Thursday is the Ascension of our Lord!

Let the little children come to me, and do not forbid them, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Mark 10:4
Sunday, May 25, 2014 Volume 2, Issue 21
The one we were waiting for! The one we were waiting for! The one we were waiting for! The one we were waiting for!
Do you remember what a prophet
is? A prophet is somebody who speaks for
God. God tells him what to say to the peo-
ple, and then the prophet tells that message
to the people.
Seven hundred years before Christ was born
(and even a long time before that), the Jewish
people were waiting for somebody to save
them. A prophet named Isaiah told them about
somebody who was coming. 700 years before
Christ was born, Isaiah wrote that God would
send somebody to open the eyes of the blind.
Only God could do a huge miracle like that!
Today is the Sunday of the Blind Man. We hear about how Jesus saw a man
who had been blind ever since he was born! Jesus saw him and healed him.
He could see for the very first time! After that, some of the authorities were
angry and worried. You see, everybody knew the prophecy. Everybody knew
that this meant something BIG. Somebody who could open the eyes of the
blind was the person God sent.
And that is exactly what we celebrate today. Jesus Christ is the person that
God the Father sent. And He proved then that He is God too!
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Say Christ is Risen! in
Chinese!
Helisituosi fuhuole Helisituosi fuhuole Helisituosi fuhuole Helisituosi fuhuole! ! ! !
Truly He is risen is:
Queshi fuhuole! Queshi fuhuole! Queshi fuhuole! Queshi fuhuole!

Help St. John
make it
through the
streets of
Ustiug, Russia!


SAINT JOHN OF USTIUG
A FOOL FOR CHRIST
You probably have never heard of Ustiug.
Its in Russia, 12 hours north of Moscow. Today, if
youve heard of it, its probably because of this saint,
Saint John of Ustiug.
Saint John was a kind of saint called a fool for
Christ. Usually, its not good for somebody to act like
a fool. But some saints really acted like fools. Some of
them tried to act crazy. Some of them did silly things.
Saint John prayed all through the night. Then, when
the town woke up, Saint John walked around the
town. No shoes. Hardly any clothes. Sleeping in gar-
bage.
It wasnt a surprise that people laughed at him and
made fun of him. But the people noticed Saint John,
didnt they? And that was the whole point of being
a fool for Christ. They noticed him, and some
people learned that the most important thing was to be close to Christ
not clothes, not money.
Even though people laughed at Saint John, God did not laugh! God gave
Saint John the gift of healing. Lots and lots of miracles happened be-
cause of Saint Johns prayers.
We celebrate St. John of Ustiug on Thursday, May 29th.
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