”, si hicieron penitencia, (si reconocieron su pecado) favorece a los penitentes, si quieren, luego de tanta
debilidad disolver por medio de la fe su pecado.” (2)
   Con esta explicación nos queda claro que Jesús nos enseña a perdonar y ofrece su perdón, por su perfección, a sus
verdugos. San Juan Crisóstomo deja en claro que para recibir el perdón hace falta reconocer el pecado y querer disolverla
por la fe. El expositor no explica que el perdón implique el abandono de la justicia, sin embargo, muestra que Dios es
rico en misericordia y quiere que todos los hombres estén en paz con Él. - Tomado de http://encuentra.com Autor: Gabriel González Nares

               Saludo Pascual: Durante la Pascua, la Iglesia Oriental y algunos Católicos
                  Romanos y Protestantes tienen la costumbre de saludarse de la siguiente
                            Forma en Griego: Christos Anesti, Alleluya.
                                             (Cristo ha resucitado).
                                 La respuesta es: Alithos Anesti ¡Aleluya!
                                       (¡Verdaderamente ha resucitado!)
                         Lirios de Pascua
                      Los lirios de Pascua son la flor de
                      Pascua más populares.
                      Debido a la forma de los pétalos
                      del lirio de Pascua, los cristianos
                      se refieren a ellos como la
trompeta de Dios convocatoria el regreso de Jesús. El
lirio blanco se mantiene como la flor tradicional de                    Cristo verdaderamente ha resucitado, mis
Pascua y representa el amor y la esperanza.
Aunque el lirio tradicional de Pascua es de color                       hermanos y hermanas: espero que todos
blanco con forma de flor campana, hay una serie de
diferentes colores de lirios para elegir, como rosa,                             podamos seguir el ejemplo de
blanco, amarillo, rojo y anaranjado.
    Originalmente de Japón, el lirio de Pascua                             nuestro Señor: amor derramado en el
simboliza la pureza y la renovación de la Pascua.
Regalando lirios blancos a alguien durante este tiempo                                servicio al projimo. El
indica que están muy feliz de estar
familiarizado con esa persona. Dando lirios                               Padre Eugenio y yo les damos gracias a
amarillos a una persona representa su petición o
consejo a esta persona que aprendan "vivir en el                       todo el pueblo y les damos gracias a todos
momento presente”.
Mil Gracias a todo el pueblo de San Miguel por                             los ministros que han servido en estas
haber hecho posible el regalo de amor y esperanza
durante nuestra Vigilia de Pascua. Que podamos                          liturgias. Gracias por su servicio y apoyo.
seguir regalándonos unos a otros, estos dones no sólo
en el tiempo de Pascua pero
durante nuestro viaje de la vida.
                                                                                        ¡Feliz Pascua!
En las palabras de San Agustín,
 “Somos gente de Pascua y
 "                                                                                                             P. Salvador Guzmán
 Aleluya es nuestra canción."
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CREO EN LA RESURRECCIÓN DE LA CARNE:
                                                 LA RESURRECCIÓN DE CRISTO Y LA NUESTRA
                                                 Queridos hermanos y hermanas, ¡buenos días!
                                                       quiero volver de nuevo hoy sobre la afirmación: “Creo en la
                                              resurrección de la carne. “Se trata de una verdad que no es
                                              simple, y menos aún obvia, porque, viviendo inmersos en este
                                              mundo, no es fácil de entender las realidades del futuro. Pero el
                                              Evangelio nos ilumina: nuestra resurrección está estrechamente
                                              ligada a la resurrección de Jesús; el hecho de que Él resucitó es la
                                              prueba de que existe la resurrección de los muertos. Quisiera
presentar algunos aspectos que conciernen a la relación entre la resurrección de Cristo y nuestra
resurrección.
              ¡Él ha resucitado! Y porque Él ha resucitado, también nosotros resucitaremos.
        En primer lugar, la propia Sagrada Escritura contiene un camino hacia la plena fe en la resurrección
de los muertos. Ésta se expresa como la fe en Dios Creador de todo hombre – cuerpo y alma – y como fe en
Dios liberador, el Dios fiel a la alianza con su pueblo. El profeta Ezequiel en una visión, contempla los
sepulcros de los deportados que se vuelven a abrir y los huesos secos que vuelven a la vida gracias a la
infusión de un espíritu vivificante. Esta visión expresa la esperanza en la futura “resurrección de Israel “, es
decir, en el renacimiento del pueblo derrotado y humillado (cf. Ez 37:1-14).Jesús en el Nuevo Testamento,
lleva a cumplimiento esta revelación, y vincula la fe en la resurrección a su propia persona y dice: ” Yo soy la
resurrección y la vida” (Jn 11:25). De hecho, será el Señor Jesús quien resucitará el último día a los que han
creído en Él. Jesús vino entre nosotros, se hizo hombre como nosotros en todo, menos en el pecado; y de
esta manera nos ha tomado con él en su camino de regreso al Padre. Él, el Verbo encarnado, muerto por
nosotros y resucitado, da a sus discípulos el Espíritu Santo como garantía de la plena comunión en su Reino
glorioso, que esperamos vigilantes. Esta espera es la fuente y la razón de nuestra esperanza: una
esperanza que, si se cultiva y se custodia, nuestra esperanza si la cultivamos y la custodiamos, se
convierten en luz para iluminar nuestra historia personal y también la historia comunitaria. Recordémoslo
siempre: somos discípulos de Aquel que vino, que viene todos los días y vendrá al final. Si somos capaces
de tener más presente esta realidad, estaremos menos fatigados ante lo cotidiano, menos prisioneros de lo
efímero y más dispuestos a caminar con un corazón misericordioso por el camino de la salvación.
        Otro aspecto: ¿qué significa resucitar? La resurrección -¡la resurrección de todos nosotros, eh!-
tendrá lugar el último día, en el fin del mundo, por la omnipotencia de Dios, que volverá a dar la vida
a nuestro cuerpo reuniéndolo con el alma, en virtud de la resurrección de Jesús. Y ésta es la
explicación fundamental, porque Jesús ha Resucitado, nosotros resucitaremos. Nosotros tenemos
esperanza en la resurrección, porque Él nos ha abierto la puerta: nos ha abierto la puerta a esta
resurrección. Y esta transformación en espera, en camino de resurrección, esta transfiguración de nuestro
cuerpo viene preparada en esta vida por la relación con Jesús, en los Sacramentos, especialmente en la
Eucaristía. Nosotros que en esta vida nos alimentamos de su Cuerpo y de su Sangre resucitaremos como
Él, con Él y por medio de Él. Como Jesús ha resucitado con su cuerpo, pero no ha vuelto a la vida terrenal,
así también nosotros resurgiremos con nuestros cuerpos que serán transformados en cuerpos gloriosos,
cuerpos espirituales. Pero esto no es una mentira, ¡eh! ¡Esto es cierto! Nosotros creemos que Jesús ha
Resucitado, que Jesús está vivo en este momento. Pero, ¿ustedes creen que Jesús está vivo? ¿Qué
vive? Ah, no lo creen, ¿eh? (Responden: “¡Sí!”) ¿Lo creen o no lo creen? (Responden: “¡Sí!”) Y si Jesús
está vivo, ¿ustedes creen que Jesús nos dejará morir y no nos hará resucitar? ¡No! Él nos espera. Y porque
ha resucitado, la fuerza de su resurrección nos resucitará a todos nosotros!
        Y ya en esta vida tenemos una participación en la Resurrección de Cristo. Si bien es cierto que Jesús
nos resucitará al final de los tiempos, también es verdad que, en un cierto sentido, con Él ya hemos
resucitado. ¡La vida eterna comienza ya en este momento! Comienza durante toda la vida, hacia aquel
momento de la resurrección final. Y ya que estamos resucitados! De hecho, mediante el Bautismo, somos
incorporados en la muerte y resurrección de Cristo y participamos de la vida nueva, que es la vida de Él. Por
lo tanto, a la espera del último día, tenemos en nosotros mismos una semilla de resurrección, como la
anticipación de la resurrección plena que recibiremos en herencia. Por esta razón, también el cuerpo de
cada uno de nosotros es resonancia de eternidad, y por ello siempre debe ser respetado; y sobre todo se
debe respetar y amar la vida de los que sufren, para que sientan la cercanía del Reino de Dios, aquella
condición de vida eterna hacia la que caminamos ¡Y este pensamiento nos da esperanza! Estamos en
camino hacia la Resurrección. Y esta es nuestra alegría: un día encontrar a Jesús, encontrarnos con
Jesús todos juntos, todos juntos – no aquí en la plaza, en otra parte – pero felices con Jesús.
¡Y este es nuestro destino!              - Tomado de h p://www.agenciasic.com/2013/12/04, Papa Francisco (Traducción Eduardo Rubió)
EASTER SUNDAY The Resurrection of the Lord April 20, 2014 - "CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE IS TRULY RISEN, ALLELUIA!"
20 de abril 2014— domingo de Pascua, La Resurrección del Señor
                                         Sagrada Lectura 20 de abril al 27 de abril
domingo, 20 de abril – domingo de Pascua                                  jueves, 24 de abril
He 10:34,37-43;Sal 118;Col 3:1-4 o 1Co 5:6-8;Jn 20:1-9 o Lucas 24:13-35   Hechos 3:11-26; Salmo 8; Lucas 24:35-48
lunes, 21 de abril                                                        viernes, 25 de abril
Hechos 2:14, 22-33; Salmo 16; Mateo 28:8-15                               Acts 4:1-12; Psalm 118; John 21:1-14
martes, 22 de abril                                                       sábado, 26 de abril
Hechos 2:36-41; Salmo 33; Juan 20:11-18                                   Hechos 4:13-21; Salmo 118; Marcos 16:9-15
miercoles, 23 de abril                                                    domingo, 27 de abril– Domingo de Divina Misericordia
Hechos 3:1-10; Salmo 105; Lucas 24:13-35                                  Hechos 2:42-47; Salmo 118;1 Pedro 1:3-9;Juan 20:19-31

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  La miércoles,
     Colecta del16 Viernes
                   de abril Santo                                                   UESTRA OFRENDA: 6 de abril
                                                                                    Asistencia: 2,690
      7:00pm - 9:00pm
         En la Iglesia                                                    Primera Colecta: $16,918.00
                                                                          Segunda Colecta (Hipoteca): $ 7,345.00
                                                                          Lirias de Pascua: $ 1,725.00
                 Una Colecta Pontificia                                    Los totales de la colecta del 13 y 20 de abril
Cada año, el Santo Padre invita a los católicos que apoyemos a            serán reportadas en el boletín del 27 de abril
nuestros compañeros cristianos y a los santuarios sagrados que
                   están en la Tierra Santa.                               debido la fecha limite para enviar el boletín
   Que Dios los siga bendiciendo por su generosidad en el
   colecta que tuvimos el Viernes Santo la semana pasada.                     ESTE ES EL DÍA DEL SEÑOR
          “Seamos portadores de esperanza!”                               Vivamos la alegría dada a luz en el dolor.
                        - Papa Francisco
                                                                                ¡ALELUYA, ALELUYA!
EASTER SUNDAY The Resurrection of the Lord April 20, 2014 - "CHRIST IS RISEN, ALLELUIA! HE IS TRULY RISEN, ALLELUIA!"
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