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St. Francis of Assisi Parish Family

St. Francis of Assisi Parish Family

Welcome to our July 26, 2020

St. Parish Family

Sharing the love of Jesus in the north Georgia mountains, and beyond……

Archdiocese of Atlanta J.P. McGuire - Administrator Mass Times: Sat: 4:30 pm - Vigil Deacon Paul Dietz Sun: 8:30 am, 11:00 am Deacon Larry Casey 1:00 pm (Spanish)

Business Manager Communion Svc: Mon - Fri: 9:00 am Jim Gioia ______Sacrament of Reconciliation: Office Assistant Sat: 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm Lisa Howard Eucharistic Adoration: Finance Manager Mon. – Fri. 9:45 am – 12 noon Rita Baker Church Office Phone: (706) 745-6400 Dir. Of Religious Education 3717 Hwy 515 Joe Kwiatkowski Blairsville, GA. 30512 Adult Faith Formation Colleen Orchanian Office Hours: Mon – Thurs: 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Music Director E-mail: [email protected] Bill Haller Website: www.stfrancisblairsville.com

July 26, 2020 th st Mass Intentions. Readings: The Week of July 26 -August 1 Sat. 4:30 PM Leaders of America Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12 Rom 8:28-30 Mt 13:44-52 By The Grizio Family Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Jer 13:1-11 Mt 13:31-35 Sun 8:30 AM + Agnes Crews Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time By Marie Diehl Jer 14:17-22 Mt 13:36-43 Wednesday – Memorial of St. Martha Sun 11:00 AM + Don McConnell Jer 18:1-6 Mt Jn 11:19-27 By Joanna McConnell Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time th st Jer 18:1-6 Mt 13:47-53 WEEKLY CALENDAR July 26 -Aug 1 Friday – Memorial of St. , Priest SUNDAY Jer 26:1-9 Mt 13:54-58 No Activities Saturday – Memorial of St. Alphonus Liguori, Bishop & Dr Jer 26:11-16, 24 Mt 14:1-12 Monday 10:00 am Peter Bible Study Zoom 11:30 am Pray the Rosary Together Zoom 7:00 pm Peter Bible Study Zoom

Tuesday 9:50 am Weight on Lord Zoom 11:30 am Pray the Rosary Together Zoom 1:00 pm Life & Dignity Zoom

Wednesday 10:00 am Prayer Group Zoom 11:30 am Pray the Rosary Together Zoom Prayer Requests 2:00 pm Music Appreciation Zoom Chedister Mindy Sims 6:00 pm Spanish Prayer Meeting Church Liz Beaudet Jean Caputa 7:00 pm Spanish Mass Church Drake Pam Snyder Isabel Arteaga y Familia Rita De’Marco Thursday Rita & Larry Casey Diane Kwiatkowski 11:30 am Pray the Rosary together Zoom Familia Perales Mattew Kwiatkowski 1:00 pm Laudato Si Study Group Isabel Chaves & Familia Jean Hiler, ofs with Mary Smith Zoom Susan Porter Kathy & Jim Deen 2:00 pm Koffee Klatch & Terry McKnight Jerry & Madeline Rousseau Good News Club Zoom Brian Ridley Rousseau 4:00 pm Choir meets to pray the Rosary Zoom James Halbran William McConnell Greg Raupp Wayne Sanders Friday Barabra Lewis Veronica Sanchez 11:30 am Pray the Rosary together Zoom Bill & Deborah Boemann & Family Gene Dolfi Jay Robinson Jim Halloran Saturday Stephanie La Cross Aton Stab No Activities Mary & Stan Domal Chip Clandandiel

Names will be removed after 30 days unless requested to remain th th Offertory July 18 & July 19 Prayer for Healing First Collection $ 3,197.00 Almighty and merciful Father, by the power of your Online Giving $ 4126.00 command, drive away from them all forms of sickness and disease. Restore strength to their bodies and joy to their Don’t forget that you can sign up to give online on the spirit, so that in their renewed health, they may bless and Parish website. www.stfrancisblairsville.com serve you, now and forevermore. General Notices MASS ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES Following consultation with the Archdiocese of Atlanta’s At St. Francis of Assisi College of Consultors, Deans of the 10 Deaneries, and lay professionals, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, While we have resumed our regular Mass schedule, OFM Conv., announces the following and conditions there are requirements that remain in effect for regarding in-parish worship and access to parish attendance. As a reminder, those requirements are: facilities. These procedures will be evaluated and amended, from time to time. - Attendance at each Mass is limited to 100 people.

Out of concern for the well-being of all in our - It is required to wear a mask upon entering, and while communities, everyone is urged to monitor carefully in the church. and abide by the directives of federal, state and local authorities, as well as guidelines from the Centers for - Ushers will escort you to your seat, which will require Disease Control. appropriate distancing within the pews. Please be understanding, and occupy the seat that you are The dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday escorted to. Mass for persons with health reasons or concerns remains in effect for all in the Archdiocese through -Ushers will also direct you to receive Holy Communion. Sunday, August 2. Because of this, those wishing to Either toward the front or rear of the church. At participate in Mass and receive Holy Communion can do present, Holy Communion is to be received on the hand, so by attending any Mass any day of the week. out of love and concern for our fellow parishioners.

Persons are encouraged to take their temperature Finally, when exiting the Church, please also follow the before leaving home and to avoid coming to church if guidance of the ushers, who will direct that the side the temperature is 99.6 or greater. Taking of aisles be used, to minimize contact, and maintain temperature at church entrances is allowed, and may be proper distancing. incorporated at some future time, if necessary. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Anyone who is not feeling well should remain at home, out of concern for others. Those who are at risk, provide care to an at-risk person, or are concerned that they, or PRAY THE ROSARY their family might become sick, should stay at home and view live-streamed or online Masses. Join fellow St. Francis of Assisi parishioners in OFFICE HOURS praying the Holy Rosary daily, at 11:30 AM every Monday through Friday, via ZOOM.

If you would like to Updated office hours are as follows: join, please email Maryjane Wysocki Monday – Thursday, from 10 AM – 2 PM for the Zoom link.

The office is closed on Friday Her email address is [email protected]. Ignatius of Loyola’s Story When companions were sent on various missions by the , Ignatius remained in Rome, consolidating the new venture, but still finding time to found homes for orphans, catechumens, and penitents. He founded the Roman College, intended to be the model of all other colleges of the Society.

Ignatius was a true mystic. He centered his spiritual life on the essential foundations of Christianity—the Trinity, Christ, the . His spirituality is expressed in the Jesuit motto, Ad majorem Dei gloriam—“for the greater glory of God.” In his concept, obedience was to be the prominent virtue, The founder of the Jesuits was on his way to military to assure the effectiveness and mobility of his men. fame and fortune when a cannon ball shattered his All activity was to be guided by a true love of the leg. Because there were no books of romance on Church and unconditional obedience to the Holy hand during his convalescence, Ignatius whiled away Father, for which reason all professed members took the time reading a life of Christ and lives of the . a fourth vow to go wherever the pope should send His conscience was deeply touched, and a long, them for the salvation of souls. painful turning to Christ began. Having seen the

Mother of God in a vision, he made a pilgrimage to Reflection her shrine at Montserrat near Barcelona. He Luther nailed his theses to the church door at remained for almost a year at nearby Manresa, Wittenberg in 1517. Seventeen years later, Ignatius of sometimes with the Dominicans, sometimes in a Loyola founded the Society that was to play so pauper’s hospice, often in a cave in the hills praying. prominent a part in the Catholic Reformation. He was After a period of great peace of mind, he went an implacable foe of Protestantism. Yet the seeds of through a harrowing trial of scruples. There was no ecumenism may be found in his words: “Great care comfort in anything—prayer, fasting, sacraments, must be taken to show forth orthodox truth in such a penance. At length, his peace of mind returned. way that if any heretics happen to be present they may have an example of charity and Christian It was during this year of conversion that Ignatius moderation. No hard words should be used nor any began to write down material that later became his sort of contempt for their errors be shown.” One of greatest work, the Spiritual Exercises. the greatest ecumenists was the 20th-century

German Jesuit, Cardinal Augustin Bea. He finally achieved his purpose of going to the Holy Land, but could not remain, as he planned, because of MISSALETTES the hostility of the Turks. Ignatius spent the next 11 Missalettes will be available for years in various European universities, studying with families to take home beginning great difficulty, beginning almost as a child. Like many this weekend (1 per family, please). others, his orthodoxy was questioned; Ignatius was twice jailed for brief periods. It will be your responsibility to both

In 1534, at the age of 43, he and six others—one of take your Missalette home with whom was Saint —vowed to live in you, and to bring it to Mass each poverty and chastity and to go to the Holy Land. If this week. PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE IT IN THE PEW! became impossible, they vowed to offer themselves to the apostolic service of the pope. The latter The current Missalette will take us up to Advent, became the only choice. Four years later Ignatius and so will be used until the last week of made the association permanent. The new Society of November. Jesus was approved by Pope Paul III, and Ignatius was elected to serve as the first general. Tradition relates that the Pope had experienced a vision from St. Peter Chrysologus God on the night before the meeting, commanding him to overrule 's choice of a new archbishop. The Pope Bishop & declared that Peter, instead, was to be ordained as John's successor.

In Ravenna, Peter was received warmly by the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, and his mother . She is said to have given him the title of “Chrysologus” because of his preaching skills.

Throughout the archdiocese, however, he encountered the surviving remnants of paganism along with various abuses and distortions of the Catholic faith. Peter exercised zeal and pastoral care in curbing abuses and evangelizing non- Christians during his leadership of the Church in Ravenna.

On July 30, the celebrates One of the major heresies of his age, , held Chrysologus, a fifth-century Italian bishop known for that Christ did not possess a distinct human nature in union testifying courageously to Christ's full humanity and divinity with his eternal divine nature. Peter laboured to prevent the during a period of doctrinal confusion in the Church. westward spread of this error, promoted from by the monk . The saint's title, Chrysologus, signifies “golden speech” in Greek. Named as a Doctor of the Church in 1729, he is The Archbishop of Ravenna also made improvements to the distinguished as the “Doctor of Homilies” for the concise but city's cathedral and built several new churches. Near the end theologically rich reflections he delivered during his time as of his life he addressed a significant letter to Eutyches, the Bishop of Ravenna. stressing the Pope's authority in the monophysite controversy. His surviving works offer eloquent testimony to the Church's traditional beliefs about Mary's perpetual virginity, the Having returned to in anticipation of his death, St. penitential value of Lent, Christ's Eucharistic presence, and Peter Chrysologus died in 450, one year before the Church's the primacy of St. Peter and his successors in the Church. official condemnation of monophysitism. He is credited as the author of around 176 surviving homilies, which Few details of St. Peter Chrysologus' biography are known. contributed to his later proclamation as a Doctor of the He was born in the Italian town of Imola in either the late Church. fourth or early fifth century, but sources differ as to whether this occurred around 380 or as late as 406. New Weekday Mass Schedule Following his study of theology, Peter was ordained to the Starting the week of August 3rd diaconate by Imola's local bishop Cornelius, whom he greatly admired and regarded as his spiritual father. Cornelius not only ordained Peter, but taught him the value of humility and Monday – 9am Mass followed by Adoration of the self-denial. Blessed Sacrament, and Benediction at 12 noon

The lessons of his mentor inspired Peter to live as a monk for Tuesday – Church closed many years, embracing a lifestyle of asceticism, simplicity, and prayer. His simple monastic life came to an end, Wednesday –Noon Mass followed by Adoration of the however, after the death of Archbishop John of Ravenna in 430. Blessed Sacrament, and Benediction at 5:30 PM.

After John's death, the clergy and people of Ravenna chose a Wednesday Evening – 6 PM Mass – Spanish successor and asked Cornelius, still the Bishop of Imola, to journey to Rome and obtain papal approval for the Thursday – 9 am Mass candidate. Cornelius brought Peter, then still a deacon, along with him on the visit to Pope Sixtus III. Friday - 9am Mass with Adoration following, and Benediction at 12 noon Treasures of the Kingdom: Lecturas: 1 Reyes 3: 5– Reflects on the 12 Seventeenth Sunday in Salmo 119: 57, Ordinary Time 7–77, 127–130

Romanos 8: 28-30 Readings: 1 Kings 3:5-12 Psalm 119:57, 72, 76–77, 127–130 Mateo 13: 44–52 Romans 8:28–30 Matthew 13:44–52 ¿Qué valor tiene para usted su nueva vida en Cristo?

What is your new life in Christ worth to you? ¿Amas sus palabras más que el oro y la plata, como cantamos en el salmo de hoy? ¿Te gustaría, como los personajes del Do you love His words more than gold and silver, as we sing Evangelio de hoy, vender todo lo que tienes para poseer el in today’s Psalm? Would you, like the characters in the reino que Él nos promete? Si Dios concediera algún deseo, Gospel today, sell all that you have in order to possess the ¿seguirías el ejemplo de Salomón en la primera lectura de kingdom He promises to us? If God were to grant any wish, hoy, pidiendo no una vida larga o riquezas, sino sabiduría would you follow ’s example in today’s First para conocer los caminos de Dios y desear su voluntad? Reading—asking not for a long life or riches, but for wisdom to know God’s ways and to desire His will? El trasfondo del Evangelio de hoy, como lo ha sido durante las últimas semanas, es el rechazo de la predicación de Jesús The background for today’s Gospel, as it has been for the por parte de Israel. El reino de los cielos ha entrado en medio past several weeks, is the rejection of Jesus’ preaching by de ellos, sin embargo, muchos no pueden ver que Jesús es el Israel. The kingdom of heaven has come into their midst, yet cumplimiento de las promesas de Dios, un regalo de la many cannot see that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s compasión divina dado que ellos, y nosotros, podríamos vivir. promises, a gift of divine compassion given that they—and we—might live. Nosotros también debemos descubrir el reino de nuevo, para encontrarlo como un tesoro, una perla de gran precio. En We too must ever discover the kingdom anew, to find it as a comparación con el reino, debemos contar todo lo demás treasure—a pearl of great price. By comparison with the como basura (ver Filipenses 3: 8). Y debemos estar kingdom, we must count all else as rubbish (see Philippians dispuestos a renunciar a todo lo que tenemos, todas nuestras 3:8). And we must be willing to give up all that we have—all prioridades y planes, para obtenerlo. our priorities and plans—in order to gain it. El Evangelio de Jesús revela lo que Pablo, en la Epístola de Jesus’ Gospel discloses what Paul, in today’s Epistle, calls the hoy, llama el propósito del plan de Dios (ver Efesios 1: 4). Ese purpose of God’s plan (see Ephesians 1:4). That purpose is propósito es que Jesús sería el primogénito de muchos that Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers. hermanos.

His words give understanding to the simple, the childlike. As Sus palabras dan entendimiento a lo simple, lo infantil. Como Solomon does today, we must humble ourselves before God, lo hace Salomón hoy, debemos humillarnos ante Dios, giving ourselves to His service. Let our prayer be for an entregándonos a su servicio. Que nuestra oración sea por un understanding heart, one that desires only to do His will. corazón comprensivo, uno que solo desea hacer su voluntad. Estamos llamados a amar a Dios, a deleitarnos en su ley y a We are called to love God, to delight in His law, and to abandonar todo camino falso. Y debemos conformarnos cada forsake every false way. And we are to conform ourselves día más estrechamente a la imagen de su Hijo. daily ever more closely to the image of His Son. Si hacemos esto, podemos acercarnos a Su altar como un If we do this, we can approach His altar as a pleasing sacrificio agradable, confiando en que todas las cosas sacrifice, confident that all things work for the good—that we funcionan para el bien, que nosotros a quienes Él ha whom He has justified will also one day be glorified. justificado también algún día seremos glorificados.

November 9, 1732. The foundation faced immediate St. problems, and after just one year, Alphonsus found Bishop & Doctor of the Church himself with only one lay brother, his other companions having left to form their own religious group. He started again, recruited new members, and in 1743 became the prior of two new congregations, one for men and one for women. Pope Benedict XIV gave his approval for the men's congregation in 1749 and for the women's in 1750. Alphonsus was preaching missions in the rural areas and writing. He refused to become the bishop of Palermo but in 1762 had to accept the papal command to accept the see of St. Agatha of the Goths near Naples. Here he discovered more than thirty thousand uninstructed men and women and four hundred indifferent priests. For thirteen years Alphonsus fed the poor, instructed families, reorganized Bishop, Doctor of the Church, and the founder of the the seminary and religious houses, taught theology, and Redemptorist Congregation. He was born Alphonsus wrote. His austerities were rigorous, and he suffered Marie Antony John Cosmos Damien Michael Gaspard de daily the pain from rheumatism that was beginning to Liguori on September 27, 1696, at Marianella, near deform his body. He spent several years having to drink Naples, . Raised in a pious home, Alphonsus went from tubes because his head was so bent forward. An on retreats with his father, Don , who was a naval attack of rheumatic fever, from May 1768 to June 1769, officer and a captain of the Royal Galleys. Alphonsus left him paralyzed. He was not allowed to resign his see, was the oldest of seven children, raised by a devout however, until 1775. In 1780, Alphonsus was tricked mother of Spanish descent. Educated at the University into signing a submission for royal approval of his of Naples, Alphonsus received his doctorate at the age congregation. This submission altered the original rule, of sixteen. By age nineteen he was practicing law, but and as a result Alphonsus was denied any authority he saw the transitory nature of the secular world, and among the Redemptorists. Deposed and excluded from after a brief time, retreated from the law courts and his his own congregation, Alphonsus suffered great fame. Visiting the local Hospital for Incurables on August anguish. But he overcame his depression, and he 28, 1723, he had a vision and was told to consecrate experienced visions, performed miracles, and gave his life solely to God. In response, Alphonsus dedicated prophecies. He died peacefully on August 1,1787, himself to the religious life, even while at Nocera di Pagani, near Naples as the Angelus was suffering persecution from his family. He finally agreed ringing. He was beatified in 1816 and canonized in 1839. to become a priest but to live at home as a member of a In 1871, Alphonsus was declared a Doctor of the Church group of secular missionaries. He was ordained on by Pope Pius IX. His writings on moral, theological, and December 21, 1726, and he spent six years giving ascetic matters had great impact and have survived missions throughout Naples. In April 1729, Alphonsus through the years, especially his Moral Theology and his went to live at the "Chiflese College," founded Glories of Mary. He was buried at the monastery of the in Naples by Father Matthew Ripa, the Apostle of China. Pagani near Naples. Shrines were built there and at St. There he met Bishop Thomas Falcoia, founder of the Agatha of the Goths. He is the patron of confessors, Congregation of Pious Workers. This lifelong friendship moral theologians, and the lay apostolate. In liturgical aided Alphonsus, as did his association with a mystic, art he is depicted as bent over with rheumatism or as a Sister Mary Celeste. With their aid, Aiphonsus founded young priest. the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on Mayra L. Owen Cone & Associates CPAs, LLC Independent Senior Sales Director 770-833-8842 Accounting * Tax * Consulting Over 30 Years’ Experience Litigation Support * Financial Forensics www.marykay.com/mayraowen parishioner John T. Cone, CPA, ABV, CFF (706) 781-1700 * (706) 781-2502 (fax) [email protected] [email protected] www.conecpafirm.com

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