Weekly Bulletin
Sunday, 23: Confessions and Rosary 8:15-8:50 am, High Mass and Benediction 9:00 am, Priest-Fr. Selway, MC-Andrew Kimpel, Thurifer-Brian Kimpel, Acolytes-Bob Poggel and Lawrence Scheeler, Crucifer-Jeff Kimpel, Torchbearers-Michael Mueller and Peter Mueller, Int.-Special Intention: Festivities commence downstairs at approximately 10:30 am in celebration of the Solemnity of St. Hugh of Lincoln
This Monday is the feast of St. Hugh of Lincoln, our dear patron Saint. Though there will be no Mass on this day, do try to make it special by offering some prayers to honor St. Hugh (perhaps you could even sneak a few minutes away from your ordinary duties to make a short visit to the Blessed Sacrament). Don’t forget to pray for the needs of our chapel, our faithful parishioners both living and deceased, and also our priests! We will celebrate the Solemnity of St. Hugh this coming Sunday, November 23. A High Mass will be offered followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Lastly, you are welcome to join us downstairs in the social hall for our first annual festive dinner in honor of St. Hugh of Lincoln. Please plan on bringing some sort of special dish to share with the other parishioners. Please sign the sheets in the vestibule indicating how many persons will attend, and also if you can bring one of the food items listed. For those who prefer, a box is provided for contributions toward the expense.
From “Our Bishop,”
Blessed Feast Day of St. Gertrude the Great! How grateful we are for our precious Catholic faith and Mass, for thirty years preserved, practiced and promoted under the patronage of this Saint of the Sacred Heart in the greater Cincinnati area. How grateful we are for this beautiful and spacious new church, already five years old, and for the
three fine and zealous young priests ordained here. How grateful we are for all of our generous and hardworking faithful, who sacrifice so much for our church and school, which serve as a beacon of light and a powerhouse of prayer for the whole Church. How grateful we are for the many mercies of the Sacred Heart, the unfailing advocacy of St. Gertrude the Great in our behalf, and for our Blessed Mother whom we strive truly to love and honor. Under her title “of Good Counsel” Our Lady provides for our every spiritual and temporal need.
Spare a prayer for those with us now only in spirit, and for the return of all our fallen away, whom we love dearly and miss.
I send a special St. Gertrude blessing home with you all today.
—Bishop Dolan
lesson for the twenty-seventh sunday after pentecost
(taken from the sixth sunday after the epiphany)
“The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed . . . smallest of all the seeds, but when it grows up it . . . becomes a tree, so that the birds . . . dwell in its branches” (gospel).
So the Church from humble beginnings in underground Catacombs, has stretched out to the remotest ends of foreign missions . . . a living shelter for man as he flees upward from the earth; a miraculous “leaven” transforming fallen human culture into the Divine.
Yes, the Life of Christ is a “leaven” hiding, as it were, from the time of our Baptism in the “three measures” of faith, hope and charity until “all” of our humanity is “leavened.” Like the first Christians, we, too, are to become “a pattern to all,” so that our neighbors “in Macedonia and Achaia” (epistle), like “birds of the air,” will “come and dwell” in the “branches” of the Church.
Jesus casts out the profaners of the temple
Take these things hence, and make not the house of My Father a house of traffic. (Saint John ii)
Thou wast, O Savior, so zealous for the glory of Thy Father, that Thou couldst not suffer the violation of the purity of His temple. Inspire us with a like zeal with regard to Thy material temples; and also zeal to preserve the sanctity of our bodies, the living temples in which Thou dost deign to dwell.
How zealously we should preserve personal holiness.
The zeal of Thy house hath eaten Me up. If it would grieve us deeply to witness any profanation of the sacred vessels, any irreverences committed in our churches, if we are happy to see our altars adorned with all that is most beautiful in honor of Him who dwelleth there, with what carefulness should we not avoid the smallest fault which could tarnish the sanctity of
our bodies, those sacred tabernacles which God inhabits? Glorify God and bear God in your body. With what fervor ought we not to endeavor to embellish these visible temples, and to adorn them with all those virtues which may render them pleasing to Him? Let us drive far away from us, with the scourge of mortification, all sensuality, vanity, and avarice, the spirit of the world, and all that may profane or violate the abode of the Spirit of God. If we need a powerful motive to incite us to holy indignation against ourselves, because of our want of care in guarding well the surroundings of this abode, let us hear Jesus saying in a tone of divine authority: Take these things hence.
Resolution. To avoid the least faults, because they tarnish the tabernacle of the thrice-holy God.
THE TRUE CHURCH
A young Jew of Tripoli, in North Africa, fell in love with the daughter of a Protestant minister and asked his permission to marry her. The minister replied that he would never give the hand of his daughter to an unbelieving Jew.
The father finally told his daughter he would give his consent if she could convert her lover. The Jew accepted the proposal, and together the young lovers set about making an earnest study of religions. They compared books, discussed teachings, and read Scripture most attentively. Finally came the conversion of both the boy and the girl. Both became Catholics.
Application.
Jesus founded only one Church which is the true religion that will surely bring all men to eternal salvation. The Catholic Church claims to be the true religion and can prove it. The Catholic Church is the one true Church established by Christ because it alone had the marks of the true Church. These two young people found these marks only in the Catholic Church. That is the reason why they did not embrace the Jewish or Protestant religion, but the Catholic religion.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus! Living and life-giving Fountain of eternal life, infinite treasure of the Divinity, glowing furnace of Love! Thou art my refuge and my sanctuary.
O my adorable and lovely Saviour, consume my heart with that burning fire with which Thine is inflamed. Pour down on my soul those graces which flow from Thy Love, and let my heart be so united with Thine, that our wills may be one, and mine in all things conformed to Thine. May Thy Will be the rule alike of my desires and of all my actions. Amen.—St. Gertrude (d. 1302).