GUARDIAN ANGELS’ CRYSTAL FALLS

MASS INTENTIONS LECTORS FOR SEPTEMBER 5TH & 6TH

MONDAY, AUGUST 31 4:00 p.m. – Robin Caron NO MASS 8:30 a.m. – Nancy Hronkin

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 5:15 p.m.-Mass-Walter Trzeciak-Dave Stanek PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 8:30 a.m.-Mass-St. Rose-Channing Please remember in your prayers all our Parishioners and friends who are ill, especially: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 8:30 a.m.-Mass-James Peterson, Look & Amy Austin, Marilyn (Rossi) Awrey, Kathy Ball, LaChapelle Families- Sophie Brauer, Dick Browder, Owen Brozak, Mollee Nick & Jean LaChapelle Burns, Marion Carlotto, Bob Clement, Roberta Elliott, Kevin Ellis, Leon Fabbri, Faye Heimerl, Tommy

Hoenig, Mike Horst, Roberta Jackson, Otto Jacob, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 8:30 a.m.-Mass-People of the Irene Juneau, Vernon & Dee Ann Kettula, Elaine Kudwa, Bob Leanna, Kyle Miron, Adriane Muncy, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Marianne Mussatto, Frank Nowak, Kathy Olson, 4:00 p.m.-Mass-Attilio & Agnes Fabbri- Frank & Irma Quinney, Tom & Gail Ruszkowski, Bob & Leon Fabbri Monica Shirky, Daniel Sikora, Marge Skibo, Al Smokevitch, Gerri Spisak, Judy Stankewicz, Rose SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 Stockero, Doris Suheski, Rose Ternes, Pat Webb, Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Victoria Nowak-Webb, Rita West & Jeanette Woods. 8:30 a.m.-Mass- People of the Parish

MASS INTENTIONS Confessions by appointment only, please call If anyone would like to have a Mass intention said for a Fr. Dan at the Parish Office at 906-875-3019. loved one, we do have dates available. Please call the rectory at 875-3019. VOCATION NEWS If you are willing to offer your life for Jesus' sake, you will ST. JOSEPH ASSOCIATION find it. By walking the path we come to know Jesus' GOOD SHEPHERD COLLECTION promise is real. Pray for courage and the willingness to Retired priests of the Diocese of Marquette receive

"let go and let God." (Matthew 16:21-27) health and automobile insurance and a monthly pension from the St. Joseph Association, the diocesan priest SVDP retirement fund. Diocesan priests live independently Today, we hear Jesus say to us, “For whoever wishes during their retirement, and they use their pension for to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for basic needs, such as food, housing and transportation. my sake will find it.” The challenge is to let go so God Parish assessments, plus growth in the St. Joseph can lead us. In the month of July, the Society of St. Association, have fallen short of what is needed to Vincent de Paul was able to assist 71 families, providing provide necessary benefits to our retired priests. All $2845 in food, $424.09 in water/sewer and $295 misc., parishes and missions in the Diocese of Marquette will for a total of $3564.09. Thank You! participate in a special collection on September 5/6th to help “bridge the gap.” It is essential that we ensure RIGHT TO LIFE adequate retirement and health coverage in the years

Abortion destroys a life that has already begun. The egg ahead for our priests, especially in these uncertain times. and the sperm are already living; at conception they Due to the suspension of Masses in response to the unite and become a human life. The state protects COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Good Shepherd eagles and snails; is it asking too much for the protection Collection was postponed earlier this year. We of unborn human babies? appreciate the generous gifts made using designated collection envelopes this spring and encourage those who were not able to donate earlier this year to support

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time the collection at next weekends’ Masses.

MICHIGAN AUGUST 30, 2020

Trust in and follow the way of Jesus. GUARDIAN ANGELS Peter can be excused for thinking as a human does, for Fiscal Year 2020/2021 he is human! But what gets him in trouble is his mistaken idea that he knows better than Jesus – that he knows Thank you for your generosity better how Jesus ought to carry out his mission. This is reminiscent of the Fall: Pride in one’s own knowledge WEEK OF 08/23/20 WEEKLY YTD over that of God’s. We’re all susceptible to that, and Jesus reminds Peter – and us – that his way is the way. Sunday & Holydays $ 2535.00 $ 18,654.00 All we need to do is trust, and follow. Loose $ 368.00 $ 3037.00 Fuel $ 27.00 $ 627.00

MA & Repair $ 27.00 $ 716.00

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THE WEEK $ 2.00 $ 237.00 Special Collections Aug. 31-1 Cor 2:1-5/Lk 4:16-30 Total $ 2959.00 $ 23,271.00 Sept. 1-1 Cor 2:10b-16/Lk 4:31-37 Sept. 2-1 Cor 3:1-9/Lk 4:38-44 Budgeted $ 3171.15 $ 25,369.20 Sept. 3-1 Cor 3:18-23/Lk 5:1-11 Overage/(Shortfall) $ <212.15> $ <-2098.20> Sept. 4-1 Cor 4:1-5/Lk 5:33-39 Sept. 5-1 Cor 4:6b-15/Lk 6:1-5 Votive $ 124.25 $ 440.75 Sept. 6-Ez 33:7-9/Rom 13:8-10/Mt 18:15-20 Diocesan Collection $ 50.00 $ 135.00

This week our featured sponsor is: BISHOP BARAGA NETTELL INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. Among 70 other bishops, Bishop Baraga assisted at the wedding of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth as a Downtown Crystal Falls representative of the American church. A chalice given 222 Ave to Baraga by the Emperor Franz Joseph is in the 875-3312 Diocese of Marquette Archives.

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GROW AS A DISCIPLE | PRAY, STUDY, ENGAGE, SERVE Imagine being in Peter’s shoes. We have listened to the Sermon on the Mount and been comforted and sometimes challenged by Jesus’ teachings. We have watched him heal the sick and forgive sinners. st We’ve faltered at times and seen Jesus face down skeptics. Then Jesus turns to us and asks: “Who do 21 you say that I am?” How would we answer? Peter, not yet knowing that Jesus will suffer, die, and rise, proclaims: “You are Christ, the Son of the Living God.” For Peter, this would be the beginning; he would Sun devote his life to building up the Church. Centuries later, we proclaim his words in the that Jesus is the Son of God. As with Peter, this is just our starting point. Knowing who Jesus is compels us to in devote our lives to building up the kingdom of God on earth. GO EVANGELIZE | PRAYER, INVITATION, WITNESS, ACCOMPANIMENT Ord We know more about learning styles now, but most of us can remember two kinds of students: The front- row students who shot up their hand before a teacher finished asking the question (“Call on me, please!”), Time and the back-row kids who avoided eye contact, wishing they were invisible. Peter seems to have been one of those front-row students. When Jesus asked, “Who do you say that I am?” he didn’t hesitate. If Jesus asked that question today, would we hold back, check Google, or speak boldly as Peter did? As Jesus goes on to say, God put those words in Peter’s heart. God speaks to us, too, through the Scriptures, silent prayer, and the examples of saintly men and women who have touched our lives. We don’t have to worry about being “called on,” but we are all called to answer by sharing Jesus’ saving message with those around us. Like Peter, none of us is perfect; we don’t have to be. If we open our hearts and minds to Jesus and his words, we, too, can build up the Church through service, welcome, and generosity. PRAY Jesus, you called and chose Peter, with his strengths and his weaknesses, to be the rock on which your Church was built. You call and choose me, with my unique strengths and weaknesses, to build your kingdom in the world I live in today. Fill me with your Holy Spirit and help me to speak boldly as Peter did, proclaiming your Good News to the world. Amen.

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"A bigger allowance would allow me to tithe more."

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Catholic Heroes… St. Camillus And His “Red Cross” By DEB PIROCH

Now, as countries across the globe are being visited by COVID-19, and many in the United States are quarantined with no access to either family, friend, or priest, we would do well to remember St. Camillus and the order he founded. Camillians, ministers to the sick, wear black robes emblazoned with a red cross — some say dramatically to “frighten the Devil,” but rather for the obvious reason of being ministers of Christ. This was the first “red cross” order, founded long before today’s non-religious Red Cross organization began. First, to St. Camillus. Our Italian boy was born in Bucchianico, Abruzzo, in 1550, son of an officer and a mother well past the usual age of childbearing (some say she was 60!). She was pious and, before giving birth, dreamt she was giving birth to a child with a cross on his chest, followed by others. The dream was really a vision of what would one day come to pass. She died before Camillus was grown, but he would become a soldier like his father before him, and go on to fight for Venice, then Naples, sometimes against the Turks. It was during these years of soldiering that he developed an unfortunate taste for gambling. That habit would be both his economic ruin and, in an odd way, lead him to salvation. His time as a soldier also led to the development of a foot wound or scratch which worsened. As a consequence, he was admitted to a hospital for incurables in , due to abscesses and pain that developed. Yet after nine months, his gambling was apparently so extreme, the hospital even evicted him! Somehow, he returned to soldiering briefly again, but this ailment would never leave him; he would live with its pain and festering the rest of his life. But God would bring good out of this evil. He used this illness to transform Camillus in a way no one except perhaps his mother could have foreseen on Earth. Brought to total penury, Camillus eventually gambled away every cent. Yet something in Camillus caused him to turn to the Capuchins for mercy. In a fit of remorse, Butler’s Lives states he had once vowed to join the . Perhaps the Capuchins were closer by. While he truly repented, and even developed a vocation, his health meant the Capuchins absolved him but could not accept him into the order. Returning to the same hospital for the incurables where he had himself been treated, he determined to serve the sick there at San Giacomo. The nurses who served were a far cry from zealous or charitable and it pained him greatly to see how the sick suffered greatly.

Hospitals or their origins began with Christians as early as the second century after Christ. Not until the end of the fifteenth century did anything approaching larger hospitals exist in . Needless to say, they all owed their existence to religious institutions, such as monasteries. Yet so little was known about medicine, one wonders what relief they brought — shelter from the elements, bathing of their wounds, basic treatments. Medical knowledge was very primitive: There were no cures for the plague, tuberculosis, syphilis, or any number of then fatal diseases. The origins of visiting and caring for the sick are in the corporal , mentioned by Christ in the Bible and practiced by religious and laypersons. As his faith grew, Camillus felt our Lord asking him to form a lay group to minister to the sick as he was doing already on an individual basis. He met with difficulties, including from the local bishop, and it upset him to see the suffering he so wished to address. He developed a late vocation to the priesthood and no less than St. Philip Neri became his confessor. One night, praying before the crucifix, Camillus heard our Lord say, “Why are you troubled? This is my work, not yours. Persevere.” Camillus was ordained in 1584 on Pentecost by Thomas Goldwell, the bishop of St. Asaph, Wales, and the last of those who refused to bow to the English Reformation. Now a priest, Fr. Camillus re-founded his order, today known as the Camillians. Its charism was simply this: to care for all, no matter the risk, including those afflicted with the plague or any disease, without regard of self.

He underwent privations in addition to his injury, sleeping little, wearing a hair shirt, and he was devoted to praying before the crucifix. Within two years the order was already giving martyrs to God. Over 40 Camillians would offer up their lives during his lifetime to caring for the dying. Camillians served wherever they were needed, from hospitals to battlefields. Gregory XIV granted official recognition to the order in 1591, the recognition being confirmed again the following year by Pope Clement VIII. Camillians take not three but four vows: poverty, chastity, obedience, and service to the corporal needs of the sick. In every patient St. Camillus and his followers saw the face of Christ. St. Philip Neri testified that in serving the sick, he witnessed angels witnessing to the ministrations of Camillus. Today many feel great distress at being forbidden to be with their dying loved ones during the pandemic. Even more grievous is the thought that these loved ones may be denied the of the Church, which we know bring priceless blessings. Recall that St. Camillus was ill himself most of his life; yet he ministered despite great pain and disease in his leg. It is said that though he was sometimes unable to even walk, he would drag himself from one sickbed to the next during sleepless nights, to see how he might minister to the sick and lighten their burden. At a time when death was all too frequent, St. Camillus was responsible for the foundation of 15 houses of his brothers to minister to the sick and eight hospitals just during his lifetime. After his death, his order multiplied enormously and is now in numerous countries. Dying a holy death at the age of 60 in 1614, he is buried at the Church of St. Mary Magdalen in Rome. One may visit him there, and also see a relic of his heart, and the crucifix that it is said miraculously spoke to him. His feast day is on July 14. A great many miracles have been attributed to St. Camillus, who was canonized in 1746. His first biography was published in 1615, a year after his death, and in 1851 Fr. Faber of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri translated his life into English. This account gives testimony to some of the many miracles granted to the sick for whom this great saint interceded. St. Camillus, pray for our sick and dying!

Pregnant nurse jumps into action after witnessing crash in Henrico Anthony Antoine/www.msn.com HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) - An off-duty registered nurse was on her way to the grocery store with her mom when she witnessed a terrifying crash on July 27, 2020. It was a single-vehicle crash at the corner of West Broad Street and West End Drive in Henrico. The mangled Honda ended up resting on the side of a telephone pole with the driver – bleeding inside. Samantha Baxter, an off-duty registered nurse at St. Mary's Hospital put her training to use. “I looked up and I saw the car flipping. I put my car in park and jumped out, ran towards it, not knowing if there were alive or not. She was still breathing, so I just helped hold the bleed until EMS arrived.” Captain Bryce Grissom and his crew at Fire Station 12 quickly got to the scene. ”We noticed that two Henrico police officers and a citizen were positioning their body weight against the vehicle to keep it from rolling back over. We had to stabilize the vehicle to keep it from moving,” Grissom said. Once stabilized, firefighters got the woman out of the car and she was taken to the hospital. Samantha played a key role in all of it. ” “To see a pregnant, off-duty nurse assisting at a vehicle accident, especially a vehicle in that position, it’s pretty rare,” says Grissom. Baxter is six months pregnant with a beautiful baby girl on the way; and her best friend Kieran Horn says this is who she’s always been, even for her. “If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be where I am today. She is always putting everybody first before herself. So it doesn’t surprise me honestly, as a best friend though, it makes me nervous,” Horn said. Horn rewarded Samantha with NBC12′s Acts of Kindness award of $300 and a $50 gift card to Mexico Restaurant. “It wasn’t anything that I thought about, I just did it,” Baxter said. Grissom is glad she did.

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Do you ever feel too busy to make time for our Lord? An Act of Spiritual Communion can help! The Baltimore Catechism also notes that a Spiritual Communion “is an act of devotion, and one very pleasing to God.” And then we have St. Jean-Marie Vianney, a French priest famous for converting countless souls to Christ who said: “when we feel the love of God growing cold, let us instantly make a Spiritual Communion. When we cannot go to the church, let us turn towards the tabernacle; no wall can shut us out from the good God.”

Spiritual Communion Prayers

Oh Jesus, I turn toward the holy tabernacle where You live hidden for love of me. I love you, O my God. I cannot receive you in Holy Communion. Come, nevertheless, and visit me with Your grace. Come spiritually into my heart. Purify it. Sanctify it. Render it like unto Your own. Amen. Lord, I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.

St. had composed this one: My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.

A Powerful Prayer for the U.S. Government, Written by America’s First Catholic Bishop Praying for our government leaders is so important! John Carroll was the first bishop and archbishop in the United States, serving from 1790-1815. He wrote the following prayer for our government. Let us pray for all of our leaders!

Prayer for the United States government: We pray, O almighty and eternal God, who through Jesus Christ has revealed thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue with unchanging faith in the confession of your name. We pray Thee, who alone are good and holy, to endow with heavenly knowledge, sincere zeal and sanctity of life, our chief bishop, the pope, the vicar of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the government of his Church; our own bishop, all other bishops, prelates and pastors of the Church; and especially those who are appointed to exercise among us the functions of the holy ministry, and conduct your people into the ways of salvation. We pray O God of might, wisdom and justice, through whom authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and judgment decreed, assist with your Holy Spirit of counsel and fortitude the president of these United States, that his administration may be conducted in righteousness and be eminently useful to your people over whom he presides; by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restraining vice and immorality. Let the light of your divine wisdom direct the deliberations of Congress, and shine forth in all the proceedings and laws framed for our rule and government, so that they may tend to the preservation of peace, the promotion of national happiness, the increase of industry, sobriety and useful knowledge; and may perpetuate to us the blessing of equal liberty. We pray for his excellency, the governor of this state, for the members of the assembly, for all judges, magistrates, and other officers who are appointed to guard our political welfare, that they may be enabled, by your powerful protection, to discharge the duties of their respective stations with honesty and ability.

We recommend likewise, to your unbounded mercy, all our brethren and fellow citizens throughout the United States, that they may be blessed in the knowledge and sanctified in the observance of your most holy law; that they may be preserved in union, and in that peace which the world cannot give; and after enjoying the blessings of this life, be admitted to those which are eternal. Finally, we pray to you, O Lord of mercy, to remember the souls of your servants departed, who are gone before us with the sign of faith and repose in the sleep of peace; the souls of our parents, relatives and friends; of those who, when living, were members of this congregation, and particularly of such as are lately deceased; of all benefactors who, by their donations or legacies to this Church, witnessed their zeal for the decency of divine worship and proved their claim to our grateful and charitable remembrance. To these, O Lord, and to all that rest in Christ, grant, we beseech you, a place of refreshment, light and everlasting peace, through the same Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior. Amen.

The Catholic Marketplace was developed in order to help our faith community in a more practical way, during these difficult times.

This electronic platform is now available for parishioners to list an item to sell, barter or give away. Any parishioner who would like to make use of this service should email the parish office at [email protected] with a short description of the item and provide a way to be contacted [email or phone number]. In the subject heading of the email, please put the words: “The Catholic Marketplace.”

Please note: The parish secretary will ONLY list the item in the parish newsletter. She will NOT make any contact with the seller or potential buyer.

Here is a partial list of goods that are prohibited for listing in our parish newsletter. Weapons; firearms/guns and components; BB/pellet, stun, and spear guns; etc. Ammunition, clips, cartridges, reloading materials, gunpowder, fireworks, explosives. Any goods that would violate the law.