St. Gertrude the Great Roman Catholic Church

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1 St. Gertrude the Great Roman Catholic Church 4900 Rialto Road, West Chester, Ohio (513) Fax: (513) The Most Reverend Daniel L. Dolan, Pastor November 25, 2012 The Rev. Anthony Cekada The Rev. Charles McGuire The Rev. Vili Lehtoranta Last Sunday after Pentecost Traditional Latin Mass Remove from us, O Lord, all that is calculated to rob us of Thy love. Break the bonds with which we are tied to the world, that we may not be lost with it. Give us the wings of eagles that we may soar above all worldly things and hasten towards Thee now, that we may not become a prey to the rapacioius enemy on the day of judgment. Amen. New at St. Gertrude s? Welcome! In the vestibule you ll find a pamphlet explaining the traditional rules for the reception of Holy Communion. There is also a Visitor s Card to fill out if you want more information on St. Gertrude s or on the traditional Catholic Faith and the Latin Mass. A free information packet is available to newcomers; ask an Usher or inquire in the Gift Shop. Stop by Helfta Hall, our social hall, after Mass for refreshments. Dress Code: Ladies & Girls Please wear a modest dress and a head-covering. No tight fitting, low-cut, short, slit, or sleeveless dresses. No pants or shorts. Men & Boys Please wear a shirt and tie, with either suit coat, jacket or sweater, and dress shoes. No T-shirts, sweat shirts, sweat pants, tennis shoes, sneakers, shorts, jeans or sports logo jackets. Sunday Masses 7:30 AM Low Mass 9:00 AM High Mass 11:30 AM Low Mass 5:45 PM Low Mass Weekday Masses See THE CALENDAR inside Registration: Please complete a card at the Gift Shop or phone the church. Collection envelopes will be mailed. Mass Intentions: Individual Mass intentions as well as Purgatorial Society enrollments are available in the vestibule, and may be given in with the collection or at the church office. Votive Candles: You may light candles before the numerous shrines located throughout the main church as well as in the baptistery. The suggested donation for a seven-day votive candle is $5.00. The suggested donation for six-hour votives is 50 cents. Confessions: Fridays at 10:55 AM, Friday evenings and Saturday mornings (please consult THE CALENDAR inside for times); most Sundays before the morning Masses. Baptisms: Saturday morning by appointment. At least one parent as well as the sponsor (only one sponsor is required) must be practicing Roman Catholics who do not belong to the Novus Ordo religion. Novus Ordo and nonpracticing Catholics may not serve as sponsors. The Church will provide a sponsor in case of necessity. The Churching of New Mothers follows the baptismal ceremony. Blessing of Religious Articles: First Sunday of the month after all Masses. Blessing of Expectant Mothers: Third Sunday of the month after all Masses. Rosary Chain: To request prayers for special intentions, or to assist in the Rosary Chain, please call the office.

2 ANNOUNCEMENTS NOVEMBER 25, 2012 LAST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST ST CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA, VM Today is the final Green Sunday, the last after Pentecost. Be sure to visit the Gift Shop after Mass for Advent Candles, Calendars, and good reading for the upcoming season of preparation and prayer. Call upon Mary! Never let her name be absent from your lips. THIS WEEK Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal comes Tuesday, followed on Wednesday by the holy nun to whom this devotion was revealed, St. Catherine Labouré. The vigil of the glorious Apostle of the Cross, St. Andrew, is kept on Thursday and his feast day is Friday, also the 19th anniversary of Bishop Dolan s episcopal consecration. Our Lady s Saturday is also First Saturday, and the last day of the liturgical year. Light the first candle of your Advent Wreath that evening. FIRST SATURDAY The month of the Immaculate Conception opens with another detached First Saturday. The schedule is as follows: 7:15 AM Confessions 7:30 AM Low Mass 8:10 AM First Saturday Devotions, Simple Benediction, Sermon 8:50 AM Low Mass First Saturday Intention: Reparation for blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception. NEXT SUNDAY A new liturgical year begins with the First Sunday of Advent. It is also the First Sunday of the month with our regular second collection for Most Holy Trinity Seminary. The Lighting of the Advent Wreath is at 7:25 AM, and the Advent Procession and Blessing of the Advent Wreath commences at 9:00 AM. The blessing of religious articles will be available after all Masses, and Sunday Classes are at 10:40 AM. Collection Report Sunday, November 18th...$2, Set Your Missal: Advent I, with commemoration of St. Bibiana, and Our Lady in Advent. Trinity Preface. Please pray for the repose of the good soul of Fr. Martin Stepanich, OFM, who went to his eternal reward on November 18th, which was the Sunday Solemnity of both St. Gertrude and St. Hugh of Lincoln. He was buried from St. Hugh last week. PLEASE PRAY......for Bishop Dolan s speedy and complete recovery from his recent surgery. Eternal Father, by the Blood of Jesus, have mercy; save us from the shipwreck of the world, as you saved Noah from the universal deluge. CALLING ALL COOKS Good cooks, great cooks, fair-tomiddling cooks...the Fathers need your help. Volunteers are needed on an ongoing basis to prepare meals for the clergy s daily dinner. Cook and package up a meal at home, and drop it off at church with the grocery receipts for reimbursement. Can you help, even one day each month? Please visit the meal scheduling web site, Cucina Clerical; you can Google it or just type in You can view the calendar for days when meals are needed; register and log in, and pick a day when you can help. Or, simply contact Marlys A. ( ) or Gloria Z. ( ) for more information. The grateful Fathers offer Mass once a month for the intentions of all the volunteer cooks! Come lend a hand. SANDY FUND Thank you to all who generously gave a total of $700 to help a traditional Catholic family in dire straits after Hurricane Sandy. May God reward your generosity. Bishop Dolan Our shield belongs to the Lord. Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven At the end of the ecclesiastical year the Church earnestly reminds us of the judgment that we must pass before the all-knowing God. It is wise to anticipate that judgment in frequent and contrite confession, always living in sanctifying grace in union with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament through frequent and devout Communion; and constantly in worship and private prayer. The general theme of this Sunday s Mass appropriately refers to the end of the world. In preparation for our final judgment, we beseech God to arouse our wills for divine service, (Collect), to be on our guard, awake and active, lest our faith sleep or be merely sentimental. The Epistle begs us to be fruitful in every good work. Lest His Love fail to inspire us, the Gospel fills us with sentiments of holy fear, as we consider the destruction of the Jerusalems of this world, the end of time and the beginning of eternity. My Sunday Missal Servers: NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER 2, 2012 FRI 11/30 SAT 12/1 SUN 12/2 11:20 AM HIGH: Simpsons, School servers 5:45 PM LOW: J. Gunsher, C. Simpson, P. Omlor 7:30 AM LOW: Simpsons 8:50 AM LOW: M. Briggs 7:30 AM LOW: Brueggemann Bros. 9:00 AM PROCESSION & HIGH: MC: R. Vande Ryt, T. Simpson, Jr. ACS: S. Arlinghaus, P. Lawrence TH: B. Lotarski HOLY WATER: J. Lacy BOOK: Jos. Morgan TORCH: M. Simpson, P. Omlor, C. Richesson, Jack Morgan, T. Lawrence, Jos. Morgan CROSS: L. Arlinghaus 11:30 AM LOW: A.D. Kinnett, N. McClorey 5:45 PM LOW: G. Miller Ushers: DECEMBER 2, :30 AM Scott Pepiot, Kent Maki, Volunteer 9:00 AM Mike Briggs, Mark Lotarski, Steve Weigand, Paul Arlinghaus 11:30 AM Bob Uhlenbrock, Dennis Hille, Kirby Bischel, Volunteer 5:45 PM VOLUNTEER, PLEASE

3 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away. Apoc. xxi. 1. Apocalypse Shall summer wood where we have laughed our fill; Shall all your grass so good to walk upon; Each field that we have loved, each little hill, Be burnt like paper as hath said Saint John? Then not alone they die! For God hath told How all His plains of mingled fire and glass, His walls of hyacinth, His streets of gold, His aureoles of jeweled light shall pass, That He may make us nobler things than these, And in her royal robes of blazing red Adorn His bride. Yea, with what mysteries And might and mirth shall she be diamonded. And what new secrets shall our God disclose; Or set what suns of burnished brass to flare; Or what empurpled bloom to oust the rose; Or what strange grass to glow like angels hair! What pinnacles of silvery tracery, What dizzy, rampired towers shall God devise Of topaz, beryl and chalcedony To make Heaven pleasant to His children s eyes! THE POETRY CORNER Revelation The Lord God said to His angel: Let the old things pass away. They have heaped the earth with slaughter: their sin obscures the day. Roll up the night on a curtain: let the stars fade one by one: Out of the face of the heavens my anger shall blot the sun. For the man I made and breathed on, filled with my breath of breath, Hath sown the seas with hatred, his skies are dark with death. The babe is slain at the bosom, the babe who beholds my face; A welter of woe he leaves it, the dream of my love and grace. Love was the dower I gave him, love the light of his days, Love the core of his being, love, and the upward gaze. Hate is the meat he feeds on, hate is his daily bread: His drink is the blood of his brother, whom Cain hath stricken dead. I said to the man in the Garden: Where is thy brother, Cain? Am I my brother s keeper? now comes the answer again. The Lord God said to His angel: This Thing is accursed and a lie: It hath sinned from the Law I gave it, and surely it shall die. And in what cataclysms of flame and foam Shall the first Heaven sink as red as sin When God hath cast aside His ancient home As far too mean to house His children in. Theodore Maynard NOVENA PRAYER FOR ADVENT Hail and blessed be the hour and moment, in which the Son of God was born of the Most Pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. At that hour, vouchsafe, O my God! to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother. Amen. (Traditionally said 15 times a day from St. Andrew s Day until Christmas.) The Beasts of the field are patient, the birds rejoice in song, But what is this Thing of blood-lust, and where does it belong? Lo, I shall establish a judgment: Let the old things pass away: They have heaped the fields with slaughter: their sin defiles the day. They have laid on the weak sore burdens, on the just, their whips and ban: For a handful of crimsoned silver they have kissed the Son of Man. Roll back the scroll of the heavens; from out of the womb of birth Come forth new heavens untainted; come forth, renewed, the Earth! John Jerome Rooney Two poems on the same topic the end of the world, but of two very different moods. Bishop Dolan

4 THE BISHOP S CORNER Some seasons the weeks seem to pass effortlessly around here, the routine and rhythm of one church day giving way to the next, until the sacred number of seven is accomplished, and the Lord s Day comes again, a fresh week in tow. Not so this past week. Sunday saw the conclusion, both glorious and quietly homey, of our Forty Hours Prayer. Sunlight filled the sanctuary for the morning Masses, and caught up the careless clouds of incense into a kind of quiet, holy dance, like the prescribed movements of Sacred Ministers and servers. The young fathers with their mostly younger altar boys performed the intricate ritual of the solemn High Mass before the Blessed Sacrament Exposed carefully, reverently, and well. Most people were intent only on their Sunday Mass routine, and came and went as normal. Some did linger, or come again for a visit. The school children sang Our Lady s Mass for the second day and helped us sweetly for both Vespers and the adoration. Otherwise the priests took turns and there always seemed to be one last soul just when needed for watching. A devout group, just enough in number, persevered through the closing ceremonies Sunday evening. Simon proudly carried his little candle, and a few children came a last time to cast the flower petals in the well-spaced, stately procession. The Rosary Confraternity, out in bloom Friday evening, still managed a few fair buds for the closing. The choir produced what Fr. Cekada likes to call a wall of sound, especially for the Sunday High Mass; rich, moving, and beautiful. It was interesting, for those who made the Forty Hours, to hear the different preaching style of our priests all in a row. Fr. Cekada may preach today, nursing duties permitting. He does both very well. Fr. Martin, surrounded by a cloud of prayers, passed into eternity on Sunday evening. He was buried rather quickly, since the festival day was near at hand, on Wednesday. Father s beloved fellow Franciscan, Fr. Francis Miller, who took such good care of him, sang the Requiem at St. Hugh in Milwaukee, as the deceased had designated. After all the traditional prayers were done, the remains were transferred to the Slovenian Franciscans for burial at St. Mary s Cemetery in Chicago. At the end, the traditional Slovenian Angelus was sung, as is customary at the graveside. Fr. Cekada sang it for his father s funeral. Fr. Martin Stepanich, O.F.M., a doctor of sacred theology who ended up a humble recluse gardener for so many years, was saved by Our Lord for his important role in the latter days, a kind of living link with the Church of proper popes and parishes and powers. He was as well a kind of witness or angel of the Apocalypse, the faithful priest who changed neither calendar nor Mass nor faith. He helped us so very much these past years! He goes with our gratitude and prayers, to his rest and reward, regretted but fondly remembered as a great and humble man of God. Requiescat in pace. On Tuesday I had my surgery. Thank you for your concern, your cards, the cheering flowers, and most of all Masses and prayers for my surgery and recovery. Everything seems to be going perfectly so far, with some progress each day. The pain comes and goes. I admire Fr. Cekada s patience A little bit at a time! We had quite an ecumenical gathering at Jewish Hospital. There were a Catholic bishop, Jewish doctors, a Catholic surgeon and nurses, and some cheery Protestant ones who energetically said a prayer with me, as is their custom, before surgery. I thought perhaps I should say a prayer out loud to the Little Jesus, Doctor of the Sick, but I reflected that non- Catholics probably wouldn t understand the powerful devotion to the Holy Infancy more s the pity! Besides, the anesthesia was starting to kick in Thanksgiving made it nice and quiet around here for recovery, for which I am thankful as I sit in my chair with my catheter, moving very slowly and gingerly. (It should come out on Wednesday, which will make me very thankful indeed!) Thanksgiving stay there for a while, and don t be in any rush to start the holidays. Next Sunday is Advent, with its four weeks of penance and preparation, and then comes Christmas. Keep it under wraps for while, won t you? If you must do something, plan out an enthusiastic Advent of prayer and penance. Let us thank God every day for what He knows to be best for us, deaths and illnesses, heavy crosses or consoling kindnesses. A gratitude attitude without reserve is the best stay and support for each day of our life, as we abide in His love. Let Deo Gratias be ever in our heart, and on our lips. I am grateful to God for all of you, and send a blessing with my prayers home with you today on a true Thanksgiving Sunday. Bishop Dolan

5 THE CALENDAR All Sunday Masses and most weekday Masses are webcast Please check our website! MON 11/26/12 ST SYLVESTER, AB ST PETER OF ALEXANDRIA, BPM ST LEONARD OF PORT MAURICE, C 8:00 AM Low Mass Souls in Purgatory (Nick & Judy Manno) 11:20 AM High Mass All whose names are on the altar this November TUE 11/27/12 FERIAL DAY OUR LADY OF THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL 8:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls-Gratitude-to offer the Holy Face to God the Father (DJR) 11:20 AM High Mass Romilda Uhlenbrock (Alfonso & Emily Capetillo) WED 11/28/12 FERIAL DAY ST CATHERINE LABOURÉ 8:00 AM Low Mass Kieron Bodanyi & family (Anonymous) 11:20 AM High Mass Happy Birthday, Paulina (The Fathers) 6:30 PM Choir Practice PREPARATION BLESSING OF THE ADVENT WREATH (recite on Saturday evening, December 1st) V. Our help is in the name of the Lord. R. Who made heaven and earth. Let us pray. O God, by whose word all things are sanctified, pour forth Thy blessing upon this wreath, and grant that we who use it may prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ and may receive from Thee abundant graces. Through Christ our Lord. R. Amen. PRAYER FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Let us pray. Stir up Thy might, we beg Thee, O Lord, and come, so that we may escape through Thy protection and be saved by Thy help from the dangers that threaten us because of our sins. Who livest and reignest forever and ever. R. Amen. THU 11/29/12 VIGIL OF ST ANDREW ST SATURNINUS, M 8:00 AM Low Mass Debbie Clinton (Anonymous) 11:20 AM High Mass John Donadio (Jane & Rob Brockman) FRI 11/30/12 ST ANDREW, AP 8:00 AM Low Mass Tim Rolfes & family (Anonymous) 10:55 AM Confessions 11:20 AM High Mass Bishop Dolan-19th Anniversary of Consecration 5:15 PM Rosary & Confessions 5:45 PM Low Mass Paddy Omlor (Patrick Omlor) 6:30 PM Sacred Heart Novena and Benediction SAT 12/1/12 OUR LADY S SATURDAY SUN FIRST SATURDAY 7:15 AM Confessions 7:30 AM Low Mass Esther Simpson-45th Anniversary 10/24 (Tom Simpson) 8:10 AM Simple Benediction, Rosary & First Saturday Devotions, Sermon 8:50 AM Low Mass Thanksgiving for answered prayers (Rebecca Hinton) 12/1/12 ADVENT I ST BIBIANA, VM 7:05 AM Rosary 7:25 AM Lighting of the Advent Wreath 7:30 AM Low Mass Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Andreotta-50th Anniversary (Katie Bischak) 9:00 AM Advent Procession, Blessing of the Advent Wreath, High Mass Joan Weigand (SGG Rosary Confraternity) SEASON OF ADVENT The life of Our Lord Jesus Christ is reviewed from Advent to Advent, step by step, Mass by Mass. Each Mass traces an image of some truth or action from His earthly life, and renews the same in our own soul. The Church s year opens with the Season of Advent (four Sundays before Christmas). In these shortening days of Winter we prepare for Our Lord s coming. Advent recalls the long centguries waiting for the Christ; the prayers, sighs, ardent desires pleading for the Savior to come. During Advent Christ works in the soul, imparting joyful anticipation and urging preparation by penance for His Coming. THE FOLLOWING PRIVATE MASSES WILL BE OFFERED BY FATHER MCKENNA: Bishop Dolan s Health 5 Masses (Tom Simpson) Joan Weigand (Karen & Charlie Armstrong) Joan Weigand (Fred Heimlcreiton) 10:40 AM Sunday Classes 11:05 AM Rosary 11:30 AM Low Mass Monica and Ana Prell, for your birthdays (Your parents) 5:45 PM Low Mass For the People of St. Gertrude the Great