Holy Rosary June 21, 2015 — Twelfth Sunday of Time

Rev. Fr. Bryan W. Jerabek, J.C.L., Parish Administrator Fr. Jerabek may be reached at St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 205-833-0334

Sunday – 8:30am 7414 Georgia Road

Wednesday Mass – 8:00am Birmingham, Alabama 35212 http://www.holyrosarybirmingham.com Rosary – Before all Masses [email protected] 205-595-0652 Confession – Sunday 8:00am and upon request Mailing – P.O. Box 321576 – Birmingham, AL 35232 12th Sunday in – June 21, 2015 – Do you not yet have faith?

Parish Mass Intentions Scripture Readings for Next Sunday – 6/28

Sunday 6/21 Liz Berman+ 1st Reading: Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 Wednesday 6/24 Fortnight for Freedom: For Responsorial: Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13 the Freedom to Bear Witness 2nd Reading: 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 to the Truth of the Gospel: Mark 5:21-43 Sunday 6/28 Faye Goff+

STATUS! Scholarship Fund Matching Gift Our Prayers Go Out The total amount raised thus far in the $15,000 For the young people who will participate in matching gift challenge for the St. Barnabas our summer youth camp. School Scholarship Fund is $10,493. Your help is For all in Charleston: those killed, that they may needed – this is the final weekend! The ; those who are grieving; the opportunity ends today, Sunday, June 21 community; and that the shooter may repent. (thanks to a one-day extension from the benefactor!). To donate, speak with Fr. Jerabek. For persecuted Christians in the Middle East.

For those celebrating their birthday this month: especially Irisa and Richard.

For the sick, especially Esther, as she tries to Happy Father’s Day! carry her child to full term; for those with cancers, especially Bud Vann, Michael Gregory, and Jeanne Wright; also for Willie Poe, Richard I Love America! McLane, Eleanor Stisher, Sally, Mary-Alice, Deb, St. Aloysius Church in Bessemer will host the Mildred, and Mary (Fr. Tony’s sister). Third Annual “I Love America” concert on For a special intention for Romel. Friday, June 26 at 7:00pm. Members of the St. Aloysius Choir – along with others from For an increase in devotion to the Most Holy surrounding churches – will lead the audience and the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. in favorite songs from among the most beloved For all of our parishioners, volunteers, and patriotic hymns: for example, “The Star other benefactors, who help to keep the parish Spangled Banner”, “America the Beautiful”, and its apostolates running smoothly. “God Bless America”, “God Bless the USA”, and many more! Joining the choir in song will be the For our summer seminarian, Josh Altonji: that Waylighters Gospel Quartet and Voices of the he may gain good experiences at Holy Rosary. South Barbershop Chorus. Come see a touching

tribute to our armed forces as the Lake View

American Legion Post 2011 presents the Colors Bulletin Notices and Service Flags from each branch of the Contact Mike Geerts at [email protected] military, including the P.O.W. There is no or 205-266-3065 if you have a bulletin notice charge for this entertaining evening. All are (including birthdays, anniversaries, or other welcome! St. Aloysius Church is located at 751 news of interest to parishioners). Academy Drive in Bessemer. Carnival and Health Fair NEW! Pastoral Council Meeting

Eastview Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in The next Parish Pastoral Council Meeting will East Lake is excited to announce their Annual be held on Monday, June 29, at 7:00pm at St. Carnival, Health Fair, and Back to School Rally Barnabas (in the church basement). on Saturday, July 18. The community is invited to participate in this fun filled event which will go from 10:00am to 4:00pm at the facility, 7755 NEW! Mission Cooperative Appeal 4th Avenue South. Proceeds will benefit our residents through our charity fund. There will There will be a second collection at Holy Mass be free blood pressure screenings, glucose next Sunday, June 28, for the annual Mission checks, and weight monitoring. To make the Cooperative Appeal. Please be generous in your Back to School Rally a success, donations of support of the missions! school supplies are requested: pencils, pens, notebooks, crayons, paper, backpacks, etc. NEW! Sunday Organist Changes

We offer our thanks and best wishes to Isaac Annual Summer Youth Camp Johnson, who has played organ on Sundays and other feast days for us for nearly a year now, as Coach Murphy has been planning a summer he prepares to go on to graduate studies at experience for our area youth starting in late Yale University. Isaac’s last Sunday with us will June, and has arranged for four program be July 5. Thank you, Isaac, and all the best to “graduates” to come back and help him. Would you and your fiancée! you be able to help also? If so, please contact Coach at (205) 835-7769. Camp begins on We also prepare to welcome our new Sunday Monday, June 29. organist, Frederick Pollman (who played for us a few weeks ago and will be here again on June 28). Frederick is an accomplished trumpeter, Mass in Honor of St. Josemaria Escrivá pianist, and organist, and comes to us with prior experience playing at St. Stephen’s UAB All are invited to a Mass in honor of St. Chapel here in Birmingham. He will formally Josemaria Escrivá, the Founder of Opus Dei, at begin on Sunday, July 12. Welcome, Frederick! the Cathedral of St. Paul on Saturday, June 27 at 11:00am, followed by a reception in the Cathedral Life Center. Learn more about this NEW! Fortnight for Freedom “Saint of Ordinary Life”, canonized by St. John Paul II, at http://josemariaescriva.info. The annual “Fortnight for Freedom” will take place from June 21 to July 4 – a time when our liturgical calendar commemorates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face Reading Room Update of political persecution: St. Thomas More & St. The remodeling work in the parish house is John Fisher, St. John the Baptist, Sts. Peter & almost finished. As a result, the entrance used Paul, and the First Martyrs of the Church of to access the office will change to the front Rome. This year’s Fortnight will focus on the door. The current side door entrance (near the “freedom to bear witness” to the truth of the basketball court) will be for the Reading Room Gospel. More information may be found at only. We look forward to an Open House later http://goo.gl/ULxJ3. Please join in prayer for this summer to see this new part of our facility! this very important intention! GENERAL PARISH INFORMATION the action itself signifies, scholars have more or less settled on two main theories, which are not Baptisms – Contact Father Jerabek early so as to mutually exclusive. be able to schedule the baptism soon after birth. The first theory concerns the unity of the Pope Weddings – Contact Father Jerabek no less than or local with his priests and faithful six months in advance, to begin preparations. people in celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. In ancient Rome, as the Church grew Anointing of the Sick – For those who begin to after the legalization of Christianity, obviously be in danger of death due to serious illness not everyone could attend the Pope’s Mass and and/or old age. Discuss with Father Jerabek to not every priest could be present to determine if now is the right time for this concelebrate with him. More churches had been built throughout the city and priests were sacrament; in sacramental emergencies, call assigned to those various churches. In order, Father at 833-0334 at any time, day or night. then, to maintain the sense of unity with the

Food Pantry and Clothes Closet – Open Pope in the celebration of Holy Mass, (men who were training to be priests, much Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am – like our seminarian, Josh) were assigned to 12pm for residents of the 35212 zip code; bring pieces of the Hosts consecrated by the registration required. Volunteers always Pope to the other churches throughout the city. needed to help. Speak with Don Monin. The priests then mixed the particle with the Precious Blood during their Masses, to signify unity with the Pope in celebrating the one sacrifice of Christ. This practice was also done Our Wonderful Catholic Faith by in other areas beyond Rome, sending particles of their hosts to their The Private Prayers of the Priest – Part IV churches each Sunday, which were then mixed into the . Obviously and bishops Did you know that a priest is required to say no longer do this, but we see here one various prayers privately during the Mass? In this series of columns I am identifying these historical reason why we have the practice of mixing the Host with the Precious Blood today. prayers and explaining their importance. This week we’ll consider the priest’s prayer as he The other theory is more theological in nature. places a particle of the Host into the While the separate consecration of the bread before Holy . and wine during Mass represents the

This prayer is said while the Lamb of God is separation of Christ’s Body and Blood in death being sung or recited. But in a private Mass on the Cross, the mixing of his Body and Blood without a congregation, the priest says this before Holy Communion symbolizes the prayer first, then recites the Lamb of God. Resurrection and the fact that the One whom we receive is not dead, but alive forevermore. May this mingling of the Body and Blood of our Because he is alive, he can give life to us; thus Lord Jesus Christ bring eternal life to us who the prayer goes that as we receive him in Holy receive it. Communion, so also we wish to receive life eternal with him. The meaning of the prayer – a plea for eternal life as we receive Holy Communion – is clear From these two theories we see that a practice enough. Perhaps the more relevant question is: which grew out of a desire for visible unity Why does the priest mix a particle of the Host with the Pope or local bishop came to take on a with the Precious Blood? theological meaning as well with the passage of time. The implications of both theories are This practice of mixing actually has a name that clear for us, and the knowledge of them can dates from antiquity: it is called the enrich our own prayer at this particular “fermentum” – the Latin word means “leaven”. moment of Holy Mass. As to what that name specifically refers to is a matter of dispute among scholars, and we will not enter into such details here. But as to what — Father Jerabek