Mary Queen of the Apostles Parish

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Stations of the Cross
Fridays . 6:30pm
(4/4, 4/11)

Confessions
Communal Penance
April 14 . St. John Bosco . 7pm
Extended Confessions
April 12 . 2:00-4:15pm

PALM SUNDAY, April 13

Blessing and Distribution of Palms at all Masses

Masses: Saturday  4:30 p.m.

              Sunday    9 & 11 a.m.

HOLY THURSDAY, April 17

7:00 p.m. Holy Mass of the Lord's Supper

Procession of the Blessed Sacrament,

followed by Adoration until Midnight

Night Prayer at 11:45 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, April 18

3:00 p.m. Exultation of the Cross

HOLY SATURDAY, April 19

1:00 p.m. Blessing of Food

9:00 p.m. EASTER VIGIL MASS

The Easter Vigil Mass is the most solemn Mass of the year and is longer than a Sunday Mass with additional readings and Rites of Initiation.

EASTER SUNDAY

Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.

OFFICE HOURS

Friday, April 18 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Monday, April 21  Office Closed

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR COMPUTER LIVE-STREAMING Beginning in Lent, we will be live-streaming the 9AM Mass instead of the 4:30PM Mass. If you are interested in volunteering to live-stream the 9AM Mass and then upload it to YouTube/Q-Tube, please either call (216.433.1440 x202) or email (egaughan@mqabrookpark.org). No experience? No worries … you will be trained! Ideally, there will be enough volunteers so that you would only need to be scheduled once a month.

Here's the link to "Q-Tube":
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4N7DhiHNNxaPnTKO3py7-g

We will also livestream these Masses on our parish Facebook page. You can view the video and other information on this page without being a Facebook member which you can access directly from our parish website mqabrookpark.org or Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Mary-Queen-of-the-Apostles-Catholic-Parish-342319779750650

About an hour after Mass concludes, the video will be uploaded to Q-Tube (our parish's YouTube channel). which you can access directly from our parish website: mqabrookpark.org or at "Q-tube" as shown above.

"Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license A-621009. All rights reserved."

Brothers and Sisters,

We are about halfway through our Lenten journey. I hope that it has been fruitful for you so far and that the disciplines you have taken on have paved new, or refurbished old, inroads for the Lord in your life. Remember that God’s timing is not always our timing, of course. So, be patient and steadfast if it has been a dry Lent so far. The fruit may come at the last moment or even later through the seeds that you plant right now. What I can guarantee is that God will respond: When we give him an inch, he always takes a mile!

Our Gospel presents the familiar parable of the Prodigal Son. This is such a rich story that we can always turn to in prayer, one that will never be exhausted. It is also an apt description of our need for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and our Heavenly Father’s response to our sincere Confessions.

The Prodigal Son is so called because he is foolishly and sinfully wasteful. Such insistence that his father payout his inheritance is horrifically offensive; asking for this was akin to saying, “You’re dead to me,” it was utterly disrespectful. But, out of respect for his son’s autonomy, the father pays out—a reminder that our Heavenly Father lets us sin out of respect for our freewill.

But the son doesn’t even make good with his premature fortune (not that doing so would right the objective wrong). He wastes it on sinful living and earns the moniker of being the Prodigal Son. Ashamed and desperate, he prepares to return to his father, not as a son, but as an employee. Sometimes we too are at rock bottom before we consider turning to God for help.

With much rehearsal, the son prepares to beg his father for a job. However, the father never stopped longing for his son to return home and in an undignified manner goes running to greet him. Upon embracing, the father does not count the cost of the lost inheritance or berate his son for sinful living. Instead, he rejoices that his son has returned to his true home; he restores him to the household as family, not as an employee. This is perhaps the most important part of the story to remember in terms of going to Confession. In this great sacrament, our Heavenly Father comes running to meet us, not to rub our face in our mistakes, but to remove them and welcome us home… to restore us as the father restored his once prodigal son.

May we rightly see Confession in this light and never be ashamed or afraid to bring the burden of our sins to our Heavenly Father. Lent is an important time to make a thorough examination of conscience and to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which is an embrace with God that restores us to all that he wants for us.

In amore Christi,

Fr. Michael

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Classes are held Monday evenings  6:45-8:15pm (Sept-May)

Contact Trish Solon for more information

216-433-1440 x201

The hall is used for parish functions and events, such as parish dinners sponsored by the Queen's cooks, Night at the Races sponsored by the Holy Name Society, and a Spring Salad Luncheon sponsored by the Ladies Guild.
McMcafferty Hall is not available or rented out for private functions.