Parish Family A Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Chicago 16801 Dixie Highway, Hazel Crest, Illinois 60429 Feast of Saint Anne as we journey tolive,growandshare inGod’sas wejourney love. Saint Anneisawelcoming,loving community. As disciplesofJesus, weembracediversity We liveoutourfaithwithopenarms. We and share ourgiftsandtalents, Sunday, 23July 2017 Saint Anne Parish Family Please tag your social media posts: #saintannehazelcrest 22 Page 2 W e A ll V alue E ach other! From the My Dear Parish Family, from my regular routine here at the parish for my annual “staycation”. Even though Pastor’s Desk Happy Feast Day! It is with great joy that our I do not travel anywhere, I try to spend parish family comes together each year to some extra time in prayer, reading, and celebrate the feast day of our Patron, Saint relaxing here at the parish. This summer, Anne. Many thanks to everyone who has I will also be using my staycation to work worked so hard behind the scenes to make on continuing the development of our new our celebration so special! For the first parish website. While the basic framework time, our feast day celebration is bringing of the site is already in place, there is much together our band, our choir, and our coro more work to be done. I am looking forward for what is sure to be a great celebration of to the quiet of the summer to spend some the rich diversity of our parish family. And time working on the more creative aspects we once again join together after Mass in of the site, and populating it with pictures, Father Sweeney Hall for our Feast Day news, and other information about the Dinner. Many thanks to everyone who is many ministries and organizations . Please cooking and bringing in a special dish to see page six for more information about our www.saintanneparish.org share at our dinner. I hope that you will be website and how you can help me develop able to join us to celebrate the gift of love facebook.com/saintanneparish it over the coming weeks. Visit our new site that is our parish family. May Saint Anne at: www.saintanneparish.org twitter.com/saintanneparish continue to watch over us and guide us on Masses our pilgrim way to the Kingdom of Our Lord! Even as we roll out our new parish website, we continue to ask all of the members of Vacation Bible School is just around the our parish family to download and use Saturday corner. Children from Kindergarten through 4:30 PM the “OneParish” app. It is a free download Fifth Grade are invited to participate in this available both on Google Play and iTunes. Sunday year’s program: Hero Headquarters. Please Please be sure to install this free app on 8:30 AM pick up your registration form in the back your phone or tablet. The app automatically 10:30 AM of the church and return your completed detects the default language of your form to the Religious Education Office. device and will present itself in English Tuesday thru Thursday Please see page five for more information. 8:30 AM or in Spanish. Please take some time to Many thanks to Monica and her team of familiarize yourself with this wonderful app Friday dedicated volunteers for working so hard to and its many faith building features, and (Communion Service) put this wonderful program together for the use it as a way to stay connected to our 8:30 AM young people of our parish! parish family even when you can’t be here Reconciliation As our summer continues, I am looking with us for Mass. forward to taking some extra time away Yours In ’s Love, Saturday after the 4:30 PM Mass and by appointment Saint Anne Pastoral Directory Father Ralph H. Zwirn Taffany Speller Baptisms Rectory Office Pastor Carmen Fox New parents are expected (773) 599-9476 Sebastiana Mendoza to participate in a baptismal 16802 Lincoln Street Samone Fisher preparation session. Baptisms Father J. Patrick Murphy are normally on Sundays at (708) 335-1792 Early Learning Center Weekend Assistant 12 PM. Please call our parish (708) 335-1953 (Fax) (708) 335-4831 office to make arrangements. Father Leonard A. Dubi (708) 335-4861—fax Hours: Retired Pastor William Rosas Monday thru Thursday Couples are expected to be 9 AM to 3 PM Deacon Gary Director of Liturgical Music properly prepared for their Closed Friday thru Sunday Deacon Monica Elsey marriage. Arrangements must Elaine Bulanda Youth Ministry Coordinator be made at least four months in (708) 432-5300 advance, preferably as soon as Saint Vincent Pastoral Assistant the engagement takes place. de Paul Society Andrew Ortiz Deanna Vera Religious Education Parish Administrative Assistant Sick Visitation Please call our parish office to (708) 335-1766 Coordinator (708) 335-1792 (708) 335-2286 (708) 335-1953—fax arrange for visitation to the sick. S M I July 16, 2017 Total Sunday Collection $4,1.// Monday, July 24—St. Sharbel Makhūf Number of Envelopes Used 74 No Services Today

Average Per Envelope Used $52.69 Tuesday, July 25—St. James Other Collections 8:30 am Purgatorial Society

Building Fund $324.00 Wednesday, July 26—Sts. Anne and St. Paul Sharing $5.00 8:30 am Marcus Bradshaw by John & Debbie Hausmann St. Vincent de Paul $10.00 Intentions of the 8:30 Rosary Mass Group by Jim Cameron St. Anne Feast Day $10.00

Father $0.00 Thursday, July 27—Weekday

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, : Saturday, July 29—Vigil: Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Harold Christine Hutchins Rosemarie Adams Jessie Isom 4:30 pm Lawrence, Patricia * Larry Browne by the Browne Bill Bahnks Jeffries Family Ron Boudreau Mildred Kaye Intentions of Vanessa Spaargaren by Jim Cameron Barbara Budzik Jean Kosinski

Carolyn Collins Mary Lu Larsen Helen Cook Dorothy Lazuka Sunday, July 30—Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Jim Cooper Pauline Liesse 8:30 am People of the Parish Al Degol Millie Moore Lucille Degol Colleen Murphy 10:30 am Samantha Carlson by the Carlson Family Bill DeWilde Joanne Nason Shirley Doran Joyce Niersbach Bernardo Esparza Robert Niersbach Sheila Fasano Mary Rose Rodrieguez Ethel Gaines Mary St. Aubin Please Pray for our Sue Graf Jessie Wakefield Helen Grandfield Mia Wakefield Renew My Church Karen Griffin Cindy Wasilewski Parish Grouping: Joan Grover Drake Wenzel Marty Harnett White St. Emeric Nancy Harnett Charlotte Young-Moore Infant of Prague St. St. Lawrence O’Toole I M The parish family of St. Anne expresses our condolences to the families of:

Betty Duggan St. Anne Holy Hour

Holy Hour at 7:00 p.m. Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 23, 2017 September 5, 2017

Those who are just Please enter the church building through must be kind. the parking door. — Wisdom 12:19

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THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS LIKE . . . LITTLE THINGS ADD UP

Jesus speaks in several parables today about the reign of Children and youth easily learn from your example when you God, including images from several groups of people in or- plant the “mustard seeds” of faith in their lives. Recently, a der to make his message clear to all who hear. The kingdom group of youngsters shared their ideas on how to show the love of God is like a man who sows good seed. The kingdom of of Jesus to others. God is like a person who plants a mustard seed. The king-  I walk my neighbor’s dog because she’s too old to do it. dom of God is like a woman who adds yeast to her flour. All  Put money in a parking meter that ran out. of these very human activities bring home the fact that the reign of God is already among us, working in small ways to  Don’t talk about anyone behind their back. bring about mysterious but very great results.  Clean the house when Mom and Dad are out.

Good and evil are allowed to grow together until the end, lest  I put out the trash without being asked. the good be destroyed with the evil. There is a lesson for us  Help take donations to the food bank. here. It is not that we shouldn’t oppose evil when we see it, but that in our zeal to make our world perfect by human  Invite your friend to go to Mass with you. force, we must be careful not to destroy the work that God is  Don’t yell at your sister. doing. It is not for us, but for God to judge what is to be kept  Hold the door open for people. and what destroyed, and even though we think we know the difference, we must be cautious not to disturb God’s carefully  When Mom or Dad has a long day I make dinner and look planted goodness in others. Violence can never be the after my younger brother. means of justice.  Find something you’re good at and do it for someone else.

Likewise, the reign of God is like something very small, al-  Save some of your allowance and give it to help poor peo- most unnoticeable until we begin to see the results. The tiny ple. mustard seed, which can be planted by any person (even a  If you’re a bigger kid, just help out some of the little guys. child), grows to be a large tree, amazing to all. A tiny amount  Say prayers for people who are sick or in trouble. of yeast, when added to flour, becomes invisible until it be- gins to make the whole dough rise, doubling or tripling its  I interpret for deaf people. volume, and becoming bread in the oven’s heat.  Give a surprise present to someone.

Let us not judge what we see, but trust that God’s work in  I send notes to my parents at work just to tell them I love the world is gentle and quiet, the results known only in the them. final chapter. We seek, in humility, to watch for the Spirit  Stand up for a pregnant lady on the bus. working in the ordinary activities of our lives.  Wake up early and make breakfast.

Today’s Readings: Wisdom 12:13, 16–19; Psalm 86:5–6, 9–  Parents clean up after you every day; you can pick up after 10, 15–16; :26–27; Matthew 13:24–43 [24–30] them, too.  I visit people in the nursing home who don’t have family or Copyright © 2007, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. are just plain lonely.  If the classroom is really messed up, put things away be- fore the teacher asks. If a friend looks sad, give them a nice warm hug. R W Living Stewardship Now “Whoever gives to me, teaches me to give.” —Danish Monday Ex 14:5-18; Ex 15:1bc-6; Mt 12:38-42 proverb Copyright © 2010, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.. Tuesday 2 Cor 4:7-15; Ps 126:1bc-6; Mt 20:20-28 Wednesday Ex 16:1-5, 9-15; Ps 78:18-19, 23-28; Did You Know That Our Parish Jn 20:1-2, 11-18 Has An Active Knights of Thursday Ex 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20b; Dn 3:52-56; Columbus Council? Mt 13:10-17 Friday Ex 20:1-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 13:18-23 The Marian Council 3761 is made up of Catho- Saturday Ex 24:3-8; Ps 34:2-11; Jn 11:19-27 or lic Gentlemen from St. Joseph Parish, Infant Jesus of Prague Lk 10:38-42 and St. Anne Parish in Hazel Crest. Our meetings are on the Sunday 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127- first Thursday of the month at 7:30 PM. We meet at the Burke 130; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52 [44-46] Center on the grounds of St. Joseph Parish. For more infor- mation contact Grand Knight Tom Vargo at [email protected]

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July 23, 2017 - Page 5 - Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time www.SaintAnneParish.org Building a New Website

As you are aware, our parish family has been hard at work trying to improve our overall financial situation. While we have had to make reductions in our payroll, we have also been working on increasing our parish income. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to increase the number of people who are joining us for Masses each weekend as well as increasing the enrollment at our Early Learning Center. We have been meeting with advisors from the Archdiocese who have been working closely with us to both reduce our expenses and to increase our income. One of their strongest recommendations was that we revamp our parish web- site to make it more inviting and visually appealing, making sure that it includes the kind of information that would attract people to our parish for Mass and welcome parents to enroll their children in our Early Learning Center. Quite honestly, this kind of work has been on the drawing board since we completed our Parish Trans- formation meetings, but we never really were able to get our ideas off the drawing board and onto the internet. With much gratitude to all the people who have been working on ideas for a new website, the time has come to push those ideas off the drawing board and onto the internet. That being said, I will be spending my “staycation” this summer developing our new par- ish website. As part of our marketing program for the Early Learn- ing Center, a large mailing of some quite awesome oversize, full color, post cards has been sent to every household in our entire area. Thousands of families are in the process of receiving this promotional mailing, which includes the URL of our new parish website: www.saintanneparish.org. This necessitated the im- mediate construction of the basic framework of our website so that anyone who received the mailing and went to visit our site would have accurate information about our parish and our day care. While I am quite happy with this initial framework, it is now very important that we continue to add to it and fill our website with the kind of information and pictures that will create a welcome invitation to all those who see it online to come and visit us in person.

How You Can Help... The new website will only be as good as the information we are able to post to it. Here’s what we need... 1) Pictures, Pictures, Pictures! The more pictures we can post on our new website the better. If you have taken pictures at any of our parish events, even events that may have taken place some time ago, we would love to have them as we work on populating our web pages. There are pages already set up to highlight our church, our day care, our religious education program, and our youth ministry. We will be adding pages about our many parish ministries and organizations to this initial list. It would be great if your pictures were electronic and could be sent directly to me by email: [email protected]. If you have regular pho- tographs, you can bring them to Dee at the parish office or give them to her at Mass on the weekend. eW will scan them and return them to you. Please be sure to identify the event, the people in the picture, and when the picture was taken. 2) News, Events, Stories, and Information... The new website has a dedicated blog for posting news about our parish events, organizations and ministries. Send news and information to me by email, or call Dee at the office and let her know what you want to share.The website also includes a live, online calendar of events, so even simply making sure that your meetings and events are on the parish calendar will help a great deal. And of course, we will be posting each week’s bulletin to the website, so anything you have put in the bulletin will also be available. Make sharing information a priority in the work of your ministry or organization!

Sunday, 23 July 2017 — Feast of Saint Anne THOSE TO SERVE AT THE LITURGY – July 29, 2017—July 30, 2017 4:30 PM 8:30 AM 10:30 AM

E M Ethel Gaines Oscar Griffin Helen Cook Susan Barankiewicz Sheri Bradshaw Stephanie Thompson MaryJo Lippe Toni Rountree

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THE MERCY, POWER, AND LOVE OF GOD The Divine Dance The first reading today, from the book of Wis- Listening to and reflecting upon the Divine Dance dom, makes its point over and over, at least five CD, I have experienced a deeper understanding and times in five verses! God is mighty, but lenient to all. love for the Blessed Trinity. God is the Dance itself, God’s power is shown in kindness and clemency, not the dancer. We are all part of this divine flow, not not in harshness and condemnation, and those who govern God’s people must govern in the same way, an outsider. No one and nothing are excluded. The with kindness. This loving kindness and gentleness Trinity is in a loving relationship and communion is not contrary to God’s might, but is a direct result with each other and with each of us. Life is mirrored of God’s primacy over all. Who are we, then, to in God – a centrifigal force flowing outward and a judge what is in the hearts of our fellow centripical force pulling everything and everyone and all people, when God commands justice with back toward the Trinity. The flow of the Trinity is love and clemency? the heart of the nature of God. The movement of giv- Likewise, the makes up for our igno- ing and receiving defines everything. When we al- rance of what we need, speaking in a language we low this Divine Flow to work through us, with us and do not yet understand. But God knows our needs in us, we change and everything takes on a deeper before we do, understands the intercessions of the meaning in life, a newness, a vibrancy and a sacred- Spirit, and helps us in our weakness. This is our ness. hope: God’s mercy, power, and love. I am looking forward to learning more and becoming Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. more within the Divine Dance and with one anoth- er. On my part I must learn to surrender, to trust and TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION For centuries, the only Eucharistic Prayer we heard to allow God’s love and flow to work through me as Western Catholics was the old Roman Canon, usually with new energy, grace and style trusting that I am recited in a low voice by the , in Latin. By the being guided and loved every step on my journey of 1940s, many Catholics were learning to follow along with faith living within the Dance. the actions of the priest by means of a bilingual missal, Mary Paetsch with Latin on one side and English on the other. Draw- ings of the priest’s position at the altar, moving from one side to the other, or bowing or standing with uplifted Widowed? Feeling stuck? hands at the center, helped the readers stay on track. Need help moving on to the life God now sees for you The Roman Canon is a long prayer, and since it was as a single person? Attend our work shop/retreat and done every day for every occasion, had a way of see the possibilities. galloping through it. Even though long, its structure is

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