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Last Updated on: Thursday, May 08, 2008
Masses for the Week of May 5 Monday May 5 8:00 a.m. †Julie Edmonds Tuesday May 6 8:00 a.m. Father Don’s Birthday Wednesday May 7 8:00 a.m. Anastasia Smith Thursday May 8 8:00 a.m. Joseph Chouinard by the Mader Fam. Friday May 9 8:00 a.m. Ann Mueller by John Finnegan Saturday May 10 Bl. Damien of Moloka’i 8:00 a.m. Linda Mueller by John Finnegan Saturday Vigil 6:00 p.m. †Souls in Purgatory Sunday May 11 8:00 a.m. Al & Chip Gammel 10:00 a.m. Pro Populo 12:15 p.m. Beverly Coscarelli 6:00 p.m. †Souls in Purgatory
Ministers - Weekend of May 11 Lectors 6:00 p.m. - Barb Chutka 8:00 a.m. - Andrew Pieri 10:00 a.m. - Joe Luminiello Altar Boys 6:00 p.m. McMahon 8:00 a.m. - Donnellys, Pieri 10:00 a.m. - Salvi, Schurdak 12:15 p.m. - Reinbold, Dailey
Church Cleaning For May 10 Jane Adamczyk Backup: Diana Clifford, Ellen Weiss If you have any questions or would like to help clean on any weekends, please contact Therese Tonyan at 815-385-4186.
Week at a Glance Sun. Catechism 11-11:40 Eng, 4:00-5:45 PM Spanish Tues. Altar boy practice Tridentine 7:00 p.m. Picnic Meeting 7:00 p.m. in school Wed. Tridentine Mass Choir practice 7:00 p.m. St. Gregory Choir practice 8:00 p.m. Sat. Teen Group 2:30-4:30 p.m. Quo Vadis Boy’s Group, 2:30—4:30 p.m. Quo Vadis Schoenstatt Mother’s and Girl’s Group 2:30-4:20 p.m. school Olivewood Sale from Holy Land after 6 p.m. Mass Sun. Pro Life Rose Sale after all Masses Olivewood Sale from Holy Land after all Masses
Readings for the Week of May 4, 2008 Sunday: Acts 1:12-14/1 Pt 4:13-16/Jn 17:1-11a Monday: Acts 19:1-8/Jn 16:29-33 Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27/Jn 17:1-11a Wednesday: Acts 20:28-38/Jn 17:11b-19 Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11/Jn 17:20-26 Friday: Acts 25:13b-21/Jn 21:15-19 Saturday: Morning: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31/Jn 21:20-25 Next Sunday: Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ez 37:1-14 or Jl 3:1-5/Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39 Day: Acts 2:1-11/1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13/Jn 20:19-23 ©Liturgical Publications Inc.
Catechism 11-11:40 AM English 4-5:30 PM Spanish Final Class —today
YOUTH MEETINGS NEXT SATURDAY St. Peter Teen Group The St. Peter Teen (Co-ed ages 13-19) Group will meet next Saturday from 2:30 to 4:30 at Quo Vadis. All Boys’ Group The Boys’ group (ages 8 to 12) will meet next Saturday from 2:30 to 4:30 at Quo Vadis. Schoenstatt Mother’s and Girl’s Group The Mother’s and Girl’s Group will meet next Saturday from 2:30 to 4:20 p.m. at the school.
SERVERS’ PRACTICE All young men, who serve the Extraordinary Form of the Mass (i.e., Tridentine Mass) must attend the practice on Tuesday, May 6 at 7:00 p.m.
2008 PARISH SUMMER PICNIC There will be a meeting in the school at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6 for all those helping with the 2008 Parish Summer Picnic. Any other individuals, who would be willing to help are kindly asked to attend this meeting. Thank you for your generosity.
HYMNS FOR TODAY 8:00 a.m. Ent: Crown Him with Many Crowns #266 Off: Let All the Earth Rejoice and Sing #225 Comm: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones #217 Humbly Let Us Voice Our Homage #311 Rec: Go Make of All Disciples #239 10:00 a.m. Ent: Sing We Triumphant Hymns of Praise #178 Off: Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise #286 Rec: Go Make of All Disciples #239 12:15 p.m. Rec: Let the Earth Rejoice and Sing #225
O Say Can You Sing? Do you like to sing? If so, the Tridentine Mass Choir has an opening for you. Our friendly group gets a lot done in only one-hour practice each week. For more information, call Larry Schwager at (847) 487-1506.
ST. PETER’S SUMMER BOYS’ CAMP As in the past few years, the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius will again conduct summer boys’ camps for parishioners of St. Peter’s Parish in Volo. The first will be a day camp held at the parish June 16-20. The second will be held at a camp in Wisconsin June 23-27. Registration for the boys’ camps will take place Sunday, May 18 after the 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Masses. More information will be forthcoming in next Sunday’s bulletin. NO ADVANCE REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Canons Regular of St. John Cantius Annual Benefit Every year, the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius host an elegant Annual Benefit as a way to raise funds to cover the ongoing costs of tuition and health insurance costs for its seminarians. This fall, there will be seven men going to the seminary. The Canons Regular invite you to an afternoon of elegant dining, music and dancing. This year’s Benefit will take place on Sunday, August 10 at the University Club of Chicago. It will be held in the famous Cathedral Hall, which was inspired by Crosby Hall (1470) in London and once owned by King Richard III, as well as by Thomas More. Its magnificent Gothic design is one of the most beautiful interior spaces in Chicago The cost of this exceptional event is $500.00 per person. Although this is out of the range of many family budgets, you can still support the Canons Regular with a contribution of any amount with the assurance that in a very important way you will be helping the renewal of the Church in our time. Checks should be made to: “Canons Regular of St. John Cantius” with the notation “Annual Benefit”. All donations will be tax deductible to the full extent of the law. For further information, contact Fr. Dennis Koliński, SJC.
CORPUS CHRISTI In three weeks, we will celebrate the great feast of Our Lord’s Precious Body and Blood, Corpus Christi. Traditionally, it has been observed with a solemn Mass followed by a procession with the Blessed Sacrament to four outside altars as a public manifestation of our belief in the Real Presence. The will be a meeting on Monday, May 12 at 7:00 p.m. in the school for everyone, who would be interested in helping with the altars for this great act of devotion to our Eucharistic Lord.
MOTHER’S DAY ROSE SALE IN SUPPORT OF LIFE After all of the Masses on May 10th and 11th, representatives from the Lake County Right To Life from our parish will be selling roses in the school to help support of continued efforts to defend and protect those, whose lives are presently at greatest risk in our society: the unborn, handicapped and elderly. Proceeds help with educational initiatives, maternity support, referrals to crisis pregnancy centers, speakers and other pro-life efforts throughout Lake County. Fresh cut long stem roses will be available for a donation of $2 per rose, 3 for $5 or $20 per dozen. Expectant mothers will be presented a free rose.
OLIVE WOOD CARVINGS FROM THE HOLY LAND There are presently over 600 Christian families living in Bethlehem, who are completely dependent on carving olive wood figurines as a means to earn a living. Unfortunately, the recent clashes in the Middle East have almost stopped tourism to Bethlehem, causing serious financial difficulties for most of these families and forcing many of them to leave their homeland in order to support their families. This exodus of Christians from the land of Christ can have tragic consequences for the Holy Sites found there. Representatives of Christian olive wood carvers from Bethlehem have been visiting churches in the Archdiocese of Chicago for several years. One of them, Mr. Issam Qumsiyeh, came to the United States with a mission to help those families by selling their beautiful hand-made religious items. He will have a display of olive wood carvings for purchase in the school after all of the Masses on May 10th and May 11th. All monies raised from the sale of these goods go directly to needy Catholic clinics, schools and senior citizen homes in Bethlehem, so that Christian carvers and their families can continue to live and work in the Holy Land. Mr. Qumsiyeh’s Star of Bethlehem Group has been endorsed and approved by His Eminence, Francis Cardinal George, as well as other local bishops. Please stop by and support your fellow Christians living in the land where Christ was born.
Please pray for the following who were confirmed by Bishop George Rassas on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Lori Beth Achtor Gloria Acosta Dominic Corrado Luis Cruz Jake DePrey Adriana Diaz Arturo Diaz Maria Galvan Mary Meg Gerbich Diego Gomez Jose Gomez Mayela Gomez Sergio Gomez Paul Hudson Joseph Lareau Mayte Lopez Ana Macias Maria Macias Salvador Macias Juliette Maldonado Gianna Marshall Monica McMahon Jeffrey Nykaza Arizbeth Rosales Luis Rosales Joseph Salvi Cameron Servi Kyle Servi Juan Vargas Francisco Zavala
FACING EAST TOWARD THE RISING SUN OF HISTORY—Part II by Fr. Dennis Koliński, SJC The Early Church regarded prayer facing the East as an apostolic tradition that was an essential characteristic of the Christian liturgy. Its earliest mention in Christian literature comes from the second book of the Apostolic Constitutions written in the third century, which states that a church should be build “with its head to the East”. Tertullian wrote of churches erected “facing the light”. Origen claimed that we ought to pray in the direction of the rising sun because it is an act, which symbolizes the soul’s gaze toward the rising of the true Light, Jesus Christ. St. John Damascene wrote that while we wait for the coming of the Lord “we adore Him facing East” because it is a tradition that was passed down to us by the Apostles. The writings of other Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, and St. Basil, confirm this practice, and one of the greatest of them, St. Augustine, wrote “When we rise to pray, we turn East, where heaven begins.” The eastern orientation of prayer, therefore, was the universal norm in the Church from the earliest years of Christianity. The altar, which generally stood in an apse at the eastern wall of the church, was the focus for the entire assembly. Both priest and laity looked toward the East in unity as if in procession because it was the gateway to heaven, their destiny. The altar was “the place where heaven is opened up” leading the church “into the eternal liturgy.” And it was because of the powerful symbolism embodied in this communal act, that neither the eastern nor the western Church had a tradition of versus populum. In fact, the term versus populum itself was unknown in Christian antiquity, for it was a concept foreign to their understanding of the Holy Sacrifice. The Christian basilicas of Rome (e.g. St. Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican Hill) and northern Africa that came into use about the time of the Emperor Constantine were the only notable exceptions to the eastern orientation of Christian worship. In contrast to the churches in other parts of Christendom, as well as to many in Rome itself, they had the uncharacteristic practice of constructing the building with the façade, instead of the apse, facing east. Along the back wall of the apse were the bishop’s chair and seats for other clergy. The altar, which stood over the tomb of some important martyr, stood between the bishop (or priest) and the people. He stood behind the altar facing the doors of the church, which opened to the East, celebrating the Eucharistic Sacrifice in the universal Christian orientation. Likewise, the people gazed not toward the priest, but rather eastward with him. Although the priest technically stood versus populum, the intent was to face East rather than to the assembly. This practice, however, was confined only to the immediate vicinity of Rome and parts of northern Africa, whereas in the remaining regions of Christendom the priest and assembly continued the ancient tradition of facing together toward the East. Even in the churches of Byzantium which trace their development from the Roman basilica, the altar stood in the apse allowing the priest to celebrate Mass from the same side of the altar as the people themselves so as to face East together.
WHERE DO WE GET THE LATINISTS OF TOMORROW? In a few weeks, Br. Brian Schafer and Br. Robin Kwan will be leaving to attend a special intensive summer Latin program in Rome conducted by Fr. Reginald Foster O.C.D., the official Latin translator for the Pope and leading Latinist in the world. If you would like to help cover their costs of airfare, room and board, class fees, and day-to-day living expenses with a tax deductible donation a check can be made payable to “Canons Regular of St. John Cantius” and send to: Canons, 825 N. Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60622-5499. In the memo portion of the check, put “Latin Studies.” Thank you for your support to help keep the Church’s heritage alive.
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