May is a month where we're called to pause and especially say, "Thank you!" for the steadfast, patient, and powerful love of our mothers. Be it with flowers, brunch, or just quality time with her, attend Mass with her, let's make an extra-special effort to give honor to the woman who brought us into life itself!
May is also a time when we're called to give special honor to Mary, for by her "yes!" she became "the Mother of God," Christ himself. She is also given to us all, by Christ on the Cross to his disciple John, as a symbolic offering of Mary to be the mother of all humanity.
All Mothers will receive a special blessing at all Masses this weekend!
Happy Mother's Day!
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New Member Social
May 21 - 1:15 pm Hospitality Room
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Join Us! Make this Campus Blossom!
Time to roll up our sleeves! Volunteers of all abilities are invited to join us in blowing out the leaves, picking up sticks, trimming bushes and spreading mulch in front of the school, the Rectory and Spirituality Center. Please bring gloves, shovels and wheelbarrows if you can. Great for service hours! Come for as much/little as your time allows.
Friday | May 12 | 4:30—8 p.m.
Saturday | May 13 | 8:30 am—12:30 p.m.
St. Margaret Mary Vacation Bible School
June 20-22 | 6-8:30 p.m.
Kids from ages 4 years—rising 5th grade—Contact Tara Mattingly tmattingly@stmm.org or 502-690-2851 for more information.
Registration Now Open!
Volunteers Needed!
Famous Picnic Chicken Dinner
Pre order by May 29 and SAVE!
Prices: Adult $14 | Senior or Child 12 & under $11
Save $1 per person by Pre-Ordering your Chicken Dinner no later than May 29!
Scan the QR Code to order or visit
https://stmm.org/summer-picnic/
Tickets also available in the Parish Office until May 29.
Sunday, May 14, 2023 | Sixth Sunday of Easter| John 14:15-21
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit to accompany his disciples. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth.”
Just a moment before, Jesus had identified himself as the Truth and as, essentially, one with the Father. Thus we find in this first reference to the “Advocate,” the parakletos, a fairly clear proto-Trinitarian formula. As Jesus reflects the Father’s being, so this third seems to reflect the mutuality of Jesus and the Father, since both are involved in his sending.
The role of the parakletos is that of animating the Church, which Jesus, at least in the ordinary sense, is about to leave. More precisely, he will lead the followers of Jesus into the fullness of truth, maintaining a vibrant continuity with the Lord and hence with the Father:
“The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” Notice the densely-packed coinherence that obtains among the three, a one-in-the-otherness into which the Church itself is being invited.
Just a moment before, Jesus had identified himself as the Truth and as, essentially, one with the Father. Thus we find in this first reference to the “Advocate,” the parakletos, a fairly clear proto-Trinitarian formula. As Jesus reflects the Father’s being, so this third seems to reflect the mutuality of Jesus and the Father, since both are involved in his sending.
The role of the parakletos is that of animating the Church, which Jesus, at least in the ordinary sense, is about to leave. More precisely, he will lead the followers of Jesus into the fullness of truth, maintaining a vibrant continuity with the Lord and hence with the Father:
“The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” Notice the densely-packed coinherence that obtains among the three, a one-in-the-otherness into which the Church itself is being invited.
Bishop Robert Barron
