Welcome
- Pancakes
Let me share with you this story I found on the Internet.
“Six year old Brandon decided one Saturday morning to fix his parents pancakes. He found a big bowl and spoon, pulled a chair to the counter, opened the cupboard and pulled out the heavy flour canister, spilling it on the floor. He scooped some of the flour into the bowl with his hands, mixed in most of a cup of milk and added some sugar, leaving a floury trail on the floor which by now had a few tracks left by his kitten. Brandon was covered with flour and getting frustrated. He wanted this to be something very good for Mom and Dad, but it was getting very bad. He didn’t know what to do next, whether to put it all into the oven or on the stove, (and he didn’t know how the stove worked)! Suddenly he saw his kitten licking from the bowl of mix and reached to push her away, knocking the egg carton to the floor. Frantically he tried to clean up this monumental mess but slipped on the eggs, getting his pajamas dirty. And just then he saw Dad standing at the door. Big crocodile tears welled up in Brandon’s eyes. All he wanted to do was something good, but he’d made a terrible mess. He was sure a scolding was coming, maybe even a smacking. But his father just watched him. Then, walking through the mess, he picked up his crying son, hugged him and loved him, getting his own pajamas dirty in the process. That’s how God deals with us. We try to do something good in life, but it turns into a mess. Our marriage gets all sticky or we insult a friend or we can’t stand our job or our health goes sour. Sometimes we just stand there in tears because we can’t think of anything else to do. That’s when God picks us up and loves us and forgives us, even though some of our mess gets all over Him. But just because we might mess up, we can’t stop trying to ‘make pancakes,’ for God or for others. Sooner or later we’ll get it right, and then they’ll be glad we tried.”
Pope Francis reminds us that it is not easy to trust in God’s mercy because our sins do not allow us to go to His Presence and enjoy His love and mercy. The Pope says during his homily on March 17, 2013, “It is not easy to entrust oneself to God’s mercy, because it is an abyss beyond our comprehension. But we must! … ‘Oh, I am a great sinner!’ ‘All the better! Go to Jesus: He likes you to tell him these things!’ He forgets, He has a very special capacity for forgetting. He forgets, He kisses you, He embraces you and He simply says to you: ‘Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more’ (Jn 8:11).”
Let us not be afraid to go to the sacrament of reconciliation and to experience the wonderful mercy of God. Let us remember that our parish offers this wonderful sacrament on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm* and Saturdays at 3:00 pm. In addition, there will be an evening of penance service with individual confessions this Monday, March 18th at 7:00 p.m. You can also call me and ask for an appointment for confession.
*Confessions will not be available on Tuesday, March 18th.
God is our Father who is always ready to forgive us regardless of what we did. The only condition to receive His forgiveness is to want to receive God’s forgiveness. Let us make a good examination of conscience and go to this marvelous sacrament.
God bless you, and may the Blessed Virgin Mary be with you always!
Fr. Jorge Ramirez
This Week’s Mass Intentions
Saturday, March 16, 2024
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
4:30 pm (VIGIL) For the people of Holy Trinity, living and deceased
Sunday, March 17, 2024
8:30 am Matthew Leonardo, req. by mom & dad
10:30 am Matt Haas, req. by mom & dad
Monday, March 18, 2024
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
9:00 am Grace Grodon, req. by Jim & Dawn Waver
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
ST. JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
9:00 am Robert Buckert, req. by Bob & Emily Brunner
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
9:00 am Edward McCoy, req. by Steve & Carol Yahoodik
Thursday, March 21, 2024
9:00 am Celine Rank, req. by Jim & Nancy Rank
Friday, March 22, 2024
9:00 am Michael Gaglio, req. by Florence Gaglio
Saturday, March 23, 2024
PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD
4:30 pm (VIGIL) Frances Horgan, req. by Sheila Vaeth
Sunday, March 24, 2024
8:30 am For the people of Holy Trinity, living and deceased
10:30 am Mary Ricci, req. by Kathy & Joe DiMaria
Lent 2024 USCCB Calendar
The Pulse – March 14
National Eucharistic Revival
The Eucharistic Revival: A Year of Parish Revival
Cabrini
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Reading I
Jeremiah 31:31-34The days are coming, says the LORD,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers
the day I took them by the hand
to lead them forth from the land of Egypt;
for they broke my covenant,
and I had to show myself their master, says the LORD.
But this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD.
I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts;
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
No longer will they have need to teach their friends and relatives
how to know the LORD.
All, from least to greatest, shall know me, says the LORD,
for I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no more.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15R. (12a) Create a clean heart in me, O God.
Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;
in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.
Thoroughly wash me from my guilt
and of my sin cleanse me.
R. Create a clean heart in me, O God.
A clean heart create for me, O God,
and a steadfast spirit renew within me.
Cast me not out from your presence,
and your Holy Spirit take not from me.
R. Create a clean heart in me, O God.
Give me back the joy of your salvation,
and a willing spirit sustain in me.
I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners shall return to you.
R. Create a clean heart in me, O God.
Reading II
Hebrews 5:7-9In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh,
he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears
to the one who was able to save him from death,
and he was heard because of his reverence.
Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered;
and when he was made perfect,
he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
Gospel
John 12:20-33Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast
came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee,
and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”
Philip went and told Andrew;
then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
Jesus answered them,
“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat;
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it,
and whoever hates his life in this world
will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me,
and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me.
“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say?
‘Father, save me from this hour’?
But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.
Father, glorify your name.”
Then a voice came from heaven,
“I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”
The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder;
but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
Jesus answered and said,
“This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.
Now is the time of judgment on this world;
now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
And when I am lifted up from the earth,
I will draw everyone to myself.”
He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.