كيفية الصالة: البابا فرنسيس يبين لنا FR. PIERRE S MESSAGE TO THE PARISH

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1 PARISH DIRECTORY Bishop Francis Kalabat Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit Fr. Pierre Konja Administrator Fr. Emanuel Rayes Retired in residence Linda Arabo Office Administrator Nancy Beba Pastoral Associate Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Tel: Fax: For masses schedule and information please see page 3. ONLINE GIVING Mother of God Parish offers online giving a web based electronic contribution application that is safe and secure. you can manage contributions online or continue having your offering envelopes mailed to you. To sign up for online giving please visit our website at This website will walk you through the process. Stay in touch with your parish on FACEBOOK Our Lady of Chaldeans Cathedral-Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church July 24th, th of Summer كيفية الصالة: البابا فرنسيس يبين لنا الطريقة FR. PIERRE S MESSAGE TO THE PARISH Every couple years the pope host World Youth Day. It's a gathering of the youth from across the world with the same Catholic faith and love for Jesus gathering in one location, loving our faith, praising Jesus, and witnessing our faith to the world. This year it is in Poland, in years past it's been in Australia, Germany, Brazil, and many other countries. Every year we send a group of Chaldeans that represent the diocese. We as Chaldeans always go from across the world from France, Australia, Iraq, Canada, and California. In my opinion, it's one of the most beautiful things the church does. The amazing witness it has to the world, and how it unifies all of us in one faith. There is always a talk about how the church and Jesus' message are outdated and not interesting, but when over a million youth, from around the world, spend their time and money to be uncomfortable in a foreign country just to show the world that the church is alive, it truly shows the world that Jesus and the church are alive and thriving! (continued on page 2) قد يكون التنقل في العالم أمرا صعبا بالنسبة للمسيحيين. ليس هناك شك في انتشار الشر في كل مكان حولنا و هذا يحمل المسيحيين على الشعور باليأس و القنوط. ومع ذلك فإن الكنيسة تدعونا للعيش كمنارات وسط هذا المستنقع األخالقي. إننا مدعوون لنكون شهودا على محبة المسيح و النور الذي في داخلنا إن الكشف عن أحدث المكائد السياسية و التباكي على االنحطاط األخالقي و المضي بهذه الوجوه الكئيبة لن يعلي أحدا. فالعالم بحاجة ألمثلة ملموسة على حياة أصيلة عاشت بشكل جيد. و هذه المهمة ليست سهلة عندما ال تعود الحياة الطبيعة طبيعية تبعا لتعاليم المسيح يتذكر البعض منا الدروس األولى للتنشئة المسيحية التي تقول بأن هدفنا على هذه األرض هو معرفة )هللا( و محبته و خدمته في هذا العالم و أن نفرح معه في الحياة األبدية. إن ترتيب هذه األشياء الثالثة مهم جدا. فاألول التعرف إلى هللا. و ال يمكننا أن نحب شخصا ما لم نعرفه علينا أن نكتشف من هو يسوع و نذهب إلى معرفة تجريبية.رثى رئيس األساقفة فولتون شين عدم وجود الكتب حول الرب. 1 Mother of God Church Berg Road, Southfield, MI (continued on page 2)

2 THE GOOD NEWS (Continued from page 1) As Catholics, we should try to follow the news of World Youth Day, pray for those who are there, pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the pilgrims who are gathered with the Pope telling the whole world "Jesus lives and will never die!" Fr. Pierre Konja (Continued from page 1) لدينا العديد من كتب المساعدة الذاتية: بإمكاننا أن نقرأ حول الحياة الروحية لكن أن نضعها حي ز التنفيذ و أن نقضي بعض الوقت عند قدمي الرب فال يمكن ألحد أن يقوم بذلك نيابة عنا. علينا أن نقوم به بأنفسنا. ال يجب أن نترك الصالة ألوقات الفراغ فقط. علينا أن نصلي يوميا و أن نخصص الوقت لها السيما عندما نظن أننا ال نملك الوقت. بمجرد أن نلتزم بصالة منتظمة توصف أحيانا بأنها صالة عقلية و هي شكل متميز من صالة الليتورجيا سنحصل على الوضوح الذي يعطي أعمالنا هدفا أعظم. سيغير هللا قلوبنا و يجعلنا نريده أكثر. و كل ما علينا القيام به هو بذل القليل من الجهد و إظهار النية الطيبة و الكرم و لعل هذه هي أول صالة لنا يا رب علمني كيف أصلي كما توسل الرسل. و نحن بدورنا نطلب من هللا الطلب نفسه. للتأمل و التفكير و البصيرة قد تبدأ بروح القديس فرنسيس: كلمات ملهمة للبابا فرنسيس. يبدأ الكتاب بتشجيعنا على االلتزام بالصالة. و هنا يقول فرنسيس أننا سنجد الفرح و نفيض بحب المسيح فنعكسه على اآلخرين بعيش حياة أصيلة بسيطة و صادقة المواضيع التي اقترحها البابا للتأمل هي محبة هللا العظيمة و رحمته الكبيرة و مغفرته. إن الصالة اليومية تقودنا إلى فرح عميق يظهر في الروح التبشيرية لدينا و القيم التي يجب أن نركز عليها بساطة الحياة و التواضع بعيشنا ببساطة سيكون بمقدورنا أن نركز على العناية بالخليقة بدءا ممن هم بأمس الحاجة و تمتد لحماية األرض التي نحن عليها مؤتمنون. ينبغي أن تتجه أعمالنا الخيرية نحو الفقراء و غير المرغوب فيهم في المجتمع. يجب أن تتكلم حياتنا عن هللا و نحن نعيش خارج جدران رعيتنا. ليس كافيا أن نعزل أنفسنا في الرعية خصوصا عندما يكون أولئك الذين يعتنقون و يعيشون اإليمان الكاثوليكي هم األقلية. علينا أن نكون شهودا على إيماننا و أن نكون أدواة سالم و مغفرة ال أدواة حرب و تقسيم. إن اتفقنا مع كل ما يركز عليه البابا أم لم نتفق فقد أعطانا دليال لفحص ذواتنا. و في هذه التأمالت يتحدى البابا المسيحيين المعاصرين ليشهدوا بفرح و بساطة لما نحن عليه و ما نؤمن به. "كم يبدو لنا صعب ا أن نغفر أحيان ا! ومع ذلك فالمغفرة هي األداة التي و ضعت بين يدينا الضعيفتين لنبلغ إلى سكينة القلب. إن ترك الحقد والغضب والعنف واالنتقام هي الشروط الضروري ة لنعيش سعداء" البابا فرنسيس عن الرحمة اإللهية 2

3 PARISH SCHEDULE AND WEEKLY INFORMATION BAPTISM: We celebrate Baptism at 2:00 pm on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Please call the parish office at least two weeks in advance to see if a date is available. ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please call the parish office to make arrangements for Anointing or to receive the Eucharist. MARRIAGE: Please schedule at least six months before you plan to be married and before you make arrangements for the reception, please call the parish office to make an appointment with the priest to begin the necessary preparations. LITURGICAL SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil Mass 4:00 PM English Sunday Masses 8:30 AM عربي/ Arabic 01:11AM English 11:30 AM Morning Prayer 12:00 PM سورث/ Chaldean 7:00 PM English Weekday Masses 8:00 AM English at ECRC 9:30 AM Morning Prayer 10:00 AM سورث/ Chaldean NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING CLASSES First and third Wednesday of every even month from 7:30-9:30 pm. MARRIAGE CLASSES First, second and third Thursday of every odd month from 8:00-10:00 pm. Wednesday 5:00 PM Adoration 6:00 PM English Mass Confession 5-7 pm Wednesday 6-7 pm Sunday (or by appointment) FINANCIAL STATUS Sunday Goal: $6,000 Sunday Collection (July 17th): $4,429 Over/(Under): ($1,571) Monthly Online Donation Goal: $4,000 Monthly Online Collection (June): $1,025 Over/(Under): ($2,975) *Sign up for online donation at 3

4 KNOW YOUR FAITH Mother of the Blessed Virgin Feast: July 26 SAINT OF THE WEEK SAINT ANNE Of St. Anne we have no certain knowledge. She is not mentioned in the New Testament, and we must depend on apocryphal literature, chiefly the Protoevangelium of James, which dates back only to the second century. In this document we are told that Anne, wife of Joachim, was advanced in years and that her prayers for a child had not been answered. Once as she prayed beneath a laurel tree near her home in Galilee, an angel appeared and said to her, "Anne, the Lord hath heard thy prayer and thou shalt conceive and bring forth, and thy seed shall be spoken of in all the world." Anne replied, "As the Lord my God liveth, if I beget either male or female, I will bring it as a gift to the Lord my God; and it shall minister to Him in holy things all the days of its life " And thus Anne became the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The devotion of St. Anne was known in the East in the fifth century, but it was not diffused in the West until the thirteenth. A shrine at Douai, in northern France, was one of the early centers of the devotion. In 1382 her feast was extended to the whole Western Church, and she became very popular, especially in France. Her two most famous shrines are at St. Anne d'auray in Brittany and at St. Anne-de Beaupre in the province of Quebec. She is patroness of housewives, women in labor, cabinet-makers, and miners. Her emblem is a door. St. Anne has been frequently represented in art, and the lovely face depicted by Leonardo da Vinci comes first to mind in this connection. The name Anne derives from the Hebrew Hannah, meaning "grace." Prayer for Travelers O God, Who did cause the children of Israel to traverse the Red Sea dry-shod; Thou Who did point out by a star to the Magi the road that led them to Thee; grant us we beseech Thee, a prosperous journey and propitious weather; so that, under the guidance of Thy holy angels we may safely reach that journey's end, and later the haven of eternal salvation. Hear, O Lord, the prayers of Thy servants. Bless their journeying's. Thou Who art everywhere present, shower everywhere upon them the effects of Thy mercy; so that, insured by Thy protection against all dangers, they may return to offer Thee their thanksgiving. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. 4

5 SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK Paul s Defense of His Ministry 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1-18 Accusation of Weakness. 1 Now I myself, Paul, urge you through the gentleness and clemency of Christ, [c] I who am humble when face to face with you, but brave toward you when absent, 2 [d] I beg you that, when present, I may not have to be brave with that confidence with which I intend to act boldly against some who consider us as acting according to the flesh. 3 For, although we are in the flesh, we do not battle according to the flesh, 4 for the weapons of our battle are not of flesh but are enormously powerful, capable of destroying fortresses. We destroy arguments 5 and every pretension raising itself against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ, 6 and we are ready to punish every disobedience, once your obedience is complete. 7 Look at what confronts you. Whoever is confident of belonging to Christ should consider that as he belongs to Christ, so do we. [f] 8 And even if I should boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I shall not be put to shame. May I not seem as one frightening you through letters. 10 For someone will say, His letters are severe and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. 11 Such a person must understand that what we are in word through letters when absent, that we also are in action when present. 21 h ] Not that we dare to class or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding. 13 But we will not boast beyond measure but will keep to the limits [i] God has apportioned us, namely, to reach even to you. 14 For we are not overreaching ourselves, as though we did not reach you; we indeed first came to you with the gospel of Christ. 15 We are not boasting beyond measure, in other people s labors; yet our hope is that, as your faith increases, our influence among you may be greatly enlarged, within our proper limits, 16 so that we may preach the gospel even beyond you, not boasting of work already done in another s sphere. 17 Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord. 18 For it is not the one who recommends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord recommends. 5

6 THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PART ONE THE PROFESSION OF FAITH SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE" CHAPTER THREE MAN'S RESPONSE TO GOD III. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FAITH Faith is a grace 351When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come "from flesh and blood", but from "my Father who is in heaven". 24 Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. "Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and 'makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.'" 25 certain signs of divine Revelation, adapted to the intelligence of all"; they are "motives of credibility" (motiva credibilitatis), which show that the assent of faith is "by no means a blind impulse of the mind" Faith is certain. It is more certain than all human knowledge because it is founded on the very word of God who cannot lie. To be sure, revealed truths can seem obscure to human reason and experience, but "the certainty that the divine light gives is greater than that which the light of natural reason gives." 31 "Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt." 32 Faith is a human act 351Believing is possible only by grace and the interior helps of the Holy Spirit. But it is no less true that believing is an authentically human act. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is contrary neither to human freedom nor to human reason. Even in human relations it is not contrary to our dignity to believe what other persons tell us about themselves and their intentions, or to trust their promises (for example, when a man and a woman marry) to share a communion of life with one another. If this is so, still less is it contrary to our dignity to "yield by faith the full submission of... intellect and will to God who reveals", 26 and to share in an interior communion with him. 355In faith, the human intellect and will cooperate with divine grace: "Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace." 27 Faith and understanding 351What moves us to believe is not the fact that revealed truths appear as true and intelligible in the light of our natural reason: we believe "because of the authority of God himself who reveals them, who can neither deceive nor be deceived". 28 So "that the submission of our faith might nevertheless be in accordance with reason, God willed that external proofs of his Revelation should be joined to the internal helps of the Holy Spirit." 29 Thus the miracles of Christ and the saints, prophecies, the Church's growth and holiness, and her fruitfulness and stability "are the most " 351Faith seeks understanding": 33 it is intrinsic to faith that a believer desires to know better the One in whom he has put his faith, and to understand better what He has revealed; a more penetrating knowledge will in turn call forth a greater faith, increasingly set afire by love. The grace of faith opens "the eyes of your hearts" 34 to a lively understanding of the contents of Revelation: that is, of the totality of God's plan and the mysteries of faith, of their connection with each other and with Christ, the center of the revealed mystery. "The same Holy Spirit constantly perfects faith by his gifts, so that Revelation may be more and more profoundly understood." 35 In the words of St. Augustine, "I believe, in order to understand; and I understand, the better to believe." Faith and science: "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth." 37 "Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are." 38 6

7 ANNOUNCMENTS Fr. Pierre Konja will be celebrating the feast of St. Anne on Monday July 25th at 7:00 pm at St. Anne de Detroit Catholic Church Easy * Fast * Secure 7

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