St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church

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1 St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 5, 2016 You changed my mourning into dancing; O Lord, my God, forever will I give you thanks. Psalm 30:12, 13 Clergy Rev. Walter J. Tappe, Pastor 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 St. Joseph Regional School Montgomery Road Beltsville, MD Mr. Zach Hooker, Principal Holy Hour First Fridays at 7:00 p.m. The Sacraments Reconciliation: 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 Entrance: no. 712 Psalm: Pg. 21 in the Missalette Ordinary of the Mass: People s Mass Marian: no Final: no. 857 Mass Times SUNDAY Sat. 5 p.m. Vigil 8 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11 a.m. DAILY 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 preparing for their vocations Jack Berard For those preparing for the sacraments For all those preparing for the Sacraments of Initiation. For the sick Please pray for: Elizabeth Pels Nash; Ludvik Matyas; Dave Williams; Lori Moran; Ray & Loretta Turek; Patricia Molden; Nancy DePlatchett; Stephen Blizard; Rita Ann Gianechini; Donald Exner; Paul Beavers; Ann Chotiner; Linda Gehrmann; Caren Daniel-Devine. For the deceased In your charity, please pray for the souls of our beloved dead. Catherine Holcombe; Jean Mattie; Irene Owens; Rose Neitzey. For our troops Please pray for: Adam Weaver, James Hall, Christopher Pfaffman, Anthony (Tj) Hose, Anthony Ladnier, Tony Alves, Karen Mealey, Mark Bailey. To add a name to these lists, please call the rectory. Ladies of Charity News The St. Hugh Ladies of Charity has been awarded a grant from the National Ladies of Charity Association for $990 for their Eviction Prevention Program. St. Hugh LOC will be recognized at the National Assembly held in New York in September. The Catholic Charities Service Project has awarded St. Hugh LOC funds to provide improved shelving in the food pantry area. Deacon Trinidad from Catholic Charities made a site visit last week to provide guidance on the best way to improve the space. Reminder: PG Ladies of Charity Quarterly Meeting will be Sunday, June 12 th at 3pm at St. Jerome Church. We will carpool from St. Hugh parking lot at 2:30 pm. Christmas Bazaar Rummage Sale! Mark your calendar now for our Annual Rummage Sale which will be held June 18th and 19th. There will be something for everyone. Donations of dishes, furniture, jewelry, toys, linens, tools, clothes and much much more can be made on June 12 after all Masses. If you need a special pickup, please call Ginger at We are also in need of baked goods both days of the Rummage Sale. If you would like to help with this fun event, please contact Rita Radich at We look forward to seeing you there! READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Kgs 17:1-6; Ps 121:1bc-8; Mt 5:1-12 Tuesday: 1 Kgs 17:7-16; Ps 4:2-5, 7b-8; Mt 5:13-16 Wednesday: 1 Kgs 18:20-39; Ps 16:1b-2ab, 4, 5ab, 8, 11; Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: 1 Kgs 18:41-46; Ps 65:10-13; Mt 5:20-26 Friday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-16; Ps 27:7-9abc, 13-14; Mt 5:27-32 Saturday: Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3; Ps 16:1b-2a, 5, 7-10; Mt 5:33-37 Sunday: 2 Sm 12:7-10, 13; Ps 32:1-2, 5, 7, 11; Gal 2:16, 19-21; Lk 7:36 8:3 [7:36-50] This Week at a Glance Today 6/5/2016, Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8am Mass 9:30am Mass 11am Mass, Blessing of Graduates Sodality 9am, Grenoble Hall Monday 6/6/2016, St. Norbert CFM 7pm, Rectory Tuesday 6/7/2016 Ladies of Charity 7pm, Grenoble Hall Wednesday 6/8/2016 Thursday 6/9/2016, St. Ephrem Friday 6/10/2016 Saturday 6/11/2016, St. Barnabas 9am Mass 3:30pm-4:30pm Confessions 5pm Vigil Mass The calendar is also online: St. Hugh Labor Day Weekend Bingo News: We have started to collect bags of large lima beans for bingo space markers. Please leave your large lima beans in marked boxes at the back of church. Funds raised through last yearʹs bingo continue to help families in need in Greenbelt. Just this week we were able to provide funds to assist a family with a 10 yr. old with a heart condition and two disabled young adults to be able to move into affordable housing. By volunteering at the bingo on Labor Day Weekend you and your family can really make a difference to those in need in Greenbelt. Please fill out your volunteer form and place in the boxes at the back of the church. Thanks in advance for all your support of this important event. Masses for the Week of 5/29-6/5 Saturday 5pm Intention of the Parish Sunday 8am Living & Deceased Sodalists 9:30am Magdalene Fuchs 11am Int. Christine Creech Monday 7:15am Robert J. Waeldner Tuesday 7:15am Int. Steve & Yata Deffigos & family Wed. 7:15am Miriam Amaka Onunkwo Thursday 7:15am Mary Elizabeth Barbot Prior Friday 7:15am Miriam Amaka Onunkwo Saturday 9am Magdalene Fuchs 5pm Eva Mayfield Sunday 8am Intention of the Parish 9:30am Miriam Amaka Onunkwo 11am Magdalene Fuchs

3 From the Pastor Throughout the summer I will be using this column to do some adult catechesis using the shortened form of the Catechism of the Catholic Church called the Compendium. It was put together and published under the authority of the American bishops. Catechesis (instruction in the faith) is a life-long task (even for priests!). We wish to deepen our understanding of what God has revealed not only to grow closer to him, but also to communicate the faith to others. For, it is Jesus desire that all come to believe in him, that they might receive the Holy Spirit and become sharers of the divine life. We begin this week with the section on the Creed. I will reproduce the questions and answers from the Compendium and add my own commentary. Every week we will cover three questions. What are the symbols of faith? The symbols of are composite formulas, also called professions of faith or Creeds with which the Church from her very beginning has set forth synthetically and handed on her own faith in a language that is normative and common to all the faithful. Commentary: No doubt most people are familiar with the word Creed. It is a formal statement of one s belief. Many of us are probably not familiar with the use of the word symbol as a synonym for Creed. That, however, it what is means here. The symbols of faith are the various creeds the Church has used throughout her history to express, in summary fashion, the essentials of her faith. What are the most ancient symbols (professions) of faith? The most ancient symbols of faith are the baptismal creeds. Because Baptism is conferred in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19), the truths of faith professed at Baptism are articulated in reference to the three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity. Commentary: Christ revealed that the God of the Old Testament, the God of Israel, the one and only God, is in fact a Trinity of Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Every Christian symbol, or creed, is a profession of God as Three-in-One. Whenever anyone is baptized, they are asked to profess their belief in the Holy Trinity (or their parents and godparents are if the person has not yet attained the age of reason). Catholics in the United States solemnly renew their baptismal profession of faith in the Holy Trinity each year on Easter Sunday. When we make the sign of the Cross, we are praying in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and professing our faith in the Blessed Trinity, the One God. What are the most important symbols of the faith? They are the Apostles Creed which is the ancient symbol of the Church of Rome and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed which stems from the first two ecumenical Councils, that of Nicea (A.D. 325) and that of Constantinople (A.D. 381) and which even to this day are common to all the great Church of the East and the West. Commentary: If we pray the rosary regularly, we are very familiar with the Apostles Creed, for the rosary begins with this symbol of faith. It is called the Apostles Creed not because the apostles composed it, but because it is a summary of the apostles teaching on the Blessed Trinity and what the Trinity has done for our salvation. In the baptism ritual, the priest or deacon who is performing the baptism recites the articles of the Apostles Creed and asks the persons being baptized (or their parents and godparents) if they believe in them. The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, sometimes simply called the Nicene Creed, is recited every Sunday at Mass. It is a bit more expansive than the Apostles Creed, though it expresses the same faith. Yours in Christ, Father Walter P.S. Congratulations to all our graduates, from 8 th grade, high school, college, and graduate school. Every graduation is a celebration of accomplishment. It also marks a transition in life. Graduations are times of joy, but also sometimes of trepidation. What will the future hold? It is always good to remember in times of transition that there is one thing that never changes: the love God has for us and his active Presence in our lives, working for our good. St. Paul once said, If God is for us, who can be against us? If our primary goal in life is to please God in all things, then we have no reason to fear the future. God will not withhold his blessings from us. He will see us safely through the ups and downs of this life and open for us the gates of eternal life when it pleases him to take us from this world.

4 To mark the Year of Mercy, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be recited after the 5 p.m. Mass on the third Saturday of every month through the end of the Jubilee Year. Please join us for this beautiful prayer. If you donʹt know it, pamphlets will be available to help in the recitation. From the School of Religion: Do you have free time this summer? Want to plan a trip but are short on cash? Try visiting: and take yourself and your family on a virtual tour or e-pilgrimage to Italy, the Philippines, or anywhere in the United States. You can even check out the nine sites in Maryland that have Holy Doors and decide which ones to visit...for free! Visit our parish website and enjoy photos in our Parish Photo Gallery. Go to and hover your cursor over ʺCommunityʺ and click on ʺParish Photo Galleries.ʺ Enjoy! Dear St. Hugh Parish Families, Welcome to June! Summer is right around the corner. This week is our last full week of school here at St. Joseph s RCS. We are so impressed with all of the growth we have seen in our students this year. Thank you to all of our students, their families, and teachers for all of their hard work throughout the year! This week at a glance: This is our last full week of the school year. On Friday, June 10th, our 8th grade will have their graduation ceremony at 4:00 pm. What s next: Our 4th quarter honors and awards ceremony will be on June 14th at 8:15 am, and the last day of school will be June 14th. Once summer begins, we will host our Vacation Bible School from July 11th-15th. Enrollment: We are still ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS! For new families entering K-8th, you may enroll online registration/ by clicking on the TADS links. To schedule a private tour please call the school , or secretary@stjosrcs.org School year: Are you interested in spending a day on the golf course this summer? We will host our 2nd Annual St. Joseph s RCS Golf Tournament on August 19th! It will be held at Cross Creek Golf Course here in Beltsville. Whether you are looking for a fun day on the course, or interested in a little competition we hope you ll join us, and we look forward to spending a great summer day on the course! As the next school year begins we will move our day back by 25 minutes. Our start time will be 8:25 AM next year, and dismissal will begin at 3:20 PM. How you can help: Mr. Hooker is racing Ironman Maryland in October to raise money for an Emergency Tuition Assistance Fund. To prepare for this mile race, Mr. Hooker has already trained over 730 miles this year. You can help Mr. Hooker, and the families at St. Joseph s RCS, by donating towards this cause. Visit our school website and click the DONATE button at the bottom of the page. Please add the special instructions RUN. Thank you to all that have donated! Upcoming School Events: June 10th-Graduation; June14th-Last Day of School; July 11th-15th-Vacation Bible School; Aug. 19th-2nd Annual Golf Tournament Zach Hooker, Principal School s Website- Facebook- stjosephbeltsville; Comfort the Afflicted: When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. Jesus wept (Jn 11:32-33, 35). When we see someone afflicted, what can we do for them? Jesus encounters and consoles Mary by sharing in her grief. Sometimes, Jesus is reminding us, the best comfort is to sit with them and cry. We don t have power over death as Jesus did, yet like him we can still comfort with our presence and prayers, and trust in the power of the ultimate Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Learn more about the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy at mercy.adw.org. Jubilee Year of Mercy June 5, 2016 Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Half the liturgical year 2016 is completed after six months of extraordinary celebrations. The Incarnation mystery: Jesus advent, nativity, epiphany. The Paschal mystery: Jesus passion, death, resurrection, Pentecost s Holy Spirit. The solemnities of Holy Trinity and Jesus Body and Blood. Today the Church resumes Sundays in Ordinary Time, but with a Gospel of extraordinary mercy: Jesus raises a dead man to life. Yet the one who benefits most from his extraordinary mercy is not the dead son but his widowed mother. With her husband and only son deceased, this woman s material support, in that patriarchal society, had vanished. So had her emotional support, leaving her helpless, abandoned, on society s peripheries. One of Pope Francis hopes in calling this Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy is to transform us into more extraordinary Christians, by making our caring outreach to just such vulnerable people, and our practical self-sacrificing love for them, our ordinary, daily, Christian way of life! Peter Scagnelli, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

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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: 6/5/2016 (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.