May 3, 2020 World Day of Prayer for Vocations Today the Holy Father has asked all Catholics to intercede for vocations. Will you make a special effort to ask the Lord for more vocations to the priesthood and religious life? Pray for the priests who have ministered to you throughout your life, both living and dead. Keep our parish priests and deacons in prayer throughout the week. Encourage your children or grandchildren to consider a vocation as a priest or religious brother or sister. Pray a rosary for more young men and women in our diocese to respond to God’s call.

Pray for our seminarians as they end another academic & formation year in a way that they never imagined. Pray for Michael Preston who was to be ordained a Transitional Deacon on May 30 and we have to see when that can happen. Pray for Dennis, now a seminarian for our diocese. Pray for Eric & Gabriel who are in application. Pray for those discerning! Pray for the many in other parts of the world desiring to respond to the Lord’s call but their countries have too many. (I get the heartfelt emails every day from parts of Africa, India, Vietnam, etc!) Pray for Emily joining the Sisters of the Servants of the Lord in May and Amanda Krow currently in formation with the Little Sisters of the Poor in Washington, DC. (Both from Denton, MD)

May 3, 2020

4th Sunday of Easter

INTENTIONS will be prayed at a private Mass

No public Masses will be held in Delaware or Maryland’s Eastern Shore while the nation confronts the threat of coronavirus.

+Eve & Fred Costanzo +Ralph Cimperman Parish Community +Dr. Andrey Georgieff +Charles Crossan +Carol Strasser

Rest in Peace

We extend our sympathy and prayerful support to all touched by these deaths.

Paul C. Winslow Jr., father of Brian Winslow

Andrew Hegedus, husband of Katie, father of Cliff and Timothy

Deacon Ed Holson from St. Luke’s/St Andrews in Ocean City

Deacon Tim Enright from Middletown

God is the source of all healing and hope, to whom we lift up in prayer the needs of the sick and those who care for them. Lord, allow your healing hand to assist Eva

Skripchuk, Burt Strasser, JD Howell, Jack & Jane Tabaka, Bill Dorsey, Joseph Hemphill, Alyssa Stover, Chet Andruskiewicz, Jim Gambort, Candi Smith, Sean McCormick, Janice Kane, Ralph Culver, Cass Thomas, Patty Calhoun, Katie Fink, Beth Bell, Julie Edmiston, Anna Catriew, Annabelle Capritta, Patricia Barber, Joey (Morton) Scruggs, Steven Huhn, Ed Donaldson, Kathie Wisniewski, Ginnie Marzouca, Fran Huhn, Rick Markel, Peggy Wessel, Andy Werner, Wayne Bunting, Bea Mercatante, Lorraine Sturmfels, Hindey Singer Moser, John and Anne Callahan and others mentioned in our parish book of intentions. Staying Connected: www.resurrectionde.org To brighten your day ... a reflection on The Road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35) featuring Resurrection parishioners Mary Beth, Brian, Cory, Sharon, and our pastor, Fr. Bill Graney. Thank you to Fr. Greg Corrigan and Tom Richards for creating this art. Subscribe to the parish YouTube channel if you’d like to see videos as made available.

LITURGY

For resources for your prayer and reflections at home, see Resurrection’s Keeping the Seasons page: https://www.resurrectionde.org/keeping-seasons. Sunday prayer services for households, along with discussion starters and puzzle sheets for children are included. In the April 26 Mass streamed from St. Peter Cathedral, Bishop Malooly mentioned that he would have been at Resurrection for Confirmation at the 10:30 am Mass that day. And on May 3 our 10:30 am Mass would have included First Communion for a group of our children. We will celebrate Confirmation and First Communions, but we don’t yet know when. Let us keep these extraordinary young people especially in our prayers over these next many weeks. May their love of God and desire for the sacraments be deepened as they walk with Jesus their own way of discipleship. May the Holy Spirit guide and comfort them and their families at this time, and kindle the flame of Christ’s love in all.

----------------------------------------------------------------------- In the face of the Covid 19 Pandemic -- Let Us Pray: As we pray for the needs of the world, we take up our call to Mission and our call to live as the Body of Christ. For those who have contracted the corona virus – may there be appropriate health care for them and may they be healed and restored to full health. For our own country – may our leaders act with sound judgement, may citizens work together cooperatively and do as they have been asked by the government, to reduce infection rates. For children who can no longer attend school –with the help of family, may they establish routines that will continue their learning and may this be a positive time of growth for them. For health workers – may they have time to rest and recover from their work, may they be protected from the virus, and may their work bear the fruit of healthy and grateful people and communities. For people who are isolated and lonely at home, especially the elderly – may they sense the care of others who attempt to reach out to them and may the peace of God’s incarnate Word console them. Lord, hear our prayer. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

CHRISTIAN FORMATION PROGRAM

Our K to 5 Elementary Program and Sacramental Preparation Classes are suspended at this time. We miss you and send our love. We Are Remote! Check your emails for remote learning updates. Contact

Nancy Maloney, CFP Coordinator, at nmaloney@resurrectionde.org or 368-0146 ext. 104.

YOUTH MINISTRY We pray that you are all hanging in there with your remote learning. You’ve got this! Remember when you get frustrated or sad that God is always there ready to listen.

Middle School and High School Youth Group

May 3 Zoom meeting 7 p.m. Contact Elaine for the meeting code. We are inviting youth 6-12 grade to share about an act of service/mercy that they have participated in since last spring. This is just sharing a few sentences on what you did and the impact it had on you. Some things you may have participated in are: VBS 2019; JOY middle school mini service week- July 2019; YNIA 2019;, Salvation Army bell ringing; fall Resurrection community garden clean up. Following the sharing we will have another Kahoot to see what you learned this year! May 17 Zoom meeting 7 p.m. Contact Elaine for the meeting code. We will see how well we know each other with another Kahoot all about us! Blessing of Graduates later this summer

Elaine will see to it that we have some sort of blessing before school resumes in August/September. In the meantime if you have a son or daughter who graduated in the winter or will graduate high school or college this spring, please send their name and the school in which they are graduating to elittle@resurrectionde.org Their names will be listed in the bulletin or a bulletin insert no earlier than May 17. If it is an advanced degree (MBA, Law School, Med School, etc.) Please include the degree as well.

Staying Connected Online Prayer Groups

2nd Sunday Bible Study at 12:00pm, held online due to COVID 19, lead by the Thedal Tamil Catholics on May 10th -Exodus Chapter 22-23 The study begins at noon and ends at 1:30p.m. Please contact biblestudy.ttc@gmail.com for details about the online link to connect.

Virtual Centering Prayer Group My Centering Prayer group is still meeting virtually via Zoom. Those who may be interested in joining, please send me an email to RuthannMaisonet: ruthannmaisonet@comcast.net We are always looking for more individuals to join.

TAKING IT HOME by Deacon John

This process of finding true love is really at the heart of what Jesus is speaking about in our gospel this weekend. In the gospel, Jesus describes himself as the true shepherd, the one who came to give us life so that we might have it more abundantly. Other shepherds have come before me, but they are thieves and bandits. Thieves and bandits take what does not belong to them. But Jesus, as the Good Shepherd, calls us by name and goes ahead of us so that we might follow him because he loves his own and is willing to lay down his life for those he loves. In this way Jesus calls to our inner potential, which is to call us to love as he loves. For Jesus sees through the outer images of our sin and failings to see the goodness within us and then encourages us to love others in this same way. And this is how we have life and have it more abundantly.

“But a generous God is good when things are fine. But what about when they are not and the darkness is invading; when trusted patterns have broken down, like now with the virus? We seem to dwell now at our outer limits when loss, failure, death and sin remind us of the threat of chaos. This is our dark night. But we need to hold onto the God who even in the darkness stands now at the threshold of uncertainty and assures us that what dwells beyond is not simply chaos. Why; because the darkness does bear the Spirit of God, who broods over the waters of death and has the power to bring resurrection. For in our darkness we find the darkness of Jesus and what echoes is the impact of resurrection. Night signifies that which comes, like the virus, and takes us out of control. But it also announces a possibility for resurrection; a God who heals even in the darkness. This is our hope now even in a world of chaos.” (adapted from Richard Rohr’s April 24, 2020 meditation on John of the Cross). Read more at https://resurrectionde.org/deacons-notes

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GOSPEL REFLECTION

The gospel readings for this week and next week shift the focus away from the resurrection and begin to set us up for the departure of Jesus from the earth—the Ascension—and the sending of the Holy Spirit—the Pentecost event.

Today’s gospel passage comes from the very long Last Supper discourse in the gospel of John. When Jesus speaks about “going away” for a time it could be interpreted as the period of his death and rising that are about to occur in the chronology of the story. However, the gospel of John is written a very long time after the death of Jesus; perhaps as much as 70 years after Jesus. Given this period of time between the events and the writing, we know that the writer was also referring to this longer time of Jesus “going away.” By the time of the writing of this gospel the early Christians were starting to come to terms with the fact that Jesus probably wasn’t going to return in their lifetime. They had seen the devastating destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Romans in 70CE which they thought had signaled the end of all time. However, here they were, still alive and still no sign of Jesus’ return.

The theme of being present and being absent is very strong in this gospel. The discussion about Jesus and the Father being one is part of this theme. Jesus is God present in the world. God has come to dwell among the people. When Jesus speaks of preparing rooms in the Father’s house, it is a reference to preparing the disciples to “live” in God; to dwell in God just as God has dwelt in the people.

5TH SUNDAY OF EASTER GOSPEL—JOHN 14: 1-12

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way.”

Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.”

IT IS FOR THE BEST: At the time of this gospel’s writing, some 70 years after the events it describes, amazing things have taken place in the early Christian community. Rather than everything falling apart with the death of Jesus, the message of Jesus has spread further than he himself could ever have accomplished. It is the departure of Jesus from their midst and the sending of the Spirit that really prompts the disciples to act on what they had experienced while Jesus lived among them. The gospel writer has Jesus saying that he has to go away so that the disciples can reach their potential. THE GOSPEL OF JOHN: The gospel of John is very different from the other three “synoptic” gospels. The other three have a very narrative style and can be seen together as different recounting of the same events. The gospel of John also has some beautifully narrated stories, but is better known as a more theologically reflective piece of writing. It assumes that the readers of this gospel are already familiar with one or more of the others, so it doesn’t need to tell the story again. Rather, it presents a sweeping image of God, through Jesus, reaching out, in, through, and with love to the people. THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE: When Thomas asks, “we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answers by saying, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” The reader of the gospel has known this truth all along from the opening line of the gospel, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Our aim, as Christian people, is to be one with God, not only by sharing in the resurrection but also in the way we live, following Jesus’ example.

Exploring the Word prepare for 05/10/2020

The English translation of the Gospel Verses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. Lectionary for Mass, Copyright © 1998, 1997, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; All rights reserved. Reflection, questions and alternative viewpoints © Greg Sumter. © Creative Communications 2008. Used with permission. 2006 0310

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