The Church of the Steps

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1 May 28, 2017 OLY The Ascension of the Lord ROSS- MMACULATA The Church of the Steps 30 Guido St. Cincinnati, OH Office Hours: 8:30 am 3:30 pm M-F Ph Fax WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE: Saturday Sunday Website: Office Pastor: Bulletin 4:30 p.m. 8:00 am & 10:30 a.m. WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE: Monday 6:30 p.m. T-W-F 8:00 a.m. Thurs: Communion Service 8:00 a.m. HOLY DAYS & HOLIDAYS: SCHEDULE: Please consult bulletin or call parish office. SACRAMENT RECONCILIATION: Saturday 3:30-4:00 p.m. or by appointment ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Call Parish Office EUCARISTIC ADORATION: 1st Monday 7 p.m. Parish Staff: Pastor: Father Len Fecko Deacon Tracy Jamison Deacon Tom Graber Pastoral Assistant: Elaine Fuell Office Manager: Letty Hater Schroer Receptionist: Sharon Bertsch Parish Accountant: Thea Padgett Wedding Music & Liturgy Coordinator: Blake Callahan Choir Director: J.C. Rocha Maintenance: Roy Kreissl, Debbie Yacchari

2 HOLY CROSS-IMMACULATA PARISH SAT 27 Vigil Mass The Ascension of the Lord SUN 28 The Ascension of the Lord MON 29 TUES 30 WEDS 31 THURS 1 FRI 2 SAT 3 SUN 4 Easter Weekday Easter Weekday The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary St. Justin, Martyr SS. Marcellinus & Peter Martyr Vigil Mass Pentecost Pentecost 4:30 p.m. Mass Dot Sweeney (Conor, Alice & Eleanor Sweeney) 8:00 a.m. Mass People of the Parish 10:30 a.m. Mass Susan Klaine (Marcia & Jim Kennedy) 6:30 p.m. Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory (JM) 8 a.m. Mass Mike Jackson (Mike & Gayle McCafferty) 8 a.m. Mass Mary Jean (Cochran) Ratterman (Jean Huesman & Family) 8 a.m. No Mass Communion Service 8 a.m. Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory (JM) 4:30 p.m. Mass Dot Sweeney (Riesenbeck Family) 8:00 a.m. Mass People of the Parish 10:30 a.m. Mass Oscar Spaeth (Spaeth Family) SCHEDULE FOR June 3 & 4 Saturday 4:30 Sacristan: Dennis Daugherty Server: Kalyn Obermeyer Lector: Karen Kohrman EM: Teri Zenz Jim Zenz Sunday 8:00 Sacristan: Cliff Reifel Server: Tony Baker Lector: Jim Steiner Marsha Bayes EM: Korey Edwards Linda Capannari Sunday 10:30 Sacristan: Mary Kay Arnold Server: Noah Turner Lector: Nellie Walling David Haynes EM: Glen Graf, Jenny Graf John Graf, Jim Horrigan Collection Counters: Erin Arnold, Mary Kay Arnold Sharon Bertsch COLLECTION REPORT May 20 & 21, 2017 Sunday Collection $1, EFT/CreditCard $1, Votive Candles $ Total Regular Revenue $3,310.60

3 May 28, 2017 The Ascension of the Lord We honor those who have given their lives serving our country and we give thanks to all who serve today. MONDAY MAY 29 The Parish Office will be closed for the holiday Mass Time: 6:30 p.m. Are you celebrating a significant wedding anniversary in 2017? Married couples celebrating 25, 40, 50, 60, 65, 70 and 75 years of marriage this year are invited to request a congratulatory certificate from Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr. Married couples celebrating their 50th anniversary are invited to attend a Golden Anniversary Mass August 12, 2017, 4:30 p.m. at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral with Bishop Joseph Binzer. Please contact Fr. Len for more information. Thank You to the Catholic Ministry Appeal Donors 39 parishioners from Holy Cross-Immaculata pledged a total of $8909 to the annual appeal. Thus far $6629 has been paid. We thank you for your support of the ministries that help many people in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Congratulations to Jacob and Bethany Bessler, proud parents of Ava Sofia, who was born May 17th and baptized May 21 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Burlington, KY. Jacob finished his studies at the University of Louisville Medical School in May and will begin his residency at a hospital in Biloxi, MS. We wish the Bessler family a lifetime of happiness! Modern Catholic Pilgrim We have received information from an organization that is planning to develop pilgrimage routes to holy sites in the USA with pilgrims being hosted by families in Catholic parishes along the route. Because of the rich history of people praying the steps, they would like to include our parish as one of the sites. If you would be interested in being a host family periodically, please contact Fr. Len. So long for now This week we say goodbye and good luck to Josh Maldonado Josh will be returning to northeastern Ohio for the summer. This will be his second year as a cast member at the Porthouse Theatre School of theatre and Dance on the grounds of the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The schedule this summer includes 9 to 5 The Musical (June 15-July 1), Ain t Misbehavin (July 6-22) and Newsies (July 17-Aug. 13). If you are planning to visit friends and family in the area and would like information about Porthouse Theatre, go to: or call

4 Scripture Readings for the Week of May 28, 2017 Monday, May 29: Acts 19:1-8 Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab Jn 16:29-33 Tuesday, May 31: Acts 20:17-27 Ps 68:10-11, Jn 17:1-11a Wednesday, June 1: Zep 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16 Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 Lk 1:39-56 Thursday, June 2: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11 Jn 17:20-26 Friday, June 3: Acts 25:13b-21 Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab Jn 21:15-19 Saturday, June 4: Acts 28:16-20, Ps 11:4-5, 7 Jn 21:20-25 Sunday, June 5: Acts 2:1-11 Ps 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34 1 Cor 12:3b-7, Jn 20:19-23 Monday, May 29: Wednesday, May 31: Thursday, June 1: Friday, June 2: Saturday, June 3: Observances This Week Memorial Day The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary St. Justin, Martyr Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, Martyr St. Charles Lwanga & Comanions, Martyrs Sunday, June 4: St. Justin gave one of the earliest descriptions of the celebration of the Eucharist: On the day called Sunday there is a gathering together in the same place of all who live in a given city or rural district. The memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits. Then when the reader ceases, the president in a discourse admonishes and urges the imitation of these good things. Next we all rise together and send up prayers. When we cease from our prayer, bread is presented and wine and water. The president in the same manner sends up prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people sing out their assent, saying the 'Amen.' A distribution and participation of the elements for which thanks have been given is made to each person, and to those who are not present they are sent by the deacons. Those who have means and are willing, each according to his own choice, gives what he wills, and what is collected is deposited with the president. He provides for the orphans and widows, those who are in need on account of sickness or some other cause, those who are in bonds, and strangers who are sojourning. In a word, he becomes the protector of all who are in need. Sts. Marcellinus & Peter: Marcellinus was a well-known priest, and Peter was an exorcist they lived during the persecution of Christians under the Roman emperor Diocletian at the start of the fourth century. They were arrested and jailed for being Christians. In prison, they continued to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, which converted some of the prisoners, and even their guard (along with his wife and daughter). They were condemned to death by beheading, and were killed and buried in an unmarked place in the forest so that the Christian community could not honor their remains. Their executioner, who later became Christian himself, told of their location, however, and their bodies were found and placed in the catacombs.

5 Charles Lwanga and Companions Charles Lwanga (1860 or 1865 June 3, 1886) was a Ugandan convert to the Catholic Church, who was martyred for his faith and is revered as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. Charles was born in the Kingdom of Buganda, the southern part of modern Uganda, and served as a page and later major-domo in the court of King Mwanga II. As part of the king's effort to resist foreign colonization, he began to insist that Christian converts abandon their new faith, and he began executing many Anglicans and Catholics. The persecution started in After a massacre of Anglican missionaries, which included Catholic Bishop James Hannington, and Joseph Mukasa, who was a major-domo of the court as well as a lay catechist. Musaka reproached the king for the killings. Mwanga had Mukasa beheaded and arrested all of his followers. The king then ordered that Lwanga, who was chief page at that time, take up Mukasa's duties. That same day, Lwanga sought baptism as a Catholic. The ire of the king was particularly inflamed against the Christians because they refused to accede to demands to participate in sexual acts with him. Charles Lwanga, in particular, had protected the pages from King Mwanga's sexual advances. Mwanga then condemned to death two of the pages. The following morning, Lwanga secretly baptized those of his charges who were still only catechumens. Later that day, the king called a court assembly in which he interrogated all present to see if any would renounce Christianity. Led by Lwanga, the royal pages declared their fidelity to their religion, upon which the king ordered twelve Catholic boys and men and nine Anglicans bound and condemned them to death. When preparations were completed and the day had come for the execution on June 3rd, Lwanga was separated from the others for private execution. As he was being burnt, Charles said to the Guardian, "It is as if you are pouring water on me. Please repent and become a Christian like me." THE HISTORY OF THE FEAST OF THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY The Visitation is mentioned only in Luke's Gospel, and Luke tells us that Mary stayed with her cousin about three months, returning home just before Elizabeth gave birth. The angel Gabriel told Mary at the Annunciation that Elizabeth was six months' pregnant, and Luke seems to indicate that the Blessed Virgin departed for her cousin's home very soon after the Annunciation. Thus, we celebrate the Annunciation on March 25 and the Birth of Saint John the Baptist on June 24, about three months apart. Yet we celebrate the Visitation on May 31 a date that doesn't make sense according to the biblical narrative. Why is the Visitation celebrated on May 31? While many Marian feasts are among the first feasts to have been celebrated universally by the Church, the celebration of the Visitation, even though it is found in Luke's Gospel, is a relatively late development. It was championed by Saint Bonaventure, and adopted by the Franciscans in When it was extended to the universal Church by Pope Urban VI in 1389, the date of the feast was set as July 2, the day after the octave (eighth day) of the feast of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist. The idea was to tie the celebration of the Visitation to the celebration of John s birth, even though the placement of the feast in the liturgical calendar was out of sync with the account given by Luke. In other words, symbolism, rather than chronology, was the deciding factor in choosing when to commemorate this important event. For close to six centuries, the Visitation was celebrated on July 2, but with his revision of the Roman calendar in 1969, Pope Paul VI moved the celebration of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the last day of the Marian month of May so that it would fall between the feasts of the Annunciation and the Birth of Saint John the Baptist a time when Luke tells us that Mary would certainly have been with Elizabeth, taking care of her cousin in her time of need.

6 Father s Day Collection Remember you father, grandfather or the man you loved with a son or daughter s heart. Consider making a donation to our Father s Day collection. Funds will be used for landscaping the parish grounds and around our historic steps. Envelopes are available at the side entrance. You and your designee will be recognized in the Father s Day bulletin. The Little Sisters of the Poor 7th Annual Spaghetti Supper Saturday, June 24 3:00-7:00 $12 Full Portion $10 Half Portion Try Sister Mary Imelda s Famous Sauce & Wholly Meatballs Friday, June 23 $8/Quart $8/Dozen Meatballs Orders to Go: 1 pm 7 pm To prepay or reserve ahead of time, go to: littlesistersofthepoorcincinnati.org

7 August 5-6 FESTIVAL SPONSORS NEEDED Just think, if all 250 family units of our parish would find at least one sponsor at the $100 level, we would have $25,000 raised before the festival even begins! This amount would cover the Main Raffle prize of $10,000 and provide $15,000 in start-up funds that could be used to buy prizes for other booths and keep the food costs as low as possible. For more info, please contact Tina Russo (513) or 2017 HOLY CROSS-IMMACULATA-MOUNT ADAMS GOLF OUTING GOLF OUTING California Golf Course 9924 Kellogg Ave :00 LUNCH 1:15 SHOTGUN START SCRAMBLE FORMAT SATURDAY, JUNE 17, :30 DINNER at Holy Cross-Immaculata $20 per person STEAK or CHICKEN with sides $110 per player $440 per foursome CONTACT INFORMATION Paul Simon Jim Horrigan