Saint Florian Under the Care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars 1233 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3615

June 27, 2021 ~ Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

PARISH STAFF WEEKEND MASSES Under the Care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars Saturday (Anticipated) ...... 4:00 p.m. Phone ...... 414-383-3565, extension 2 Sunday ...... 8:00 a.m. Email ...... [email protected] DAILY MASSES (in the Main Church at this time) Maintenance: Joseph Rivest M, T, Th and F ...... 5:00 p.m. Secretary: Jacqueline Wick followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben...... until 6:45 p.m. ST. FLORIAN PARISH OFFICE Wednesday ...... 8:00 a.m. 1210 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3614 followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben...... until 9:30 a.m. Phone ...... 414-383-3565, ext. 0 Saturday ...... 8:00 a.m. Fax ...... 414-383-2708 with Confessions at ...... 8:30 a.m. Email ...... [email protected] Evening before Holy Day (Anticipated) Website ...... www.stflorian.org ...... 7:00 p.m. (No 5:00 p.m. Daily Mass on Anticipated Holy Days) PARISH OFFICE HOURS Holy Day ...... 8:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (No 5:00 p.m. Daily Mass on Holy Days) (The Parish Office is closed on Fridays & Holidays.) (Daily Masses or Holy Day Masses subject to change.) PASTORAL COUNCIL Chairperson: Sue Jens ...... 414-328-4042 CONFESSIONS - (in the Main Church) Vice Chair: Lucy Karaba ...... 414-671-1888 Saturday ...... 8:30 a.m. Trustee/Secretary: Russell Miller ...... 414-671-2385 or also by appointment. Please call the Parish Office. Trustee/Treasurer: Sandy Kania ...... 414-672-0364

MUSIC DIRECTORS MARY QUEEN OF SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY Joseph Carpenter - 4:00 p.m. Sat. choir ...... 414-430-3425 (our Parish Cluster School) • 414-476-0751 Diane Bersch - 8:00 a.m. Sun. choir ...... 414-541-8109 1227 South 116 Street • West Allis, WI 53214 Jen Vega, Principal • Email: [email protected] CHRISTIAN FORMATION OFFICE School Website: mqsca.org Within St. Rita Parish, 2318 South 61 Street , West Allis, WI 53219 Email for Registration Information: [email protected] High School/Confirmation Program RCIA-Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults RCIC-Rite of Christian Initiation of Children “Please remember St. Florian Parish in your will.” Contact the DRE - Director of Religious Education, Barbara Krieger ...... 414-541-7515, ext. 16 Jesus said to the synagogue official, FUNERAL PLANNING “Do not be afraid; Please contact Fr. Elijah as soon as possible just have faith.” to make funeral arrangements. When they arrived SACRAMENTS at the house of the Baptism synagogue official, Parish registration and parental instruction required. he caught sight of Please contact the parish office. a commotion, Marriage people weeping Please arrange for a date and instructions at least and wailing six months in advance at the parish office. loudly. So he went Parish registration is required. in and said to Anointing of the Sick and/or Last Rites them, “Why this

Please contact Fr. Elijah at the Parish Office. commotion and

PARISH MEMBERSHIP weeping? The Each family or single adult 18 years old or older child is not dead but asleep.” living at home or alone is invited and expected to be

registered in our parish family at the parish office. ~ Mark 5:36bc, Please call the parish office to register. 38-39 The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Florian Parish - June 27, 2021 June 26, 2021 Readings for the week of June 27, 2021

through Sun: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24/Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13 [2a]/

July 4, 2021 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15/Mk 5:21-43 or 5:21-24, 35b-43 Mon: Gn 18:16-33/Ps 103:1b-2, 3-4, 8-9, 10-11 [8a]/ Sat., June 26 - Weekday; BVM Mt 8:18-22 8:00 a.m. † John Sullivan Tues: Vigil: Acts 3:1-10/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 [5]/Gal 1:11-20/

- Anticipated Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jn 21:15-19 4:00 p.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian Day: Acts 12:1-11/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [5]/

Sun., June 27 - The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18/Mt 16:13-19 8:00 a.m. † Sylvia Brazeau Wed: Gn 21:5, 8-20a/Ps 34:7-8, 10-11, 12-13 [7a]/ Mt 8:28-34 Mon., June 28 - St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr Thurs: Gn 22:1b-19/Ps 115:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 [9]/Mt 9:1-8 5:00 p.m. † John Sullivan Fri: Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67/Ps 106:1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5 Tues., June 29 - Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles [1b]/Mt 9:9-13 5:00 p.m. For Fr. Elijah in Honor of the Agonizing Sat: Eph 2:19-22/Ps 117:1bc, 2 [Mk 16:15]/Jn 20:24-29 Heart of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane Next Sun: Ez 2:2-5/Ps 123:1-2, 2, 3-4 [2cd]/2 Cor 12:7-10/

Wed., June 30 - The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Mk 6:1-6a 8:00 a.m. † Michael Karpfinger CATHOLIC QUOTE Thurs., July 1 - St. Junipero Serra, Priest 5:00 p.m. † John Sullivan “For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, Fri., July 2 - Weekday so that by his poverty you might become rich.” 5:00 p.m. Carmelite Perpetual Mass Union ~ 2 Corinthians 8:9 Sat., July 3 - St. Thomas, Apostle 8:00 a.m. † Fr. Timothy McGough CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNER

- Anticipated Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00 p.m. † Josephine & † Joseph Fuys June 22, 2021 Sun., July 4 - The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 a.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian $25 - Peter Dufek ETERNAL FLAME HOLIDAY MASS SCHEDULE June 26 - July 2, 2021 For those planning ahead to attend Mass Independence Day In loving memory of: weekend, please note the weekend Masses will remain the same. Saturday, July 3, Daily Mass is at 8:00 a.m. † Dolores Henrichs followed by Confessions and anticipated Mass at 4:00 p.m.

The Sunday, July 4 Mass is at 8:00 a.m.

Please note the difference for Monday, July 5. Mass will be at 8:00 a.m. followed by Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction. This will be the only Mass that day. EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP — RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS Touching the Cloak of Christ — Look to today’s Gospel and you’ll find one of the most arresting images in all of Scripture. Christ in a crowd, everyone clamoring for his attention, pressing against him. Several feet away, is a chronically ill woman, weak and desperate for help. She knows she doesn’t have a chance of getting his attention. She has no connections. She has no strength. All she can do is lift up her hand.

So that’s what she does. She reaches out.

There comes a time, or maybe several times, in each of our lives when we become this woman. We’re tired and we’re sick. Is it with sin? With fear? With anger? It doesn’t matter. Whatever it is, it’s made us weak, and we feel like we’ve run out of options. We’ve looked for help and come up empty. We’ve consulted friends and gotten nowhere. We’re lost in the crowd of life, unable to stick our heads above the pressing throng to wave for help.

And there is Christ, always passing by us. The hem of his cloak is never far from our grasp. We have no hope of a big miracle like the synagogue leader. We don’t even bother asking for that. But that cloak ... we can touch that cloak. That’s something we can do.

Do we do it, though? Do we have the confidence of that sick, beaten-down woman who knew so totally that healing was there for the taking? Or do we retreat back into the crowd, stumbling back home with our pain and our sinfulness? Reach out, friends. However, whatever, whenever — reach out. Christ will not fail you. ~ Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS The Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Florian Parish - June 27, 2021

In June, Please Pray For . . .

Sat., June 26 - Weekday; BVM Patrick Barnes Fr. Larry Netterfield Family 8:00 am Mass Catherine Becker Frankovich, OFM Katherine Papa Donald Fr. Ralph-Elias Mary Priewe 8:30 am Confessions

Sat., June 26 - Anticipated 13th Sunday in Ord. Time Czeszynski Haddix, OCD Elizabeth Reineck 3:00 pm Celebration Choir in Fellowship Room Ralph & Marlene Jeff Huber Lynn Sheng 4:00 pm Mass Daniels Helen Guszkowski Shirley Sidoff David Demos Joyce Johnson Cindy Terrien Sun., June 27 - The Thirteenth Sunday in Ord. Time Claudia Derringer Ruth Kressl Edie Wurcer 8:00 am Mass Gregg & Susan Betty Michalowski Gloria Zelazek Mon., June 28 - St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr Dufek Russ Miller Bernie Zimney 5:00 pm Mass 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction Born to Eternal Life Tues., June 29 - Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Please remember in your prayers... 5:00 pm Mass † Leonard S. Mader 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction

Wed., June 30 - The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman He passed away Saturday, June 19, at the age of 95. Church The Parish Office will be Closed His Visitation and Mass of Christian burial 8:00 am Mass was Friday, June 25. 8:30-9:30 am Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction Please keep his son, Marcus, and his grandchildren, Thurs., July 1 - St. Junipero Serra, Priest Ethan and Evan, along with other family members 5:00 pm Mass and many friends in your prayers. 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction Entombment was at St. Adalbert Cemetery. Fri., July 2 - Weekday He was retired from the U.S. Postal Service. 5:00 pm Mass In lieu of flowers, memorials to the 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction Wounded Warrior Project are appreciated.

Sat., July 3 - St. Thomas, Apostle Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, 8:00 am Mass and let perpetual light shine upon him. Amen.

8:30 am Confessions

Sat., July 3 - Anticipated 14th Sunday in Ord. Time WHY DO WE DO THAT? — 3:00 pm Celebration Choir in Fellowship Room CATHOLIC LIFE EXPLAINED 4:00 pm Mass Question: What is the “Miraculous Medal” and Sun., July 4 - The Fourteenth Sunday in Ord. Time and why is it called that? Independence Day 8:00 am Mass Answer: The medal of the Immaculate Conception that has come to be called simply the “Miraculous Medal” dates LIVE THE LITURGY — back to an apparition of Mary to Saint Catherine Laboure, who was then a novice sister with the Daughters of Charity. INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK On November 27, 1830, Our Lady appeared to her standing “Do not be afraid, just have faith.” God does not rejoice in on a globe, with shafts of light streaming from her hands and our demise or our destruction. Rather, He made us in his the words, “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us image and desires that we have life. He also desires that we who have recourse to thee,” surrounding the image. be healed and know His loving touch. There is great power In the same vision, Catherine saw a capital “M” with a cross in an embrace offered in love. The touch of another can above it and below two hearts. Catherine seemed to hear a heal wounds and restore life. There is also power in faith. voice telling her to have what she saw struck as a medal and Faith can turn us toward the truth and turn us toward God. a promise that those who wore the medal would have Both love and faith can lead us to hope that no matter what the protection and intercession of the Mother of God. we encounter, God will continue to sustain us in being. The first 1,500 of medals were distributed in 1832. Many miraculous favors were attributed to the use of the medal. He will not allow us to perish. God can profoundly change how we see Him, ourselves, and one another. God desires Saint Catherine’s “Miraculous Medal” is among the that we turn toward Him and be healed of all that wounds recognizable and popular symbols of modern Catholicism. and binds us so that we can be free and enjoy the fullness Reflecting on its widespread use, the 2001 Vatican of life. We are asked to arise and walk proudly with this document, “Directory on Popular Piety and Liturgy,” life-giving faith. Reach out and share this faith with observes that the medal “recalls the mystery of Redemption, someone this week so that they too can receive God’s life the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Sorrowful changing embrace and heed His call to wholeness. Heart of Mary. It signifies the mediatory role of the Blessed There are many in our world wandering around Virgin Mary, the mystery of the Church, the relationship aimlessly without hope. Bring it to them. between Heaven and earth, this life and eternal life.” GOSPEL MEDITATION — ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE The author of The Cloud of gives a clearer lens through which to see But, in doing so we wrestle with letting Unknowing prays, “That which I am life and connects us with the powerful God take charge. We want something and the way that I am, with all my gifts virtues of love and hope. Three more miraculous and visible than the of nature and grace, you have given to friends journeying with us through all obvious and have difficulty in finding me, O Lord, and you are all this. I offer that we encounter, faith, hope, and love, consolation simply resting in God’s it all to you, principally to praise you help us experience God’s embrace and presence. Our naked being, stripped of and to help my fellow Christians and heal us. All we have to do is let God be any pretense or self-serving agenda, is myself.” Knowing that God sustains us who God is and not foolishly try to being called to rest in and love the in being is the key to faith. All that we make Him into what we need or want uncreated Presence of God. Reach out need to do is to love God as God is and Him to be. Without God we cease to be. in love to God. Ask God to heal you the rest will begin to fall into place. It’s that simple. The very blood that from all that separates you from Him. God made us in His image and desires flows through my veins and the life that Put aside any ideas of God that create that we have life. God also desires that I have come directly from Divine barriers between you and God’s tender we be healed of all of our wounds, origins. With this knowledge of who and endearing presence. The Cloud of especially those caused by sin, and God is and who I am, I can open my Unknowing leaves us with wisdom, know his loving touch. Being weighed ears and hear the powerful words Jesus “think of yourself and of him in the down by negativity, imperfections, the speaks, “Do not be afraid, just have same way, that is, with the simple cares of the world, and weakness is not faith.” Trust begins. awareness that he is as he is and that something that God desires. When we are struggling, we naturally you are as you are.” This is a meeting Faith can profoundly change how we reach out for God because we know that of two friends who desire nothing more see God, ourselves, and one another. It a divine remedy is the only remedy. than to share life together. The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church — June 30 St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr — June 28

St. Irenaeus was born in Asia Minor These “proto-martyrs” of Rome were the around the year 140. It is not known first Christians persecuted en masse by when he came to Gaul. He was a priest the Emperor Nero in the year 64, before the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul. of the Church of Lyons during the persecution of 177 when St. Pothinus, Nero was widely believed to have caused first bishop of the city and the first the fire that burned down much of Rome martyr of Lyons, was put to death. in the same year. He blamed the fire on Irenaeus succeeded him as bishop and the Christians and put them to death, twenty-five years later was martyred in his turn during a many by crucifixion, being feeding to the fresh persecution. At a time when Gnostic sects wild animals in his circus, or by being threatened to undermine Christianity by a perversion of tied to posts and lit up as human torches.

Christian thought, St. Irenaeus vigorously denounced all Today, the site of Nero's Circus, also the location of St. Peter's heresies and safeguarded unity of belief by laying down martyrdom, is marked by the Piazza dei Protomartiri Romani the principles of the doctrinal tradition of the Church. (Square of the Roman Protomartyrs) in the Vatican next to Source: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/ St. Peter's basilica. calendar/day.cfm?date=2021-06-28 These martyrs were called the “Disciples of the Apostles” and their firmness in the face of their Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles — June 29 gruesome deaths were a powerful Veneration of the two great Apostles, Peter and Paul, has testimony that led to many conversions its roots in the very foundations of the Church. They are in the early Roman Church. the solid rock on which the Church is built. They are at Source: https:// the origin of her faith and will forever remain her protec- www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/ tors and her guides. To them Rome owes her true great- the-first-holy-martyrs-of-the-holy- ness, for it was under God's providential guidance that roman-church-502 they were led to make the capital of the Empire, sanctified by their martyrdom, the center of the Christian world whence should radiate the preaching of the Gospel. The Parish Office will be closed Wednesday, June 30, as our St. Peter suffered martyrdom under Nero, in A.D. 66 or 67. He was buried on Secretary will be out of the office. the hill of the Vatican where recent excavations have revealed his tomb on the very site of the Basilica of St. Peter's. St. Paul was beheaded in the Via Ostia The Parish Office will also be closed on the spot where now stands the basilica bearing his name. Down the centu- Monday, July 5 in honor of ries Christian people in their thousands have gone on pilgrimage to the tombs Independence Day. of these Apostles. In the second and third centuries the Roman Church already If you have any urgent business to stood pre-eminent by reason of her apostolicity, the infallible truth of her attend to, please stop by other days teaching and her two great figures, Sts. Peter and Paul. of those two weeks. Source: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm? date=2021-06-29 Thank you. St. Junipero Serra, Priest — July 1 Born to Eternal Life

Miguel Jose Serra was born on the Please remember in your prayers... island of Majorca on November 24, † Rosemary “Rose” Schultz 1713, and took the name of Junipero when in 1730, he entered the Passed away Tuesday, June 22.

Franciscan Order. Ordained in 1737, Her Visitation will be Tuesday, June 29 from 9-11 a.m. he taught philosophy and theology at followed by her Mass of Christian burial at 11:00 a.m. the University of Padua until 1749. Please keep Frank, her dear husband of nearly 61 years, At the age of thirty-seven, he landed in Mexico City on her beloved children, family members and January 1, 1750, and spent the rest of his life working for many other friends and parishioners in your prayers.

the conversion of the peoples of the New World. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord,

In 1768, Father Serra took over the missions of the Jesuits and let perpetual light shine upon her. Amen. (who had been wrongly expelled by the government) in the Mexican province of Lower California and Upper St. Thomas, Apostle — July 3

California (modern day California). An indefatigable St. Thomas was born a Jew and was worker, Serra was in large part responsible for the called to be one of the twelve foundation and spread of the Church on the West Coast of the United States when it was still mission territory. Apostles. His birth and death dates are unknown, but his feast day is He founded twenty-one missions and converted thousands celebrated July 3. He lived before the of Indians. The converts were taught sound methods of formal establishment of the agriculture, cattle raising, and arts and crafts. Catholic Church but is recognized as the Junipero was a dedicated religious and missionary. He patron saint of architects. was imbued with a penitential spirit and practiced austerity in sleep, eating, and other activities. On August 28, 1784, He was a dedicated but impetuous worn out by his apostolic labors, Father Serra was called to follower of Christ. When Jesus said He his eternal rest. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on was returning to Judea to visit His sick September 25, 1988. His statue, representing the state of friend Lazarus, Thomas immediately California, is in National Statuary Hall. exhorted the other Apostles to accompany Him on the trip

Source: https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=401 which involved certain danger and possible death because of the mounting hostility of the authorities.

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