Posted by admin on April 28, 2010 under Featured Articles | 
May Crowning
Join us this Saturday, May 1, at 10:30 for our annual May Crowning Celebration! Bring some flowers to add to the many bouquets brought by the CCD children to decorate Mary’s altar. The service will last approximately 30 minutes and includes a Rosary Procession.
First Communion
First Communion for our second grade class will take place at the 10:30 Mass on Sunday, May 2. Please keep the children in your prayers and Masses as they prepare to receive the Holy Eucharist!
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Co/op information is now available for the 2010/2011 school year. Please click on the co/op tab at the top of the page.
Posted by admin on April 27, 2010 under Altar Servers |
Test Post
Posted by admin on April 21, 2010 under Church News |
Dear People of Emmanuel,
I have neglected to update you on my situation, so now I will give you a few reflections on what is happening: the radiation treatment is over, and I have begun physical therapy again. This will last a few weeks.
Thank you for your gift of prayers and good wishes and be sure of my prayers for all of you. May the Lord strengthen you all during this Easter Season. I am not sure of when I will return to Emmanuel. It is a long drawn out process, hopefully in a reasonable amount of time. I thank all of the priests who have substituted for me over these 4 months.
Peace and Joy,
Fr. Lee
Posted by admin on April 8, 2010 under Church News |
Sunday, April 11, Emmanuel will resume the tradition of celebrating Divine Mercy throughout the day.
The schedule is as follows:
1:00 PM Blessing of the Divine Mercy Image
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
1:00 – 2:45 PM Confessions
2:00 PM Rosary
2:45 PM Benediction
3:00 PM 3 o’Clock Prayer
Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Holy Mass
A Plenary Indulgence is granted to all those who participate in prayers/devotions in honor of the Divine Mercy held in a Church of Chapel under the ordinary conditions:
1. Sacramental Confession (8 days before or after the Feast)
2. Eucharistic Communion on Divine Mercy Sunday
3. Prayers for the intentions of the Holy Father. (1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, 1 Glory Be)
Posted by admin on April 7, 2010 under Featured Articles |
Easter Homily by St. John Chrysostom:
Let all pious men and all lovers of God rejoice in the splendor of this feast; let the wise servants blissfully enter into the joy of their Lord; let those who have borne the burden of Lent now receive their pay, and those who have toiled since the first hour, let them now receive their due reward; let any who came after the third hour be grateful to join in the feast, and those who may have come after the sixth, let them not be afraid of being too late; for the Lord is gracious and He receives the last even as the first. He gives rest to him who comes on the eleventh hour as well as to him who has toiled since the first: yes, He has pity on the last and He serves the first; He rewards the one and praises the effort.
Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward; you rich and you poor, dance together; you sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day; you who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. The table is richly loaded: enjoy its royal banquet. The calf is a fatted one: let no one go away hungry. All of you enjoy the banquet of faith; all of you receive the riches of his goodness. Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed; let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave; let no one fear death, for the death of our Saviour has set us free: He has destroyed it by enduring it, He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom, He has angered it by allowing it to taste of his flesh.
When Isaias foresaw all this, he cried out: “O Hades, you have been angered by encountering Him in the nether world.” Hades is angered because frustrated, it is angered because it has been mocked, it is angered because it has been destroyed, it is angered because it has been reduced to naught, it is angered because it is now captive. It seized a body, and, lo! it encountered heaven; it seized the visible, and was overcome by the invisible.
O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen and you are abolished. Christ is risen and the demons are cast down. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life is freed. Christ is risen and the tomb is emptied of the dead: for Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of those who had fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.
