The Weekly Rundown: April 20-26
If you don't receive our Morning Memo or missed one of our parish updates, here is a quick snapshot of resources and links we shared last week.
Scripture to Ponder from Last Week's Liturgies
Our Favorites this Week
LEARN: Intercessory Prayer and Offering Sacrifices (A lesson from the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia)
WATCH: God's Ways Are Not Our Ways (with Fr. Mike Schmitz): Fr. Mike Schmitz describes exactly how God works with us, even though God’s ways are not our ways. It’s like when a person you’re living with asks “What do you want for dinner?” and you say, “Whatever you want.” He then starts offering suggestions, but you turn them all down. After a few minutes of back and forth you both notice that what you really meant was not, “Whatever you want,” but, “You tell me what you want, and then give me the freedom to choose among those options.” . . .
READ: When This Is Over (by Laura Kelly Fanucci): "The coronavirus pandemic has caused major disruptions in people’s daily lives, hampering or blocking the ability to go to work, attend school or celebrate public Mass. But losses also fall into little things people might take for granted — meeting friends for coffee, dropping a child off at a birthday party or shaking someone’s hand. Thoughts about the missing pieces to everyday lives percolated in the mind of Laura Kelly Fanucci, a writer and parishioner of St. Joseph the Worker in Maple Grove. Finally, one night in mid-March, while feeding her newborn son, she put down her thoughts in the form of a poem. She typed it on her smart phone — next to a shopping list for her family of seven. . ." Read more from The Catholic Spirit.
Online Daily Mass & Drive-Thru Confessions
Join us in prayer for Daily Mass every morning (Monday-Saturday) at 8:00 a.m. on Facebook Live. Drive-Thru Confessions are available every week day 5:00-5:30 p.m. (Monday-Friday) in addition to 8:00-8:30 a.m. and 3:00-4:30 p.m. (Saturday).