The of the Nativity 5955 St. Elmo Road Bartlett, TN 38135

Parish Office Hours: Mon—Fri Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:30a.m. to 5:00p.m. July 14, 2019

Phone 901-382-2504 www.nativitybartlett.org

Emergency Phone 901-603-3364

Pastor: Father Robert Szczechura, STL [email protected]

In Residence: Father Carlos Donato de Silva

Deacons: Frank Larker [email protected]

Chris Frame [email protected]

David Rosenthal, PhD [email protected]

Seminarian: Dominic Candebat

Administrative Assistant/ Mass Schedules Office Manager: Daily Monday - Saturday 8:00 a.m. Angie O’Neill Weekend Saturday Vigil 5:00 p.m. [email protected] Sunday 8:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Bookkeeper: Spanish 5:00 p.m. Jim Moseley Filipino First Sunday of Each Month [email protected] (Tagalog/English) 12:30 p.m. Polish Second Sunday of Each Month Director of Music: (except July & August) 12:30 p.m. Kyung-Won On Holy Days As Announced [email protected]

Parish Religious Education: [email protected] Sacraments Reconciliation — Saturday 3:30p.m. to 4:30p.m. Sunday 9:30a.m. to 10:00a.m. or by appointment Director of Youth Ministry: Spanish - Sunday 4:20p.m. to 4:50p.m.(1st Sunday of the month) Stephen Peyton Baptism — by appointment; please contact the parish office [email protected] Marriage — Contact the parish office at least six months before the wedding

Co-Directors Hispanic Ministry: Lyz Candia [email protected], BULLETIN DEADLINE: 901-607-5982 and NOON WEDNESDAY for the next weekend Lillian Luciano E-mail: nativity.bulletin@hotmail. com

July 13 & 14, 2019 Mass Intentions Please Pray for Our Sick

8:00am Weekdays Requested By Claire Fitzgerald Albino Annemarie Lee Allen Erlinda Amaba Mon 15th Gerard Fleischut + Father Robert Vinnie Ariemma Bill Brigrance Mike Bulderbach 16th Patte & David Peterson Lottie George Tina Burton Carey & Nancy Casad Bill Coburn Joan Cunningham Doris Dalton Special Intentions for 50th Wedding Anniversary Nick DeStefan Michael Ellis Edythe Freeouf Wed 17th Steve Sypult + David & Patte Peterson Sally Gyout Chad Hall Leeghann Harrison Thu 18th Larry Tinoher + Bob & Judy Burchfield Rosa Holmes Barry Houston Donna Lampen Fri 19th Stefan Laciak + Father Robert Catherine Johnson Fran Leavey Ed List Annie Longoria Mary Mangold Paul Baker Miller 8:00am Saturday Fr.Mike Morgera Cheyenne Montgomery July 13th Maria Laciak + Father Robert Louise Northrop Shirley Odom John & June Patton 20th Antoni Wsol + Father Robert A.J. Perk Kevin Perk Kathy Palmisano Karen Raney Maria Robertson Fr. Robert Ponticello Sam Sudduth Julia Theil Hannah Tighe 5:00pm Saturday Mary Underwood Fr. Ricky Valleroy Peter Voss July 13th Heidi Hirsch + Rosemarie von Cannon Joyce R. West Barbara Williams Melissa Frame Vannucci 20th James Cummings + Bob & Mary Ann Trainor Ann Wingate Jack Lee Windley III Nancy Hennessey Pam Walton Nikki Albino Grace Rata 8:00am Sunday Estelle Coleman Shawn Ellis Deacon Frank Larker July 14th Enrique Asuncion + Ben & Erlinda Amaba Dallas Williams Edward Hall Jeff Perkins 21st For the Healing, Blessing and Special Intentions Gil Lema Lorrrie Hardin Carolyn Cook Donna & Jerry Lampen Matthew Cash Earl Spellings Ed Chady

10:30am Sunday If you or a family member are hospitalized, please notify the July 14th Joyce O’Connor + Bob O’Connor Parish office. Also notify the office to ADD or REMOVE 21st Parishioners someone’s name from the list.

5:00pm Sunday - Spanish July 14th Parishioners Pray for Our Troops 21st Immigrants & Refugees Senior Airman Christopher Dill; Pvt. John David Dill; A1C Ryan C. Marlin; AO1 Andrew E. Hopson; Commander Derek A. Vestal, Pvt. Maria Witges, † From Death to New Life Captain Luke Sauber (USMC), Lieutenant Colonel May Those We have Loved & Lost Rest in Peace Christopher J. Martindale U.S. Army, Richard A. Martin, Jr., BM1, (USCG) Captain Tami Kerns (US Mary Lyllian Earle Army-Afghanistan) Captain Kevin Kerns (US Army- Beloved sister of Wayne Carrozza and Hawaii) Captain Nicholas Burton. SSG. Carol Hopson, sister-in-law of Liz Carrozza Gabriel Graven EF Specialist , Capt. Eric Wilder, MD, USAF; Cdr. Tim O’Kane Jeff Perkins Beloved husband of Jan Perkins SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Monday: St. Bonaventure On a summer day, with the windows open, we may hear the Tuesday: Our Lady of Mount Carmel sound of church bells. Bells seem to have come into church life Thursday: St. Camillus de Lellis in Irish monasteries around the seventh century, and spread Saturday: St. Apollinaris; Blessed Virgin Mary around the Christian world by Irish monks on missionary jour- neys. By the eighth century, bells were standard equipment in even small parish churches. An ancient ceremony, once called the “baptism of the bells,” recognizes that the church bell has a READINGS FOR THE WEEK voice to call people to awareness and summon them to worship, Monday: Ex 1:8-14, 22; Ps 124:1b-8; and even bestows a name on the bell. Mt 10:34 — 11:1 In a world without clocks or watches, the bell had an indis- Tuesday: Ex 2:1-15a; Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34; pensable role. For calling monks in from the fields for prayer, or Mt 11:20-24 alerting far‑flung visitors, the bell’s voice was enhanced by Wednesday: Ex 3:1-6, 9-12; Ps 103:1b-4, 6-7; Mt 11:25-27 hoisting it high into a tower. Soon it was learned that the sound Thursday: Ex 3:13-20; Ps 105:1, 5, 8-9; 24-27; of several bells clanging together in harmony imparted a sense Mt 11:28-30 of joy to great celebrations, and bell towers prospered, some Friday: Ex 11:10 — 12:14; Ps 116:12-13, 15, chock full of bells. Different combinations of rings could indi- 16bc, 17-18; Mt 12:1-8 cate a death, a Mass, a wedding, a fast day, the curfew at the end Saturday: Ex 12:37-42; Ps 136:1, 23-24, 10-15; of day, and the Angelus. Before electricity, bell-ringing was hard Mt 12:14-21 work indeed: the biggest bell in the Catholic world, in Cologne, Sunday: Gn 18:1-10a; Ps 15:2-5; Col 1:24-28; Germany, weighs twenty‑seven tons! There’s no substitute for Lk 10:38-42 the resonant roar of a mighty bell; electric chimes are not eligi- ble for blessing! —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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Nativity Information

From Father Robert’s Desk - Sacramental Preparation Guidelines

On summer break!!! 1. Baptism (for infants up to six years of age) All parents must participate in the Parish infant baptismal preparation program before a Baptism can be performed. Please contact Angie O'Neill to schedule an appointment. At least one-month notice is required for scheduling Baptisms. For first time parents: this session is required before a Baptism may be scheduled. For parents of more than one child: please schedule a baptismal preparation.

Third Thursday - July 18th 2. Rites of Christian Initiantion (R.C.I.A.) All individuals six years of age and older who wish to be English from 5:00pm to 7:00pm initiated into the Roman Catholic Community participate in Spanish from 7:00pm to 8:00pm special formational meetings, instruction and prescribed rites that lead to initiation at the Easter Vigil for most or other times, depending on particular circumstances. Separate tracts are established for children and adults. Contact the parish office at English Baptism Class is by Appointment. Please any time during the year for more information. contact Deacon David Rosenthal to schedule an appointment. 3. First Eucharist, Confirmation, First Penance It is the policy of the Diocese of Memphis that any child wanting to celebrate the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Confirmation and/or Penance must be enrolled in a parish- based catechetical program for one year prior to beginning Called to Serve: Adults are encouraged to preparation for the sacraments. We recognize and support become approved Liturgical Ministers by parents as the primary educators of their children in matters of attending classes held periodically at faith but also acknowledge that the local church has the Nativity. Please call the office, leave your responsibility of ensuring the proper catechetical formation of name, and phone number if you are those who desire the Church's sacraments. interested in becoming a Lay Minister. New parishioners: if you are already 4. Matrimony commissioned as a Lector or Eucharist Minister, please Please call the parish office and schedule an appointment with consider continuing your service at Nativity. Contact Angie the at least 6 months in advance of the proposed O'Neill at the church Office for more information. wedding date. Church Law as well as diocesan and parish policy require that certain guidelines be met before a wedding may be scheduled.

5. Ministry to the Sick Altar Flower Dedication When a family member is hospitalized, call the parish office to Worship in our church is an experience of request prayers and to arrange for a pastoral visit. According to beauty. The flowers in the sanctuary are an the "Patient Privacy Act," it is the patient's and patient's important and beautiful symbol of what we family's responsibility to provide the patient's room number if a offer to God in our worship. Every member of pastoral visit is desired. the parish is invited to contribute to the beauty of our worship by giving the altar flowers on a particular Sunday in memory, 6. Christian Burial thanksgiving or celebration for people or events that are Please call the parish office before making funeral important to that donor. There will be one dedication per arrangements to confirm the availability of the church and a Weekend. The cost for the flowers is $65 or $100. If you priest or deacon if a Funeral Mass is to be celebrated. would like to make such a gift, please contact Angie O'Neill at 382-2504. Thank you in advance for your generosity and for contribution to the beauty of our worship.

CODE OF CANON LAW FOR BAPTISMS July Altar Flowers Donated By - Parents must be registered & active members of the parish in 13th/14th Anonymous which the Baptism will take place. Parents & Godparents 20th/21st Carolyn Winkler - must attend the Baptismal preparation class. God- In memory of Mary Farrell mother parents must be confirmed Catholics, at least 16 sixteen years of of Carolyn Winkler & David Farrell age, registered & active members of a parish. Proof of registra- tion is required. Non-Catholics can serve as Christian Wit- 27th/28th Maria & Greg Macaraeg - nesses. We want to Baptize your child but cannot do so In memory of our parents unless these requirements are met.

July 13 & 14, 2019

Nativity - ST. Vincent de Paul Nativity Information Soup Kitchen Information! Our Ministries On July 2nd four (4) volunteers fed 145. Volunteers meet at 7:45 am at Nativity on the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of each month. If Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Sundays: ages 3 yrs to 12 you would like to volunteer, there is a sign up sheet on the table yrs, Confirmation 1 and 2. Class times are posted on the Web in the Narthex. You will need to bring a hat or other type site: nativitybartlett.org/calendar/ or Contact of hair cover. If you want more information, please call John [email protected]. Walton 901-568-0910. Cub Scouts Pack 258: Cub Scouts meet on most Tuesdays Check your calendar - volunteers are needed for from 6:30 to 7:30pm either at the church or on adventures. Tuesday, July 16th. Contact Mark Owens to register at [email protected] or 901- 827-1262.

The SVdP Nativity Conference would like to thank everyone for CYO Grades 9-12 Sundays from 6-8 pm Stephen Peyton, responding to our request for funds. We appreciate your generosity. youth director [email protected]

Dawn Campbell Fishers of Men: call Noe Longoria at 901-489-7348 for President, SVdP Nativity Conference information.

Hands for God Puppet Productions: Most Sundays, 12-1 pm: For 5th-8th grade Puppeteers in Training; Contact John Altar Servers Walton 901-568-0910 or email [email protected]. For All children in 3rd grade or higher and all adults updates go to: www.facebook.com/ are encouraged to participate in the liturgy. groups/830749576971608/ Please call the Church office 901-382-2504, leave your name, and phone number. Helping Hands Ministry Knitting Group: meet the 1st Thursdays at 9 am in Holy Family Hall (Narthex). They help the homeless and Birthright babies

Help Someone See Holy Family Ministry: for information contact David Place used eye glasses (including Sun glasses) Rosenthal, PhD at [email protected] in the recycle box provided. To Date: 237 pairs of Knights of Columbus Council 14041: meet the 3rd Thursday eye glasses have been donated to the Knights of at 6:30pm in Stelling Hall; contact Hank Winkler at 901-488- Columbus Ophthalmology Project plus 26 cell 9053 or [email protected] phones for the Liturgical Ministries: for information or questions regarding training or scheduling contact Jim Lippy 388-6515 or 371- 6269 or the Church Office 901-382-2504

Men’s Club: Breakfast Meeting 9am 1st Sat. of each Month

Music Ministry: Resurrection Choir on Tuesday morning and Choir, Handbell and Parish choirs on Wednesday evenings contact KW On at [email protected] for more information or see calendar on back page

Prison Ministry: for information contact Shellie Teems, 901- 230-0074

Parish Outreach Food for the Sick: Contact Susan Hanna at 337-5745 or [email protected] for information.

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) preparation to receive Sacraments. Contact Deacon David or call the Church office for information.

Society of St. Vincent de Paul: meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7pm. Contact Dawn Campbell 901-654-5773 for more information.

Society of St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month: Meet at church at 7:45 am for carpooling: Contact John Walton, 901-568-0910 for info.

TOPS - Take off the Pounds Sensibly: meet Mondays at 4:30- 5:00pm for weigh-in; 5-6pm meetings in Stelling Hall.

Women’s Guild: meets the 4th Tuesday at 7 pm the months of January, March, May, September and November in Stelling Hall.

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Diocese Information

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: “What must I do to Journey to Hope inherit eternal life?” Faithfulness to one’s vocation is essential A grief support group meets on July 15th and 22nd at to holiness. Is yours to be a priest, sister or brother? 6:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall at St. Ann Catholic Visit https://www.memphisvocations.com or write to: Church located at 6529 Stage Road, Bartlett, TN 38134. [email protected].

This group is open to any adult who has lost a loved one Are you concerned about the future of your high through death. Whether your loss is recent or many years school student? Finding the solutions through goodness, old, we invite you to join us to find support and help in beauty and truth only comes with an authentic Catholic working through the grief process and transforming the education. Let St. Benedict at Auburndale High School (SBA) be pain into healing. Any questions, please call, Cindy Pease the answer to your prayers. SBA – Grounded in Faith • Elevated at 373-6011, ext.213. by Excellence! sbaeagles.org/admissions or 260-2840.

Theology on Tap | How Do We Know What We Know About God? Believing in and knowing God is at the very core of our Faith. But how can we really know God, the divine being from which all things come? Come join us on Monday, July 15th, as Andy McNutt shares with us his knowledge and own personal experience of coming to know God in all things.

Place: Fox Ridge Pizza 1769 N Germantown Pkwy, Cordova, TN 38016 Time: 6:30 PM Date: Monday, July 15 July 13 & 14, 2019

Diocese Information 12th ANNUAL ANGELO LUCCHESI MARRIED COUPLES SEMINARIAN DINNER World Wide Marriage Encounter WHEN CALLING ALL MARRIED COUPLES: A WEEKENED OF July 26, 2019 5pm - 10pm DISCOVERY- A LIFETIME OF LOVE Dinner: 6 PM What: Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend * Dates: October 25-27, 2019 * Location: Our Lady Queen of Peace Retreat Center, WHERE Stanton, TN St Benedict High School Cafeteria ** For more information or to apply, visit our website at 8250 Varnavas, Cordova, TN www.wwme-section10.org/memphis or contact Norman and Barbara Sobota at 901-373-7030 WHO email: [email protected] Joe Birch is our Live Auctioneer For Registration contact: Andy & Chris Sniezak: Email: Extraordinaire - Live Auction - Silent Auction [email protected] - Split the Pot

BE A SPONSOR Ministry to the Sick-New Minister Training Call : Brian Vincent Saturday, August 3, 2019 8:30 AM -1:00 PM (901) 409-5057 Catholic Center, 5825 Shelby Oaks Drive Memphis, TN 38134

TICKETS This training is designed to provide new ministers with $50 per Plate the basic tools that will be helpful in their ministry. As a $400 per table trained minister you bring compassion, communion and $500 Wine Table become sacramental presence of Christ for those sick and Call: (901)881-0576 homebound. Candidates are required to send completed Visit: www.kccouncil616.com registration form signed by the pastor or representative by representative by July 31, 2019. No Registrations are BROUGHT TO YOU BY accepted on the day of the training. Registration forms are West Tennessee Knights of Columbus available at your parish office or on line https://cdom.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ Ministry-to-the-Sick-Training-Form-1.pdf DONATE AUCTION ITEMS For more information call the Office of Pastoral Life Min- Call: Nancy Shellenberger istries at 373-1234/1224 or (901) 229-1631 email:[email protected]

Silent Auction: 5:00-7:00 PM Live Auction: 7:30-8:30 PM The 36th Annual Mid-South Regional Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference will be July 19- 20,2019 at St. Ignatius of Antioch Ctholic Church, 601 BENEFITING Bell Road, Antioch, TN 37013. Catholic Diocese of Memphis Seminarians The Conference will start Friday evening from 7:00pm to 9:30pm. Doors open for registration at 6:00pm and all day Saturday, 9:00am to 4:30pm and 7:00pm to 9;30pm. nd St. Anne Church 82 Anniversary! Please join us for the celebration of St. Anne’s Doors open Saturday morning at 8:00am J. Mark founding in 1937. Food, Fun, Games, free bingo Spalding will be the Celebrant at Mass on Saturday morning at with prizes. Saturday, July 27, following the 9:00am. Featured Speakers will be Bishop Sam Jacobs, Retired Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, LA, and Mr. Matt Lozano, 4 p.m. Mass. Bishop will be the Director of Training and Leadership Development for the Heart celebrant for our Mass. Admission to the of the Father Ministry. festivities is free! Join us at St. Anne, 706 S. Highland Street for this celebration! Please RSVP Registration fees are $40.00 individual, $60.00 for a to the church office at 901-323-3817, so we may married couple and $70.00 family. Lunch is included. For more information and to register on-line, please visit our web prepare enough food to accommodate our site, www.msrcc.org or contact Teresa Seibert at guests! See you then! [email protected] or 615-430-9343.

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Offerings for June, 2019 13th 8:30am Fishers of Men 14th 3:45pm Armada Blanca 5th Week - Regular Collection: $9,392 6:30pm Knights of Columbus St. Joseph Fund: $ 981 15th 4:30pm TOPS 16th 7:00pm Apologetics Class - Spanish Month of Date Totals: 7:00pm SVdP Meeting 17th 6:00pm Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Regular Collection: $45,120 ($39,633 Budget) 6:30pm Auction Committee Meeting St. Joseph Fund: $10,008 18th 5:00pm Third Thursday Adoration - English 6:30pm Knights of Columbus Meeting 7:00pm Third Thursday Adoration - Spanish 2nd Collection 19th 6:00pm Hispanic Dancers July 21st - St. Joseph Fund 20th 8:30am Fishers of Men 21st 3:45pm Armada Blanca 22nd 4:30pm TOPS ONLINE GIVING 23rd 7:00pm Apologetics Class - Spanish To set up a recurring giving schedule, visit us online at 24th 6:00pm Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help www.nativitybartlett.org. Locate the Online Giving button 25th No Events Scheduled and set up your recurring giving schedule. The first time you 26th 6:00pm Hispanic Dancers give, you will select a password that will enable you to log in at 27th 8:30am Fishers of Men any time and make changes to your giving or view your com- 28th 3:45pm Armada Blanca plete online giving history for Online Giving . 29th 4:30pm TOPS 7:00pm Baptism Class - Spanish 30th 7:00pm Apologetics Class - Spanish Scheduling Events at the Church 31st 6:00pm Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

To All Ministry Leaders and Nativity Groups: We are a growing and vibrant Parish Community and I ask this special request of you. Please remember that we are a family of worship and share our God given gifts and church space to- gether. And as we continually grow in our ministries, I ask that group leaders please submit your yearly calen- dar by email or in writing to Angie O’Neill . We have limited meeting spaces that fill up very quickly and it is most appreciated if all will communicate by email with angie.oneill @nativity.cdom.org for scheduling all events.

The Office Calendar is the Official Church Calendar. If there are conflicts in dates and times, we hope all of you are willing to work together to coordinate usage of our building and grounds. Thank you for your patience and understanding and for working together as a very large and faithful family. May God continue to bless each of us and the work we do as The Catholic Church of the Nativity. Fr. Robert

ANNOUCEMENTS TO BE MADE BY FATHER AT MASS NEED TO BE SENT TO ANGIE O’NEILL BY NOON Thursday! ~~~Pray for World Peace~~~

HAS SOMETHING CHANGED???? Handicap Section - the first row on the right in the Keep your Information Current If your phone number, work number, cell number, front of church is reserved for those who are address, e-mail address, or name changes, please notify the office 382-2504. handicapped. If you sit there communion will be brought Thank-you! to you. Bulletin Information FORMED - Become a member it is FREE. You can view e-books, To View the Bulletin online go to https://www.facebook.com/nativitybartlett/ or movies, audio books, audio bible, testimonies, inspiring talks and video to https://www.nativitybartlett.org . studies to enhance your knowledge of the teachings of the Catholic Church. To set-up an account go to formed.org. then follow the Go to nativitybartlett.org/calendar/ for scheduled present/future events. instructions. Nativity's code is MV3JPX (all caps).