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Pastor Msgr. Matthew Mitas, ext. 102

Deacon Rev. Mr. Joseph Kroutil

Parish Secretary Linda Brindley, ext. 100

Bookkeeper Monique Zykan, ext. 109

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NEW PARISHIONERS Register in the parish office, Mon-Fri, 8:00 am- 4:00 pm.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Baptism Instruction is to be scheduled with a parish priest.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE To be arranged with the parish priest at least six months prior.

St. Angela Merici Parish

April 1, 2018 3860 N. Hwy 67 saintangelamerici.org Florissant, MO 63034

He Is Risen

HE IS RISEN

Mass Schedule Mon - Fri 8:00 am Saturday Fir st Sat. of the month, 8:00 am Saturday 5:00 pm (Vigil) Sunday 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 am Eucharistic Adoration Tuesdays 8:30 am - 7:00 pm 7:00 pm - Perpetual Help & Benediction Reconciliation Saturdays 4:00 - 4:45 pm Or by appointment, call 314-838-6565 Perpetual Help Devotions Tuesdays After 8:00 am Mass & 7:00pm Holy Day of Obligation Masses To Be Announced. BULLETIN NOTICES: Submit to the parish office by Monday at 4:00 pm. Please email no-tices to: brindley@stangelam.org. NEW PARISHIONERS: Please register in the par-ish office, Mon-Fri, 8 am - 4 pm. For more infor-mation, call the Parish Office, 314-838-6565.

Prayer, Liturgy and Sacrifice MINISTERS

FOR NEXT WEEKEND, APR. 7& 8

WEEKEND SERVERS 5:00 pm Veronica & Vicky Breen, Jahnea Gates 7:30 am Ben, Jacob & Kevin Burke 9:30 am Jason Brady, Molly Malone, Matthew Neiner 11:30am Evan Krause, Sebastian Thomas, Ben Burke, Molly Malone

WEEKEND LECTORS 5:00 pm Diana Skubic, Ray Skubic 7:30 am Don Krause, Geoffrey Bullock 9:30 am Mary Ann Kauffman, Elaine Neiner 11:30 am William E. De Iuliis, Jr., Julie Ratermann

EXTRAORDINARY MIN. OF HOLY COMMUNION 5:00 pm - Claudia & George Bidleman, Jane Buchholz, Tina Clarkin, Karen Dietz, Vitina Galati, Nora Kaikati 7:30 am - Margie Heppermann, Donna Krause, Harry Maier, Carol Pauli, Kenneth Schmalbeck, Theresa & William Watson 9:30 am - Charles Aten, Nancy Hesselbach, Donald & JoAnn Holdener, Debbie Keeven, Laura Vietmeier, Pat Vorwald 11:30 am - Charles Danganan, Stephen Graham, Denyse Sternberg

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Monday, April 2 8:00 am - Marie Bullock Tuesday, April 3 8:00 am - Dorothy Vogel Wednesday, April 4 8:00 am - MiMi & Tom McDonough (Spec. Int.) Thursday, April 5 8:00 am - Billie Talluto Friday, April 6 8:00 am - Mary Jo Schmidt Saturday, April 7 8:00 am - Dave Pilla 5:00 pm - Kenneth Bertin Sunday, April 8 7:30 am - Mary Kavanaugh 9:30 am - People of the Parish 11:30 am - Betty Modde

WEEKEND GIFT BEARERS - APR. 7&8

Sat. 5:00 pm - Bob & Lois Adams Sun. 7:30 am - Carol & Jude Pauli Sun. 9:30 am - Debbie & John Keeven Sun. 11:30 am - The Liceralde Family

LADIES CLUB Join us on April 7 for Food Truck Saturday. We will have two trucks serving from 4-7 p.m. There will be seating available in the lunch-room. The event is sponsored by the Ladies Club with the profits benefiting the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

From The Desk of Msgr. Matthew Mitas: REMEMBER THAT APRIL IS THE MONTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE HOLY EUCHARIST!

HE IS TRULY RISEN!

As St. Paul said so well, “If Christ is not risen, your faith is vain.” In other words, if Jesus’ Body is moldering away in some obscure rocky crevice in Palestine, the whole of our Christian faith is refuted, and all the struc-tures we’ve created over the centuries, both intellectual and spiritual, would collapse from being empty and void. But He is truly risen! He appeared to all His apostles and to more than five hundred others. They saw Him, they spoke with Him, they touched Him, and even dined with Him…He was not a phantom, a ghost, a specter, or an illusion. Most of all, they died for Him, in many cases suffering horrible tortures (and even cruci-fixion) like His own. Is it even momentarily conceivable that they would have done that were they not convinced that He had risen from the dead?

Two thousand years later, the earth still resounds with the glorious message, and His disciples are still willing to embrace sufferings like unto His own because of it. The Resurrection gives hope to a world where there is still too much darkness, selfishness and sin. And the hope is this: no matter what you have done, no matter what has transpired, you need not die in your sins. Even in the depths of evil, good is still triumphant. Even when there is no visible way out, Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and still the Good Shepherd who leads us to the green pastures of wholeness and holiness. So as the ancient hymn proclaims, “Christians, rejoice!” The reason why is clear: Our Savior has truly risen, and given us all the hope of glory!

PILGRIMAGE TO EWTN (May 21-24)

Be sure to get your reservations in ASAP. (Flyers are located in the vestibule of church and at the parish offices.)

ANYONE UP FOR “BANGERS AND MASH”?

The next logical stop in our journey through the various lands of ethno-hagiographical dinners would be on Saturday evening, April 21, when we would commemorate the martyrdom of St. George, patron of England, and honor him with a banquet of British epicurial delights. What’s that you said? You didn’t think that there was anything the Brits eat that you would care to ingest? You’ve obviously never partaken of Bangers & Mash (sausages with mashed potatoes), Bubble & Squeak (vegetables, beef, and spuds all fried together), Cottage Pie (a variant of Shepherd’s Pie, using beef instead of lamb), or Beef Wellington. Granted, great food is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of England, but the limey’s aren’t starving, so they obviously can slap a decent meal together (as long as you don’t use chutney!). As of this writing, I don’t know whether or not we’re going to be able to pull it all together, but stay tuned, and we’ll try to come up with some kind of a program. Otherwise, the next dinner will be in early June, when we come back to German food on the feast of St. Boni-face.

UPCOMING EVENTS

April 4 & 6: Exercise class for seniors in our gym. (Every Wednesday and Friday at 9:00AM) April 3: My Catechism Class convenes; after Tuesday evening devotions, in the parish meeting room. April 14: The St. Angela 150 Club Dinner/Dance! TBD – Another excursion to Pipers’ Chapel of the Eternal Father in O’Fallon for Mass Week of May 21: Pilgrimage to the EWTN Network complex in Alabama.

QUIZ-A-CATHOLIC

Last week’s quiz was on movies that somehow involved the Gospel and life of Jesus. Let’s go in the same direction with this one. Probably the toughest role in all of drama is that of Our Savior, Jesus Christ. Some of

Features: This Week In Our Parish: Tuesday, April 3 8:30 am - Eucharistic Adoration 3:00 pm - Legion of Mary, Rectory Basement 7:00 pm - Benediction Wednesday, April 4 9:00 am - Quilters Meeting, Rectory Basement 9:00 am - Seniors Exercise Class, GYM 6:30 pm - Ladies Club Meeting, Meeting Room Friday, April 6 9:00 am - Seniors Exercise Class, GYM Saturday, April 7 4:00 pm - Ladies Club, Lunchroom Sunday, April 8 11:30 am - 1st Communion, Church 7:00 pm - Boy Scout #940, Lunchroom

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISH: MaryAnn Hoven, Elisabeth Cisco, Rachael Lawson, Dorothy Martinelli, Joanne Cipolla, Jeff Gauthier, Barb Lehman, Lila Jones, Jennifer Berkbigler, Sue Pitti, Mary Dietz, Rosemary Li-cato, Evelyn Finno, Claudette Kazakian, Shirley Bertin, Jackie Carrol, Lisa Williford, Roy Wong, Guy Henriksen, Gary & Debbie Corco-ran, Augustine & Ray Porter, Margaret Nolte, Billie Lawson, Jim & Eileen McMullen, Kris-tine Lawson, Katie Horn, Debbie Gervich, Mel-odie & Jim Leonard, Neil MacKenzie, William Brennan, Carolyn Stokes, Allison Molner, Eu-gene & Margaret Kluge, Laurie Kauffman, Juluis Lawson, Carl Kling, Sr., Vincent Scog-namiglio, Sara Hopf, Trisha Looney, Jim Byrne, Jerome Rueckert , Gene Schott, Byron Norman, Betty Quinn, Kathleen Willmann, Charles Haynes, Jeanne West, Doris Hofer and Art Bat-son

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PLEASE LET US KNOW IF WE NEED TO ADD OR REMOVE ANYONE FROM THE ABOVE SO AS TO KEEP OUR SICK LIST CURRENT. THANK YOU!

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the greatest actors of all time refused the role, others took it on, but with varying degrees of success. See if you can identify the actor who portrayed the King of Kings in each of the following films:

1. The 2014 production, “Son of God”. 2. The 1961 movie, “King of Kings”. 3. The 1973 film version of the “rock opera”, “Jesus Christ, Superstar”. 4. The 1999 film about the Blessed Mother, “Mary, Mother of Jesus”. 5. The 1977 mini-series, “Jesus of Nazareth”. 6. Mel Gibson’s masterpiece, the 2004 movie, “The Passion of the Christ”. 7. The Cinerama version of the life of Christ, “The Greatest Story Ever Told”. 8. The 2015 film version of Bill O’Reilly’s book, “Killing Jesus”. 9. 1964’s minimalist abomination, “The Gos-pel According to St. Matthew”. 10. The 1959 classic re-telling of “Ben Hur” (you’re really good if you get this one!). (Bonus question: has anyone ever been nomi-nated for an Oscar for portraying Jesus? If so, who?)

ANSWERS: 1. Diogo Morgado 2. Jeffrey Hunter 3. Ted Neely 4. Christian Bale 5. Robert Powell 6. Jim Caviezel 7. Max von Sydow 8. Haaz Sleiman 9. Enrique Irazoqui 10. Claude Heater (who?!) BONUS -no

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” – Joseph Stalin Ed. note: Here are the statistics: 60,000,000 babies murdered through abortion in the United States alone since 1973 and $500,000,000 given to “Planned Parenthood” by our govern-ment every year to promote the barbaric practice. On a different note, here’s another stat: a child raised in a single-parent house-hold is 34 times more likely to be abused than one who is raised in one where his mom and dad are married and living there. “Today children – children! – are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her own sex. Why are they teaching this? Because the books are provided by the persons and institutions that give you money. These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this is terrible! God created man and woman; God created the world in a certain way…and we are doing the ex-act opposite.” – Pope Francis, in a 2016 address to Polish bishops

Features: PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SERVICE MEN & WOMEN Joshua Stremlau, Bradley Stremlau, Corey Rudroff, Steven Bennett, Jerrod Klug, Michael Olwig, Pat Edwards-Parrish, Guthrie Stotser, Jonathan Buss, Brad Sanders, Matthew Meske, Jackie Cotter, J. Timothy Sullivan, Matthew Hawkins, John Reddan, Brandon Gruelle, Dustin Kyle, Jacob Doerle, Max Rose, Craig Richard-son, Isiah Stewart, Jacob and Joshua Graham

CALL THE PARISH OFFICE IF YOU WISH TO ADD A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS IN THE ARMED FORCES.

MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL HOME will be having a Trivia Night at JFK Center, 315 Howdershell Rd, Florissant 63031 on Saturday, April 21st. $200 for a table of 8, including beer, soda, water, popcorn. Theme: Movie, Music & More Expect mulligans, 50/50, baskets/silent auction items. Email Dave at barn-harts2000@msn.com with questions.

SENIOR CITIZEN RE-SOURCE FAIR: The City of Florissant has partnered with Memory Care Home Solutions, St.

Catherine Retirement Center, The Pillars of North County and the Mercy Home Health & Hospice Services to provide the AGING MY WAY RESOURCE FAIR. Gift cards will be raffled, FREE donuts & coffee will be available, Free Health Screenings will be conducted and over 70 booths of Valuable Senior Citizen Infor-mation will be given out. The 2018 Fair will be Tuesday, April 10, 2018 from 9:00am – 12:00noon at the James J. Eagan Community Center at #1 James Eagan Drive, Florissant, MO 63031. This is a free event for all Senior Citi-zens – residents AND non-residents. No ticket required. For more information, call the Floris-sant Senior Office at 314-839-7605.

SAM Seniors Meeting & Luncheon

April 9th, 11:30 am Fried Chicken, Green Beans, Au Gratin Potatoes, Salad & Dessert (Krause Katering)

We will be entertained by Gene Titus with his music.

Reminder: Yearly dues of $15 are due at the April meeting. Checks

preferably. Please call your contact person

Come! Celebrate! You are cordially invited

To celebrate with Ella Burke

Amelia Krause Connor Malone Jocelyn Thomas

As they make their First Holy Communion at the 11:30 Mass on Sunday, April 8th.

Please keep them in your prayers.

St Rose Philippine Duchesne, 1210 Paddock Drive, Florissant, MO will once again have a Di-vine Mercy Sunday afternoon service, on Sunday April 8. The service which begins at 2:00PM, will include The exhibition of the Divine Mercy Image, the prayers for the Holy Father’s inten-tion to gain the Plenary Indulgence, the Holy Mass, recitation of The Divine Mercy Chaplet, and Eucharistic Adoration. Rev. Robert Brock-land CM will be the celebrant. This Mass fulfills the Sunday Mass obligation.

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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY

Today as we celebrate the feast of Easter, we find the challenge of seeing & believing the resurrection that

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The annual Collection for Retired Priests will be taking place today, Easter Sunday. This collection serves to pro-vide support and care for our retired priests who have sacrificed so much for our parishes and communities. The Collection for Retired Priests is an opportunity to give back to those who give so much.

Through spiritual milestones and decades of service, our priests have been there when you, your family and your fellow parishioners have counted on them. And while they continue to serve in the name of God, in retirement it is they who count on you for prayers and support. Your individual contributions help meet the needs of our aging priests including physician services, hospitalization, nursing home care, vision care and disability.

Please help to ensure that this care is available for retired priests now and in the future by contributing to the Col-lection for Retired Priests. You can also contribute online by visiting http://giving.archstl.org/Product/archbishops-collection-for-retired-priests-pmbs. The Archdiocese and our priests are so deeply grateful for your support.

Please know our retired priests are praying for you and your families during this Easter Season.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend Robert J. Carlson Archbishop of St. Louis

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YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THE BUS FOR THE PILGRIMAGE TO EWTN. This is on a first come first serve basis to the pa-rishioners of St. Angela. We will leave on May 21st and head to Birmingham, AL to see EWTN. We plan to see various sites on our return home. We will spend time at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, visit the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia and take in some sites around Nashville, TN. The cost of this trip is $300.00 based on double occupancy and additional cost of $150.00 for single occupancy. So stop by the Parish office with your filled out form and check payable to St. Angela Merici to make sure you reserve your seat for this great trip.

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