Saint Michael Parish September 13, 2015
Rev. Arturo Chagala, Parochial Administrator Ms. Grace Galaschewski, Office Manager Sr. Jennie Catanese, M.S.B.T., Receptionist Saint Michael Church Founded 1831
1445 North Second Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 215-739-2358 Fax: 215-739-5766 http://stmichaelsphilly.org E-mail 1saintmichaelchurch@comcast.net
Immaculate Conception Church Front & Allen Streets Office hours at Saint Michael Monday-Thursday 9 -4:00 p.m. Friday 9 - 1:00 p.m.
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Sunday Vigil (Saturday) 5:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m. (IC) 11:30 a.m. (español) Daily Mass Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. Holy Days Noon at Immaculate Conception (IC) 7:00 p.m. at Saint Michael (bilingual) CONFESSIONS Saturday 4:15 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. & by request
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saint Michael Parish has been a viable part of Fishtown/Northern Liberties for 182 years. We continue creating a community where all God’s children are treated with dignity & respect and where faith, hope and love/charity are abound. We welcome all new immigrants and visitors to our parish. La parroquia de Santo Michael ha sido una parte viable de Fishtown/Northern Liberties por 182 años. Continuamos creando una comunidad donde tratamos con dignidad y respeto los niños y donde la fe, la esperanza y el amor/la caridad es abundante. Damos la bienvenida a todos los nuevos inmigrantes y visitantes a nuestra parroquia.
September 13, 2015
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah would suffer and call upon the Lord for help. Jesus speaks of his own suffering and death and of the demands of discipleship. What use is faith, to confess that Jesus is the Christ without works of love? 9/13 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00 PM vigil Ellen Callahan r/o Schindle Family 8:30 AM Thomas Rawlings r/o Alberta Brown 10:00 AM Frank Galaschewski r/o Galaschewski Family 11:30 AM The People of the Parish
Note: All the weekday Masses this week will be for your own private Special Intentions. 9/14 Monday The Exaltation of the Holy Cross 8:00 AM 9/15 Tuesday Our Lady of Sorrows 8:00 AM 9/16 Wednesday SS. Cornelius, Pope, & Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs 8:00 AM 9/17 Thursday St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church 8:00 AM 9/18 Friday Weekday 8:00 AM 9/20 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00 PM vigil Margaret Campbell r/o Kathleen Chorlton 8:30 AM Gregory Micenec r/o Catherine & John Gliwa 10:00 AM Joseph McGough Jr. r/o Dolores McGough 11:30 AM The People of the Parish
==================================== SANCTUARY LIGHTS will burn in the Churches this week for the Deceased Members of the Clemens Family requested by Lee & Sis Clemens.
SUNDAY COLLECTIONS: September 6, 2015 1st Collection $ 1,610.00 Catholic University (to date) $ 152.00 LITURGICAL MINISTERS September 20, 2015, 5:00 PM Lector & Euch. Min.: As Available 8:30 AM Lector: Bernadette Zotter Euch. Min.:Cass Micenec 10:00 AM Lector: Maria Tanczak Euch. Min Jim Galdo 11:30 AM Lectors: Mercedes Sanchez/Nelly Cintron Euch. Min.: As Available ====================================================================================
IMPORTANT NOTICE: There will be a Parish Council Meeting on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 7 PM in the Church Hall. Please attend. Thank you. ============================================
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Isabella Lederer, Bianca Mercado, Joanne Sherman, Mary Zarowski, Dorothy Schill, Rosita Renta, Millie Adair, Olga Espada, Hilda Rodriguez, Pat Regler, Maria Cruz, Freddie Nagle our benefactors, those who have asked for our prayers & those who have no one to pray for them. Also, remember in your prayers our recent deceased: Catherine T. Wagner & John Regler Please note: If you wish to include the names of those in need of prayers, please call the rectory. The names will remain on the list for four weeks and then be removed unless otherwise notified.. Thank you.
New Parishioners/Nuevos Feligreses Welcome. Please call the rectory and make an appointment to register as soon as possible. Bienvenidos. Favor de llamar la rectoría y haga una cita para inscribirse lo mas antes posible. Change of Address/Cambio de Direccion Please notify the parish secretary if you plan to move. Favor de notificar la secretaria de la parroquia si planificas mudarse. Collection Envelopes/Sobres para la colecta Every working person should support the parish by regularly using their envelopes - they can be obtained by calling the rectory or filling out one of the “welcome” envelopes at the entrance of the church. Cada persona de trabajo debe habitualmente apoyar la parroquia usando los sobres—puedes obtenerlos llamando la rectoría o llenando unos de los sobres maracados “bienvenidos” en entrada de la iglesia. 214-1
September 13, 2015
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Baptism/Bautismos Call the Rectory to make arrangements. Parents and sponsors must attend an instruction class.
“Rachel’s Vineyard is at the Heart of the Church” Rachel’s Vineyard Retreats are for anyone hurting from the spiritual and emotional pain of an abortion. Llame la rectoría para hacer arreglos. The weekend will help you Padres y padrinos deben asistir experience the mercy and compassion of God; clases de instrucción. grieve your loss; and Marriage/Matrimonio forgive yourself and others. Arrangements must be made six months in advance Retreat Dates: October 2,3, & 4, 2015 in order to fulfill Diocesan requirements. at the Spirituality center in Frazier, PA Call 215-906-6337 or 610-399-0890 Debe hacer arreglos seis meses de antemano para All contacts are confidential. cumplir los requisitos diocesanos. National website: www.rachelsvineyard.org Care for the Sick/Cuido para los enfermos ====================================== In the occasion of an emergency call the rectory MOTHER BONIFACE SPIRITUALITY CENTER, immediately. Call the rectory for visits at home to 3501 SOLLY AVENUE the elderly and infirm or when someone enters the in Northeast Philadelphia is offering a hospital and wishes a visit from the parish priest. Weekend Womens’s Retreat entitled: “Pope Francis & St. Francis DeSales: Living the En caso de una emergencia llame la rectoría Devout Life Today” on October2-4, 2015. inmediatamente. Para visitas en casa de las personas mayores y enfermas o cuando alguien este Though separated by 400 years, these two men of God share similar goals for living the Christian life today. en el hospital y desee una visita del sacerdote The writings and styles of the Argentine Pope and the llame la rectoría. =================================================== French Bishop will help us to see how we can put the St. Michael’s Religious Education Gospel into practice in our own part of the world. Classes : Saturday from 9:00 AM—10:30 AM Presenter: Fr. John Kolodziej, OSFS is a native of in the Church Hall Philadelphia who currently serves as Assistant PrinciFor more information regarding registration & pal for Student Affairs at Father Judge High School. the program: Please feel free to call: Fee: $165 (includes a $40 non-refundable deposit) Gwendy at 832-770-0238 or Please call 267-350-1830 for more information or to register by September 22nd. Reina at 469-867-2310 ================================== PLEASE NOTE: We are in need of donations for visitors who will be hosted by St. Michael’s during the Papal Visit. Please bring to the church after Sunday Masses the following: Water, milk, soda, orange juice, coffee, cereal, bread, cheese, ham, mayo, jelly. peanut butter. & chips. Thank you.
********************** A Little Bit of Wisdom…. The person who says, “It can’t be done,” is liable to be interrupted by someone doing it.
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NIGHT FEVER Saturday, September 19 6 PM-12 AM Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul 1723 Race Street, Philadelphia Help us to bring the love and faith of the Basilica community to the surrounding city in preparation for the World Meeting of Families Join us anytime following the 5:15 PM Mass to light a candle and say a prayer for peace Sponsored by the Young Adults of the Cathedral For more information about Night Fever, see http://us.nightfever.org 214-2
September 13, 2015
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday Scripture Reflections
Domingo Escritura Reflexions
Reading 1 Isaiah 50:4-9a In this reading, the prophet describes the servant of God who will lead Israel back to God. The servant will suffer, but God will uphold him. In New Testament, these words take on new meaning for us. Jesus was the suffering servant in Isaiah, the Messiah who was destined to suffer and so enter into his glory.
Primera lectura Isaias 50:4-9a En esta lectura, el profeta describe al servidor de Dios quien dirigirá a Israel de nuevo a Dios. El servidor sufrirá, pero Dios estará con él. En el Nuevo Testamento, estas palabras toman un nuevo significado para nosotros. Jesús fue el servidor que sufrió, el Mesías quien estaba destinado a sufrir y entrar en su gloria.
As followers of Jesus, we must follow him in his mission and in his trials and suffering. We may not be asked to die for our faith, but we will be asked to live our faith with courage and full faithfulness.
Como seguidores de Jesús, debemos seguirlo en su misión y sus tribulaciones y sufrimientos. Puede que no se nos pida morir por nuestra fe, pero se nos pedirá vivir nuestra fe con valor y llenos de fe.
Reading 2 James 2:14-18 In this reading the difference between merely talking about faith and practicing it is stressed. What good are kindly wishes to those who need clothing and food for today? Faith without good works is dead.
Segunda lectura Santiago 2:14-18 En esta lectura se refuerza la diferencia entre meramente hablar sobre la fe y practicarla. ¿Qué buenos son deseos amables para los que necesitan abrigo o comida? La fe sin buenas obras está muerta.
Let us be concerned for the people around us who are in need. Good intentions are not enough. The love of Christ urges us to act for justice and peace for all God's people.
Preocupémonos por las personas en necesidad que están a nuestro alrededor. Las buenas intenciones no son suficientes. El amor de Cristo nos urge actuar con justicia y trabajar por la paz para todo el pueblo de Dios.
Gospel Mark 8:27-35 In this reading, Jesus teaches his disciples what they Evangelio Marco 8:27-35 En esta lectura, Jesús enseña a sus discípulos lo que have gradually come to discover: He is indeed the gradualmente van a descubrir, que él es el Mesías. Pero Messiah. But he is a Messiah who must suffer and él es un Mesías que tiene que sufrir y morir. die. Peter found this hard to accept. For Peter, the Messiah would not, could not, suffer. Judging by human standards, not God's, Peter failed to accept God's will for the Messiah. Jesus assured all his disciples that they, too, must suffer: deny themselves, take up the cross, and follow him.
Para Pedro fue difícil de aceptar. Para Pedro, el Mesías no podía sufrir. Juzgando como humano, no como Dios, Pedro falló en aceptar la voluntad de Dios para el Mesías. Jesús aseguró a sus discípulos que ellos también sufrirían, se negarían, tomarían la cruz y lo seguirían.
===================================== STEWARDSHIP In the second reading today, St. James has harsh words for those who do not put their faith into action. May we be such good stewards of God’s gifts to us that we can never be accused of having “faith that does nothing in practice.”
====================================== En la segunda lectura de hoy, San Santiago tiene palabras severas para aquellos que no ponen su fe en acción. Que nosotros seamos tan buenos administradores de los regalos de Dios para nosotros, que nunca nos puedan acusar de tener “fe, que no viene con obras.” 214-3
September 13, 2015 Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ADDITIONAL QUOTES FROM POPE FRANCIS’ ENCYCLICAL…… On the Effects of the Market on the Environment… “Once more, we need to reject a magical conception of the market , which would suggest that problems can be solved simply by an increase in the profits of companies or individuals. Is it realistic to hope that those who are obsessed with maximizing profits will stop to reflect on the environmental damage which they will leave behind for future generations? Where profits alone count, there can be no thinking about the rhythms of nature, its phases of decay and regeneration or the complexity of ecosystems which may be gravely upset by human intervention.”
THE FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS The traditional history of this feast is as follows:
After the death & resurrection of Christ, both Jewish & Roman authorities in Jerusalem made efforts to obscure the Holy Sepulcher, Christ’s tomb in the garden near the site of His crucifixion. The earth had been mounded up over the site, and pagan temples had been built on top of it. The Cross on which Christ had died had been hidden (tradition said) by the Jewish authorities somewhere in the vicinity. In 326 St. Helena decided, under divine inspiration, to travel to Jerusalem to excavate the Holy Sepulcher and attempt to locate the True Cross. A Jew, aware of the tradition concerning the hiding of the Cross, led those excavating the Holy Sepulcher to the spot in which it was hidden. Three crosses were found on the spot. On the False Belief in Technology … According to one tradition, the inscription, “Jesus of “There is a tendency to believe that every increase in Nazareth, King of the Jews”, remained attached to the True Cross but according to a more common tradition, however, power means an increase of ‘progress’ itself, an the inscription was missing. St. Helena & the Bishop of advance in ‘security, usefulness, welfare and vigour;...an assimilation of new values into the stream Jerusalem, assuming that one was the True Cross and the of culture’, as if reality, goodness and truth automati- other two belonged to the thieves crucified alongside Christ, cally flow from technological and economic power as devised an experiment to determine which one was the True Cross. such. The fact is that contemporary man has not In one version the three crosses were taken to a been trained to use power well, because our immense woman who was near death; when she touched the True technological development has not been accompaCross, she was healed. In another, the body of a dead man nied by a development in human responsibility, was brought to the place where the three crosses were found, values and conscience. Each age tends to have only and laid upon each cross. The True Cross restored the dead a meager awareness of its own limitations. It is man to life. In celebration of the discovery, Constantine ordered possible that we do not grasp the gravity of the the construction of churches at the site of the Holy Sepulcher challenges now before us.” and on Mt. Calvary. Those churches were dedicated on September 13 & 14, 335, and shortly thereafter the Feast of On Consumerism... the Exaltation of the Holy Cross began to be celebrated on “When people become self-centered and selfthe latter date. The feast slowly spread from Jerusalem to enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a other churches until, by the year 720, the celebration was person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to universal. Why do we celebrate this Feast? buy, own and consume. It becomes almost impossi. For Christians, the Cross is the crossroads of ble to accept the limits imposed by reality. In this history and the Tree of Life. This instrument of torture, designed to degrade the worst of criminals, became the lifehorizon, a genuine sense of the common good also giving tree that reversed Adam’s original sin when he ate disappears/” from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil in the Garden of Eden. The feast of “The Exaltation of the Holy Cross” and sometimes called the “The Triumph of the Cross”, celebrates the Holy Cross as the instrument of our salvation. Christianity without the Cross is meaningless. Christ Himself offered us the answer, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” Only by uniting ourselves to Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross can we enter into eternal life. 214-4
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