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Church 1582 Ferris Rd. | Columbus, OH |43224

(614) 267-3406

Parish Office Staff Rev. Anthony J. Davis, Pastor

[email protected] Mrs. Bridget Marcek, Parish Secretary

[email protected] Mrs. Gwendolyn Rehm, Music Director

[email protected] Ms. Winnie Durbin, Office Assistant

School 1566 Ferris Rd. | Columbus, OH | 43224

(614) 268-3030

School Staff Mr. Daniel Kinley, School Principal

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“There is no longer a privileged people and a marginalized people.

All of us are co-heirs in the mystery of Christ.” St. Archbishop Oscar Romero

2nd Sunday of Easter April 19, 2020

St. Matthias Church | 1582 Ferris | Columbus, OH 43224 1

PASTORAL POST Prayer

God of life, source of all faith,

through the waters of baptism you have raised us up in Jesus

and given us life that endures.

Day by day refine our faith,

that we who have not seen the Christ

may truly confess him as our Lord and God

and share the blessedness of those who believe. AMEN.

Gospel

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked,

where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their

midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples

rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I

send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,

“Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,

and whose sins you retain are retained.”

Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus

came. So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands

and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not

believe.”

Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them.

Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see

my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbeliev-

ing, but believe.”

Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me?

Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples

that are not written in this book. But these are written that you may come to

believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you

may have life in his name.

The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord, Jesus Christ.

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URGENT SACRAMENTAL REQUESTS

Please call the Parish Office with urgent

sacramental requests. Anointing will be

limited to last rites only. Family-only fu-

neral services/burials are permissible.

Private Masses are a part of the Catholic tradition, especially before Vatican II. Mass

intentions will be honored because the spiritu-

al benefits of the Mass are not dependent on

attendance.

Tuesday, April 21

Roy Jordan

Wednesday, April 22

Fr. Joseph Smith

Thursday, April 23

Mary Gioffre

Friday, April 24

All Souls

Saturday, April 25

Felix and Stella Kanoski

Sunday, April 26

People of Our Parish

Meg Dowdell

Tues-Fri 8:30 AM

Saturday 5:00 PM

Sunday 9:00 AM

11:00 AM

1:30 PM (Haitian)

3:00 PM (Nigerian)*

7:15 PM (Brazilian)

* 3rd Sunday of the month only

Reconciliation: First Saturday of the Month

3:45 PM-4:45 PM

Parish Office

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2nd Sunday of Easter April 19, 2020

St. Matthias Church | 1582 Ferris | Columbus, OH 43224 2

NO PUBLIC MASSES THROUGH MAY 3

The Ohio Bishops have extended the suspension of all public masses through May 3. Please continue to make time to worship at home, and stay connected

with St. Matthias on Facebook. We look forward to our reunion!

FIRST COMMUNION POSTPONED

First Communion, which was scheduled for May 3, will take place at a later date, to be determined.

RICE BOWL DONATIONS

Please hold on to your Rice Bowls and continue to contribute as you are able.

We will collect Rice Bowls once public masses resume.

WEEKLY COLLECTION

Please consider mailing your offering to St. Matthias, or keeping all your enve-lopes and offerings together for deposit once masses resume. We want to con-tinue to pay all our employees as long as

possible, and continue to support our monthly charities. Thank you to every-one who has continued to support our parish during this time of no public mass!

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS

We had planned to have members of the Parish Pastoral Council speak at the weekend of April 18-19, thus opening self-nominations for Parish Pastoral

Council with the results being announced by the May 14th Feast of St. Matthias mass. Due to the church being closed for

the time being, we are moving this pro-cess back, and hope to have our new members by the end of summer. St. Mat-

thias, pray for us!

UPDATED LOGO

A big thank you to Rebecca Sutton of Rebecca Sutton Designs for our updated logo and design, on display on our new

bulletin cover.

Let us use this time to

reflect, grow in patience, and look

forward to spring time.

St. Matthias, pray for us.

Doubt

2nd Sunday of Easter (Year A)

April 19, 2020

Fr. Tony Davis

In the sacrament of reconciliation, where we experience God’s Divine Mercy, we

often confess sins having to do with doubt. Maybe we’ve doubted God, doubted a

teaching of the Church, or doubted ourselves. For some reason, we believe that

doubt is always inherently sinful because it questions something that supposedly

should be unquestionable. The truth is, however, that doubt and questioning are

not always sinful. In fact, they can be great tools for deepening our faith and grow-

ing in the spiritual life.

In our Gospel today, Thomas doubted the resurrection of the Lord. He said,

“unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks

and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” While tradition has therefore

called him ‘Doubting Thomas’ in a pejorative sense, we forget that because he

doubted, the next week he had the great experience of personally touching the

nailmarks of the Risen Christ and exclaiming, ‘my Lord and my God!’ His doubting

and questioning are the very things that opened a way for him to have a more pro-

found experience of Christ.

Far from being people who never doubt or question, the Dominican priest Fr.

Timothy Radcliffe says that “Christians should be the ones who go on asking ques-

tions when others stop.” To not ask questions puts us at risk of becoming brain-

washed, a tactic unfortunately used by some Christian churches as well as by lead-

ers in the secular world. True Christians, however, keep prying, knowing that God

is big enough to handle all of our hesitations and uncertainties.

For our faith to grow, we have to allow it to be tested. As our second reading this

weekend from the First Letter of St. Peter said, this is “so that the genuineness of

your faith, more precious than gold that is perishable even though tested by fire,

may prove to be for praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” A

faith that is not tested will eventually crumble. It will not get us through tough real-

life situations.

This point in particular can be a connecting point with the youth of the Church,

especially our middle school, high school, and college-aged students. So often, they

have a lot of questions as they go through their rebel phase in life. Rather than

punish them for being rebellious, we can allow them the freedom of asking any-

thing they wish, all the while trusting that God is still with them. By encouraging

them to ask questions about God, the Church, and themselves, we hope that they

will come to a stronger awareness of who God is, who they are, and what a rela-

tionship with Christ means.

Doubt and questioning are not always sinful, but can be invitations to go deeper in our

faith.

In what ways have I been afraid to admit my doubts about God, the church, or my

faith?

To be clear, we don’t doubt and question so that we can purposely lead ourselves

astray. We doubt and we question because we want to make sure that that which

we cannot see is in fact true.

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