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Our Vision Statement: “To offer every person in our commu- nity a life-changing encounter with Jesus” your children’s grade levels, as soon as possible. In any PARISH UPDATES event, tuition will be waived this year to our returning families. If your child(ren) will be attending CCD this year, CATCH UP ON THE LATEST NEWS please return your completed registration form to the Parish Office by August 16th. Hard copies of the form are Welcome Bishop Tylka available in the Parish Office during office hours (M-F, 8am-12 noon.). Despite the obstacles, we look forward to The Ordination of Coadjutor another year of learning and growing together. Bishop-Elect Louis Tylka Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) “I am humbled and honored by this appointment,” said Register for our New RCIS Class Bishop-elect Tylka, who has We will be starting our RCIA 2021 Class soon and would served as pastor of St. Julie like to invite you to join us. RCIA provides a deeper look Billiart since 2014. “I am into the Catholic faith and focuses on what Catholics be- grateful to the Holy Father lieve (and why) in an open and welcoming environ- and encouraged by his confi- ment. These sessions are also opportunities for you to dence in me. I am looking for- ask those perplexing and difficult questions you may have ward to serving alongside about the Church. RCIA is a program for those who are Bishop Jenky and learning searching and inquiring about the Catholic faith and way from the priests, leaders and of life. It is typically offered for those who are not Catho- faithful in the church of central Illinois.” lic and wish to join the Church, or those that are Catholic Help Keep Our Masses Going! but have not received the sacraments of First Communion and/or Confirmation, but ’it s also an excellent “refresher” Volunteers are Needed! for those who may have forgotten things or would just like a deeper understanding of our faith. All are welcome During these times of re-opening our church, we are in to attend. We will kick things off with a virtual introducto- need of many, many volunteers at each of the Masses to ry meeting using Zoom on Thursday, August 27 at make our services safe. If you are not at risk and would 7:00pm. We will cover administrative details, basic intro- be interested in helping with directing traffic before and ductions, our calendar, necessary paperwork, questions & after masses or cleaning after the Masses, please call the answers, etc. during this introductory meeting. We will parish office or email [email protected]. need your email address in order to send out the invite CCD Registration Begins for the Zoom meeting; please contact the Evangelization Team for more info or to join us on this jour- Visit the parish website for Online Registration ney: [email protected] Every day we are witnessing how the Covid-19 pandemic 2020 A Year For The History Books has fundamentally changed the way we interact with oth- er people and in how instruction and formation are deliv- Join us in Creating a Memory Book ered. The effects of this pandemic are felt through Epiph- This year has been a year of transformation and change any Catholic School, adult and youth ministries, CCD, and for everyone. Everyone has been affected by the changes Sunday morning children’s programs. After surveying our and historical events that have occurred this year. From a teaching staff, comparing education plans of local schools global pandemic, to racial reforms, economic instability and parishes, and much prayer, we have decided Epipha- and e-learning: the world is radically different than when ny’s CCD will offer some form of e-learning this the year started. Working from home, job losses, closures year. Keeping children healthy and safe is a priority. Sus- and cancelations, mask wearing, online mass, zoom calls, pending traditional -in person classroom instruction re- take out, grocery pick up, outdoor confessions, drive-thru duces the potential of infection and cross-contamination blessings, and so much more have occurred. Each family in gatherings of children from our many local has been affected in their own way. Epiphany Parish schools. We are in the midst of designing our learning would LOVE to hear from your family to see how you have plan and will inform you of the specifics, as it relates to

Page 2 Epiphanyparish.com been affected and what positive things have come from 1. Our school buildings will provide a safe and faith-filled this for you or what challenges you have overcome. We environment for our students. are compiling a parish-wide Memory Book to document 2. The course of the pandemic in Illinois remains fluid. As where the parishioners were during this historical time. But it will only work with your participation- and that part such, this OCS Diocesan Plan may be updated on a contin- is simple! Please go to our parish website for more de- ual basis as pandemic data and guidelines are regularly tails. https://www.epiphanyparish.com/events/2020- reviewed. parish-memory-book 3. OCS asks that our school families assist us in serving the common good and work in cooperation with not only Prayer Quilt Ministry their diocesan school but also with the Office of Catholic How to Request a Prayer Quilt Schools to the best of their ability. Requests may be made through email prayer- The OCS Diocesan Plan was created from discussions and [email protected] or you may call Karen at 309- advisement of the medical community, Illinois Catholic 530-7425 with questions and requests! A Prayer quilt is school superintendents, Diocese of Peoria pastors and appropriate for someone, anyone, who is experiencing principals, Catholic Mutual Group, the diocesan Offices of physical, emotional, spiritual, or some other life crisis, and the Bishop, the Chancery, and the Office of Catholic who feels they could benefit from being ‘covered in pray- Schools. Guidance documents from the Illinois Depart- er”, with the quilt being that tangible sign of God’s ever- ment of Public Health, Illinois State Board of Education, present Grace, available to all of us. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Gov- ernor of Illinois’ Restore Illinois plan were also studied. Discerning the Priesthood or Consecrated For more information, please refer to the Acknowledg- Life? ments and Resources sections of this plan. Are you Being Called? Gimme a Break! If simplicity of life and the evangelical counsels of poverty, Something on the Lighter Side chastity and obedience especially attract you, discover An atheist was spending a quiet day fishing when sudden- that life as a priest, sister or brother, contact Fr. Timothy ly his boat was attacked by the Loch Ness monster. In one Hepner (309) 671-1550 or email fr_hepner easy flip, the beast tossed him and his boat high into the @cdop.org. Let us pray that those who desire to be “rich air. Then it opened its mouth to swallow both. As the in what matters to God” and are discerning a vocation to man sailed head over heels, he cried out, “Oh, my God! the priesthood or consecrated life will be enriched by the Help me!” At once, everything froze in place and, as the Holy Spirit. atheist hung in mid-air, a booming voice came down from Reopening our Catholic Schools the clouds, “I thought you didn’t believe in me?” “Come on, God, gimme a break!” the man pleaded. “Two Executive Summary Diocesan Plan minutes ago, I didn’t believe in the Loch Ness monster either!” This is an Executive Summary of the protocols and procedures, known as *** the Office of Catholic Schools (OCS) Diocesan Plan, for reopening build- Q. How can you make God laugh? ings for in-school student attendance A. Tell him your plans. at the Catholic Diocese of Peoria ele- mentary and secondary schools. The OCS Diocesan Plan includes guidance on health and safety, human re- sources, finance, and communica- tions. There are three guiding princi- ples of the OCS Diocesan Plan for the reopening of our schools:

August 2, 2020 Page 3 ography, Ho scommesso sulla libertà (“I Bet on Free- COMMENTARY dom”), written with the Italian journalist Luigi Geninazzi and released on June 13, the Italian cardinal emphasized THE POPE IS THE POPE that one has “to learn the Pope” (“imparare il papa”), an expression he said he got from St. John Paul II. Gerard O’Connell for America Magazine “It means to have the humility and the patience to empa- Cardinal Angelo Scola, the runner-up in the last papal thize with his personal history, the way he expresses his conclave, has twice in recent weeks come out strongly faith, addresses us, and makes choices of leadership and against those, especially within the church, who fre- governance,” Cardinal Scola said. He added that this is quently and increasingly attack . “It’s a very “even more necessary in relation to a Latin-American strong sign of contradiction and denotes a certain weak- pope, who has a mentality and a different kind of ap- ening of the people of God, above all of the intellectual proach than we Europeans.” He recalled that “something class,” he said. “It is a profoundly wrong attitude because similar also happened with John Paul II.” it forgets that ‘the pope is the pope.’” Cardinal Scola declared, “I truly consider admirable and “It is not by affinity of temperament, of culture, of sensi- moving the extraordinary capacity of Pope Francis to bility, or for friendship, or because one shares or does make himself close to everyone, and especially to the ex- not share his affirmations that one acknowledges the cluded, to those who are subjected to ‘the throw-away meaning of the pope in the church,” the cardinal said in culture’ as he so often reminds [us] in his keenness to an interview published on the Archdiocese of ’s communicate the Gospel to the world.” website on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination on July 18. Cardinal Scola: “Ever since I was a “[The pope] is the ultimate, radical and formal guaran- child, I learned that ‘the pope is tor—certainly, through a synodal exercise of the Petrine ministry—of the unity of the church,” the cardinal, theo- the pope,’ to whom the Catholic logian and former rector of the Pontifical Lateran Univer- believer owes affection, respect sity stated. and obedience.” Cardinal Angelo Scola, the runner- Moreover, he said, “some gestures of Pope Francis strike up in the last , has me very much and are certainly very significant for every- one, even for nonbelievers. Given my temperament, I come out strongly against those would not be able to do them; but then each one has his who frequently and increasingly own personality.” attack Pope Francis. In the introduction to his autobiography, the 78-year-old cardinal, who enjoyed a very Then, referring to the countless ways in close relationship with John Paul II and Ben- which attacks have been launched against edict XVI, wrote, “Pope Francis seeks to Pope Francis in these years, the former car- shake up consciences by calling into ques- dinal- and archbishop of tion consolidated habits and customs in the Milan declared, “I consider these forms of church, each time raising the bar, so to pronouncements, letters, writings, pretens- speak.” es of judgments on his action, above all “This can cause some bewilderment and when they establish irritating comparisons upset,” he said, “but the ever harder and with previous papacies, a decisively nega- more insolent attacks against his person, tive phenomenon that is to be eradicated especially those that come from within the as soon as possible.” church, are wrong.” Both in the interview and in a new intro- duction to the second edition of his autobi-

Page 2 Epiphanyparish.com REFLECTIONS CELEBRATING OUR FAITH SUNDAY MASS SACRAMENTS SCHEDULE

Question: Mass Times Unless dispensed due to catastrophes like Covid-19, why do Catholics need to go to Mass every Sunday? Incense is used at 10:30am Sunday Mass. All Ministers have Answer: Gluten-free Hosts. 7:30 am Sunday Masses are Broadcast on Epiphanyparish.com 9:00 am Weekday Masses (Tue-Fri) The heart of the Church’s instruction that we are to are Broadcast on Father Eric’s Facebook Page: attend Mass on Sundays goes back to the Third Com- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php? mandment: “Take care to keep holy the Sabbath day as id=100050105993199 the LORD, your God, has commanded you” (Deuteronomy Sunday, August 2, 18th Sunday 5:12). Although the Jewish People celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday, the first generations of Christians began to 4:00pm Marisa Weldy observe the Sabbath on Sunday, recognizing how im- 7:30am Sally Leahy portant it is for Christians to celebrate the day that Jesus 10:30am Geraldine & Jim Becker rose from the dead. As the United States Catholic Cate- chism for Adults observes, “Sunday extends the celebra- Monday, August 3, Weekday tion of Easter throughout the year … It makes present the new creation brought about by Christ” (364). 9:00am Robert Miller The focus of our Sunday should be the celebration of the Eucharist in the Mass. This is our time to be formed by Tuesday, August 4, Saint John Vianney, Priest

God’s Word and nourished at the table of the Lord, be- 9:00am Mary Jo Cleary coming prepared to live out and share our faith in the week that follows. In his encyclical, Dies Domini, Pope Wednesday, August 5, Weekday Saint John Paul II reminded us that Christians “cannot live their faith or share fully in the life of the Christian commu- 9:00am Marge & Al Lopinot nity unless they take part regularly in the Sunday Eucharis- tic assembly” (no. 81). This is why the Church teaches us Thursday, August 6, The Transfiguration of the Lord that Sunday Mass is a non-negotiable part of being a Christian (see Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 9:00am Albert, Roma & Robert Humenick 2192). Friday, August 7, Weekday Beyond being a time of worship, we should also remem- ber that Sunday is intended to be a day of rest, when we 9:00am Margo Schmitt make time for recreation, for sharing meals, and enjoying the company of friends and family. Sunday is given to as a Sunday, August 9, 19th Sunday day to take stock of and enjoy the blessings that God has given us (see Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2187). 4:00pm Nelly Surya Pope Francis reminds us, “The day of rest, centered on the 7:30am John & Marjorie Dickerson Eucharist, sheds its light on the whole week, and moti- 10:30am Tom Krause vates us to greater concern for nature and the poor” (Laudato Si’, no. 237). Confession Time

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Page 4 Epiphanyparish.com READINGS GOSPEL MEDITATION 18TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME GOING DEEPER INTO SCRIPTURE

First Reading: Helping People Find Nourishment Come to me heedfully, listen, that you may have life. (Is Many people in our world are hungry and thirsty. This 55:3a) hunger and thirst go well beyond physical needs for food, Near the end of Israel’s captivity in Babylon (597-538 BC), security, and shelter. Many are emotionally and spiritual- the prophet Isaiah spoke of the Lord’s desire to be unim- ly parched, too. Behind every act of violence is a soul who aginably generous and life-giving to his people. How has hungers. People live with relationships that actually the Lord been generous in gifts to you and your family? starve them. They are abused, exploited, disrespected, laughed at, and marginalized. There is a lot of confusion Psalm 145: and inner pain that needs to be acknowledged and ex- The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. pressed. We all long to be understood and loved, even when our inner demons or who I am make it difficult to Second Reading: be. Do you live with inner confusion and pain? Folks often For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor an- wander through life without any real direction or purpose gels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future and take their cues from what seems satisfying or popu- things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other lar at the moment. The deeper dots of our lives can easily creature will be able to separate us from the love of God remain unconnected, and we can find ourselves without in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:38-39) grounding, purpose, or real happiness. Life becomes shal- low and without real purpose as we hunger and thirst for In his letter to the Christians in Rome, Paul speaks of an ultimate love. God’s inseparable bond of love for us through Jesus Christ. In what ways does this sense of God’s love for us It’s easier to see the physical hungers and thirsts. We try help you in times of stress and anxiety? to respond to these as best we can. Much more needs to be done. With all that God’s earth can provide, nobody Gospel: ought to face sleep at night with a belly that’s empty. It’s Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to sinful. It’s unjust. But isn’t all hunger unjust? It doesn’t heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave need to be, and it should not be. Just as no one ought to them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the be physically hungry and thirsty, there is really no need to crowds. They all ate and were satisfied. (Mt 14:19-20a) be emotionally or spiritually deficient either. If we have more privileges at our fingertips, it is easier to try to satis- In the immediate aftermath of the news of the death of fy our emotional and spiritual hungers and thirst by John the Baptist, Matthew reports that Jesus, “moved acting on impulse or self-indulgence, carelessly following with pity,” cured those who were sick in the crowds and passions, or by seeking self-destructive ways to dull the fed the entire crowd of 5,000. How do you react toward ache of emptiness. others for whom you feel “pity”? Folks need to know where to look for nourishment and need the right friends to help them find it. We may not think that we have enough to respond to and to satisfy all of the needs, but we do. It doesn’t take much. Five loaves and two fish provided for a huge crowd. With God, all things are possible. Our faith provides the direction for where God’s children must go to find the nourishment they seek. It also tells us how to structure life so that jus- tice and equity can be a reality for all. It also tells us how to respond to pain, sinfulness, and confusion. Come to the water and then help another get there.

August 2, 2020 Page 7 radically for the worse. Between it and the congregation CHURCH DOCTRINE of Christian faithful founded by Christ yawned a gap of many centuries. The church of his day was discontinuous DOES CHURCH TEACHING CHANGE? with the teaching of Christ and the apostles.

Catholic Church Historian John O’Malley in Commonweal When the bishops convened at Trent in 1545, they soon realized that justification was the key doctrinal issue at Although the documents of the early councils of the stake. After seven months of sometimes acrimonious dis- church recognized that bad customs and bad teaching cussion, they were finally able to articulate a statement had to be uprooted, which is a form of change, they most that won their overwhelming approval. Neither at this characteristically betray a sense of continuity with previ- nor at any other point did the council explicitly discuss ous Christian teaching and practice. They called for con- whether the church had failed to proclaim the true doc- tinuation and implementation of ancient customs and trine. The prelates at Trent assumed that church teaching ancient traditions—antiqua lex, antiqua traditio. was continuous with the teaching of the Gospel, and they therefore simply affirmed or implied that what they The documents of the medieval councils very much fol- taught was orthodox and true to the tradition. low the same pattern. Although they in fact deal with the twists and turns in culture and institutional structures of In the early twentieth century, the important English his- their day, they lack a keen sense of discrepancy between torian and philosopher R. G. Collingwood designated this past and present, and thus the councils never felt the style of historical thinking “substantialism,” and he saw it necessity to address the discrepancy directly. Only with as the chief defect of the ancient Roman historians. Livy, the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth century and then for instance, took for granted that Rome was an unchang- the Reformation early in the next century did this ahistor- ing substance that sailed through the sea of the centuries ical mindset receive its first serious challenges. The Coun- without being affected by it. Christian thinkers inherited cil of Trent was, therefore, the first council that had to this tradition and without examining it applied it to the take those challenges into account. church. The Council of Trent By the time of the council, however, an awareness of liv- ing in particularly evil Luther saw his doctrine times gripped many Eu- of justification by faith ropeans. Their times alone as the very core were the worst of all, of the Gospel message. the low point in a long To reject it was to re- process of decline from ject Christianity itself. a purer and more au- As he began to experi- thentic past. The ence hostility from the church, they believed, church hierarchy and was not exempt from from theologians con- this process. For Catho- cerning his teaching, he lics and especially for concluded that the the bishops gathered at church had not only Trent, the upheavals in failed to proclaim the the wake of the Refor- Gospel but had pro- mation confirmed and claimed its antithesis, exacerbated the aware- the heresy of justifica- ness of a pervasive dark- tion by good works. The ness. On at least three church had betrayed occasions, the bishops the teaching of Christ at the council lamented and had thereby ceased how calamitous were the times in which the council was being the true church. In the course of the centuries, the taking place. They therefore accepted the idea of change church had changed, Luther maintained, and changed for the worse, but they did not see it applying to doc-

Page 4 Epiphanyparish.com trine, which somehow was immune to the historical pro- of the church, a fact of which the bishops at Trent were cess. aware. They were aware, therefore, that sometimes measures had to be adopted that were real changes from They did see change as applying to the discipline of “the past practice and standards of behavior. The debate at clergy and the Christian people.” The expression implies Trent on Tametsi was heated, how- that the morals and mores of the ever, because it did not concern people living within the institution merely sacramental practice but of the church had declined, but not seemed to have doctrinal implica- the institution itself, and most cer- tions. tainly not its doctrine. The docu- ments of Trent rest, therefore, on The problem was this: If the consent an operative distinction between of the spouses constituted the sac- the church and its members. The rament, which everybody agreed former exists unchanged and apart was the case, how could the church from the contingencies to which the legitimately declare a consented-to members are subject. union invalid? Did the church have the right and the authority to im- The council directed its changes pose a condition on the validity of therefore to the members, especial- marriages that intruded on the part- ly the clergy who occupied the three ners’ exchange of vows, the consti- official pastoral offices in the tutive element of the sacrament? church—pope, bishop, pastor of How could the church declare inva- parishes. In trying to enforce chang- lid in the future marriages that in es in the behavior of officeholders, the past it had recognized as valid, the council did not see itself as inno- even if forbidden? The bishops dis- vating but, rather, as restoring for- cussed these objections and some- mer norms and practices. how came to the conclusion that What was required to counter the they could pass the decree. At Trent, evils of the age was a recovery and restoration of the therefore, the problem of doctrinal change lurked in the healthy ecclesiastical discipline of the past. The reforms shadows, poised to strike in the open at any moment. of Trent for the most part consisted, therefore, in But when Trent treated doctrine directly, it spoke clearly strengthening or significantly reformulating older canoni- and declared, “No change!” It reformed mores, but it cal regulations, especially as those regulations related to “confirmed” doctrine. In reaction to Luther, no previous the clergy. The council restored, revived, and called back council ever insisted as explicitly or implied so regularly into operation the good norms of the past—restituere, that the present teaching of the church was identical with innovare, revocare. that of the apostolic age and that there had been no In actual fact, however, the council made changes that change in it in the intervening centuries. When the coun- were innovations, not simply a burnishing of past laws. cil affirmed that in the Catholic Church “the ancient, ab- The decree Tametsi is the clearest example of such inno- solute, and in every respect perfect faith and doctrine” of vations. It stipulated that henceforth the church would the Eucharist had been retained unchanged, it was only consider no marriage valid unless witnessed by a priest. making explicit for one of its doctrinal pronouncements The council intended the decree to stamp out the abuse what underlay them all. of so-called clandestine marriages—that is, the exchange of vows between the two partners with no witness pre- sent. Such marriages made it possible for one of the Vatican I and Vatican II will be presented in subsequent spouses, usually the man, to deny later that a marriage Bulletins. had taken place and to abandon his wife and, often, his children. There was no precedent for Tametsi in the entire history

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