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Weekly Bulletin
July 13, 2008
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The parable of the sower and the seed is famous. Like
most parables of Jesus', this one invites us in with simple imagery
to ask how we are responding to the Gospel message. The reign of
God is breaking into our own time and place. Do we let it in?
If we take the time to garden, seed can work well
as a metaphor for us just as it did for the first-century audience.
We may spend a lot more of our time inside, though - tending offices,
growing projects or reports, pruning schedules. Indoors or outdoors,
our routines are built from long, tedious tasks.
Actual, living plants take their own time. They
grow on their own schedule. We are able to help - we can water and
nurture. We may have to make more effort than Jesus' first
hearers, though, to be with living things. Do we have dull,
gray surroundings that stunt growth? It's a cliché to remind
each other to stop and smell the roses. But do we?
Hey - anybody seen anything green around here?! We can find ourselves
remote from the seeds of a living creation, let alone the seeds of
faith.
A less famous part of Matthew's passage comes right
at the beginning. Before teaching about seeds, Jesus tried to put
things into perspective. He walked out of the house to go sit down
by the sea. Ever done that? Ever sit down quietly and let
nature reclaim you? How often do we let the waves come in,
rhythmically calming us, washing our shores, washing out the stress?
If we're near the water the call is palpable. Even if we
aren't, the need is there. We can find someplace quiet to sit
for a little while.
In Jesus' case, the quiet reflection didn't
last very long. He was too recognizable at this point, his message
too urgent. The waves of people were so big he was crowded out into
the sea itself, with a boat for his podium.
Dan Finucane
© 2008 Liguori Publications. Liguori, MO 63057-9999. Printed in U.S.A.
Imprimatur: Most Rev. Robert J. Hermann, Archdioceses of St. Louis
We Welcome New Members: For Parish
Registration, please fill a Form for Registration/Information Changes,
available in the lobbies of the Church and School and return it in the mail
to our Church Office or place in the collection basket on the weekend.
Also available we have a list of our Parish Ministries. Please take one.
Parishioner: If you have any changes (members, address, phone no.,
etc.), please fill out a Form for Registration/Information Changes and
place it in the collection basket on the weekend. Please notify us if
you are moving away.
Coming Events
- Sunday, July 13 - Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- 8:30 am Mass for Saint Bernadette Parishioners
- 10:30 am Mass with Fr. Bentz, for LaVerne Faulkner (Schorr)
- Monday, July 14 - Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin
- 8:00 am Mass for Linton Ames (Guinan)
- Tuesday, July 15 - St. Bonaventure, bishop, doctor
- 8:00 am Mass for Rita Merk - Wedding Anniversary (Family)
- 10:00 am Scripture Study with Sr. Nancy in the Mary Good Center MPR
- Wednesday, July 16 - Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
- 2:00 pm Mass at LanFair Nursing Home
- 6:00 pm Mass for Mary Bowes (Bowes)
- 7:00 pm St. Mary Bereavement "Evenings of
Sharing" -- Rectory Conference Room
- Thursday, July 17
- 8:00 am Mass for Guinan Family (Guinan)
- evening Lancaster Festival Evening Concert at St. Mary Church.
- Friday, July 18 - Camillus de Lellis, priest
- 8:00 am Mass for Monaghan Family (Guinan)
- Saturday, July 19
- 8:00 am Mass
- 8:30 am Confessions
- 3:30 pm Confessions
- 4:30 pm Vigil Mass 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time for Mary Ann Van Meter (Spires)
- Brothers of the Sacred Heart Mission Appeal
- Sunday, July 20 - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Brothers of the Sacred Heart Mission Appeal
- 8:30 am Mass for Ronald Whitehead – Anniversary of Death (Swisher)
- 10:30 am Mass with Fr. Kessler for Saint Bernadette Parishioners
The Sanctuary Flowers for Nan Rowe's
Birthday from Family.
Eucharistic Adoration Adorers Needed on
Tuesday, 4 pm; Wednesday, 1 am and 2 am; Thursday, 7 am and 2 pm.
Call Marti Gundelfinger at 654-2277.
We welcome Fr. John Bentz as celebrant of the 10:30 AM
Mass. Fr. Bentz is retired from his pastorate in Morrow
County. He will be living at Hide-Away-Hills and is willing to
assist parishes in the Lancaster area. He served as associate
pastor of St. Mary Lancaster from 1966 to 1969.
Father James Walter
Suggestion Box is in the Church lobby for
parishioners. Please sign and add your phone number if you wish to
get a response or wish to discuss your suggestion with one of our Parish
Staff. Thank you.
There is a new Mailbox outside the door of the
Mary Good Center for your convenience when the office is
closed. When you put something in the box, please raise the red
flag on the right side of the box. Thank you.
"Jottings" from Sister Nancy
A Look at the Human Hand
A hand waits for the touch of another hand. The
human hand is so mysterious. It can create and destroy, caress and
strike, make welcoming gestures and condemning signs; it can bless and
curse, heal and wound, beg and give. A hand can become a threatening
fist as well as a symbol of safety and protection. It can be most
feared and most longed for.
One of the most life-giving images is that
of human hands reaching out to each other, touching each other,
interconnecting and merging into a sign of peace and reconciliation.
In contrast, one of the most despairing images is that of a hand stretched
open, waiting to be touched with care, while people walk heedlessly by.
This is not only an image of the loneliness of the individual person,
but of the loneliness of a divided humanity. The hand of the poor
world reaches out to be touched by the hand of the rich world, but the
preoccupations of the rich prevent them from seeing the poor, and humanity
remains broken and fragmented.
Mornings with Henri J.M. Nouwen
Sr. Nancy, O.P.
St. Bernadette Parish -- Celebrating God's Gifts
Death Notices
Joseph P. Schmelzer, 75, died on Monday, July 7 at the Pickering
House. Services were conducted on Saturday, July 12 at 1 PM at
Sheridan Funeral Home. Interment was at St. Mary Cemetery.
William Edward "Bill" Mast, 84, died on Monday, June 30
at his home. Funeral Service took place on Tuesday, July 8 at 1 PM
at the Sheridan Funeral Home with Fr. James Walter officiating.
Thank You. The family of Charles Hecker
would like to thank the St. Bernadette parish family for their support and
prayers during his illness. We would like also to especially thank
Ann Essman and the funeral choir as well as Dolores DeFillippo and the
Lazarus Committee for the dinner after the funeral mass. Blessings
to all of the parish family.
New Church Directory Coming: Life
Touch will be at St. Bernadette in the Mary Good Center taking pictures
on August 5, 6, and 7 from 2:30-9 PM and October 1, 2, and 3 from 2:30-9 PM and
October 4 from 10:00 AM- 5:00 PM. Please plan to participate; we
would like to have everyone in the parish represented. A current
church directory is very helpful. To schedule your photography
time, there will be a link on the St. Bernadette web page or you can
sign up after all the masses (dates will be given later). Keep
looking in the bulletin for more information and a price sheet.
St. Bernadette's Marian Center Evangelizes at the
Ohio State Fair. Volunteers are needed
to staff the Marian Center booth on the days of July 30 thru August 10.
Our project is in the Market Place Building. Help witness
to your faith in the "Market Place." Enjoy meeting the
public, sharing "faith" stories, giving out Catholic literature,
rosaries and prayer cards. For further information, call
Rita Merk 654-3255 or to volunteer your time, call the parish office
and leave your name & number with Irene 654-1893. Why not
give it a try? Teens and collegians: this may be for you.
Please Pray for:
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Virginia Bright |
Martha Kidder |
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Susan Clark |
Diana Krile |
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Luke DeRolph |
Cole Smith |
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Ruth Faulkner |
Lillian Zack |
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Diana Harris |
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Enjoy the 2008 Lancaster Festival! Is
there any other place in Ohio which has a ten day music festival?
As customary, the Lancaster Festival opens with Street Painting in the
Fountain Square area at 11 AM on Thursday, July 17. At 6 PM
there's a free ice cream social outside St. Mary Church, with 7
PM brass fanfare music. In St. Mary Church at 8 PM is the
Opening night concert "Stars of Tomorrow." May God
bless each day of this happy Lancaster Festival. What a
wonderful opportunity for families to enjoy many events together.
What a special week of friendship and hospitality in our community.
There's something literally for everyone. Enjoy! Welcome
all visitors. Daily schedules are available in the Lancaster
Eagle-Gazette, the festival program or www.lanfest.org.
Parish Self-Study Conclusions Submitted to the Bishop. Thank
you to the thirty some parishioners who gave their time and experience
to the recent Self-Study.
Many ideas and suggestions surfaced in the general
meeting on June 17, and in the follow-up meeting of group leaders on
June 30. The two most pressing concerns were adult faith-formation
and evangelizing our youth.
In our noisy and fast-paced culture, it becomes
obvious that prayer-life and religion are suffering. Youth from
13 years to 30 years are over-whelmed by distractions and noise.
There seems little space for God. Parents, too, are time-compressed,
and often exhausted. Where is thy God?
A parish needs to be a sacred place to get ones
batteries re-charged with faith and hope. It needs to be a place
where youth can "meet their God" and truly come to appreciate
one another.
Please lend a hand and also pray, that as
a parish community we can meet these needs and other needs too.
Parish Council will assist as well as all of our parish staff and
leadership. We will also collaborate with other parishes,
especially in our Fairfield-Hocking area. This is a five year
project.
Father James Walter
The 2008 Catholic Woman (30 & over) / Young Catholic
Woman (16-30) of the Year Awards Banquet on Sunday, August
24th at Berwick Manor Restaurant & Party House, 3250 Refugee
Rd., Columbus at 5 PM (doors open at 4 PM). Dinner: $23 per
person. Nomination forms are available in the parish office or
online at www.dccw.colsdioc.org.
These nominations are for special women who, out of love for
God and all His people, give unselfishly to Family, Parish and Community.
When writing a nomination, be sure to list and describe any
specific qualifications of the nominee that addresses these areas.
Your remarks should be as descriptive as possible, using a
maximum of 500 words. (It's not how much you write – but
WHAT you write.) If there is someone in the parish that you
would like to nominate, please submit a nomination form and letter
to the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, 197 E. Gay St., Columbus,
OH 43215. For more information contact the DCCW office at
614-228-8601. Nominations must be postmarked no later than
July 22, 2008.
Destination: Down Under. All Systems Go for
World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. With
just days to go before World Youth Day '08, excitement is high
in Sydney and abroad in preparation for the arrival of more then
125,000 pilgrims. By all counts, the event will be the biggest,
in terms of participants, ever held in Australia.
Pope Benedict XVI will join the pilgrims towards
the end of the July 15-20 gathering. "Excitement is building
among Sydneysiders to once again host the world," said Jim Hanna,
WYD director of communications. "I believe it started with
television coverage of the Pope's visit to the United States,
which was clearly a bigger success than some commentators had expected."
Drake, National Catholic Register Senior Writer
Brothers of the Sacred Heart Mission Appeal will be
here next weekend for the African missions. The
Brothers through their representative, Brother Clifford King, SC, are
asking for your prayers and financial support. Your contributions
will especially benefit young men who are preparing to enter religious
life and needy students in the African countries. There
will be a second collection after Holy Communion
Bishop's Annual Appeal. This is
the final report for the Bishop's annual report. This year
there were a total of 223 envelopes turned in with a total pledge of
$52,133. This is $7,246.45 over our target. Congratulations
to St. Bernadette Parishioners.
I would like to express my appreciation to Tom
and Susan Saddler, Becky Wickham and Darlene Yenrick for their dedication
in helping with the appeal. The appeal is 8-weeks long with
weekly reports due to the diocese.
Thank You,
Stan Wickham
"Thank You to our Advertiser this Week":
Edward Jones: John J. Kelley, Investment Representative
Please patronize the advertisers found in our Weekly Sunday
Bulletin. They're generosity makes it possible for us to
receive the bulletin free of charge.
"Out of gratitude we share our income for the works of God."
From the Marriage and Family Life Office
Natural Family Planning (NFP) Workshop on
Wednesday evenings, 7-9:15 PM on July 16, 30; August 27, and ending
September 24 at St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Westerville; couples are
expected to attend all five classes. Diocesan NFP workshops are
open to Catholic and non-Catholic couples who desire to learn a safe,
effective and morally acceptable method of family planning. For
more information and registration forms, call 614-241-2560 or email: FLOMailbox@colsdioc.org,
or to print a brochure go to www.familylife.colsdioc.org.
The Red Cross St. Bernadette Summer Bloodmobile on
Saturday, August 23 from 9 AM-2PM in the St. Bernadette Parish Hall.
Our goal is 50 units of blood. For info, an appointment, or to
volunteer or provide food, call Joyce 974-5040 or joyceguenther@msn.com.
Anyone in good health and age 17 and over is eligible to donate.
Foundation Dinners Volunteers Needed, 1000
W. Fifth Ave., Lancaster. We are looking for groups or individuals
that would be willing to have a skit, singing, storytelling, miming,
readings, etc. from 4 -4:30 pm every day at Foundation Dinners.
It would be helpful to these people to have a message of hope and love
to these who may feel they have very little hope and live in despair.
Sometimes a kind word can go a long way when it seems so dark.
If you or your group would be interested in doing a program for these
people, please contact me, Gary Clum at 740-653-3233 or 740-407-6102
and I can schedule you a time to come. I know they would really
appreciate it. Check out www.hungryhomeless.org.
Parish Hall & Mary Good Center Multi-Purpose Room
Reservations: Please contact Darlene for the Parish Hall
and Irene for the Mary Good Center MPR. We need the exact times the
facilities will be used including set-up, tear down, and clean-up time (not
just the time the event is scheduled to occur). We have policies and
paperwork that need to be completed. The Diocese of Columbus is no
longer providing insurance for certain events. If you use the facilities
without permission, you will be responsible for any insurance problems that
arise.
FLOWER CHART: Please sign up to sponsor flowers for
the altar. There are plenty of spaces left on the
two sign up sheets in the school hallway. More
than 1 person can sign up per week. Make our altar
beautiful each Sunday. The cost is $30.
RELIGIOUS BOOKS that are for sale in the book rack in the
back of the Church, please put money in an envelope and drop it
in the offertory basket on the weekend. Thank You.
Marriage Encounter Weekend dates:
July 18-20, 2008
September 26-28, 2008
November 14-16, 2008
For more information or to register, call Paul
& Marilou Clouse at 740-746-9003 or www.wwmecolumbus.org
Catholic Engaged Encounter Weekend dates:
September 5-7, 2008
For more information or to register, visit www.engaged.org or ColumbusEE@aol.com
or call Sherilynn Barley at 614-235-1143.
Cathedral Book Shop New Address and Information:
209 E. Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614-221-6981 800-479-9021 Fax: 614-241-2566
Email: mmurphy@cathedral-bookshop.com
www.cathedral-bookshop.com
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