St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church

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1 St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time January 29, 2017 Clergy The Sacraments Rev. Walter J. Tappe, Pastor Reconciliation: Rev. Richard D. Kramer, Jr., Assisting Priest Mr. Desi Vikor, Deacon Parish Staff Ms. Maggie Gutierrez, Business Manager Mrs. Mary Wade, Director of the School of Religion Mrs. Jennifer Goltz, Director of Music Gerald Muller, DMA, Principal Organist and Director Emeritus Mr. Hung Le, Plant Manager Parish Office Office Hours: 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. Monday Friday School of Religion (CCD) shreligioused4@gmail.com Mrs. Mary Wade, Director Entrance: no. 751 St. Joseph Regional School Ordinary of the Mass: nos. 317, 319, Montgomery Road Beltsville, MD Communion: no Marian: no Mr. Zach Hooker, Principal Final: no. 758 Holy Hour First Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Saturday: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Baptism: 2nd Sunday of the month after the 11 a.m. Mass. Call the rectory to make arrangements. Marriage: By arrangement. Contact the pastor at least six months before intended date of wedding. Anointing of the Sick: Call the Office when a loved one is seriously ill to arrange for the sacrament. New Parishioners See the Greeter after Sunday Mass to register. Departing Parishioners Please inform the parish office that you re leaving. Music for this Sunday Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 Mass Times SUNDAY Sat. 5 p.m. Vigil DAILY 8 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11 a.m. Mon.-Fri. 7:15 a.m. Saturday 9 a.m. Fed. Holidays 9 a.m. 135 Crescent Road Greenbelt MD, Phone (301) , FAX (301) sthughoffice@gmail.com

2 Your Prayers Requested For those discerning their vocations For those preparing for the sacraments Our young people for First Communion, and Confirmation; and those in RCIA. For the sick Please pray for: Elizabeth Pels Nash; Ludvik Matyas; Dave Williams; Tom Moran; Stephen Blizard; Rita Ann Gianechini; Donald Exner; Paul Beavers; Julia Stratchko; Emma Rose Karch; Reverend Thomas Crowley; Alice Kovalchik. For the deceased In your charity, please pray for the souls of our beloved dead. For our troops Please pray for: Adam Weaver, James Hall, Christopher Pfaffman, Anthony (Tj) Hose, Anthony Ladnier, Tony Alves, Karen Mealey, Mark Bailey, Robert Bailey. To add a name to these lists, please call the rectory. FROM THE SCHOOL OF RELIGION The School of Religion will be showing and discussing part V, the final part. of ʺA Biblical Walk Through the Mass: Understanding What We Say and Do in the Liturgyʺ on Sunday, February 5th from 11am-12noon. The topic will be Communion Rite and the Concluding Rites. All adult parishioners are welcome to join us in the school library for this lesson. Important Dates: Sunday, January 22nd - 10:45am-12:30pm; A Biblical Walk through the Mass in the school 11am-noon Sunday, January 29th - 10:45am-12:30pm Sunday, February 5th - 10:45am-12:30pm; A Biblical Walk through the 11am in the library Sunday, February 12th 10:45am-12:30pm Sunday, February 19th No class due to the President s Day Federal Holiday Income Tax Information The parish will provide an official 2016 statement of contributions for all those who request it. Please fill out this form and drop it in the collection. Statements cover all contributions which are identifiable those made through the envelope system and Faith Direct. Statements will begin to be processed toward the end of January. NAME: ADDRESS: ENVELOPE #: This Week at a Glance Today 1/29/2017, Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8am Mass 9:30am Mass 11am Mass Youth Music Ministry rehearsal, Noon School of Religion 10:30pm. School Youth Group 12:45pm, School RCIA 12:45pm, School Monday 1/30/2017 Walking with Purpose 6:30pm, School Tuesday 1/31/2017, St. John Bosco Wednesday 2/1/2017 Thursday 2/2/2017, The Presentation of the Lord Boys & Girls Choir rehearsal 6pm, Church Parish Choir rehearsal 7pm, Church Friday 2/3/2017, St. Blase; St. Ansgar; Blessing of throats 7pm First Friday Devotions Saturday 2/4/2017, Blessed Virgin Mary 9am Mass, followed by Fatima Devotions 3:30pm-4:30pm Confessions 5pm Vigil Mass The calendar is also online: READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Heb 11:32-40; Ps 31:20-24; Mk 5:1-20 Tuesday: Heb 12:1-4; Ps 22:26b-28, 30-32; Mk 5:21-43 Wednesday: Heb 12:4-7, 11-15; Ps 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a; Mk 6:1-6 Thursday: Mal 3:1-4; Ps 24:7-10; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 [22-32] Friday: Heb 13:1-8; Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9; Mk 6:14-29 Saturday: Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Ps 23:1-6; Mk 6:30-34 Sunday: Is 58:7-10; Ps 112:4-9; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16 Masses for the Week of 1/29-2/5 Saturday 5pm Intention of the Parish Sunday 8am Int. Alice Kovalchik 9:30am Int. Sam & Hope Creech & family 11am Belgium Borzella Monday 7:15am Int. Jackie & Mike Hayes Tuesday 7:15am Rob & Marge Robinson Wed. 7:15am Nicholas W. Thursday 7:15am Molly Timko (Quinn) Friday 7:15am Bill Costello Saturday 9am Magdalene Fuchs 5pm Int. Kathryn Shafer Sunday 8am Living & Deceased Sodalists 9:30am Intention of the Parish 11am Victoria B. Medina

3 From the Pastor A few years back Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, recently delivered a paper in the Vatican on political obligations, moral conscience and human life. It is an incisive and clear presentation of Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life which I wanted to share with you in this column as we observe another sad anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. The Catholic Church proclaims the principle that every human being -- without regard to race, sex, or ethnicity, and equally without regard to age, size, stage of development, or condition of dependency -- is entitled to the full protection of the laws. The Church teaches that human beings at every stage of development -- including those at the embryonic and fetal stages -- and those in every condition -- including those who are mentally retarded or physically disabled, and those who are suffering from severe dementias or other memory and mind-impairing afflictions -- possess fundamental human rights. Above all, each of us possesses the right to life. Now this teaching is disputed by some. There are those, including some Catholics, who deny that human embryos are human beings. They assert that a human embryo is merely ʺpotentialʺ human life, not nascent human life. The trouble with this position is not theological but scientific. It flies in the face of the established facts of human embryology and developmental biology. A human embryo is not something distinct in kind from a human being -- like a rock or potato or alligator. A human embryo is a human being at a particular, very early, stage of development. An embryo, even prior to implantation, is a whole, distinct, living member of the species Homo sapiens. The embryonic human being requires only what any human being at any stage of development requires for his or her survival, namely, adequate nutrition and an environment sufficiently hospitable to sustain life. From the beginning, each human being possesses -- actually and not merely potentially -- the genetic constitution and epigenetic primordia for self-directed development from the embryonic into and through the fetal, infant, child, and adolescent stages and into adulthood with his or her unity, determinateness, and identity intact. In this crucial respect, the embryo is quite unlike the gametes -- that is, the sperm and ovum -- whose union brought a new human being into existence. You and I were never sperm or ova; those were genetically and functionally parts of other human beings. But each of us was once an embryo, just as each of us was once an adolescent, and before that a child, an infant, a fetus. Of course, in the embryonic, fetal, and infant stages we were highly vulnerable and dependent creatures, but we were nevertheless complete, distinct human beings. As the leading textbooks in human embryology and developmental biology unanimously attest, we were not mere ʺclumps of cells,ʺ like moles or tumors. So the basic rights people possess simply by virtue of their humanity -- including above all the right to life -- we possessed even then. Another school of thought concedes that human embryos are human beings; however, it denies that all human beings are persons. There are, according to this school of thought, pre-personal and post-personal human beings, as well as severely retarded or damaged human beings who are not, never will be, and never were, persons. Proponents of this view insist that human beings in the embryonic and fetal stages are not yet persons. Indeed, logically consistent and unsentimental proponents say that even human infants are not yet persons, and therefore do not possess a right to life; hence, the willingness of Peter Singer, Michael Tooley, and others to countenance infanticide as well as abortion. Permanently comatose or severely retarded or demented human beings are also denied the status of persons. So euthanasia is said to be justified for human beings in these conditions. Although some who think along these lines will allow that human individuals whom they regard as ʺnot yet personsʺ deserve a certain limited respect by virtue of the purely biological fact that they are living members of the human species, they nevertheless insist that ʺpre-personalʺ humans do not possess a right to life that precludes them from being killed to benefit others or to advance the interests of society at large. Only those human beings who have achieved and retain what are regarded as the defining attributes of personhood -- whether those are considered to be detectable brain function, self-awareness, or immediately exercisable capacities for characteristically human mental functioning -- possess a right to life. The trouble with this position is that it makes nonsense of our political, philosophical, and, for many of us, theological commitment to the principle that all human beings are equal in fundamental worth and dignity. It generates puzzles that simply cannot be resolved, such as the puzzle as to why this or that accidental quality which most human beings eventually acquire in the course of normal development but others do not, and which some retain and others lose, and which some have to a greater degree than others, should count as the criterion of ʺpersonhood.ʺ

4 The superior position, surely, is that human beings possess equally an intrinsic dignity that is the moral ground of the equal right to life of all. This is a right possessed by every human being simply by virtue of his or her humanity. It does not depend on an individualʹs age, or size, or stage of development; nor can it be erased by an individualʹs physical or mental infirmity or condition of dependency. It is what makes the life of even a severely retarded child equal in fundamental worth to the life of a Nobel prize-winning scientist. It explains why we may not licitly extract transplantable organs from such a child even to save the life of a brilliant physicist who is afflicted with a life-threatening heart, liver, or kidney ailment. In any event, the position that all human beings equally possess fundamental human rights, including the right to life, is the definitively settled teaching of the Catholic Church. It is on this basis that the Church proclaims that the taking of human life in abortion, infanticide, embryo-destructive research, euthanasia, and terrorism are always and everywhere gravely wrong. And there is more. For the Church also teaches that it is the solemn obligation of legislators and other public officials, as servants of the common good, to honor and protect the rights of all. The principle of equality demands as a matter of strict justice that protection against lethal violence be extended by every political community to all who are within its jurisdiction. Yours in Christ, Father Walter Ladies of Charity Activities Safe Haven Shelter Dinner at Greenbelt Baptist Church: Reminder to ladies who committed to bring dinner items (hot) to Greenbelt Baptist Church on Wed, Feb. 1st, at 6:30pm.Thanks so much for your assistance with this dinner. Spring Grove Hospital New Socks Project for February: All parishioners are invited to donate new socks for men and women patients at Spring Grove Hospital. Boxes will be placed at back of church to collect new socks for the month of February. These socks are placed in Easter baskets for the patients. Ladies of Charity Monthly Meeting: We were very happy to talk with ladies at the coffee social last Sunday who were interested in joining the Ladies of Charity. We look forward to having you attend our next meeting on Tuesday, February 7th at 7pm in Grenoble Hall. Any questions? Please call Mary Ann Tretler (301) Holy Family Celebration: A Domestic Church Day Event at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine Holy Family Celebration is a half-day celebration for families and engaged couples on Saturday, February 18, 2017 from 12:30 to 6:30 P.M. This upcoming event will feature a Mass and Consecration to the Holy Family with Cardinal Donald Wuerl, an inspiring talk for couples by Sr. Gaudia Skass, catechesis for teens by Tex Phelps, and children s catechesis. Following the talks, there will be opportunities for Confession and praise and worship Eucharistic adoration led by Michael Corsini. The event will conclude with a family style meal, entertainment, and a gift to enrich your family prayer! The cost of attendance is $10 for couples and $20 for families of three or more, and includes a meal after Mass. To register please visit: This event is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington, the DC State Council of the Knights of Columbus, and the Saint John Paul II National Shrine. Dear St. Hugh Parish Families, St. Joseph s RCS Spotlight: One of our third grade students, Emilia Kim, won second place for her age group, in the annual Catholic Standard, ʺChristmas Card Contestʺ. She won a $50 Barnes and Nobles gift card. Congratulations Emilia! Enrollment: ENROLLMENT IS OPEN! Current families have the opportunity to re-enroll, and new families can now begin their applications. If you would like to schedule a private tour please call the school , or secretary@stjosrcs.org. We would love to add new students to our growing family! Tuition Assistance: Every year our families receive between $50,000 and $75,000 in tuition assistance from the Archdiocese of Washington. We encourage any families that are interested in attending St. Joseph s RCS for the school year to visit the school website and apply for tuition assistance. Application deadline is February 20th. School Initiatives: Help us reach with our Initiatives! You can donate by clicking the yellow donate button on our school website You can also come to the school office to donate, or inquire about a specific initiative. Thank you for all of your support and help making our school a better place everyday! *STEM Initiative* *Drama Initiative* *Playground Initiative* *Window Initiative* *Security Initiative* *Tuition Assistance Initiative* Upcoming School Events: Jan. 29-Feb. 4 Catholic Schools Week and Book Fair; Feb 4. Open House and First Lego Robotics Competition School s Website- Facebook- stjosephbeltsville; Zach Hooker, Principal

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6 CHURCH NAME: ST. HUGH OF GRENOBLE 135 Crescent Rd. Greenbelt, MD BULLETIN NUMBER: CONTACT PERSON: Jennifer Goltz OR Mary Wade OR Maggie Gutierrez (301) DATE OF PUBLICATION: 1/29/2017 (Sunday s date) Windows 7 Publisher 2013 NUMBER OF PAGES TRANSMITTED: 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: Office hours end at 2pm. Please instruct FedEx that NO SIGNATURE IS REQUIRED if they deliver when we are closed they may leave it outside the door.