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An Inspirational Evening Tonight on the song
You Say
Join Fr. Dale, John Nichols, and Mary McMahon tonight, Wednesday, March 20 at 7:00 pm for an Adult Education Night on the song You Say. It promises to be a moving night filled with dynamic preaching, teaching, and music. Here is a link to You Say to get you started for the evening:
YouTube Link to You Say
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PWC Holy Week Calendar
Holy Week starts this coming Sunday
The Palm Sunday Service
will be on March 24 at 10:00 am with the proclamation of the Passion Gospel.
Our Good Friday Service
is March 29 at 7:00 pm in the church.
Easter Sunday falls on March 31
this year; our services will be at 7:00 am outside and 10:00 am in the church.
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Prayer Retreat
Theme: The New Creation &
the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
With Fr. Mike Lessard and Deacon John Null This Saturday, March 23, 10:00 am Building 412 Continental Breakfast Served
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Contemplative Prayer Tonight
Wednesday, March 20:
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Spend Some Time Resting in the Lord...
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Information about
The Chosen: Season Four
The creators of the Chosen wanted a way to bring Season Four—all of it—for Easter. Unfortunately, streaming is not an option yet, so instead what they are going to do is have a movie marathon. Over three days, they will be showing all eight episodes at movie theaters in the United States and Canada.
Episodes 1-3: on Holy Thursday, March 28 Episodes 4-6: on Good Friday, March 29 Episodes 7- 8 on Holy Saturday, March 30
The creators of the Chosen want to make it affordable, so they have arranged for discounts:
Half off through Fandango with the code: THECHOSENSEASON4
All three movies for $30.00 at Cinemark
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The Children’s Ministry will not meet on Sundays,
March 24 (Palm Sunday)
and
March 31 (Easter Sunday)
Please contact Helen Dippre, our children’s minister, for more information on the Children’s Ministry here at PWC, [email protected].
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The funeral for Andrea Goscila will be Friday, March 22 at 10:00 am here at PWC. All members of our community are invited and welcome to attend. For many years, Andrea provided flowers for our community. She will be deeply missed.
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The next meeting of the Grief Support Group will be Thursday, March 28 from 10:30 am to 11:30 am. For more information on this ministry, please contact Pastor Mark.
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Our weekly online reflections are ministering to our community each week through the written word. This week is Deacon Dennis Paschke and next week will be Fr. Dale. Click on our Weekly Reflection Tile and be supported in your faith life! Here is the link: PWC Reflections Page
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Do you want to be inspired again by Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark? You can re-listen to Fr. Dale or Pastor Mark’s sermons on our podcast page, here is the link: PWC Podcasts Page.
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Fr. Mike Lessard is available for pastoral counseling on Monday and Wednesday mornings. Please call the church office to make an appointment at 480-649-0300.
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Are you homebound? If so, Deacon John Null can bring you communion. The only exception is if you have or are recovering from Covid. The best way to get in touch with Deacon John is by contacting the church office, at 480-649-0300, and leaving a message.
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From pastoral counseling to grief support, to Bible Study, to Adult Education, to providing food through Matthew’s Crossing for families who are economically struggling to Marriage Enrichment and our funeral ministry; your consistent giving makes a difference, a big change in people’s lives! Your generosity allows us to minister to so many who come through our doors with their spiritual, emotional, and physical needs. Thank you for your tithing and commitment to PWC!
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Here are the different ways you can tithe to PWC:
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• Mail in your gift to: Praise and Worship Center, 2551 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ 85225.
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• Sign up for monthly giving with a credit card or voided check. Just call the office at 480-649-0300 or stop by the office.
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A Reflection from
Ronald Rolheiser
God’s Inexhaustibility
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For all of us there are times in life when we seem to lose hope, when we look at the world or at ourselves and, consciously or unconsciously, think: “It’s too late! This has gone too far! Nothing can redeem this! All the chances to change this have been used up! It’s hopeless!”
This isn’t necessarily a loss of hope. Indeed, it is precisely when we feel this way, when we have succumbed to the feeling that we have exhausted all of our chances, it’s then that hope can arrive and replace its counterfeits, wishful thinking and natural optimism.
We generally confuse hope with either wishful thinking or with natural optimism, both of which have little to do with hope. Wishful thinking has no foundation. We can wish to win a lottery or to have the body of a world-class athlete, but that wish has no reality upon which to draw. It’s pure fantasy. Optimism, for its part, is based upon natural temperament and also has little to do with hope.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who perennially protested that he was a man of hope rather than of optimism, in an answer to a question, once suggested that there are two sufficient reasons for hope. Asked what would happen if we blew up the world with an atomic bomb, he replied: That would set things back a few million years, but God’s plan for the earth would still come about. Why? Because Christ promised it and, in the resurrection, God shows that God has the power to deliver on that promise. Hope is based on God’s promise and God’s power.
And it is this which we so often forget or slim down to the limited size of our own hearts and imaginations: God is a prodigal God, almost unimaginable in the scope of physical creation, a God who has created and is still creating billions upon billions of universes.
This prodigal God, so beyond our imagination in creativity, is, as has been revealed to us by Jesus, equally unimaginable in patience and mercy. There is never an end to our number of chances. There is no limit to God’s patience. There is nothing that can ever exhaust the divine well.
It’s never too late! God’s creativity and mercy are inexhaustible.
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Please make plans to join us for Holy Week starting next Sunday with Palm Sunday.
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Our Theme for
Lent Easter 2024
at PWC is
This is Our God:
He Loves Us,
He Saves Us
It is based on the song This is Our God from Phil Wickham, here is a link to the song:
YouTube Link to song.
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Love,
Fr. Dale and Pastor Mark
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