{"id":17399,"date":"2023-04-08T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/?p=17399"},"modified":"2023-04-08T10:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T09:25:26","slug":"parish-newsletter-for-easter-sunday-9th-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/parish-newsletter-for-easter-sunday-9th-april-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish Newsletter for Easter Sunday 9th April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #621da8;\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17401 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EasterSunday-205x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EasterSunday-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EasterSunday.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>EASTER SUNDAY&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Holy Saturday<\/strong> is about emptiness. \u2018The cross is empty now, and still.\u2019 Where is the Lord? The heavens and the earth cry out with longing for the sinless one who is not to be found. We, the people of the sacraments, are denied the sacraments, to create in us the same longing. We wait, as mourners beside a grave, unsettled, ill at ease, almost not knowing what to do with ourselves.&nbsp; The reader, like the other ministers of the Church, has only one things to do today: to pray through the emptiness of Holy Saturday.&nbsp; It must not be like any other day &#8211; there simply is no other day like it.&nbsp; All that might happen in Church is the Liturgy of the Hours &#8211; Morning Prayer or the Office of Readings &#8211; 10 am.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easter Sunday<\/strong> &#8211; When the Word is proclaimed, it is real and active \u2013 the Lord is present, and what is described is, in a sense, happening now. On certain days this is made more obvious by the selection of scripture that refers to a particular time or day.&nbsp; &nbsp;Such a selection occurs on Easter morning, when we go with Mary Magdalene to visit the tomb, only to make \u2013 with her \u2013 a momentous discovery: the tomb is empty, he is risen!<\/p>\n<p>To view and download a copy of the Weekly Newsletter click <a href=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2023\/04\/090423 EasterA.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To view and download a copy of the Prayers of the Faithful click <a href=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/090423 EasterABidding.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make a donation click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygivinghub.com\/detailed\/donate?charity_id=1086324&amp;type=2&amp;reference=Y18&amp;amount=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EASTER SUNDAY&nbsp; Holy Saturday is about emptiness. \u2018The cross is empty now, and still.\u2019 Where is the Lord? The heavens and the earth cry out with longing for the sinless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/parish-newsletter-for-easter-sunday-9th-april-2023\/\" title=\"ReadParish Newsletter for Easter Sunday 9th April 2023\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17403,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17399\/revisions\/17403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11host.me\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}