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Worship God - Serve Others - Grow Disciples
Mass Times: Saturday 4 PM, Sunday 8 AM, 10 AM, 12 PM
Confession Times: Saturdays 2:30 - 3:45 PM & the Thursday before the First Friday of each month 7:00 - 8:00 PM
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SCS strives to integrate religious truths and values with knowledge and skills in order to provide a quality education for all students. This vision motivates our students to not only grow academically, but physically, culturally, and socially.
Our school mission is to develop our students to live their lives as a Witness to Jesus. We believe our school exists to teach the mandate of Jesus: "Love one another as I have loved you."
We believe that we share the vision of Jesus within an atmosphere designed to celebrate and practice the love of God and neighbor. We motivate students to grow academically, culturally, and socially. Jesus remains with the community He formed, and we are privileged to witness and share that Presence.
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There is no better investment in the world than the local Catholic parish. It is where people meet Jesus and lives are changed. We are called in faith to be good stewards, and there are many ways to do that. Stewardship is simply recognizing that everything we have and everything we are is a gift from God, and being grateful and generous with those gifts weather they be in time, talent or treasure. When a steward loves God above all, God provides the grace for the steward to love to an even greater depth.
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DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
HAPPY DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY!
Alleluia, Christ is Risen…our sins have been forgiven…God’s mercy is greater than our sin! This second Sunday of Easter is a powerful reminder that Jesus is very much alive and working in our church and in our lives. Beginning at 3pm this Sunday, we will be praying the chaplet of divine mercy and hearing confessions. See the full page in the bulletin about how to pray the chaplet of divine mercy.
WHAT IS DIVINE MERCY?
It is because of Jesus working through St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (d. 1690) that the entire Church celebrates the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which has led, among other things, to tremendous blessings for families who have gone on to enthrone the Sacred Heart of Jesus in their home.Today’s feast is a brand new one, less than 25 years old. And it is less than 100 years ago that Jesus specifically asked St. Faustina to let the pope know He wanted the entire Church to honor and celebrate His Divine Mercy on this Second Sunday of Easter. Thanks be to God that St. John Paul II listened and acted.
God has special blessings and graces for us, if we take the time to listen and respond in trust. So don’t let this day, or perhaps this week, go by without learning a little more about Divine Mercy Sunday, about Jesus’ words to us, and then responding in the way that God is asking of you. One helpful summary of Jesus’ message is: the ABC’s of Mercy. A = Ask for mercy. B = Be merciful in deed, word, and prayer. C = Completely trust in Jesus. Jesus told St. Faustina that “Souls that make an appeal to my mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask.…Beg for mercy for the whole world.”
SOLEMN EUCHARISTIC ADORATION 40 HOURS BEGINS NEXT WEEKEND!
Did you know that every parish in the Diocese of Cleveland has been assigned a week in which to spend time in solemn adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament? This year our week begins on April 27th for Divine Mercy Sunday. Beginning with the 12 PM Mass on April 27th and closing with a solemn evening prayer at 6 PM on Tuesday April 29th our parish will be spending over 40 straight hours in Eucharistic Adoration in church. During this time our adoration chapel will be closed, and all our regular adorers will be invited to pray in church instead of the chapel. The church will be open all night long for two days so please stop by and spend some time with Jesus in adoration. All our school children, Columbkids religious education students, parishioners and families are invited to pray anytime in church throughout these holy days. In addition to 8:15 AM Mass on Monday and Tuesday we will be hosting a family holy hour on Monday April 28th at 6:30 PM in church. Resources will be available in church for prayer throughout the adoration time so bring a friend and learn to pray with Jesus in the Holy Eucharist! Jesus’ real presence in the most blessed Sacrament gives our parish supernatural strength.
WHAT IS 40 HOURS EUCHARISTIC DEVOTIONS - WHY THE NUMBER 40?
The Forty Hours Devotion is a special forty-hour period of continuous prayer made before the Blessed Sacrament in solemn exposition. Of course, the focus of this devotion is on the Holy Eucharist. As Catholics, the words of our Lord burn in our hearts: “I myself am the living bread come down from Heaven. If anyone eats this bread, He shall live forever; the bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world” (John 6:51). Affirming our belief in the real presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, Vatican Council II taught that the Holy Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life” (Lumen Gentium, #11). While the Mass is the central act of worship for us Catholics, an act which participates in the eternal reality of our Lord’s passion, death, and resurrection, Vatican Council II upheld and encouraged the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass.
The number forty has always signified a sacred period of time: the rains during the time of Noah lasted 40 days and nights; the Jews wandered through the desert for 40 years, our Lord fasted and prayed for 40 days before beginning His public ministry. The 40 Hours Devotion remembers that traditional “forty-hour period” from our Lord’s burial until the resurrection. The Forty Hours Devotion begins with a Solemn Mass of Exposition (for us it’s at 12pm on Sunday April 27th) and concludes with the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Evening Prayer at 6pm on Tuesday April 29th.
During 40 Hours - The Blessed Sacrament remains on the altar in a monstrance. During the next 40 hours, the faithful gather for personal or public prayer in adoration of our Lord. The Blessed Sacrament is reposed in the tabernacle for the daily Mass, and then returned for exposition after Mass.
Never forget, the Lord is with us, always!
