All Saints School News

1335 S 10th Street Phone: 402.346.5757 Fax: 402.346.8794 www.allsaintscs.org

School Masses: During the academic year, school Masses are held on Tuesday,

Wednesday, and Friday.

Easter Break: Begins Thursday, March 29. School resumes Monday, April 9.

Save the Dates: First Communion, Sunday, Apr il 15th at 1 pm.

Kalaidoscope, Saturday, April 28.

Disney’s Aladdin Jr. presented by students of All Saints Catholic School, Wednesday, May 2.

All Saints Collections Currently All Saints is collecting Supermercado and Family Fare receipts through the summer, and box tops and pop tabs as usual.

Parish and Community Happenings

Stations of the Cross at noon on Good Friday, March 30th, at both abortion mills

Join Nebraskans United for Life in the national effort to recognize the Crucified Christ and those who die in abortion mills. We

will pray the Stations of the Cross at noon, at both abortion mills. Fr . Thomas Cusack, of the Columban Fathers, will lead

us in prayer at Carhart’s (1001 W. Mission Ave.) in Bellevue. Deacon Rich Hopkins of St. James Parish will lead us at Planned

Parenthood (3105 N 93rd).

NFP Wine & Cheese Please join us for NFP Wine & Cheese, an event for engaged and married couples that is social in nature. Presenting couples

will share their stories and explain what the Church teaches with regard to family planning. Creighton Model and Couple to

Couple League teachers will explain the two methods of natural family planning. The event will be Friday, April 13, at

7:00 p.m. in the St. Stephen parish center, 16701 S Street. There is no cost to attend. RSVP to nfpwine@gmail.com.

Notre Dame Sisters – Fundraiser For Sisters Ministries

Come to a Czech Style Pork Dinner on April 15th from 11 am to 4 pm at St. Philip Neri Activities Center, 31st & Morman

Street, 4 blocks east and 1 block south of Notre Dame Housing. Enjoy live Czech Music and the Sisters’ Bakery and Kolaches!!

$10.00 Adults & $5.00 Kids. Take-Outs available.

Journey of Hope – Women’s Group Divorced. Catholic. Now What? Journey of Hope is a nine-week program offering support while addressing the issues and

concerns of separated or divorced Catholics. These sessions will aid in your healing and deepen your relationship with Christ as

you experience the support of those who are strong in their faith. A few of the topics included are Dealing with Anger, Finding

Forgiveness, Letting Go, and Gratitude and Hope for the Future. Sessions will be at St. Pius, 6905 Blondo Street, from 6:30 pm

to 8 pm. The cost is $25 for the series. Scholarships are available. For more information or to register, contact Denise Carlson

with the Center for Family Life Formation at 402-551-9003 Ext 1304. Registration deadline is Thursday, April 12th.

Spaghetti Dinner is 4 weeks away!

Our Spring Spaghetti Dinner is Sunday April 22nd. We’ll be making Meatballs on April 14, Pasta on April 15, Bones and

Cookie frosting on April 18th, and Sauce and Setup April 20th. Sign-up sheets are included in this bulletin, or you can go to

www.signupgenius.comgo904054BA8AC29A57spaghetti — It is fast and easy to do!

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Easter is a beautiful time to remember and/or honor family and friends and to show thanksgiving for God's many blessings.

Your donation --no matter what size--will be used to purchase flowers and plants for our Easter environment. Let’s make our

church beautiful for our Risen Lord! Please fill out the form below and enclose it along with your donation in an envelope

(found at the entrances of the Church). You can then place it in the offertory basket. Thank you.

Flowers for Easter Your Name (please print)_________________________________________________________________________________

In Honor of____________________________________________________________________________________________

In Memory of__________________________________________________________________________________________

In Thanksgiving for_____________________________________________________________________________________

Donation Amount_______________________________________________________________________________________

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord March 25, 2018

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

March 26

Parents of Baptismal candidates

meet at 7 pm @Parish Center

March 27

March 28

Divine Mercy Series

9 am, 12:00, 7 pm

March 29 Holy Thursday

7 pm

March 30 Stations 12 noon

Good Friday Services

7 pm

March 31

Easter Vigil 8 pm

April 1

Easter Sunday

Upcoming Schedule

Shelly needs rides Shelly Gray, our Saturday evening Mass musician, is looking for rides to and from Cabrini from her home near 108th and

Maple. Terri has a vacation and several family activities/travels planned this summer and is unavailable to her. The first

dates are April 7th, April 14th, and May 5th. If you can help her in any way, please call her at 402-493-3006. Thank you.

Holy Week at Cabrini This week we enter the Holy Triduum as Lent comes to an end.

Wednesday will offer additional times for the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) at 10 am and 7 pm.

This is the last chance to go to Reconciliation—there is none on Saturday.

Holy Thursday services will begin at 7 pm on Thursday evening. Exposition will follow the Mass in the

repository chapel in the Community room between Church and School until midnight.

Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstaining from meat. We’ll have Stations at Noon and Good Fr iday

services at 7 pm. Begin your Novena of Divine Mercy today also.

The Easter Vigil will begin at 8 pm.

Easter Sunday services are the usual times of 9 am and 11 am.

Set up times are Wednesday at 5:30 pm, and Saturday at 8 am.

Servers are needed for the services on Thursday, Fr iday, and Saturday. If you would like to par ticipate and

can attend the practices, please call the Parish Center at 402-934-7706 and let us know when you will serve.

Practice will be at 10 am Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for servers, deacons, celebrants, and designated

assistants. Practice for those being Baptized and their sponsors, and being received into the Church Saturday

evening, is at 1 pm on Saturday. There is a meeting at the Parish Center with Father on Monday, March 26, at 7 pm

for the Parents of those to be baptized.

Sick and Recovering

Please pray for the sick and those recovering including:

Louise Scolaro, Cookie Sequenzia, Linda Schulenberg, John

Skocz, Rose Carter, Helen and Nadia Soltysik, Luis A. Lopez

Rios, Jim Burson, Veronica Jablonski, Marlene Hodik, Frank

& Fannie Sorensen, Gail Randone, Antonella Troia, Jim

Circo, Mary Rose, Dan Klimek, Nora Greco, Edith Trawicke,

and all those in our nursing homes.

(To add or remove a name on our list, please call 402-934-7706.

We must have the person’s permission to print their name publicly.)

Stewardship

Rev. Damian Zuerlein, Pastor E-mail: djzuerlein@archomaha.org

Deacon Larry Mruz Deacon Doug Lenz

1248 South 10th Street, Omaha, NE 68108 Phone: 402-934-7706

www.stcabriniomaha.org E-mail: stfrancescabrini.oma@archomaha.org

Facebook: facebook.com/StFrancesCabriniCatholicChurch

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Liturgy and Mass Schedule

Growing In Faith

Daily Mass Schedule

Tuesday, Mar. 27 8:20 AM +Patricia Vocelka Fr. Damian

Wednesday, Mar. 28 8:20 AM +Mary Belle Fr. Damian Venditte

Thursday, Mar. 29 7:00 PM Peace in the World Fr. Damian & Fr. Nicholas

Friday, Mar. 30 7:00 PM Services (No Mass) Fr. Damian & Fr. Nicholas

Saturday, Mar. 31 8:00 PM For the Newly Fr. Damian & Fr. Nicholas Initiated Catholics

Sunday, Apr. 1 9:00 AM +Salvatore & Maria Fr. Damian D’Agosta Sunday, Apr. 1 11:00 AM Pro Populo Fr. Nicholas

Reconciliation Schedule Wednesday: 10 am and 7 pm Saturdays: None on Easter Vigil day

Other Masses Schedule

Wednesdays: 3:00 PM at St. Joseph’s Tower

Fridays: 10:15 AM at St. Joseph’s Villa

Bible Study We will continue on in Jeff Cavins’ The Great Adventure with

the study of “Matthew, the King and His Kingdom” at 9 am and

7 pm on Thursdays, starting September 13th and ending

December 6th. The last 12 weeks of this 24-week study will be

in the fall of 2019. All are welcome to attend.

Divine Mercy Lenten Series On Wednesday, March 28th, we will gather for Video 8 of

Father Michael Gaitley’s Divine Mercy Series. We will look

more closely at John Paul’s pivotal role in international events

that once again show us God’s amazing mercy at work. Join us

at 9 am, 12 noon, or 7 pm – whichever time works best for you.

Feast of Divine Mercy Celebration Events April 8th St. Thomas More, 4802 Grover , with Exposition star ting at

11:30 am, Confessions 12:30 pm—3 pm, Rosary 1 pm, Divine

Mercy Chaplet 2 pm, Benediction 2:30 pm, Solemn Mass 3 pm.

Christ the King, 654 South 86th Street, “Day of Grace”

devotion from 2-6 pm. The day includes the opportunity for the

Sacrament of Reconciliation, Chaplet of Divine Mercy,

Eucharistic procession, inspirational speakers (Frs. Jeffrey

Loseke and Michael Eckley, and Teresa/Dan Kenny),

presentations about forgiveness, trust and hope in God, and 5 pm

Holy Mass with Archbishop Emeritus Elden Francis Curtiss.

The Aquinas Forum The Aquinas Forum is sponsored by and held at Gloria Deo,

132nd and W. Center Road. The lecture Tuesday, March 27th at

7 pm is “Reason and Faith and the Shroud of Turin”. Doors

open at 6:30 pm. Free will offering accepted.

Easter Sunday Stewardship Reflections “Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.” Colossians 3:2

On this day we thank God for His Son, Jesus, who died and rose

for us. We celebrate and sing “Alleluia.” Let’s try to keep the joy

of this Easter season in our hearts throughout the year! Pray daily

and listen for how He is calling each of us to joyfully use our

gifts to fulfill His salvation plan.

Bulletin Additions

To have information published in the upcoming bulletin, please email bulletineditorcabrini@gmail.com by Wednesday evening.

Dear Friends,

Our Lenten Journey has reached its end and the celebration of Holy Week is upon us. I hope you find time this

week to join us in the liturgies as we remember the great events of the life of Jesus.

I think the liturgies of this week help us to understand how God deals with the presence of evil in our world.

From the liturgies, we learn too, how we are to deal with evil. For the celebrations this week recall what appears to be

the ultimate triumph of evil, but it ends up being the defeat of evil with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This week we

are not strangely optimistic people, but we are a people who contemplate the ultimate evil – the death of the just one –

knowing that God takes this tragedy and turns it upside down. We do not sugar coat the evil and say it does not exist,

but facing the truth of evil, we learn who conquers and how we share in the victory.

We, in a sense, are celebrating the majestic throne room scene in chapters four and five of the Book of

Revelation. The four living creatures are singing “holy, holy, holy” and the elders are casting their crowns before the

throne; but the one who sits on the throne holds a scroll written on the inside and outside, sealed with seven seals, and

nobody can be found worthy to open it and break its seals. The way to God’s unfolding purpose to put the world to

rights, to complete the project of creation, appears to be blocked. God had made the world to be looked after by

human stewards and no human being is capable of taking God’s plan forward. So what is Revelation’s answer? The

Lamb has conquered and defeated the power of evil. The Lamb has ransomed people from every nation in order to

make them a royal priesthood, serving God and reigning on earth.

We celebrate the victory of the cross this week and we, God’s people, are to carry on the story. The result of

the victory of the cross is that there is now a redeemed people ready to act as God’s agents, his stewards, being

equipped to reflect God’s image to creation, to bring God’s wise and healing order to the world, putting the world

under the just and gentle rule of God. Having defeated evil on the cross, God has set us free to live as forgiving, loving

people bringing the Good News of our salvation to those who most need to hear the story.

From the cross, Jesus offers us forgiveness. A forgiveness that changes everything. When we truly offer

forgiveness to a person who has hurt us, we are not saying that the offense does not matter, rather we are saying it did

matter and that we are forgiving them. In doing so, we are no longer held captive by the evil done to us. The one who

offers the forgiveness is set free. The one who receives the forgiveness is transformed even if they refuse to accept the

forgiveness. The relationship has changed; it is no longer conditioned by the evil act.

Forgiveness is not the same thing as tolerance. It does not mean that you let people get away with evil acts; it

does not mean that you are not taking evil seriously. Forgiveness starts with the acknowledgment of an evil taking

place, naming the evil, taking the relationship with the offender into place and then not allowing the evil to determine

the type of person we will be. It is hard work. It is God’s work.

Join us in contemplating this amazing work of God this week. Perhaps by doing so, you will enter a bit more

deeply into the mystery of God’s forgiving love and be able to offer it to others. Only when we can truly begin to see

the future God has in store for us, can we begin to live it now – free, loving, forgiving…

Peace,

Fr. Damian

Pastor’s Letter

Nebraskans United for Life Mother's Day ad in the May 13th Omaha World Herald. Honor special women in your life by listing their names in support of LIFE, on Mother’s Day. There are three categories for

listing a name: General, To Honor (the living), and In Memoriam (the deceased). The suggested donation is $20 per line of 27

characters, including spaces. The form is included in the Nebraskans United for Life March newsletter. More names can easily

be added. The cost of this full-page ad is $12,000, so extra donations are greatly appreciated. Forms must be postmarked by

May 5th to make the publishing deadline. To request a form by email, call 402-399-0299.