SS. Edward & Lucy Parish Clustered with St. Helen Church Rev. John T. Burkley, Pastor Websites: www.ssedwardlucy.com * Pro-Life: www.prolifehelp.org REGISTRATION: Call the office or download a form at www.ssedwardlucy.com. P.O. Box 709, 16150 Center St. Parkman, Ohio 44080 ** P.O. Box 98, 16280 East High St. Middlefield, Ohio 44062 Karen Thrasher, Business Manager * Sister Rosemary Janezic, Director of Religious Education Office: (440) 548-3812 E-mail: kt@simcon.net Sister Rosemary E-mail: sisterrose@simcon.net Masses: Saturday Vigil: 5:00pm-St. Edward 6:30pm-St. Lucy and Sunday: 8:30am-St. Edward 10:30am-St. Lucy Confessions: Saturday at 4:15-5:00pm-St. Edward 7:15pm-St. Lucy Weekday Mass: Monday, 6:00pm and Tuesday through Friday, 8:00am-St. Edward Chapel Holydays: Vigil Mass 6:30pm-St. Edward Holyday: 9:00am-St. Edward 6:30pm-St. Lucy OUR MISSION The vibrant Catholic community of SS. Edward and Lucy teaches, proclaims and lives the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. We do so through the celebration of the Eucharist, the administration of the sacraments and in loving and merciful service to all.
As we enter October, remember that this is Respect Life month. We remember all the many ways life is in danger in our world and especially in our country. We keep trying to get Planned Parenthood reigned in, but it has been a long and drawn-out process. If you follow the news you know the thousand of babies that have still been killed each year. We also pay attention to the move of western states to promote assisted suicide and the disaster that brings to our society. If we believe that all human life is sacred from conception to natural death, you know how countercultural we seem to be just as Christianity, by its nature, has always been...october is also the month o the Holy Rosary. We pray the Rosary every Monday evening at 6:30pm at St. Edward and before the 10:30am Mass at St. Lucy. We are so concerned about our world and the Blessed Mother asks us to pray the Rosary daily for our world. Do we make the Rosary part of our own spirituality?...our Paris pastoral Council met last Thursday and discussed several items of interest to you. 1) Our upcoming Parish Life Survey the weekend of November 3 & 4. This survey is meant to provide our Parish pastoral Council with valuable information on how you view your parish and the areas where we need to grow to become the best version of ourselves. 2) We discussed the progress of our move toward Youth Ministry. I have been in conversation with Fr. Jay and Therese Zickert opening the way for our senior high students to join Life Teen at St. Helen. We are also having a Campfire gettogether on October 13 for our 5th to 8th graders a first step toward a junior Youth Ministry. 3) We are planning our annual Stewardship Weekend on the weekend of October 13 & 14. We pledge a year of service to our community and beyond in one of the many ministries we sponsor. 4) We keep trying to determine the role of CETAP. It is meant to help families stay among us by offsetting the tuition surcharge at St. Helen for nonparishioners..our Christmas Extravaganza will be held on Saturday, November 3 at St. Lucy. Mark your calendar....the two shall become one flesh Today we are asked to think and pray about the institution of marriage. You may have heard of the young priest who preached on marriage. Someone asked a middle-aged woman what she thought of the sermon. She replies, I wish I know as little about it as he does. We all know a lot about marriage, from experience or observation. You and I exist because a man and a woman loved each other and brought us into the world. If we re among the lucky ones, they stuck together and took care of us. That s enough to convince us that marriage is very important, not only to us, but also in the sight of God. Let s face it, however, many people are not so sure anymore. Women and men are falling in love and living together but feel no need to get married. Forty years ago that made news, but not now. Weddings don t always work out the way we hoped. Marriage becomes unpopular because it involves promises that seem to some to be too risky. They say they re committed, but make sure they leave a way out if things don t go the way they hoped. It seems better than making promises they may not want to keep. Marriage dies ask couples to make promises to each other to stay together after the glow has faded. Today we have become a nation of single-parent families and fatherless children. These families have become a national tragedy. We are learning, the hard way, the wisdom of the teaching of the Old Testament and the Gospel concerning marriage and the fact that it is the best way to go best for all concerned. That doesn t make it easy. Marriage calls for courage and sacrifice to meet the challenge of faithful life together. (James DiGiacomo, SJ)
Saturday, October 6 Sunday Vigil 5:00pm Marge & Tom Halstead / Carol Patry 6:30pm Dec. Musial Family / Andy & Ellie Sunday, October 7 27th Sunday Ordinary Time 8:30am Bud & Marianne Rzeszotarski / Family 10:30am Linda Bandiera & Family / Bob Hollowell Monday, October 8 Weekday 6:00pm Holy Souls Tuesday, October 9 Weekday 8:00am H&B Dawn Politzer Wednesday, October 10 Weekday 8:00am Esther Faulk / husband, Jim Thursday, October 11 Weekday 8:00am Tom & Judy Polomsky / Ann Halstead Friday, October 12 Weekday 8:00am Betty Eshelman Saturday, October 13 Sunday Vigil 5:00pm Jo Kausek / M/M Paul Rzeszotarski 6:30pm Dr. Al Evans / M/M Ken Zwolinski Sunday, October 14 Feast of St. Edward 8:30am H&B Bob & Linda Walsh / M/M Pete Seliskar 10:30am Joseph & Anna Bizyak / Family Free Book Give Away * October 27 10am to Noon Literacy helps children succeed! Join the Christ Child Society of Geauga County for Make a Difference: Read to Me on October 27, 10am to Noon at Geauga West Library Meeting Room and Middlefield Library Meeting Room. Books are for grades K thru 5 and one book per child. Mark your calendars! Saturday Oct 13 is the 101st anniversary of the Marian Apparitions at Fatima (1917). It's the Nation Day to say the Rosary in public. All are invited to say the Rosary together at 10am on the corner of Rt. 528 and Center St. at St. Edward. Hope you can join us. REST IN PEACE Please keep Roseagnes Bastian, mother of Laura Blakely in your prayers who has died. MASS COUNT THIS WEEKEND AND NEXT Sit up straight and be counted! St. Edward St. Lucy Regular: $1681.25 (70 $2319.75 (64) Regular 2017: $2742.49 (86) $2227.22 (81) Restricted/Heat: 260.00 40.00 St. Vincent: 174.00 293.00 Catholic Comm. 42.01 107.00 Parking Lot Pledge:270.00 xxxx Children: 1.00 (1) 9.00 (2) Sunday: Children s Liturgy of the Word The Gatherings E & L Parish Having Fun Ridgeview Farm Weekend: MASS COUNT AT all Masses Monday: 10am-6pm Adoration in the Chapel 6:00pm Mass & Rosary in the Chapel Tuesday: 9:30 Rosary Group at Briar Cliff Manor 9:45am Briar Hill Bingo Wednesday: 7:00pm Bible Study E Saturday Thursday: 10:00am Bible Study E Noon-6:00pm Adoration St L 7:00pm Geauga Co. Jail Ministry Friday: Adult Session of Generations of Faith 7pm L Sunday: Generations of Faith Noon @ St L Weekend: MASS COUNT AT all Masses KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS PREGNANT? SCARED? NEEDS HELP? CALL 888.552.3552 24 HOURS SS. EDWARD & LUCY PRAYER LINE: Call Rebecca 330-389-0728 or email prayer request to Rebbanne@gmail.com.
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION One of our great treasures is the way the Church has frequently flourished under unfavorable conditions, like the grape ivy on the mantel that refuses to die no matter how infrequently you water it or open the drapes. Like the apartheid laws in South Africa in the last century, the penal laws of Ireland were aimed at depriving the majority population of basic human rights. The Protestant parliament of Ireland enacted laws limiting the practice of Catholicism. The goal was to force conversion from popery to the Church of Ireland, and additional laws took aim at Jews, non-anglicans, and Quakers. There were laws against intermarriage, laws against Catholics being lawyers (there was a onehundred-pound fine), a law granting lifelong income to priests who became Protestant, and a ban on weapons. In fact, until 1793, a Catholic man had to recruit and pay a Protestant man to serve in the local militia in his place! As if family life is not complicated enough in any age, the sons of a deceased father could divide his land equally, unless one became Protestant. In that case all would go to him! When allowed, new Catholic churches had to be built of wood, not stone, be off a main road or city square, have no steeple or bell, and be called a chapel. Catholic Emancipation was largely secured by 1829, but even up to the founding of the Irish State in the 1920s, some effects of the laws endured. No wonder that poor Irish immigrants to the United States frequently built gloriously beautiful churches as their first act on free soil! Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. It s A Matter of Life... A simple truth: Abortion does not END a pregnancy. Birth ENDS a pregnancy. Abortion KILLS a baby DURING pregnancy. +HEART OF JESUS RETREAT AT CHARDON St. Mary Parish in Chardon invites us to a retreat on Aug. 20 & 21. It is not an overnight retreat and is open to men and women over 18 years-of-age. Time to pray and grow! Call Kim at 440-463-4806 for more information or to register. CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GEAUGA COUNTY CC services include early Childhood Mental Health Programs, Self-sufficiency Programs, Help Me Grow parenthood skills, etc., Chemical dependency counseling, Getting Ahead program help getting out of poverty Call CC at 285-3537, x16. GEAUGA COUNTY AGING & RESOURCE CENTER Benefits counseling, Long-term Care Planning, Health and Wellness. Questions about living arrangements, health care, employment & training, mental and emotional support. Call 285-3194. Don t forget to purchase your tickets for our annual Polkafest on Sunday, October 21. Take out dinners are available also. See the flyer for details! Our CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA is Saturday November 3 at St. Lucy Winca Hall. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! HE EMBRACED THEM AND BLESSED THEM Today Jesus stresses how children embody the reign of God. They are trusting and loving and have hearts that are open to love. They are joyful when they are made aware of God s love for them, and are eager to return that love. This is the model Jesus holds out to us if we want to welcome the reign of God. We need to have open, loving hearts. We must drop our defenses, however we came by them, and welcome Christ s love for us with joy. This is impossible for us on our own. Only the grace of God will enable us to do this, but that grace is freely and generously given. We have only to accept it. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. ROSE HALL AND WINCA HALL RENTALS: CALL THE OFFICE 548-3812