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April 5, 2020
Saint Dennis Parish 2 Madison, WI
April 5, 2020 3 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord
SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA
“Good works are the links that form a chain of love.”
READINGS
Week of April 5, 2020
Sunday: Mt 21:1-11/Is 50:4-7/Phil 2:6-11/
Mt 26:14-27:66
Monday: Is 42:1-7/Jn 12:1-11
Tuesday: Is 49:1-6/Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a/Mt 26:14-25
Thursday:
Chrism Mass: Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9/Rv 1:5-8/Lk 4:16-21
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper:
Ex 12:1-8, 11-14/1 Cor 11:23-26/
Jn 13:1-15
Friday: Is 52:13—53:12/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/
Jn 18:1—19:42
Saturday:
Vigil: Gn 1:1—2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a/Gn 22:1-18/
Ex 14:15-15:1/
Ex 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18 [1b]/
Is 54:5-14/Is 55:1-11/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [3]/
Bar 3:9-15, 32—4:4/Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28/
Rom 6:3-11/Mt 28:1-10
Next Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Col 3:1-4 or
1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mt 28:1-10
GOD’ LOVING PLAN
By Angie Windnagle
When I was expecting my second son, I remember spending
hours pouring over decisions on his birth and what I wanted
things to look like. Every step of the labor and delivery process
was already planned out in my mind. So, when at 40 weeks
pregnant and ready to make this plan reality, I experienced
a partial placental abruption, I was completely blindsided.
Everything that I had anticipated for his birth was undone
and I was sent on a completely new path in that single
moment. In God’s providential care, my son was born healthy.
There was so much suffering that came from that birth, but
that moment was also a vital turning point for me as a mother
and Catholic and I wouldn’t change it. God allowed it all for a
good I couldn’t see yet. I learned the profound lesson that our
ways are very often not God’s ways.
This Lent, our entire world has learned a similar lesson at a
much larger scale. Many of us planned to spend our days
preparing for the Lord’s Passion and Resurrection in a very
specific way. Like many of my friends, I had mapped out
exactly what I was fasting from and the spiritual practices
I would be implementing in order to create a little curated
Lenten journey I thought fit to help prepare my heart for
these holy days. However, this year we have seen in God’s
providential care that he has allowed a new way to be carved
out for many Catholics this year. A way that God may see fit
to call even more hearts to conversion as the world navigates
the immense challenges of a pandemic. We’ve been called
to give up far more than most had planned. At the same time
we have been called to renew our hope and trust in the God
who sees beyond any earthly suffering, not as a passive
spectator but as the one who took on flesh in order to feel
deeply the pangs of human suffering, in order to redeem it.
At the end of Lent many of us are realizing God’s plans were
not our plans, and His plans will bear so much more fruit
even if we don’t see it yet.
The canticle in the second reading helps us commit to heart
this reality: no matter how deep our suffering is or how tragic
our world becomes, no matter how many plans are disrupted,
we have a God who is so profoundly on our side that nobility
and earthly power mean nothing to Him. He has literally
cloaked Himself in the weight of our sin and sorrow in order to
save us and ensure we get back to Him. If I had planned for a
king to save the world, the last thing I would plan is a suffering
servant who had to endure a horrendous death. But in His
mercy and goodness, God planned a way that would convince
even the hardest heart that we are never alone, and we will
someday be in paradise with Him if we remain faithful and
trust in Him.
Author Father Jacques Philippe teaches us about this trust in
his book “Fire and Light” when he says:
“To the extent we have riches or place our trust in security
and human support, we can’t really practice hope, which
consists in counting on God alone. God sometimes permits
us to go through trials, the loss of some of our security, even
lamentable falls, in order that we learn in the end to count on
nothing but Him and His mercy. Peter is a good example: he
had to fall, denying Christ
during his Passion, in order
to learn not to lean on his
own virtues, his own courage,
the momentum of human
enthusiasm, but only on the
love of Jesus.”
Let us welcome Palm Sunday
and our Lord’s Passion this
year with new hearts that have
been formed by God’s will,
even if it didn’t come as we
had planned, leaning into the love of Christ and his
wounded heart.
Anima Christi
Soul of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
O good Jesus, hear me.
Within thy wounds, hide me.
Suffer me not to be separated from thee.
From the malicious enemy, defend me.
In the hour of my death, call me
and bid me come unto thee,
That with thy Saints I may praise thee,
Forever and ever.
Amen.
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“When we stand before the
crucified Jesus,
we see the depth of His love,
which restores our dignity
and sustains us.”
- 3-30-20
Parish Office
413 Dempsey Road, Madison, WI 53714-3015
Phone: (608) 246-5124
Fax: (608) 246-5138
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.stdennisparish.org
Office Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Parish Priests
Father Randy J. Timmerman, D. Min., Pastor
Office: (608) 246-5124 [email protected]
Father Steve Brunner, Parochial Vicar
Office: (608) 246-5124
Pastoral Ministry and Confirmation Program
Deacon David Hendrickson ��������(608) 246-5129
Parish Administrator
Karen Kaehr ������: (608) 661-0541
School - Grades 4K thru 8
Matt Beisser, Principal ��������(608) 246-5121
409 Dempsey Road
Finance
Roger Howerton ��������(608) 246-5130
Faith Formation/CRE Grades K-8
Lisa Harms ��������(608) 246-5123
Liturgy and Pastoral Ministry
Pat Hendrickson ��������(608) 246-5127
Director of Music and Media
Andrew Kem Office: (608) 216-9380
PARISH INFORMATION
Saint Dennis Parish 4 Madison, WI
PRAYER REQUESTS
Our Saint Dennis Prayer team will pray for you - all you have
to do is ask. Whether you need prayers for an illness, a new
job, an anniversary, marriage, finding your vocation in life,
or any other need - the Saint Dennis Prayer team will pray for
you. All prayer requests are strictly confidential. As always,
persist in gratitude in your mind and heart. Email your
request to [email protected].
Have Fun Together
�� Plan a celebration. Use your
imagination.
�� Don’t stop date nights, most of which can be
done at home.
�� Start building a family photo album or photobook.
Organize your photos and plan some home videos.
PALM SUNDAY OF THE
PASSION OF THE LORD
Human beings are united in their
suffering. When we find ourselves in
a painful moment, our first reaction
is “why me?” as if we are the only person on earth who ever
encountered this challenge. Going through life with a “why
me” attitude only finds us wallowing in the mire of self-pity
and never seizing opportunities or graces. We walk in
solidarity with every human being in the experience of
suffering. Believing that the goal of life is the elimination
or avoidance of suffering is simply an illusion that keeps us
entrenched in a collective myth. This myth distorts us and
limits us.
There are living witnesses among us showing how courage
and determination can overcome any degree of hardship,
pain, loss, or tragedy. Folks finding the normalcy of their lives
suddenly torn asunder are faced with options: opportunity or
despair, stay or leave. Jesus stands before us as the prime
example of endurance and perseverance. He is the One who
showed humility through both the triumphs of life (by learning
to be humble) and the tragedies and injustices (by learning
how to be obedient). To secular ears, this may be perceived
as nonsense. But to those with the eyes of faith, they are
pearls of great price.
True humility tempers the temptation we have to become
complacent and prevents an excessive relishing of life’s
successes and affirmations. Learning obedience keeps us
faithful to our relationship with God so that we can find the
courage to endure any depth of hardship, disappointment,
betrayal, or agony. While we may want our cup of suffering
to be taken away, it simply cannot be. Somehow and
somewhere in the seemingly opposing experiences life can
deal us, God is present with His reassuring, compassionate,
empowering, and persevering love. To be true to who we
are and who God is, we must take up the cross of suffering,
even when it’s the hardest and most apparently senseless
thing to do.
Only our soul can understand these things, but our minds
cannot, so they continue to run to secular ideas and solutions
to pain and hardship. It goes without saying that we need
to do all we can to eliminate as much senseless, unjust
suffering as possible. Hunger, violence, abuse, exploitation,
rejection, prejudice, homelessness, disrespect for life, and
a whole host of other sins all result in suffering that is within
our control. Then, when we face the uncontrollable kind of
suffering or find ourselves the victim of injustice, what do
we do?
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