ST. BRIDE
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIO CESE OF CHICAGO
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The Thirty-second Sunday
Of the Church Year
November 12, 2017
MASSES THIS WEEK
Daily Mass is celebrated at 8 AM
In the Parish House Chapel as scheduled
The Thirty-second Sunday of the Church Year:
For the Intention of Fritz and Laverne Baumgartner, Martin Hetzel and Paul and Estelle Kula, James and Maryanne Gladney – 59th Wedding Anniversary
Monday: St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Wednesday: St. Albert the Great
Thursday: St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude
Friday: St. Elizabeth of Hungary
Special Intention - AP
Saturday: The Dedication of the Basilicas of SS. Peter and Paul and Paul; St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
The Thirty-third Sunday of the Church Year:
For the Intention of Gloria Tepavchevich
and Marge Machay
Mass Intentions Available - If you have a special anniversary or family member or celebration that you want to remember at Mass, now is the time to arrange to reserve that date. Please be sure to include your intention as well as your phone number when submitting the request. The traditional stipend per Mass is ten dollars.
Support Our Food Pantry -The St. Bride Food Pantry is open. We will welcome your donations of NON-PERISHABLE food items to stock our shelves. Please bring them to Church each week or to the Hall during the week. You can also place your donations on the back porch of the Rectory. Thank you!
Electronic Giving for Weekly Offerings - Since we have started Give Central, more than $18,000.00 has been contributed through this electronic means of giving! It is an excellent way of scheduling your offerings to St. Bride, as well as a way of marking special events. Click on the “Donate Now” button on our web site at www.st-bride.org.
MICKEY’S MINUTE
“To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.”
-Bernard Edmonds
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: Wis 1:1-7; Ps 139:1b-10; Lk 17:1-6
Tuesday: Wis 2:23 — 3:9; Ps 34:2-3, 16-19;
Lk 17:7-10
Wednesday: Wis 6:1-11; Ps 82:3-4, 6-7; Lk 17:11-19
Thursday: Wis 7:22b — 8:1; Ps 119:89-91, 130, 135, 175; Lk 17:20-25
Friday: Wis 13:1-9; Ps 19:2-5ab; Lk 17:26-37
Saturday: Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9; Ps 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43; Lk 18:1-8
Sunday: Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Ps 128:1-5; 1 Thes 5:1-6; Mt 25:14-30
November 18th – Thanksgiving Outreach Luncheon to the South Shore Community
Each year we serve a Turkey Luncheon to the community of South Shore! We have between 150 and 200 guests each year. Help us if you can by contributing canned foods, frozen turkey Breasts or Gift Cards. Gift cards from ALDI’S and SAV-A-LOT work the best for us!
Thanksgiving - Morning Mass at 9AM in the Church
December 3rd – First Sunday of Advent
December 8th – The Immaculate Conception - Mass at 8 AM in the Church
December 10th – Breakfast with Santa immediately following Mass
HAMILTON tickets raffle begin sales!
Christmas Eve Family Mass at 4 PM
Christmas Morning Mass at 10 AM
January 1, 2018 – Mass ar 10 AM
February 14th – Ash Wednesday February 18th – Stations of the Cross after Mass
March 11th – St. Joseph and
St. Patrick Luncheon
March 18th – Sacrament of Reconciliation before and after Mass
Spring Luncheon 2018 -May 20, 2018
WISDOM
We consider wisdom today. The first reading from the book of Wisdom presents this precious gift as a feminine spirit, a very desirable virtue sought by many and graciously present to all who seek her. In today's Gospel, Jesus tells a parable to illustrate wisdom in a practical, measurable way. The wise will conserve their resources, use them prudently, and mark the passing of time. The foolish, on the other hand, not planning ahead, will be in the dark. Both of these readings tell us how accessible wisdom is to all who simply and honestly seek it.
Paul's words to the Thessalonians are not about wisdom, but describe one result of true wisdom: To the wise person of faith even death holds no terror. Our faith in Jesus' resurrection tells us we will all one day rise to new life in Christ.
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
We had sixteen hundred years’ experience with one Eucharistic Prayer in our repertoire, and the liturgical reforms of the Council of Trent shaped the way we worshiped for four hundred years. In the last years of the Tridentine Mass, the early 1960s, we tended to see children as miniature adults. Fully rooted in the Sunday assembly by the decision of Pope Saint Pius X to push Communion back to the age of seven or so from the standard age of twelve to fourteen years during the early 1900s, children were still more tolerated than acknowledged. The Mass was in Latin, and by the 1960s the people had begun to regain their voices in the “dialogue Mass,” so the focus was on training little children to recite or sing in Latin.
The new attention to the experience of children, their ability to enter into ritual, their spontaneity, their ability to grasp key concepts in faith, felt “untraditional.” Yet we can trace in our tradition the ways in which children have long been given a special place in the assembly. From earliest times, boys have served in choirs and certain ministries in monasteries and in parish churches. Girls were sometimes entrusted to nuns, learning liturgical chants and the arts. Yet, in our day, the formation of a Lectionary for children and Eucharistic Prayers suited to them are truly tremendous breakthroughs in our treasury of prayer.
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Getting to Know You
At the end of today’s Gospel, when the foolish virgins return from the quick shop with the oil, they are locked out of the wedding. The groom answers their pleas, not with a question, “Why weren’t you ready?” but with the statement, “I don’t know you” (Mt 25:12). Now that sounds kind of odd, if the bridegroom represents the Lord, because God knows everything, and everybody. In Matthew’s Gospel, this phrase seems to imply that “because you made no effort to know me, I don’t know you.” In other words, the oil in the parable stands for knowing the Lord. Or at least making an effort to know him.
So what am I doing to get to know Jesus? One way to know someone is to act like them. Actors who portray a real person try to watch videos of that person to see how they talk, walk, relate to people, what kind of posture they have, how they dress, etc. We can act like Jesus by following his example of care for the poor and the sick, forgiving people who have done wrong, teaching people about God’s love, feeding the hungry, and giving God the credit for what we do.
Another way to get to know someone is to talk to them. The more we pray, the more we get close to Jesus. We can praise God for Creation, we can thank God for all the giving (and forgiving!) We can ask for help for those we love and for God’s strength in our weakness (2 Cor 12:9). But we don’t get to know someone if we do all the talking. Our prayer can include time to be quiet and listen to the Lord. We also listen to God by reading God’s words in the Bible. And God can speak to some people in art, song, or poetry. The advice and wisdom of friends and relatives can also be God speaking to us. Hopefully, we can all find ways of getting to know the Lord, so that God can “recognize” us as friends.
I CAN DO ANYTHING
I have started houses with no more than the price of a loaf of bread and prayers,
for with him who comforts me, I can do anything.
—Frances Xavier Cabrini
November 12, 2017 – St. Bride Church – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago