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Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday: April 24, 2022
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Acts 5:12-16; Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19; John 20:19-31. In the first reading, the Apostles performed many signs and wonders, and many came to believe. In Revelation, John, imprisoned, had a vision of Jesus in heaven and was commanded to write all that he saw. In the Gospel, the resurrected Jesus reveals himself to Thomas, who only then came to believe. Jesus said, Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.
O Della Divina Misericordia
L’uomo vuole vedere per credere. C’è un “vedere” che limita la fede, perché vuol ridurre l’oggetto della fede alla logica della ragione, rifutando la novità insondabile del mistero. C’è un “vedere” che è condizione indispensabile per credere: perché scaturisce dall’obbedienza nella fede e dall’esperienza del perdono fatta nel sacramento della misericordia.
復活期第二主日 救主慈悲主日
上主日我們讀到福音中三位人物（伯多祿、瑪利亞．瑪達肋納、和若望）對耶穌復活的各有不同的反應。今天又談到另外兩位人物的反應。第一位是宗徒多默，他說：「除非我見到祂手上的釘痕，用指頭探入那釘痕，並用手探入祂的肋旁，否則，我決不信！」他是個要看到、摸到才信的人。他也是說出了一句兩千年來成聖體時，無數人默默地說着的「我主！我的天主！」的禱詞。
第二位是誰？就是你和我，我們對耶穌復活有什麼反應？對福音的教訓持着怎樣的態度？是不是從中文「信」字的含義：「人」（宗徒、教宗、福音、教會），「言」（說）「人言為信」的態度去信？
今天又是「救主慈悲主日」。公元二千年，教宗若望．保祿二世祝聖Sister Faustina為聖人，並定下每年復活主日後第一個主日為「救主慈悲主日」；因為耶穌要世人知道，天主是無限慈悲的，如果我們全心悔改，在這一天辦告解並領聖體，祂要寬恕我們全部罪過和罪罰。
教宗特定今年為「慈悲特殊禧年」。我們固然要感謝天主對我們慈悲，也要效法祂 對別人慈悲去見證自己的信仰。
From the Pastor’s Desk
News travels fast. It is this fast-disseminating news we have to be careful with. It may have not been well-sifted or verified.
The news of Christ’s resurrection has made its way quickly through the circles of Jesus’ friends. What’s more, there was news that he appeared to a lot of them. (1Cor 15:5-8).
Thomas didn’t want to be involved in hearsay. He wanted to analyze the news. He wanted the truth. He wanted to be present at an apparition and verify – see the wounds of the Risen Lord.
The news is fake if the Risen Lord did not carry wounds in his hands and feet and side.
This is the true Lord Thomas knew; this is what he believed.
The true risen Christ bears wounds. This is what we need to keep in mind. What does this mean? It means that the Christ we believe in is not one who has come to take away the sufferings of the world, but rather the sins of the world. Yes, he cured a lot of people, but restoring people to health in order for them to keep living longer in this world was not what he came to do. He has come to redeem us – to take us to life in his kingdom that is “not of this world.”
We, therefore, need to – like Thomas – always verify the Gospel or Good News that is preached to us or the Good News that we embrace. There will be occasions when we shall be made to accept a “Gospel of Prosperity” – one that promises a “woundless” life on this earth: health, wealth, freedom from trouble, pain or suffering. Have genuine faith in Jesus, and you will be spared from life’s humiliations and pains! Have genuine faith in Jesus, and prosperity will come your way! Believe in the resurrection, and rainbows will surround your life!
Would that it were so! But Jesus never promised us rescue, exemptions, immunity from cancer, or escape from death.
The true risen Christ bears wounds.
Christ promised that, in the end, there will be redemption, vindication, immunity from suffering, and eternal life. But that’s in the end. In the meantime, in the early and intermediate chapters of our lives, there will be the same kinds of humiliation, pain, and death that everyone else suffers.
The true risen Christ bears wounds. The death and resurrection of Jesus reveal a redeeming, rather than a rescuing, God.
–Fr. Ramon Zarate, SDB
Mass Intentions For The Week
Sunday April 24, 2022
8:45 For the People of Saints Peter and Paul
10:15 Deceased Members and Ancestors Chinese Apostolate
12:00 Loriano & Anita Belluomini + – Italo Giannone +
5:00 The Pierini & Spes Families +
Monday April 25, 2022
7:00 Birthday of Larry Martin
9:00 Emilia Lucchesi + – Chris Bruno +
Tuesday April 26, 2022
7:00 Arthur & Tin Tin Cua Family +
9:00 Egisto, Nello, & Ivano Daini + – Emanuela, & Antonio Amanta +
Wednesday April 27, 2022
7:00 Anna Ross +
9:00 Maria Russo & Luigi Cirelli +
Thursday April 28, 2022
7:00 Frank Sanguinetti +
9:00 Rose Hill + – For the Unborn
Friday April 29, 2022
7:00 Edward Sabini + – Intention Catarina Lai
9:00 In Honor of Madonna della Guardia – Erna Egli +
Saturday April 30, 2022
7:30 Zelinda De Martini +
9:00 The Sanguinetti Family +
5:00 Louis & Enes Greco & Joseph & Carmella Greco +
Baptism
Presley Lorenzo – Ryan Hooper
Howard Brown, II, Reina & Raymon Booker
Marriages
Chance Paolucci & Shannon Brady
Thomas Lastella & Katie Kabana
Rest-in-Peace
Anthony Damato
Particular Items
Second Collection: Today we have a second collection for the Black & Indian Home Missions. Please be generous.
Congratulations! To this year’s RCIA members, who were received into full communion with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. They are Catherine Thresher, Alexandra Packard and Gianna Sanfilippo. Pray for them, and Catherine, Alexandra, & Gianna, pray for us!
Eucharistic Adoration We have Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 7-8PM. Come spend some time with Jesus! The parking lot will be open.
Salesian Cooperators: The Salesian Cooperators will meet Saturday, April 30 from noon-2pm in the rectory for a potluck and in the Don Bosco Room for their ongoing formation meeting. Also, those in initial formation to become a Cooperator have their monthly meeting on Zoom on Tuesday, April 26 at 7pm. For more information about the Salesian Cooperators, Don Bosco’s association of lay members sharing the Salesian charism and supporting its ministries throughout the world, contact Frank Lavin ([email protected], 415.310.8551).
Santa Gemma: On May 15 we will honor our beloved Santa Gemma, dear to the hearts of the people of Lucca and all Italians, at the 12:00 PM Italian Mass. This year we are blessed to have the Mass celebrated by Archbishop Paolo Giulietti of Lucca himself! Welcome, Excellency! A luncheon will follow. Reservations forms are on the tables. Santa Gemma, pray for us.
Archdiocesan Annual Appeal: This year’s assessment is $29, 415. The AAA supports many important and necessary functions throughout the Archdiocese. So far 36 parishioners have given or pledged $16,607, leaving us with a balance of $12,808. Consider giving 1% of the total amount—less than one dollar a day!
Saints Peter and Paul Salesian School Accepting Applications: Our K-8 Salesian school is accepting applications for this year and next. Please email Dr. Lisa Harris at [email protected], and visit sspeterpaulsf.org/ to learn more.
Divine Mercy: “In life we go forward tentatively, uncertainly, like a toddler who takes a few steps and falls; a few steps more and falls again, yet each time his father puts him back on his feet. The hand that always puts us back on our feet is mercy: God knows that without mercy we will remain on the ground, that in order to keep walking, we need to be put back on our feet.
You may object: ‘But I keep falling!’. The Lord knows this and he is always ready to raise you up. He does not want us to keep thinking about our failings; rather, he wants us to look to him. For when we fall, he sees children needing to be put back on their feet; in our failings he sees children in need of his merciful love.” –Pope Francis, Divine Mercy Sunday 2020.
Liturgical Calendar
Sunday 24 Second Sunday of Easter, Sunday of the Divine Mercy
Monday 25 Mark; Evangelist
Tues-Wed 26-27 Easter Weekdays
Thursday 28 Peter Chanel; Priest, Martyr, Louis Grignion de Montfort; Priest
Friday 29 Catherine of Siena; Virgin, Doctor
Saturday 30 Easter Weekday, Pius VI; Pope
Sunday 31 Third Sunday of Easter
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