Mission Statement: St. Michael’s is a Faith Community that seeks to build up God’s Kingdom on Tybee Island

through living out the Gospel message as we witness to its values of love, community, stewardship and service.

St. Michael Catholic Church Tybee Island, GA 31328

April 5, 2020 | Palm Sunday of the Passion of The Lord

PARISH STAFF Rev. Jerry Ragan – Pastor hapragan@hotmail.com Ms. Delia Robinson – Office Manager Mrs. Ginny Murphy – Youth Coordinator Mr. Ryan Beke – Music Director

Parish Office – (912) 786-4505 Phone (912) 786-4166 Fax Monday - Friday, Due to Covid-19 Please Call office@saintmichaelstybee.org Mailing Address: 802 Lovell Avenue Emergency – Rev. Jerry Ragan (706) 267-1073 Cell Parish Religious Formation Program Fr. Jerry Ragan – RCIA Ginny Murphy – Youth Program Contact the Parish Office regarding PREP Baptismal/Wedding Preparation: Call office for information Websites: http://www.saintmichaelstybee.org http://www.diosav.org/childyouthprotection

PARISH CONTACTS Pastoral Council Co-Presidents – Mike Beytagh/Carolyn Williams Parish Finance Mgr. – Mark Schroder Holy Name Society – Tommy Edenfield Administration/Buildings and Grounds – Mike Beytagh/Matt Ferry Endowment Fund – Tommy Butler

SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE Vigil: NO Mass Due to Covid-19 Sunday: Live Stream 9:30AM

Weekday Mass Schedule: Monday - Thursday – Friday – No Morning Service

Holy Day Mass Schedule: Live Stream Only – consult the bulletin Low-Gluten hosts – please check in the sacristy Sound amplification system – please contact the office Accessibility/seating – ramp to left of main entrance; seating available in front pews CONFESSIONS: St. Michael Thrift Store Hours Closed Temporarily Due to Covid-19 Corner of 8th Street and Butler Avenue www.facebook.com/SaintMichael1891 www.instagram.com/stmichaelstybee http://www.saintmichaelstybee.org | (912) 786) 4505 | 802 Lovell Avenue, Tybee Island, GA 31328

St. Michael the Archangel

defend us in battle. Be our defense against

the wickedness and snares of the Devil.

May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts,

by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the

world, seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Our Parish Community extends a warm welcome to all our guests and visitors. If you would like to register as a member of our parish community, please call the

Parish Office or register on-line.

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Fr. Jerry’s Corner – April 5, 2020 – Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

Similar to a saying about Lent that has surfaced on social media—“This is the Lentiest Lent I have ever Lented”—this may be the Holiest Holy Week we have ever Holied. I hope it is. And I hope you are still praying for our health care professionals who are on the front line: Dr. Scott Pottratz who is an ER physician, his daughter Sarah Henriquez who is a PA and also works in an Emergency Room, Jennifer Wagner who is an Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner, Betty Dixon who is Nursing Director of Public Health for all of coastal Georgia, Lerma Pierce, Jane Bock, Theresa Gorby, my niece, Maura Sweeney, who are all nurses and my nephew, Marc Mongeau, who is a pulmonary Doctor. This week I’ve also asked you to be mindful in your prayer of those who are at risk in our nursing homes, especially the Catholic residents at Oceanside Nursing Home: Jim Adams, Virginia Caceres, Brenda Helmey, David Bell, and Kathy Walls. For this coming week I’d like to suggest that you pray for those you are at risk in our grocery stores. We’d be in a real fix if they weren’t at their posts. So, Keep Mike Hosti and his crew at Tybee Market who do such a great job in your prayers. And remember too Blake Young who is at the Publix on Whitemarsh Island. The social butterflies in our faith community are especially in my prayers during this holiest of weeks. The extraverted among us no doubt are having a very hard time with the stay at home orders. So, I would really encourage them and us all to focus on our spiritual well-being this week. Use this downtime to get a better rhythm and consistency to your prayer life. I read a wonderful essay this week by Alan Lightman in which he observed, “the sunlight and soil that nourish my inner self are solitude and personal reflection. When I listen to my inner self, I hear the breathing of my spirit. Those breaths are so tiny and delicate, I need stillness to hear them, I need slowness to hear them. I need vast silent spaces in my mind. I need privacy. Without the breathing and the voice of my inner self, I am a prisoner of the frenzied world around me. I am a prisoner of my job, my money, the clothes in my closet. What am I? I need slowness and quiet to ponder that question.” Don’t be afraid of turning off all the sound and the things that distract us from our loneliness. God is with you in the silence. Be intentional about connecting with God this week so it may be the Holiest Holy Week we have ever Holied. Alan Lightman ended his essay with these words: “At some point, the coronavirus will pass, or at least recede into the haze of other viruses and ailments. There will be (and already is) staggering suffering and loss of life, enormous economic devastation. That tragedy cannot be overstated. For years, we will be trying to rebuild the broken world. But perhaps the slower lifestyle in these months can help put the pieces back together. And perhaps a more contemplative, deliberate way of living can become permanent.” Be deliberate about your prayer life this week. Pray the rosary or the divine mercy chaplet. Read a psalm or two each day or read the Passion or even an entire Gospel. St. Matthew’s Gospel is the one we encounter in most of our Sunday liturgies this year. Go online and subscribe to one of the many daily Catholic devotionals. Bishop Robert Barron or Fr. Richard Rohr are two popular ones. Or learn about one of our great spiritual traditions online. I am a “mutt” when it comes to my spiritual life. Blessed Charles de Foucauld and St. Ignatius of Loyola are the two strongest influences. But Benedictine, Carmelite, and now here on Tybee, Franciscan also play minor roles in my Spiritual life. Use this downtime wisely and prayerfully!

And while our living streaming numbers have been good, I hope more and more of you will figure out that you can go to the bottom of our parish website and simply by clicking on the image of St. Michael, you’ll be able to virtually attend Holy Week Services.

Holy Week Live Streaming Times

Palm Sunday – 9:30am Blessed Palms will be available outside church from 11am to 5pm. Please use good hygiene. If

you pick up too much, just keep it. Don’t put it back on the table.

Sacred Paschal Triduum

Thursday of the Lord’s Supper – 5pm Have a nice dinner afterwards to celebrate the end of Lent and the institution of the Eucharist.

Friday of the Passion of the Lord – 12pm Stations will start at noon and then until 3pm we have “slow” TV as I pray silently before the Crucifix with scripture and prayers at 1:30 and 2:30. Can you watch with me? Remember Good Friday is a day of fast and abstinence.

Easter Vigil in the Holy Night – 8pm This our most important liturgy of the entire year! Please tune in. This year it will be abbreviated so if you’ve never experienced it, it’s a good time to Get a sense of its beauty and power. We’ll receive Jennifer Wagner into full communion with us at this Mass.

Easter Sunday of the Resurrection 9:30am

End Lent with some good almsgiving. The Holy Father has postponed the Good Friday Collection for the support of Christians in the Holy Land until September, but I hope you can give the CRS’s Rice Bowl Collection this week. Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. They do so much good throughout the world and this collection helps in a big way to support their relief efforts. This week I’d ask you to count the money in your CRS Rice Bowl and make out a check to Catholic Relief Services and in the memo field put CRS Rice Bowl.

Mail to: Catholic Relief Services

CRS Rice Bowl P.O. Box 17090

Baltimore, Maryland 21297-0303

So many of you have been good about mailing in your offertory or putting it in the rectory front door mail slot. Thank you for supporting your faith community in these trying times. As I get a few years away from retirement, I trust you’ll be generous to the Priest Retirement Collection.

Salt Island is the Restaurant of the Week for take outs. They are closed on Tuesday.

Fr. Jerry Ragan

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PRAYER ANGELS - The following families will be remembered in prayer the week of April 5th:

-Maria and Jerome Lancaster -Joe Griffin -Robin and David Turner PRAYER LIST: Julie Anderson, Robby

Armstrong, Pat Ason, Mary Ellen Beytagh, Anna Bryant, Ken Colquitt, Dolores Cox, Margaret Dulohery, Michelle Dubuc Gleason, Cheryl Di Giovanni, Charlie Johnson, Kyle Joyce, Brenda Manucy, Eleanor Remedio, Mary Smoak, Teah Stillings, Phyllis Watkins, and Angie Weidner.

ALTAR FLOWERS: If you would like to donate flowers for an anniversary, birthday, or memorial, call the Parish Office. Cost: $80. DISCIPLE MAKER INDEX SURVEY: Time is

running out; online survey ends on Palm Sunday. This survey is not a family survey, it is per individual (18 years +). You do not have to be registered at the parish. Please help us

participate by completing a 10-15-minute survey as soon as possible. Go to www.disciplemakerindex.com or call the office for a copy of the survey (912)786-4505. Thank you for helping with this important project! SOCIAL APOSTOLATE: The Social Apostolate currently has no need for food, clothing or thrift store donations. They do however need baby wipes, cleansing clothes, toilet paper, laundry soap(PODS), and gift cards to laundromats. Please do not go shopping for them. To minimize the risk of spreading the covid virus the Social Apostolate is asking for monetary donations through their website, socialapostolate.org. Thank you for your generosity! STEWARDSHIP CORNER: “The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, that I may know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them,” says Isaiah in today’s first reading. The gifts God has given us are likewise given for the good of others. How am I using my gifts?

Sacrificial Giving March 29, 2020 Yearly Offertory Budget $ 324,000.00 Weekly Average Needed $ 6,230.77

Collected Offertory $ 3,720.00 Same Time Last Year $ 3,508.00 Catholic Relief Services YTD $ 440.00

Budgeted YTD $ 243,000.03 Collected YTD $ 268,066.79

ACA (2020 Goal) $ 26,245.00 ACA (Pledged to Date) $ 2,420.00 ACA (Paid-One Time/Pledges) $ 14,815.83

Sat. Apr. 4 † Jake Bock Sun. Apr. 5 † Joseph H. Shea (A) and Helen Hull (A) Mon. Apr. 6 † Peggy Muller (A) Tues. Apr. 7 † Judy Collins Daniels Wed. Apr. 8 † David Andrew Ferraro Thurs. Apr. 9 † Sr. M. Kieran Davis RSM (A) Fri. Apr. 10 Sat. Apr. 11 The Parish

Sat., Apr 4 Praise and Worship Service Live

Stream 5:00 PM Sun., Apr 5 Palm Sunday - Private Mass Live

Stream 9:30 AM Thus., Apr 9 Holy Thursday – Private Mass Live Stream 5:00 PM Fri., Apr 10 Good Friday – Stations of the Cross/Prayer Hour Live Stream 12:00PM to 3:00PM Sat., Apr 11 Holy Saturday – Private Mass Live Stream 8:00 PM Sun., Apr 12 Easter Sunday – Private Mass Live Stream 9:30 AM DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME: As we enter Holy Week, we celebrate the gift of the Eucharist as our heavenly food. We continue to reflect on the challenge of global hunger. How does our faith inspire us to share the gifts that God has bestowed on us? Visit crsricebowl.org for more.

“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, shall live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Dost thou believe this?” - John 11:25

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